(Boston Globe)The mountains of the Tour de France cycling race draw riders and cycling fans to challenge themselves on the famous climbs. Produce by Lane Turner
This is the cold due to our Malay cycling fans will remember in the Tour de France last year in 2010 the great struggle between alberto contador and andy schleck for the yellow jersey here i just want to get up and down in one piece 6,400 feet still a couple of
Kilometers from the top this is a ten percent grade now and it’s getting cold and we’re in the clouds it’s beautiful it’s wonderful all my life I dreamed are suffering this much being in pain wondering why did I ever buy a bike this is my dream the sufferer
Alpe d’huez might be the most famous climb in the Tour de France the 21 switchbacks are cycling icons Bedouin is a cycling town with three bike shops within a hundred yards of the town square it’s easy for a rider to feel right at home it’s also the base of the
Climb to mount von to Mont Ventoux is a long difficult climb with extended sections at ten percent gradient and while day may start out warm in bed one there’s no guarantee of sunshine on the mountain mont ventoux has notoriously fickle weather and dense cloud cover can obscure the otherwise beautiful views of
Provence the col du glib EA marks the highest elevation in the Tour de France at eight thousand six hundred seventy seven feet it also might be the most beautiful ride the verdant Valley gradually yields to colder temperatures in an early June there was still heavy snow at the summit 2011 marks the 100th
Anniversary of the climb in the tour and this year riders will scale the peak twice who’s our dedenne is perhaps most famous to American cycling fans as the site of Lance Armstrong’s famous crash in the 2003 Tour de France he got his handlebars caught on the handbag of a
Spectator and went down he recovered attacked one the stage and won the 2003 Tour de France it would be a shame if the mountain were remembered only for Armstrong’s crash it’s a place of incredible beauty with a road that ends at a ski station so in the summer
There’s virtually no cars and like the tormal a it’s possible to ride all the way down from the top without turning the pedals