Lac du Bourget is the largest and deepest lake entirely in France. It is surrounded…
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Local knowledge is more important for interesting mountain bike routes than for road bike routes.…
Across the Rhône river immediately east of Grand Colombier is a great little massif with…
A scenic and super quiet cycling loop in the French Jura Mountains. Map, photos, profile, etc.
Mont Revard is the big Massif just north-east of Chambéry, overlooking the south-east side of Lac du Bourget. Its imposing cliff face dominates the views east and the roads up need to cycle around behind these cliffs from either the north (Aix-les-Bains) or the south (Chambéry).
Le Cycle Magazine once called Mont du Chat perhaps the toughest (paved) climb in France. I think there are harder, but it’s fairly brutal.
A beautiful, hilly loop on deserted roads (maybe because the climbs were all still strangely signed as closed?)