Bicycling Australia

THREE DAYS RIDING IN PROVENCE

A lot of bike riders head to France for the climbs made famous by the Tour de France and indeed, when I first arrived for the Avail launch in June, the northern Spring, I borrowed a bike and headed straight for Mont Ventoux, just an hour’s drive from our base in the village of Isle sur la Sorge in the Luberon region of Provence, to tick another task off my bucket list.

But there is great riding to be had on the flats and lesser foothills of the French Alps around Luberon, and that is where Liv chose to launch and test its new Avail, a bike built for endurance and comfort.

As it turned out, Liv could not have chosen a better location or a better time of the year to launch its Avail and I much enjoyed ticking off another

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