The participants of the BIKE Transalp will follow in the race week from 4-10 July 2021 exactly one lane. Anyone who takes a shortcut will be disqualified. Anyone who leaves it has to return to the track and loses time and places. These are the rules when athletes compete against each other. The rules are strict and regulated. Once the race participants have completed their performance and the organisation team has taken down the arrows, there is still this adventurous route through the mountain giants of the Ortler and Adamello region and into the heart of the Lake Garda mountains. What remains are those wow and aha moments from the race, a 360-degree panoramic landscape cinema that makes the sensory receptors in your eyes glow and the image processing programme in your brain crash. In short: the route is far too good just for the BIKE Transalp 2021. It's worth experiencing this route, even if you don't have a race number on your handlebars, even in snacks or customised variations.
For this series, Marc Schneider takes off his race director glasses and looks at this route as a tourist. He reveals where the most beautiful huts are for resting, where you can take a shortcut without missing the highlights. Where do you spend the night if you want to split a long stage into two days? How do you get back if you want to turn a stage into a short circular tour? How do you get back by public transport if you only want to cycle one stage? The BIKE Transalp participants must complete the entire route in one week. Bikers in tourer mode can also collect the experiences as and when they feel like it. In this series of articles, Marc Schneider summarises the options for making more out of it than just a race track.
The 7 stages of the BIKE Transalp 2021
- Stage 1: Nauders - Livigno
- Stage 2: Livigno - Bormio
- Stage 3: Bormio - Aprica
- Stage 4: Aprica - Pellizzano
- Stage 5: Pellizzano - Molveno
- Stage 6: Molveno - Sella Giudicarie/Valle del Chiese
- Stage 7: Sella Giudicarie/Valle del Chiese - Riva del Garda
You can download the GPS data for the 2021 BIKE Transalp route from the Delius Klasing online shop. Race details and registration: www.bike-transalp.de
