Get organised

You should arrive in Rome the day before your tour start date (or before that to enjoy the city!), so that we can make an early getaway on day 1.

We advise staying at the Hilton Garden Inn at Rome Fiumicino airport, which is where your guide will meet you on day 1.

Your guide will meet you at the Hilton Garden Inn at Rome Fiumicino airport around 9am. From there, we’ll transfer you to your beautiful home-from-home in Tuscany. Your accommodation is a renovated 18th-century farmhouse in the grounds of an olive grove, complete with its own private pool and bike room.

When we arrive we’ll have a delicious lunch of Tuscan favourites and your guide will go through the all-important pre-trip briefing, answer any questions and lay out all of the highlights of your week under the Tuscan sun.

Suitably fed, we’ll head to the local bike shop to get everyone fitted on their e-mountain bikes and start our warm-up ride on Tuscan trails from there. Our ride will take around 2 hours and will give you the opportunity to get tuned into your bikes and the trail style here in Tuscany.

This evening’s dinner will be a feast of delicious local food and wine in one of our guides’ favourite restaurants in the old town of Massa Marittima. Salute a tutti!

After a typical Tuscan breakfast we will start our first big day of riding directly from our accommodation. Our destination today is Monte Arsenti, and the astounding network of singletrack trails that have been built on this mountain by your local guide team.

These trails are just perfect for E-MTBs and your guide will craft the perfect day for you, showing you the best lines, so that you get the most fun out of your ride and time on each side of the hill.

After a few trails we’ll stop to have a special kind of lunch on trail at the ‘meeting hut’ buried deep in the forest. With great music playing and the smell of coffee hanging in the air, we’ll re-fuel for more riding.

After lunch we will slowly winch our way back up to the top and the viewpoint overlooking your accommodation and the valley that reaches all the way to the coast.

What goes up must come down, and as we reach the valley bottom on our way back to our agriturismo we’ll stop at Massa Marittima for a leisurely walk around the town and an aperitivo or gelato.

We’ll have time for a swim and relax at our private pool, before heading back to Massa for another delicious meal in a local Osteria.

Now that we’re fully settled into Tuscan life, we’re going to venture a bit further into the interior of the region and take on a full-day adventure ride, steeped in history, to Lago dell’Accesa Archaeological Park.

The area around Accesa Lake has been excavated, periodically, since the 1980s, and remnants of ancient settlements, tombs and metallurgical activity have been found. It’s also one of the cleanest lakes around and a popular spot for swimming – dive in!.

After a morning of tremendous riding we’ll stop for a delicious lunch at a gorgeous agriturismo and sample their produce to set us up for our ride back.

We’ll end the day in true Tuscan style at a small winery where we will get to taste a selection of their wines, accompanied by some delicious local bites, over-looking the vineyards and cypress trees. Our shuttle will be ready and waiting to take us back to our home-from-home when we’ve had enough!

Dinner this evening will be a more chilled affair of pizza in the piazza, where you can eat as much or as little as you want.

We have a bit of an easier start, and can enjoy that second coffee under the breakfast canopy before we set off with a 30-minute shuttle to the town of Piombino.

Once here we’ll ride on two different hillsides, stopping at another beautiful agriturismo for a seafood lunch along the way. You will be joined today by a local guide to this region, who is the architect of many of the trails, and a real character.

Your riding today is on a warren of singletrack trails that criss-cross these hills hugging the cliffs of this rugged coastline. There are some technical climbs and descents today, and you’ll work hard for your 360-degree sea views.

At the end of the day we’ll stop in Populonia, which is a pretty medieval ‘borgo’ sitting within a 15th-century fortress, built to defend the town from Barbary pirates.

When we get back to your accommodation you can relax as we’re having dinner here this evening, in their restaurant set amongst the olives.

Today we start our adventure on the Island of Elba. We have a short transfer to the ferry terminal at Piombino, then we can relax and enjoy the 1-hour sail across the channel to Elba, spotting other islands in the Tuscan Archipelago, and Corsica further in the distance.

You’ll arrive in the hustle and bustle of Portoferraio, but we’ll soon leave that behind as we drive inland to the start point of our first of two island rides.

Nature and history co-habit amicably here on Elba, with ancient fortresses and more recent remnants of the mining industry peppering the mountains and bays of the island. Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled here on Elba between 1814 and 1815, when he was, briefly, sovereign of the island before escaping back to France.

We’ll be riding above Capoliveri, using our E-MTBs to follow the rugged coastline around the south of the Island, we’ll climb high above the town to reach the trails that take you through the long-forgotten mine trail networks that cross the island.

Spectacular views across turquoise waters will accompany you for most of this ride, contrasting with the deep red of the earth beneath your tyres, stopping off in hamlets that dot the landscape throughout this landscape.

As we finish off our ride at our island accommodation for the night, we can settle down to a glass of wine while watching the sun set on another perfect mountain biking day in Tuscan heaven.

Our Elba adventure isn’t over just yet. We’ll take on another awesome ride this morning, exploring the west part of the island and enjoying the singletrack there, with views over a secluded harbour with the odd super yacht moored up.

You’ll ride a different terrain from yesterday, a little bit more technical and rocky, that will take you from the high point of the island all the way to the beach.

We’ll have lunch in a beach bar before catching the ferry back to the mainland.

You’ll be happily tired as you return to your, now very familiar, Tuscan home, and there will be time for a quick nap before dinner.

Tonight’s dinner is at a really special agriturismo, where we’ll aim to catch a glorious sunset before our meal in the dining room of this former family home.

On our last day of e-mountain biking in Tuscany we’ll take you back to the Monte Arsenti area for another chance to ride your favourite trails of earlier in the week. Back to something you know, taking the unknown out of the equation, you’ll have some plain, old good fun with your new crew of riders and friends!

We’ll have lunch in town or at your accommodation, giving you time to pack, remove pedals from rental bikes and freshen up before dinner, which will be a big celebration at our favourite local steak house in Massa.

This will mark the perfect end to our week of living the good life riding e-mountain bikes in Tuscany with new friends, but we are pretty sure this won’t be your last visit to the area… it gets into your blood!

Sadly, today we must bid our farewells. We’ll pack up our belongings and transfer you back to Rome airport for your flight back to reality, but packed full of memories and flavours from this stunning part of the world.

We would ask you to book your return flight for no earlier than 14:00 on departure day.