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Mountain Bike Tours And You

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Mountain Bike Tours And You

If you like mountain biking and traveling, why not combine the two for your next vacation? There are mountain bike tours for every skill level of biker. All you have to do is choose one.

Mountain bike tours are easy to find all over the world. An organized mountain bike tour is wonderful for many different reasons. The first reason is that it will offer you the opportunity to visit places in a way that you never have. It will also offer you a way to exercise, have adventure, and have a lot of fun.

The Basics of a Mountain Bike Tour
On a mountain bike tour, you will be supplied with the necessary things to make your bike riding as enjoyable as possible. You pay for this tour and they want to ensure that you have as good a time as possible. They will give you any information that you need, a bicycle, and a helmet to help make your mountain bike tour into the time of your life.

Take a Look Around
Take the time to look around at the different sights that are offered to you on the mountain bike tour. If you are a beginner, then you will want to choose a mountain bike tour that is designed for your biking experience so that you will get the most out of the tour. These mountain bike tours are a great way to increase the adventure in your life so that you can concentrate on having fun and forget about your problems.

What to Expect
There are a great number of different tours that revolve around mountain biking. From day trips to overnight trips, you can find the right mountain bike tour for you. You can see all different types of scenery as well, from idyllic garden countrysides to forests and wilderness. Your guide will be able to guide you in getting the most from your bike tour.

Start Riding
Once you go on your first mountain bike tour, you will find that you are hooked. You will be looking for the next one to do. After you are more experienced, you will find that you will be planning more and more mountain bike tours.

A Variety of Mountain Bike Tours
Mountain bike tours come in a large variety of different skill levels, time periods, and scenery. You will be able to find mountain bike tours that tour different areas all around the world. You will find that doing your sightseeing on the back of a bike will give you a different perspective than you ever imagined. After you take your first mountain bike tour, you will never be the same.

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The Tour De France, The Worlds Biggest Road Bike Race.

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The Tour De France, The Worlds Biggest Road Bike Race.

The Tour de France is the BIG one; it’s the World cup and the Olympics all in one. It has it all, the high mountains, the wind swept northern planes and the heat of the south. It also has the world’s media, all the top teams and riders and millions of cycling mad fans watching. The other “Grand Tours” of Italy and Spain are as exciting, sometimes more so, but they don’t have the thing the Tour has, that unique Tour ness, that unique French ness.

How it started.

It all started in 1903, when the French daily paper, L’Auto wanted to sell more than its competitor, Le Vélo, who at that time was the only paper reporting on cycle racing. It was suggested to the papers director, Henri Desgrange that they should organise a bike race all round France. The first race was 2,428 kilometres split into six stages and was run off at 25.29 kilometres per hour and out of the 60 starters 21 finished and the race was lead from start to finish by Maurice Garin.

The Heroes.

Over the years there has been a lot of heroes in the Tour de France, you could say all the riders are heroes, to win the race once is hard, but to win it five times is phenomenal. Only five men have done this, and one of these has won it seven times. French rider Jacques Anquetil was the first to win the race five times, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and then Spaniard Miguel Indurain all equalled him. Then the American, Lance Armstrong started to win in 1999 and didn’t stop until he had won it a record seven times in a row. This is all the more amazing as he is a cancer survivor and was given a 50/50 chance of life; he beat the cancer and went on to beat all comers in the Tour de France.

The course.

The race starts in a different town every year and every other year it starts outside France, the choice of stage towns is a combination of money and sporting considerations, the towns will pay for a start or a finish, but they need to be near a mountain or a cobbled road or be near other town who want to host the Tour. The Towns pay to be the centre of interest for a day, the Tour also brings in a lot of money in tourism and the Towns collect much more than they pay and the world will remember the name of the Town, for at least a day.

The riders.

All the best riders want to win the Tour de France, but they cant, from the 200 or so starters there is a possible five or six riders who can win, the rest are either helping their team leaders or sprint or mountain specialists who want to win stages or points or mountain jerseys, this keeps the race active and interesting from beginning to end.

The BIG Tour.

The Tour is the biggest, but that has its problems, some Towns are not big enough, hotels etc., the television needs more space, the journalists need more phone lines and computers, more and more people are following the race and the riders can be forgotten about in all the razzmatazz, but its still the biggest sporting event in the world, long may in run!

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