Julbo enters into the world of road cycling at L'Étape du Tour de France 2022!

For this 30th edition of the event, more than 16,000 cyclists set off to measure themselves against the myth. The challenge: 167km and 4700m height elevation to link Briançon to Alpe d'Huez via the giants of the Tour de France: the Galibier pass, the Croix-de-Fer pass and the mythical ascent of Alpe d'Huez...

For the first time, Julbo was a partner of the world's biggest sports cycling event and the least we can say is that we were not disappointed!

After the relatively easy ascent of the Galibier via the col du Lautaret, the course invited the riders to descend to Saint-Michel de Maurienne before tackling the biggest challenge of the day: the col de la Croix de Fer. It is in the middle of this climb that the famous STRAVA Julbo segment was located, which we will talk about later on. A climb of almost 1h30 (for the best) where we had also organised a refreshment for about thirty guests of the Julbo Family. Among them, we found the biathletes Émilien Jacquelin (63rd) and Antonin Guigonnat (199th), but also Arthur Blanc (40th) and our enduro rider Jérôme Clementz (994th). The winners of the competition organised on our Strava club, Patrice and Marie, were also present and exceeded their limits, as did a good number of our internal Julbo staff: well done!

Once the summit was reached, all that remained was to descend to the Oisans valley before setting off again to tackle the 21 mythical bends of Alpe d'Huez! Under a blazing sun, a last big effort was waiting for the riders before they could cross the finish line and proudly display their finisher's medal!

Anyway, we hope you had as good a time as we did at this great event and we can't wait to see you on the bike.  In the meantime, you can keep an eye on  David Gaudu’s performance in the Tour de France, our young athlete is doing very well so far!  See you soon with many nice surprises for cycling fans...