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Late Final Extra pics from TdeC
This webpage sets out a highly 'cost and time effective' two week
Daily Climbs Schedule
to scale Les Montagnes to Les Cols and
Les Sommets in
Les
Rhone-Alpes
and
Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur,
where riders know -
* the break-up of their costs and pay them directly with
no 'middle man';
* which famous climbs they will conquer on what days,
over 14 days of continuous climbing, with one day travel (on
Tues, 4 Sept) by train from Paris
to Lyon to Chambery, and
early
on Wed, 5 Sept,
drive a rented
'people mover' 74km to our
1st Base Camp
to commence
our
14 days Daily Climbs Schedule,
followed by three days travel
afterwards to fly out from Paris on or near Sat 22 Sept - open worksheet '19 days - 18 nights schedule'
in Excel file 'Distances_Gradients_$Costs.xlsx'
*
*
Committed Climb Participants provides
flight tickets and check-in luggage allowance for the five who have booked their flights thus far:
David
aka Maverick is renting a good bike for a tad less than 30Euro a day
in both
Saint Jean de Maurienne
and Bourg-d’Oisans.
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*
AUD$177 for train from Avignon back to Paris.
*
AUD$133 (€106) for your share to
hire
in Chambery a
seven seater people-mover to get bikes and riders to ride starts and
drop-off at Avignon 15 days later.
*
AUD$2,380
for hotel accommodation twin share,
meals, alcohol for 14 days at AUD$170 (€125) per day OR camp in your tent to
reduce your daily costs to AUD$130 which would agg. over 14 days to $560
reduction,
but increase your contribution to the people-mover rental by
30%, as campers would count as 1.30 persons.
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Click on above team jersey:
'Tour
de Conquer - Sept 2012'
France cotton rugby jersey |
Au Geography:
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Les
Rhone-Alpes
[low RHS of green map
»»»]
are to the east of France and on the Swiss, Italian borders. The highest
peak is the Mont Blanc at 4,808 metres.
The region of
Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
is the southern part of 'Le Alps' on the green map
»»».
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Les Pyrénéés [low
LHS of green map
»»»] are in the south of France and borders with
Spain, stretching from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean coasts, with many
Cols (passes) over 3,000 metres.
The
Rhone-Alpes
(includes
two
Hors Catégorie KOM Climbs namely
Alpe dHuez
and
Col du Galibier
)
are only 150km from
Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur which
includes three climbs to Le Sommet of
Mont Ventoux - two ascents are
Hors Catégorie.
Alas, the
Pyrenees
where the famed -
* 19km
Col Du Tourmalet - Luz Saint Sauveur (ave 7.4%);
* 17.2km
Col du Tourmalet - Sainte Marie de Campan (also ave 7.4%);
and
* 18.5km
Superbagnères (ave
6.3%) which
Bank Teller climbed in 2001,
are too remote to incorporate in a two week visit, unless climbers
change camps four times, and use up precious days in the second week to travel to
the
Midi-Pyrenees and forego some climbs in
Provence.
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George P aka
Englishman
purchased a
Van Nicholas titanium road bike
in July 2010 whilst cycling in
Europe for a lot less than if he'd bought it in Australia -
didn't have to pay 20% VAT.
Van Nicholas website
lists two distributors in France, one is
Cycle Passieu
2 Place Montcalm, Nimes
30000
which is only 88km from
Sault
where we are staying in Provence, so we might ride in the Provence
Region prior to the Rhone Alps.
Van Nicholas also
sells its Custom Bikes Online
which might
enable the bike to be posted to
Sault
or
Saint Jean de Maurienne
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Some of the afore-mentioned burgeoning band of Muggaccinos’
cyclists who have already conquered Les Cols in Europe are factoring in a return to the Southwest of France in Aug 2013 to, après
much ‘huffing and puffing’, proudly gaze down from Les Sommets
of famous Montagnes and Cols amongst the
273 Cols in the
Midi-Pyrenees, prominently including the two assents to
the revered
Col du Tourmalet. And climb the Famous
Stelvio and Mortirolo Pass
in the Italian Alps in 2014.
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Below is your 1st French lesson:
The hill : la
coline The mountain : la montagne
The pass : le col
The ridge : l'arête
The valley : la vallée
The summit : le sommet
Finish line: arrivée
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