Our staff in Colorado

In North America, our worldwide headquarters is located in Fort Collins, Colorado, alongside the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Here are the folks who answer your phone calls and emails, send you your tour information and coordinate with our staff overseas to make sure you know how to get from the airport in Bari to the hotel in Trani.

Our staff in Europe

Each of our overseas offices serves as our regional hub for planning, communications and equipment. This is where we prepare your in-depth tour information, set up the bikes you’ll ride, and even plan the dinners you’ll enjoy on tour!

In Italy, anyone who has cycled with us on our Culinary Cycling Circus, or a Venice-to-Florence or Venice-to-Pisa tour and stopped for lunch at our European headquarters in Forli knows it as “the Farm.” This tranquil family farm sits in the Italian countryside in the middle of a peach orchard and a vineyard. Paola’s family has farmed in this area since 1882 (more than 120 years!). As a child, Paola spent summers on the farm with her cousins, and today it serves as our base—not just for our fleet of 350 bicycles, but for us as we return “back to the barn” to relax between tours.

The farm also doubles as a sort of hostel for Tour Leaders traveling in and out between tours, as well as a seasonal home for our mechanics who come from far and wide to work on our bikes. If you happen to arrive at the right time, you might even be invited to lunch—we do after all cook lunch and eat together every day (some Italian traditions keep going even in a multinational company!).

In France, Jonathan helps run the show in France as he travels between Italy and Provence. He works hard throughout the winter booking hotels and managing logistics for our French tours as he also helps coordinate Tour Leaders and other tour developments throughout Europe.

"My passion for France began several years ago and I've been searching out the best cycling routes, foods, wine, and places to visit ever since."
Jonathan Hancock
from Provence, France

Our staff in Costa Rica

In Costa Rica, Mario and Karla run the show from their office at the foot of Arenal Volcano in La Fortuna. There they book hotels, plan routes and also rent bikes to those passing by!

"We moved to Fortuna six  years ago looking for a more quiet and healthier lifestyle than we could have in a big city like San Jose.  We found an amazing place to live, active and prosperous but very concerned with conservation and protection of the natural resources. A wonderful area to ride our road and mountain bikes and with lots of protected rain-forest for hiking and bird watching. We still wake up to the volcano rumble occasionally but we must be getting used to it by now."
Mario Cordero and Karla Picado
from La Fortuna, Costa Rica

Click to meet more of our staff all over the world!

• Beatrice Tassinari
• Igor Baccini
• Interview with Mario Cordero, Country Coordinator in Costa Rica
• Interview with Massimo (Max) Malpezzi
• Joeann Gutowski
• Jonathan Hancock
• Julie Horton
• Karla Picado
• Maria Elena Malpezzi-Price
• Mario Cordero
• Massimo (Max) Malpezzi
• Monica Malpezzi-Price
• Rich Young