Alicante is Mondraker’s home base and is central to development activity. It is where the bikes are designed and tested, and where the sporting year begins with a structured training camp in the province. The focus during this period is performance preparation: on-bike training sessions, many, many miles on the bikes, equipment set-up and bike set-up. This is also an important time to get the team together, working together and communicating, all without the pressures, yet, of the World Cup calendar.