The sa Pobla Ring

Mallorca route guide · North Mallorca

Riding The sa Pobla Ring

A town bypass that only works one way round. Ten roundabouts carry more than a kilometre of circulating carriageway between them — the largest such share on any road in this world — and twenty-three metres of one-way Ronda Nord mean that riding the circuit backwards costs you a full extra lap. So the ring is built in the sense it is ridden: anticlockwise, past the Dimoni de Sant Antoni on his roundabout, the Monument dels Pagesos, the old bridge and the memorial to an old bridge standing thirty-two metres apart, and the dead railway whose station still keeps its buffer stop fourteen metres off the tarmac.

This is a true 5.6 km circuit: the road closes naturally rather than using an artificial turnaround.

The route is read through settlement edges: narrow streets, rooflines, roundabouts, church towers, old road alignments, and the moment the built fabric releases the rider back into open country.

Captured in muntro

Relief, gradient, and how to pace it

The profile is restrained by Mallorca standards: 13 m separates its lowest and highest points. The interest comes from rhythm, surface changes, exposed straights, and the way the road moves through the landscape rather than one headline climb.

Use the opening kilometres to find cadence and keep the power smooth. The route is ideal for endurance work, recovery riding, or simply exploring the island without a large climbing bill.

Points to watch for

The best Mallorca routes are remembered as a sequence of places, not as a GPX line. These are the changes of scene that organise this ride.

1. 01

   sa Pobla

   The route rolls away from sa Pobla, giving you a few minutes to find cadence and read the road ahead.

2. 02

   Ten roundabouts, one direction — the Ma-3450 bypass

   Ten roundabouts, one direction — the Ma-3450 bypass is one of the route’s defining changes of scene and a useful marker for pacing the ride.

3. 03

   29 m high point

   At 29 m high point, the elevation trace reaches its ceiling before the road releases the height it has earned.

Why this road works indoors

muntro does not flatten the sa Pobla Ring into a workout backdrop. The route’s bends, height, and junction order come from the road itself, while a compatible trainer reproduces the changing gradient under your pedals.

Because the course closes naturally, it works especially well for repeated laps, steady endurance rides, and comparing the same decisions under fatigue.