Tour de Cure, Haute Route and more riding news

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Tour De Cure

Haute Route

Swiss MTB

Le Tour - Provence to Paris Deluxe Tour

NZ MTB (info to be released soon)


Tour De Cure - Come April I will be working with Tour De Cure - a cycling event riding from Sydney to Melbourne. If you can assist, a dollar or even by forwarding this post, it will greatly benefit awareness, research, support and prevention. As part of my fundraising I am also offering a three course Sydney harbour-side dinner including alcohol, for the person, and their partner, who makes the largest donation. Here is view below! To sponsor click here.


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The Haute Route is drawing closer: 

We are offering an 11 day fully catered adventure including:

Entry to the inaugural 7 day La Haute Route from Geneva to Nice

Five star accommodation before and after La Haute Route - Geneva we will be staying at Le Richemond - Nice we will be at Hotel Negresco

Gourmet food including Welcome and Farewell Dinners

Premium Accommodation Package while on tour

Dedicated mechanical support 

Tours of Geneva and Nice

Cycling Kit included

Partner Program for those who not ride - daily activities

For more information please click on the French flag below.

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Swiss Lakes and Alps MTB - riding some of EU's best single track (MTB based)

Welcome to the beautiful to Swiss Alps, where the grass is green, the snow is on the peaks and there are cows and trails everywhere. For the riders we have some breath taking trips going through amazing scenery and riding flowing trails. For the non riders you will have a wonderful time with our guide who will take you on hikes and show you places of natural beauty.

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TdF Provence to Paris Deluxe Tour - last week of le tour (road based)

The Tour de France here we come, a cyclist dream! Experience six TDF Stages including Alpe d'Huez and the Paris finish. Riders conquer Mont Ventoux and Alpe d'Huez. Grandstand seating in Paris for the finish; optional morning ride on Champs Elysées on race day.
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twowheeltours.com.au is a bike tour company which was created to take cyclist on tours to amazing destinations. Many companies offer cycling trips, yet our subtle difference is that not only do we take those who cycle but we also take their loved ones (other than their bikes) along for the adventure. We offer a client focused adventure which is activity based for both the cyclist and non cyclist.
 

We are an Australian company which is based in Europe during their summers. We offer luxury bike tours encompassing both road and mountain biking. We are primarily based in France and Switzerland including the Pyrenees and Alps. We also offer Australian and New Zealand based tours, including Sydney for it's famous New Years Eve celebration, Tropical North Queensland for its 2012 Solar Eclipse and MTB tours to Rotorua, home of single track heaven.

Canberra Bound - MTB trails await

Monday 7 Mar 2011

Another perfect weekend in Canberra - we had our fittest group ever head down on Saturday morning. I was on my new steed, the Cannondale RZ One Twenty-1 - to have a NO chain feeling all weekend was amazing! With Sram X9 (2x10) gearing I found myself never in the small chain ring and kept the bottom 3 clean all weekend ... an truly amazing bike! It was great that we had fit MTB'ers as at our first ride site, Sparrow and then the new Kowen Trail, was Ben Henderson. The weekend before Ben was racing at the National Champs down at Eagle Park down in Adelaide, to read about his 'experience' down there click here. Riding the trails at Sparrow Hill were as per usual great! Even with the road being built through the majority of the area there is still 12k of flowing single track ... don't forget that Manly Dam(b) has all of 10k! 

After that 'warm-up' session we headed over the road to ride the new MTB Mont 24 Course, being run April 9-10. WHAT A TRACK - hats off to all the builders including Paul Cole, Alan Vogt and co! There is a little more climbing than at Sparrow but that also means there is PLENTY of flow! The final run is very reminiscent to the old Roller Coaster at Sparrow - the Kowen trail is now up there on the favourite MTB track 1st page.

From there lunch, coffee, check in at the Australian Institute of Sport and then back out on trail for some more entertainment ... now if you can't make fun of yourself then your taking yourself too seriously ... I had an accident - never before have I scratched my forearms! Not only one forearm but both! There will be footage soon of the crash ... I leave it at that.

For dinner we were joined by Ben, h is girlfriend Ali and Peter Dowse from Capital Bike Hire. It was a great opportunity to ask some questions to Ben about his training practices, nutrition and other regimens. Ali is a physio-theparist and masseuse and also gave us some insight how we can become better riders/athletes ... all while eating ALL YOU CAN EAT.

There were some tuckered out riders so off to bed early. Hats off to Simon and Michael for getting up early and hitting some more trails. Simon had forgotten his lights so he got to use my Chutta Radical-Lights, needless to say he was impressed at the amount of light that they threw out onto the trail!

Once we filled our stomachs at breakfast, plenty of bircher muesli, bacon and eggs etc etc we were off to Stromlo. The trail was in good condition after the Rocky Trail Entertainments race that was held the day before. I was impressed that our crew did so much riding after already having completed so much the day before (and morning). Simon Finch, one of our riders, is in training for Cape Epic in South Africa, rumoured to be one of the toughest MTB races, and seems to have the lungs and legs for the race - GOOD LUCK to Simon and we'll all be following him with much interest! It was three laps for him and the other Simon, nothing to sneeze at all!

Another big session of food eating followed then back to the AIS to shower before heading back to Sydney. Big thanks to Heinz and Simon for coming over from Adelaide for the trip, they were impressed with the trails down in Canberra and I look forward to heading back to Adelaide to ride some of those great single tracks that they have in Adelaide in the very near future.  

What's next - we have a busy schedule coming up - we will be out at the Rocky Trail - Mt Annan race which is being held 26-27 March then we are sagging the Tour de Cure which is raising money for the fight against Cancer. The 70 riders will depart from Sydney and finish at the MCG in Melbourne - the riders departing Friday 1 and finishing Sunday 10 April. It will be great to be part of something so special.