Review of 2024 Mountain Bike and Gravel Adventures

Review of 2024 Mountain Bike and Gravel Adventures

As 2025 adventures beckon, join us for a quick look back at the autumn/fall season 2024 at Pure Mountains… MAGICAL MOUNTAIN BIKINGRiders from Europe, the USA, Australia and beyond joined our guided mountain bike holidays. They rode exciting trails with friends...
Komoot Women’s Badlands Rally Report

Komoot Women’s Badlands Rally Report

By Jenny, Pure Mountains founder and guide. What’s a Komoot Women’s Rally? In April, my friend Tatiana and I joined ultra-endurance rider Lael Wilcox and 70 other women for the Komoot Women’s Badlands Rally. Komoot says these rallies are “adventure cycling...
Mountain and Gravel Bike Rental

Mountain and Gravel Bike Rental

Rent a premium mountain bike or gravel bike for your Pure Mountains trip to Spain! Mountain Bikes The Cannondale Habit 2 is a 12 speed, carbon, full-suspension mountain bike, which is perfect for the trails of Spain’s Sierra Nevada.  If you want to take it easy, opt...

Gravel Bike Holiday Kit List

If bringing your own bike: We recommend tubeless tyres, to avoid pinch flats and sidewall cuts. Tyres have to cope with occasional rough gravel, so need to be as wide as your bike allows, durable, with strong sidewalls, rather than ultra lightweight. Spare tyre, inner...
European Mountain Bike Marathon Champs

European Mountain Bike Marathon Champs

A report from Pure Mountains guide and co-founder, Tim Kirkus. “The European MTB Marathon Championships in France on 10 June 2023 was a priority A race for me this year. I trained well and, with two weeks to go until race day, I was really looking forward to the...

Mountain Bike Holiday Kit List

If bringing your own bike: We recommend tubeless tyres, to avoid pinch flats and sidewall cuts. Tyres have to cope with Sierra Nevada’s sharp rocks and thorns, so need to be durable, with strong sidewalls, rather than lightweight.  A spare tyre (we have some tyres...

Bringing Your Own Bike on Holiday

Your bike will need to be a high-quality, full-suspension bike. A hardtail will be a struggle, unless you’re an expert hardtail enthusiast!If you have any doubts about your bike’s suitability; ask us. See the Kit List for advice on spares and accessories to bring with...

Total Bike Care Packages

Total Bike Care Packages allow you to relax at the end your ride, knowing that your bike is in expert hands. After each day’s riding, you leave your bike in our fully equipped workshop and tell our mechanic if there is anything in particular you would like him to look...