Tag: Alpe d’Huez

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

2 years 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...

2 years 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...

6 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...

9 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...

9 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 ...

11 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...

11 years ago