Highest bike pics

[tatanab]

2001 metres (6565 feet) Col de Pailheres, 1994 Raid Pyreneen. Tourmalet was closed otherwise it would have been my highest at 2115 metres.

[rjb]

2001 metres (6565 feet) Col de Pailheres, 1994 Raid Pyreneen. Tourmalet was closed otherwise it would have been my highest at 2015 metres.

You've lost a wheel there

[tatanab]

You've lost a wheel there

Probably the highest I've been on a trike is the Puy Mary at 1787 metres (5863 feet). that was last year. No photo.

[Jay Gee]

A happy half hour spent browsing through my photo collection, to work out which was the highest col I've done. Iseran at 2770m .
It's time I went back.

[Cunobelin]

Here I was at the top of Mt Ventoux. No pic of bike- sorry, you'll just have to believe I rode it up there!
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As for the highest bike - well, I've never seen one 'higher' than this:

[Mick F]

My bikes have never been in an aeroplane.

Highest I've ridden is the top of Bealach na Bà @ 2,000 odd feet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bealach_na_Bà

[RickH]

My highest with photgraphic evidence is

in the Spanish Pyrenees, on a trip from Bordeaux to Barcelona in 2011. With a brilliant 25 mile descent to our next overnight stop in Sort - wiggly at the top, then long let-it-rip straights lower down!

Highest ever was around 10,500ft/3200m heading east out of Cedar City in Utah on a trip from San Francisco to Atlanta in 1996. But there was no height marker at the summit. We did several passes around 10,000ft. You could spend most of a day just going up over one mountain pass, spometimes two. The gently sweeping roads with smooth tarmac most of the time meant you could run at 50-55mph for miles . We had a couple on a tandem with us & they could easily get up to 60mph!

Highest in the UK was a ride (using the term loosely as there was quite a bit of carrying & walking involved) on my mountainbike sometime in the late 80s up to the summit of Foel Grach, 3200ft/976m, in Snowdonia. In those days there weren't many other mountainbikes around so I never really bothered differentiating between footpaths & bridleways , just whether the route was reasonably passable with a bike. No-one ever seemed bothered by me on my bike. Amused or perplexed but never bothered!

[Ray]

Is that you?

Getting your leg over must be quite a challenge.

[elPedro666]

Top of Snowdon, from memory 1036m?

I'm a trendy consumer. Just look at my wobbly using hovercraft full of eels.

[John-D]

Col de la Bonette ( 2,715 m); not la Cime, though - a bit too much snow.

[ferrit worrier]

2011 heading south off the A9

1,315 ft altitude

1,328 ft altitude

I'd seen reference to the Rail poster in a few earlier posts and as I was passing I thought I'd have my own pic the road poster was a bonus

Malc

[Chat Noir]

Interesting thread this and some great pictures.

Highest with bike? Think it was last September, in the Caucasus in Georgia, the top of the Atsunta Pass (3431 m or 11256 ft). Came up from the right in the picture, went down to the left and the bike was carried a long way! If you’re interested in Georgia there’s an account at https://yetey.wordpress.com/ .

‘Highest bike’:

You might think this is the home of a well-known CTC forum member but actually came across this in an Italian village on tour from France to Tuscany the other year.

Finally, impossible to go up Ventoux and not pay respects at Tom Simpson’s memorial.

[greenrobbie]

Above Kranjska Gora, in Slovenia June 2016. I was 58, overweight and a bit unfit. It was the most challenging ride I've ever done. The bike was hired in the village, and was a total beauty.

[1942alexander]

These are two photos of me at 1423mtrs up Teide in Tenerife. One shows the volcano and the other shows me at the same spot. This is the highest I ever got to but I was 73 at the time. The ride was started at under 100 mtrs and was a fifty mile ride.

[turfroof]

5328 metres - Taglang La - Leh to Manali road ...