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Geneva to Nice

Alpine Action – Geneva to Nice with Graeme Obree Pt 2

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Looking for Ben on the Galibier

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Geneva to Nice with Graeme Obree

Simon Hartwell tackles the Galibier after breakfast… and it all downhill from there, until it starts going back up the Cime de la Bonnette

Alpine action - Geneva to Nice with Graeme Obree Pt 1

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Litespeed and the Galibier

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Geneva to Nice with Graeme Obree

Our man Simon Hartwell rides 700km from Geneva to Nice with cycling legend Graeme Obree

Geneva Airport. After months of anticipation, training and anxiety, I was dragging my bike case and kitbag into the arrivals hall amid a sea of people holding up handwritten signs of names, none of which were mine. This was the beginning of my eight-day tour across the famous Alpine cols in the company of ex-World Champion and hour record holder Graeme Obree.