RIDES: First 4,000ft climb
Montagne De Lure. "Montagne de what? Never heard of it?" I hear you say dear reader. Neither had I until I did one of my down-the-rabbithole sessions on Google Maps. You see, we were going on a family holiday to Provence, the the bike was coming along, so I was having a peruse of the local cycling potential. For me, Google Maps and its 3D option is the go-to piece of software for finding out about a hill in all its topographic glory. It gives a sense of realistic scale and of course, you can launch into countless streetview images to see it in reality. Anyway, I digress.... when we booked to go to Provence I was straight onto the web to find out as much as I could about mountain climbs near our chalet in Greoux-Les-Bains. Mont Ventoux was the obvious one - who doesn't want to do Ventoux? - but we were to be staying a bit further southeast, so although I was desperate to give it a go, a 2.5hr morning drive to spend the best part of three hours going up and down a mount...
