Alpe d’Huez - Black & White

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Alpe d’Huez - Black & White

One of the top climbs of the Tour de France. The average percentage of Alpe d'Huez is quite high at 8.1% with a length of 13.2 km and 1,071m. of climbing. But, isn't on paper at least, one of the toughest climbs. However, what Alpe d'Huez lacks in altitude and length is made up for in intensity. The climb is full-on from the bottom to the top with very little respite from the gradient or the heat bouncing off the south facing rock-lined road. See you there for the 2018 Tour de France.

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Col d'Aspin - Black and White

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Col d'Aspin - Black and White

Just after sunrise on the Col d'Aspin and the sun is starting to evaporate the clouds, that for a while at least cover these Pyrenean mountains. Is this not heaven?

Around halfway up the climb, the road turns around this little hilltop almost back on itself before continuing its uphill trajectory

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Col de I’Iseran - Black & White

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Col de I’Iseran - Black & White

The Col de I’Iseran, at 2,764m. is the highest paved pass in the Alps, and not for the faint-hearted. Climbing all the way up here, and just as importantly, getting all the way back down again is a serious business. But what you get in return is breathtakingly beautiful, awe-inspiring, and scary all at the same time. This is the big daddy of the great cycling road climbs. Many climb the north side, up through Val-d'Isere, but the southern climb is where the real wild grandeur lies. As close to raw nature as you will find anywhere in these mountains. Nothing surpasses the Col de I'lseran, nothing comes even close.

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Col de I’Iseran - The Storm - Black & White

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Col de I’Iseran - The Storm - Black & White

My first exposure to the Col de I'Iseran was late one summers evening, coming up from Val-d'Isere. The sun was out the sky was blue, there wasn't a cloud to spoil the view. That changed as quickly as the flick of a light switch. A storm rolled in as if from nowhere, black clouds filled the sky, the temperature dropped like a stone and it started to snow. Everyone struggled to get down the mountain road in torrential rain, sleet, and snow. No guard rails, a solid rock face to one side, a 600-foot drop on the other, in what was now virtually night with almost zero visibility. I mean, come on, what's not to like?

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Col de la Croix de Fer - Black & White

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Col de la Croix de Fer - Black & White

Climbing the Col de la Croix de Fer gives you a 360-degree view of the best alpine landscape there is. It's a place of purity, of beauty, high up on what feels like the roof of the world. You will never forget the day you rode up here until the day you die, and maybe not even then!

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Col du Galibier - Black & White

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Col du Galibier - Black & White

Climbing the Col du Galibier from the North in something like an hour and a half, or two hours would be considered reasonable. Warren Barguil tops the Strava leaderboard when he went up the Galibier during the 2017 Tour de France like a steam train in a little over 48 minutes. Humbling. I have witnessed greatness with my own eyes. If Warren Barguil doesn't win the Tour de France one day I will eat my hat.

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Col du Galibier - Tour de France - Black & White

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Col du Galibier - Tour de France - Black & White

As well as one of the highest roads in the French Alps, the Col du Galibier is a natural amphitheatre high up in the Alps. Suitable for tens of thousands of cycling fans, and the gods of cycling themselves, to watch their heroes fight out the battle of Le Tour on the most spectacular stage in all the world.

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Col du Galibier Horseshoe - Black & White

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Col du Galibier Horseshoe - Black & White

The Col du Galibier, a classic of Le Tour de France. Steeped in cycling history and folklore, forever associated with Merckx, Coppi and all the greats of the Peloton. You don't have to be a 'great' to ride up here, but it does help. Even if you aren't a 'great' when you start you will feel like one when you're done because you will have earned the right.

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Col du Glandon - Black & White

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Col du Glandon - Black & White

The Col du Glandon is one of the most beautiful climbs in the French Alps. From the tree-lined start to the open top hairpin heaven finish, it's quiet, peaceful, and gets you so close to nature you can taste it.

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Col du Lautaret - Black & White

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Col du Lautaret - Black & White

Often ignored because of its location below the Col du Galibier, the Col du Lautaret is still a huge climb. Also, unlike its famous neighbour, it's warm in comparison, with cafes and cakes. Is this paradise or what?

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Cormet de Roselend - Black & White

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Cormet de Roselend - Black & White

One of the most staggeringly beautiful cycling landscapes you will ever find anywhere in the world. I have nothing more to say, the picture says it all. My only question is how do I get to live in such a wonderful place? Coming soon in the 2018 Tour de France.

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High on the Galibier - Black & White

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High on the Galibier - Black & White

It's ironic that the sport of cycling, especially stage races like the Tour de France, is one of the fastest moving of all sports yet requires its fans to sit still in the same place for hours, days, or even a week, often in extreme conditions just to catch a glimpse of the action. 

You might start out with a picnic blanket and a few bottles of wine but if you're serious about being a cycling fan you're going to need more than that. A lot more than that. What starts as a fun day out can, and does, quickly turn into first, a hobby, then a calling, and finally a lifestyle. Tour de France fans are professionals, full time and dedicated, and have the gear to prove it. 

The closer to any of the Tour de France stage high points the number of campervans known affectionally as "Snails" increase significantly as if drawn by some strange power. From the bottom to the top of the Col du Galibier is approximately 17km, come race day there had to have been 5,000 snails on the mountain. Is that a record?

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Mont Ventoux - Black and White

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Mont Ventoux - Black and White

Unlike many other of the great cycling climbs of the Tour de France, the roads leading up the Ventoux don't really go anywhere other than down the other side, making it a haven for cyclists.
The Tom Simpson memorial less than a kilometre from the top on the south side removes any remaining doubt that this mountain belongs to us

The upper slopes are devoid of trees or vegetation, leaving a moonscape which is simultaneously desolate and breathtakingly beautiful

The climb from Malaucène is in theory at least as difficult as the Bédoin route with some very steep sections up to 12%+, but these sections are followed by much easier parts of 2-5% which allow a touring cyclist to rest in a way a racing cyclist would not but very low gearing is essential. In addition, the road is wide for most of the climb, well surfaced and with a marked cycling lane at the side and therefore much safer than the Bédoin climb. There is a small campsite at around 1400m.

The descent to Bédoin can be hazardous — narrow, bumpy and be carrying heavy traffic on weekends, including racing cyclists. Sault is much more gentle after Chalet Reynard, where it leaves the Bédoin route, and extremely pretty. The Malaucène descent has very steep sections, but good surfaces and traffic are not an issue, as the road is wide with good sight-lines and superb views. Wikipedia

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Port de Pailhères - Black & White

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Port de Pailhères - Black and White

The clouds that roll across the mountains of the Pyrenees seem to have a life of their own. They can come out of nowhere with a speed that's scary and disappear almost as fast

On a good day, this is one of the most beautiful of climbs. On a not so good day, it's even better. Still beautiful, but with a touch of the magical, you don't see everything of the surrounding scenery, just what the clouds will allow. Which could be said for any climb of the Pyrenees

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St. Gotthard Pass - Black & White

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St. Gotthard Pass - Black & White

The Vintage Road. Most of the St. Gotthard Pass is paved with granite cobbles, smaller cobbles than Flanders, but cobbles none the less. Ok going up, not so much fun going down. But with the real advantage of clearing the motorcycles that plague these roads. With a new road tunnel bypassing the original road entirely, you have the climb almost to yourself, apart from the other crazy cyclists climbing this piece of history. Time to dust off that 1970's Claud Butler or Mercian, and hit the vintage road.

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Stelvio Pass - Black & White

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Stelvio Pass - Black & White

The Stelvio Pass is a mountain pass in northern Italy, at an elevation of 2,757 m (9,045 ft) above sea level. It is the highest paved mountain pass in the Eastern Alps, and the second highest in the Alps, just 13m. below France's Col de l'Iseran (2,770 m).

The original road was built in 1820–25 by the Austrian Empire to connect the former Austrian province of Lombardy with the rest of Austria, covering a climb of 1,871m. The engineer and project manager were Carlo Donegani (1775–1845). Since then the route has changed very little, with it's seventy-five or eighty-eight hairpin turns, depending on how you count them. 48 of them on the northern side are numbered with stones.

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Stelvio Pass - Stairway to Heaven - Black & White

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Stelvio Pass - Stairway to Heaven - Black & White

Read all the technical statistics about the Stelvio Pass you want, but nothing prepares you for the emotional reality. It's crazy, like finding Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. You stand agog and find yourself thinking, Wow! the stairway to heaven, it really does exist! The entire pass is surreal, like a Holywood film set of an imagined mountain pass, but this is for real. The closer to the top, the more surreal it becomes.

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The Stelvio - Black & White

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The Stelvio - Black & White

One of the truly great climbs in cycling and one of the great mountain passes of Europe and the world. Nothing compares to The Stelvio for drama and sheer gobsmacking wonder at it all. This isn't about getting close to nature, this is being immersed in it up to your neck. 

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The Stelvio Road - Black & White

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The Stelvio Road - Black & White

The climb from the town of Bormio to the top of the Stelvio Pass includes 7 tunnels or galleries, located between kilometres 7 and 10. Some of them can be dark, wet and quite dangerous. All are interesting and add another layer to the uniqueness of this extraordinary place.

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