Rüdiger finished the Iberica-Traversa 2023 on the gravel route and in 2024 on the road route. The road route he finished on a borrowed bike from a friend. The bike could be categorized as vintage bicycle.
This morning Conrad arrived at the finish in Tarifa. With Conrad all road riders finished the 1,812km road course crossing Spain.
Gosia Warelich set a new route record, 5 days 12 hours and 14 minutes. Congratulations for this awesome time.
Paddy Cope finished 7 hours 48 minutes after Gosia. Paddy will continue his journey on Sunday in Tangier on the Morocco-BikeAdventure route. His goal: to be the first rider ever finishing the 2-Continent road route in Sidi Ifni.
3 days after the start, Gosia Warelich is at Gorafe. She covered more then 1200km of the road route and only 600km are left to Tarifa. Her lead to the second rider Antequera from Spain is more then 100km. In 3th position is Guillaume from Switzerland.
Gérard on the gravel route scratched from the adventure. He got a call that his next job is starting earlier as expected. The pair riders Geert & Thijs and Luci & Stephane are not in hurry and join the beautiful scenery of the gravel route.
Photos from the route, Thijs & Geert at checkpoint Bardenas Reales and Gosia at checkpoint 5.
48 hours after the start Gosia Warelich is leading on the road route. She already cycled more then 800km. That makes an average of almost 400km per day. Impressive on this hilly course.
For Gérard Rumen this is his second Iberica-Traversa. In 2022 he did the spring edition starting in Tarifa and finishing in Irun. Gérard is with more then 430km on the gravel route in lead. Follow the riders on the tracking: