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Cycling Col de Pailhères, Ax-3-Domaines and Col du Chioula This is another ride starting and finishing in the wonderful little village of Comus. The out-the-door riding in this part of the [...]

Cycling Col du Pradel and Col du Marmare from Comus This ride began in Comus, where I was staying at the family home of a friend and neighbor of mine from Boulder. Comus is situated in the Aude, [...]

When I saw the opening of the 2013 Tour de France, which had the first three stages in Corsica, I knew where my next cycling adventure was headed. That trip happened one year later and the smell [...]

Great news:: Warren got a new passport. With that we jetted out of Paris and headed for the Belgian border, for third stage of the 2010 TdF, which covered several sections the famed cobbled [...]

Today we climbed into the morning fog, to tackle Luz Ardiden at 1715 meters, which is an HC climb that has seen been featured in the TdF 8 times. It is perhaps most famous from the crash that [...]

Today we planned on riding to Spain via the col du Tentes. The day started out warm and humid. Here you can see the steam wafting off Warren. We had the road almost to ourselves. Passing only two [...]

We wanted to ride the Col du Soulor and the Col d’Aubisque but we were totally socked in with heavy fog. We did make it to the top of the Col Du Soulor, however. Along the way passing a [...]

We have landed in Pierrefitte-Nestalas, in the High Pyrenees. Below is basecamp. Such was the trauma of jaunt through Marseille that we decided to grind away the memory by tackling the Tourmalet, [...]

This is the last day in the Alps and the last day at the Hotel Cassini. We today we climbed road only the locals would know about. It dead ends behind the mountains of Les Deux Alps ski station. [...]

This mountain has been used 15 times in the Tour de France, with the stage most often ending up Alp d’Huez. We approached the summit from Le Bourg-d’Oisans. The views along the way [...]

A nice warm day and a hot climb of the Telegraph turned into a lightning, rain and hail drenched day on the Galibier. I stopped to buy a tube at ski village town below the Galibier and Warren [...]

Every great champion must eventually face the Alpe d’Huez in a race. Each of its 21 switchbacks has the name of a past Tour stage winner posted, as well as the height to go to the 3100 foot [...]