MTB Talks 2024 is taking place on 11th and 12th October in Molveno.
Join us at the first Italian MTB congress, with experts from the bike industry, from the bike tourism and from the media.

• KAREN ELLER - Scott athlete, Team Manager Contessa, founder of Die Rasenmäher and friend of Dolomiti Paganella Bike for many years now. As a professional biker, Karen Eller has won the Transalp Challenge and the Transrockies in Canada three times. Karen's high standards of riding technique, her many years of racing experience and her love of nature make her a special coach.
• NORTH N LINE (Lorenzo Valsecchi, Maurizio Rossi e Gregorio Lanfranchi). North N Line is a young company that aims to expand the bike tourism offer in the Lecco area, offering direct accompanying services (sportsmen, tourists and locals) with guided tours, driving courses and camps. It is present on the front line with voluntary maintenance actions on the local trail network
• GARY VERNON - Runway Group. Gary Vernon comes from Arkansas, a US state that has become one of the meccas of mountain biking worldwide. Gary was one of the masterminds behind the design of over 1000km of mountain bike-specific trails, including the world-famous OZ Trails in Bentonville, Arkansas, and other now world-famous destinations. Gary is one of the world's leading experts in the planning and promotion of mountain bike trail networks, and in general in planning the development of outdoor recreational activities.
• ELLIS KASSLATTER - Bikehotel Südtirol. Born and raised in Val Gardena (South Tyrol), has always been an athletic person, but it was only about 15 years ago that she got into mountain biking thanks to her husband Wolly, one of the first mountain bike guides in the Dolomites. From the very beginning, she took an active role in mountain biking in Val Gardena and the Sella massif area, at that time still as the director of the Selva Gardena Tourist Association. She was part of the organizing committee of the HERO Dolomites from 2010 to 2015, participated in the race twice herself, and currently manages the MTB product for the Val Gardena/Alpe di Siusi destination and the Sellaronda MTB TOUR with her communication agency.
• KOCIS MIGGIANO - Mowi Bike - After years of experience in the Outdoor Digital Tourism sector, in 2019 he decided to share his skills and passions in the creation of MOWIBIKE: an exclusive digital platform dedicated to the world of MTB and Bike Areas. Much more than a navigation and trail discovery App, MOWIBIKE is a network that connects the rider community to the Bike Areas and is an advanced tool for managing the local MTB product. To date, MOWIBIKE is the official App for the best Bike Areas in Italy, with coverage that is progressively extending to the entire national territory, with the aim of also being adopted on a large scale at an international level.
• ANDREA PIEDIMONTE BODINI - Agriturismo Pimpinnacolo, Porto Ercole - Monte Argentario. Andrea Piedimonte Bodini was born professionally in the world of entertainment as an actor and producer. For almost twenty years, however, he has been involved in real estate, agricultural and tourist-accommodation management and the fulcrum of this activity is the Monte Argentario farm which, in addition to producing olive oil, hosts the Pimpinnacolo Agriturismo. Two or three years ago it began to bet on deseasonalization, remaining open all year round (probably the only one on the promontory to do so). Clearly, the Summer numbers are still completely different from the spring and autumn ones – and even more so from the winter ones. In this context, the creation of a bike park directly inside the farmhouse, as well as having implemented an adaptation of the structure to be bike friendly (washing station, workshop, bike sheds with sockets for charging ebikes, etc.) is for him a first concrete step of offering to the public for the periods that have so far been low in attendance. In parallel, he is working with other entrepreneurs and with the local administration to make the whole of Argentario and the surrounding areas a real bike destination, in addition to the nautical-seaside destination that it already is.

SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER

Workshop on the trails led by Ezio Cattani – Danger Zone Trail Solution and Dolomiti Paganella Bike. Lunch at Bike Chalet

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