The London-Paris Cycle Tour is the UK's premier cyclosportive - a professional event for amateur riders. If there's just one event to ride in 2009 - THIS IS IT!
London-Paris is the closest you'll get to the Tour de France experience. Rolling road closures, full mechanical support and a sophisticated support crew. Subaru lead and support cars, plus motorbike outriders. You just concentrate on the riding.
Our event is where the amateur pedals alongside the greats of cycling. In 2009, we'll be joined by a record number of cycling stars - ex-professionals, Tour winners and Olympians. In the past, famous names like Sean Kelly, Johan Museeuw, Stephen Roche, Brian Smith, James Cracknell and Geoff Thomas have all ridden in our event.
London-Paris is a global event with cyclists travelling from all over the world to join us - they just keep coming back for more of our legendary cameraderie.
The 520km route for 2009 will be a northerly classic to Paris. We start on the banks of the River Thames at the historic Royal Palace of Hampton Court. Cycle through the garden of England and cross the Channel to France where you can test your legs on the flagged yellow, green and red sections. We finish at the iconic Eiffel Tower after riding past the Arc de Triomph on the Champs Elysee in Paris.
If you want your freinds, supporters, partners, husbands, wives and children to be cheering at the finish, we've something new for 2009 - our our new luxury hotel close to the Eiffel Tower!
Come cycling - allez Francais!
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The Route for 2009
Day 1: 175km route away from the Hampton Court through Kent, ‘the Garden of England’, arriving at Dover for the afternoon ferry crossing to Calais. Riders will tackle the short sharp ascents of Capel le Fern and Goudhurst Hill, the latter being familiar to race fans as a King of the Mountains climb in the 2007 Tour de France.
Day 2: 167km route as the event swings north east toward the famous cobbles of Paris-Roubaix, cycling’s ‘Hell of the North’. Includes the challenging, rolling roads of the Collines l’Artois before arrival at Amiens.
Day 3: 168km leaves Amiens and winds south to Paris in the true spirit of the Tour de France, rolling into the capital, past the Arc de Triomphe and ending at the Eiffel Tower, a fitting spot at which to end the challenge of the 2009 London-Paris Cycle Tour.
Day 4 is at your leisure and for those heading back to London on the repatriation package an afternoon Eurostar train trip back to London and bus back to start rendezvous car park near Hampton Court.
