We went up to the village this afternoon to watch the Tour De France come through. From the time we arrived, it took about 2 hours before the riders appeared. In that time no-end of ‘procession’ cars, vans and trucks came through at high speeds. No end of french police bikes and in cars as well as more brit bike police than I imagined were in the whole country. In fact I’m sure that if you laid out all the vehicles and bikes end to end for the whole procession, the actual riders would be only 1-2%. The riders came and went in about 3 minutes first to last, when they did arrive it was mayhem, everyone traveling at 30+mph consuming the whole road space, anyone stepping out would have been killed outright.
