Cyclopaat, an alter ego with a twist
All things Tour de France, Bike Rebel style
The Tour de France 2025 will be, like mine always are, entirely on French soil.
No Grand Depart in Buenos Aires or Beijing, but in Lille.
3,320 kilometers divided over 21 stages: 7 flat, 6 hilly and 6 mountain stages, five of those with mountain finishes.
These will be at Hautacam, Luchon-Superbagnères, Mont Ventoux, Col de la Loze and La Plagne.
As is customary after all my cycling trips into the high mountains, most of those shamelessly dubbed Tour de France – like this one – or Giro d’Italia, I give you a recap with some stats of my latest adventure.
This year’s Tour was my 3rd completely dedicated to the Savoie Mont Blanc region, after 2021 and 2022.
I finally also cycled in the Haute-Savoie area, although leaving more than enough for another Tour there.
Having arrived home safely, here’s the report of stage 13 and the prologue of this year’s Tour de France.
I have completed all 28 entries on the VeloViewer Alpes du Nord list, which was my main objective for this year’s Tour.
To date, only 5 on the list have completed all of them – as some people not having completed all of them got more points, as they were (way) better than me, I landed in 8th spot on the list…
Today was not the kind of day you’d pick to go out and cycle a bit.
For the first time, it was clouded, it was drizzling and rain was expected.
So, I got out anyway…
And I set out to cycle the Madeleine, the col that finished me off in 2021’s stage 12 clusterfuck.
Today’s stage brought me three cols from the VeloViewer “100 Greatest” list – I have now completed 27 of 28 on the Alpes du Nord part of it, with “only” Semnoz to go.
That climb is not any easy one either…
It was a long day, as the transfer to Samoëns took us 1:40 and the return from Seytroux well over two hours…
