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Mont Ventoux: Your Next Great Cycling Achievement
Mont Ventoux - The 'Beast' of Provence 22kms, 1909m, 1600 altimetres! 2 Ascents of Ventoux + 4 Provence Rides 29th July - 5th August 2023 Want to ride a legendary mountain? Want to ride beautiful Pro ...
Monday, 20 February 2023Read more... -
Ride Mallorca's Classic Climbs in one Glorious Week
Sa Calobra, Puig Major, Batalla- Ride them all! 11th - 18th March 2023 18th - 25th March 2023 Want to test your skills on Sa Calobra? Want to ride to the summit of Puig Major? Want to have a Mallorca ...
Tuesday, 21 February 2023Read more... -
Take Your Climbing to the Next Level: Mont Ventoux
6 Provence Rides including 2 Ventoux Ascents & An Unmatched Sense of Achievement Mont Ventoux 22kms, 1909m, 1600 altimetres! Tour de France Legend 29th July - 5th August 2023 Head to Provence, France ...
Tuesday, 31 January 2023Read more... -
Ride Your Way Into the Ventoux Legend
Test Your Limits & Savour Your Achievements 29th July - 5th August 2023 Mont Ventoux (22Kms, 1909m, 1600 altimeters) is the legendary mountain that the Pros respect. Towering above Provence, France, ...
Friday, 23 December 2022Read more... -
Marmotte Alps Sportive- 4 Tour de France Cols, One Glorious Day
Marmotte Alps is Europe's Toughest Alpine Sportive! Ride Glandon (1924m, 20.9 km), Télégraphe (1570m, 11 km), Galibier (2645m, 22 km), Alpe d'Huez (1815m, 13.8 km) in one Glorious Day! 174 km, 5000 a ...
Friday, 23 December 2022Read more... -
6 Reasons to Ride in the French Alps and Beyond!
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Rhône-Alpes regions are located in southeast France. Go there and you’ll find yourself looking at the fantastic, spectacular and beautiful French Alps. The mountain ran ...
Tuesday, 06 December 2022Read more... -
Fantastic Mallorca Cycling Holidays That You Need to Ride!
18th February - 13th May 2023 16th September - 21st October 2023 When you think of perfect cycling, you think of perfect smooth roads, challenging climbs, low traffic, and weather that hovers around ...
Tuesday, 06 December 2022Read more... -
Your Mont Ventoux Cycling Experience Revealed
SportActive Faster, Fitter, Stronger Become a Mont Ventoux Legend Mont Ventoux 22kms, 1600 altimetres! Malaucène & Bédoin Routes Included Sean Kelly - 'Mont Ventoux Should be on your Cycling Bucket L ...
Wednesday, 30 November 2022Read more... -
Ride Puig Major a Brilliant Cycling Challenge, Fantastic Views and Selfie Opportunities!
Mallorca is blessed with things that bring cyclists back to it year after year. Roads are smooth, winding and enticing, the weather is perfect for riding your bike, and the Sierra de Tramuntana Mount ...
Tuesday, 16 August 2022Read more... -
Discover Mallorca’s Epic Road Cycling Climb Sa Calobra
Sa Calobra is arguably Mallorca’s most iconic climb. Made famous by Bradley Wiggins who trained hard on it prior to his 2012 Olympic and Tour de France success, the mountain has been like a Mecca for ...
Saturday, 12 March 2022Read more... -
Am I Good Enough to Ride Marmotte Granfondo Alps?
Marmotte Granfondo Alps is a gruelling one day sportive set in the beautiful and awe inspiring French Alps. Like all great cycling challenges, Marmotte Alps is hard to complete. It is not impossible, ...
Saturday, 12 March 2022Read more... -
Sean Kelly - 'Mont Ventoux Should be on your Cycling Bucket List'
Mont Ventoux is one of the most legendary mountains in cycling. Technically, it is part of the French Alps but the great monolith stands alone towering over the French region of Provence. It has seen ...
Friday, 03 December 2021Read more... -
7 Facts About Cap de Formentor You May Not Know!
Head to Mallorca’s most northern point and eventually, you’ll reach the famous Cap Formentor. Here you’ll be greeted with spectacular views and, if you’ve ridden to reach it, a great sense of achieve ...
Thursday, 11 November 2021Read more... -
Cycling and Touring the French Alps
Without question cycling and touring the French Alps is something everyone should do at least once in their life. It is a beautiful and spectacular part of the planet offering crisp mountain air and ...
Sunday, 04 July 2021Read more... -
Embrace and Ride Les Gorges de la Nesque
Close to ‘The Beast of Provence’, Mont Ventoux is the magnificent canyon of Gorges de la Nesque. Many see this as the second most important canyon in Province after the Gorges de Verdon, but others w ...
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Mallorca Cycling – The Sa Calobra Experience
Sa Calobra or Coll dels Reis in Spanish has become one of the most famous Mallorca cycling climbs. The ride features 26 tightly packed hairpins that come at you thick and fast. The average gradient i ...
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Ride Geneva to Nice. Ride into the Sky
Geneva to Nice over ‘La Route des Grandes Alpes’ is one of the most iconic and best cycling routes in the world. Riding across the French Alps taking in the views, savouring mountain life, and climbi ...
Sunday, 04 July 2021Read more... -
Secure your Entries: Marmotte Alps & M312
Use the M312 to Train for Marmotte Alps! Marmotte Granfondo Alps is your Tour de France Experience. Here you ride famous cols of one of the greatest sporting events in the world. It is considered the ...
Tuesday, 31 December 2019Read more... -
Ride Ventoux – Testing your Limits
Take the Mont Ventoux Challenge "The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering." - Roland Barthes, philosopher ...
Sunday, 04 July 2021Read more... -
Riding the Infamous Bédoin to Mont Ventoux Summit Route
What can I expect when I ride Bédoin to Mont Ventoux summit? Of the three Mont Ventoux routes Bédoin is considered the hardest. This route has an intense gradient heavy section, and thanks to its low ...
Sunday, 04 July 2021Read more... -
7 Facts about Ventoux you may not Know
Mont Ventoux has many secrets Mont Ventoux is famous or should that be infamous for its psychological challenge as well as a physical one. The mountain’s microclimate and barren lunar landscape are w ...
Sunday, 04 July 2021Read more... -
Discover Mallorca’s Amazing Tramuntana Mountains
Serra de Tramuntana Running form northwest to the southwest of the island, the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range is a UNESCO world heritage site. It spans 30% of the island and is about 90 kms long. ...
Sunday, 04 July 2021Read more... -
It’s not too late to Train for our French Cycling Challenges!
Top Training Tips to take on the cols of the Tour de France! Our French Cycling Challenges will test your limits! If you’re wondering if you have the time to train for our French cycling challenges t ...
Sunday, 04 July 2021Read more... -
7 Facts about Col de la Bonette
Col de la Bonette is a Tour de France mountain. It boasts the highest paved road in Europe thanks to the doughnut loop named, Cime de la Bonette which elevates the altitude of this beast to 2802 metr ...
Saturday, 03 July 2021Read more... -
Ride Puig Major and Reach the Highest Point on Mallorca
Mallorca has several fantastic cycling routes and like Cap Formentor and Sa Calobra, Puig Major is one of them. In fact Puig Major, which is part of the Tramuntana mountain range is the second most p ...
Saturday, 03 July 2021Read more... -
Experience True Freedom: Ride La Route des Grandes Alpes
Riding “La Route des Grandes Alpes” or Geneva to Nice is one of cycling’s greatest adventures, and it is one ride you must make before you die. Over six days you will ride eleven alpine passes, cover ...
Saturday, 03 July 2021Read more... -
Four Reasons why you have to Ride the Famous Hairpins of Sa Calobra
Sa Calobra has become extremely famous in cycling circles and it is on many a cyclist’s must ride list. The ride involves climbing from Port de Soller to the top, weaving your way up the many hairpin ...
Monday, 19 November 2018Read more... -
Riding the ‘Shoelaces’ of Montvernier – The Quiet Legend
When we cyclists talk about exciting climbs we tend to talk about challenging cols with steep gradients. Les Lacets de Montvernier which translates to ‘the shoelaces of Montvernier’ is no Ventoux or ...
Wednesday, 16 June 2021Read more... -
To the Lighthouse – The Amazing Places, featured in Cyclist Magazine, Martin and Peter Stuart Visited in Mallorca
If you are a regular reader of Cyclist Magazine then you could not have failed to notice we were featured in The Big Ride section of the September issue. Peter Stuart of Cyclist Magazine rode with Ma ...
Monday, 19 November 2018Read more... -
The Cols of Marmotte Granfondo Alps
Ride Marmotte Granfondo Alps Marmotte Alps is the toughest Alpine sportive in Europe, and every year our heroic SportActive riders take on the challenge and conquer four Tour de France cols in one da ...
Friday, 12 April 2019Read more... -
Lance Armstrong vs. Marco Pantani – A Legendary Ventoux Race
In 2000, one of the most memorable Tour de France stage races took place on Mont Ventoux. The cruel mountain saw Marco Pantani and Lance Armstrong battle it out for the stage win. The battle between ...
Tuesday, 01 February 2022Read more... -
What does it take to Ride the Beast called Mont Ventoux?
"I fought battles here in a past life." Dai Parry, (Cwn Carn Paragon Cycling Club, S. Wales) 2km below Chalet Reynard. Do you have the spirit to conquer The Giant of Provence? In our last blogs we ta ...
Tuesday, 29 June 2021Read more... -
Mont Ventoux – The Challenge the Battle
"The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering." Roland Barthes, French philosopher and bicycle racing fan. Mo ...
Tuesday, 29 June 2021Read more... -
The Riders Mont Ventoux Immortalised
As we saw in our last Ventoux post from 29/1/2016, this is the mountain that defines you as a rider. Micro-climates, cross winds, psychologically draining landscapes, intense gradients, unpredictable ...
Tuesday, 29 June 2021Read more... -
Geneva to Nice - A Journey you Don't Want to Miss
Are you ready to challenge your cycling skills? Take part in a ride over 550 km: the challenge of Geneva to Nice Experience the legendary 'Route Des Grandes Alpes' Top of Col de la Bonette. Behind an ...
Wednesday, 16 June 2021Read more... -
Le Club des Cinglés du Mont-Ventoux
There is a club called "Le Club des Cinglés du Mont-Ventoux", meaning "The club of the mad men from Mont Ventoux". To be part of this club you need to achieve the following : the ascent of the Mont V ...
Friday, 28 May 2021Read more...
