Biking Spirit
Biking Spirit
4.9
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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selma m
7 contributions
Jul 2024 • Couples
Fantastic day of driving the MTB down Chimborazo with Edison as a guide and driver Roberto! After the hike to Cocha Condor, we whizzed down the mountain over the great and mostly off road trails ( the intermediate off road route). With some MTB skills from back ( and flat...) home, this was perfectably doable. Even when we got soaking wet the last 5 muddy kms back to lunch, at the equally nice Chakra Andina in San Juan, we enjoyed every minute and had a blast. We highly recommend all bike lovers to take the tour with Edison! Bikes were in great shape and well serviced and helmets/protective gear provided. Thanks Edison!
Written July 2, 2024
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Stephen T
7 contributions
Mar 2021
I enjoyed mountain biking down Chimborazo with Edison of Biking Spirit today. He's an excellent tour guide who is very familiar with the Chimborazo region, and I certainly appreciate that he responded to my inquiry about a biking tour at a time when tourists are scarce in Ecuador due to Covid-19. Many biking businesses are reluctant to go on tours with only one tourist and charge too much, but Edison was honest with me. I appreciated the fact that Edison didn't just guide me down the mountain, but instructed me about features of the region and its wildlife. Highly recommended.
Written March 8, 2021
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Globetroter16
Vancouver, Canada22 contributions
Oct 2023 • Solo
Fantastic day hiking up the Chimborazo stratovolcano and biking down to San Juan. The hike is from 4800m to 5100m where there is a lagoon. After the hike you bike 31km from 4800m down to Edison's friends place near San Juan village for a homemade lunch. The bike ride and scenery down was amazing. It's a little slippery on the deep crushed sand near the top but then the trail is more compact further down. Had a walkie talkie so Edison could check up on me. Thanks Edison!
Written November 1, 2023
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Mark F
6 contributions
Jul 2023 • Couples
Eddie was a fantastic guide. The best we've had over 3 months traveling in South America. We hiked and biked. The bikes and safety gear were in top condition, and the briefings clear and accurate. It was an awesome day.
Written July 22, 2023
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yamon08
New York City, NY1,578 contributions
Jan 2022 • Solo
Went solo with Edison about a month ago. He’s very relaxed and a total professional. You can tell he’s experienced through the many years of biking with tourists. If you are planning on going, know your limits. Don’t try to think your more experienced than you actually are. Be realistic if you haven’t been riding. There’s different levels to choose. I’m fairly a good rider and found the intermediate at my level. Choose correctly. At the end we stopped off at a house and sat at a table in a nice backyard with a great view and ate plenty of food from great hosts( friends). It was so much better than a restaurant. Felt like I was visiting someone. Great day !
Written January 15, 2022
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Thank you so much for your comments Stefan...it was a pleasure to ride with you, excellent client!
Written February 2, 2022
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Phil
10 contributions
Nov 2021 • Solo
Excellent day with Biking Spirit yesterday organised only the evening before.
Our guide, took us up to 5100m on chimborazo. Then mountain biking down 1500m and 32km to San Juan where we had a great lunch in a garden looking out to the mountain. Really knew the mountain well, really encouraging and helpful on the walk as we felt the effects of the altitude. Good bikes and a real cycling enthusiast. Started early for the best weather and just the two of us on the tour, so we were the only people at the top for half an hour. Thoroughly recommend biking spirit.
Our guide, took us up to 5100m on chimborazo. Then mountain biking down 1500m and 32km to San Juan where we had a great lunch in a garden looking out to the mountain. Really knew the mountain well, really encouraging and helpful on the walk as we felt the effects of the altitude. Good bikes and a real cycling enthusiast. Started early for the best weather and just the two of us on the tour, so we were the only people at the top for half an hour. Thoroughly recommend biking spirit.
Written November 7, 2021
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Phil, thank you for your comments, we always try to do the best!
Written December 20, 2021
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Barbara B
1 contribution
Jan 2020 • Solo
He lacks patience with people who haven't done EXTENSIVE mountain biking before. He also, got annoyed at me when I fell of the bike because the wind pushed me over. That's not really how I like to be treated when I spend money. Today completely proved that. I tried to communicate how I felt to him, but I was completely disregarded. It might of been a language barrier, which is why I didn't give him 1 star. Go with ProBici because there is multiple nice people that work there.
Written January 12, 2020
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Miss Barbara,
This is "he" or Edison Baldeón the Biking Spirit manager, honestly I didn´t check this profile during one year (because the pandemic), today I read your comments; I remember you, you shared the tour with a Swiss couple, the day before the tour we talked about the conditions and experience and you told me that you had biking experience (enough for us because you took the EASY route to ride, mostly tarmac), before to start while the people tested and rode the bikes, you couldn´t ride the bike in the parking lot (flat terrain), however we allowed you to continue expecting you got confidence with the bike and terrain. This no happened. The Swiss couple were riding well and taking several short cuts and single-tracks and of course having a lot of patience and waiting for you (trying to ride on the normal route). During the lunch you never participated and didn´t eat the food; so I think your bad feeling before, during and after the tour were the real problem and don´t affect our good reputation. We don´t want mountain bike pros, we just want nice people with good atitude for touring. Thank you
Written January 21, 2021
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Benjamin M
Hamburg, Germany6 contributions
May 2022 • Couples
Our Mountainbiking trip with Edy was excellent.
The mountainbikes were very new and very professional.
Edy speaks very well english and answered all our questions. Even though we had some rain at the end of our tour, we enjoyed the tour with Edy very much!
Thank you again!
Carina & Benjamin
The mountainbikes were very new and very professional.
Edy speaks very well english and answered all our questions. Even though we had some rain at the end of our tour, we enjoyed the tour with Edy very much!
Thank you again!
Carina & Benjamin
Written May 13, 2022
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Great tour, great riders, thanks for coming and feel the Biking Spirit!!!
Written May 14, 2022
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kapltap
Minneapolis, MN41 contributions
Feb 2015 • Friends
Edison, the owner/operator of Biking Spirit was very accommodating as we requested a tour with only 2 days notice. He personally guided our bike tour as most guides were gone for the Carnaval holiday. We had door to door service as he picked us up from and dropped us back off at our hotel in Riobamba. Edison and Yoel were gracious, attentive, funny, and informative. They offered great information on the history, landscape, and the people of the area. They made sure we were well taken care of throughout the day. The intermediate mountain biking trails we rode on were a little daunting for a few of us inexperienced mountain bikers at first, but ultimately amazing and worth it. The hike from base camp 1 to base camp 2 was absolutely breathtaking. Drinking some *tea before the climb up definitely helped with altitude adjustment. All in all, an excellent experience! I highly recommend this to anyone interested in mountain biking and seeing all the beauty in and around Chimborazo.
Written March 10, 2015
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hazhippo
Leicester, UK82 contributions
Aug 2014 • Couples
We got in touch with Biking Spirit roughly a month before our trip to Ecuador. After all the googling and reviews on things to do in Ecuador, we thought we would like to go for a multiple day trip cycling.
With Biking Spirit we did the following journey:
Riobamba - Chimborazo downhill cycling (35km)
Attilio lakes to Macas (50km ++)
Macas to Rio Pastaza river (50km ++)
Can't really remember the total distances but it was great cycling!
The beauty of the journey was that we started off with the highest volcano, then the scenery of the Amazon basin, then the constant pedal power of the last day.
Biking Spirit customized our trip to what we wanted.
We also visited Banos and the famous waterfall on our last day.
Simply amazing! Thank you Edison.
We would highly recommend them!
With Biking Spirit we did the following journey:
Riobamba - Chimborazo downhill cycling (35km)
Attilio lakes to Macas (50km ++)
Macas to Rio Pastaza river (50km ++)
Can't really remember the total distances but it was great cycling!
The beauty of the journey was that we started off with the highest volcano, then the scenery of the Amazon basin, then the constant pedal power of the last day.
Biking Spirit customized our trip to what we wanted.
We also visited Banos and the famous waterfall on our last day.
Simply amazing! Thank you Edison.
We would highly recommend them!
Written August 25, 2014
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Can I do a private tour? I am 65 and although in really good shape, I won't want to fly down the mountain like a 20 year old would
Written January 1, 2020
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