The Tuscany Trail

 The Tuscany Trail - 440Kms & ~6000m of trails in the Italian wine belt, carrying all you need for 6 days. Julie on her Swiss built hard tail ultra light weight MTB 26x2.35 and Wayne on his Origine GRAX gravel bike running 700x45mm tyres...

Preparation .... preparation ... preparation....

A local ride from the house to test biker body as much as the bikes resistance 

A good mix of bike riding and bike walking

Every obstacle has it's way around

Fingers crossed for these conditions above head and under tyres ....

A long weekend .... In the French wine belt of Rasteau and Gigondas ..... with Mt. Ventoux always on the horizon.

A typical sleepy village just before lunch time ... already very hot!

As I mentioned ... mt. Ventoux on the horizon.

up up up

almost done for the day ...

Re-hydration is taken very seriously here :)