Day 1 of the Alpe d’Huez cycling tour involved a challenging 92KM ride, covering Col de la Croix de Fer, Col du Glandon, and Col du Mollard, with over 2000 meters of vertical climbing, starting from Bourg d’Oisans and finishing in St Etienne de Cuines.
Category: Alpe d Huez
As of writing we still have our two bedroom apartment sleeping 4 people available for this years La Marmotte Cyclosportive at the end of June and also Alpe d’Huzes at the beginning of June. For more information please contact us
We are changing how we do things at More Than 21 Bends. More and more of our holidays are now based around a bespoke tour that you the customer has asked for. So why not join us an one of our custom Alpe d’Huez Cycling Tours. This is the holiday that started it all for…
The 2024 La Marmotte Cycling Sportive will take place on the 30th June 2024 If you are thinking of doing this epic event then we have a couple of apartments that are 200 metres from the event start that are available from the Friday before or for the entire week. 2 bedroom garden apartment with…
Our summer 2022 season is now over and we are pleased to announce that business was good for us after a few years of disruption casued by the COVID 19 pandemic. Bourg d’Oisans and Alpe d’Huez welcomed the Tour de France in 2022 and it was particularly pleasing to see Tom Pidcock win on Alpe…
I cannot recommend ‘More than 21 Bends‘ enough. I have just returned from a week in their care, guiding me around the cols and climbs of the Alpe d’Huez region, and I am already scrutinising their website for the next trip! Fantastic routes, fantastic accommodation and fantastic customer care. Superb local knowledge and expert cycling…
The iconic 21 bends of Alpe d’Huez looks splendid in everyone’s living room / pain cave or dare we say it bedroom.
We are pleased to announce that we have now added our popular maps , photos and t shirts from our range of items that we sell at Cycling Tube Maps. For all our subscribers there is a special 5% discount until the end of the year. Please use code “mt21b”. In addition if you have…
We are now taking enquiries and bookings for our custom cycle tours for September 2022 and beyond. Whether you want to ride the Routes des Grandes Alpes self supported with luggage transfers at your own pace, or you want to create something more bespoke based on one of our other tours like our More Than…
Cycle Alpe d’Huez, Col de la Madeleine , Galibier and more in our original 1 week cycling tour that started it all for us way back in 2008 We are keeping it fairly local for 2022 so we have set aside a couple of week long dates where you can come and ride the best…