Tour de France tech: Teams prepping bikes for Pyrenees

This article originally published on BikeRadar

Today’s Tour de France stage was classic, both in profile and region. The 206km stage 7 would cover four categorised climbs before the fast finish into Albi taken by Peter Sagan (Cannondale). It’s the last day in the (relatively) flat country before the 2013 Tour de France heads into the Pyrenees tomorrow for the category 1 summit finish at Ax-3-Domaines.

Bikeradar’s gallery from stages 6 and 7 checks out some of the adventurers’ and sprinters’ bikes before the race heads for the hills.

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Sam started as a trainee reporter on daily newspapers in the UK before moving to South Africa where he contributed to national cycling magazine Ride for three years. After moving back to the UK he joined Procycling as a staff writer in November 2010.