My father-in-law will be traveling through both of these mountain ranges this spring and would like to rent a road bike to do some riding. Does anyone know of any shops or towns that are conducive to this? Thanks for your help!! It seems like there are many mountain bike rentals but few road ones.
Don’t know of any myself, but www.exodus.co.uk run a road biking holiday in the pyrenees called “Classic Cols of the Tour de France” or something like that. They do offer the option of local hire bikes. You could ask them who they use down there as they tend to use local operators.
Try Cyclomundo. We used them last July in Provence and rented a couple of fairly nice Cannondale road bikes (for rentals) with Shimano 105 components. Apparently they use a network of shops to rent throughout France.