STRAVA  ~ Equipe Flamme Rouge

flamme rouge about to get Strava'd
La Coulainaise Sportive ~ Le Mans France

What's This All About?
Listed to the left, are (or soon will be) all of the cycle racing and time trial circuits here in the nine mile wide by five mile deep, island of Jersey.  A 100 miles south of the UK and 14 miles from France, our 45 square miles are made up of many valleys formed in an island that slopes from the 100 metre cliffs of the north to the sea level flatlands of the south.  Jersey has 450 miles of roads, and most of them seem to be Strava segments! 

We've included a few of the flamme rouge training circuits and some of our classic climbing and interval segments so locally you can take up the challenge yourself.  Click on a link to be taken to a course description, a map location and all the Strava timings, charts and rider information of your chosen route or segment. 

Although some of the Strava preview maps appear a little out, if you click on the segment overview links you'll be taken (in a new window) straight to Strava to see all of the info you need, and probably loads more you don't.  To place the ride in context, why not go to satellite view and explore our lovely island? 

Now you've planned your ride, check the BBC weather forecast, to see when would be a good time to go...

If you see us out on the road, (we'll be the ones smiling and enjoying our rides) remember to wave or say hello.  Ignoring people isn't cool; doesn't matter how fast you are! 

See you on the road, keep safe.

Be Good, Ride Hard, Suffer Well.

Equipe Flamme Rouge
Here's what our riders around the globe have been doing this week...

 

Me, Myself I...
Here's my recent efforts and contribution to the above...

 

 

Why Not Join Us?
If you would like to join the ever increasing Equipe Flamme Rouge on-line community, you can easily share your training rides, races or epic sportives with others around the world by clicking this link and joining, Strava Equipe Flamme Rouge  

Feel free to "follow us" and join our rebel alliance of like minded individuals.  With a worldwide audience of facebook friends and over 1000 factsheet subscribers, you're sure to find a riding buddy near you to pass the time while banging out those endurance rides, trying to get your own PR or just looking to secure that K or Q of the mountains!

Health & Safety
In this, sadly, more litigious world in which we now find ourselves, there has to be a Health and Safety narrative, to protect us all from those less cerebrally gifted than ourselves.  At all times you are responsible for your own actions or inactions. 

You have a right to ride your bicycle on the roads, but with that right comes obligations.  Many of our segments are reflections of intervals or routes we've used for the last twenty-five years.  Over the years, some have been modified to remove junctions, pedestrian crossings, or sections where building development has changed the risk profile. 

It is your obligation to ensure you do not put yourself, your riding companions or any other road users, in your immediate vicinity, in any danger whatsoever.  There is always tomorrow.  Ride safe, ride sensibly and be responsible for the outcome of your actions.  But above all, have fun...