Tag: Alpe d’Huez

Is this where the Tour will be won? Shoddy inspects the TDF’s highest bike path

9 months ago 0

Living in the French Alps, you'd think that I'd climbed all the monumental mountain passes that the Tour de France has been routed up and...

10 months ago

Alpe d’Huez is one of those climbs that’s so ingrained in the imagination of cyclists that it comes up in ride bucket lists time and time...

5 years ago

It took 18 stages but the French fans can finally celebrate one of their countrymen winning a stage at the 100th edition of the Tour de F...

8 years ago

After tomorrow, Alpe d'Huez will have been featured as a finishing climb at the Tour de France 28 times. And while it's not the most visu...

8 years ago

We were expecting fireworks yesterday and what we got was a nuclear explosion! I've never seen anything like the spectacle of the crowds ...

10 years ago

As I briefly mentioned in the previous post, we took a ride up Alpe d'Huez yesterday to see what all the fuss was about. This was the fir...

10 years ago