Hit the heights: taking five extreme bike rides in France

Famous for the comparatively genteel cycling featured in its Tour, France also offers those with a head for heights and supreme skills of balance, an alternative way of enjoying their wheels.

If you’re curious to learn more, then put away your passport, unfasten your seatbelt and don’t worry about counting air miles… This video vicariously drops you onto a mountain bike and pumping its pedals, to fly down some of the most extreme and craggy of Gallic slopes and trails.

View the original video here.

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