Welcome to Tour de France Tips – the website for planning a cycling trip to France for Le Tour, L’Etape or just leisure. The website is full of useful information, facts and ideas to help you plan a great trip to France. For an all-in-one guide, check out the extensive Guide to Cycling Through France [...]
A few people have emailed me and asked me what type of bike they will need for an Etape. I’ve seen people do Etape on mountain bikes, tandems and roadbikes ranging from bikes that could only be described as WWII era messenger bikes to high end road race weapons. What Type of Bike Should I [...]
Campervans for France/EU 2012 – limited availability If you are planning on Campervanning France in 2012, and have not yet booked, now is the time to be booking. Campervans are becoming like hens teeth, and this will only get worse the closer we get to the 2012 TDF. Limited Time! Get a Discount with Campervans.com [...]
July 20 L’Etape, plus transit to Bourg St Maurice So, the course for L’Etape was as the pros did it. Epic. Ok, so the logistics around this L’Etape were an ABSOLUTE nightmare. Montelimar is about 100km (the short way) from Ventoux and we had to have our van on the hill the day before, with [...]
July 22 2009, Stage 17 Tour de France – Bourg St Maurice > Le Grand Bornand Woke after a big sleep still very, very fatigued. The 3 Ventoux climbs, L’Etape, Col du Petite St Bernard climb the day before and poor dietary profile (no protein) had created a serious kilojoule deficit and leg muscles was [...]
July 21 2009, Stage 16 Tour de France: Martigny > Bourg St Maurice Today I woke VERY sore after L’Etape 2009. We had (what I thought was) a piffling little 12k climb (oops – 32km) up to the final Col of Stage 16 – the Cat 1 Col du Petite St Bernard. I decided to [...]
July 17 Stage 13 of the Tour de France We awoke to very humid and pre-storm conditions after heavy rain (subsequently cleared) that night. Heading out of town on the tour route, we found a coffee bar, having now find out that they don’t do lattes (particularly soy lattes) in France. We worked out that [...]
