On 2 wheels | Vallée coeur de France Tourist Office

A lot of tours!

Many mountain bike and bicycle routes are accessible throughout our territory for all levels.
They are for the most part available for free download in gpx and/or pdf formats. We have compiled for you a list of sites that reference a large number of routes:
– Bike in France.
– Open Runner.
– Décathlon Outdoor.
– Geo Vélo.
– France Vélo Tourisme.
– Outdoor Active.
– Visu GPX.
– GPS Viewer.
– Mountain Bike Trail.

We recommend downloading them to a smartphone before you leave, so they can be accessed offline, allowing you to prepare your rides with peace of mind.

A 50 km long greenway!

Since spring 2021, you can now survey the banks of the Canal de Berry by bike, and thus discover landscapes that invite quietude and escape over a total distance of 50 km.

This section linking the towns of Montluçon to Saint-Amand-Montrond via Épineuil-Le-Fleuriel and Vallon-en-Sully also allows you to enjoy the beauty of incomparably rich engineering structures.

Download the brochure to learn more: Voie Verte Montluçon-Saint-Amand.

Bike Park of Montluçon

As for the more daring, they will be able to try their hand at the bike park.

Inaugurated in September 2014, this new track located on Ernest Montusès Street offers a space fitted out for the practice of this activity that combines a sense of balance and spectacle.

An equipment entirely dedicated to the practice of cycling (MTB, BMX, Dirt) from initiation to expert level on a complex of 3 hectares.
Activities baby park (from 2 years), ludik park (from 6 years), pump track, dirt, slope style and cross country track. On the spot : bike maintenance station, washing (tokens to buy at the complex of Nerdre, (0,50€ the unit), inflation and repair station. A living area with kiosk, picnic tables, sanitary blocks. Parking of 50 places. Rue Ernest Montusès – Nerdre – 03100 Montluçon
Telephone:
04 70 03 85 70 (COSEC de Nerdre)
06 32 49 69 43
Mel: guillaume.lamy03@laposte.net (Moniteur cycliste)
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Pro2Roo/

The Tourist Office is awarded

the Accueil Vélo label

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Committed for many years to a process of promoting its pedestrian and mountain bike routes, the Tourist Office is taking another step forward with the award of the Accueil Vélo label in 2020.

This nationwide mark guarantees a welcome, services and specific facilities adapted to the needs of tourists on bicycles along the cycling routes in France.

Accueil helps to reassure cycling customers, particularly foreign ones, about the quality of services available to them, with the aim of facilitating their cycling journey.
The small green logo in the shape of a cyclist quickly identifies the labeled structures, and invites cycling customers to turn to these establishments, located within 5 km of cycling routes (registered in a departmental, regional or national scheme), including for mountain bike routes and marked local loops.

WHY BECOME A BICYCLE HOME?

By becoming a BICYCLE HOME, we mark our intention to meet the expectations of an increasingly large public, adept at soft and active mobility vacations.

By this strong choice, we commit ourselves in our tourist information offices in Montluçon, Cérilly and Hérisson to:
– provide you with repair kits in case of breakdown.
– provide you with communication materials to encourage your travel on the network.
– provide you with a list of bike rental and repair shops located within a perimeter close to our area of activity.
– allow you to benefit from dedicated bike parking in the direct vicinity of our Tourist Offices.

All the info on the scheme: Label Accueil Vélo

Our partnerslabelled

Find the service providers of our territory, registered in the approach and labeled Accueil Vélo

VU D'ICI : Canal du Berry, la nature reprend ses droits

Access from the offices of the Tourist Office

Access the cycling routes from our branches in Montluçon, Cérilly and Hérisson

Find our practical downloadable documents to facilitate your cycling trips within our territory:
– Map “Véloroutes et voies vertes en pays de Montluçon
– “L’Allier à Vélo”
– Carte Pays de Tronçais
– “La Vagabonde” map (Ex V87)
– “La Loire à Vélo “map
– Via Allier map
– Grand Traversée du Massif Central (GTMC) map
– Via Rhona map
– Montluçon City Map

Bike rental companies

Aux Baboteurs – Near the Berry canal.
Bicycle rentals, electric-assist bikes, cargo bikes, tandems.
Open from June 15 to September 15 – off-season by appointment.
3 rue Jean Jaurès – 03190 VALLON-EN-SULLY.
Tel: 06 01 82 31 80 or 04 70 05 55 56
www.auxbaboteurs.org

Tronçais VTT – Near the pond of Saint-Bonnet-Tronçais.
Rental of mountain bikes, traditional or electric-assist bicycles, pedal or electric rosalia and cycle-calèches (rickshaws).
Open all year round.
2 rue du Petit Paris – 03360 SAINT-BONNET-TRONÇAIS
Tel : 04 70 06 12 93

C Vélo à Montluçon – Rent an electrically assisted bicycle now by visiting Espace Maélis.
1 day, 1 week, 1 month or 3 months? Choose the duration of your rental according to your desires and enjoy the benefits of cycling, while doing something for the environment.
On site at the Espace Maélis or by phone at 04 70 05 02 67.
More info on the brochure CVélo as a direct download or on the website CVélo Montluçon.

Bicycle repairers

Cycles Gallégo
46 bis avenue Albert Thomas – 03100 MONTLUÇON
Tel: 04 70 05 04 70

Culture Vélo
10 rue de Pasquis – 03100 MONTLUÇON
Tel. : 04 70 05 74 22

AC Cycles
45 avenue Albert Thomas – 03100 MONTLUÇON
Tel : 04 70 29 62 70

Décathlon
Rue Nicolas Rambourg – 03100 MONTLUÇON
Tel. : 04 70 08 11 60

Cycles Alexis Dulin in Montluçon – Mobile bike maintenance and repair company
Tel: : 06 22 06 17 30
Mel: cyclesalexisdulin@gmail.com
Facebook page: Facebook Cycles Alexis Dulin

Pro 2 Roo in Montluçon – Sales-repair and 2-wheeler sports educator.
Phone: 06 32 49 69 43
Mail: guillaume.lamy03@laposte.net (Cycling instructor)
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Pro2Roo/

L’Univers du 2 Roues
7, Les Brandes Sud – 03600 MALICORNE
Tel : 04 70 64 47 50

Spotlight on

Our cycling champions

They are the pride of cycling enthusiasts and fans, due to their international influence and help convey a positive image of our territory, thanks to their humility, courage and exemplarity.

We felt it was our duty to pay tribute to our beloved champions Julian Alaphilippe and Florian Vachon!”

Born on June 11, 1992 in Saint-Amand-Montrond, Julian Alaphilippe has climbed the ranks at great speed.
After a promising start in cyclo-cross, he then distinguished himself on the road He started around the age of 7-8 years at the Entente cycliste Montmarault-Montluçon.

Professional with the Belgian team Deceuninck-Quick Step and a classics specialist, he won Milan-San Remo 2019, the San Sebastian Classic 2018, the Flèche wallonne 2018 and 2019, and the Strade Bianche 2019, among others.
He also placed second in Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2015, the 2017 Tour of Lombardy and third in Milan-San Remo 2017 and 2nd in the 2020 edition.

In stage races, his victories include the 2016 Tour of California and the 2018 Tour of Britain.
He also has a stage in the Tour of Spain and four stages in the Tour de France as well as the 2018 Best Climber classification on his record. He finished the 2019 Tour de France in fifth place, after being in yellow for 14 days, and receiving the Supercombatant award.
He is ranked number one in the world from March 24, 2019 to September 15, 2019.
He dons the yellow jersey again on the 2020 edition of the Grande Boucle for 2 days and picks up a stage win.
The same year, he obtains the consecration and of his admission, the dream that he had fixed, by seizing the title of world champion on the circuit of Imola in Italy, 23 years after the last French crowned, Laurent Brochard.
2021 confirms him in the hierarchy of the peloton with a 3rd success obtained on the Flèche Wallonne, and a new stage victory on the Grande Boucle, punctuated by a new yellow jersey.
He repeats on September 26, 2021, by taking a second successive title of world champion on the road, thus becoming the first Frenchman twice world champion, which is more consecutively.

Born on January 2, 1985 in Montluçon, Florian Vachon is a cyclist with the Arkéa-Samsic team. Professional since 2008, he has notably participated 6 times in the Tour de France, which he finished each time.

Member of the Entente Cycliste Montmarault Montluçon when he was an amateur, Florian Vachon began his professional career in 2008 in the Roubaix Lille Métropole team.

Exemplary rider, he has distinguished himself with brilliance on all the roads of France and Navarre, on which his talents as a model and dedicated team member have worked wonders.

Prestigious victories are also to his credit, such as the Tour du Finistère in 2010, the Classic Loire-Atlantique and Paris-Bourges in 2012, as well as a stage in the Critérium International the same year.
In addition, he won the Classic Sud Ardèche in 2014, and finished 2nd at the Four Days of Dunkirk in 2012, as well as the Tour de l’Ain in 2015.

He begins his final tour in 2020.
At 35 years old, the Montluçonnais leaves the peloton on Sunday, September 20, on the Grand Prix d’Isbergues, after thirteen years of good and loyal service.