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When you love both pizza and cycling, you\u2019ve got two options. You can sit in front of the TV, watch the Giro d\u2019Italia, and devour slice after slice. Or you can decide to bake the best pizza in Prague \u2013 on an electric cargo bike, just like Pavel Pet\u0159\u00edk from the Czech capital. He showed us the magic of how it\u2019s done and what it can do.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt all starts with good dough,\u201d Pavel says. \u201cI\u2019ve been making my own sourdough since Covid, when everyone was baking homemade bread. Some people made bread, I made pizza.\u201d On his cargo e-bike, he travels to weddings and small family or corporate events, where he literally prepares his genius pizza behind the handlebars. \u201cI use only local Czech flour \u2013 about 20% of it stone-ground \u2013 which gives the dough its distinctive flavour,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n

The other half of his success lies in the oven. Pavel carries a pizza oven with a heavy chamotte stone that keeps a steady temperature of over 500\u00b0C. It takes about 45 minutes to reach full heat, so he just needs to arrive an hour before the event. \u201cOnce the oven\u2019s hot, the pizza is ready in two minutes, and it\u2019s the real deal,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Pavel has lived in Canada, London, and Berlin, but has now called Prague home for ten years. Together with a small team of like-minded pizza lovers, he\u2019s opening a new brick-and-mortar pizzeria in Prague. \u201cThe menu will be similar to what I make on the bike \u2013 no more than four types, but all top-notch. No generic stuff,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\"PizzaBici\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The name PizzaBici came to him instantly: it says everything. He loves both pizza and cycling. Pavel is a fan of classic brands like Campagnolo and Colnago, and his hero is Eddy Merckx.<\/a> If he could choose one event to ride, it would be L\u2019Eroica, the nostalgic race across the white gravel roads of Tuscany\u2019s Strade Bianche. \u201cCycling and the aesthetics of the old days are my big passion,\u201d he says. \u201cSo baking pizza on a cargo bike is just a logical way to combine what I love.\u201d<\/p>\n

He opens the cargo box to show what he needs to run his mobile pizzeria: dough for 50 to 60 pizzas, a bucket of his homemade tomato base, all the ingredients, the oven, and a ten-kilo gas tank.<\/p>\n

He usually makes three types: a spicy pizza with ventricina salami and capers, the classic Margherita, and a third one that changes depending on the occasion. \u201cRight now, I\u2019ve got a new Korean teammate, so we came up with a pizza topped with kimchi jam and homemade sausage on a white base,\u201d he says, adding that he also loves anchovies and olives or a lighter version with thinly sliced zucchini and lemon.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrague is hilly and some climbs feel like mountain stages,\u201d Pavel laughs, \u201cbut the Bosch Cargo Line<\/a> motor makes it easy. It\u2019s built for heavy-duty bikes and has enough power and torque for smooth starts, even when fully loaded.\u201d He rides about 220 kilometres a week and usually prefers car lanes over narrow bike paths. Drivers, he says, are mostly considerate \u2013 and curious. \u201cI think it\u2019s the heaviest single-track cargo bike you can get, and you need a bit of confidence to ride it,\u201d he smiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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