All posts by Dave Brown

This year’s trip is organised!

We’re off to see the Tour de France on the epic leg to the summit of Mont Ventoux. The lads will ride up in advance and be up there hopefully to see Chris Froome triumph … Read more

I’ve now added the gallery for this years tour.

You can view it below. It can also be seen from the Haute Route Pyrenees 2015 page and the Gallery page.

Gallery

Time to go sight seeing today and the best way is by the open top bus. After all they’ll take you to the best sights and you can hop on and off, so after morning coffees we set off….

We … Read more

Only a short 20 mile hop to Barcelona today, what could possibly go wrong?…

Problem is all major routes in are motorways with tunnels so the lads have to try and pick their way through on A or B roads … Read more

As we wind down the really hard cycling on the home stretch to Barcelona we nevertheless have now to avoid the seriously long tunnels that begin after Ripoll around the town of Vic. This means some long detours along tricky … Read more

A lovely sunny day as we leave Andorra and begin the long slow climb out and over into France via the Col de Puymorens. Yesterday’s rough ride has taken it’s toll on Steve’s tyres a gets a blow out as … Read more

A good night’s sleep was had by all in the hotel and we are fresh for the start of the next challenge and this should be an interesting one…

We are to cross through to Andorra from Spain via the … Read more

After last night’s downpours we wake to dull overcast weather with the clouds down low and we can’t see the mountains all around. The tents are soaking but fortunately it’s not raining as we unpitch. But the tents are wet … Read more

Another beautiful day in Argeles and we’re up with birds to unpitch and get ready for the legendary Col du Tourmalet, one of the famous climbs of the Tour de France. Of course we’ve done it before, 4 years ago, … Read more

It’s gonna be a hot one today with the heat building as we unpitch the tents and set off for the small village of Escot which is the start of the Col de Marie Blanc.

There are some tricky turn … Read more