Category Archives: volume II

146km with a positive elevation gain of no less than 3,960 meters are the numbers of Encore, a mountain bike loop trail that runs through the most significant sites of the Gothic Line in the Bolognese Apennines. Here we will cross the major…

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“Liver and onions” sounds strange, but here it is a household name. Not so much because of a supposedly typical local dish, but because in October ’44 Livergnano must have sounded like an all-too-complicated name to the American battalions, who had to resort…

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The Jump Off is a 90km route that starts in Bologna and climbs the ridges drawn by three streams: Samoggia, Lavino and the smaller Venola. The Jump Off is primarily about the military operation in this sector of the Gothic Line, which took…

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This is the landscape that travels from Bologna to Modena, where the Po Valley begins to rise into the first hills. We ride surrounded by vineyards hatching Lambrusco and Pignoletto grapes, fields of blooming cherry trees, and small villages of a rural and…

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