Pros Ride - Girona with Dan Craven

Home to many of the best riders and teams, come to Girona and you're bound to bump into a pro or ten, which is exactly what happened during our latest visit! Not wanting to pass up the opportunity to find out what makes this region such a cycling paradise we're honoured to be joined by Israel Cycling Academy's Dan Craven on a classic loop taking in the climbs of Els Àngels and Santa Pellaia (AKA Hincapie Hill), 64km with over 1,000m of climbing....what's not to love eh?

Start: Girona
Distance: 64km
Highest point: 485m
Elevation gain: 1,031m
Max gradient: 8%

Thank you to our partners Mavic, Cannondale, Exposure Lights, Lezyne, MyPower by InfoCrank, Muc Off, The Sufferfest, TORQ and USE for enabling us to bring these truly special mountains to life for you all. If you're in need of new bike kit in the future and you enjoyed this video then bear them in mind and help keep the wheels turning :-)

Special thanks to our friends at Costa Brava and Girona Pyrenees tourism for helping us pull this ride together and the opportunity to experience such a beautiful area. Already can't wait to get back one day!


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Stay well, ride safe and thank you for watching.

Mike Cotty
The Col Collective

[AdamJStoryDC]

Does anyone else get the feeling, after watching these videos, that you can't live long enough to do all these beautiful roads on earth, and even if you did start young and lived a long healthy life, that you wish there was no fatigue so that you could just ride from morning to night?

[crnj]

One of the best videos of it's type that I have seen for a while.Great job Mike And Col Collective crew👍🏼🚴🏼

[C.Medina]

Do not, and I mean. ..do not ever stop doing these videos 😍😆🤗

[Vincent-fbcm]

Another jewel to adorn the Col Collective crown. Mr Craven is such an agreeable fellow.

[rustygramm]

love all the Col Collective videos, but i really appreciate the ones with the pro's. its nice to get a local perspective and to see the top level athletes just enjoying riding a bike

[mdk]

Great video Mike and Dan. An interesting bit of trivia is that Dan is the grandson of the former big main man of South African Rugby Danie Craven - both great men! Salute . . .

[sierraseb]

Another awesome video I pulled up Google Earth and followed you around on your ride, exploring each village via the Google Earth photographs. Thanks again Mike, Mavic and all your sponsors.

[griffly]

That really does want to make you go there now and ride that route. Superb.

[colinosullivan]

Again fantastic work mate. You can tell Dan is quality company. Thanks for sharing the experience. Cheers

[erikschotkamp]

looks like Dan has saved the coastal road and passage of St Grau for a next time .... cant wait for that coll collective video !!! briljant stuff thx

[djneslo]

Did that ride today was truly fantastic. Thanks dan and mike.

[aonghusomuircheartaigh]

Special place, amazing video. Brilliant work Mike &a Col Collective team

[mistersmith]

great stuff as always Mike and crew bravo

[jonterry]

Another great one Mike! Remarkable location.

[BikeBodyMind]

Dan seems like a top notch guy. Get back there for Pt. 2!

[rhyswilliams]

Great vid. Loved the interview too. More like that please.

[gordtaylor]

Just back from Girona what an awesome place to visit and ride, road, gravel, hills 🚴‍♂️🍷☕️

[jmflynn]

I need to get back there. The most beautiful place to ride your bike.

[johnbowman]

I did this route a few times when I was there in June, great roads and nice climbs!

[chrisrnz]

Request: Please upload these stunningly beautiful videos in 4K. 1080 is an insult to production quality this awesome. ;)