Exact route of Tour De France

hevipedal
hevipedal Posts: 2,475
edited June 2009 in Pro race
Where and when can I find the exact route? I'm going to be near Montpellier for the start and the days through to leaving Agde. I'd like to plan where to do my watching from.............
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    It's usually available around now on letour.fr but doesn't seem to be there yet.

    You can get the route in the local paper on the day/day before the race or buy Vélo magazine before the race as the Tour Guide inside contains the full details of every route with every junction, turn and the expected times of the riders.

    If you take your bike you will be able to ride the TTT course near Montpellier in the morning and the teams will be warming up on the route, you can get some riding time with them.
  • hevipedal
    hevipedal Posts: 2,475
    If you take your bike you will be able to ride the TTT course near Montpellier in the morning and the teams will be warming up on the route, you can get some riding time with them.
    Well, watching them pass me by.................
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,812
    The various guides from the English press will be out soon, and they always have the exact details, the Tour de France give them to the press mid-May.

    I think the procycling one is out in the next few days, maybe one of the staffers can plug it and give some details.
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,716
    It comes out this Thursday I read somewhere...
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  • LorneC
    LorneC Posts: 149
    Out this Thursday.

    if you're a subscriber to C+, there is a voucher in this month's Le Tour supplement (Arrived on my door yesterday morning).
    Already signed up for the following 2010 rides:

    Etape Caledonia (May 16th)
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  • gavintc
    gavintc Posts: 3,009
    LorneC wrote:
    Out this Thursday.

    if you're a subscriber to C+, there is a voucher in this month's Le Tour supplement (Arrived on my door yesterday morning).

    A bit superficial and does not give much detail on the route.
  • DanielFriebe
    DanielFriebe Posts: 102
    Our Official 2009 TDF Survival Pack featuring guide and loads of other goodies arrived in office today. Hits the newstand on Thursday, I believe.

    Daniel Friebe
    Procycling
  • flattythehurdler
    flattythehurdler Posts: 2,314
    Can anyone give the date of the ventoux stage? I need to arrange off work pronto.
    Ta
    Dan
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    flattythehurdler wrote:
    Can anyone give the date of the ventoux stage? I need to arrange off work pronto.
    Ta

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  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    hevipedal wrote:
    Where and when can I find the exact route? I'm going to be near Montpellier for the start and the days through to leaving Agde. I'd like to plan where to do my watching from.............
    This is the route of the TT at Montpellier :

    Start : Place de la Comédie, in town centre

    - Rue de la Loge
    - under Montpellier’s Arc de Triomphe (Rue Foch)
    - Boulevard des Arceaux
    - Avenue de l'Agriculture

    Leaving Montpellier to the NW

    Anti-clockwise circuit through the villages of Grabels, Bel Air, Murviel-les-Montpellier, Pignan, Lavérune, and then back to Montpellier

    Finish : in front of the Yves du Manoir stadium (Avenue de Vanières, SW of town centre)
  • FCE2007
    FCE2007 Posts: 962
    flattythehurdler wrote:
    Can anyone give the date of the ventoux stage? I need to arrange off work pronto.
    Ta

    Stage 20. 25 July.
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  • flattythehurdler
    flattythehurdler Posts: 2,314
    thanks. :)
    Dan
  • Philip S
    Philip S Posts: 398
    DanielFriebe wrote:
    Our Official 2009 TDF Survival Pack featuring guide and loads of other goodies arrived in office today. Hits the newstand on Thursday, I believe.

    Daniel Friebe
    Procycling

    Wasn't the guide given away as a freebie with Procycling last year? I think I bought the guide when I saw it last year only to find that I got it free with Procycling a few days later. Is this a change of tack? Can I buy the TDF survival pack safe in the knowledge that the guide won't appear with the next issue of C+ or Procycling?
  • doddy178
    doddy178 Posts: 66
    Philip S wrote:
    DanielFriebe wrote:
    Our Official 2009 TDF Survival Pack featuring guide and loads of other goodies arrived in office today. Hits the newstand on Thursday, I believe.

    Daniel Friebe
    Procycling

    Wasn't the guide given away as a freebie with Procycling last year? I think I bought the guide when I saw it last year only to find that I got it free with Procycling a few days later. Is this a change of tack? Can I buy the TDF survival pack safe in the knowledge that the guide won't appear with the next issue of C+ or Procycling?

    It's a different guide. ;).

    I can imagine Pro Cycling will run another guide, but it won't be as big i would imagine.
  • Philip S
    Philip S Posts: 398
    doddy178 wrote:
    It's a different guide. ;).

    I can imagine Pro Cycling will run another guide, but it won't be as big i would imagine.

    I hope so - it was the official TdF guide that was bundelled up with the mag last year. I'll have a good look through the cellophane at WH Smiths tomorrow... :)
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    DanielFriebe wrote:
    Our Official 2009 TDF Survival Pack featuring guide and loads of other goodies arrived in office today. Hits the newstand on Thursday, I believe.

    Daniel Friebe
    Procycling
    And for the first time in a decade, it will be staying on the shelf in the shop.
    Very nice and all that, in it's pretty box file format.
    Isn't that more or less the same dvd as last year, too?
    10 quid? :shock:
    I know the Tour is all about commercialism, but that's pretty steep for a route guide.

    .....or maybe I'm not enough of an old fanboy for wall posters. :oops:
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  • taz3611
    taz3611 Posts: 172
    Go to www.letour.fr. look for heading 'Race Preview 2009'. Within this, another heading 'Stage by Stage'. Click on the stage you want and look for a small heading 'Maps and Routes. Within this another heading 'Timings'. Pain in the butt but it does gives timings for all towns, villages, etc, on each days stage.
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  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    DanielFriebe wrote:
    Our Official 2009 TDF Survival Pack featuring guide and loads of other goodies arrived in office today. Hits the newstand on Thursday, I believe.

    Daniel Friebe
    Procycling
    And for the first time in a decade, it will be staying on the shelf in the shop.
    Very nice and all that, in it's pretty box file format.
    Isn't that more or less the same dvd as last year, too?
    10 quid? :shock:
    I know the Tour is all about commercialism, but that's pretty steep for a route guide.

    .....or maybe I'm not enough of an old fanboy for wall posters. :oops:

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  • Philip S
    Philip S Posts: 398
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    DanielFriebe wrote:
    Our Official 2009 TDF Survival Pack featuring guide and loads of other goodies arrived in office today. Hits the newstand on Thursday, I believe.

    Daniel Friebe
    Procycling
    And for the first time in a decade, it will be staying on the shelf in the shop.
    Very nice and all that, in it's pretty box file format.
    Isn't that more or less the same dvd as last year, too?
    10 quid? :shock:
    I know the Tour is all about commercialism, but that's pretty steep for a route guide.

    .....or maybe I'm not enough of an old fanboy for wall posters. :oops:

    Well, spotted it in WHS's, gulped a bit at the price tag but thought "what the hell? 228 pages is a lot of reading". Cycling Plus sitting next to it had its slim Le Tour supplement, so it isn't being bundled with that. £10 handed over. I'll buy C+ next week.

    Then, got to Glasgow station, wandered into the newsagent to kill some time. To my great irritation, alongside the normal Cycling Plus mag and the Offical Tour Guide pack is a C+ and Official Tour Guide pack bundle for £11!. :evil:

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