Mount Ventoux/Alpes in Mid June

[Nate]

I'll be over in Montpellier - so why not!

Does anyone know of a tour around there?
Something like: http://www.veloventoux.com/?c=tour1
(except they need 4 people)
I'll be needing bike hire & accom etc.

Thoughts/recomendations?
I'll be ready to go from 16th June or slightly after

[toolonglegs]

If your in Montpellier, just hire a care and drive to Bedoin... hire a bike from these guys in Bedoin for the day, www.francebikerentals.com , you won't have any trouble getting a bike mid June... a couple of weeks later you will. Then do the 3 routes up Ventoux http://www.clubcinglesventoux.org/en.html

[find_bruce]

There will be a whole bunch of guys riding Mont Ventoux on 14 July, they even have a support crew with spare bikes, maybe they can lend you one so you can tag along

Isn't toolonglegs living thereabouts, maybe he can make a more helpful suggestion. edit & in the time it took me to type this, he did

[toolonglegs]

[Nate]

Isn't toolonglegs living thereabouts, maybe he can make a more helpful suggestion. edit & in the time it took me to type this, he did

great - thats all I need, someone to hold me up...!
Looks like Bedoin will be the go - cheers all

[marshmallow]

I cycled Ventoux in June last year - hired a bike from Bedoin and rode up from Bedoin and Sault. Great experience.
wrote about it in my eBook on cycling around France.
enjoy the trip
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[dalai47]

Just rent a bike and ride. No need for a tour, just follow the steady stream of riders up the mountain...

Bedoin ascent







I had contemplated joining clubcinglesventoux. But as my hotel had a lovely pool and I'd ticked off enough climbs in the preceding 3 weeks... So instead had a crack at the one ascent from Bedoin.

Edit:

Not sure if they have vacancies when you are going, but I stayed at Les Arcades Le Lion D'or in Buis-les-Baronnies. They had a bike room, all you can eat breakfast and bonus was the pool and garden.