• Km: 85 approx.
• Diff. in altitude: 1200 mt
• Hours: 5/6,5 approx. (3,5/5 hrs riding)
• Level of difficulty: For riders with experience on a road bike
  

• Km: 120 approx.
• Diff. in altitude: 1800 mt
• Hours: 5/6,5 approx. (3,5/5 hrs riding)
• Level of difficulty: For riders with experience on a road bike
  

Schedule

Advanced bike tours are only private so this tour runs everyday all year long.

The reason why we don’t run advanced group tours is that, based on our experience after riding with thousands clients, riders have very different level of fitness and technical skills and this can lead to a loss of quality of the tour.

Logistic

Meeting point is our office in Vratislavova 508/3, Praha 2. The tour starts at 9.00 a.m.  The tour will end at our shop.

• November, December and February only Saturday and Sunday
• January is closed
• From March to June and from September to October everyday excpet for Monday
• July and August every day

The interior of the castle is nice but not extraordinary, its beauty is in the external part so we recommend to take the tour even if the castle is closed.

Guided tours of the castle – Private tours have the maximum flexibility but what about group tours?

Normally, 90% of the riders don’t visit the castle because its beauty is in the external part. Anyway, if somebody from the group wants to get the 1 hour guided tour of the castle (the so called “Tour 1”), the other participants must respect it and wait comfortably in one of the many restaurants and cafes.

We recommend you not to book the visit in advance as we don’t know how long it will take to complete the ride as the peace of the tour is tailored to the slowest rider. You can buy ticket directly at the castle even though it might be fully booked during the highest season (June-August).

More info about the guided tour here

From our shop we immediatly hit the cycling path along the river which will take us safely to the outskirt of Prague where we will start climbing our first hill. We will be soon riding nice rolling hills with very low traffic. We will cross many typical Czech country villages and get a real idea of what  Czech Republic really looks like.

Later we will visit the famous ex quarry called Amerika, the local Grand Canyon After that the easy tour will enjoy a descent through the forest that will lead to Karlstejn while the medium and advanced tour will head for a beautiful valley where a famous monastery, called Svaty Jan pod Skalou, is located under a stunning rock cliff. After that a long uphill followed by a long downhill will take us to Karlstejn castle.

At that point the easy and the medium tour will head back to Prague following the Vtava river while with the advanced tour we will start climbing the other side of the valley. A very long and demanding uphill, made famous by Armstrong in 2003 whom still hold the record for the fastest climb, will take us on a locally famous hilly area called Brdy where we will ride up and down for several km until we will arrive in the outskirt of Prague and descend once again to the river which we will follow until our shop.

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