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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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... -
9 Achievable New Year’s Cycling Resolutions
Now you’ve had your turkey and celebrated the new year, now is the time to get organised and back on the bike. We have all made resolutions but sticking to them can sometimes be difficult. In cycling ...
Wednesday, 12 January 2022Read more... -
Best Christmas Wishes – The SportActive Team
In 2021 SportActive returned to Mallorca. With every kilometre we rode you were with us. We reconnected, we made new friends, we rode together, we had fun together. Thank you. It was great to ride wi ...
Friday, 24 December 2021Read more... -
Sean Kelly - 'Mont Ventoux Should be on your Cycling Bucket List'
Mont Ventoux is one of the most legendary mountains in cycling. Technically, it is part of the French Alps but the great monolith stands alone towering over the French region of Provence. It has seen ...
Friday, 03 December 2021Read more... -
7 Facts About Cap de Formentor You May Not Know!
Head to Mallorca’s most northern point and eventually, you’ll reach the famous Cap Formentor. Here you’ll be greeted with spectacular views and, if you’ve ridden to reach it, a great sense of achieve ...
Thursday, 11 November 2021Read more... -
7 Breaches of Cycling Etiquette Never to do!
There is an unspoken etiquette in cycling circles that can get you a bad reputation should you breach it. From wearing earbuds to half wheeling, the following should be avoided at all costs. Blocking ...
Thursday, 25 November 2021Read more... -
7 Tips for Riding Your First Sportive and Loving it!
Sportive and cycling events are wonderful. You get the atmosphere that only the larger organised cycling events can bring, together with challenge and achievement. They are a good way to chart progre ...
Wednesday, 25 May 2022Read more... -
6 Essential Cycling Skills to Master
To become a good cyclist it is important to learn the essential skills. They will not only help you ride better but more safely too, and most importantly when you ride sportives and other challenges ...
Friday, 10 September 2021Read more... -
5 Occasions Where Precise Cycle Gearing is Essential
To become a good road cyclist you have to have mastery over your gears. Being able to select the correct gear improves your times and makes for a much smoother ride. Gears allow you to optimise your ...
Thursday, 11 November 2021Read more... -
8 Tips to Increase Your Cycling Distance
A good sign of cycling progression is to ride longer distances. Sportives, cycling events, and group rides are all accessible once you can put away the miles. The question that arises is how is this ...
Monday, 12 July 2021Read more... -
Cycling Tips for Cycling Motivation
When you decided to climb on the saddle and take up road cycling, you probably had dreams of becoming a lean mean riding machine. The reality is often a little different as life and the weather combi ...
Tuesday, 22 June 2021Read more...
