has anyone done the tour du mont blanc on a bike?

pass the knowledge on, please.

thank you

egn

MBMB

No affiliation

I haven’t. I was hoping to do it last year but work stuff got in the way. I did a fair bit of research into the route I’d take. There are all sorts of pros and cons, not least to go clockwise or anti but here are the plans I had…

http://www.mapmyride.com/s/routes/view/bike-ride-map/france/les-houches/5932239
http://www.mapmyride.com/s/routes/view/bike-ride-map/italy/courmayeur/5932279
http://www.mapmyride.com/s/routes/view/bike-ride-map/switzerland/ferret/5932301
http://www.mapmyride.com/s/routes/view/bike-ride-map/france/chamonix/5932321

It’s not going to be this year either – not remotely fit enough – maybe 2012?

Did it on foot about 10 years ago and I guess you could do it, but there are a lot of hiker so I would make sure it is legal before you set off. I have no idea if it is or not.

I did it with Decathlon Voyages whilst I was living in France and used it as an outdoors French language course. Fun but not much good for my french as I learned a lot of bad habits, i then had to un-learn

Phil at MBMB really does do the best TMB. As far as I know.

Some of us went on it about 5 years ago – great fun, even with a lack of skillz like me 🙂 although it does help to have some – there’s some technical stuff (rocky, steps, switchbacks) thrown in to keep you on your toes.

Long ups, long downs. Beautiful backdrop to the trails, really breathtaking (we had excellent weather).

Accommodation was generally good (at mountain hostels each night), as was the food during the day and at night.

There’s been talk of doing it again so I guess that tells you that we enjoyed it.