Interesting subject.
Champs-Élysées, Paris, France July 2009
Lance Armstrong
2009 Tour de France
Monaco
100 kph (62mph) Descent in the Tour de France (by dahgutone)
Everyone should ride a bike over 60mph at least once.
Write a postcard to a Tour racer! (in French)
I made this same exact post a year ago. You can send a postcard via email to riders in the Tour de France. What an amazing series of tubes.
- You can even send postcards to the workers who help the Tour roll along the 2,000 mile course. I worked for a forthcoming documentary of the 2009 Tour de France, and it’s a very hard job just to sit in a car and drive that far! Imagine riding…
I have to say that cycling clothing is much better designed than any other kind of sports uniform.
We did not see this man start the 2012 Tour de France today.
2009 Tour de France - Alberto Contador.
Verbier, Switzerland.
This Saturday, a hundred and ninety-eight cyclists are expected to start the ninety-ninth edition of the Tour de France. The three-week race will cover twenty-one hundred and seventy-three miles from the initial start in Liege, Beligum, to the final finish along the Champs-Élysées, in Paris.
To celebrate this year’s Grand Départ, The New Yorker Photo Booth blog has compiled a selection of vintage Tour de France photos and facts for your cycling enjoyment. Click-through for more: http://nyr.kr/N7KVlC
Best 3 weeks of the year.
This is great ambiance.
2009 Tour de France
