Roadside Stage 18: Two days in the Alps down and two to go and, as can be expected, Ed and Callum had to go against the power of the law to sneak onto the Lacets de Montvernier climb to bring you exclusive photos. A crazy climb on a crazy day at the Tour de France. PEZ Roadside:‘Non!’ says the gendarme; we’ve overshot the Lacets de Montvernier exit and ended up en route to the stage finish in Saint-Jean-De-Maurienne – but we have to get back to the Lacets; it’s what the day is all about, the first time the wonderful hairpins have featured in Le Tour and we’re trying to navigate back to the turn off.We plead with the cop but it falls on deaf ears; ‘non !’‘Okay! Okay!’ we have to go all the way through the finish line evacuation, through the car park, get free of the race caravan parking – and by persistence and luck we get back to where we need to be. We already know that only team and official Tour de France cars are allowed up and we’ll have to forced march in – but what we didn’t know is that it’s closed to the public. The police have it locked down tight, there’s just us, one other photog. and three or four dudes who have holed up in the woods, Special Forces style – maybe they’ve been there since the route was announced last November ?It’s strange with no crowd but we’re not...
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