RELEASED: The Guide to Cycling in France and following the Tour de France

by Tim M on September 15, 2009 · 3 comments

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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Download a free preview of the guide by clicking here (or right-click and Save-As).
Discover how to save hundreds while enjoying a hassle-free, affordable journey through France – even if you’ve thought it’s out of reach.
Sunshine. Warmth. Coffee and croissants. Spinning [...]

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15% off at Wiggle Online Bike Store for 48 hours

by Tim M on March 6, 2010 · 0 comments

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In case you haven’t seen it yet, Wiggle has 15% off (at least) for the next 48 hours. The below is an affiliate link, so any purchases you make help this site out (for this sale, the commission is 1% I think).
Click here!

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For TdF readers: 20% off at Wiggle

by Tim MFebruary 13, 2010 Uncategorized

Until Feb 15th, I am happy to be able to provide you with up to 20% off at Wiggle.
The codes you need are:
Offer: £10 off £50
Code: heart-10GBP
Offer: £20 off £100
Code: heart-20GBP
Have a great Valentines Day! I’ll be riding up Mt Hotham on my Roubaix then taking my delightful girlfriend out for a lunch at the [...]

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Frequent Flyer Master: How to get 25,000 miles for $49

by Tim MFebruary 10, 2010 products

tdftips.com talks about the new Frequent Flyer Master travel hacking guide from Chris Guillebeau, which shows you how to get a 25,000 miles for only $49.

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Tour de France Travel Tips – Practical Travel Tips

by Tim MJanuary 28, 2010 Travel Tip

Thanks to Ashley M for his suggestions for a new post.

Although these are general best practise in general travel, I thought I’d cover them here as well.

In this post I discuss:

  • Travel visas
  • Insurance
  • Document Protection
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How to Plan a Cycling Trip to the Tour de France Part 3

by Tim MJanuary 27, 2010 Travel Tip

Welcome to Part 3 of the tourdefrancetips.com quick guide to planning a trip to France.

In Part 1, we covered the creation of an itinerary (initial planning) involving Tour stages, climbs to do, as well as what airlines you might look at.

In Part 2, I discussed Accommodation and Car Hire choices.

Now that we have an itinerary (you can download and use my 2009 one here), and have chosen our car hire and accommodation options, we can book.

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Tour de France planning case study: me 2010

by Tim MNovember 25, 2009 Travel Tip

I thought it would be an interesting case study to look at how we have planned our 2010 trip to Le Tour and L’Etape. I basically have followed the same planning methodology described in the Cycling Through France Guide and in the other posts on this topic…

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How to Plan a Cycling Trip to the Tour and France Part 2

by Tim MNovember 18, 2009 tdftip

This is Part 2 in an I-don’t-know-how-many-parts-yet series on planning a cycling trip to France for the Tour, L’Etape or just leisure.

At the end, I’ll do a case study on our 2010 planning, so you can see how to practically apply these ideas to your own trip to get a great outcome.

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GREAT iPhone Camera App

by Tim MOctober 26, 2009 products

You know what’s rad? When I find things that make my life easier, or radder. I do a lot of twittering and photo uploads, and anything that makes my bog-standard iPhone photos more interesting and unnecessarily arty is awesome.

So, this app makes on-the-fly application of pre-configured filters to your iPhone photos EASY PEASY.
AND, it’s by Chase Jarvis. Nuff said.

Do yourself a favour, get it and start using it, because it RULES.

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BikeStyle Tours (Oz) releases Etape tours: my comments

by Tim MOctober 25, 2009 Travel Tip

So BikeStyle Tours (Oz) have released their L’Etape du Tour tours. This year we have two options:

Etape-only: AUD$450, no support, this is bare bones entry only
Guided tour: AUD$2350, 20 people only, 5 days/4 nights, Etape transfers, Etape support (see the rest below)

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L’Etape du Tour 2010: suggestions

by Tim MOctober 23, 2009 Travel Tip

Ok, so after last year’s D-E-B-A-C-L-E – read more here – I thought I’d save you the hassle and lay my thoughts down for the 2010 edition. I am a hardcore logistics man and hate stuffing about, so trust me on this. If you are travelling with team support (wife, husband, girlfriend, whatever) [...]

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