Tour De France 2020.

[Atheist]

They came through our village last Thursday. I got one decent pic; the Bora German team with one of the lads on his mobile phone saying, "No!! I don't want insulation for a Euro!!
I'll try to post the pic if I can find out how to.

[Buenchico]

I'll copy the link across from your other post for you, Atheist:
https://ibb.co/2N7fWDr

I reckon that's he actually phoning his team's medic, to ask him if he's got anything to treat 'intimate chafing' ;-)

[Etch]

Very good! Right, I've identified the village, now which is your place? :-)

[Atheist]

Etch; if you think you've identified the vilage, then tell me the second and fourth letters. And - do you see a chateau just to the south-west?

[Atheist]

Thanks for your help, Buen.

[NickorWan]

That is Peter Sagan, probably checking who he should shoulder out of the race at the next sprint.

[Etch]

Atheist; the place where you took the pic has second letter 'a' and fourth letter 'h'. It has a mairie, and is classed as a commune in Wikipedia.
I can't see a chateau to the south-west, there's a small one to the south-east that sounds like a bumbling detective.

[Atheist]

Etch, your letters are OK but the chateau that you seem to refer to is north of *A*H**. Maybe I've got my directions wrong, but maybe you have. How did you get so close? (And I don't live in the chateau; that was a joke! I live in the heart of the village.)

[Atheist]

Etch, sorry the road sign at the top left isn't properly shown, but I was shooting with the sun on my viewfinder and the lads pedalling hell for leather, so the shot was a complete fluke.

[Atheist]

Etch, I'm imppressed that you got so close. How did you do it?

[Atheist]

Damn, now I can't find Clouzeaux, and I'm sure it's nearby. Ouzilly would be a better landmark.

[Buenchico]

Etch probably googled to find out where the peloton was at around five to eleven in the morning which, if you've got the correct time set on your camera, is when you took the photo. (Click on 'More Exif Data' in the link and scroll down).

[Theland]

I only started watching cycling a few years ago, and LOVE it.
True supermen.
So sorry Froome was not racing.
Looking forward to Vuelta.

[New Judge]

Why do they always arrange bike races where there are steep hills? Seems very poorly organised to me. The Tour de Holland or Tour de Norfolk might be more suitable. Better still, confine the riders to riding round in circles. I think there's a track for that at Herne Hill in South London. I like it when they have a race chasing a postman on a moped. I've watched that and was surprised that the bloke on the moped never seems to win. He always drops out halfway through the race. Perhaps he runs out of petrol. Funny old sport, cycling.

[Theland]

NJ - Yes! You have a point there!
And why don't the bikes have a rack on the back to carry the shopping, as my beloved old faithful did?

[Etch]

Atheist, as Buenchico points out, the Exif (Exchangeable image file format) data associated with your pic gives the Date Time as 2020-09-10 10:54:30. The stage anticipated timing for that day is given here (click the TIME SCHEDULE tab):
https://www.letour.fr/en/stage-12
Given that the stage didn't start until 11:50 local time the pic timestamp would appear to be in GMT, so add 2 hours to get French local time - 12:54:30 - and there is only one place that Le Tour could have been passing through at that time.
A virtual drive back along the route in Google Street View enabled me to find the junction where the bottom half of the letters on a road sign (to BR****IL LE C*****E) fitted with the bits shown in your pic. Et voila!

[Buenchico]

>>> The Tour de Holland or Tour de Norfolk might be more suitable

The 2015 Tour de France started in Utrecht. While the Tour hasn't yet visited Norfolk, the 3rd stage of the 2014 event was from Cambridge to London.

[DTCwordfan]

Do you take bookings, Atheist - because you are about to.......the AB get-away en la belle France.....

[ichkeria]

Nice wind-up NJ.
Mind you if I organised the Tour de France it would be held in France exclusively and be a proper tour :-)
No popping up from the Alps to the outskirts of Paris on the TGV on the last day but one ...

[DTCwordfan]

and only 5 gears on the bike.....!

[NickorWan]

I recall Sean Yates getting off his bike to greet his parents when the tour passed through his village, in Sussex I think, in 1994. He took the yellow jersey a couple of stages later; shame he didn't have it for that stage.