Sardinia – what the riding is like
Peter Herold
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We (myself, English, lives on east coast of island in Ogliastra + two Sards) are writing a mountain bike guide to Sardinia. I just finished my 26 routes in “my area”, which range from “Easy Rides for Everyone” to XC, All Mountain and Free Ride. There is a choice between technically-easier granite and schist mountains to the rockier, Alpine-style single tracks of the limestone “Supramonte”, the inland part of which has much more of a wilderness feel to it than the Alps (no signs, no-one else around, no mobile phone signal), while the coastal part includes rides down to what’s acknowledged to be the best coastline in the Mediterranean, uninhabited to boot.
Today with a sore rib I am writing up the last route and sorting photos. I thought I’d share some with the forum.
Yesterday’s ride: crocuses along the track, snow still on the high mountains
Cala Sisine in November
An old muletrack on the Supramonte
Technical/Freeride December
Fun downhill blasts January
There are also videos of the rides at
http://www.youtube.com/user/mtbogliastra Our association MountainBike Ogliastra
http://www.youtube.com/user/thelemonhouse also lots of climbing videos, mostly in English
The guide should be published around Xmas 2011 (in Italian) but before then I have translated some of the route descriptions we've put onto the main Italian forum http://itinerari.mtb-forum.it/countries/view/52 into English.
For more info, contact me peteranne@peteranne.it
cheers Peter
Today with a sore rib I am writing up the last route and sorting photos. I thought I’d share some with the forum.
Yesterday’s ride: crocuses along the track, snow still on the high mountains
Cala Sisine in November
An old muletrack on the Supramonte
Technical/Freeride December
Fun downhill blasts January
There are also videos of the rides at
http://www.youtube.com/user/mtbogliastra Our association MountainBike Ogliastra
http://www.youtube.com/user/thelemonhouse also lots of climbing videos, mostly in English
The guide should be published around Xmas 2011 (in Italian) but before then I have translated some of the route descriptions we've put onto the main Italian forum http://itinerari.mtb-forum.it/countries/view/52 into English.
For more info, contact me peteranne@peteranne.it
cheers Peter
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Actually I do, MT-42's with pedals with clips on one side and flats on the other. On this they're not clipped in obviously.Sod that.. I guess you dont wear SPD's? haha
The place in the video you refer to, the ledge along Punta Giradili an hour from where we live, is famous:-
1. it was the cover shot for the last/only guide to riding in the island, the 1991 Sole Sale Salita
2. it's been used for various MTB'ing photo shots
3. it's a very famous place to walk- the first stage of the 7-day "Selvaggio Blu" trek goes up here
and to climb
and to basejump (this vid is ace ALLEZ Jérôme)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULUuVEdnqNY
and so with the guide we're writing we decided to "definitively" say what it was like to ride down. Answer: good for 1,2 km to the most exposed bit, but not worth proceeding after. So we present this as a variant to a nice XC ride which goes along the good doubletrack you drive or ride to to get to the start of the Cengia and then down this quite difficult (for an XC ride) old muletrack
ciao0
