Galibier - landslides

[Deleted account Cooperman]

The route may be cut from the TDF with the potential for more landslides!

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/raci...er-is-cut-from-the-2015-tour-de-france-178144

 

[gerarddwatts]

Cwikey.....that fucks up one of my planned days out week after next!! What a nuisance!

 

[Rasher]

Suits me, we are there later and if it has been scrapped from the TDF it will probably mean less wannabe cyclists will be clogging it up when we come through

 

[Renatus]

Suits me, we are there later and if it has been scrapped from the TDF it will probably mean less wannabe cyclists will be clogging it up when we come through

I think if they are going up the Galibier then they will be real cyclists rather than wannabes, but I'm sure they wouldn't want to impede the important progress of any wannabe Ewan McBoormans

 

[Toddmeister]

Suits me, we are there later and if it has been scrapped from the TDF it will probably mean less wannabe cyclists will be clogging it up when we come through

I overtook a motorbike going down Galibier - I was on me bicycle in full on Lycra loveliness

......it was a Harley though!

 

[Redboots]

The route may be cut from the TDF with the potential for more landslides! http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/raci...er-is-cut-from-the-2015-tour-de-france-178144

More info here.
Video feed from the tunnel says it wont be open any time soon.

Lac-du-Chambon

That will cause some wave if 1 million cubes of dirt fall into the lake!

 

[gerarddwatts]

It's actually a huge nuisance! Especially if they decide to close the alternative...the Col du Croix Du Fer......to allow a poxy peddly bike race...La Marmotte or some such. Only in France would they do it!!

They are now speaking about abandoning the route all together and building another road on the other side of the loch...