We live at the bottom of the Stelvio.
Tornante Moto started in 2012 with two bikes, a borrowed van and a stubborn idea: that a tour should feel like riding with friends who happen to know every petrol station.
Fourteen seasons later we still do not run more than eight bikes in a group. It costs us money. It is also why nobody waits twenty minutes at the top of a pass for the back of the line.
We ride every road in the catalogue each spring before we sell it. If a hotel has slipped, we drop it. If a pass has a new surface, we go and look. The numbers on our tour pages come straight from the route files, because riders check, and they should.
In front of you, and behind you.
Elia Bonfanti
Head guide, lead rider
Elia grew up two valleys from Bormio and has ridden the Stelvio in every month it has been open, and two when it had not. Elia leads from the front at a pace the slowest rider can hold without noticing.
24
years riding
Italian, English, German
Passo Gavia
Greta Pichler
Guide, Dolomites
Greta ran a ski school in Alta Badia until the roads turned out to be better than the pistes. Greta plans the Dolomiti lunches, which is why nobody has complained about a lunch since 2019.
16
years riding
German, Italian, English
Passo Giau
Tomas Ferrand
Guide, French Alps
Tomas spent eleven years as a mechanic in Briançon before leading tours. Tomas can hear a loose chain from the back of a group, and has.
19
years riding
French, English, Spanish
Col de la Bonette
Noor Haddad
Sweep and support van
Noor rides sweep or drives the van, whichever the day needs. Noor carries the spare levers, the spare gloves and the only working sense of humour after a nine-hour day.
12
years riding
English, Dutch, Arabic, Italian
Umbrail Pass
How we pick roads and hotels.
Roads
Paved unless we say so. Under 300 km a day unless we warn you. If a road has more trucks than bends, it is off the list.
Hotels
Family run, bikes under cover, dinner after 19:00. We have stayed in every one, and paid for it ourselves the first time.
Safety
Two first-aiders on every guided tour, comms on every bike, a recovery plan for every pass, reviewed each April.