A bunch of us are heading out to Garda in May to do a spot of mountain biking. We bimbled around Como last year on gravel bikes and enjoyed it, but all of us are mountain bikers first and foremost, and we had more than enough fun to want to go again this year.
Does the hive mind have any experience of bike hire places in or around Torbole or Riva del Garda?
I’m looking at Garda rentals too, over the years I have been there twice before but seems like some shops have quit since then.
Carpentari is still there, I recall them being OK.
Seems that ebikes are most popular category these days but I am hoping to find acoustic enduro gnarpoon.
I heartily recommend reservations well before the trip, last time I didn’t and it wasn’t too fun running around the lake trying to find rental bikes for the family.
We use Velolake in Torbole for shuttles they also have a good selection of rental bikes to suit all
Amazing - thank you both! There's a lot of ebikes for rental and not many analogue options, for anyone else looking and finding this thread. Velolake (or its chatbot) has been very responsive. I'll update as I find out / book more.
We used Velolake a couple of years back, very good and they can recommend loops/routes too.
We also used Bike in Garda (Nago Torbole) for an afternoons Ebike rental. Not so good, but may have improved since we last went. The brakes on their rentals were just not up to the job!
Velolake use Komoot and all their routes are on their site.
We used Velolake a couple of years back, very good and they can recommend loops/routes too.
We also used Bike in Garda (Nago Torbole) for an afternoons Ebike rental. Not so good, but may have improved since we last went. The brakes on their rentals were just not up to the job!
Were the brakes also setup Euro style (Front on the left?)
Thank you. Velolake only seem to do e-mtbs at the moment - no analogue ones. The routes look pretty awesome!
I can highly recommend the Via Ponale route from Riva del Garda up to Lago di Ledro, very picturesque, though would be quite a slog on an analogue
i hired from Xtreme in Malcesine, by the cable car station
"Were the brakes also setup Euro style (Front on the left?)"
No, we asked (by email) if they could swap them over before we hired. We did ride quite a spicy trail called the Naranch Trail, and they were just utterly useless, made for a few clench moments!