Marcela Ferreyra

I’m 44, and I came to riding in my late thirties after years as a passenger. I now ride most Sundays from San Martín de los Andes, a small town on a lake in northern Patagonia, and I have worked out a handful of loops I can ride in a day and still be home for dinner. The bike is the same one I take on weekend trips, and I look after it myself in the garage at home.

Every loop leaves town on the same trunk road, then forks at El Cruce. I wrote each one down as a road book: a PDF with the turns, the fuel stops and the places to stop, and a GPX file for your GPS or phone. The first part of the road is the same for all of them, so the bundle is the whole map.

I do not run tours. I ride the roads, write them down, and teach what I learned about hairpins, planning and basic maintenance at home: tire pressure, chain tension and a good strap job. You ride the loops yourself, at your own pace.