They're in the process of setting these up here I think, so quite new. I had a look on osm and at least some places in SH seem to have some kind of numbered node system too.
Those are great, but somehow all the cans that i am buying now seem to come with their own "zip". Haven't used the opener in a good while.
Sleeping pad shnozzle bags (pump sacks).
Insufficient or no bike lights are no main reason for crashes with bicycles. More than 80% of crashes happen in full daylight, about 10% of people ride with insufficient or no lights, that makes max 2% of crashes that happen due to insufficient lights, that is if the reason in these 2% was actually the insufficient lights and not something else. Numbers for Germany.
Maybe it's a nice light for some people, but I doubt this would have a significant effect on actual safety.
Thanks for the update!
You can just roll back, no force needed :) lots of people ride one way up and down. Or if you're north of those passes you could also do a round like Bonette, then down via col de moutiers (gravel) then continue to descend the lower part of cayolle ramp, like this. I'm sure it would be an incredible day, take your time, don't power yourself out at the bottom, have low gears and bring something to eat and sugary snacks. Amazing stuff.
As for a bikepacking tour i think you should plan riding a route des grandes alpes variants for your next holidays, and bring your drone too :) Lots of campsites on the way, no need to wild camp. But thunderstorm high up is scary shit.
Nice videos of great looking places!
Yeah, you absolutely should, or col de la cayolle, also beautiful, less high but mellow climb from Barcelonette.
Cayolle
Or col d'allos, it is currently closed so you get to cycle it traffic free, apart some other cyclists (construction is only between the pass and La Foux, but it is ridable with care).
Oh man, i am envious of your location, what a place the mercantour is.
Great info, nice to meet you too.
Or maybe everybody should breathe through their pants, calm down a bit, share the road, that kinda stuff.
Was wondering how it would be to live f.e. in Die. I liked the hippy vibe and is really nicely located between vercors and provence. Have you always lived there?
Passed by this amazing water wheel some time ago, just spinning along in this little river. Was such a nice find, i loved it.
I had posted this photo a while ago in the birding community, thought it would fit in well here too. The robin in the rain made me think of it 😁
Horse looking at out-of-fashion tech
Personally i like them quite a bit, the small gear steps, i am using the simultaneous shifting like front 1 up, rear 1 down a lot to find myself in the best cadence.
I know people being happy with their switch over to 1x setups, but tbh i don't see myself doing that at all. I guess 2x, but i wonder how you would get to the small steps, like do you do something like front 1 up, rear 3(?) down, or just get used to the bigger steps?
Do you think 3x drivetrains will ever make a comeback or are they fading out for good?
This is a photo from two years ago, i stood there for a good minute wondering how the hell and why this weird cycle path was there. It is in southern France, on the climb to Col d'Ecre, bit north of Nice.
Take a guess, i finally fully understand.
So after the Pyrenees i kept cris crossing around France, bit of Cevennes, Provence, Verdon, Haute Alpes, back to Provence, Vercors, Chartreuse, Jura then to Freibug to take a train home. Title picture is taken on the Montagne de Lure, Mont Ventoux' little brother close to Sisteron.
Gorge du Tarn in the Cevennes. I was getting sick here again
Riding out of Gorges du Verdon to Castellane
On the descend of the Col de la Sinne, looking onto the village Ilonse
This is not some gravel track but the still closed Col d'Allos on my way back south after riding Bonette. Nobody around but two roadies.
Riding the prealpes, from Digne-les-Bains to Sisteron via St Geniez, very nice.
Vercors mountains look awesome, picture taken close to Die
Riding out of Vercors down to Grenoble
After Grenoble i rode through Chartreuse mountain range then down to the Lac du Bourget towards Jura
Second to last day, in french Jura, after that i rode to Freiburg to take a train home
Route of France section Part 1, Perpignan - Barême and Part 2, Barême - Freiburg
When i went onto my first solo cycle trip some years ago (from germany to marseille, france), my coworkers joked that i should ride mont ventoux. I had no idea what mont ventoux was, but read it up. On that trip i happened to cycle around this mythical mountain, looked awesome, but i never seriously considered going up ever.
On two more cycle trips i cycled around mont ventoux on different routes, and it always looked just so cool from afar. This trip i wanted to hit mont ventoux, but i got sick basically on the western foot of it. I rode in recovery mode east past it, through the valley, looked awesome again. I then continued towards the high alps but eventually decided to turn around because of the weather forecast, back south into the prealps of provence.
And today i actually got to ride it. I rode it from Sault, because that's where i was coming from, which i guess is not what the OG's do or consider "riding mont ventoux", but cycle tourers are aloud to do that, haha.
Lots of roadies going up there. And it lived up to its name, it was real windy. In the morning at the bottom of the climb one roadie told me that it might be too dangerous to ride to the summit today but thankfully the wind chilled out a bit as i was going up, and also the cloud that had covered the top went away.
Picture is bit below the top on the descend to Malaucene. That glider plane was going nuts, that stuff looks absolutely crazy.
Won't be getting any higher, at least not on this trip. On the Cime de la Bonette.
Riding mountains gives me a crazy high, the combination of exercise and the views that come up. There are places where you can get similar views "for free", without the work, but for me the feeling does not really compare.
The one where it says "terre de cyclistes". Pretty cool slogan, metropole nice cote d'azur.
Met this guy walking across France in the cevennes, he started walking with his two donkeys at his home in Colmar, Alsace and was on his way to visit his kids at their farm at the foot of the Pyrenees. He was following the GR7 hiking trail.
I only block one user, because they brought their political topic to unrelated communities, and declared to continue to do so.
Just did not want to keep reading it. The person only has this one topic too, I am not missing out.