Tour De France Stage One Polka Dot 12 Speed Road Bike

With the Stage One Polka Dot you will charge the mountains with ease.
The light weight alloy frame combined makes this bike ideal for long climbs.
Classic steel drop bars and stem mounted shifters give this bike a classic look that is backed with modern technology.

FEATURES:
FRAME: Alloy
FORK: Steel 1” Threaded
SHIFTERS: Shimano Sl-Sy20A Stem Mounted Lever Shifter
STEM: Steel 22.2 Quilled Road Stem
CRANKSET: Dotek Steel Double 48t/42t 170mm Length
PEDALS: Plastic Road Pedal
WHEELSET: 700c Double Walled Alloy Rim/ Steel Hubs 36h/6spd cassette
TIRES: Wanda 700c/25c Road
F/R DERAILLEURS: Shimano TZ-31/TY-18 Front and Rear
HANDLEBAR: 42cm 25.4 Classic Steel Drop
SEATPOST: Alloy 27.2 300mm
SADDLE: Steel Rail Road Saddle


HISTORY OF THE TOUR DE FRANCE

In early 20th century France, anyone envisaging a near-2,500-km-long cycle race across the country would have been widely viewed as unhinged.
But that didn’t stop Géo Lefèvre, a journalist with L’Auto magazine at the time, from proceeding with his inspired plan.
His editor, Henri Desgrange, was bold enough to believe in the idea and to throw his backing behind the Tour de France.
And so it was that, on 1 July 1903, sixty pioneers set out on their bicycles from Montgeron.
After six mammoth stages (Nantes - Paris, 471 km!), only 21 “routiers”, led by Maurice Garin, arrived at the end of this first epic.

Having provoked a mixture of astonishment and admiration, le Tour soon won over the sporting public and the roadside crowds swelled.
The French people took to their hearts this unusual event which placed their towns, their countryside and, since 1910, even their mountains, in the spotlight.

Le Tour has always moved with the times. Like France as a whole, it benefited from the introduction of paid holidays from 1936.
It has lived through wars, and then savoured the “trente glorieuses” period of economic prosperity while enjoying the heydays of Coppi, Bobet, Anquetil and Poulidor.
It has opened itself up to foreign countries with the onset of globalisation.
And now finds itself at the forefront of the debate on the malaise afflicting world sport in general.
Over a hundred years after its inception, le Tour continues to gain strength from its experience.