Alpe d'Huez Beginner

lcoh

kingdav wrote:

LCoH wrote:

Afternoon, I'm planning to ride AdH at the end of May

:!:
So soon then!

Tomorrow morning!!

kingdav

Best of luck Max!

lcoh

Morning all,

Just to say a huge thanks for all of your advice and support, especially kingdave for the parts. I’ll find a way to put pics on here but a fun but hard ride this morning up the Alpe; 1hr 42 mins which is what I was roughly aiming at. Hell of a way to celebrate one’s 50th but it’s done and now en route Tuscany!

g00se

Well done!

dabber

LCoH wrote:

Morning all,

Just to say a huge thanks for all of your advice and support, especially kingdave for the parts. I’ll find a way to put pics on here but a fun but hard ride this morning up the Alpe; 1hr 42 mins which is what I was roughly aiming at. Hell of a way to celebrate one’s 50th but it’s done and now en route Tuscany!

Yes, a great way to celebrate a birthday.... keep going... I rode the Tourmalet on my 70th.

kingdav

Tremendous effort!

kingdav

Max texted me a couple of photos and I promised I'd upload them on the forum.

aberdeen_lune

Great effort Max.

I have just entered the hill climb up the Alpe on 6th July. Looks like the normal short lived pain of a normal British hill climb drawn out to the duration of a 25 TT.

daniel_b

Fantastic, top effort Max, and kudos to kingdav for supplying those parts!

I bet there are not many Halfords Carreras that have been up that mountain!

bigmat

Well done Max!

Re Hill climb, I signed up for that a few years ago. Didn't get out of bed in the end (it was the morning after La Marmotte...)

singleton

Well down Max - old man.
I wasn't 50 until Monday 28th..

N0bodyOfTheGoat

Nice one!

spannerdude

Well done

cattytown

Awesome - Chapeau Max, and Kingdav is an absolute top bloke for the generosity!