Andy a guest with us in May filmed this video on his iPhone over the course of the week while on our Tour of the Oisans holiday Click here for the video
Category: Bourg d'Oisans
We transfered from Bourg d’Oisans to Sault for 2 days and 3 ascents of Mont Ventoux as part of our Huez Ventoux Tour
Last ride in the UK before retuning back to Bourg d’Oisans last night. I went out with my brother in law over the purbecks. We started off by crossing over the poole studland ferry before taking in a big loop over Worth Matravers and Corfe castle.
Beautiful weather here in the oisans at the moment so I decided to tackle the out and back route to Briançon over the Col du Lautaret from Bourg d’Oisans. The round trip is approximately 130KM and took me just over 5 hours. The Col du Lautaret sits at the bottom of the Col du Galibier…
We are taking a short trip back to the UK in April and I have entered (what would have been one of my local sportives) the Cotswold Spring Classic on easter monday. I will be using the long distance route as part of my training for our forthcomming 2011 cycling holiday season here in Bourg…
Tackled Alpe d’Huez today from our base in Bourg d’Oisans for the 30th consecutive month since we have lived here. Its tough in the winter because of the cold air so I took it at a steady pace keeping my heart rate at between 170-180 bpm. OK going up freezing cold coming down even with ski…
Great news for us in that our Alpe d’Huez to Italy point to point tour in that we will be covering all of the following climbs that feature in the 2011 Tour de France. Alpe d’Huez Col du Galibier (both ways as per the Tour) Col du Telegraphe Col du Lautaret Col d’Izoard Col de…
Photos from our final day on the More Than 21 Bends Marmotte Big Col Tour starting from Les Deux Alpes – taking in Alpe d’Huez before returning to Bourg d’Oisans.
photos from todays stage through Bourg d’Oisans and up Alpe d’Huez
I headed off with my friend Radboud – who lives in Grenoble – to ride the long version of the Challenge du Dauphiné Vercors Sportive today. Despite a start time of 8AM the weather was perfect and approximately 700 people turned up to do the various distances. We decided on the 158 KM distance (with 3500 m…