The UCI World Cycling Championships 2013 in Tuscany!
These run from September 22nd to September 29th 2013, with race starts in Lucca and Montecatini Terme
Here is the happy Canadian Fred McGuire, who stayed at Casa Verde this summer. (Fred is that a bottle of Chianti on the bike frame?) He is happy for us to report about his cycling adventures here in the hillside and mountains that are a training ground for the world’s best cyclists. Mark Cavendish is a local resident in the Pistoia area! Every weekend there are hundreds of aspiring Bradley Wiggins in their multi-coloured tight-fitting lycra ascending the steep hills and bends up and around the Valeriana.
Fred hired his bicycle from ChronoBikes (www.chronobikes.com…….an excellent web-site by the way) in Lucca at what he described as a very reasonable rate (25 Euros per day) in the peak of the summer weather….brave guy. I would probably manage about 100 metres up these mountain roads but to healthy enthusiasts these hills are perfect for a Tuscany cycling holiday.
