CYCLING FRANCE : DONE RIGHT SINCE 2008
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.
Late September is great here in the Oisans and we invited a couple of More Than 21 Bends friends over for some end of season cycling. We set off at 8:20 to ride La Marmotte route backwards with a slight little twist. First off was the Col du Lautaret and Col du Galibier followed by…
Day 2 of our Tour de France week based in Bourg d’Oisans took in the Col du Glandon , Col de la Croix der Fer and the Col du Mollard . There was a great atmosphere on the side of the road up the Col du Glandon with the campervans parked ready for the Tour de France on Thursday
Tour of the oisans day 4 bigfootmbc, a set on Flickr. To celebrate the Tour de France coming to the area in July we are this year taking in the Col de la Croix de Fer, Col du Mollard and Col du Glandon. We have some remaining spaces left on our Tour of Oisans for…
Its not often you get to bag a new col in November in the Alps but yesterday I completed for the first time the Col du Mollard just over the top of the Col de la Croix de Fer. Both of these climbs feature in stage 11 of the 2012 Tour de France and I took…