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We rested the day after climbing Mont Ventoux and spent time in the beautiful town of Annecy with its magnificent lake and scenic surrounding mountain range. Annecy on the south eastern part of France is also close to the Swiss border and a definitive place to place on ones itinerary with it’s old town with cobbled streets, winding canals, quaint cafes and colourful houses.
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After successfully completing the Hotchillee London to Paris tour, elated, we departed the next morning south towards the Alps. We divided into three groups with a large sprinter taking our bikes and some bags and another vehicle the remaining luggage. Four of us left on the train with the aim to meet the rest in Lyon where we stayed overnight before tackling the mountain we romanticised about from the minute we were hooked onto cycling.
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The Stabus Rhino peloton team comprising Riaz “Modster” Paruk (captain), Owen “Cutesee” Coetzee, Miriam “Momster” Desai and Fazel “Charles” Mayet, and the Faitz Rhino Peloton team comprising Arshad “Cherry“ Tayob (Captain), Zahid “Brandster” Moola, Ismail ”Isco” Ebrahim and Zunaid “Gangster“ Tayob departed for the not so warm island town of London on 16th June 2013. Their aim was to complete the Hotchillee London to Paris Tour followed by some climbing in the French Alps (Mont Ventoux and Col du Telegraph, Col du Galabier and L’Alpe d’Huez). In accomplishing this feat, the team agreed to raise funds for Rhinos who are being decimated by poaches for their horns.
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The Coronation Double Century of 2012 will go down as the most humbling event that I rode. Much will be spoken, thought and written and much more will be offered in explanation. But, it will go down as an ‘away hiding’ or a ‘fishing trip with no fish caught’ or a return with our ‘tail between our legs’ for a club like New Horizons.
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