Biff600
Veteran
Here is a view of the mountains of Cambridgeshire !!!
Yup, that's about as good as it gets !!
Yup, that's about as good as it gets !!
Photos atop your favourite climbs
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Donger
Convoi Exceptionnel
- Location
- Quedgeley, Glos.
Bealach na Ba, Applecross Peninsula, Scotland 2014.
622 metres straight up from sea level. Can't wait to do it again next year.
622 metres straight up from sea level. Can't wait to do it again next year.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
It looks great, my mate loved it when he did it, and it is on my list, but ...
... you just TMNd yourself, which is probably a first!
Donger
Convoi Exceptionnel
- Location
- Quedgeley, Glos.
Memory of a goldfish!!It looks great, my mate loved it when he did it, and it is on my list, but ...
... you just TMNd yourself, which is probably a first!
Haitch
Flim Flormally
- Location
- Netherlands
Racing roadkill
Guru
A small hillock near Nepal.
Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
- Location
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
Where's the bike?
Its a blue one and he's holding it above his head .Where's the bike?
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
Ditto.
Proto
Legendary Member
- Location
- East Devon/West Dorset
Descending Tourmalet. Probably my toughest ever day on a bike. Soaking wet. It was close to zero at the top (it was July!), brakes useless, hands numb and frozen solid. Epic.
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
Damn, can't see the image, as my work proxy blocks Farcebook.Descending Tourmalet. Probably my toughest ever day on a bike. Soaking wet. It was close to zero at the top (it was July!), brakes useless, hands numb and frozen solid. Epic.
I thoroughly enjoyed my ride up the Tourmalet week before last. It was warmer, though, with temperatures in the 20s.
briantrumpet
Legendary Member
- Location
- Devon & Die
From back in August - Col de la Bonette, and Cime de la Bonette at 2802m. Well worth a detour south from the possibly more famous Alpine cols. (More on my occasional blog https://unanglaisendiois.wordpress.com/2016/08/02/col-de-la-bonette/)
In this photo, you can just see the road snaking down in the distance. Hardly anyone goes down that side, and what you can see is only half the descent to St Etienne. So we went down there (1700m of descent) for lunch, then came back up. A 70-mile, 10,800ft-of-climbing day.
But stunning, even if you only go to the Cime, and turn round to return to Jausiers.
In this photo, you can just see the road snaking down in the distance. Hardly anyone goes down that side, and what you can see is only half the descent to St Etienne. So we went down there (1700m of descent) for lunch, then came back up. A 70-mile, 10,800ft-of-climbing day.
But stunning, even if you only go to the Cime, and turn round to return to Jausiers.
Chapeau! PdV was originally on my itinerary for this year but I started too late in the year, a 1600km detour through Spain in June would have ended badly. It's still on the list
A truly magnificent climb. I'd certainly rate it up there with anything in the Pyrenees.
Did it twice last year, in various states of distress. First time, in April, quite content to pace myself up it until the ramp before the switchbacks.
Much worse the second time round, in September, not sure why. Definitely nothing to do with accidentally breaking away from literally everyone on the very first climb of the day...
