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…
A selection of photos from the foggy 2014 paris roubaix challenge 2014 view rest of the paris roubaix 2014 photos on flickr
Just back from a couple of weeks in the UK catching up with family and friends. For the second week we rented an old coastguards cottage on the clifftop at Worth Matravers in the purbecks. We had glorious weather for the week and I combined a couple of days of rough riding in preparation for…
Arriving just before midnight on the Dieppe to Newhaven ferry after more than 12 hours sat in the more than 21 bends minibus was probably not the best preparation for the tough puncheur Sportive just outside Brighton on the south coast of England, and it showed on the last climb up the very tough Ditchling…