Hautacam Morning
View of Hautacam from Saint-Savin this morning. Tour de France will be up there later today.
Tour de France Start List
Tour de France Start List Tour de France Start List for 2014. There will be 22 teams of 9 riders each. This Tour de France Start List is not yet complete. Updated ast July 2014. Team Sky – Facebook – Twitter 1.FROOME Christopher 2.EISEL Bernhard 3.KIRYIENKA Vasil 4.LOPEZ David 5.NIEVE Mikel 6.PATE Danny 7.PORTE Richie 8.THOMAS Geraint…
La Route du Sud 2014
La Route du Sud 2014 Stage 1: Lectoure to Payolle-Campan (171.7km) 1 HERRADA LOPEZ Jesus (Movistar Team) 2 VALVERDE Alejandro (Movistar Team) 3 BOUHANNI Nacer (FDJ.fr ) 4 ROCHE Nicolas (Tinkoff-Saxo) 5 HARDY Romain (Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 6 ROGERS Michael (Tinkoff-Saxo) 7 DI GREGORIO Rémy (Team La Pomme Marseille) 8 BOSWELL Ian (Team Sky) 9…
Route du Sud Start List 2014
Route du Sud Start List 2014 Start List for the 2014 Route du Sud AG2R La Mondiale 1.DOMONT Axel 2.DUMOULIN Samuel 3.KADRI Blel 4.DUPONT Hubert 5.MONTAGUTI Matteo 6.BéRARD Julien 7.VUILLERMOZ Alexis 8.DANIEL Maxime Movistar Team 11.GUTIéRREZ Iván 12.HERRADA Jesús 13.MALORI Adriano 14.SüTTERLIN Jasha 15.CASTROVIEJO Jonathan 16.SZMYD Sylwester 17.VISCONTI Giovanni 18.VALVERDE Alejandro Team Sky 21.BOASSON HAGEN…
Montée du Géant 2014
Montée du Géant Montée du Géant – Rise of the Giant. Le Géant du Tourmalet is the statue on top of the col which is removed in October for safe keeping and returned to the summit in June each year. This year it will be on Saturday 7th June from Bagnéres de Bigorre. Depart is…
Cyclotouring France
Cyclotouring France Donna and Milton from Sydney, Australia. They left Pyrenees Cycling Lodge this morning for a month long tour of southern France. Bon Route!
FDJ at Hautacam
FDJ at Hautacam I planned to catch the Francaise des Jeux team this afternoon on Hautacam. My guess was that they would be starting the climb about 14:00. I was wrong! They were finished before that. Anyway I caught then right at the top and got a few photos. Hope to catch up with them again…
Francaise des Jeux
Francaise des Jeux The French World Tour team, Francaise des Jeux, are in the Pyrenees this week for some mountain training in preparation for Le Tour de France. The team which is sponsored by the French national lottery, www.fdj.fr will be built around Thibaut Pinot. Pinot is a very talented rider. He is 24 years old and many…
Eugene Christophe Story
Tour de France TV presenter and producer, Gérard Holtz has been in the area for the past 2 weeks filming a TV programme about the events of the 1913 Tour de France. The Eugene Christophe story is one of the great legends of Le Tour de France. Locations have included Hautacam and Saint-Savin, it will…
Hautacam Photos
Hautacam Photos A few photos from hautacam today.
Hautacam No 27
Ride to Hautacam Today I cycled to the Tour de France stage finish for the 27th time this year. It was a cool morning so I waited for the day to warmup. By the time I went out at 15:00 it was very hot and humid, exactly the weather I hate most. It made it…
Alberto Contador Rides Hautacam
Alberto Contador Alberto Contador has put an end to a very successful spring season but has already started the preparation of his major target: the Tour de France. Last week he made a reconnaissance of the decisive stages in the Pyrenees and the final long time trial of the French race. Last week Alberto Contador…