On July 28, 2019, Egan Bernal crossed the finish line on the Champs-Élysées as the youngest Tour de France winner in 110 years. He was 22. Born in Zipaquirá — a small city in the Colombian highlands north of Bogotá — he had spent his formative years climbing roads where the air is thin and […]
A Cyclist’s Guide to Colombia’s Coffee Region
The Eje Cafetero is Colombia’s Coffee Region — and eje cafetero cycling means riding through a UNESCO World Heritage landscape on roads that the international cycling world has barely discovered. The region covers the departments of Caldas, Risaralda, and Quindío in the western and central Andes. Elevation ranges from around 1,400 meters in the coffee […]