Friends links

Cycling sites of Club des Cent Cols members

They maintain a website, for themselves or for their club... They all share the same passion: cycling!

The lists of passes presented on these sites are the sole responsibility of their authors.
The Club des Cent Cols does not endorse any of them.
The Club des Cent Cols publishes its own lists of passes that comply with its rules.

• Ursula and Alain Besson (CC 7036 and CC 7037) : Cycling trips
• Jean Pierre Cancé (CC 4778) : The chemins de musarde
• Vince Chittenden (CC 8110) Vince's Cycling Stuff Adventures on my bike
• Alain Darget (CC 1825) : http://moniqualain.blog.sfr.fr/
• Hubert Delesalle (CC 7152) : http://www.randonnee-cyclo.com/  .More than 1,500 outings, all listed, described and classified by region, type and year. Plus his blog: http://jerandonne.blogspot.fr/
• Baptiste Fontaine (CC 6965): Cycling is hard
• Guy Garcin (CC 2880) : Love-velo
• Alain Gillodes (CC 722): Alain Gillodes' website
• Jacques Mancip (CC 4760): Roses des Sables and 1000 Pertuis, cycling and cycle touring
• Jean-Pierre Monzie (CC 6596) : http://jmlevelo.fr/ Tales of adventure on the quest for cols, BPFs and diagonals
• Jerry Nilson (CC 5627): Cycloclimbing An interesting resource on the high passes of the Alps and elsewhere.
• Régis Paraz (CC 3225) : modachulvelo "c'est pas tout d'y dire faut y faire". Website to follow Régis Paraz's itinerant travels
• Bernard «Biki» Pommel (CC 3094): Biki's blog
• André Rudaz (CC 814) : Welcome to the André Rudaz website.
• Sascha Resch (CC 7702) : Alpenvettern
• Patrick Schleppi (CC 5845) : Patrick Schleppi's cycling adventures: routes in the Alps and Jura  (French-English-German)
• Fabien Tiberghien (CC 6541) : from pass to pass. Fabien provides descriptions and photos of his routes over the passes.
• André Tignon (CC 1583) : André Tignon, Cent Cols 1583 
  Cyclo-reporter from Northern France and Belgium, invites you to visit his world of cycle tourism. Through reports presented as "photo-novels", he illustrates the variety of cycle-touring practices.
• Max Tissot (CC 6785): velomaxou  cyclo des rues, cyclo des champs, cyclo news
• Patricia Véron (CC 3777) : Silk roads
  Get lost and follow Patricia Véron, Christian Serret and Pierre-André Sonzogno's cycling trip along the Silk Roads... The sole purpose of this website is to share our journey along one of the many Silk Roads. You'll be able to follow our itinerary, our favourites and dislikes... You'll find out about the participants, the equipment and other general information about cycling. Starting in April 2006, we'll be taking our bikes from Valence to Grenoble, where we live, before moving away for a while to cycle along one of the Silk Roads...
  At the end of April 2006, following our separation from Pierre-André Sonzogno, our itineraries diverged. To keep in touch, we created a blog: http://bourlinguebike.over-blog.org. A newsletter and a small photo album are waiting for you...
• Patricia Véron (CC 3777) : Simply by bike  After the Silk Roads, discover the North Cape, then cross Russia from west to east, before switching to the USA to cross the Americas from north to south...
• Annick (and Bruno) Versolatto (CC 5054) : Roul' ma loute...
  Cycling trips on almost every continent.
  Here you will find a photo album of the 2005 German concentration at Wolfach in the Black Forest.
• Eric Zammit (CC 7165): Eric Zammit's blog

Federations, Brotherhoods and Associations :

France

• French Cycling Federation
• European Cycling Union
• Order of the Cols Durs
• Brotherhood of the 650
• Cyclo-Camping International
• Diagonales de France
• Union des Audax Français
• Audax Club Parisien
• Amicale des Cyclos Cardiaques
• Les Cinglés du Mont Ventoux
• Les Fêlés du Grand Colombier
• Warmshowers Warm Showers: the Warm Showers community is a free accommodation exchange system for touring cyclists around the world.

Europe

• OCD Order of Hard Collar Workers in the UK
• BIG BIG challenge website
• Club Cyclotouriste de la Riviera by our friend Pierre-Henri Mai
• The Rough Stuff Fellowship Created in 1955 ("long before anyone had ever heard of Marin County"), this association brings together people who go off the beaten track, or at least the tarmac roads.

Travel

•  Carsten's Cycling Web Carsten Gregersen, one of the world's leading bicycle travellers, has created a website dedicated to mountain biking, including reports on his trips (mainly in the Alps) (English, Danish).
• Trento Bike Pages Links to all the countries of Europe, plus a few Maghreb countries. Andreas Caranti maintains one of the best portals devoted to cycle travel (English)
• Masterlyinactivity offers reports on cycling trips to Mexico, Guatemala, Peru... (English)

 Miscellaneous :

• VTTnet Roudou, Tom and all the gang at the big mountain bike site
• Virtual Alps The passes of the French and foreign Alps (English)
• The website of a leading figure in cycling: Sheldon Brown. Don't miss the saddle for men, real men…
• L'association Ligne de Partage  is to develop all activities relating to the watershed between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea (known as the "A/M line"), which crosses 9 countries, from the Czech Republic to Morocco.
  See also Association ligne de partage des eaux and Club des Cent Cols

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