Friends Lionel Birne and Richard Moore asked me to contribute a chapter to their recurring series, The Cycling Anthology.
Those lucky enough to be riding, or working on, the Tour de France quickly find themselves inside a three-week, in fact, almost month long bubble — a bubble that non-bike related life fails to pervade. But a silent bubble? Pas du tout. With manifold sounds, from the mechanical to the man-made, it's noisy in there, as Matthew Beaudin recounts — very noisy indeed. Check out his essay, "The Sounds of Cycling" .
That chapter is here.