We (myself, English, lives on east coast of island in Ogliastra + two Sards) are writing a mountain bike guide to Sardinia. I just finished my 26 routes in “my area”, which range from “Easy Rides for Everyone” to XC, All Mountain and Free Ride. There is a choice between technically-easier granite and schist mountains to the rockier, Alpine-style single tracks of the limestone “Supramonte”, the inland part of which has much more of a wilderness feel to it than the Alps (no signs, no-one else around, no mobile phone signal), while the coastal part includes rides down to what’s acknowledged to be the best coastline in the Mediterranean, uninhabited to boot.
Today with a sore rib I am writing up the last route and sorting photos. I thought I’d share some with the forum.
Yesterday’s ride: crocuses along the track, snow still on the high mountains
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Cala Sisine in November
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An old muletrack on the Supramonte
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Technical/Freeride December
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Fun downhill blasts January
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There are also videos of the rides at
http://www.youtube.com/user/mtbogliastra Our association MountainBike Ogliastra
http://www.youtube.com/user/thelemonhouse also lots of climbing videos, mostly in English
The guide should be published around Xmas 2011 (in Italian) but before then I have translated some of the route descriptions we've put onto the main Italian forum http://itinerari.mtb-forum.it/countries/view/52 into English.
For more info, contact me peter@peteranne.it
cheers Peter