Tour de France

How Fast Are Female Tour De France Pros? We Find Out!

Pro women cyclists don’t get the respect they deserve. These elite athletes, competing at the pinnacle of sport in races such as the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, are unbelievably talented. Ollie goes head-to-head in a race up the Alpe du Zwift against a virtual version of top climber Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio to find out just how blisteringly fast these pros really are!

Tour De France Bikes Ranked Cheapest To Most Expensive!

The Tour de France is the pinnacle of road cycling, a grueling 3-week-long stage race where the best of the best riders cover 3,404KM to finish in Paris. It’s the biggest sporting event in the world, BUT what about the bikes they race on, how much do they cost? We are going to RANK the bikes from the 2023 edition of Le Tour from cheapest to most expensive!

 

Italy to host Tour de France bicycle race in June 2024 for the first time

From Business-standard.com

will host the start of the for the first time in 2024.

Race organisers confirmed on Wednesday that the “grand dpart” will take place on June 29 from Florence to Rimini to mark 100 years since Ottavio Bottecchia became the first Italian rider to win the Tour.

will host the first three stages of the 2024 race, which will end on July 21 in Nice instead of Paris because of the Olympic Games. It will be the first time since 1905 that the finish is not the French capital.

The start was brought forward by one week, a customary change during an Olympic year.

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How To Climb Like A Pro Cyclist At The Tour De France

Climbing is one of the top things us cyclists would rather we were better at, and seeing the pros make it look so easy at the Tour de France got us thinking about our top tips we can all do to make climbing that little bit easier for us mere mortals. Hank and Manon are in Saalbach to give you their climbing advice!

The Best New & Custom Tech From The 2022 Tour De France

The Tour de France is well underway, but before it started Si headed out to Copenhagen in Denmark to spy out the hottest new bike tech the pros are using including massive chainrings, gold cassettes and chains (fist bump) and unreleased prototype bikes!

 

Cobbles, Gravel And The Return Of Alpe D’Huez! | A Look At The 2022 Tour De France Route

The routes for the 2022 Tour de France and the inaugural Tour de France Femmes have been announced and we are very excited! There are summit finishes galore, including one atop the legendary Alpe d’Huez! Cobbles are also on the menu, with a stage across the Paris-Roubaix pavés, as well as the gravel of La “Super” Planche des Belles Filles!

Will Pogačar Dominate The Tour de France For Years To Come?

As the Tour de France 2021 comes to a close, we look at some of the talking points that have arisen from this year’s race. Can anyone stop the winning machine that is Tadej Pogačar? Is this the first grand tour to be won on disc brakes? We also look at Mark Cavendish’s dream comeback which saw him match the 34-stage record of Eddy Merckx, taking his second green jersey in the process, and where it all went wrong for team INEOS, the unstoppable force in the Tour de France up until just two years ago.

How Much Does A Tour de France Bike Cost?

It’s no secret that cyclists at the Tour de France ride expensive bikes, but just how much does a fully kitted out pro bike actually cost? Ollie and Alex try to find out, on this week’s GCN Tech Show, along with all the usual segments!

Think Riding The Tour De France Is Hard? Hold My Beer!

This week as the 2021 Tour de France gets underway and Mark Cavendish gets his first Tour win for ages, we’re discussing an entirely different tour of France. Lachlan Morton is attempting to race his colleagues, but as well as riding every stage he’s riding the transfers as well in aid of World Bicycle Relief. Join Dan and Si as we chat about this epic ride.

The Best Cycling Races to Watch in 2021

From Bicycling.com

By Whit Yost

So far so good: after a few weeks of relatively trouble-free racing, the 2021 season is underway with early season races taking place in the south of France.

And while the spectre of COVID-19 still looms large, we’re keeping our fingers crossed that—for the most part at least—the season can move ahead as scheduled. Here’s a rundown of 11 races we can’t wait to see in 2021.

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad – February 27

While racing got underway a few weeks ago in southern France, most riders and fans don’t consider the season to have really started until the running of the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Belgium’s first race of the year. With events for both men and women, the “Omloop,” as it’s affectionately called, offers everything we love about the spring Classics: rain, wind, cobblestones, and many of the short, steep “bergs” that speckle the Flemish countryside. On the men’s side, look for Belgians to lead the way, with last year’s winner Jasper Stuyven of Trek-Segafredo and AG2R-Citroen’s Greg Van Avermaet, a two-time Omloop winner, topping the list of favorites.

The women’s event should be headlined by the defending champion, Annemiek van Vleuten, who now rides for Movistar after transferring from Mitchelton-Scott during the offseason. She’ll likely face stiff competition from Trek-Segafredo’s duo of Lizzie Deignan, who won the race in 2016, and Elisa Longo Borghini, who won the Tour of Flanders in 2015 but has yet to add the Omloop to her already-impressive resume.

Strade Bianche – March 6

Taking place on the white gravel roads of Tuscany, Strade Bianche is easily one of the hardest and most beautiful races of the year. One of a handful of races in which the strongest rider always wins, it makes sense that the event’s list of winners reads like a Who’s Who of the sport’s best racers.

For example, Jumbo-Visma’s Wout van Aert won last year’s men’s edition (held in August after being postponed due to COVID-19), just a week before winning Milan-Sanremo. The Belgian should top the list of this year’s male contenders, alongside Quick-Step’s Julian Alaphilippe, the reigning world champion, who won Strade Bianche in 2019, two weeks before taking his own victory in Milan-Sanremo.

On the women’s side, van Vleuten, winner in 2019 and 2020, is a favorite to win her third in a row. SD Worx’s Anna van der Breggen, the current world champion, and Trek-Segafredo’s Longo Borghini, who won the race in 2017, are the best bets to stop van Vleuten’s streak.

Photo by Rob Wingate on Unsplash

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