- Riders take on longest stage, 230km to Chalon-sur-Saône
- Tour de France 2019: stage-by-stage guide
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An email: “Myself and 1,076 other cyclists will be telling you your gears need re-indexing if they’re jumping about,” writes Paul Graham and 1,076 other cyclists. “A decent local bike shop should be able to do this in an hour or so. You could try to follow a gear indexing tutorial on Youtube, but I’ve always found that once you start fiddling it’s a hiding to nothing.”
You may well be right, Paul, but I think it’s just me not knowing how to use all those gears properly. I haven’t done enough kilometres on this bike for anything to need re-anything-ing. Like, less than 50.
147km to go: Tony Martin (Jumbo-Visma), Kasper Asgreen (Deceuninck-Quick Step) and Maxime Monfort (Lotto Soudal) are taking turns at the front of the bunch, maintaining the necessary speed to control the breakaway for the benefit of their respective team’s sprinters come stage’s end. The gap is 3min 46sec.
Written by Barry Glendenning
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2019/jul/12/tour-de-france-2019-stage-seven-live under the title “Tour de France 2019: stage seven – live!”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
