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Enjoy the wine route without any cars! Just by bike, roller-blades or by foot!

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Slow Up Alsace. Without hands, on the Vineyard bike route.

Slow Up Alsace. Without hands, on the Vineyard bike route.

Slow Up Alsace 2016. On the Vineyard Cycle Route.
Slow Up Alsace. On the Vineyard Cycle Route.

On Sunday June 2, 2019, the Alsace wine route will be closed to all car traffic and available only to bikes and pedestrians. It will be the 7th edition of the SLOW UP ALSACE.

The circuit is between Dambach-la-Ville, Sélestat, Châtenois and Bergheim, on the Wine Road and the Bike Road of this wine-growing area. It can be done on foot, by bicycle or on roller-blades, respecting all traffic directions. At the foot of the Haut-Koenigsbourg, a circuit of 31 km (with various loops of 8, 11, 19 and 20 km) will be closed off to all motor traffic.

My first experience with the Slow-up

I had to wait for the 4th edition of the Slow Up Alsace, June 5, 2016, to move to the act of participation. I imagined until then that it was necessary to be a bike champion, a follower of the half-marathon or trail in mountain to have fun on such an event. In the perspective of photos to be made for the blog, I saw myself already on the lookout, lurking in a ditch along the way, like a wildlife photographer watching for a fauna of strange birds flying at full speed in front of the lens!

A few days later, I laugh at myself. I was wrong. Wrong all the way.

Slow Up Alsace. On the Vineyard Cycle Route.

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Slow Up Alsace. As a family, on the Vineyard Cycle Route.
Slow Up Alsace. Good morning in Bergheim …
Slow Up Alsace. the stand of the CIVA (Inter-Professional Alsace Wine Committee) at the starting village in Bergheim.
Slow Up Alsace. On the Vineyard Cycle Route.
Slow Up Alsace. Without hands, on the Vineyard bike route.
Slow Up Alsace. On the Vineyard Cycle Route.
Slow Up Alsace. As a family, on the Vineyard Cycle Route.

I have rarely had such a beautiful day of fun. Not only because the weather finally gave me a beautiful light. Not just because my power-assisted bike with its trailer for photo equipment (all rented on site at the departure village in Bergheim) was a powerful beast that finally made my efforts perfectly bearable.

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Slow Up Alsace. Without hands, on the Vineyard bike route.
Slow Up Alsace. On the Vineyard Cycle Route.
Slow Up Alsace. On the Vineyard Cycle Route.
Slow Up Alsace. On the Vineyard Cycle Route.
I NEED WATER !!!!
Slow Up Alsace. In Saint-Hippolyte.
Slow Up Alsace. Snacks break in Saint-Hippolyte.
Slow Up Alsace. Break snack music in Saint-Hippolyte.
Slow Up Alsace. Break snack music in Saint-Hippolyte.
Slow Up Alsace. Snacks break in Saint-Hippolyte.
Slow Up Alsace. On the Vineyard Cycle Route.
Slow Up Alsace. On the Vineyard Cycle Route.
Slow Up Alsace. On the Vineyard Cycle Route.

Not only because the route through the vineyards on a mountain background is superb and you never tire of it. Not just because this road of wines that I take every day by car becomes a lot different without any car.

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But perhaps especially thanks to the communicative joy of these thousands of happy lurons (40 000 participants in 2018) released through the Alsatian countryside, by bike, on foot, tricycle or trotinette … Grannies and children as high as three apples, balancing on a wheel, crazy teens on their squateboards or with rollerblades … All thrown in the same direction, towards the happiness of a beautiful day spent together. You will read this shared happiness on the faces and photos. All radiant.

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Slow Up Alsace. Lunch stop at Rodern.
Slow Up Alsace. On the Vineyard Cycle Route.
Slow Up Alsace. On the Vineyard Cycle Route.
Slow Up Alsace. Which course did you choose?
Slow Up Alsace. We help each other to climb the ribs!
Slow Up Alsace. The sky is threatening above the castle of Haut-Koenigsbourg but finally, the sun will win the game!
Slow Up Alsace. The village stage Rohrschwir.
Slow Up Alsace. The village stage Rohrschwir.
Slow Up Alsace. Which course did you choose?

I finally understood that SlowUp means slow down / pleasure up, that is to say decrease the pace and increase the pleasure.

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Slow Up Alsace. Arrival in Bergheim.
Slow Up Alsace. Rental and maintenance of bicycles in Bergheim and several other points of the course.
Slow Up Alsace. Big atmosphere at the stand of the CIVA (Inter-Professional Alsace Wine Committee) at the starting village in Bergheim.
Slow Up Alsace. Big atmosphere at the stand of the CIVA (Inter-Professional Alsace Wine Committee) at the starting village in Bergheim.
Slow Up Alsace. Rental and maintenance of bicycles in Bergheim and several other points of the course.
Slow Up Alsace.
Slow Up Alsace. Ciao! See you next year !
Slow Up Alsace. The Alps horns greet the participants.

Important Guidelines

The slowUp is a free event thanks to the commitment of all the sponsors and the 9 cities along the route: Bergheim, Châtenois, Kintzheim, Orschwiller, Rodern, Rorschwihr, Saint-Hippolyte, Scherwiller and Sélestat.

Download the map of the loops / itinerary.

Slow Up Alsace, on the bike path between Kintzheim and Sélestat. The castle of the Eagles’ park on the horizon …
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