Jérôme Cousin has passed with ease from the world’s biggest stage race to riding across Portugal along road N2, Portugal’s equivalent of America’s Route 66. Because every ride, whether professional or not, is part of the great philosophy of the bicycle.

The bicycle is the symbol of restored freedom. When the COVID restrictions were eased, Bruno Ferraro and Max Riese decided to celebrate the reopening of the borders by meeting at the end of a very adventurous gravel bike trip on the Tilliacher Joch/Forcella Dignas pass, which has marked the physical border between Italy and Austria since 1920.

Miguel Ángel López takes a solo win atop Col de la Loze, as his Wilier 0 SLR carries him to victory in the most important stage of the Tour de France 2020.

Alexey Lutsenko wins the Tour de France’s first ever stage finishing on Mont Aigoual in the Cévennes, marking Astana Pro Team’s first victory in the 2020 edition of La Grande Boucle.

The third week of this year’s Tour represents the peak of exploration as Col de la Loze, La Montée du Plateau de Glières and La Montée de Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte chart another Grande Boucle in search of new and old climbs and, in the end, a winner.