Touring de France with Manual for Speed: The End

Manual For Speed wraps up its Tour de France coverage for VICE Sports with photos of race technology, the race's people's champion, and France's sleepiest spectators.

by Manual For Speed

July 28, 2015, 12:20pm

Manual for Speed

_Editor's Note: Manual for Speed is a _collective devoted to exploring the spectacle of cycling. VICE Sports has been publishing periodic updates as they photograph the Tour de France. For daily coverage, check out their website.__

The 2015 running of the Tour de France is in the history books. While the official record will show that Chris Froome won his second Tour de France, it is important to note that in the meta-era-epoch there is so much more than just the racing that must be taken into account when considering a spectacle of this magnitude. While most cycling media glaze over these important details, Manual for Speed makes them our business. From the grandiose to the banal; four-wheel drifting in front of the Arc de Triomphe, creating a detailed catalogue of the fan costuming found along the switchbacks of L'Alpe d'Huez, and writing impassioned descriptions of French countryside breakfast cuisine, we alone cover the full spectrum of the race. So follow along with us as we take a look back at the final crucial stages; where riders face the crucible of the Alps, the crowd's costuming reaches it's zenith, and the quality of our breakfast offerings plunge to new and frightening lows.

Professional cyclists need legs to power their bicycles. Muscles, too. Muscles are good.

Soooooooo many RVs. All the RVs. Everywhere.

Masonic symbols are everywhere in France

CUTIE!

We know what you're thinking? And you'd be right, this photo could have been taken 30 years ago–transistor radio/ringer socks/dolphin shorts–at Le Tour vintage costuming is all part of the game.