cycling

Tour de France: The French terms you need to know

To coincide with the 100th edition of the Tour de France, the BBC Magazine has a nicely-researched feature on the key cycling vocabulary that every self-respecting connoisseur of the sport should know...

READ MORE | 18 Jul 2013
French cyclist breaks age group record for The Hour - three months after his 100th birthday

Here's a story to put a pep in your step at the end of a long week: A 100-year-old cyclist from France has set a new age group world record for The Hour an incredible 86 years after his first competit...

READ MORE | 17 Feb 2012
Modern Day Cyclists Ought to be Linguists

Another post on cycling and languages. Lovely quote from Tim Hilton's wonderful memoirs on the world of cycling, One More Kilometre and We're In the Showers, about how the culture of cycling naturally...

READ MORE | 15 Apr 2011
Le Vélo-Dictionnaire Français/Anglais

Thinking of cycling in France on your Easter or Summer break and would like to learn some key French vocabulary just in case your bike breaks down? Have no fear: Sheldon Brown's Le Vélo-Diction...

READ MORE | 12 Apr 2011
The Thrills and Spills of the Tour de France

The Tour de France, the greatest cycling race of them all, gets properly underway today with live coverage from Sky and ITV in the UK and Versus in the U.S. For sports buffs and French language learne...

READ MORE | 3 Jul 2010