_Editor's Note: Manual for Speed is a _collective devoted to exploring the spectacle of cycling. VICE Sports will be publishing periodic updates as they photograph the Tour de France. For daily coverage, check out their website__We are two weeks, 13 stages, 53 chocolate croissants, 73 eau gazeuse, 2,436 kilometers, 165,510 processed megapixels, and 172,991 steps into the 2015 running of the Tour de France. We have photographed some things you'll have to see to believe–including but not limited to– bikes, bike riders, people watching bikes and their riders, people watching people watching bikes and their riders. This is the pageantry, the extravagance, the spectacle of the Tour de France. Manual for Speed is there to capture it all, and we put it on the internet for your digital titillation.
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Team Time Trial is the day everyone wears their space suit and the team goes out on the course together. It's pretty amazing to watch.
Getting cops (especially ones that speak fancy Euro languages) to pose together for a photo is pretty intimidating, but guys, they LOVE being photographed. #justlikeus
"You hate and you hate and you hate a little less, and then you 'sup this one group of cool-looking teenagers and before you know it you're just a-beeping and a-honking and a-smiling your way down the road. Yayyayayayayyayayaayyayay! Everybody! The Tour de France. It's coooooooming!"
One of the most surprising things we've discovered at this Tour de France is the sheer number of cornfields in France. WHO KNEW???!!
Do people still say SWAG?
"It tasted a lot like, I imagine, what a French Baseball game would taste like. Which come to think of it isn't cycling a French Baseball game?"
To American eyes, these cool Euro-only models customized with TV satellites and stuff look like spaceships.
As Americans, maybe cheerleading is one of those things that didn't need to get exported?
The earliest citation for "red flag" in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1602. At that time the flag was used by military forces to indicate that they were preparing for battle.
Some people stand in the darkness, afraid to step into the light
If there is one stereotype that the French live up to, it is that they have completely mastered the art of seduction.
Then we stumbled across the opening scene of a psychosexual Skittles themed horror movie, called " Taste the Rainbow." It has supposedly been testing really well in Germany.