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…
We have now released our May 2015 supported Cycling Holidays: We will be running two of our ever popular Alpe d’Huez to Italy Tours based from Bourg d’Oisans. Week 1 runs from 2nd -9th May 2014 and can be booked here >> Week 2 runs from 23rd – 30th May 2014 and can be booked…
I took these series of photos as Chris from Northern Ireland tackled the climb up to Mont Ventoux. At this point you have ridden through the steep section of the woods from Bedion and you start to see a few glimpses of ventoux itself. Amazingly despite the number of cyclists and cars climbing up I…
A great week of cycling here in the oisans and also Provence has just come to an end. We took our group down to Carpentras for two nights so we could tackle Mont Ventoux and the Gorge de la Nesque
Phil has again been published in New Zealand Road Cyclist Magazine after his trip there in January / February 2014. While there he competed in a couple of Sportives and was interviewed by publisher and owner Chris Gaskell in an airport cafe just before departing for France.
Day 2 of our Paris Roubaix trip took us down to the cobbles at secteur 17 to sit in a bar to watch the race unfold with a beer before heading out to the cobbles to see the riders and support vehicles speed pass. This section of cobbles were recently refurbished at a cost of…