Four mountain passes. Seventy kilometers. Two thousand meters of climbing. And a bunch of cargo bikes loaded onto five vans.
Welcome to the 2025 Biga Race.
The Biga Race was holding its 3.rd edition in the Italian Alps. After passing through the Stelvio Pass, The Nivolet Pass, the 2025 Edition took place at the SellaRonda in the Dolomites.
The 2025 Biga Race took place during the Sellaronda Bike Day – one of the few moments when cars disappear and the roads belong to riders. Organised by our Milan-based friends at Biga Bike, this year’s edition felt less like a ride and more like a pilgrimage.
We kicked things off Thursday night at the Biga Bike shop, vans fully loaded with Bullitts and other cargo bikes. Yes, sometimes trucks are needed – especially when you're hauling haulers.
Friday morning, we took off to the Dolomites, walkie talkies going crazy between our Italian friends. We tried to get a glimpse of what they were saying, and it turns out that it was mostly turning on the walkies to share the full volume techno music going on in their van. The party was just getting started.
Five and a half hours later, we rolled into Camping Marmolada, our weekend basecamp at altitude. The unloading of Bullitts began: Cinelli, Miss Bullitt, B-106, and the rest of the crew took their place among the peaks.
It is quite a sight to have so many Bullitts in the middle of the mountains right? For Harry and Vince, the 2 members of the Bullitt Copenhagen Team there, it was quite a change from our Classic Amager Rundt in Copenhagen. The only mountains we’re used to, is the head wind we get.
We’re not going to lie, the sight of the steep mountains gave us a bit of chills, our legs being used to the pancake country that Denmark is. After a quick lunch, tent pitching and bike tuning, we quickly put our shoes on and decided to go for a “leg warm up”.
Us, realising we had only done half of the first pass. But the views.
We went for half of the first pass, to see whether our legs could hold up to the challenge facing us. 2200 height meters, spread over 70km, and 4 passes. Downhill was much more fun.
The first training.
Back to the camping, a bit of resting time, after all, we woke up at 5.30am, drove for some hours and used our legs like we never had done before. As shown on our Strava, we did our biggest elevation in our lifetime, just with the warm up. Ugh.
BBQ was quickly set up and ready for a big night before the big day.
Some artwork done before going to sleep
Saturday, 8am, registration time. Picking up the Biga Race Sellaronda jersey, last bike tuning, and everybody was ready to go.
When you don’t do the previous year's edition, you get an “oops” sticker on your Biga Race Passport. A gentle reminder to never miss the Biga Race.
And ready set, go, Ale turned the music up on his Bullitt Sound System, and we’re off for the long biking day.
The track consisted of 4 Passes, Pordoi, Campolongo, Gardena and finally Sella Pass.
Serious climb does involve serious downhill. The graphs are pretty good to show that. It gave us some good rest for the legs, but staying focused to stay on track while reaching those speeds. We should note that everybody was wearing a helmet and we at Larry vs Harry always recommend wearing one.
The geometry of the Bullitt makes the bike feel very stable going downhill and we did get some impressed race bikers looking at us flying by. We enjoyed that a few times!
Our faces going uphill did look a bit different.
Climbing with Bullitteers. Michael, from Lemur in Graz joined us, as well as James, a serious Bullitt adventurer.
We had coffee breaks as well. We’re in Italy after all.
Approximately six hours later, we finished back at the campsite. Some cramps on the last downhill, but big smiles looking back at the achievement we had just completed. The grill was turned back on, beers cracked open, and we could enjoy some rest and stories about our day climbing amongst mountainbikes, racebikes and not least e-bikes and thinking to ourselves, well, we’re excited for next years Biga Race Edition.
We came for the climb. We stayed for the people. See you at the next pass.
We’d like to thank Ale and the Team behind this event. We’re always amazed by the Bullitt community and we hope to see many more Bullitteers and cargo bike lovers at next year’s edition. You can stay updated by subscribing to our newsletter and follow us on our media!
