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The Pros Backyard

With the onset of Autumn and the racing season coming to a close the attention of the professionals turns to training. After a few weeks of rest, they’re soon back on their bikes, embarking on long training rides to build their base km’s ahead of the new season. Perhaps putting volume of training aside, it’s a similar story for us non-competitive folk, too. The Autumn season paints our well-known local routes in a new, softer light, our bodies adapt to cooler temperatures and our minds race to the snug post-ride warmth that only an open fireplace can provide Nestled in the foothills of the Pyrenees, Girona is the perfect location for these long training rides – nicknamed ‘the pros backyard’ – thanks to a selection of idilic routes ridden religiously by over 100 resident professionals. We asked Girona local man and CHPT3 ambassador, Ramon Lozano to head out and ride his favourite Autumn routes, sharing them with us as he went. This, his first and much-loved training ride, is famed for its traffic-free roads which makes for the calmest start possible to the cooler seasons. Riding south from our medieval home of Girona, Ramon winds steadily along quiet roads to ...

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Behind the Scenes: Fall Riding With Ryder Hesjedal

Canada’s Eastern Townships is a well-known region for his many cycling trails and bike-friendly towns. Surrounded by lakes and the Appalachian mountains, fall is without a doubt the best season to ride your bike. The light and the colours create a mesmerizing set for all cycling enthusiasts seeking for great rides. Fall cycling also rhyme with changing temperatures. And by changing temperatures we obviously mean sun, cold and rain (sometimes at the same time). The question burning on all lips when it comes to clothing during this kind of temperature is: What should I wear?  “The challenge of fall riding is the way you will dress, when we started early morning it was 3 degrees sunny and windy, then it warmth up and at the end we got some rain. Ryder had really the chance to experience the amazing range of use of the RoS jacket and Sorpasso Wind Bibtight”, Pierre Perron, Castelli Canada General manager. Castelli Canada headquarters received Ryder Hesjedal, a long-time partner of Castelli, in the Eastern Townships and went out on the bike to put to test the Alpha RoS Jacket on the field. Pierre Perron, General manager of Castelli Canada, explains the challenge of choosing the ...

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Riding the Sella Ronda

The Dolomites have a lot to offer to cyclists: spectacular peaks and legendary passes. To race or simply to get a glimpse of one of the many rides that the Dolomites are offering, Sella Ronda is maybe one of the most reachable circuit with a length of 55 kilometres and a gained altitude of 1780 metres. We have gathered five women, part of our women’s cycling community, to experience the mythical Sella Ronda pass in the Dolomites and share their passion for cycling. State of feverish excitement, joyful anticipation, fears, advices, were all shared by every single one of them during the three days journey. Surrounded by a spirit of camaraderie and mutual help, the group was challenged with different types of weather conditions (rain, sun, mist, cold) which they were easily able to defeat with the right piece of clothing like the Gabba and the Perfetto. Some of them have even witnessed the state of bliss riding with a group of women by combining different visions of the sport: for some, the happiness of riding, for others, the performance, brought all together by several factors such as the gear, the place but also the people. They have joined their forces and weaknesses to ...

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