OMG !!!

[Donger]

I have just found a Youtube video file called "Descent from Auris to Alpe d'Heuz" (stet).

Sorry, I couldn't get the link to work on this post, but it is possibly the greatest cycling video anywhere on the interweb nettything. Watch it all if you dare.

If you are squeamish about heights or anyone in your entire family tree has ever suffered from vertigo, do not look!

I have spent years seeking out the most dramatic mountain roads in Western Europe and driving them. This one looks more like something from that TV series, "The World's Most Dangerous Roads", and you would swear it is in the Himalayas or the Andes.

I was researching a few mountain passes in the French Alps for next year's holiday with the bike, and I couldn't believe that there was anywhere from where you could descend to Alpe d'Huez. Looks simply stunning.

 

[andyfraser]

That was awesome and I hate heights. Try this for scary though:
View: http://youtu.be/yCYZZPwJr_c
It's not cycling related, just very scary.

 

[wisdom]

That is really scary.

 

[derrick]

Would this be the one?


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU0tC1UN4dQ

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

This the one? Stunning views and a long way down in some places with not much to stop you going over the edge :

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxBzx6SYEeU

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Say cheese

 

[Donger]

Would this be the one?


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU0tC1UN4dQ

No. Nice, but way too tame. You need to enter the exact Youtube video name in bold in the original post,, i.e. "Descent from Auris to Alpe d'Heuz" (with Huez spelled wrongly). I've never seen a vertical drop like it, and the concrete crash barriers are way too low to stop a cyclist from going over. I would hate to meet anyone coming the other way. When they stopped to lean over the edge for a photo, I almost had palpitations. The scariest road I've ever seen ...... and I've driven through roadworks on the Grimsel Pass with my wheel right on the edge; have driven the Furka Pass after dark in low cloud, and have gone up to Hitler's "Eagle's Nest" at Berchtesgaden in a bus driven by a madman. They were all pretty invigorating. This is something else entirely.

 

[Donger]

This the one? Stunning views and a long way down in some places with not much to stop you going over the edge :

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxBzx6SYEeU

That's the one! Don't know about you, but I genuinely feared for the guy with the headcam every time he screwed his head round for a view and then found someone slowing down or stopping in front of him.

 

[cyberknight]

 

[steveindenmark]

Thats a fast descent but not enough hairpins for a mountain road.

I liked Stevio in Italy which has it all. A hard side and an easier side. And lots and lots of hairpins.

About the 2.10 mark gives you an idea of the hairpins but there are many more that you cannot see on the clip.


View: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iIraLxVF4DI

 

[Davos87]

That's horrendous!
The way those guys failed to say hi or acknowledge fellow cyclists passing by coming up the other way.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Just saw these -> http://imgur.com/a/mD6pZ I think I need to go for a little lay down

 

[Donger]

Just saw these -> http://imgur.com/a/mD6pZ I think I need to go for a little lay down

The second one (with the bikes) makes your blood run cold. Jeez!

 

[Donger]

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Can I come out from behind the sofa yet?

 

[vernon]

The second one (with the bikes) makes your blood run cold. Jeez!

That will never happen again. The rock shelf is now at sea level.