Cycling up to turn 16 (turn 21 being the last hairpin turn at the bottom of Alpe d’Huez) then veering right heading up to Auris with spectacular/sweeping views of the valley and le Bourg d’Oisans where my apartment was, then heading on towards Deux Alpes ski station. 40 miles on the day with 5,459 feet of climbing.
You speak English yes I am English beautiful huh yeah I think it just gets better yeah I can take a photo of you if you want uh okay why not I can do the same for you okay EXC there thank you want to get one of you
Guys yeah should we get a photo uh why not good good temperature yeah it’s not too hot yeah they’re tell get 4° heat W I know it’s going to get warmer coming up you want the uh the lake in there yeah that would be great thank you
A little bit get the lake between you right there thanks it’s flashing something oh it says got it okay lovely thank you very much yeah absolutely have a you know there’s the uh the road closed up the outdoors tomorrow for cyclists uh I did it a couple days ago
Why are they closing it every Tuesday morning they will close a different route for construction and repairs uh no no cars cyclist can ride up no cars yeah so from 9 to 11: tomorrow no cars yeah so if you fancied it it’s out is yeah the following Tuesday is the colder onon on
Out that way if you the good news is the cars aren’t that bad but it is nicer without them yeah uh I don’t know I mean they have very strict rules about you if you knock a cyclist off good chance of getting to prison but I live in Italy and I think
They give you a bonus for knocking a cyclist down oh dear okay it’s unbelievable it’s Italians have a LoveHate relationship they love to watch their there people on TV yeah but don’t get on the road while they’re driving it’s unbelievable oh well well he’s going to he’s going to wipe the floor
With me tomorrow he’s I’m expecting him to go probably about under under an hour yeah under an hour probably so you’ve done it before yeah I got it before last year he did an hour of five so nice he’s 13 this year give me some Knuckles and
He’s he’s dropping me on every climb basically so you’re 13 yeah I’m 13 good you have ambitions um yeah I want to be a try athlete when I’m older ah be a Tom everything just be good that’s that’s quite ous yeah that is but he’s good for sure
Yeah okay I may see you you guys are probably catching me yeah you too K yeah to okay good luck tomorrow I’ll be delighted if I can scrap under an hour I uh I did it um two days ago at an hour and 20 um
Respect I 65 years old oh wow okay yeah um last year a little slower but I had a different cassette in the back okay yeah not geared for climbing yeah I’m on 3428 and that’s just about okay but if you if you crack yeah I was
On 28 slow grind I had an 1128 last year so I went to 1132 okay yeah huge difference yeah and the compact at the front I mean can you imagine in the old days you know they they used to ride up that on 42 23 you know 23 was their climbing
Cassette their black cassette was a 21 and their time FR cassette was a 19 I’m going to stop here and get a video of the valley okay have a great ride thank you you have a okay bye ciao Bye about this road and this Valley and that road across there b one quick one and then they can be a carrot For Me Maybe Bella looks like a track over there almost like a go-kart track or something all right ready set go okay let 15 years old trying to break
An out wow good for him that’s incredible he had the little tan lines on his little legs a seasoned cyclist try it’s tough enough making money as a Pro Cycle I don’t know if it’s possible how’s that Tri so I was there caring getting narrow battery should be going any minute I have a 64 GB card but I have a 128 arriving tomorrow should be able to uh get a lot of the ride might need another battery you think about that 11% 6.7 milph Wo I may have let them get too far ahead here’s the tunnel 100 yard no biggie it is just a sheer drop off so tomorrow no cars out the West on to do a vertical Video for Scraba d211 Highway down there the raan river the valley B s huge climb okay whoa popped a wheelie with one leg that’s funny so nice it’s probably only 5% here maybe even four GPS has to catch up after these tunnels That’s nice father and son 7 [Laughter] S7 that was a a large buzzing bug that bounced off my chin and my jersey [Laughter] closed that’s 4% here I believe it hey we’re going to actually go a little downhill here wow there’s homes top over there and home’s out here