Author: Will

2014 was my 10th annual Cycling Challenge. If nothing else, I respond to New Year resolutions! It was the first time I hadn’t “announced” my annual goals on Jan 1st as I had been several months off the bike at the time (old man knee!), and was a little depressed. But things improved, and by February I was doing my slow, uphill thing as usual. Still my 2014 Challenge was more hopeful than ambitious: 50 Great Rides, and somehow get fit enough to complete the Maratona dles Dolomites – perhaps the most beautiful and best run cyclo-sportive in Europe. Ultimately,…

Here are my ten favourite alpine Road Bike Climbs of 2014. Links to maps, photos, ride details.

My Favourite Mountain Bike cycling climbs in the Alps – maps, photos, route descriptions.

Col de Crozet. Mountain Biking in the Jura Mountains. Map, photos, route description.

Great cycling loop in the Aravis Alps. Map, profiles, and photos.

Cycling Mont Salève. Autumn photos of this great mountain.

Cycling to Valmeinier and then visiting Lac de Bissorte. Photos, map, route description.

NB: Ce post est également apparu à Podiumcafe.com En conduisant sur l’Autoroute A43 de Français vers Torino, si vous savez où chercher – et vous avez besoin de savoir où chercher – vous verrez la plus étonnante petite route ramper jusqu’à une falaise. Ce sont les lacets de Montvernier. Ils sont probablement le plus parlé montée qui va apparaître dans le Tour de France en 2015 (étape 18). Achevé en 1934 après six ans de construction, cette étonnante prouesse d’ingénierie lié le petit village de Montvernier, surplombant sur un plateau, avec la civilisation ci-dessous. Il y a 17 lacets qui…

A challenging but beautiful little mountain bike ride above Argentière ski station near Chamonix. Map, photos, route description. Cycling in the Alps near Mont Blanc.

Three 2015 “Cycling the Alps Calendars.” Road Biking, Mountain Biking and Alpine Cows.