Recently, I encouraged 10 skeptical friends to join me on a 5 day biking tour of Provence, in the Gordes/Luberon area. Three were experienced European and US bikers, but 7 were nouveau e-bikers, with lots of biking phobias. So I reached out to RentBikeLuberon and asked for help in putting together 10 bikes and 2 guides who could navigate backroads in the Luberon. The new riders only wanted to ride for 1-2 days.
As it turned out the bikes were world class, the guides exceptional, the support for bike changes/alterations was terrific, and, after day 1, 8 of 10 bikers wanted to ride every day. And of course, the hill towns in the Luberon – Gordes, Rousillon, LaCoste, Murs, Joucas, and more – were gorgeous, as was the September weather. Having two guides meant that we had the flexibility to break into two groups, one for the casual bikers and one for the more serious bikers.
I have biked in Loire Valley, Bourgogne, Dordogne, Brittany/Normandy, Langedoc, Avignon and hiked in Tuscany. Overall, they were all terrific, but the Luberon experience as in the top 10%, and up to my highest expectations. More importantly, for the newbie bikers, it was transformative: they all want to do it again next fall!
RentBikesLuberon was expert, friendly, responsive and reasonably priced. I would go back to them in a nanosecond for the next trip, and have told all of my friends to same.
Andrew Stewart