Feel the fear … and sign up anyway
“I’m very aware that you only get one chance at life”. Maureen tells her inspiring story.
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Mountains
Featured Rider – Phil Bingham
Phil rode the full tour in 2013 and keeps coming back to ride shorter loops (he can’t keep away!) …
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Focus on Massif Central
As with all Tour de France routes, sometimes the beauty and the intrigue comes not from the big mountains but from the ‘Middle Mountains’ stages in one of France’s lesser know cycling regions. So to the Massif Central which, if not unknown, is certainly under-rated from a cycling joy perspective. These are roads of beauty
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2019 – The Route!
After all the excitement of the Paris route release, we’ve got our noses to the grindstone, building Loops, finalising hotels and getting everything live onto the website. And there is plenty to be excited about in the 2019 Tour de France Route! The Highlights: extra steep new tarmac on the Planche des Belle Filles at
2019 Route Rumour Update #8
10 sleeps until Christmas Paris. With the 2019 Tour de France route announcement due next Thursday, we’re still quite in the dark as to the exact details of the route. This makes for a very exciting last week of waiting so after breezing through a quick summary of what we think we know, why not
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2019 Route Rumour #7 It’s all about the mountains …
RUMOUR UPDATE #7 It’s all about the mountains … As we guessed in our first blog, we’re surer by the day that we’ll be heading west to return east, meaning Pyrenean fun followed by Alpine glory. It looks like the Tourmalet will almost certainly feature (but we’re not sure yet from which side) and maybe
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