The waiting’s very nearly over… in a few hours’ time, the 100th Tour de France will be well and truly under way with the world’s top riders going head to head. In the meantime, while we’re waiting, here’s some videos we’ve noticed ahead of the race.
Chris Froome starts the race as the red-hot favour to succeed team mate Sir Bradley Wiggins to the maillot jaune. In this video from Jaguar, supplier of the team’s cars, Froome plus Geraint Thomas and Edvald Boasson Hagen talk about the experience of being at the world’s biggest bike race, among other things.
Rapha, Sky’s kit supplier since the start of the year, have used some top-notch photos from the likes of Jered Gruber, Emily Maye, Scott Mitchell and Graham Watson to produce ‘Salute,’ a moody look back at the team’s season so far.
Sky isn’t the only team given a season-so-far retrospective approach in a pre-Tour video. Cannondale Pro Cycling gets a rather quirkier treatment.
One man who could thwart Mark Cavendish’s plans of taking the maillot jaune on Stage 1 tomorrow is Marcel Kittel. Here’s a short documentary from his Argos Shimano team that looks into his background.
The last video comes from Halfords – okay, it’s not specific to the Tour, but if you’re watching the race on ITV4 over the next few weeks, you’re bound to see it – here’s the full version, showing that cyclists, like bikes, come in all shapes and sizes.
While I always have lights on day and night and wear fluro, I have a friend that wears all black all the time and doesn't use lights ever. His...
A sad case, and one with no winners. The driver can thank her lucky stars that the cyclist wasn't more seriously injured and that the court was...
Bloody hell... How are you doing now?
And I liked endura too. Got a nice long sleeve mostly merino long sleeve a little while back, in orange.
No, the Ebay lights have been around for several years, this Lezyne light just appeared.
They shouldn't worry - the second part of the "tariff" refrain is "they can make it in US and they'll do very well".
"At the going down of the sun, it will get in our eyes and cause us to crash into things."
Been living in the area thirty years now and Brixton Cycles (and local riders wearing their famed Rastafarian colours jersey) has been an iconic...
Indeed - but again these are perhaps questions we should keep asking. Even if the immediate answer is "well we are where we are" or "how on earth...