reposting as this will have got lost at the start of the thread. Checked with mods and they are cool with it.
There is a charity ride going on ahead of the TDF, being run by these guys
https://www.tourdeforce.org.uk/. Most people are joining the group for 1-2 stages. My friend Dave is doing the entire Tour. He wants to hit £2.5k and is nearly there - only £50 to go. He sold one of his road bikes to help towards that total too.
So if any of you can perhaps appreciate just how insane this guy is, please take a look at his donation page at
http://www.bmycharity.com/tourdedave and if you can spare a couple of quid that'd be brilliant.
He just completed stage 10 today, which looked like this:
and stage 11 tomorrow looks like this