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Added: saturday 26 July 2014 at 00:25:00
The start order and times of the Tour de France 2014 time trial
The forelast stage of the Tour de France 2014, which will take place today, Saturday 26 July, will be an individual time trial between Bergerac and Périgueux.

Hereunder you'll find the list of participating riders for this race against the clock, but also the start times of the different riders (every 2 minutes for most of them and every 3 minutes for the last 10 riders).
Furthermore, you can discover the race route of this time trial in detail, on Google Maps, but also with a virtual fly-over in video!
The start order and times
The riders will, as usual, start in the reverse order of the general classification, starting at 10.51AM, for a race against the clock over 54 kilometers between Bergerac and Périgueux, on a slightly hilly route.

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Added: saturday 05 July 2014 at 23:50:00
Product test: the Wahoo KICKR, an interactive hometrainer via smartphone or tablet
home trainer! Does the sound of that word already make you think of boring sessions where, in order to make it a little bit more funny, you put your music on maximum volume or watch a video on YouTube at the same time?

Or do you maybe have a home trainer which works with a video of a climb on a DVD, which makes you climb the same roads over and over again?

With the Wahoo KICKR, using a home trainer becomes funny and more interesting, and you can even use it for a professional training. Each session you can chose to go ride on other roads or you can freely define a specific training programme. In this article you'll discover this home trainer quite different from most of the others.
The Wahoo KICKR: what is it?
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Added: friday 04 July 2014 at 19:08:00
The Tour de France 2014 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and other details
As usual, velowire.com allows you to discover all details of the race route of this 101ème edition of the Grande Boucle, on Google Maps/Google Earth, and this time this exclusive content is already available at about two weeks from the start of the Tour de France 2014.

With the information in this article you'll get to know all details, all cities and all villages which will be visited by the Tour and it will thus allow you to prepare your visit if you go watch the race live or to simply better understand the race!
Some preliminary information ...
Some of you might have already discovered the race route on Google Maps as published by the organisor of the Tour de France on this official website of the race.

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