Tour De France: A Beginner’s Guide To The World’s Most Famous Bike Race!

The Tour De France. The biggest race in the world! Many of us know that it’s a bike race around France however, there’s a lot more than what meets the eye. We dive into the rules and the history of the race in this complete beginner's guide! 🇫🇷

0:00 - Intro
1:02 - History
1:50 - Routes and rules
5:06 - Jerseys
6:29 - Stage types
7:48 - Breakaways
8:55 - Teams

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[gcn]

What's the most confusing thing about cycle races? 😵‍💫

[bgorg]

When I got into cycling I didn’t realize how much a stage win, wearing one of the jerseys, or being on the podium means. In some ways there is one big prize but the race can make hero’s out of 3 top finishers, 21 stage winners, and 3 other jerseys. And the teams celebrate the win of one rider because of all their work. It is 23 days of celebration of sport. Stay safe riders!

[dbsalex]

Just finished my binge watching of Netflix TDF series and then i got this! Thanks GCN for timely content!

[HFVidShotz]

The most confusing thing is finding it on the tele.😂

[Gsyncro]

You know what, a series of retrospectives of old tours and some insight on the tech of that time would be really cool!

[NosyNorseman]

Easiest way to explain is 21 stages in 23 days with two rest days, every stage has a winner who comes from either Denmark, Slovenia or Belgium and at the end after 21 stages we have an overall race winner from Denmark or Slovenia 😊 Occasionally other countries are allowed to win a stage to satisfy bigger markets like USA, France, GB, Italy, Australia, Netherlands and Spain. French riders are very easy to spot, just look at the guys in SloMo back of peloton at last climb on every mountain stage, they always gets camera time 😂

[GrumpyOldMan]

I accidently got to see part of the Tour De France in the early 90's. We had gone to France on a whim and saw a crowd gathering and thought, "Oh cool, a parade" and joined the front of the crowd. A little bit later the break away group came flying by and we realized what we were seeing. It was a cool experience.

[theOtherNism]

Nice summary. I think the most confusing thing for newcomers, and also one of the most interesting things for fans, is team tactics. That would be a great topic for a follow-up video.

[larney]

This was exactly what I needed to get up to speed! Thank you!

[alinapopescu]

I started watching cycling in the summer of 2000, with that year's Tour. I learned the rules & other subtleties on the road, thanks to the commentators of the Romanian language Eurosport. Nothing was particularly confusing.

[brianfarrelly]

Conor recently completed a USA gravel event and wondered what his next challenge should be. He’s totally suited to your longest tour event in Iowa - love to see him do it.

[AleksandarGospic]

I started watching TDF as a teenager in the 90's, during the Miguel Indurain era. My friends would go to the beach and I would stay at home, sweating like crazy, with towel around my neck, and watch TDF 😂 Even though I know all of this, it was still fun video to watch 🙃Let's go Tadej!

[MonetaCaffeine]

Netflix documentary brought me here! Fell in love suddenly with this sport.

[DeseraeSteckley]

Began watching
5 years ago. Thank you for clarifying the shirts. They information was extremally helpful.

[mikelbarea]

This will be my first year watching cycling and I couldn't be more lucky! The second stage starts in my city!

[mx]

It is also worth mentioning that the teams have radio communication, so most of the thinking happens back in the team car, the riders are really just executing what the DS is telling them.

[minidini]

I love that the video editor showed Nairo in green from the Vuelta when they're talking about the points competition.

[DavidJGreenwood]

fantastic round up!!! Very informative. thanks

[red-one]

Im not a beginner but i watch this! Good job GCN team

[Ronald-Reggae]

Startet watching the tour in the late 80s with my dad. I really hope Vingegaard and Jumbo Visma does it again. We Danes we bike :)