Lifecycle edition 3 Autumn 2016 v1

My partner, and fellow deputy editor, Grant have
been cycling in the mountains for our summer
holidays for the last 13 years. We simply love it, and
cannot imagine the main focal point of the year being
anything other than our trip. The areas we have
cycled are within France (Pyrenees, Northern and
Southern Alps) and Italy (Dolomites and Italian Alps).
However, many non-cyclists I know simply cannot
comprehend why we want to ride up such arduous,
mountain roads, and they find it laughable that we
call this a holiday! On our recent trip, we chatted to a
guy who was on a mountain road tour, but a driving
one, in his McLaren road car. He found it incredible
that when driving over Mont Ventoux, he saw so
many cyclists. "They must be mad, it took me 20
minutes in the car.