Not the real Tour, but a new festival and race born of the massive success of le bike race last year which sent top cyclists zipping along our lanes and roads, trailing in their wake proper infectious joy, from Leeds city centre, where I waited hours for the peloton to zoom past in a second or two, to Buttertubs pass – forever now Cote de Buttertubs – in the Dales.
EV GLOBAL MOTORS www.evglobal.com * E-Bike 24 Volt Standard model: $995 * E-Bike 36 Volt LE: $1,595 Bikes can be bought through the site or through dealers (list available online).
Starting on the waterfront of Edmundston, cyclists can bike Le Sentier Petit Temis, 70 miles of hard-packed gravel trail that passes rivers, lakes and towns.
Yorkshire's willingness to demonstrate just how excited it is about Le Tour with bunting, old bikes, avant-garde sculpture, enormous land art projects etc etc has been duly noted by the national and international media, but the region has gone one step further now.
Directors Joseph Cedar – "Footnote (Hearat Shulayim)," "Beaufort" Jean-Pierre Dardenne – "The Kid with a Bike (Le gamin au vélo)," "The Child (L'enfant)" Luc Dardenne – "Lorna's Silence (Le silence de Lorna)," "The Son (Le fils)" Philippe Falardeau – "Monsieur Lazhar," "It's Not Me, I Swear!
The origins of triathlon are attributed to a race in France in 1920 called les trois sports, which consisted of a 3km run, a 12km bike ride and a crossing of the channel Marne.
talkingtandems.org The north Gateway Wheelers in the north-east hires out specialist bikes to ride on its three paracycling-friendly sites at Chester-le-Street, Darlington and Gateshead.
The list of available products includes the Le S3 or Le Pro3 (which we recently reviewed) handsets and the line of Super4 TVs – so, you know, no bikes or cars yet.
If it did, we would never have been able to admire the little guy the fans of Marseille call "le petit vélo" — the small bike.
The event begins with Le Tour d'Aldrich — three organized bike rides, for novice, intermediate and advanced bikers ages 18 and older, that run from 13.4 to 27 miles and end at the museum.
