The Giant of Provence.

[Kirk007]

Climbing Ventoux from Bedoin, Phil Liggett's voice kept ringing in my head "the grade here is an unrelentingly 8-11% that just goes on and on.". What he doesn't tell us more mortals is that if you climb as slow as I do you also battle the horse flies trying to chomp on you. And the motorcycles and campers coming by on a Sunday afternoon in August we're almost as relentless as the flies. And then the folks cruising by on electric mountain bikes! Despite that it was a great ride/challenge and the screaming descent down to Malaucene was a blast. First time I've had cars pull over to let me pass. And only one motorbike passed me even though I was going 76 kph on that stretch.

Velotel, Lionel and any others who live in Provence/Alps - oh, la, la what a place you live in!

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