| 1 | Not all bamboo bikes are expensive or aimed at riding the Tour de France. | |
| 2 | The main question for me on this Tour is when it will be fit for me to quit. | |
| 3 | By early Saturday, he was still awake -- and still did not know who had won the latest stage of the Tour de France. | |
| 4 | Cycling is behind other sports partly because in recent years the Tour was dominated by one man, Lance Armstrong. | |
| 5 | Everyone's on bikes, from the pelotons of the Tour de France to the bicycle transporters of Burundi. |