Monthly Archives: August 2010

All good things come must come to an end. This morning we got ready for our final ride of what has been an incredible trip. The mountains that we climbed, the scenery that we saw, this journey will stay with us … Continue reading →

Today’s ride started with about a 25 mile climb up to the top of the Galibier.  Spectacular scenery greeted us on the ride up.  After a similar length downhill we ended up in a valley that took us between all the … Continue reading →

What was planned was our most epic ride but this changed drastically because of the weather.  Even a shorter route to the top of the climb to Sestriere, Italy needed a bailout.  With the weather on top of the mountains … Continue reading →

On Sunday, August 15th we left Gap under cloudy skies for a 70 mile ride to Briancon.  The route gave us the most spectacular scenery we’ve seen so far.  To make things interesting we first ran into a large Ironman triathlon in … Continue reading →

Starting in Carpentras, gave us a real understanding of the toughness of the Mont Ventoux. From this direction it’s 25 miles uphill, the first 10 gradual and after that it’s relentless. All said and done, by the top we had … Continue reading →

Some went for a bike ride, others went to the market in town and some sat down for a cold beer. This afternoon I drove through the gorge and up the Ventoux from the Bedoin side, which is another option … Continue reading →

Thursday we left Gap for another ride to cover more than 100 miles. After a few miles along a highway we went westward on route 942, which brought us another day of beautiful landscape. The ride would eventually take us … Continue reading →

On Wednesday we started with a long downhill of Alpe d’Huez, which made us concentrate and be on the brakes all the time, because of all the hairpin turns. But we got right back to business by climbing the Col … Continue reading →

We all knew that climbing three of the highest rated climbs in the Tour de France in one day would make this a really hard day of cycling, and we were not disappointed. We started with the Col de Madelaine, … Continue reading →

  Today we headed towards the Alps.Leaving Geneva we headed South…destination Albertville,which hosted the Winter Olympics in 1996. Our ride took us by beautiful Lake Annecy which was packed with everyone soaking up the French sun. There were lots of … Continue reading →