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January 14, 2025
This ride gives you a taste of the spectacular hills and roads that surround the Vignamaggio estate. We start and finish at the Fattoria Vignamaggio and begin on gravel. Tuscany can be steep so be careful! Then a climb on road with views of the Chainti hills all around. We turn back towards Panzano on
June 14, 2024
It’s the 10th and final outing in our tour series in partnership with @PISSEI and for this one we are going a little wild into some of the trails and tracks of Chianti that only the locals know. We will pass through Impruneta; the home of terracotta production and trace our way back through vineyards
May 3, 2024
The penultimate ride with @PISSEI is a 100km (or near enough - feel free to add an extra kilometer if you must!) journey out to see the Saint of Cycling. On the way we pass through Vinci, the birthplace of Leonardo, and tackle the fairly steep climb of Castra and the more gentle rise to San Baronto
April 26, 2024
The eighth ride with @PISSEI is the big one. For some, 120km isn’t a massive ride, for others it’ll be a serious undertaking. However it is for you, the climbs will be a challenge that will be rewarded by spectacular views and the best countryside that Tuscany and Chianti has to offer. Plus awesome gelato
April 26, 2024
The 7th Z-A @PISSEI tour takes us north east and into the steep climbs of Vincigliata and Fiesole. We will ride eastwards on an absolute roller of a road along to the old windmill, stopping for some essential supplies and then descend down into the valley. There’s time for one more climb, avoiding the
February 20, 2024
It's a city tour like no other for our sixth outing with @PISSEI. We begin with the essential coffee and thus caffeinated, we take a leisurely spin around the centre of Florence, including the main sights. But it's not just casual sightseeing, we still have one small climb that takes us south of the
December 11, 2023
For the fifth @PISSEI tour we took ourselves to the smaller and lesser-known Chianti town of San Polo (careful with the spelling, one "L" only as two "pollo" means chicken!). With 500m elevation gain in 50km it's one of the lighter rides we do, although some locals use the 40km loop from Grassina as
December 5, 2023
For the fourth tour with @PISSEI we have a tenth anniversary ride on the UCI Road World Championships course - with a little added extra. By which, of course, we mean beautiful back roads that only the locals know plus coffee and food!
Back in 2013 the riders came from Lucca first and then did ten laps
December 5, 2023
On this third installment of our rides with @PISSEI we are going off road! Nothing too technical here though: we will discover the bike paths that run along the river Arno, first the flat part from Florence to Signa, past Montelupo Fiorentino and then along the River Pesa. We traverse spectacular vineyards
January 14, 2025
Traveling further than our 25km loop, we have an early coffee stop and then venture along the gravel road from Panzano all the way to Volpaia: a typically quaint village on a hilltop. Photos done, we descend down into the valley and stop for lunch at Locanda Lucarelli (check the highlights) for home