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Lost Boys 2008 Tour d’Enfer – Day 1 Preview
This summer I will ride a week long cycling tour broadly following the Route des Grande Alpes. It will include many of the most famous climbs in France. We are all getting a little excited as hotels...
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A Challenge – La Grand Bo Cyclosportif June 29th
OK – due to injuries, crashes, beer and laziness I haven’t signed up for many events. Next week, I will ride the Montagnard route of the Cycletour du Léman – hopefully with Slogfester. But with the...
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2008 Time-Megève Mont-Blanc Cyclosportive
Wow, I am tired! Attracting several thousand riders, the Time-Megeve cyclosportive is one of the bigger cycling events in France. There are three courses of varying difficulty. The listed distances...
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Col de la Colombière – In the Snow
I just couldn’t resist. While skiing at Le Grand Bornand a few days ago, I kept looking towards Col de la Colombière and wondering if I could reach the top with a bike – without waiting until June for...
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Col des Annes & Col de la Colombière
Bike route 217362 – powered by Bikemap Cyclo-tourists coming to the Alps understandably flock to the Route des Grandes Alpes to do the famous Tour de France climbs. But there are countless lessor...
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2009 Tour de France – Stage 17 Preview
Bike route 230676 – powered by Bikemap With five climbs and some of the steepest stretches in the entire Tour, this stage (along with Ventoux) will be the toughest test of the race. Almost the entire...
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Watching Stage 17 – 2009 Tour de France
Above: Contador and the brothers Schleck near top of last climb. A great day watching the Epic stage 17 of the Tour de France with Eric and Katy. The plan? Cycle the last two climbs of the stage: the...
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Col de la Colombière (both sides) and Col de Romme
A beautiful French holiday Monday seemed a perfect time to climb probably the nearest “famous” climb to me. Col de la Colombière has become a Tour regular, including last year and again this summer. We...
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2010 Tour de France – Stage 9 Preview
Bike route 549375 – powered by Bikemap Map by @ednl (thx) If the finish was closer to the top of a mountain, and there wasn’t Tourmalet next week, this might be called the Queen stage of the 2010...
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Col des Annes – Steep and Quiet plus Col de la Colombière
Col des Annes is steep: A recurring rant: Cyclotourists (understandably) come to the alps and focus on the famous climbs, usually cycling the Route des Grandes Alps. Of course, this makes some sense,...
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Col de Châtillon, Tour de Mont Lachat, and Colombière
Mont Lachat (2050 metres) is the high point, with 360 degree views, of Le Grand Bornand ski station. Doreen enjoying the views from Mont Lachat during ski season This route does a mountain bike loop...
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Col de la Colombière via Romme (and Tête de la Sallaz)
Since its 2009 Tour de France appearance, the hardest, third way to cycle up Col de la Colombière has become a little less of a secret climb. But it is a difficult, fun, quiet road. For details of the...
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Col de la Colombière (and above)
Col de la Colombière is the nearest “famous” cycling climb to where I live. So I know it quite well. But today we tried something new. Doreen wanted to go hiking, I wanted to bike. So we came up with...
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2016 Etape du Tour Course Preview
The 2016 Tour du France route was announced this week. Every year, Tour organiser ASO runs a cyclo-sportive, open to all, that rides one of the Tour’s mountain stages a few days before the pros. To...
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Route des Grandes Alpes – Stage 1
Route des Grandes Alpes The Route des Grandes Alpes is a 684 kilometre tourist route starting on the shores of Lake Geneva (Lac Léman) that heads through the French Alps finishing at the Mediterranean...
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