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Topbike Tours TdF Reconnaissance for 2013 10 May 2013

TdF Reconnaissance for 2013

Views from Topbike Tour de France Reconnaissance in preparation for "Preview the Climbs of the TdF" Toulouse to Geneva, starting June 19.

Top Left: Tdf Climbs accommodation during June 2013

Top Right: Tour de France accommodation outside Luon - chess pieces on the lawn

Bottom Left: Tulips in the Haute Savoie

Bottom Right: Looking out my window, TDF Climbs reconnaissance, just outside gap.


David Olle, Topbike Tours Director.
Twitter: @davidOlle


Tiny Bike - The Original as filmed for Sooty Park by TopbikeTV for CH31 26 Aug 2012

Video of Tiny Bike -The Original from Sooty Park and TopbikeTV, CH31

WATCH - Tiny Bike - The Original as filmed for Sooty Park by TopbikeTV for CH31

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Plane trees close to the road in France 02 Jul 2012

Le Tour has Commenced

Trees close to road!

Le Tour has commenced as one may expect to see images of cyclists buried amongst the plain trees. (No mention of ‘trees close to road’. Clearly there has been no influence from the Victorian Road Authority (VIC ROADS) here!)

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Topbike Clients - Mortirolo - Giro 2012 29 May 2012

Il Giro e Finito

Il Giro e Finito

The Giro Tour for 2012 finished on Sunday and Topbike says goodbye to an exceptionally talented group of clients. Not only did they manage around 14000 vertical Metres of climbing in our 10 day tour but we also had nightly opera singing from Tim Keegan with the Milano Grand Finale accompaniment of the Sydney Bath Robe Choir.

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Travelling Light 29 Apr 2012

Travel Light - The Buddhist Philosophy

Travel Light – The Buddhist Philosophy: As you can see we here at Topbike follow our own philosophy and travel light!

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Topbike weighs in preparing to fly with bikes 26 Apr 2012

The BIG PACK

It’s that time of the year again when Topbike does what is affectionately known as ‘The Big Pack’.

In brief this involves boxing up bicycles and then stuffing everything in that absolutely can’t be replicated in Europe.

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Glad it wasn't my head 05 Apr 2012

Helmets Helmets Helmets

Glad it wasn't my head...

Why is it that some people refuse to wear bike helmets? I’m not talking about the occasional user of the bike share scheme (note these people are not ‘cyclists’ except in the media if they have just committed a crime, eg murder, exposure etc etc).

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26 Mar 2012

Topbike Tours La Vuelta Espana 2011 Re-Union

Topbike 2011 La Vuelta Espana re-union

On the weekend of March 24/25 the 2011 La Vuelta Espana group had a re-union party (actually we should call it a weekend festival) at the coastal town of Wye River in Victoria.

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17 Mar 2012

David and Betty Olle at Wildside

Betty Olle (5.5 months) and daddy David Olle at Wildside MTB

Is this her first bike race? Someone asked. I thought about it for a minute….Herald-Sun Tour, St Kilda Crits, Hawthorn Crits, Road Nationals, Geelong Bay Crits, Bendigo MTB race,  Beaconsfield MTB race, Tour Down Under….Poor little Betty, talk about living the lives of your parents.  Based on the behaviour of most teenagers she will probably hate the sport by her teen years.

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2013 Calendar - Grand Tours - Follow the Bike Races in Italy, France and Spain

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