BMC WINS TOUR De FRANCE

A BMC bike won the TOUR De FRANCE today............with a little help from Cadel Evans and BMC Racing.

Several people have remarked when they have seen my demomstrator, BMC, never heard of it. Now they have;)

[ATTACH]2509.vB[/ATTACH]

Yes, congratulations due to Cadel Evans for an Australian tour win for the first time ever. After a decade of working towards this and second place in 2009 and 2010 by only seconds, his success now is well deserved. Dare I mention that his BMC bike broke during one climb and had to be replaced, losing him time while the team car caught up to make that exchange. That's why Cadel was behind both the Schleck brothers on Thursday, but fortunately was more than able to make that up on Friday. Only teasing John. loads of bikes of all makes break due to the huge stresses of the Tour, especially this year with one of the toughest courses ever.

It was one of the best Tours ever, and another first in having two brothers on the podium as well, Andy Schleck in second place and brother Frank Schleck third. Thomas Voeckler's performance deserves a mention too for his retaining the yellow jersey for France through six stages. It was the best year for France for a long time with five French riders in the first fifteen including a new rising star in Pierre Rolland getting the white jersey for best young rider.

The Manx Missile, Mark Cavendish also deserves a mention for winning the green jersey.

In my opinion, it has been the best thing on TV over the last three weeks, superb coverage and wonderful images.

Yes indeed, I forgot to mention Mark stamping his authority as the world's best sprinter.

It certainly was great TV, far more than just a race. That course with it's highest ever climb in the Tour is going to cause headaches for next year's course planners. How do they top that?