We recently featured in Cyclist Magazine big ride guide Alpe d’huez. The article originally featured in cyclist magazine in September 2013 and has this summer been published in German and English and probably a few other languages that we don’t know of
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Women’s professional cycling has really taken off recently with events like La Course and the Women’s Tour of Britain. Nevertheless, it can still be quite daunting heading up Alpe d’huez as the only girl in an all male tour group. I often find myself plagued with thoughts such as “Am I going to be the…
Photo courtesy of Camille McMillan
So which hand built bike frame builders were up for our Alpe d’Huez framebuilders Challenge: Ricky Feather (Feather Cycles) Among British framebuilders Ricky Feather needs little introduction. Founder of Feather Cycles and based in North Yorkshire Ricky has been building exquisite head turning frames for a number of years. As well as framebuilding he is…
There is something very special about Alpe d’Huez and its infamous climb, it is not just that our hero’s of Le Tour have battled up it or that it is magnificent in its own right, it seems to me that part of its charm is that it is accessible. Anyone who wants to ride it…
It’s not often we get a customer review of one of our holidays in a magazine but we managed it this month and all the way from New Zealand! Nz Road Cyclist reader Tim and his partner stayed with us in May and rode some of the great cols with us on the Prompt carbon…
La marmotte 2014 has just left bourg d’oisans
It’s La marmotte sportive time here in Bourg d’Oisans. We welcomed 15 guests for the week. Unfortunately one did not turn up because of a last minute injury. Today we tackled alpe d’huez. We are already taking booking for La marmotte 2015
What started as a few hailstones ended in 3 cm of snow and the temperature dropping to -1 degrees centigrade. The morning started beautifully on the Col du Telegraphe
11 of us made the ride over the Col d’ornon today to La Mure to watch the Dauphine as it passed through and then finished in La Mure. The great thing about this event is that you can get up close to the riders. As you can see from this picture it was fairly easy…