The fans that line the Tour routes really know how to party hard. The proof is in the pictures presented here, which may not increase your interest in the actual sport of cycling, but will make you wish you were there nonetheless.
After a slice of ham, a sip of wine and a fresh baguette they mounted their bikes and pedalled to victory! It may have worked back then, in days of yore, but today a cyclist’s stomach is full of things that are best avoided.
Red, white and blue, to match the colours of the French tricolore and weighing 1½ stones, the bike on which Maurice Garin won the first ever Tour de France was designed by “La Francaise” and made their name in history. (Maurice Garin won the first…