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Ride the Tour de France time trial route in Nice, as city gears up for four-day party (+ video)

2,500 amateurs invited to take to route of team time trial two days before the pros tackle it

The French city of Nice is gearing up for a four-day party as it prepares to welcome the Tour de France this summer, including giving amateur cyclists an opportunity to roll down the Tour start ramp and ride the route of this year’s Stage 4 in an individual time trial with 2,500 participants – a kind of Étape du Tour contre-le-montre.

Entries for that event, which covers 24.1 kilometres and takes place on Sunday 30 June, can be made on the www.asochallenges.com website from 11 April.

The four-day extravaganza, running from 29 June to 2 July when the Stage 4 team time trial takes place in the city on the Côte d’Azur, will be centred on an open space venue on the famous Promenade des Anglais where last Sunday Sylvain Chavanel won the penultimate stage of Paris-Nice.

As well as exhibitions and other events, there will also be big screens so that fans can watch the action from the opening three stages on Corsica. You can find more information here.

 

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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bikemadjo | 11 years ago
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sounds fantastic, may have to travel over for this!

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