Tour De France 2025 Stage (Following the Peloton)

In the video we follow the Tour de France peloton from Valenciennes to Dunkirk. It was a ride with many unforeseen challenges, beauty and excitement. Come and join us for the journey.

Strava:
Tour De France: https://www.strava.com/activities/15045752779

Equipment:

Bike: Canyon Grail CFR
Kit: Lameda, Rapha, Castelli, Maap and Shimano
Mics: DJI Mini Mics, Rode

In Association With:
Lameda clothing
https://www.lameda.cc/

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Music track: Last Chance by Waesto
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Music track: Travel by Lukrembo
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Timestamps:

Timestramps:
0:00 Intro
00:53 Start
2:15 Trouée d’Arenberg (Roubaix Cobbles)
3:17 Through France
4:16 Pave de l’Abattoir (Roubaix Cobbles)
5:25 To Lille
06:48 Belgium?
08:11 Messines
08:50 The Belgian Experience
10:03 To Dunkirk
10:27 Arrival
11:02 A Lasting Thought

Are you feeling it? Are you feeling The tour to France began in 1903 here in France and today in 2025 the race is going to go from Valencians to Dunkirk. We’re going to follow them. Come and join us for the journey. Let’s go. Valencians Dunkerk. Here we go. You ready? Yeah. Okay. And who’s this guy? Pardon? Who’s this guy? And who’s that flag? Ali. Here we go. So, my friend and I are following the Pelaton from Valencians to Dunkerk. On the surface, it seems like a pretty easy route. It doesn’t have much elevation and passes through the French countryside, which is a massive bonus. Straight I’m riding Ruby. Ruby, who am I? I’m Machu Vanderpool. Oh, the hurts. Oh, I don’t want it. Ah. So, we’re about 10 kilometers in and we just rode the Ironburgg. Well, to be quite honest, I didn’t ride the cobbles. The hands were hurting, but exciting. We got a bike lane. Around 20 km outside of Valencians, we start to see the countryside with some beautiful landscapes. He’s beeping. It’s also nice that there were bike lanes which kept the mind at ease because you’re not constantly worrying about cars getting too close. On the other side, we hadn’t taken a look at the wind trajectory and we had 140 km of headwind to look forward to. So, that was going to be exciting. through the French countryside. Oh, wonderful. Oh my. Okay. Go, go, go, go, go. Pedal. Oh, it hurts. Go, go, go. I can go faster. Around 40 km in, we arrive at another section of the Peru Bay cobos. And although they were really harsh, it’s such a unique experience to be able to ride these cobbles, not just once, but twice in one ride. So, I was really excited. So, we just rode a part of the Perry Rubé cobos. Like, which one was it? That one. That one. I don’t know if any of you have ridden Cobbos before, but you can hear your bones. You can hear them shaking. They’re like, “Ah, it’s horrible.” But no, it’s nice. Hey, hey, hey. So when you get a coffee in little they give you a toddler. Is that toblerone? I think so. It’s a tiny little toblerone. No, it’s a tub. It’s a tub. Are you supposed to be mixing a toblerone with a What are you having? Mashiato latte. That’s not good. What’s not good? The toblerone with a latte. After we left, we noticed that the signs were in a different language. It turns out that we were in Belgium. From Belgium all the way down to Dunkirk, there were very strong headwinds. Uh we found ourselves pushing really hard even on the downhill sections. windy, but at least the sun came out. Cycling through the country lanes and seeing the landscapes, we really could see how it inspired generations of artists and that impressionism movement. It really moved the sold Around 90 kilometers into the ride, at the top of a short but really steep climb, we ended up in a small town. The name of this town is Msine, where you can find a statue of the World War I football troops. This is so beautiful. After lil, we were on a really long stretch of road passing through Belgium. The funny thing is that we had run out of food and we were looking for a shop and we didn’t see one for nearly 30 kilometers. It seems like the Belgians don’t really like shops. Maybe that’s why Eddie Merks was so strong. He just rode around looking for shops all the time. So somehow from Liil we ended up in Belgium cuz he didn’t look at the route and we’ve been cycling for ages down this random road meeting reading German everywhere like what’s going on in Belgium. French. French. It’s not French. It’s not French but it’s kind of like uh Flemish. Yeah. But it’s not kind of. It is Flemish. in like in a random like place they’ve got places to put your bikes and feeds pump heats pump so to pump your bike up. They love cycling around here. Fats. After a day of super strong headwinds, some of the most beautiful scenery, and an attempt to try to catch the tour to France Pelaton, we were on the final stretch to Dunkirk. All right. So, 135 km to Dunkerk. We made it. We didn’t beat the Pelaton. We hope you had fun. That was a little bit tiring. Super windy. Catch you in the next video. It would have been rude to leave without coming to Dunkerk Beach. See you next time.