Cycling Gran Fondo through the Pyrenees
If you love asphalt, secret roads, and enjoy road cycling, the Backroads category is perfect for you. Ride through stunning landscapes, mythical mountain passes, and winding valleys and mountains, as you conquer the Pyrenees from sea to sea, from the Mediterranean Sea (Roses) to the Atlantic Ocean (Irun).
Internationally recognized as one of the best stage races.
Participate in the most transformative road cycling event that will take you through the most breathtaking landscapes of the Pyrenees.
1.000 kilometers
20.000 meters of elevation gain
7 days
from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean
The Backroads category offers a stage race that will take you to conquer the Pyrenees from sea to sea, on a journey full of adventure, beautiful roads, mythical passes, and stunning landscapes.
Discover the various categories to experience the Deporvillage Transpyr Coast to Coast in the Backroads mode.
We offer services to make your participation in the Deporvillage Transpyr Coast to Coast easier.
Some services are provided directly by the organization, while others, such as accommodation, transportation, physiotherapy, and mechanical assistance, are managed by external companies and should be booked directly with them.
In 2021, I participated in the Transpyr Coast to Coast, an epic cycling tour through the heart of the Pyrenees. The experience changed something in me. And I want to do it again.
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The Transpyr is one of the toughest and most demanding races, but its landscapes, villages, cuisine, and fellow adventurers more than make up for it, offering the best experience of your life. A monumental challenge to cross the Pyrenees and make friends for life.
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The Transpyr is much more than a race; it’s a personal and mental challenge that helps you discover your limits, surrounded by friends and the best possible environment. Don’t just let others tell you about it—experience it for yourself!
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The Transpyr Coast to Coast is one of the best stage races. Riding through the most legendary mountain passes and finishing by the sea is one of the most magical experiences I’ve ever had.
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Transpyr Backroads is an event created by cyclists, for cyclists. The experience will change your life.
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The Deporvillage Transpyr Coast to Coast is for you if you train regularly and achieve the proper physical and mental preparation.
Participants must be able to maintain an average speed of no less than 12 km/h on each stage.
The race consists of 7 stages, covering approximately 1,000 km in distance and nearly 20,000 m of accumulated elevation gain, averaging 145 km and around 2,800 m of elevation gain per day.
The booking of accommodation is the responsibility of the participant, but we make it very easy for you.
You can book it on your own at each stage point, you can travel by campervan or you can hire the PACK HOTEL offered by VALUA TRAVEL with different options.
Accommodation is not included in the registration fee.
The organisation will give you a bag during the accreditation so that you can put all your belongings in it.
This Transpyr bag will be delivered every day to your accommodation (as long as it is within the urban centre of the stage point).
If you wish, we can send the bag to your home before the accreditation so that you can organise yourself better!
The bag cannot weigh more than 20 kg.
Breakfast is the responsibility of the participant, although it is included in the hotel packs.
During the route, the organization will provide solid and liquid refreshment posts. One of the refreshment posts serves a lunch based on rice or pasta. At the end of the route there is another light refreshment post.
The registration also includes a carbohydrate-based meal, at sunset, before each stage.
It is recommended to take some kind of energy supplement and to start the stage with at least one litre of drink
If you wish to return home from Saint Jean de Luz:
Once the Transpyr Coast to Coast is over, there is a SHUTTLE BUS available to take you back (departure the morning after arrival in Roses).
Approx. price: 100€
If you are transporting your bike in a bike box, we can store it safely for you.
Approx. price: 50€
You can leave your vehicle in an (unmonitored) parking lot in Saint Jean de Luz.
If you wish to return home from Roses or Barcelona:
A SHUTTLE BUS is available to Barcelona after the final stage in Roses.
Approx. price: 100€
We can transport any luggage you don’t need and your bike box to the final stage.
Approx. price: 50€
No. The Compulsory Sports Insurance is included in the participant pack. However, each participant is free to take out and use other complementary insurance if they wish.
A medical assistance service is present along the route. Its mission is to attend to injured or injured persons DURING THE ROUND OF EACH STAGE. Once the stage has finished, any participant requiring medical attention must be attended to by the public or private medical services of the municipality.
No, accreditation and briefing are held the day before departure.
No. Participation is reserved for people over 18 years old.
It is not necessary to be in possession of a cycling license.
Mandatory insurance is already included in the participating pack. If you think it’s necessary, you can book an additional insurance policy on your own to extend coverage.
Once your belongings have been transferred to the Transpyr Bag that we will give you in the accreditation, you can:
The transfer of the bicycle chest / box to the destination of DeporvillageTranspyr Coast to Coast is an optional service to book.
You can also contract the shipment of the Transpyr Bag to your house before the race.
Participants who cover the route planned by the organization within the maximum hours set for, will be considered “finishers” of Transpyr Backroads.
The GPS track can be checked in case of doubt.
In Deporvillage Transpyr Backroads it is essential to avoid any mechanical setback. Participants can contract a mechanical service in advance to have the bikes checked at the end of each stage.
During the stages, it is not possible to assist the participants and the organization will not directly have anybody in this regard.
The organization guarantees the existence of bicycle cleaning points at the end of each stage, either with hoses or pressurized machines, as well as a small self-workshop space.
Of course!
Your friends and family will be able to attend the different events: departure and arrival, briefing, pasta party … For this purpose, we have created the Accompanying Pack.
It is a pack designed so that they can come to cheer you up and share the Deporvillage Transpyr Coast to Coast adventure, enjoying it to the fullest. This pack includes accreditation as a companion, a tourist dossier to discover the wonders of the Pyrenees, tickets for Pasta Party, parking in a reserved area (at some stage towns) and other accessories.
If your companions only come one day, you will have the option to buy the daily party pasta ticket.
The Accompanying Pack can be purchased through your private area or at the organization’s office (RACE OFFICE).
