Tag: Pyrenees

Eugene Christophe Had To Repair His Fork In A Forge At The 1913 Tour

September 10, 2020 at 10:24 am6 min reading

Road cycling

Modern Tour de France riders don’t have to worry too much about mechanical issues. Most of the time it’s relatively easy to get a replacement bike if something goes wrong. This was not always the case. How did riders deal with mechanicals back in the…
Was the 1910 Tour Ready for the First-Ever Crossing of the Pyrenees?

September 3, 2020 at 11:59 am4 min reading

Road cycling

The beginnings of the Tour de France were wild. It was getting harder every year and the riders had to deal with increasingly crazier challenges. In 1910, the organizers decided that the cyclists should cross the Pyrenees mountains. How did they do it considering there…