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Tour tech 2011

Tour Tech 2011: Chavanel's Bastille Day bike

French road race champion gets a paintjob to match his jersey

Tour Tech 2011: Colnago launch Europcar version of C59 Italia

It's now available in a Europcar replica colour scheme

Lost in France – Two men and a satnav go behind the scenes at the Tour de France

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Tour tech 2011 road trip

Whatever anybody says, the Tour de France IS about the bikes too – and the wheels, tyres, bars, and gears – because the world's greatest bike race is also the test bed and launch pad for the very sharpest bits of cycling technolgy's cutting edge. Ironically though the best time to see all this stuff is before the race starts. Behind the scenes as the teams cluster together ahead of the the Grand Depart for some last minute fettling, tweaking and cleaning of the arsenal of kit they've assembled for the race ahead. So, that's where we went: me, Mat, and our trusty(ish) satnav, a road.cc road trip. Read on and we'll take you there too for a sniff rount the Tour's pits… as it were.