Monthly Archives: September 2008

Check your Tour knowledge

Last month, le grimpeur presented the Tour de France quiz from the 1978 paperback edition of The Great Bike Race by Geoffrey Nicholson. The prizes from Magnum Publishers were three Raleigh bikes of various models, the top prize “based on the model used by the TI-Raleigh Team” for the Tour in 1976. The team, which …

September 20, 2008 – 10:18 am | By Guy WR | Posted in Classic Stages | Comments (1)

The yellow jersey

That the Tour de France was even held in 1919 seems like a small miracle, attributable to the incorrigible belligerence of Henri Desgrange to return the race to the roads of France. La der des ders, World War I, had concluded less than 12 months prior to the start of the 1919 Tour and the …

September 15, 2008 – 8:18 pm | By Guy WR | Posted in Classic Stages, Climbers | Comments (1)

Thanks for your patience

Yahoo has resolved the technical troubles I was having with Le Grimpeur and the site is now, as you – dear reader – can see, back online. Thanks for your patience and I will have new posts shortly, including the answers to last month’s quiz. In the interim, don’t forget to check out some of …

September 11, 2008 – 2:50 pm | By Guy WR | Posted in Posts | Comments (0)