Bicycling videos about climbs in the Alps

gyorgyigabor

Hello !

I upload few videos about my climbs which can motivate others to cycle there.

1, One of my favourite cime is the BOnette (2802 m). In 2008 I cycled it from Nice and felt ecstasy as I reached the top:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfUgt0klBEU
2nd part:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEw2eHszXXM

2, Mangart saddle (Slovenia): it is between the 10-15 most beautiful ascent in the Alps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apprtjd_kkY

3, Mannlichen (Switzerland) it starts from Grindelwald and is ca. 9% steep. The paved road ends at 2229 m)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peXsftSz1_c

4, There is a challenge to cycle the 3 ascents of the Passo Mortirolo in a day. That is what we did in 2008: That's a legendary climb:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUetz7Vxls8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYxy8v0-ICM

5, One of the legendary climbs in Itayl is the Monte Zoncolan with 14-20% steepness for 5kms long. That's terrible but what a feeling to reach the top.
1st part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3LjGhfd6MQ

2nd part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2CT09mYXK4

best regards,
Gabor

gyorgyigabor

Hello !

I edited another video about a day of my cycle tour in the Alps this year, I think it could be interesting for cyclists who like cycling in the mountains.
It was is Switzerland. The climbs are:
- Andeer - Juf (2050 - 2100 m) : Nice, great !
- Tiefencastel - Alp Stierva (2145 m): hard climb to a mountain farm with ca 9% avg steepness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKEOW6xpr6E

Have pleasure with it,

Gábor
https://www.youtube.com/user/gyorgyigabor

gyorgyigabor

Hello !

I edited a best of video about my bicycletour that I had this summer in the Alps (1828 kms + 39441 m ) . This video contains not all of the climbs that I cycled but the most beautiful ones or most memorable ones. The following clmbs can be seen for few dozen seconds or for a minute:
Passo Mortirlo, Gavia, Umbrail, Passo dello Stelvio , Forcola di Livigno , Passo dello Spluga , Juf , Oberalppass , Sustenpass (in rain + 3 degrees Celsius) , Triftalp ( 2090 m) , Moosalp (Stalden side along the vertical rockwall ) , Simplonpass , Colle Fauniera (partly above clouds) , Usseglio - Alpe Bessanetto climb (with chamois !!! ) , Col des Gondrans, La Bergerie du Bois Noir (2009 m), Col du Granon, Sestriere

In the following weeks I will edit new videos about each day (1st: Granon, then La Bergerie du Bois Noir) to have videos (in my collection) about all of the paved climbs finishing above 2000 m in the French Alps.

Have pleasure with the video !
(In few months time I plan to write a travelogue too)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4piRlCVv8w

/I started a facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/cycling.high - with posts in Hungarian & in English ) where I will post infos, photos, videos about my tours, experiences (more than 30.000 kms in the Alps, Pyrenées, canary islands & Andalucia) ... about cycling high .. and plan an article or list / collection about the most wonderful paved climbs (finishing above 2000 m) of the Alps, Pyrenées, Canary islands & Andalucia (I haven't visited there Calar Alto 2 years ago I had not enough time for that)

Best regards,
Gábor

gyorgyigabor

Hello !

I edited another french paved climb finishing above 2000 m: La Bergerie du Bois Noir (2010 m).
This is a hardly known ascent in France.
The ascent's light section started at Guillestre. I started to cycle the same road that goes to Col d'Izoard, but after the canyon I had to turn right to Ceillac and the ascent's last section was a very calm valley with a stream and with a strange part when ca 30 m long the water came out of the ground and fell down to the stream ....
The paved road finished at 2010 m. I loved this climb ! It's worth visiting !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IBlAVouf6s

Have pleasure with it !
Best regards, Gábor

/ I started a facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/cycling.high ) where I will post infos, photos, videos about my tours, experiences (more than 30.000 kms in the Alps, Pyrenées, canary islands & Andalucia) ... about cycling high .. and plan an article or list / collection about the most wonderful paved climbs (finishing above 2000 m) of the Alps, Pyrenées, Canary islands & Andalucia /

gyorgyigabor

Here is the last video I missed to have all videos about the asphalted climbs going above 2000 m in the French Alps. (In the following post I will show that list / collection with photos and videos )
Col du Granon is a steep (9,2% for 1053 m heightdiff. --> so it's harder than the ascent of Alpe d'Huez) and wonderful climb; one of my favourite ascents. 80% of the ascent is a panoramic road and there is almost no traffic: I met ca. 2-3 vehicles during the climb.
Up to now I visited twice and both occasions I rode it in sunny weather.
Have pleasure with the - I think : great - video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M38iV3NBmNU

My site with experiences, photos, videos, compilations in the mountains by bike (40.000 kms abroad & 271 times cycled above 2000 m) :
http://www.facebook.com/cycling.high

cornerblock

Thanks for posting these Gábor, the editing could be a little better if you don't mind me saying but I've really enjoyed seeing some of the great climbs you've done. It's given me plenty of ideas. Good luck.

gyorgyigabor

Thanks Cornerblock for your opinion and I'm happy that the videos gve you great ideas

Gabor

gyorgyigabor

Hello !
The following video is about one of the epic / killer / monster paved climbs of the Alps and Europe that goes above 2000m.

Based on the data of salite.ch and climbbybike.com Ausserfragant - Grosser Oschenuiksee (2394 m) is the hardest or 2nd hardest paved ascents of the Alps (of the wide dartabase schmunzel ), harder than Monte Zoncolan or Angliru (in Spain).

Data: 17 km & 9,8%, but the last 10 kms = 13% steepness, but often 14-15% and max. 18-20% (you can see it in my video )
That's an epic, a monster, a killer, but I loved it. That was a real challenge !

The video can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C70JluUdLg

A pic about it :


Have pleasure with the video !
Gabor

gyorgyigabor

Hello !

I share another nice, friendly and calm climb's video:
It is situated in Tirol, Austria, just next to the famous ascent of Ötztaler gletscherstrasse (2829 m).
It is 6,3 km long wth 10,4% avg. steepness. At the end of the climb, Hochsölden there is great, panoramic meadow with a restaurant and a playground for the children. It is an ideal place for the family too.
Thanks for watching the video
Gábor

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xJWtPO3HY0

A pic about it:

gyorgyigabor

Hello,
I'm pleased to present a video compilation with music, so this video can be used for a spinning training. A lot of wonderful ascents, landscapes can be watched in the video where I cycled in the last 5 years. It was recorded in the Alps, Pyrénées, Andalucia (Costa del Sol + Sierra Nevada). Few climbs that appear in the video: Mont Ventoux, Passo di Gavia, Bonette, Galibier, there are ascents that hadn't been filmed was rarely filmed ( Dürrboden), Col de la Core, Peyresourde, Ordesa National park in the Pyrénées, Pico Veleta (3394 m) in Andalucia. Few minutes about famous cycling challenges can be seen too: Monte Grappa challenge (261 km + 7241 m), Ötztaler radmarathon (228 km + 5500 m), Valtellina Extreme brevet (345 km + 8998 m). Have pleasure with the video & thanks for watching !

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyfvJV-IbBs

Coverphoto of the video:



Best regards,
Gabor

gyorgyigabor

Hello !
I'm to present another compilation / best of video about another great bicycletour in the French Alps with several legendary climbs, ascents. The tour happaned in the year 2011.
After the first 2 days (in Italy ) I cycled in France and visited famous, Tour de France cols, climbs, like Bonette (2802 m), Col d'Izoard (2360 m), Alpe d'Huez, Col du Galibier (2645 m), Col de l'Iseran (2770 m), but few hardly known ones, like Parking du Laus, Le Saut, Plan de Lac (2360 m) - one of my favourite. On the climb of Col de la Lombarde I saw chamois, unfortunately only for few seconds, but in the year 2014 on a hardly known italian ascent (will be presented in few weeks time smile hangulatjel ) offered me the opportunity to record 2 chamoises for video for ca. 1 min long. At La Bonette (2802 m) I got the best amazing weather that I could: sunshine with very small clouds, cumuluses.

Have pleasure with the video and thanks for watching

The video can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yX05irisi8

and a picture to show great moments of the video