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2012 Giro d'Italia stage details, daily cycling excursions. Calendar and prices.

2012-02-11T06:25:00.000-08:00

Picture from Zoncolan stage of Giro d'Italia 2011

In this post is possible check our 2012 Giro d'Italia cycling excursions calendar and prices.

day 4 : Team time trial in Verona stage- Wednesday 9th May

euro 120/person including transfer from/to Venezia, Padova, Treviso or Vicenza, bike rental and tasting. Watching the stage and cycle sightseeing, tour around Verona.

day 5 : Flat - from Modena to Fano stage - Thursday 10th May

euro 120/person including transfer from/to Venezia, Padova, Rovigo and Bologna, bike rental and tasting. Watching the start in Modena, cycling tour along Lambrusco wine roads.

day 10 : Medium mountain - from Civitavecchia to Assisi stage - Tuesday, 15th May

euro 150/person including transfer from/to Florence, Arezzo, Perugia, tasting included and bike rental

watching arrival in Assisi and cycling tour along this beautiful area.

day 11 : Flat - from Assisi to Montecatini Terme stage - Wednesday, 16th May

euro 150/person including transfer from/to Florence, Arezzo, Perugia, tasting included and bike rental. watching start in Assisi and cycling tour along this beautiful area.

day 17 : High Mountain - from Falzes/Pfalzen to Cortina d'Ampezzo stage - Wednesday, 23rd May

euro 150/person including transfer from/to Venice and Treviso, tasting included and bike rental. Watching arrival in Cortina d'Ampezzo and cycling tour on cycling paths

day 19 : High Mountain - from Treviso to Alpe di Pampeago stage - Friday, 25th May

Watching the start of stage in Treviso, including cycling tours and visit at Cervara naturalistic oasi and tasting.

euro 120/person including transfer from/to Venezia, Padova.

day 20 : High Mountain - from Caldes Val di Sole to Passo dello Stelvio stage - Saturday, 26th May

euro 180/person including transfer from/to Venice, Padova, Vicenza, Verona, Trento. tasting and bike rental included. Watching the stage on the road to the Stelvio and cycling tour along this beautiful area.

Last day : Team time trial - Milano - Milano stage - Sunday, 27th May

euro 120/person including transfer from/to Venezia, Padova, Vicenza, Verona, Brescia, Bergamo. Bike rental and tasting included. Cycle sightseeing.

Offer available for individuals and groups from 2 to 10 people.

Booking in advance required : jerry@rentalbikeitaly.com

The cycling excursions can be customized : short and easier route for ordinary people and a longer or more demanding route for the keener cyclists.

First Views of the Route of Rhone - Cycling holidays in Italy, France and Switzerand. Experience of our customer.

2012-02-11T04:53:00.001-08:00

First Views of the Rhone, a photo by rentalbikeitaly on Flickr.

A shot from our customer that have ridden with our bikes an uforgettable 3 weeks cycling holidays experience between Italy, Switzerland and France.

Bike rentals in Dolomites : pick up in Arabba

2012-02-11T02:29:00.001-08:00

Dolomites bike rental service : pick up in Arabba, a photo by rentalbikeitaly on Flickr.

A shot from Arabba (dolomites mountains in Italy) during pick up delivery of our road bikes.

This is the link of tourism in Arabba (Cima Coppi, Granfondo Dolomiti TMC Arabba classic and Cronoscalata)

Information on bike models available and booking : jerry@rentalbikeitaly.com

Mule along prosecco wine roads

2012-02-10T11:56:00.001-08:00

Mule along prosecco wine roads - winter season, a photo by rentalbikeitaly on Flickr.

A shot from our cycling excursions along the Prosecco wine roads in Veneto region.

Transfer available from/to Venice Piazzale Roma bus terminal or Mestre railway station.

Information and booking : jerry@rentalbikeitaly.com

Orvieto, view from the road to Bolsena lake

2012-02-10T10:30:00.001-08:00

Orvieto, view from the road to Bolsena lake, a photo by rentalbikeitaly on Flickr.

A shot from our cycling excursion along the Bolsena lake.

In this picture can watch Orvieto town from the road to Bolsena. A beautiful and exclusive landscape.

Atrani, the smaller village of Italy.

2012-02-10T04:41:00.001-08:00

Atrani, smaller village of Italy, a photo by rentalbikeitaly on Flickr.

On the road from Amalfi to Ravello is possible visit Atrani, the smaller village of Italy. Atrani is a little square with some bar, some house and shop buildings, one post office and one church.

We can arrange customized self or guided tours along this road of Amalfi coast, with high end road or hybrid bikes rental.

Information and booking : jerry@rentalbikeitaly.com

Venice Carnival. Travel information and suggestions by Lonely Planet guide.

2012-02-09T15:53:00.001-08:00

Are you ready to live your carnival experience in Venice?
This link can help you to plan your travel to the beautiful town of Venezia.
Venice Travel Information and Travel Guide - Italy - Lonely Planet

We can arrange 2 cycling excursions with transfer service from / to Piazzale Roma bus terminal :

- prosecco wine roads with tasting of local food
- riviera del brenta, cycling brenta river with stop at Palladio villas and museum of craftmade in Italy shoes.

Information and booking : jerr@rentalbikeitaly.com

Rome by bike !

2012-02-09T04:13:00.001-08:00

a photo by rentalbikeitaly on Flickr.

A shot from our daily customized cycling shore excursion arranged in Rome for our customers. Available transfer service from Civitavecchia port.

Choose your destination in Campania region : over 71 cities where pick up or return our bikes at your accommodation ! Where rent a bicycle in Campania region.

2012-02-08T10:02:00.000-08:00

Campania is one of 20 regions of Italy where our company pick up and collect bicycles for rent at railway stations, airports or accommodations.

This is a list of cities of Campania region where available our customized bike rental services :

Our company can deliver or collect also in different cities (also not indicated in this post) and/or in different regions of Italy.

Information and booking : jerry@rentalbikeitaly.com

Valdobbiadene - La Prosecco Granfondo

2012-02-05T10:12:00.000-08:00

customer during cycling training

customers during slow riding

We use to rent high end bikes for customers that want join the Prosecco Classic Granfondo. Along this roads we arrange year-round customized daily excursions dedicated to the cycling training for keaner cyclists or slow riding and tasting of local products for ordinary people.

Transfer available from/to Venice, Padova and Treviso area.

Information and booking : jerry@rentalbikeitaly.com

2012 Tirrento Adriatico stages route

2012-02-02T08:38:00.000-08:00

Stage 1 March 7: San Vincenzo-Donoratico (16.9 km team time trial)
Stage 2 March 8: San Vincenzo-Indicatore (230 km)
Stage 3: March 9: Indicatore-Terni (178 km)
Stage 4: March 10: Amelia-Chieti (252 km)
Stage 5: March 11: Martinsicuro-Prati di Tivo (196 km)
Stage 6: March 12: Offida-Offida (181 km)
Stage 7: March 13: San Benedetto del Tronto (9.3 km time trial)

If interested to arrange exclusive customized daily cycling excursions along the Tirreno Adriatico routes, please contact jerry@rentalbikeitaly.com

Best restaurant and seaview rooms in Positano : Fattoria La Tagliata

2012-01-31T11:04:00.000-08:00

Special treatment for rentalbikeitaly membership rewards. Check "La Tagliata" restaurant and rooms and benefits on thecyclingclub.net

Full carbon bike collected in Bergamo.

2012-01-29T13:30:00.000-08:00

Our full carbon bike collected under appointment at the Arli hotel in Bergamo at the end of rental period.

Activities in Amalfi coast : a shot from the cycling exploration.

2012-01-29T06:25:00.000-08:00

In this picture the ArsMondo owner during her testing of our guided cycling exploration of Amalfi coast. Our company is the official cycling excursions supplier for the ArsMondo Finnish tour operator in Amalfi coast, Naples old town and Phlegrean coast.

De Franceschi full carbon bike dura ace wheels and gear

2012-01-28T12:19:00.001-08:00

Picture of the De Franceschi full carbon bike rented to our customer, handmade in Italy frame, dura ace wheels and gear, delivered at Arli hotel in Bergamo.

Things to do in Amalfi coast : the path of gods, a trekking excursion from Bomerano to Positano and back to Amalfi by boat !

2012-01-28T10:43:00.000-08:00

tourists on the trekking path of gods

at the crossing to Nocelle, Positano or Praiano direction

lunch at local panoramic restaurant with Positano and Capri view

on the road to Positano

Boat tour at the end of walking, going back from Positano to Amalfi

Our company arrange for small groups the Path of Gods walking excursion. This tour start at the main square of Bomerano and finish in Positano.

The sightseeing include lunch at the best panoramic local restaurant of the coast in Nocelle village with Capri island and Positano seaview. In Positano, at the end of the day, our customers can enjoy a boat tour to the port of Amalfi

Our company can customize this shore excursion including, on demand and for a fee, transfer to Bomerano from main touristic villages of the Amalfi coast.

Cycling excursions along Amalfi coast : our partnership with ArsMondo, extension of our offer to Finnish partner.

2012-01-27T05:54:00.000-08:00

Tomorrow our guide will accompany our partner the "ArsMondo" tour operator to explore by bicycle the magnificient Amalfi coast, from Positano to Cetara. With this partnership our company strengthen the cycling excursions offer addressed to the Finnish travellers.

New entry in our stable : Bottecchia 8avio full carbon road bike with Campagnolo Veloce 20v mix and Shimano 105 20v mix

2012-01-26T08:00:00.000-08:00

Another new entry in our stable, the Bottecchia 8avio full carbon model available in 2 solution : Campagnolo Veloce or Shimano 105.

Bottecchia are the technical sponsor of the Acqua & Sapone professional Italian cycling team.

Bottecchia is a historical bicycle company that started as a small cyclery of Carnielli and improved in 1924 by Ottavio Bottecchia, the first Italian winner of the Tour de France. A new company with a new name "Bottecchia" was born after the death of Ottavio Bottecchia in 1926 (2 years before professional cycling of my grandfather in the Vèlo Club Naples cycling team)

Things to do in Verona : 10 of the best places to stay, eat and visit in Verona for your Valentine's escape suggested by the guardian.

2012-01-25T02:48:00.000-08:00

If you are planning a Valentine's escape we suggest to read this link from the guardian where is possible read some suggestions to stay, eat and visit Verona.

Obviously we suggest to rent our bikes, in this mode can gain time to dedicate to your partner !

In Venice the first bar of Italy. Recipe to prepare a good Italian coffee.

2012-01-25T00:51:00.000-08:00

original tips to make a good neapolitan strong coffee at home :
"water under valve and much coffee in the moka"

It was one morning in 1570 that the Venetians discovered for the first time the strong aroma of coffee. He was a physician-botanist Prospero At length, he had stayed a long time in Egypt and there he found the drink "black in color andflavor similar to chicory." He thought that his countrymen would have liked. And he was right.

It was so in Venice also opened the first "bar" or better, the first café. The very first, in order of time, was opened in 1554 in Constantinople. In Europe, a cafe was opened in Marseilles in 1659 and one in Hamburg in 1679. In Venice, the plant was initially known as a medicine, but soon it was used to prepare the pleasant beverage: in 1683 (thoughsome anticipate this date to 1640 and even in 1615) in Piazza San Marco, under the arches of the Magistrates, was the firstopen "coffee shop". Since then new shops sprang up everywhere in the city (in 1763 there were 218!).

Becoming meeting places to discuss business, or just for a chat during the free time. The new custom was soon sweptacross Italy: Turin, Genoa, Milan, Florence and Rome rose coffee then become famous and important cultural centers, meeting place of writers, politicians and scholars of all time.

Even the French showed to appreciate a lot the new drink is said that the famous writer Balzac came to drink fifty cups a day. In England the first restaurant for the serving of coffee was opened in Oxford.

In short, the middle of the 700 in all of Europe and America are drinking coffee.

An interesting post about visit at the Giant bicycles factory

2012-01-24T09:55:00.000-08:00

If you are interested to know Giant factory, at this link is possible watch some pictures from visit by the Italian MTB forum.

At Taichung village in Taiwan, Giant have the largest manufacturer of bicycles in the world. With 5,200,000 frames produced in 2011, of which 3,000,000 for its brand and the rest for other companies, Giant billin in the 2010 1.39 USD billion.

The company was founded in 1972, when it produced 3,700frames. The Giant name was created in 1981, and in 1987 came from the factory the first carbon bike brand. Now Giant has 9 factories in Taiwan (the object of Italian MTB forum visit), China and other countries including the Netherlands, where there is an assembly line and paint. Worldwide there are 11,125 stores that sell Giant, scattered among 80 countries. The strongest markets are Europe, where Giant gets 30% of turnover, the U.S. with 23%, China with 24% and Japan with 10%.

National achaeological museum in Naples

2012-01-24T02:09:00.000-08:00

An interesting article about the national archaeological museum in Naples.

Choose your destination in Lazio region : over 26 cities where pick up or return our bikes at your accommodation ! Where rent a bicycle in Lazio region.

2012-01-23T02:48:00.000-08:00

Lazio is one of 20 regions of Italy where our company pick up and collect bicycles for rent at railway stations, airports or accommodations.

This is a list of cities of Lazio region where available our customized bike rental services :

Our company can deliver or collect also in different cities (also not indicated in this post) and/or in different regions of Italy.

Information and booking : jerry@rentalbikeitaly.com

Sightseeing with gondola in Venice ... cross the Grand Canal

2012-01-22T12:03:00.000-08:00

This post can give interesting information for people that finish or start Italian cycling holiday in Venice area. Gondola sightseeing is very expensive. In Venice can be possible ask to the Gondoliere (gondola driver) if can supply a short gondola ride. For this raison some customer that want ride the gondola with a small fee ask to the gondoliere if can be possible only cross the Grand Canal, few euros just to have the satisfaction to have ridden for few minuts the venetian gondola.

Someone told me that the small fee to cross the Grand Canal is around 50cent or 1 euro and that is possible found gondola crossing in 7 points of the Canal :

- between railway station and the Fondamenta S.Simeon Piccolo

- between S.Marcuola and Fontego dei Turchi

- between S.Sofia (Ca'd'Oro) and Rialto market

- between riva del Carbon and riva del Vin at Rialto

- between S.Tomà and S.Angelo

- between S.Samuele and S.Barnaba

- between S.Maria del Giglio and calle del Traghetto at Dorsoduro

I found this link where is possible watch the map of the gondola points where is possible cross the Grand Canal for a small fee.

Bassano del Grappa and his wooden pontoon bridge ! Cycling Bassano ...

2012-01-22T10:44:00.000-08:00

The symbol of Bassano del Grappa is the covered wooden pontoon bridge , which was designed by the architect Andrea Palladio in 1569. The bridge was destroyed many times, the last time during WWII. The Alpine soldiers, or Alpini have always revered the wooden bridge and Bassano del Grappa. After the destruction of the bridge, they took up a private collection and had the bridge completely rebuilt. Often soldiers flock to the bridge to remember and sing songs from their days as alpine soldiers. The grappa shop of Nardini Distillery is located on the bridge, known as Ponte degli Alpini.