Twenty-one hairpins, 1,120 m of climbing — the most famous 13.8 km in cycling.
Measured along Avenue des Jardins from the road graph and elevation model — the biggest continuous ascent in this region.
Twenty-one hairpins, numbered in descending order so the mountain can count you down. Alpe d'Huez is not the hardest climb in the Alps, but it is the most famous ascent in bike racing, and the reason is the shape: from Bourg d'Oisans the road stacks its switchbacks up an open face so the whole climb is visible at once, from the bottom and from the top.
The steepest work comes early, through the first ramps to La Garde. After that it is a rhythm climb, each hairpin a flat breath before the next ramp, with Dutch Corner at bend seven carrying four decades of orange paint.
Every serious rider has an Alpe d'Huez number in mind. Sykla's version is built from the real road and real elevation, so the number you set on it means something.
This region ships in Sykla's famous-grounds picker: the real road network and real elevation, ridden from your trainer. Your bike, your power, this road.
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