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Advice and experience of riding the Etape du Tour. Moral support, kit advice, gearing advice and all aspects of successfully riding the Etape.

5577 (Sas de d�part n� 6)

Yes, the numbers are up on the official site. Go to http://www.letapedutour.com/ and make sure you’re in the French version. It’s under “La liste des inscrits”. you enter you surname and it should produce a list including yourself. This has … Continue reading

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Music to turn pedals to

There’s one band whose name is instantaneously invoked by cyclists everywhere: Kraftwerk. Those metronomic Germans have something of a monoppoly on Le tour, musically speaking. Their 2003 album, Tour De France Soundtracks, is fairly constantly on my iPod when I’m … Continue reading

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Here’s some mud in your eye

Below are a few photos I took when I got home this afternoon after my fall. As you can see, mostly just mud on me but a couple of dings on the bike. My Rapha top took the worst of … Continue reading

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