Month: July 2017

What I love about the Tour are the images and stories it leaves behind, these are more important to me than who beat whom for what. Images such as Valverde’s terrible crash in Dusseldorf that […]

We’ve made it to the Champs-Élysées after three weeks of all sorts of drama and action, in a Tour decided by seconds. Of course, as we all know, there’s a “gentleman’s agreement” to ride today’s […]

Marseille is the most fascinating city of France, different than anywhere else in the country in the manner that Miami, aka “capital of South America” is different than the rest of America. Keith Richards’ delightful […]

I found it to be an extraordinary spectacle yesterday, when the top three on the General Classification, after almost three-weeks of racing culminating in a mountain-top finish, fought out the stage bonifications like they were […]

One Tour image that has stayed with me happened a week (or two…happily, one loses track of time once in the Tour bubble) ago when Chris Froome had a mid-race bike change. What struck me […]

The French cycling renaissance has created one of the most popular, in terms of spectator participation, Tours in recent history as the massive roadside crowds attest, and no rider has excited the French population more […]

I’ve never understood people who complain that “this Tour is boring”. The Tour is three-weeks long and it’s impossible to have non-stop action for that long of a period, unless one wants to go back […]