GPM10 in the Media
Haul of Pain
Financial Times ,how to spend it magazine, June 13, 2008
A 565km bike ride over the Alps with 11,000km of vertical ascent pits riders against Tour de France heroes. Is the downhill ecstasy worth the uphill agony? Rob Penn finds out.Read the full article
Cycling in tandem
The Sunday Times, January 27, 2008
We challenge two writers to two very different cycle adventures: Europe's easiest and Europe's hardest. Read the full article
Wheel Women
Guardian Unlimited, June 08, 2007
The French Alps are the legendary home of some of Europe's toughest cycling routes. Susan Greenwood takes on the mountain, but not the men, on a new all-female cycling bootcamp in Chamonix.Read the full article
Europe's wildest activity holidays
The Sunday Times, January 28, 2007
Enough of the easy stuff. Here are the toughest, steepest, wildest adventures in Europe. Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough. Toughest Challenge: Cycling around Mt Blanc. Read the full article
Classic Climbs - This Sportive Life
ProCycling, January 01, 2007
Riding the same climbs as the pros is something most riders aspire to, and big events such as the Etape du Tour allow you to do exactly that. But other lesser-known and less crowded events such as Time Megève Mont Blanc, offer the same experience, as Ellis Bacon finds out.Read the full article
Classic Climbs - All in (half) a days work
ProCycling, October 01, 2006
The Colle San Carlo, in the Alps, just over the border from France into Italy, proved a tough challenge for Ellis Bacon. A key climb in this year's Giro d'Italia, a manic descent from its summit by Leonardo Piepoli bagged him the stage victory, but wasn't enough to unhinge pink jersey Ivan Basso. The rain-soaked mountain provided a spectacular stage, but, luckily for us, the weather was smiling for our Classic Climb.Read the full article
Classic Climbs - Stealing the Show
ProCycling, August 01, 2006
The climb of La Toussuire in the French Alps will be tackled for the first time by the Tour de France on July 19. But in mid-June, the Dauphiné Libéré provided the peloton's stars with a dress rehearsal which bordered on being a matinee performance. Ellis Bacon took on the route that both races share.Read the full article
Classic Climbs - Back on track
ProCycling, December 01, 2005
Our intrepid Classic Climbs reporter (now editor) Peter Cossins has put his hand up for plenty of assignments before, and when physiotherapist Tania Cotton asked him to be a guinea pig for her work with cycling tour operator GPM10, he was happy to oblige – especially if it meant relief from long-suffering back pain and better results on the bike.Read the full article
Classic Climbs - False Incline
ProCycling, September 01, 2005
In search of high mountain preparation for the Etape du Tour, a trio of procycling staffers head off to the Alps for a couple of days riding in the fully-supported company of GPM10.Read the full article