All, I know we've had a few cycling threads on here before and apologies for the new one, but I wanted to let everyone who's ever enjoyed riding a bike know about a new holiday company that a good friend has started, offering cycling holidays in France...
I realise that it's a bit niche, but I can vouch for the sheer enjoyment of cycling through some of the best scenery going...
http://www.veloiste.cc/I won't go on about bikes for a few more months now until I ask you for sponsorship for my Geneva - Avignon trip in June....more of which later :-)
Cheers all
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Am going over to Oudenaarde, Belgium for the Tour of Flanders with my eldest in April.
Have a go at my anual injury fest
MEGAVALANCHE off the Glacier at Alpe d'huez down into the valley.
Did the climb whilst there last time, hard.
Ventoux is an ace climb to. Really weird when you get to the upper sections, like riding on the moon.
Riding in France is a totally different kettle of fish as you get a modicum of respect out there.
I'll take a look at the website.
Cheers
Just coming to the end of the book about Marco Pantani's life & death, a tragic waste of life mainly down to drug abuse.
God help him if he'd been at the valley on saturday afternoon*, his heart would have stopped after 5 mins such was the boredom in the second half.
*I know hes dead.
Leave this thread alone fat boy!
Not enough oxygen in dem furred up arteries?
Red most people nowadays get a compact on their road bike in this country. In fact it seems to have been standard for the last few years. Compact is 34/50, and when you consider that a lot of Alpine climbs aren't on average more than 7-8% you should still be able to get up with a 39/53. Pyrenees and the Italian climbs are said to be a different matter. As for comparing climbs, the effort require for 50m is just so difficult to compare to that of one where it ramps up for anything between 500-1000+m. Get a compact and I'd say most fit people could manage the easier Alipne cols.
Now though, can literally fly up it both sides on my Rockhopper MTB and my Allez Elite compact roadie which I finally picked up last week.
Me and the lads went out on a monster off road route of 60 miles two weekends ago and we came across Charlton Charlie's favourite Westerham Hill. Now that bloody hurts. No wonder he used that for his training to get up the Alps.
I toyed with the idea of getting a triple for my roadie but am more than happy with my compact chain set. The guys at bike radar are absolutely convinced that theres more to go wrong with a triple as the front derallieur needs to do a lot more work..
Perhaps we need a very geeky Lifers cycle club or cycle tour?
Next thing for me I think is to join a cycle club. Love going out but its more fun doing it with others. My pals ride MTBs but I get more fun ramping the speed up on the tarmac ;-)