Spain self guided for the Tour de France

The Tour de France goes into Spain this year, specifically to Catalonia including Girona and Barcelona. It coincidentally crosses that part of Spain where we offer our cycling tours. And so, we are offering a slightly adapted version of our 'Challenge Tour' during the Tour's passthrough. The full program can be found at http://www.cyclingclassics.com/grand_tour03.php

Starting on July 8th in Girona with the arrival of the race into town, you plunge into the ambiance that is Le Tour! Next day see the departure for Barcelona and then head out on rides of your own.

We price this self guided program at 795 euros for 7 days! Smokin deal! See the link above for all info.

OTHER TDF announcement: 6 space remain on Alpes+Ventoux; and 4 spaces for Monaco-Provence. see www.cyclingclassics.com/grand_tour.php

New Mountain Bikes

Ever heard of the brand Focus? It is a German company and they are aggressively hitting the market this year. http://www.focus-bikes.com/index.asp

In fact, Team Milram will ride Focus bikes this year on the pro tour. We almost went with Focus road bikes in our new fleet but opted for Look instead. However, we did go with Focus mountain bikes. Thomas, who runs the shop in Lunel and is a former top 10 France MTB/VTT champion rides Focus.

We are making these bikes available for rent as well, just like our road and hybrid bikes. They are listed on the site at www.cyclingclassics.com/rental_bikes03.php

So far, the feedback is really good. We understand that Focus wants to take it to the big time this year so they are really discounting their bikes to get people to try them. So, a good deal may be had out there for a very good bike.

New Tour de France Trip

We will be announcing in the coming days a 2nd trip during the Tour de France that includes the Alpes and Mont Ventoux. We are going to cancel our Pyrenees+Ventoux trip where there has been very little interest in favor of this 2nd program where all the interest is.

If you want to be informed, please send an email.

This trip is now posted at: http://www.cyclingclassics.com/grand_tour05.php

This will be a small group of either 8 persons or max 12 persons and it will sell out. info@cyclingclassics.com

Look 566 - The New Road Rental

If you happen to be on our print newsletter distribution, then you should have received the latest edition recently. In there, we introduced our new road bike for 2009. Look really went on the offensive last fall and gave their sales people great tools to lock up team and fleet deals. We couldn't resist! In fact, as treasurer for a USA based amateur racing on the National Racing Calendar, our team even bought the same bike!! While we put DA on the amateur team bikes and added ultra light Ritchey wheels, stems, bars, and seat posts, we didn't have that luxury for our rental fleet. Nonetheless, the rental comes with a triple chainring, 105 groupo, that still weighs very little. As a rental, we believe we have about the best thing going! Here is a description from our rental page:

The Look 566 carbon road bike is featured on all of the Cycling Classics tours. They are brand new in 2009. Of note: the 566 is an entry level yet high quality carbon frame bike. From the Look website, you can read about the high quality carbon used in this model as well as the geometry and design features. The frame weighs in at 1100 grams and the carbon fork is another 350 grams! Total 1450 grams or 1.45kg (about 3 lbs!) The geometry as described by Look offers a taller head tube and shorter sloping top tube - a compact design to allow for more comfort for going longer and faster. We have all sizes: S, M, L, XL for people comfortably up to 1m93 (about 6ft-4in) See The Look website for more info.
http://www.cyclingclassics.com/rental_bike01.php

Bike rental only can be booked from the link above as well. But, we prefer to rent you this bike on one of our tours! Rental rates for tour clients are less than rental only. If you plan to rent in July then we encourage you to book it fast!

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