As town gets ready for the Tour this morning we have sold out of nearly all our stock of our More Than 21 Bends Alpe d’Huez Cycle Jerseys and T-Shirts in the PROMPT.CC shop but fear not you can still pick up yours online at www.prompt.cc
Category: Tour de France
German Filming, a set on Flickr. Today we were being filmed by a German Film Crew for a piece on the impact of the Tour de France on the local area. Our Australian customers from Bike Sure Online were also part of the days proceedings.
Telegraphe and Galibier 20120624, a set on Flickr. One thing we like doing here is organising a custom tour for groups of riders. All we ask is that you are a group between 6 and 16 people. You tell us what you want and we will arrange it for you. You can choose specific rides,…
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…
Our Alpe d’Huez to Italy 2012 tour is now fully booked. We will be releasing our 2013 dates in the next couple of weeks
42 consecutive month of riding up Alpe d’Huez. January is always the hardest month to get done because of the lack of daylight and general warmth. A quick stop at bend 16 this time to show the snow and Pierre Rollands name on the bend 16 sign
Day 3 of our Alpe d’Huez to Italy tour took us from our overnight stay in Briançon to Pinerolo in Italy via the Col de Montgenevre and the Colle di Sestriere. The day includes a 50km descent from the top of Sestriere to Pinerolo where Voeckler had his lucky escape in the 2011 Tour de…
We have had some milder weather here in the Oisans in February meaning I have been out “training” for our hectic summer of cycling tours. On sunday I cycled up Alpe d’Huez and did a little skiing afterwards. On tuesday I took my new Prompt D211 bike out for its first spin and did my favourite route…
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…
With the Col du Glandon now open it is fairly easy to get to the base of the Col de la Madeleine and although it is still technically closed I thought I would see how far up I could get. This is a monster of a climb over 20 km gaining 1500 metres in height and is…