anyone ridden the morzine/vallee d'aulps cyclosportive?
Hi I was planniing on doing the etape this year but the route doesnt grab me and its in the pyrenees which is a shame as my folks have a place in the alps. soooo I have been looking at other sporitves and like the look of the morzine based on . I know quite a few of the climbs and the start is just down the road from my folks
What I would like to know is whats it like ?? is the organsiation any good,? is it on semi closed roads? how many people enter? has anyone had any experience of entering directly with the organisers? if so, were they any good ? is there a better way of entering ?
sorry for the barage of questions but it looks ( on paper) like a fantastic route and could be fantastic . I know the etape gets all the plaudits ( possibly due to the links with the tour) but I have many friends who reckon the gran fondos are better nad suggest avoiding the etape due to the sheer amount of people !
What I would like to know is whats it like ?? is the organsiation any good,? is it on semi closed roads? how many people enter? has anyone had any experience of entering directly with the organisers? if so, were they any good ? is there a better way of entering ?
sorry for the barage of questions but it looks ( on paper) like a fantastic route and could be fantastic . I know the etape gets all the plaudits ( possibly due to the links with the tour) but I have many friends who reckon the gran fondos are better nad suggest avoiding the etape due to the sheer amount of people !
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Don't know about the Morzine event but I did the one in Cluses this year. It was very well organised and the roads were open but very well marshalled. When going through towns the traffic was stopped to let the riders through etc. At one time I got into quite a big group (30 riders) and all of a sudden we had two motorbike outriders with us
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Only about 100 riders took part and the standard was very high. The Cluses sportive took you over Ramaz then L'Encranaz
http://www.cd74cyclisme.com/infos%20cou ... y%20V6.pdf
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I'm thinking of doing it myself next year. Two choices of route, one finishing with the joux plane, the other a bit less demanding goes up the col d'encranaz from Tanninges.
this link should give you some sort of feed-back
http://www.cyclosport.com/article.php3?id_article=9710
