It’s not often we get a customer review of one of our holidays in a magazine but we managed it this month and all the way from New Zealand! Nz Road Cyclist reader Tim and his partner stayed with us in May and rode some of the great cols with us on the Prompt carbon…
Category: More Than 21 Bends
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…
We have now added further dates to our Mont Ventoux and Alpe d’huez weeks. Our original dates for June and September are now fully booked and we have managed to squeeze some dates in for the end of may. More details here As an added bonus we will also be tackling the 2014 Tour De…
scots toto day 1, a photo by MoreThan21Bends on Flickr. First day of our Tour of the Oisans today. 18 guys from Perth have joined us for a week of full on riding. Today we tackled Les Deux Alpes and Oulles. Tomorrow its the might Alpe d’Huez
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…
Traverse d’Oisans, a photo by MoreThan21Bends on Flickr. The last day of our tour always takes in the Traverse d’Oisans ride. This route changes each week but always take a partial descent of Alpe d’Huez and lunch on bend 16 with our friends in their cafe. After a long lunch and full bellies we continue…
After our overnight stay in Briançon the Alpe d’Huez to Italy tour tackled the Col de Montgenevre into Italy and then the Col di Sestriere before the 50km descent to our base for a couple of days in Pinerolo.
Huge day out in the mountains today on our Alpe d’Huez to Italy tour 2011. Today we rode back into France via the Col d’Agnel – probably the toughest climb I have ever done reaching 15% in places over its 55KM climb. Its the highest point of the Tour at over 2700 metres above sea…
Todays ride was meant to take in stage 18 of the 2011 Tour de France over the Col d’Agnel, Col d’Izoard, Col du Lautaret and the Col du Galibier from Pinerolo – however due to the Col d’Agnel being shut we drove to the top of the Col de Sestrier before dropping down to Briançon…
We set off from Bourg d’Oisans today for the first leg of the 2011 More Than Etape du Tour Week. The first day took in the Col du Lautaret and the Col du Galibier before descending to Briançon for an overnight stay. Each year we choose at least one stage of the Tour de France nearest…