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3. Roberto
Besides the mentioned website I found some other
ones, offering useful information as well. I sent
e-mails to all the authors, asking them for some
additional information. I received an answer
surprisingly soon, and the answer itself was surprising,
since it came from Roberto, the author of the praised
website Bike Sardegna.
He gave me a lot of useful information right in the
first mail. He also promised to send some tourist
brochures and also copies of the sold out Sardinian MTB
book guide. And the best of all, he offered to go on a
tour or two with us! He seemed very devoted to off-road
riding and he obviously loved his homeland Sardinia. But
he was also egger to help us with more than just
information, which was really nice.
After a while we received an
ample package with a pile of brochures and the book
guide, called Sole, Sale, Salita. And to our
surprise, this was the book from where the route
maps on the Sardegna.net website had been copied from. The
guide was pretty dated, since it was from 1991. But
nonetheless it looked well done and useful. It covered
southern half of Sardinia and the western part. It had
good solid maps (hand drawn) and vertical profiles with
enough information about the trails, including the type
of the trails. As it turned out later, Roberto used the
trails from this book as the basis for most of his
routs. He would then add some extra sections, usually
some nice DH or singletracks. Roberto's routes had also
a little more asphalt, since he would place the starting
point in a village or other locality in order to provide
nice warming up and also safe parking and starting
point.
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