La peor experiencia que te puedes imaginar la puedes tener aquí si hablas con Álvaro, él se…read moreencargará de hacer todo lo que le pides que no haga. Pésima atención.

I am an avid road cyclist and came to Alicante to watch the Volvo ocean race, and as a side…read moreactivity I thought I would check out renting a bicycle and doing some riding in the amazing looking mountains just inland of Alicante, el Campello and area. I found Ochoa bikes on line and paid them a visit. not only did they have great rental prices on mountain bikes and road bikes, the owner , who spoke very good English also recommended some great rides. Wow! I was hooked. After one ride up road cv777 to Busot from the beach in el Campello I realized that this is one of the best places I've ridden. Although there is a lot of climbing involved to experience the best roads, the scenery is stunning, the pavement is perfect although shoulder less and there is very little vehicle traffic. we came here in mid October so the weather is just about perfect for cycling. The high temperature was about 30c and night time temps are around 15c. Most days the noon temperature was around 20 to 25. Back to the bike shop, ... I rented a carbon bike called a couleur which is equipped with 105 components and they give you tools pump and spare tube to take with you when you rent it. I little pouch on the bike would have been handy. The price was very good I thought. 22 euros for the first day and 12 after that. I bought a very high quality full zip jersey at the shop for 34 euros and took a look around and found their prices very fair. Back to the riding... all of the road leading North from el Campello are amazing! Cv 777 , CV 773and CV 775 all head inland and upward. The view of the Mediterranean become spectacular pretty quickly. the gradient going inland varies from flat to 6% for the first 5 Kms or so no matter which route you take. Then you can chose your destination from there. The nice thing is that no matter where you go it's pretty well downhill to get back to the coast. some of the great rides I did were to Relleu and back , with a side trip to the cava del canalobres. (Candelabra caves) 78kms, 1350 m of climb. a loop up CV800 (which is a little busier but has paved shoulder) to Xixona ,east on CV774 to Busot then 773 to 775 and back down to el Campello 47 Kms 550 m climb. CV 777 North to Busot to Aigues and back down 775 40 Kms, 400 m. Climb. You can also keep heading inland past Releu into the mountains for even more great rides with more climbs and great loops which we drove in our rental car. there are lots of cyclist on the road and even more mountain bikes. Very awesome area for cycling and a great shop to deal with.

I saw the one review by Jenny D. - bad customer service - and decided to ignore it. This was a…read moremistake. Simply put the service was terrible when we turned up to collect the bikes. Everything - fitting bikes to riders,dealing with differences in deposit caused by international bank fees etc. was hard, it was my problem, it was done grudgingly. We were only provided with one pump and tube and special axle tool between four bikes. This proved to be inadequate as you will see below. We set off with our bikes on the train to ride the Ojos Negros rail trail as I had carefully explained months in advance and the shortcomings of the bikes became apparent. We had several punctures which were cause by a combination of two things. The rims were drilled for schrader valves but were supplied with presta tubes. This is not normally a problem, but in addition the Kenda tyres were a VERY BIG FIT for the rims, so there was inevitable tyre and tube creep resulting in torn out valves. By very big you could put your finger between the tyre and the rim, right through from one side to the other when the rest of the tyre was seated. So we destroyed four tubes in four days. In addition we had one rear derailleur blow up which can happen at any time if you are unlucky and a couple of other minor mech problems. It is worth saying that I am a very experienced rider and bike maintainer - I have and ride five bikes that I do all the building and maintenance on. OK, shit happens, but when we returned the bikes to the shop it was all our fault. We were blamed for everything. They charged us FULL RETAIL for the replacement parts. I wasn't listened to. A simple apology and a 10% discount on the parts would have seen me out the door somewhat satisfied but the guy in the shop was rude to the point of being aggressive. Don't make the mistake I made, hire your bikes somewhere else. If you want one more proof point, a few days later we hired four bikes from BikeBreaks in Girona and I have nothing but praise for them by comparison.

We found Orange Bikes via an internet search for bike hire in Valencia. Not recommended. The…read moreowner/manager is alarmingly rude and treated us (a family of six) extremely badly, including shouting at us after we politely declined to hire their bikes on hearing we needed to leave over €1000 security deposit. His exact words were 'we are not a charity'. A really shocking experience. Rude, rude, rude. If you want to hire bikes, head directly to valenciabikes.com for a much friendlier and professional service. You'll only need a passport as security.