Discover our mountain bike tours in Spain and explore the country beyond the paved roads. Follow historic trails, rural tracks and quiet backroads on the Camino de Santiago, with a bike that gives you the comfort, stability and confidence to enjoy mixed terrain from one destination to the next.
Discover our mountain bike tours in Spain and explore the country beyond the paved roads. Follow historic trails, rural tracks and quiet backroads on the Camino de Santiago, with a bike that gives you the comfort, stability and confidence to enjoy mixed terrain from one destination to the next.
Some of Spain’s most interesting cycling doesn’t happen on asphalt.
A mountain bike gives you the freedom to follow rural tracks, forest trails, historic paths and quieter backroads, opening up landscapes that would be difficult to properly experience on a conventional road bike.
For our style of cycling holidays, that doesn’t mean spending every day searching for technical singletrack or extreme terrain.
Instead, we use mountain bikes where their comfort, stability and versatility allow us to design a better journey through the destination.
Few routes demonstrate this better than the Camino de Santiago.
Our journey follows the famous French Way from León towards Santiago de Compostela, travelling through the changing landscapes of northern Spain and Galicia.
Along the way, the route combines paved roads with rural tracks and sections of the historic Camino, allowing you to experience much more of the original pilgrimage route than you would by simply following the nearest asphalt road.
On our bike tours in the Camino de Santiago, stages average around 50 to 60 km per day with approximately 800 to 1,200 metres of elevation, making the mountain bike an excellent choice for riders who value comfort and confidence over mixed terrain.
But the Camino is about much more than the trail beneath your wheels.
Every day connects historic villages, churches, countryside and local communities shaped by centuries of pilgrimage. You’ll share cafés and village squares with pilgrims from around the world before eventually riding into Santiago de Compostela and arriving at the Cathedral.
For us, that’s what makes the Camino such a natural fit for mountain biking: the bike allows you to experience the journey itself rather than simply finding the fastest road to the destination.
Both can work extremely well, but they offer slightly different experiences.
A gravel bike is lighter and more efficient on paved roads and smoother tracks, making it a great choice for experienced cyclists who enjoy a more responsive riding position.
A mountain bike provides greater stability, wider tyres and a more upright riding position. For riders who prioritise comfort and confidence on rougher sections, it’s often the better choice.
Neither option is about being faster.
It’s about choosing the bike that allows you to enjoy the Camino in the way that suits you.
At Live Love Ride, we design the journey first and choose the bicycle that best suits it.
Our mountain bike tours combine carefully selected routes with professional bike fitting, navigation and local support, while accommodation and logistics are taken care of throughout the journey.
And because we’re interested in much more than simply riding trails, our journeys leave time to discover the history, food, villages and people that make each destination worth travelling through.
The result is a different kind of mountain bike holiday.
Less about extreme terrain. More about where the bike can take you.