Is this where the Tour will be won? The Col de la Loze: Shoddy inspects the TDF’s highest bike path.

Last week I built up (with some help) a Ritchey Logic disc road bike adorned with Sram Force eTAP ASX and Zipp’s new 303 wheelset, yeah super fancy I know. It was the first video in a mini-series, the “Steel bike vs brand new Tour de France climbs” series. Well, this week I bring you the first climb that I tackled, the Col de la Loze. A climb that, as the title of the series suggests, hasn’t been included on a stage of the Tour before, let alone a finish.

And it’s a good one. It’s like we’ve never seen before at le Tour, for one simple reason. The final 7km of the 21km climb runs on a cycle path. A tiny two-lane smooth as silk ribbon of tarmac that climbs to 2304 meters (7560 feet) elevation, with pitches in places that make your Wahoo say Wahoo! It’s part of a new cycleway that will link several of the french alpine ski stations to one another, for cyclists. And it’s one hell of a delight.

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