USEFUL SUGGESTIONS

The first thing to do is decideing if you will do a guided or self-guided tour.

You have to choose the tour operator depending on the senrvice and price.

Don’t search only low cost tour operators and organizations, because the very low price is never joined with a satisfying service.

Look the rewies of other tourists that has done their trip with them, and verify if what they say is real.
Try to pay attention to not read only good things about them, but search all the rewievs that underline the deficiencies. Generally an organization of tour declared only with overdone positive adjectives, is not well-founded. And an operator that has few deficiencies can be positive for many other things and satisfying your trip. TOURISTS REVIEW LINK

 

   HOW TO ORGANIZE TUSCANY BIKE TOUR
Search information about the region, trying to know how many attracions are interesting for you.
You have to consider the route you want to follow:
-You can choose natural or historic attractions itinerary
-You can choose to ride directly the cycle tracks and see the attractions you will meet along the route LINK PISA CYCLE TRACKS, FLORENCE CYCLE TRACKS, SIENA CYCLE TRACKS, TUSCANY CYCLE TRACKS
-You can choose the Chianti wine road tour, join biking with wine tasting. Take ifromation about the beautifulness of this place, such as castles and the many medieval villages LINK CHIANTI CASTLE, LINK CHIANTI MEDIEVAL VILLAGES, LINK WINE ROAD OF CHIANTI, WINE ROAD IN MTB

You can join different type of trip experiencem making a mixed bike vacation, dividing your days visiting historic places, wineyards, ancient villages. An example is taking three or four days for a tour of Siena, Pisa and Florence historic attractions. The other days you can visiting wine roads doing wine tasting, and at last you can visit medieval villages and Chianti castles.
After having chosen your itinerary, decide if you will take your personal bike or if you have to rent bike in Tuscany. In case here you will find many places where is possible rentig bicycles. (LINK FLORENCE CYCLE TRACKS)
Depending on the choice of the itinerary, you have to be able to choose the more apporpiate bicycle: ibrid, city bike, mountain bike.
For Tuscany is good a mountain bike because often the itinerary include asphalted and not asphalted roads, as if you ride along the Chianti region. But if only visit cities along the cycle tracks, city bike is what you need.
  ARE THERE ANY CYCLE TRACKS IN TUSCANY?
Yes, you can find cycle tracks that allow you to visit some important place LINK PISA CYCLE TRACKS, FLORENCE CYCLE TRACKS, SIENA CYCLE TRACK, TUSCANY CYCLE TRACKS

 

 

 

  BIKE TRAIN TRANSPORT
Most regional trains in Italy now take bikes

There will be a bike symbol on the list of departing trains at the station and also on the TrenItalia website (www.trenitalia.com)

You’ll just have to pick a destination and see which trains accept bikes.

In addition to your train ticket, you will need to purchase a ticket for the bike of 3.50 euro on regional trains

The ticket is in two parts; one you attach to the handlebars of your bike using the adhesive strip and the other you keep with your train ticket. The ticket is 24 hours valid.

Suggestions:
Remember that in small town stations the train only stops for a few minutes, so you’ll want to be ready with your bike to get off.

 
  TAKE WITH YOU AND SAFETY
-Water provision
-waterproof
-medicine chest
-All the things you need to repair your bike
-Provide to your lunch bag
-Carry with you some medications: Anti-diarrhea medicine, aspirin, extra tampons, travel packages of Kleenex, antibacterial hand cleaning gel
Check to see if the package vacation includes health insurance policy covers illness or injury overseas