No ride for one day? No problem, the Nyman Team is chilling out into the Alexander pool :-)

Bad weather for one day? No problem for the Nyman Bike Team! Yesterday when the clouds came up to Gabicce, the guys from Sweden got a nice chill out into the Alexander idro pool joining some drinks! Good job guys! Today is sunny so they are gonna ride to the hills burning calories and sweating all the beers they drunk :-) Have a nice ride!

Boom di ciclisti all'Alexander! Questa settimana oltre settanta clienti da tutta Europa: Austria, Svizzera, Germania e Svezia con il gruppone del capitano Lennart Nyman

 Settanta ciclisti da tutta Europa! l'Alexander Bike Hotel fa gli straordinari di clientela bike in questa settimana di ponte con grande soddisfazione da parte di tutti: del nostro "boss" Roberto, ma anche dei nostri amici ciclisti ospiti che animano la vita dell'Alexander. Ci sono austriaci, svizzeri, tedeschi e il gruppo svedese di 23 persone. 

 Eccovi sopra i nostri amici di svizzeri di Winterthur, clienti fedelissimi dell'Alexander da qualche anno, sotto invece il super team svedese capitanato dal nostro amico Lennart Nyman! Sarà una lunga settimana di pedalate! Enjoy and join with us the Alexander Bike Passion!

Albert Iten: un ex campione del mondo di downhill a pedalare con l'Alexander Bike Hotel

Non mancano le sorprese all'Alexander Bike Hotel versione 2014! E' arrivato la scorsa settimana il famoso ALBERT ITEN, campione del mondo di downhill nel 1991. Tre anni dopo, nel 1994, è stato anche campione europeo di cross country e dopo tanti successi in mountain bike oggi si diletta con la bici da corsa per piacevoli bike tour in vacanza. Qui è ritratto a Gabicce Monte con il nostro Chris in divisa ufficiale. Albert come vedete non disdegna di mostrare completini in stile tirolese, davvero originali nello stile! Complimenti! 

Corsi di alta cucina all'Alexander Bike Hotel: le cicliste tedesche"Graf" a lezione di MasterChef con il nostro Francesco

Corsi di alta cucina all'Alexander Bike Hotel! Eccovi nelle foto le nostre signore “GRAF”: Erika,Silvia, Ingrid (insegnante di educazione fisica e anche di cucina), Christina e Gertrud. Sono le cicliste del celebre gruppo tedesco (appunto denominato Graf) che da anni si gode una bike holiday primaverile nel nostro hotel di Gabicce. 

 Al mattino corrono in bici  con grande grinta, di pomeriggio, indossata la nostra t-shirt ufficiale CYCLING PASSION, svolgono un corso di cucina con il nostro super Chef Francesco. Piatto tipico italiano cucinato? Ovviamente la pizza! Per poi cimentarsi con successo anche in una insalata di patate rivisitata all’italiana. La signora Graf (Ingrid), che è anche insegnante di cucina,  ha cercato di carpire i segreti della cucina gourmet dal nostro Francesco, un cuoco che in tanti ci invidiano per le sue qualità da "masterchef" :-)

A new special leading guide join the Alexander Bike Hotel: from skiing to cycling, the nice story of the young Chris

Here he is! The best 2014 news from our hotel is the coming of Chris. The new leading guide from Alexander Bike Hotel is a really good way to start the bike season. He is young! very young!  23 years old from Veneto, University of Urbino student,  has just start up his new work and sport challenge. The boss Roberto during winter time was looking for a new guide "tuttofare", expert in cycling, good mechanic and rider as well. And he got the best: Chris! 

The guys is really a good athlete. Coming from skiing, a long career in his mountain and Veneto's sourranding area, in the beginning of april is already the leading guide of the Alexander Hotel bike guests. A lot of energy, smiling to everybod, a sincere and funny good feeling with all the clients, helping them to find out the routes and the beauty of the Marche and Romagna hills. 

Chris has already done in a few weeks a lot of kilometres, always in the front of the group, never looking tired (as often happened to the other "old" guides like Andrea :-)...he is absolutely a natural talent of cycling, spinning his crank always strong, taking wind, never giving up! 

Good job Chris...keep us posted about your Alexander's cycling enterprises! We support you!

The "Meyer Austrian Fast Team" riding at Alexander. Una settimana ad alta velocità per la nostra guida Chris :-)

Eccovi una foto scattata al gruppo “ Meyer”, 15 ragazzi e ragazze austriaci che sono stati ospiti all'Alexander dal 5 al 12  aprile. Hanno inaugurato a Gabicce la loro stagione bike impegnandosi in un'intensa settimana di allenamenti con la nuova e fortissima giuda dell'Alexander Bike Hotel Chris from Friuli. 

"Hanno detto che torneranno a trovarci anche l'anno prossimo - sottolinea Roberto Colombari manager dell'Alexander - sono un gruppo molto competitivo e ben preparato e hanno trovato nel nostro Chris una guida capace di sostenere i loro ritmi agonistici. Di loro abbiamo solo questa foto di gruppo, perché, come dice lo stesso Chris , era troppo difficile fotografali mentre sfrecciavano a folle velocità. Hanno fatto la crono squadre Fano Pesaro ai 50 all'ora, ma anche tante salite, tra Urbino, Monte Altavellio, Montecopiolo, Cippo, San Marino, etc".  

A nice "swedish bike week"end at Gabicce: the Sky Blue Team from Stockholm riding with the Alexander's cycling passion! See u soon girls :-)

Twenty girls, twenty good nice swedish riders joined with us the Alexander bike passion! This is the story of the Sky Blue Team from Stockholm, a new group from the capital, a new bike challenge from Sweden. Some of them just started up cycling, first experience with their Bianchi bicycle.  

Some (as the girl in the photo below) very famous! She is Susanne Ljungskok, an ex professional rider, the best in the Sweden cycling history with two gold medal in the world cycling pro championship 2002-2003 editions. 

 Now Susanne is the trainer of the Sky Blue Team, following the girls with her precious advices in their bike tours. First day in Gabicce was a bike "warm up" going to 40km ride to Panoramica Road with the guides Claudio and Andrea. A nice atmosphere a good feeling and a fantastic weather pretty much warm than Stockholm :-)

 Second day ride to Mondaino, Saludecio and Valconca valley, some climbs and a works out with the bike on the roads. In the afternoon a guided visit to a famous wine factory in Ancona joining the italian and Marche region lifestyle. 

 Third ride on saturday splitting the groups: one to San Marino, the slower to Fano, a flat road 60km to get the best icecream at Pino Bar and having fun all together. 

 And in the night the classic Alexander special dinner and then the Elvis guitar rock show! Looking forward seeing you soon in Gabicce Sky Blue Team ! You are always welcome!

New routes, new amazing rides, joining the Alexander Bike Hotel bike passion: welcome to the 2014 cycling season

Hi guys, hi there bike friends, are you ready for the new Alexander cycling season? We are going to open the hotel in the next days and we wanna show you the routes where we we are going to ride this year. Andrea, our cycling journalist, during winter time has gone with his bike gps to the hinterland and the Gabicce sorrounding areas following the six garmin routes

1) Carpegna Cippo Pantani - Big tour 138km
http://connect.garmin.com/course/6048458
First ride to the Carpegna's Cippo, the longest one, pretty much demanding, but very nice. That is the Marco Pantani hill with a hard elevation: 7 km with the 14% adv going to the top of the hill: 1450 meter up to Gabicce where you can touch the sky! It would be amazing to arrive there: 138km to go and come back an the sensation to do a real enterprise! 

2) Urbino - Panoramic Tour 105km
http://connect.garmin.com/course/6048485 
What the best way to reach the wonderful the city of Urbino? From Gabicce you are going to join another fantastic ride: 106 km towards one the most famous historic and artistic place of the Marche Region. That's a nice ride, not so hard, going throught the Montefeltro and Valconca valleys looking wonderful views and scenaries. 

3) Montegrimano/ Monte San Paolo/Monte Cerignone - 85km  http://connect.garmin.com/course/6048616 

Five hours ride to the Valconca green valley towards the beautiful villages of Montecerignone and Montegrimano back of the San Marino rock. This is a perfect tour to admire the hinterland Gabicce scenary following the road to Monte San Paolo and his top to 850m up! 

The way back from Montescudo would be good for a deserved coffee break before the last 30km to the Alexander's lunch in Gabicce!   

4)Monte Altaveglio/Tavoleto km 77

http://connect.garmin.com/course/6048804

In the border beetween Emilia Romagna and Marche region there is a fantastic bike route going to Avellana Valley and the sourraunding area. Starting from Gabicce we will get the villages finding out Saludecio, Mondaino, Tavoleto ...keep going the road to the Monte Altavellio top where you can enjoy a fantastic view of the riviera! The tour is almost 80km, and it is ok for all cyclists level. 

5) Montescudo/Gesso/San Marino km80
http://connect.garmin.com/course/6048877
What about seeing the beauty of the oldest republic of Europe? This bike tour is 80km going to the top of Monte Titano in the state of San Marino. It would be very nice join the history of this old rock very famous for shopping and in the cycling routes as well. Before San Marino and the coffee break in the famous "Piazza della Libertà" where is placed the government palace we are passing from the village of Montescudo and the beautiful road toward Gesso and Montelicciano. 

6) Candelara/Novilara km 70
http://connect.garmin.com/course/6048887
Riding on the hills up to Pesaro going back from the Panoramic Road. This is one of the best route (70km) we suggest in Alexander Bike experience. Nice roads, not so tough going to the wonderful old villages of Candelara (with his famous romanic church) and Novilara. On the way back we have the unique possibility to join the panoramic road, the famous "green highway" from Pesaro to Gabicce, 20 km up to the coast for a stunning view at Fiorenzuola and Casteldimezzo.