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Stage 9 of the Tour de France took riders into Andorra and it was Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin) who took the stage spoils from a large breakaway. Rui Costa (Lampre-Merida) finished 2nd and Rafal Majka (Tinkoff) took 3rd on the stage. Click here to view the article

NTT Pro Cycling is delighted to confirm the eight riders that will represent us at the 2020 Tour de France, our team’s sixth appearance at the sport’s biggest race. Click here to view the article

The route for next years race is out.

Hi Hubbers! Our LE TOUR SALE is now in full swing! New products are added daily. Head over to https://www.evobikes.co.za/le-tour.html to see what is on sale!

The annual Bike Hub Tour de France Fantasy Tour is back for 2019. This year Bike Hub is offering Lazer helmets and eyewear as prizes during the Fantasy Tour. We have also introduced a pools feature allowing you and your friends to test your knowledge in your own leagues. Click here to view the article

Hope it’s not to early to start the new thread. Teams balk at UCI’s proposed Tour de France qualifying rules. https://www.velonews.com/2018/09/news/teams-balk-at-ucis-proposed-tour-de-france-qualifying-rules_478418

The annual Bike Hub Tour de France Fantasy Tour is back for 2018. This year Bike Hub is offering a Wahoo KICKR indoor smart trainer for the Fantasy Tour overall winner. We have also introduced a pools feature allowing you and your friends to face off in your own leagues. Click here to view the article

All the transfer and sponsorship news is not looking good for DD...add the UCI world rankings and it's diabolical. Time to start winning boys! Goooo DD! http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/chris-froome-climbs-worldtour-ranking-after-giro-ditalia-victory/

Hey hubbers, Anybody streaming the TDF this year? Which is the best dedicated site to use? (Internet all good - fibre line) Thanks!

The Fantasy League website is now live. In the real world, the directeur sportif's are still busy finalising their team line-ups for the 2017 Tour de France. In the interim, you can sign up, pick a team name and be sure you won't miss out on the action! Sign up here: http://fantasytour.bikehub.co.za/ We will make a formal announcement shortly, including the prizes up for grabs. Team selection should open on Monday 26 June. And if you need some help getting up to speed on the possible GC contenders, check out our Who to Watch article here.

Cadel Evans and George Hincapie to ride for BMC Absa Racing Team in Masters category. Click here to view the article

The Pyrenees - I never get tired of looking at them. . . . . As the title suggests, I'm going to try and fill this thread with all manner of interesting, funny and/or informative cycling related things from this beautiful part of the world and the surrounding areas. :-)

OK I know it's months away yet, and that lots of Hubbers view it as the least interesting of the "Grand Tours" (including me at times!) but the full route will be announced tomorrow . . . Le Tour starts in Düsseldorf on Saturday 1st July with Stage 1 - an ITT: "A time-trial of 13 kilometres in the streets of Düsseldorf, this will be the first exercise offered to the riders of the 2017 Tour de France. The start will take place in front of the Messe, the exhibition park where the race headquarters and press centre of the event will be set. After taking off on the east side of the Rhine river heading towards the south-east of the city, the riders will cross the river for a loop on the left bank, before again crossing in the opposite direction to go to Königsallee, the emblematic street of the city. Then, after the opera, the course turns to the north-west, once again along the Rhine. The finish will be decided by the Messe. “It’ll be an entirely flat course on wide avenues. The time-trial specialists will be able to express their potential”, explains Thierry Gouvenou, in charge of cycling competitions at Amaury Sport Organisation" Stage 2 on Sunday 2nd July will leave Düsseldorf . . . and the finish town will be announced tomorrow . . . . "It’ll be from the Burgplatz, the castle place, having hosted the team presentation three days before, that stage two will take off. On a distance of 9 kilometres, it will start by a long parade going along the Düsseldorf harbour. The official start will take place on the east side of the city on Kaiserstrasse and as soon as kilometre 6, the first points of the king of the mountain competition will be awarded at the top of Grafenberg. The pack will then leave the city towards east to go through Erkrath and the Neander valley, a prehistoric site where the bones of the Neanderthal Man were discovered. The race then heads north towards Mettmann and then west to once travel through Düsseldorf. Around fifty kilometres of this second stage will have been covered before heading to…"

Louis Meintjes made South African cycling history when he became the highest South African finisher in the General Classification (GC) at this year’s Tour de France. The Lampre Merida rider finished the gruelling 21-day Tour in eighth place on the GC and was the second highest finisher in the Young Rider’s (White Jersey) Classification. Click here to view the article

Quintana learnt again that to win the TDF you need to take risks and you wont win the tour by sitting on the rear wheel of a champion for 21 days!

Quintana learnt again that to win the TDF you need to take risks and you wont win the tour by sitting on the rear wheel of a champion for 21 days!

Chris Froome's inexorable march towards a third Tour de France title continued apace on Thursday as he won the 18th stage uphill time-trial. Click here to view the article

Excitement is building for the final weekend of the Tour de France, and riders at the Tour De Franschhoek weekend will be riding then heading to the TDF fan zone in Franschhoek. Click here to view the article

Mark Cavendish is to parts ways with the Tour de France to focus on his preparations for the Rio Olympic Games. Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka issued a statement reflecting on what has been a most successful Tour de France. Click here to view the article

Colombian Jarlinson Pantano outsprinted Rafal Majka of Poland to win Sunday's 15th stage of the Tour de France. Click here to view the article

Michael Matthews (Orica-BikeExchange) won the 10th stage of the Tour de France, out sprinting Peter Sagan (Tinkoff) and Edvald Boasson Hagen respectively. Click here to view the article

Dimension Data, the global ICT organisation processing and analysing the data coming from the next-generation tracking devices under the Tour de France rider’s saddles has released a summary of the data the company processed and analysed for the first nine stages. Click here to view the article

We forget them so soon and the next generation will not know what we have lost. The latest L'Equipe magazine, focussing on the Tour, had a photo essay on significant crashes over the years. This is what my limited translation of the caption says : "At 21 years old, the young South African climber John-lee Augestyn summitted the 2802m cime de la bonette in the lead before crashing and plummeting 30m down the ravine on the descent. With the aide of a spectator he climbed back up to the road and finished 34th in the stage, well ahead of his team mate Chris Froome who finished anonymously in the pack, more than 30 minutes behind." It then goes on to talk about his broken hip from an earlier crash and his premature retirement from cycling in 2014 at the age of 27. I was following the tour in 2008 and recall the pride and expectation of having a young Saffer at the top of the sport. Just like Louis Meintjies, it seemed we had a contender.

Steve Cummings won stage 7 of the Tour de France in typical Steve Cummings fashion, attacking from the original break of the day, to win solo in Lac de Payolle. Daryl Impey (Orica-BikeExchange) made it an even better day for African cycling as the South African finished in 2nd place. Daniel Navarro (Cofidis) was 3rd. Click here to view the article