Once you've cycled from South Tyrol to Nepal and returned after nine months with long hair and an adventure of a lifetime, you'll want to get out into the world again. Unless a virus comes along and makes travelling out of the country impossible. So it wasn't difficult to get globetrotter David Niederkofler interested in travelling through our shared homeland. Especially as the biking highlights in South Tyrol are all close by. But when we were planning the route on the map, we quickly realised that we both felt we had already travelled half the world by bike - but we didn't really know our own homeland. Sure, David comes from the Puster Valley in the far east, which is known for its cosy inhabitants and potatoes. I, on the other hand, come from the Vinschgau Valley, where people pick apples from the tree and the South Tyrolean dialect is still understandable. But we both only know sections of the Dolomites and the South Tyrolean lowlands in between. The problem after days of planning: when we had combined all the points we had always wanted to ride into one route, we had 1,000 kilometres, 32,000 metres of altitude and 19 trail-heavy stages on the plan.
You can download the complete travel article "Trans-South Tyrol" from BIKE 11/2020 as a PDF in the download area below. The tour story costs 1.99 euros.
- Stage 1-7: Dolomites
- Stage 8-14: Through Unterland
- Stage 15-21: Vinschgau Valley
