We left our hotel about 7:30 after noticing the garmin route had planned to take us over some un paved roads, so we rerouted our selfs down the main trunk roads out of town.
The Sun was coming up already in the 20s, the first thing we had to do was stop in Sisteron to restock on water and grab something to eat.
Setting of from Sisteron the roads had been nice and flat running through some very picturesque villages and landscape this helped to keep a good pace going.
Well into the ride we came up against our first major climb, this climbed for a good couple of miles up with some unbelievable views well above 2000ft above sea level. Once at the top we started to descend down some of the best newly laid roads ever getting some serious speed between tight hairpins. At the bottom we grouped and everyone seemed to be on a natural high.
We arrange to meet for lunch when Andy managed to snap a spoke in his rear wheel resulting in a buckled wheel luckily right near the arranged stop. Phil gave the Team a lesson on how to replace a spoke and with minutes removed the buckle and the wheel returned to new.
After lunch we came up against our second big climb, again this had spectacular views and fresh springs that Keir made the most of. A beautiful Ferrari stopped to take pictures of the view then accelerated away echoing through the valley then we stopped for a break and a Tour de France team Ag2r-La Mondiale car came past giving us a toot.
Again at the summit we had a cracking decent over 1000ft and across couple of miles.
This went on all day making for a really enjoyable day for all concerned.
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