Cycling fever in Girona is something to see

Cycling fever in Girona is something you have to see once in a lifetime

The thing has been that in the last two weeks we have had to go up to Girona a couple of times for cycling and we can corroborate that everything we have been seeing in this beautiful city for a long time.

I have heard, I have read, I have been told about a possible bubbleand perhaps they are right, but this does not mean that from all this, the city will surely end up obtaining a revenue, which in bicycle material will be a treasure.

That’s all, the business fabric that grows on cyclingin Girona brands, teams, catering businesses and even shops that ooze that passion and fever are installed.

See a multi-storey store with all the World Tour team merchandising, as if it were a soccer jersey store, see the Eat Sleep Cycling and Horts Catégorie stores, the Castelli and Trek boutiques, opened not long ago and Posed as if Zara managed them, they elevate this sport to another level.

We know where kilometer zero of this present is, the day Jonhy Welz recommended Lance Armstrong to try living here.

Since then, growth has been at different rates, but constantuntil the explosion of these years.

With Sea Otter Europe as the icing on the cake, Girona is cycling 365 days a year.

Cycling for all audiences, although I don’t know if it’s for all budgets.

Every Saturday and Sunday morning, the ciutat vella wakes up with cyclists coming out from between the cornersgoing to the meeting, generally in a cafe, to outline the day and start with the carousel of photos and design breakfasts.

It is the sandwich of a lifetime, reinterpreted to the current canons.

The sum of what they are wearing and riding makes us dizzy, after they walk more or less, that is accessory.

The tremendous is the currency of elegance and almost distinction as a common element.

A few days ago Joanseguidor organized a soiree, a “Flandes Experience” and the reality was what we could have foreseen: a brutal cycling atmosphere, a desire to do the social ride, a cute breakfast to begin with, but above all a convening power that only Girona seems to guarantee.

Everyone left the day satisfied, all with the memory of having driven on the roads most similar to Flanders, but around Girona.

Because if the city is very prepared, the environment is in keeping with businesses that show that the cyclist is more than welcome, as they are designed by and for him.

And I go back to the beginning, it will be a bubble or not, I think partly yes, but of these things something always remains.

Image: Jules by Metro