Le Tourmalet: life on a bridge

this life on a bridge it can have many appeals especially if engineering works hang above the sea and overcome all obstacles in the form of sometimes stormy, wind and water. I wanted to write from the bridge Big Belt but there is no escape, an artificial island in the middle of an 18-kilometer route, but closed to drivers, a shelter for maintenance cars and trucks.

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this Embrace It’s a companion that makes cyclists pass (or go) the most famous monuments they visit. For example, last year the race started on the ladder. Burgos cathedral. It served as a ramp stage there to begin the 2021 edition of the test. In another case, the scene took place from an insider. aircraft carrier It’s moored in the port of Cádiz and even from a raft loaded with mussels on the Galician coast.

Now bikers are a 18 kilometer bridge where it was always windy, the longest in Europe was an idea that was never used. crossing the bridge Saint Nazaire On the Breton beach and its formidable ramp, the job of going to northern Europe, at least to cycle… but no less than Denmark to cross a bridge… this test of effort had never been done before. .

to worry

Tour organizers go around to determine which lane to take riders through. The truth is, they were a little scared because the guards weren’t very high and a strong wind would still send a runner into the water. And that, obviously, was not a plan. Newspaper archives recall a brutal train accident caused by a storm many years ago, as the railroad line runs alongside or under the road at the crossing between the bridge islands.

Eventually, they set the route on the premise that if it was windy and a runner fell, they wouldn’t cross the asphalt. To all this, to determine what life is like on a bridge, team managers They consult weather reports or seek out experts to set their computers in the Tour’s transit area. And the truth is, they breathed a little easier when they saw that the air would blow more into the face despite being lateral, which meant more peace of mind for the peloton, but less appealing to the spectators. still and about a bridge in everyday lifeEspecially if you go by bike, it can change in the blink of an eye.

this life on a bridge it can have many appeals especially if engineering works hang above the sea and overcome all obstacles in the form of sometimes stormy, wind and water. I wanted to write from the bridge Big Belt but there is no escape, an artificial island in the middle of an 18-kilometer route, but closed to drivers, a shelter for maintenance cars and trucks.

Related

  • Stage 2 of the Tour de France 2022 is live

this Embrace It’s a companion that makes cyclists pass (or go) the most famous monuments they visit. For example, last year the race started on the ladder. Burgos cathedral. It served as a ramp stage there to begin the 2021 edition of the test. In another case, the scene took place from an insider. aircraft carrier It’s moored in the port of Cádiz and even from a raft loaded with mussels on the Galician coast.

Now bikers are a 18 kilometer bridge where it was always windy, the longest in Europe was an idea that was never used. crossing the bridge Saint Nazaire On the Breton beach and its formidable ramp, the job of going to northern Europe, at least to cycle… but no less than Denmark to cross a bridge… this test of effort had never been done before. .

to worry

Tour organizers go around to determine which lane to take riders through. The truth is, they were a little scared because the guards weren’t very high and a strong wind would still send a runner into the water. And that, obviously, was not a plan. Newspaper archives recall a brutal train accident caused by a storm years ago, as the railroad line runs alongside or under the road at the crossing between the bridge islands.

Eventually, they set the route on the premise that if it was windy and a runner fell, they wouldn’t cross the asphalt. To all this, to determine what life is like on a bridge, team managers They consult weather reports or seek out experts to set their computers in the Tour’s transit area. And the truth is, they breathed a little easier when they saw that the air would blow more into the face despite being lateral, which meant more peace of mind for the peloton, but less appealing to the spectators. still and about a bridge in everyday lifeEspecially if you go by bike, it can change in the blink of an eye.

Source: Informacion

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