Mount Ventoux heroes
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Were setting up a holiday destination in the next few years where cyclists can stay and do the great routes around the region. The big challenge of Ventoux itself. We aim to service the cyclist's needs including large dinners Avec vin!
That'll be 4 years hence. Just surveiling the land at present!
That'll be 4 years hence. Just surveiling the land at present!
I've never quite understood the attraction of Mont Ventoux.
OK, I don't understand the attraction of riding up a mountain if you're not then going to get to enjoy some epic singletrack on the way back down , but setting that aside, whenever I've watched the Tour go up there, I've always been struck by just how desolate and fking ugly it looks. Surely there must be other equally iconic climbs which are a bit more attractive as well? Or are the views looking off the mountain gorgeous, and it's just looking onto it from a helicopter which is to be avoided?
OK, I don't understand the attraction of riding up a mountain if you're not then going to get to enjoy some epic singletrack on the way back down , but setting that aside, whenever I've watched the Tour go up there, I've always been struck by just how desolate and fking ugly it looks. Surely there must be other equally iconic climbs which are a bit more attractive as well? Or are the views looking off the mountain gorgeous, and it's just looking onto it from a helicopter which is to be avoided?
Kermit power said:
I've never quite understood the attraction of Mont Ventoux.
OK, I don't understand the attraction of riding up a mountain if you're not then going to get to enjoy some epic singletrack on the way back down , but setting that aside, whenever I've watched the Tour go up there, I've always been struck by just how desolate and fking ugly it looks. Surely there must be other equally iconic climbs which are a bit more attractive as well? Or are the views looking off the mountain gorgeous, and it's just looking onto it from a helicopter which is to be avoided?
That is one of the features that makes the climb what it isOK, I don't understand the attraction of riding up a mountain if you're not then going to get to enjoy some epic singletrack on the way back down , but setting that aside, whenever I've watched the Tour go up there, I've always been struck by just how desolate and fking ugly it looks. Surely there must be other equally iconic climbs which are a bit more attractive as well? Or are the views looking off the mountain gorgeous, and it's just looking onto it from a helicopter which is to be avoided?
the views are good as you get up higher, but that moment when you come out of the trees to the 'moon rock' is so stark!
Kermit power said:
I've never quite understood the attraction of Mont Ventoux.
OK, I don't understand the attraction of riding up a mountain if you're not then going to get to enjoy some epic singletrack on the way back down , but setting that aside, whenever I've watched the Tour go up there, I've always been struck by just how desolate and fking ugly it looks. Surely there must be other equally iconic climbs which are a bit more attractive as well? Or are the views looking off the mountain gorgeous, and it's just looking onto it from a helicopter which is to be avoided?
I was looking at it from the A7 at 200kph a couple of weeks ago. It looked Amazing.OK, I don't understand the attraction of riding up a mountain if you're not then going to get to enjoy some epic singletrack on the way back down , but setting that aside, whenever I've watched the Tour go up there, I've always been struck by just how desolate and fking ugly it looks. Surely there must be other equally iconic climbs which are a bit more attractive as well? Or are the views looking off the mountain gorgeous, and it's just looking onto it from a helicopter which is to be avoided?
Few of us from the village had a jaunt to Ventoux four years ago, flew down, had a van and I hired a bike, Ventoux that evening, next day to St Tropez which was a nice century ride. Followed by a charming dinner and a few clarets.
Good times. Tough ride up, 80% of woodland it is only the last bit that is a moonscape. You need to get lucky with the weather too.
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