Hello !
There is a challenge about cycling the legendary Mont Ventoux: Club des Cinglés du Mont Ventoux (
http://www.clubcinglesventoux.org/ ) . If you cycle up to the top 3 times in a day from 3 different directions (Bedoin, Malaucene, Sault) you can be the member of this club and reach the level of Cinglés. If you cycle 4 times from 4 differenc direction (the 4th one is from Bedoin but using the forestry road) you can get the level of Galerien.
This is about 6000 m heightdifference. In a day in the year of 2010 I cycled this one and recorded for video. From the camp I measured 191 km + 6126 m heightdifference. I took music in the background to make it better
I think, watching this video, it will motivates cyclists to cycle up; this is a challenging and beautiful mountain
I love it and I had to note: this is the Mekka of the cyclists. I met with a lot of cyclists there without any event there.
The video can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkO_3fklHdgHave a good time & best regards,
Gábor
(The list of my climbs above 2000 m with youtube video links:
http://www.gyorgyigabor.hu/GYG_osszes_hago.php )