Gravel riding on altitude: Grava Lybica
La Cerdanya is a true paradise for gravel riding, even though it has traditionally been associated with road cycling.
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Cycling 🚴, Gravel, La CerdanyaCycling 🚴
Cycling sits at the heart of Nafent. From quiet backroads in the Mediterranean to long climbs in the Pyrenees, we explore the sport through stories, routes, and people. Road, gravel, mountain bike or bikepacking, each discipline has its own rhythm and culture.
In this category you will find in-depth interviews with riders, race reports, travel features, gear insights, and training perspectives. We look beyond results, focusing on the landscapes, communities, and everyday moments that shape life on the bike.
Bikes Ripoll: key figure in The Ripollès cycling scene
Cyclists passing through the Ripollès often stop at Bikes Ripoll, not only to repair their bikes or to buy or rent one, but also to ask for advice. In smaller cycling destinations, this informal network plays a vital role.
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Cycling 🚴, Mountain biking, Ripollès
Five reasons why the Ripollès should be on your map for cycling
The Tour de France only shows a small part of what the region has to offer. Beyond the Collada de Toses there are countless beautiful places and roads that are well worth discovering.
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Cycling 🚴, Nafent Magazine stories, Ripollès, Road
60 years in the waiting: Granollers welcomes back the Tour de France
Granollers last witnessed the cycling whirlwind that is the Tour de
France in 1965, the year the peloton thundered through town as they
raced from Barcelona to Perpignan. However, the city’s first dance with
the Tour came even earlier in 1957, when legendary names like Jacques
Anquetil ruled the roads.
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Barcelona, Catalonia, Cycling 🚴, Nafent Magazine stories, Road
Chasing the Tour de France-dream: Abel Balderstone
From his base at Ca n’Amat, Balderstone has grown into a well-rounded figure in the pro peloton. Twelve months ago, he stood on the top step of the Spanish national time
trial podium, a result that turned heads and lent him a new kind of weight within the team.
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Cycling 🚴, Interviews, Nafent Magazine stories, Road
Grand Départ Barcelona preview: Tour de France route, stages and favourites
A full preview of the Grand Départ in Barcelona for the Tour de France 2026, including route details, opening stages, and the key contenders expected to shape the race from day one.
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Barcelona, Catalonia, Cycling 🚴, Road
SKS Germany’s new MIA and TOM multitools: practical and versatile
The MIA models (MIA 8, 12) weigh approximately 58 g and 90 g respectively and provide basic functions for quick road or gravel rides. The TOM models (TOM 8, 11, 22) range from ~75 g to 122 g and include extra tools such as a chain tool and tubeless repair kit for longer trips.
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Cycling 🚴, Gravel, Mountain biking, Road
Race preview: Andorra MoraBanc Clàssica 2026
Verona joined Nafent to reflect on the inaugural edition of the
event; Andorra’s only representation with the professional road race calendar.
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Andorra, Cycling 🚴, Nafent Magazine stories, Road
Guava Bikes launches the ‘ACE’
Where the Catalan brand originally focused on ‘freedom machines’ that should be ‘fun’ and ‘adventurous’; the ACE remains fun, yet more performance-oriented and aerodynamic, and therefore faster.
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Barcelona, Culture, Cycling 🚴, Gravel
Bike Odyssey’s Hannibal: the best Mediterranean bike tour
Bike Odyssey’s Hannibal: the best Mediterranean bike tour Catalonia, the Provence, Alps, Piedmonte, Tuscany: one by one great cycling destinations. Why choose one of them if you can explore each one of them extensively with Bike Odyssey’s Hannibal Bike Tour? “Hannibal is probably the best Meditterranean bike tour.” The concept of the Hannibal format is
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Bike tours, Catalonia, Cycling 🚴, Destinations, Road, Travel
