Guys on bikes

Are they not amused by my American flag? I stuck the pole down my back to have my hands free for photographing.

Believe it or not, the Tour de France is not about wacky corporate floats traveling around France and doling out trinkets. It’s about cycling! Though if you blink, you’ll miss it.

Do you see the thick cluster of helmets between the arrows of the road signs? En masse.

Leigh Howard, left, and Arthur Vichot are in the lead.

The others stream soon around both sides of the roundabout.

It doesn’t really thin out. There’s a swoosh of bikes, then they’re gone.

Only one straggler. Hang in there, buddy!

Voilà! In under five minutes, the gendarmes leading, the riders and the last equipment cars had zipped by.

Big doings in the village last night. And then France’s second-biggest fireworks at la Cité tonight. Stay tuned!