Tour De France for Idiots
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Stage 20 | 2024
20 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Climb Climb Climb! Pudgy Carl is relentless and he seems to have a v-8 engine built in this year. He's just making things look easy at this point!...
Stage 18 | 2024
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From time to time, we see a day of glory for a non-GC contender, even here in the last of the stages of the tour. Catch up on today's tour with Mu...
Stage 17 | 2024
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks for stopping by stage 17! A man in a rare pink uniform won today. That's something we've wanted to see for some time now! Tune in to ca...
Stage 16 | 2024
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There have been no changes in the GC and we may have seen our very last spring challenge. With Tadej in a commanding lead, it feels like the tour is s...
Stage 15 | 2024
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The tour isn't over but what a decisive day. This one is what we call "a slaughtering."
Stage 14 | 2024
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It wasn't the steepest climb but it's a climb nonetheless. Things are getting HILLY and the back & forth between the top contenders is sti...
Stage 13 |2024
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jasper takes a sprint finish and we can't decide if we care or not. Feels like the glory days of sprinting are a little behind us.
Stage 11 and 12 | 2024
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sorry we missed ya yesterday folks! As they say, life gets in the way! Consider this our sincerest apology and we are on to the next one.
Stage 10 | 2024 featuring Sir Bradley Wiggins & George Hincapie
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We had a boring stage today but we did NOT have a boring podcast!
Stage 9 | 2024
07 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The road got bumpier today and it ain't cause of the drama. The road was literally bumpy, in the form of many MANY miles of gravel sectors stretch...
Stage 8 | 2024
07 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
History was made AGAIN! These sprint finishes are getting more an more interesting. It seems to be exclusively people we've heard of for years or ...
Stage 7 | 2024
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
TT day is always interesting. Mostly because of the terrible helmets but.... AERO = SPEED as they say. Catch up on today's stage with Jelly and Mu...
Stage 6 | 2024
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It feels like we are really digging in now. Another flat stage ended in a little less glory than yesterday but, it was still completed at blistering s...
Stage 5 | 2024
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
HE DID IT!
Stage 4 | 2024
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The mountains sure do bring out the big guns. Tadej dropped the hammer and put the nail in today's stage. The GC batter KEEPS heating up and we ar...
Stage 3 | 2024
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lesson learned... if you want to win a sprint, you can't be 385 people back! But, we finally had a fast one and that's what we were looking fo...
Stage 2 | 2024
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We have a big tour ahead of us with strong GC contenders in the mix for the 3rd day now. We even have a big rider in yellow! Will he hang on? We'l...
Stage 1 | 2024
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What a grueling start! We almost lost the Manx Missle! Catch up on all of this and more on the Tour De France for Idiots (by idiots) podcast!
Race Preview 2024
29 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jelly and Mustard are back! The preview to this years 2024 Tour De France will get you geared up for the worlds greatest bike race! Tune in today!!
Stage 21
23 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
And so it ends... this edition of the worlds greatest bike race has come to a close and honestly, it was fantastic (and we aren't just saying that...
Stage 20
22 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yet another brutal climb to finish the last meaningful day of the tour. Of course, we all wanted Pinot to take a victory on his 10th and final tour bu...
Stage 19
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emotion is the is a big part of the Tour. Bahrain-Victorious tallied up another emotional win honoring their fallen teammate. Overall, today was just ...
Stage 18
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we witnessed the rare, beautiful, and successful breakaway. The peloton with all of it's hammer heads at the front could not reel the lone f...
Stage 17
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Oh wow.... consider the lead officially extended. Jonas in yellow is looking more and more permanent as Pudgy Carl finally hits the wall known as &quo...
Stage 16
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The firecracker lead that Jonas had just became an atomic bomb. WOW.... When they say "risking it for the biscuit" they are specifically tal...
Rest Day 2
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
These cyclists can, apparently, just take a break from Le Tour but, our weary vocal chords will find no rest until Le Tour is complete! Check in to le...
Stage 15
16 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Admittedly, we were all a bit late to today's stage coverage but wildly enough, we all tuned in for the cell-phone-selfie crash. C'mon people!...
Stage 14
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ugh! You hate to see a wreck.... let alone 5 riders now out of this years tour! There was a dark cloud over todays stage that brought nothing but chao...
Stage 13
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michal Kwiatkowski, the former World Champ and recently-turned "old dog" of the tour (a crazy thing to think about at 33 years old) pulled o...
Stage 12
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Early in the tour, we simply couldn't believe we would be talking about Team Cofidis. Today, we talk about them a second time!! Ion Izagirre takes...
Stage 11
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jasper Philipsen wins a 4th sprint finish! Although we continue to mourn a tour without Cav, we are NOT without our need for speed. That being said, w...
Stage 10
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We thought we'd see the former force-to-be reckon with, Julian Alaphilippe pull off a victory however, it was Bilbo Baggins... wait.... *checks no...
Rest Day
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today you learn a little about the hosts, the tour thus far, and why HANDUP (a historically mountain bike focused company) even started a Tour De Fran...
Stage 9
09 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Woods takes a heroic stage win not only for a daring effort but because it ended at the top of a volcano! The temperatures up there surely add...
Stage 8
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast was recorded on a Sad-urday. Yes it is technically Saturday but, the sadness of Mark Cavendish crashing out of his final tour is nearly t...
Stage 7
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Manx Missile was close enough to taste a win yet, a history-making win alludes him. Naturally we learned about the importance of a lead out train ...
Stage 6
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Almost everyone who has been on a group ride in their cycling career has experienced the moment they are left in the dust by another rider... Tadej Po...
Stage 5
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that the Pyrenees had an official animal? Spoiler alert! IT DOES. What else did we learn? The GC contenders are doing everything they can...
Stage 4
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy 4th of July! There was no American victory (aside from the one way back when in 1776) but there was no English victory either. As for the highli...
Stage 3
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
HANDUP hosts, Jelly and Mustard, discuss the Sprint finish of Stage 3 and really dig deep on the overtly matchy-matchy attire of the various jerseys.....
Stage 2
02 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At the end of the day, we felt as though Wout should have taken the win yet, we are talking about the Cofidis win.... And it's been a LONG time si...
Stage 1
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
HANDUP hosts, Jelly and Mustard, discuss the EPIC twin-win of stage 1 along with the general feedback of their first time podcasting. It's not eve...
Pre-Race
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode the HANDUP hosts, Jelly and Mustard, discuss, debate, and butcher every pronunciation in the pro peloton. This is the day befo...