Can you hear that, your listener? That is the sound of France. I'm Harry. This is Stu.

Hello. I'm glad this is a podcast and you don't have to see what I'm seeing right now.

Yeah, apologies if that was a little bit intense.

So Mitch has sent us, Life in the Peloton's Race Radio, to the Tour de France.

Can you believe?

And we just arrived last night and it's the morning of stage

18. The tour's going up, the Koldala L'Los to finish, which is 2,300 meters high.

It is. And we're going to try and get up there on our little Bromptons that we've got with us,

aren't we, Stu? We're going to give it our best shot, I think, fueled by your Ammon K think we're in with a shot I think we've got a chance we've got a bag full of sundries

they've got a raincoat because the weather forecast isn't looking that great and yeah hopefully we'll hopefully we'll get there I'm a bit nervous i my bike's only got six gears yours has 12

it's not the quantity but the quality the quality the legs or the quality of the gears we'll

find out i suppose yeah um yeah so like we said we're in albertville which is this it's quite a nice

little town that's a bit of a hub

for cyclists because of all of the amazing Coles mountain passes that are around here

the cold of the Madelains just down the road La Plagnan is not far away that's

that's Friday stage yeah but yeah we're we're going big at the start we're going

ambitious we're going to try and get all the way up the Caudela Loz, which in the past has been a bit of a bett noir for Tadei Pogacar. I think the race is done and dusted, I mean, four minutes on Jonas. Jonas threw everything at him on Vantu. Maybe it's just softening them up. It's Ropadoop. Maybe it's Roperadoop. We'll find out. Today would be the day to find out.

So... at him on one-two. Maybe it's just softening them up. It's roper-a-dope. Maybe it's roper-dope.

We'll find out.

Today would be the day to find out. So, I mean, like, come along with us and we'll, I mean, we've said it before. We're fans. We're not commentators. We're not professionals. We're here to enjoy the atmosphere. So the main thing is we're going to eat pastries, we're going to ride bikes, we're going to hang out at the roadside, we're going to get a bit of the action. But yeah, I mean, you're going to come with us with the excitement of finding out what is actually happening. Guy just arrived on his bike, he looks a bit like Jens Voight as well. It's not Jens Voight. It's sort of like wish Jensvoit, but... Shut up, Skew.

That's my signal to stop talking, probably.

So, this is Life in the Pelotons Race Radio, presented by Map.

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