Today was food day. Everyday is food day as I try and consume enough food to allow me to ride all day. It started with a huge fried breakfast courtesy of my brother in law in Newhaven – bacon, eggs, mushrooms and toasts. Carrot cake and a cup of tea on Worthing sea front…
Category: Bourg d'Oisans
Photos from todays Paris Roubaix at Cysoing
Apologies for the delay in writing this blog I have only just got some resemblance of control in my hands after the 170km Paris Roubaix Challenge. What a day it was. Probably the most fun I have had on a “velo” ever. The famous cobbles batter you into submission as you progress through the day. The first…
bourg d’oisans to bristol day 5 http://app.strava.com/activities/47092292 Read all my Bourg d’Oisans to Bristol blog here Enter our guess the KMs competetion here
bourg d’oisans to bristol day 1, a set on Flickr. Day 1 of my trip from Bourg d’Oisans to Bristol started a day earlier than first planned. With snow due in Bourg d’Oisans on Sunday I decided to get away today and put in a few banker kilometres and a farewell lunch with the family in…
Today was spent servicing the PROMPT D902 for my trip back to Bristol via the Paris Roubaix Challenge. With about 1500 km to cover I have replaced tyres and cables and completed a once over of the bike. Tomorrow will be the first proper test of the panniers that I fitted at the weekend. Unfortunately the weather…
Annecy, a set on Flickr. I recently left the cold Oisans area for an equally cold and wet trip to Lake Annecy. There is a 37 km loop following the lake shores and I managed a couple of loop before the super cold rain forced me to cancel for the day. Looking forward to going…
Ed and Simon Visit January, a set on Flickr. We had some new business partners in the area last week here discussing a great new project for Bourg d’Oisans, More Than 21 Bends and PROMPT.CC. We took advantage of the unseasonably warm weather to tackle the Alpe d’Huez climb and also a local loop out…
Winter Riding in the Oisans, a photo by MoreThan21Bends on Flickr. Cycle Hire for Alpe d’Huez in January We quite often get asked if its possible to ride here in the Oisans in the winter – the answer is yes – but you have to pick the right time to go and probably only for…
We get lots of interesting, lovely people staying with us and have decided to now and then tell you a little bit about some of them. In June 2012, Lily Kentwell, a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Photomedia) at the Australian National University, joined her father Craig on his More Than 21 Bends “La Marmotte Big Col Tour”…