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Haute Route 2011 - Geneva to Nice

  • 18-08-2011 9:27am
    #1
    capnsantini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭


    Is anyone here taking part in the inaugural edition of the Haute Route Sportive next week from Geneva to Nice: http://www.hauteroute.org/en/ ?

    I won't be there myself but would love to follow the progress of anyone who is taking it on as well as get any and all feedback about the event. It looks like a great event.


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  • #2
    dewindygap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 138 ✭✭dewindygap


    I decided to bump this old thread rather than start a new one. Did anybody watch the programme about the above event last night on Eurosport? Very enjoyable and also very tempting but am unsure if I would be fit for it.
    The reason for the post is that there was a one-legged cyclist competing (or participating) in it and he got up all the Cols and I think completed the week. He was literally cycling single-legged without any aid for the 2nd pedal. I think also he was missing part of 1 arm/hand.
    And I thought 'Iron Man' Mick was a hard man. This guy takes some beating.


  • #3
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,309 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    This Him?


  • #4
    cnz8euq6x7syj2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭cnz8euq6x7syj2


    Didnt see the program but i think this is the guy you are talking about.

    He did the Marmotte in 2010 and completed it. He was an animal with a one leg like i have never seen before. Resembled Arnies bicep not a cyclists leg.

    Dont know how he could balance let alone maintain forward momentum over those climbs. The descents into corners must have been knarly too.

    http://www.photobreton.com/consulter/images.asp?LangueID=1&ListeFichierID=2768011,2803133,2812903,2788663,2796472,2803132,2803135,2812904,2796471,2743424,2803131,2803134,2739450,2788664,2796473

    The support he was getting on the Alp was unbelievable as you can imagine.


  • #5
    vistafinder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭vistafinder


    I saw it and its some route would love to give it a go sometime looks like a real challenge. After seeing the guy with one leg you would be less inclined to feel sorry for your self when suffering on the bike. That was unbeliveable.


  • #6
    capnsantini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭capnsantini


    Don't know if it was the same cyclist or not but there was a guy motoring up the climbs of the Etape in 2007 with one leg as well. Very impressive, and it was a doozie of an Etape in the Pyrenees that year.


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  • #7
    kincsem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,013 ✭✭✭kincsem


    A one-leg cyclist did the Etape du Tour a few years back. I have it on DVD.


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