Today the Giro d’Italia reaches the Dolomites. 151 kilometers. 5,000 meters of climbing. The Passo Duran. The Forcella Staulanza. And the Passo Giau — the highest point of the entire 2026 Giro at 2,236 meters above sea level. Nearly 10 kilometers at 9.3% average with walls hitting 14%. This is the tappone. The queen stage. The day the Giro is won or lost. These are our roads. The same passes. The same gradients. The same views that stop you mid-climb and make you forget how much your legs hurt. Watching today feels different when you know you’ll be there in ten weeks. Avanti Tours Dolomites 2026 is sold out. But 2027 is already being planned. Link in bio. 🏔️ @giroditalia @mamoberna @biketourandrea @jeffreycap @patrick.mccrann @postazirmhotel #GirodItalia #Giro2026 #PassoGiau #Dolomites #AvantiTours

Today, the Giro d’Italia reaches its first mountain stage. 244 kilometers from Formia to the Blockhaus. The longest stage of the race. The moment the GC contenders finally show their cards. For most people watching, Formia is just a dot on a map. A coastal town where the peloton rolled out this morning before the road turned inland toward the mountains. For me it’s something else entirely. My father grew up in Gaeta, just down the coast from Formia. During World War II, when he was a boy, German forces took his family’s farm. His family escaped by stealing a boat and rowing across the bay in the middle of the night. They found American soldiers on the other side. They boarded a cargo train toward Naples. Somewhere along the way, Vesuvius began to erupt. The train stopped. Days passed. No food. No water. They eventually made it to Sicily, where they took refuge in a monastery until the war was over. He moved to the United States in 1956 at 18 years old. Years later, as a teenager visiting my nonna in Gaeta, I borrowed an old bike - the tires cracking, chain nearly rusted solid, but I was determined to ride it up to the Sanctuary of the Madonna della Civita in Itri. No map. No phone. No @strava for proof. Got lost more than once. But I made it to the top. That ride is part of why Avanti Tours exists. We’ll be watching every kilometer today. 🏔️ @giroditalia @jeffreycap #GirodItalia #Giro2026 #CorsaRosa #Blockhaus #AvantiTours

The Giro d’Italia has begun. Stage 1. Bulgaria. A chaotic sprint finish, a massive crash inside the final kilometre, and a 22-year-old named Paul Magnier emerging from the chaos to win and pull on the first maglia rosa of the race. Born in Laredo, Texas. Raised in France. Now wearing pink at the Giro d’Italia. France’s youngest Grand Tour stage winner in 40 years. Three weeks from now, the race reaches the Dolomites. The Passo Giau. The Passo Falzarego. Roads that look exactly like this. This August, we ride them for the first time. And our riders will ride them with us. Avanti Tours Dolomites 2026 is sold out. But 2027 is being planned now. Link in bio. @giroditalia @patrick.mccrann @jeffreycap #GirodItalia #Giro2026 #CorsaRosa #Dolomites #AvantiTours

They call it La Doyenne. The Old Lady. First raced in 1892, Liège-Bastogne-Liège is the oldest Monument in cycling. Older than the Tour de France. Older than Paris-Roubaix. A race that has been testing the best riders in the world for 134 years across the punishing climbs of the Belgian Ardennes. Today is the 112th edition. 259 kilometers. 11 climbs. The Côte de Stockeu, the Côte de La Redoute, La Roche-aux-Faucons. Roads that climb out of river valleys and don’t apologize for it. Pogačar arrives as defending champion, chasing a third consecutive win. Evenepoel arrives as a two-time winner, but has never beaten Pogačar here; Remco believes it's his turn. And then there is Paul Seixas — 19 years old, winner of La Flèche Wallonne four days ago, already sending warnings to the two greatest one-day racers of this generation. The Old Lady doesn’t care about any of that. She never has. The last Monument of spring. The closing chapter of Holy Week. Spring Classics 2027. Link in bio. @liege_bastogne_liege #LiegeBastogneLiege #LaDoyenne #SpringClassics #Pogacar #AvantiTours