It is with great pleasure that twowheeltours will again be running our Fully Catered Tour to the Haute Route Alps.
twowheeltours is the only Tour Operator that has been to every Haute Route since it began back in 2011 - we have participated in all four events ... something that only seven people can claim.
What is install for the HR Alps ... one of the three 'Highest and Toughest Cyclosportives in the World'?
* 90% of which is new compared to 2013
* It will include many of the Alpine ‘Giants’
* It will follow a ‘West Line’ compared to the traditional ‘East Line’ courses in previous years
* Alpe d’Huez
* Mont Ventoux - for the first time
The twowheeltours 11 day fully catered tour will take place from Friday 22 August thru Monday 1 September 2014. The actual Haute Route Alps cyclo-sporif will take place between 24th to 30th August 2014.
The race between the new Haute Route Dolomites-Swiss Alps and the Haute Route Pyrenees
This 4th edition will see the 500 amateur riders tackle over 900kms of mountain terrain, climbing a total of 21,000m across 19 mythical cols and ascents including four mountain top finishes.
The 7 fully timed stages will revisit many ‘Haute Route classics’ including Colombière, Cormet de Roselend, Courchevel, Madeleine, Glandon and Alpe d’Huez. The second main highlight of the 2014 course will be the double ascent of Alpe d’Huez as the arrival of the Marathon Stage on day 3 and the summit of the Individual Time Trial on day 4.
The 2014 route offers seven timed stages in the following formats – 5 ‘classic’ stages, a ‘marathon’ stage (137km and 4,600m of vertical ascent) and the Alpe d’Huez Individual Time Trial.
Haute Route Alps 2014 Stage by Stage:
Event Village, Saturday 23rd August: Geneva Stage 1, Sunday 24th August: Geneva – Megève (130km, 3100m D+) Stage 2, Monday 25th August: Megève – Courchevel (130km, 3900m D+) Stage 3, Tuesday 26th August: Courchevel – Alpe d’Huez (137km, 4600m D+) Stage 4, Wednesday 27th August: Bourg d’Oisans – Alpe d’Huez ITT (15km, 1100m D+) Stage 5, Thursday 28th August: Bourg d’Oisans – Digne-les-Bains (188km, 2900m D+) Stage 6, Friday 29th August: Digne-les-Bains – Mont Ventoux (159km, 2800m D+) Stage 7, Saturday 30th August: Digne-les-Bains – Nice (153km, 2350m D+)
Haute Route Alps 2014 Cols & Ascents:
Stage 1: Colombière 1613m / Croix Fry 1467m / Aravis 1486m Stage 2: Saisies 1657m / Cormet de Roselend 1967m / Courchevel 1850m Stage 3: Madeleine 1993m / Glandon 1924m / Alpe d’Huez 1860m Stage 4: Alpe d’Huez 1860m Stage 5: Ornon 1371m / Parquetout 1398m / Festre 1441m Stage 6: Notre Dame Abeilles 1000m / Mont Ventoux 1912m Stage 7: Corobin 1211m / St Barnabé 1365m / Bleine 1439m / Vence 962m
Haute Route Alps 2014 in numbers:
Total distance: 911km Cols & Ascents: 19 Total Ascent: 21,000m Total Descent: 16,700m 5 Classic stages + 1 Marathon Stage + 1 Individual Time Trial Highest col: Madeleine 1,993m Marathon stage (stage 3): 137km, 3 cols and ascents, 4,600m of climbing
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