The Spanish Epic: my 2,557 kilometre bike ride around Spain.
The Spanish Epic: my 2,557 kilometre bike ride around Spain. By Tim Kirkus, Co-founder and guide, Pure Mountains In April, I rolled out from the Sierra Nevada mountains in southern Spain with everything I needed strapped to my bike. No support crew. No pre-booked...
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
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
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. Tyre plug repair...
Five things that make Spain the best Country in the World for Cycling. And one that doesn’t.
We think that Spain is the best country in the world to ride your bike, whether you’re a mountain biker, gravel biker or road rider. Here are the five features of Spain that make it such a cycling paradise. And one that doesn’t. 1. Climate Spain is famous...
The Sierra Nevada or the Two Deserts gravel bike tour? Find out which is right for you.
We offer two point-to-point gravel bike tours in Andalucía, southern Spain. These are guided, all-inclusive trips. While you’re riding, we take care of everything else. Both holidays include five nights accommodation, four days riding, Málaga airport transfers and...