Cyclists on the Promenade des Anglais, Nice (copyright Simon MacMichael) (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)

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

by Simon_MacMichael

Wed, Mar 13, 2013 09:23

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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.

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Simon_MacMichael

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

March 13, 2013 at 10:35 am

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sounds fantastic, may have to
sounds fantastic, may have to travel over for this!
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mctrials23 4 minutes ago

@momove I would think that spending time training someone up, putting the time and effort into that only to have most people move on relatively quickly isn't a great business model. I know there is the argument that "if your business has to take advantage of people to run then its not a viable business" but thats the reality of some of these shops. Up to a point, thats exactly what apprenticeships have always been. A business get cheap labour that might help them a bit and the apprentice learns something.

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MaxiMinimalist 14 minutes ago

One may wonder why bureaucrat Lappartient wants to reinvent the wheel with a massive injection of DEI and drastic reduction of money. Let the best cyclists win, period. Meanwhile, women's pro peloton needs means and support to attract new sponsors, increase TV coverage, improve salaries and prize money.

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momove 22 minutes ago

So they want to pay people a pittance "for the experience", not record their leave accrued, have them ineligible for sickness pay, then complain about them not being experts on e-bikes, bikefitting and more?

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mitsky 59 minutes ago

No right-wing media frothing about this?

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mdavidford 1 hour ago

Made worse by the fact the road has recently been closed for services works for a few weeks, and that was brilliant while it lasted.

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mctrials23 1 hour ago

Whilst all the changes made are broadly good, there are a host of businesses that can and will suffer for them if they are unlucky enough to hire bad people or simply have bad luck. Small businesses are already really hard pushed to turn a profit with all the pressures of NI, wages, rent, energy costs etc so at some point we do need to find a way to support small businesses and encourage their growth rather than encouraging their demise at every opportunity by treating them in exactly the same way as big, wealthy businesses. A country is built on the businesses people start. When all people see is risk with little chance of reward, why would they even try. Its already an issue for plenty of people who start up a one man band and grow to the size where they could and should start thinking of turning things into a proper company with employees. Do you take this risk or do you just in a comfortable place and take more holiday to avoid the pitfalls of VAT and all the issues with hiring people etc?

in: “The Saturday lad or lass is under threat”: Bike shops say minimum wage increases and better sick pay prevent them taking on part-time staff

mdavidford 1 hour ago

First casualty already: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd95ezw4003o [Particularly bitter about this one as it's a regular running route for me.]

in: Quiet Lanes being “weaponised” to introduce “anti-car measures”, opponents claim – but cyclists say roads have been weaponised by drivers for decades

mdavidford 1 hour ago

Difficult to know as (a) most teams don't publish accounts, (b) even if they did, riders may be treated as contractors and buried in with other things, and (c) what gets counted is complicated (there are sponsors paying riders directly, sponsorship in kind, release payments to other teams, etc. etc.). Seems to be about 70-80% (and growing) of costs related to paying riders in some way, though. Don't know what the picture looks like in those other sports for comparison, though. Most of them do tend to have stadium costs to factor in, which may be not inconsiderable (though also a source of income, especially if they own them and can host other events there).

OnYerBike 2 hours ago

@mdavidford Curious if the distinction between a budget cap and a salary cap is more important for cycling than other sports. Maybe I don't follow other sports closely enough to know what's going on behind the scenes, but it feels like for the sports with a salary cap (NBA, NFL, NHL etc.) it's all about the players, whilst for cycling the rider is of course very important, but a lot of money goes on other things - most obviously the equipment, but also things like support staff (chefs/mechanics etc.), training camps, wind tunnel testing etc. I note F1 has done the opposite and has a cost cap that specifically excludes driver's salaries (i.e. aiming to level the playing field mechanically speaking, but teams can still chuck money at getting the best drivers).

Smoggysteve 3 hours ago

@mdavidford Pffft? Is that the noise you make when expelling hot air?

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3. Car ownership and cyclist and pedestrian collisions on the rise in borough accused of “lagging behind” on safe cycling and walking measures

4. “Only makes sense on paths you DON’T want cyclists to use”: “Totally indefensible” slalom barriers on cycle lane; Lance Armstrong’s DS tells UCI boss to “stick to selfies & dubious deals”; “Canyon to Brompton” delivery nightmare + more on the live blog

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