That is the rumble and thud of hundreds and hundreds of mopeds.

All lined up in an enormous traffic jam on the main road from the west into the city centre of Puna at rush hour.

It's Wednesday morning.

Slightly cooler than it has been, but only slightly over the last few days and I am

walking the short walk from our Orchid Hotel down to the hospital stroke TV

studios where our TV coverage will resume today for the beginning of stage

two so halfway through today's stage'll be halfway through the bike race.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't just flick on past this.

It's not an advert.

It's more important than that.

The response to our appeal for support as we build towards

next summer's launch of NSF Live in France has far exceeded our expectations, but we want to go

further. Listen, tens of thousands of you have already shown your support by signing up entirely

for free, simply to receive news of the NSF team, Lizzie included, as we put our plans in place.

But we think, in fact we know that there are many, many more of you out there.

So please, if you haven't already done so, just pop your email address into the homepage of the NeverStra's Farr website.

And if you're on Facebook, spread the message or on any other social media.

Spread the message. post a link.

Post it in your cycling friends and family WhatsApp groups.

You do that, and we them all to be.

Look at that, that's incredible.

It's just so that almost every moped has got two people in it, some three. There's three lads on a little white moped that's just gone past.

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