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Keep on the Road – A Guide to Maintaining Hydraulic Disk Brakes
Disk brakes are becoming increasingly popular and nearly every pro team has adopted them, although there are a few exceptions where rim brakes are still used. Hydraulic brakes work using hydraulic fl ...
Friday, 10 March 2023Read more... -
Not Too Late to Book Your Fantastic Mallorca Cycling Week
Ride Your Heart Out in a Cycling Paradise Mallorca Cycling - Guided Training/Leisure 11th March - 13th May 2023 16th September - 21st October 2023 Ride with the Legend Sean 'King' Kelly In less than ...
Tuesday, 07 March 2023Read more... -
Mont Ventoux: Your Next Great Cycling Achievement
Mont Ventoux - The 'Beast' of Provence 22kms, 1909m, 1600 altimetres! 2 Ascents of Ventoux + 4 Provence Rides 29th July - 5th August 2023 Want to ride a legendary mountain? Want to ride beautiful Pro ...
Monday, 20 February 2023Read more... -
Ride Mallorca's Classic Climbs in one Glorious Week
Sa Calobra, Puig Major, Batalla- Ride them all! 11th - 18th March 2023 18th - 25th March 2023 Want to test your skills on Sa Calobra? Want to ride to the summit of Puig Major? Want to have a Mallorca ...
Tuesday, 21 February 2023Read more... -
Take Your Climbing to the Next Level: Mont Ventoux
6 Provence Rides including 2 Ventoux Ascents & An Unmatched Sense of Achievement Mont Ventoux 22kms, 1909m, 1600 altimetres! Tour de France Legend 29th July - 5th August 2023 Head to Provence, France ...
Tuesday, 31 January 2023Read more... -
Your Guide to Preparing for the Mallorca 312 & Marmotte Granfondo Alps Sportives
You’ve booked the big sportive and you’re eager to prepare and develop the right condition to complete it. That’s great but how is that accomplished? This guide will provide guidance on how to comple ...
Wednesday, 25 January 2023Read more... -
The Right Food for the Right Ride – Determine Your Cycling Nutrition
The chances are you know that cycling nutrition is vital to putting in good cycling performances. What you eat on and off the bike is important and plays an important role in how far you can ride, ho ...
Monday, 02 January 2023Read more... -
17 Tips for a Stellar New Year of Road Cycling
We all know that New Year’s resolutions don’t tend to stick. You make the promise to do this and do that, and a few weeks in they start to slide. It’s just how it is. At SportActive, we have your bac ...
Thursday, 29 December 2022Read more... -
Ride Your Way Into the Ventoux Legend
Test Your Limits & Savour Your Achievements 29th July - 5th August 2023 Mont Ventoux (22Kms, 1909m, 1600 altimeters) is the legendary mountain that the Pros respect. Towering above Provence, France, ...
Friday, 23 December 2022Read more... -
Marmotte Alps Sportive- 4 Tour de France Cols, One Glorious Day
Marmotte Alps is Europe's Toughest Alpine Sportive! Ride Glandon (1924m, 20.9 km), Télégraphe (1570m, 11 km), Galibier (2645m, 22 km), Alpe d'Huez (1815m, 13.8 km) in one Glorious Day! 174 km, 5000 a ...
Friday, 23 December 2022Read more... -
6 Reasons to Ride in the French Alps and Beyond!
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Rhône-Alpes regions are located in southeast France. Go there and you’ll find yourself looking at the fantastic, spectacular and beautiful French Alps. The mountain ran ...
Tuesday, 06 December 2022Read more... -
Fantastic Mallorca Cycling Holidays That You Need to Ride!
18th February - 13th May 2023 16th September - 21st October 2023 When you think of perfect cycling, you think of perfect smooth roads, challenging climbs, low traffic, and weather that hovers around ...
Tuesday, 06 December 2022Read more... -
8 Reasons to Embrace the Mallorca Cycling Experience
Head 200 kms east of the Spanish coast and you’ll come to the enigmatic and beautiful island of Mallorca. It is part of the Balaerics and is nestled in the Mediterranean Sea and has the climate to ma ...
Saturday, 03 December 2022Read more... -
Your Mont Ventoux Cycling Experience Revealed
SportActive Faster, Fitter, Stronger Become a Mont Ventoux Legend Mont Ventoux 22kms, 1600 altimetres! Malaucène & Bédoin Routes Included Sean Kelly - 'Mont Ventoux Should be on your Cycling Bucket L ...
Wednesday, 30 November 2022Read more... -
3 Fantastic French Cycling Holidays Not to be Missed
SportActive Faster, Fitter, Stronger French Bucket List Cycling Holidays Geneva to Nice 550kms, 6 days 11 alpine passes 10-17th June 2023 Marmotte Granfondo Alps 174 kms, 5000+ Altimeters 25th June 2 ...
Tuesday, 06 December 2022Read more... -
Cycling in Winter can be fun! Tips for Better Performance in the Cold
Winter is not a great time for cyclists. The daylight hours shorten, the weather gets colder, wetter, foggier, and icier, and as such maintaining fitness and keeping your cycling skills on point beco ...
Wednesday, 28 December 2022Read more... -
Great Riders Who Have Taken on the Mallorca 312
The Mallorca 312 is Europe’s longest and most popular sportive. It began in 2010 when founder Xisco Lliteras turned discussions about riding the whole island in one day in a bar, into the Mallorca 31 ...
Wednesday, 05 October 2022Read more... -
Riding Col du Galibier 2642 Metres of Tour de France Legend
There are several cols in cycling that push you physically and psychologically. They are in cycling folklore and have a legendary status. Alpe d’Huez is one, Mont Ventoux is another and in the southe ...
Sunday, 25 September 2022Read more... -
How Accurate is Your Calorie Burn Device?
Thanks to the rise of electronic devices we have a plethora of ways of measuring calorie burn when on two wheels. The more sophisticated devices can measure distance and show GPS information as well ...
Wednesday, 07 September 2022Read more... -
Ride Puig Major a Brilliant Cycling Challenge, Fantastic Views and Selfie Opportunities!
Mallorca is blessed with things that bring cyclists back to it year after year. Roads are smooth, winding and enticing, the weather is perfect for riding your bike, and the Sierra de Tramuntana Mount ...
Tuesday, 16 August 2022Read more... -
Tom Simpson the Cycling Crusader that Time Forgot
Tom Simpson will forever be known as the British rider who died on a tragic day riding Mont Ventoux, ‘The Beast of Provence’. On a hot day in 1967, he would collapse an estimated 5 minutes from the s ...
Friday, 13 May 2022Read more... -
Training Tips for Every Kind of Cycling
Whether you crave the feeling of getting to the summit of the highest cols, riding faster on the flat, cyclosportives, or simply enjoy cycling for the beauty of it, we have a training tip for you. In ...
Tuesday, 05 April 2022Read more... -
Discover Mallorca’s Epic Road Cycling Climb Sa Calobra
Sa Calobra is arguably Mallorca’s most iconic climb. Made famous by Bradley Wiggins who trained hard on it prior to his 2012 Olympic and Tour de France success, the mountain has been like a Mecca for ...
Saturday, 12 March 2022Read more... -
Am I Good Enough to Ride Marmotte Granfondo Alps?
Marmotte Granfondo Alps is a gruelling one day sportive set in the beautiful and awe inspiring French Alps. Like all great cycling challenges, Marmotte Alps is hard to complete. It is not impossible, ...
Saturday, 12 March 2022Read more...
