A cyclist riding a bike along a country road On two wheels

Five mountain-bike rings bookable all year, from eight riders up

Montecchio

The association keeps a set of fixed mountain-bike rings and rides them all year: the Val d'Orcia, the Monti Amerini, the lake country. Each one is a full day of climbing and descending, not a loop round a car park.

How the day goes

  1. Pick the ring you want and let them tell you what the climbing really feels like.
  2. Out early with the group, up through the woods on dirt and white road.
  3. Down the long descent, then the last stretch back to where you left the car.

These rings are for legs that already climb, and they go out with a group: ask whether bikes come with the ride.

Where it is

Montecchio at its real position from Rome, with everywhere else we list behind it — so you can see how far out this one is.

Montecchio, and where it is from Rome Montecchio drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 98 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 98 min Rome Montecchio

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, Tenaglie di Montecchio (TR), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 38drive from the middle of Rome
  • 114 kmeach way

  • Rent a car for the day

    The day stays yours: you leave when you want, stop where you want, and come back when the light goes.

    • You pick it up in Rome and drop it back in Rome
    • No timetable to build the day around
    • The stops on the way are the good part, and they need a car

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  • Have a driver take you, door to door

    No parking to find, no wrong turns, and you leave when the day is done.

    • Picked up where you are staying, dropped back there
    • No parking to find and no ZTL to worry about
    • Nobody spends the day driving

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