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Contemporary cycling photography of the great European cycling climbs. Including iconic climbs of the Pyrenees, the Dolomites, the French, Italian, and Swiss Alps. From the Passo Stelvio to the Col du Galibier, the Col du Tourmalet to the Col d'Aubisque. These contemporary photography prints capture the fundamental essence, beauty, and grandeur of these famous mountain climbs, featured every year in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia.
It's important to understand that cyclists are fanatics. It comes with the territory. Don't expect them to be normal. For a bike rider, cycling 27km. up a mountain for no apparent reason is normal. They do it for the challenge. They do it because they can, for the thrill of it, for the kudos, for the buzz. For the sense of elation that comes with being in the middle of a landscape so impressive it takes your breath away. To know without a shadow of a doubt, this is a good day, a great day, a day to remember, a day that counts.
Hundreds of thousands of cyclists heed the call of the mountains and head for the French Alps every year, rain or shine. For the famous cycling climbs of the Col de la Colombière in the north to Alpe d'Huez, the Col du Galibier, and the Col de la Bonette in the south. Searching for something more valuable than money, searching for a good day, a great day, a day to remember, a day that counts.
Outside is free
The French Alps - View
Welcome to the Dolomites, one of the most beautiful places on earth and a cycling paradise. This is a place of sociability, nourishment, hospitality, enrichment, and the recharging of the soul. Rejuvenation of your molecular structure is currently in progress - Your operating system is upgrading - You will reboot shortly.
Go ride it. Tell me I'm wrong.
The Dolomites - ViewThe French Pyrenees are a gift for cyclists. They are a cycling playground, a place to escape from the hustle and bustle, get on a bike, reconnect with nature, and ride. Studies have shown that subjects perform 50% better on problem-solving tasks after three days of active wilderness exposure. Nature turns off the stress responses, lowers cortisol levels, lowers heart rate and blood pressure, and improves immune response.
That is some gift
The Italian and Swiss Alps are tough guy - tough girl territory. Here is where the men get sorted from the boys, the women from the girls. These climbs are often on a different scale, either in altitude, or length, sometimes remoteness, or all of the above.
Due to the immense scale of the mountains - A1 is the recommended print size.
Italian and Swiss Alps - ViewMany of the Tour de France's most famous and repeatedly used climbs, from the French Alps and Pyrenees, are included.
It's challenging to find any climb that has yet to feature in the Tour de France at one time or another. Yet many are used year after year for all sorts of different reasons.
Show me a mountain - any mountain - and I’ll show you any number of riders willing to race up it - just for fun - just for the hell of it - It’s what we do - It’s who we are. These pictures are for the ones who can’t sit still. For the undefeated. The unbowed. The indestructible. The ones who’d rather bleed on the climb than rust on the sofa.
You've been there - lived it - climbed it - felt it - earned it - Put it on the wall and relive it - every day. They're more than dramatic pictures to adorn your walls.
