Some events sell you a route. Tiramisu Express ultra cycling gives you fixed GPS waypoints and nothing else — the route between them is entirely yours to plan. No marked course, no support vehicles, no aid stations — just a start at Mont Ventoux, a finish in Sicily, and a single hard cutoff that doesn’t […]
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A new bikepacking event just landed on my radar, and it’s the kind of thing that makes me want to book flights before the route’s even fully confirmed. The El Sur bikepacking event launches its first edition in March 2027, running roughly 800km and 15,000m of climbing out of Málaga, deep into the mountains of […]
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The plan was simple enough: pedal 540 kilometres before the 26th of May and arrive in Pontevedra, Galicia. Simple on paper, anyway. I started where every bikepacking trip through Portugal should start — under the Ponte 25 de Abril, the bridge that towers over the Tagus with the kind of scale that makes you feel […]
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