Tour de France - Drinking Raids - When the riders used to stop at cafes and take what they wanted.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- Here's one of the most important moments of the tour: drinking raids.
They enter a cafe, shoving everyone aside.
It isn't quite looting, but they demand and take anything; red wine, champagne, beer.
Even water, if there's nothing better.
Actually, they really should be drinking water.
Then they're off, usually without paying.
After the Tour de France, the director of the tour receives a number of bills.
Sometimes they lose two or three minutes and have to chase the pack for the next 20 km.
"Even water if there's nothing better." 😂😂😂😂
I love how professional sports were more chill back in the day. Imagine a TDF rider today just gulping down on a glass bottle of wine during the race.
Will get banned for "performance enhancing drugs".
Although to be fair back then they were also taking whatever performance drug the labs could not detect.
Back in the day they used to smoke cigarrettes before long climbs because people believed smoking would expand their lungs...
And like casually passing it around
happens ever year on the final stage!
@@bort- I don't see what's described in this video as entitlement at all, neither do I what's going on in professional sports in general today.
There's just so much money involved that there is no time for such goofiness.
It's kind of wholesome how they're sharing everything between each others, even the ice cream popsicle lol
sharing the Popsicle is like kissing the homies goodnight
@@FurnishedIgloo ghey
all the germs too. i saw some guy on RAGBRAI last month shove his hand in the community ice bucket and put the cubes in his water bottle. It was so hot I couldn't blame him too much
other times, when people were for sure better than today
@grafoeh6822 French people are latin and therefore considered Black.
I rode with a veteran of old tours. In the race he drank some red wine, cracked a raw egg in the bottle, topped it off with water, shook it up, and stuck it in his jersey. there were no service cars, riders carried their own spares and to eat you rode off the front, pulled into cafe, ate, then caught back up to peloton after they passed you while you ate. When I knew him, dude was 70+ and rode 200 hard ks with multiple mountain passes around Zurich, every sunday, on a donated kidney.
..i donated the kidney for him..just saying..
well that's some of the most impressive things I've heard!!!!!
my god 200ks riding on a kidney, and a donated one on top of that!
Which Tours de France did he ride in?
LOL! on a donated kidney sent me
@@Euro0815wow, props to you, very cool.
Your honor, my client was not "shoplifting"; he is simply French.
bruh
The tour payed for it, as was clearly stated in the video.
@@erebus79If I take something from a corner store and come back 2 weeks later to pay for it, It’s not exactly legal.
@@andrzejszpak688did you just compare yourself with the Tour de France ?
@@andrzejszpak688 The Tour de France is an institution and this is organized by the State itself. It's a bit awkward to talk about illegality.
Seeing two professional cyclists passing an icecream back and forth in the middle of one of the most important cycling races on earth greatly improved my mood today.
What makes you think they are professional cyclists?
@@tomskimcdouglegaming806 they are... they are competing in the Tour De France?
@@Lastprogramer 🤣
It wasn’t really professional back then was it?
@@Lastprogramer Wasn't professional back then and outside cheese land nobody gave a shit about it either.
I still do this at my local cafe and try to keep the tradition alive 😊
Let us know if you need a ride from jail! ;p
So that means you own a cafe, or you steal stuff at a local coffeeshop and escape on your bike?^^
🥰
When on a solo ride, i almost always stop at a bakery or café and binge a little on cake and coffee.
@@MessieAsyeah but do u raid
This is a prime example of how optimizing everything is not always the best way
optimizing everything usually begins with optimizing the fun and chill out of a thing..
What a stupid comment. The best way on what terms? Just for a little bit of nostalgia and silly entertainment?
Welcome to AI generated Optimized world
it depends on how you define the "best way"
For a racer it's usually to win a Tour ^^
Sports cannot only be about statistics, they are about the human spirit!
A tour de france without radios, power meters, and support cars would be 10x more entertaining
Yes! And everyone on standardised bikes, like in Japanese Keirin races
Yes, it was.
When you say power meters , you mean power hubs right? 😂😂😂😂 Motors.
What is a "power meter" anyway? Something like an EKG?
@@derekjolly3680 It measures how much power you are putting out. On climbs it's faster to just "ride to power" where they essentially time trial and don't care what is happening around them, so there aren't as many attacks and makes for a much less fun spectator event
The film is "Vive le Tour" by Louis Malle from 1962 if anyone is wondering.
Thanks a lot !
oh thanks, merci !
No it’s from Premium Rush in 2012 starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Thanks!
Or as we knew him in the States, Mr. Candice Bergen.
Don't underestimate how hard professional cycling was in 1962 (when this was filmed) - these guys were not out on a club ride- they were hard men riding at the absolute limits of what they could take physically, on crappy roads with very few 'creature comforts' of any sort. Yes the sport was different, and the world was different but "fun" or "chill"? Watch the entire film - you'll appreciate these moments better by seeing them in the context of what every day was like for these guys.
0:38 Thats the most french thing I can imagine: riding your bike on a hot summer day, Accordion music in the backround and meanwhile you drink one or two bottles of wine or champagne chasing your friends to the next café.
You forget the thing where as you are french you do not have to apply to traffic rules (Damn french almost got me killed like 50 times this summer holiday. Sacrebleu!)
If I remember correctly, there was a small citreon truck that carried a famous female accordion player Yvette horner who played while following the tour. In the early days it was like a rolling circus.
There's probably a video with Yvette playing on TH-cam.
@@laupernut Indeed, there is a slide show with pictures of her playing while the Tour is going on.
yep now no accordion because they imported kazillion immigrants and no french because of said immmigrants , paris is toast!
Don't forget that they don't eat power bars but just a fine selection of french cheeses
The two guys sharing the ice cream! I can’t 🤣 this is too good 🤣
When in France.
Bruh I thought it was a fucking sausage before reading your comment
@@trustnugget280 might as well be a sausage those two are gay AF 😂
@@trustnugget280 same lol
France = gay. It's normal
oh my god the professionalism in those days, drinking a Champaign and the tour de France receives a bill for the shop owner. Those shop owners must have been very honest when sending their invoices😅
"Zis bistro... de bill said de Campari peloton stopped by and 'purchased' over 9000 bottles of vin? But Campari team is only 8 persons..."
@jonathantan2469 Actually, 9000 bottles for 8 people sounds about right 😂
@@TheBliepbliep If their priority wasn't money and they had such high values and morals, they'd recognize they did more business during the race than the rest of the year combined and they wouldn't have the balls to send a bill for a couple free drinks taken by the riders.
@@TheBliepbliepeh did you know that most of the guys in this video were high a/f in cocaine and amphetamines right? the modern antidoping systems and rules for sports were developed almost entirely to stop dopping in the Tour the France after the death of Tom Simpson in 1967
@@TheBliepbliepOh, how naive you are. People rarely had morals in history, it's not a contemporary thing.
If all the people were so moral, how come some of the worst atrocities in human history happened in the past century?
Yeah, those are rose tinted glasses that you're wearing, with an unwarrantated sense of nostalgia for a time you've never experienced.
My favourite high school French teacher was an old Tour rider in the 80s who won the Chemise Jaune. He moved to North America after retiring from cycling to teach French language, literature, history and social studies. I remember going to academic conferences (field trips) in the 90s and all the female French teachers from other schools swooning and flirting with him as an old sports celebrity.
Handsome, jovial, friendly man who took an interest in me as a young student athlete while I was going through some troubling family issues at home. My life could have gone very dark without him.
Merci, M. Guy LeGentil.
I like how french clearly says "litres" and subtitles decide to go with gallons.
They converted the amount tho
The also say pounds when the French says kilos and also did a rough conversion (8 kilos = 4 pounds).
@@crazeemunkee a pound is just under half a kilo
"quatre litres" are almost exactly one gallon
@@koalakoala2344 if a 9% difference is "exactly" for you then yes, but 3.78 liters aren't exactly 4.
Looks like Monty Python made this up 😂
Hahah, that is exactly what I thought 😀
Lol
yes!
Loved it when sports were like this. Don't get me wrong, the things we can do right now are absolutely impressive and way out of the scope of what you could do back then. But there is a sense of homeliness, when things used to be like this. Things, like sports, felt less mechanical, less optimized, and more fun (albeit maybe more dangerous). It's a beautiful thing!
All i can think of is Keke Rosberg smoking a cigarette that barely pokes out from under his immense moustache
@@nuckels188 keke rosberg won a championship winning only one race iirc. Different times hahahaha.
@@Gianni2002 so did nico. Lewis engine failed in Malaysia
Use* to
@@snakeribbons nah bro you're wrong it's "used to"
This should never have stopped, what glorious times.
It still happens a lot on amateur mountain bike races. I chugged two beers last one I rode :) It helped me ride faster
But how else would they get the wine? :)
Well european culture is dying due to other cultures invading. So we'll never see something like this again
@@MrHammerman97nah, we just need to culture harder and reassert the big dick of European culture
Imagine the scumbags that would exploit it nowadays though. Put on the uniform as is they're part of the race then run through shops stealing everything they can.
My mother is from a small village close to Pézenas in the south of France, an area where people drink more wine than water. In the 40s, as a teenager, she used to work in the vineyards. One hot day of summer, the Tour de France came in the village. Of course the riders raided the local pub. One rider was already drunk, drank more wine, and had to make a break at the exit of the village. Quickly he fell asleep under a tree. About 2 hours later, he woke up and was fit enough to ride again, alone... Surprisingly, that day, this drunk rider won the stage : all the others had taken the wrong way and got lost !
ah right...sure thing lol
This is THE most French thing I have ever seen... and its amazing.
I know obviously all the racers were not French, but I mean come on... raiding a Cafe to get Wine or Champagne during an intense-ass bike race is just so on the nose here 🤣
Ok, incoming cheap shot... It could be argued it's a German thing too. :)
Ngi I would watch every minute of the Tour De France if it would be like this. This could easily be the greatest and most entertaining thing.
I agree 100% but you just know that some jerk would go so far and cause an international outrage somehow.
its like seeing a battle royale drop and scramble for gear
Think of the product placement!!
Facts
Only if business owners were armed, it would be more entertaining.
The fact that they don't do this anymore shows how 'no fun' the tour has become. Bring back this tradition!
Not a good idea, people will do anything to cheat if it was this flexible
Hear hear👍🍺🍷🍾🥴
It has evolved into current form for a reason. It's a race and apparently drinking raids were not the most efficient way to win.
@@mikosoftits has devolved into a soulless spectacle.
I'm sure there's an endless amount of fun bike events happening every day around the world. Don't worry.
This is brilliant! And it's not even a Monty Python comedy! The good old days 🙂
Dude if the cycling was still like this maybe people my age would watch it. 😂😂😂
Everything in this video is so wholesome, lighthearted and fraternal. Sports could still be like that
do you have anymore pretentious words or is that it
Beautiful
Lovely
Welcoming
Nice
0:57 naaah them bros sharing an ice cream was too cute
holy crap i've been watching the tdf since leMond was champion and i never knew this was a thing. somehow completely french - raid the peasants for champaigne and beer haha XD
They also raided the chemist for amphetamine & cocaine. Ah.. The good old days.
@@karlbyrne6021 How else do you think one can survive 400km long stages?
This is criminal savage behavior why do you think it’s funny? Bunch of criminal bums thinking they can raid whatever they want. Too bad they didn’t get met with a hammer or an axe by a shopkeeper when these entitled goons rolled through
Sounds like a normal day in South London! 😉
@@82vitt more like 200 km surely.
The way the guys share the food while their riding is really beautiful in a way
Bring this Tour de France back
When the Tour was actually a tour.
Tour de Slum. What a shit hole of an experience
You've said it Mr. :)
Climbing Alpe D'Huez with red wine and cheese. xD This is how TDF should be.
So thats why they were so strong..cause they drink beer, wine and champagne during the ride 😂😂😂
Don't forget the sausages
This is the best thing I've ever seen. Also, you just KNOW how there were undoubtedly guys dressing up as racers just rushing into the nearest café and bringing home a free haul of booze when it was going on.
I think it's great and hilarious that they're just sharing drinks and ice cream with each other. Wouldn't be surprised if the bikers were passing around and sharing a plate of cheeses and wine.
I’ll have to try this on my next bike ride.
I often pop by my mums house for a couple of Guinness's before cycling 20 miles back home. It really picks me up, even against a headwind. I recommend it!
I remember my boss who's an avid cyclist telling me they used to think that alcohol thinning their blood was thought to give an advantage. Also that chain smoking would open their airways.
Amazing what people still achieved while believing that.
@@abdul-kabiralegbe5660 And presumably much faster than me amateur. They didn't use derailleurs for decades and still rode through the alps!
Chain smoking actually DOES open your airways, nicotine is a bronchodilator
😂😂😂😂
It's the tar that messes you up, not the nicotine.
I didn't live this era, but I still miss it. Everything felt so much more organic and spontaneous.
No, it was just badly organized.
@@badrrharri Which is exactly what that means.
If it's less organized, then it's more organic and spontaneous.
Totally. Its funny, some of us know how awesome things are when they're organic, but there's also so many (maybe more) who think that all the rules and safety and machine like behavior is "progress." They just don't get it ahahaha
@@philliplind360 Yeah the more we go the more we're inhibiting our humanity itself, that's sad.
But not really surprising, with how much work is done to teach people how "humans are bad".
@@philliplind360 yea you're one of the few who likes disorganization i guess
words cannot describe how epic this video is. thank you.
Hey this actually makes me wanna watch this, shame they dont do it like this anymore. Sports taken so seriously now
Better this than doping to be honest
@@mrsnezbit2219You don’t think these athletes were juiced to the gills? Of course they were. The taboo against doping was non existent back then.
@@juvedoo99 I would love to see a competition with everything allowed and see how close a man can be to a god
@@mrsnezbit2219 powerlifting is the sport you re looking
Whenever big money gets involved in a sport, it becomes way too “clean” and commercialized because it then has to adhere to the wishes of advertisers and sponsors
This would be more fun to watch than the modern supply cars/ domestiques system!
I remember watching the Tour De France on Channel 4 in the 80s and there was always footage of a particular rider who was regularly shown with a glass of champagne in one hand and a cigar in the other!
Glass of champagne is always there in the beginning of final step.
1:35 the last shot is on the D561 crossing the D70 just North of Esparron. The Provence can be crazy hot in July, the main reason the Tour doesn't pass their often anymore.
Everywhere is hot in July. They still do Mont Ventoux and that is worse.
Come to Georgia or Louisiana or anywhere in the lower Southeast USA in August and deal with the absolute sauna humidity and 99 Degrees heat.. and the worst of those two is by far the sauna like humidity...
@@ryand141 Another reason is the whole area is very touristy and it's deemed as a too big inconvenience to cut off major roads in this area in the touristy season.
so how many riders died of dehydration? the extent they push their bodies even today must mean some misjudgements happened those days too.
@@effexon I reckon Tom Simpson died of a combination of fatigue, dehydration and stimulants. There are probably more, but they don't get in the news.
Someone riding the Tour de France with a bottle of wine in their back pocket has to be one of the most French things ever.
Bring this back, I'd watch for these moments.
I love how they share food and drinks. True sportsmanship ❤
….would consider road racing if it were more like this…
Dude put his sweaty dirty shoes in the other guys drinking water.
I think thats the way they still make wine, some places 🍻😉🤣🤣
Who drinks from the bottom of the fountain... only pigeons do that.
@user-lv7ph7hs7l not how bacteria works. Especially when you're on the limit of physical exertion
The two guys sharing an ice cream and taking lil nibbles is the most French thing ever
'Most wine/beers consumed' jersey needs to exist.
The Rose' Jersey😅
We need to bring Adam Hansen out of retirement for this
@@johndef5075thanks, best laugh of the day 🍾🎽😂
Hahaha! And the jersey color should be yellow with white at the top
That's awesome. If I owned a cafe along a stage of the Tour, I would definitely keep some bottles at the ready, just to say I did my part.
Good old times! Can't even tell if this is a documentary or a mockumentary🤣
that's straight truth right there bruh
this has a feel of a comedy sketch - hilarious
how sweet sharing ice cream..now that's true friendship
There is some steep road that goes through a mountain nearby where a lot of people on Sundays will go and bike or walk it. My old brother-in-law was starting to get in shape and invited me and friend of his biking with him thinking he was going to show us up. I was fine especially seeing my brother-in-law struggling and sweating. But the funniest thing ever was his friend was smoking cigarettes in jeans while the rest of his six-pack was hanging off the handlebars
This was incredibly wholesome, love the brothers in arms feeling
So there was a time when the tour wasn't a gruelling death match, nice :)
That's actually extremely cool to see this for a person new to understanding this sport! Cheers from Idaho!
Tdf needs more wine raids. At least a single stage with a loot hall arrangement
Damn the history of Tdf is fascinating 😅
One of the first ones half the people where disqualified because they took the train. So some guy at Nr. 30 or so ended up winning it months later...
I love how they share food and drinks. True sportsmanship . Would consider road racing if it were more like this..
Well they were teammates so it's not exactly sportsmanship with their competition.
You wanna taste another man's popsicle?
@@acidset no but it's not sportsmanship to share food when it only helps your team.
@@TheAnantaSesa I meant OP, just kidding anyways
If you're back in the groupetto hanging on for dear life, it IS like this. The riders, who don't excel at climbing help each other to get over the climbs - teams don't matter in the groupetto.
In the final etappe, the guys still have a glass of champagne during the race to Paris where the tour the France ends.
Had this bad believe that drink water did can make u sick and everybody drinked in 1950. Even in school kids drinked wine mixed with water. Very dangerous to drink and do sport.
The locals with the hoses hahaha that's too funny
My friend and I were watching the tour once. Suddenly he got up and said "let's make this more interesting"... So we stopped watching the tour.
This is actually me every time I pass the kitchen and my wife isn't looking.
This feels like it's from an entirely different dimension.
I love this intensity of 'real race'. Sportmanship. Nowadays, it is about Garm!n, shapes of brand new shoes, all those gadget....even for beginner runner. Kinda discouraging
Heck, I loathes it! I used to join it 2016 - 2020 but I do not find any interesting reason to participate in marathon anymore. Just do it personally. The situations ---- HEAVILY changed
What an awesome tradition! Please bring it back!
Haha. The good old days. I would watch the Tour de France if riders still did this
The way they were all mutually sharing was pretty nice
The music and the French narration just makes it so much better
No push starts either, incredible!
Every racing sport should have this.
Just one massive high-speed smash-and-grab pub crawl. The grand prix would be particularly fun.
❤ This is the kind of cycling I grew up with. Much more "human" and you could actually recognize the cyclists and your favourites - unlike today when they are wearing helmets and goggles, looking all a like.
Classy. Looking around to see who else needs energy while racing them is manly af. Society has seemed to squeeze this type of compassion out these days, unless it’s for a TH-cam video, obviously
Hilarious! Top tier athletes actually having fun
Would consider road racing if it were more like this.
I'm with you. And hot podium chicks in bikinis.
La vidéo la plus incroyable que j'ai pu voir sur le Tour
That was absolutely nuts! Funny really
Imagine being dry mouth all sweaty and mad thirsty and drinking champagne and riding a bike that’s insane
When i drink alcohol my cardio vanishes, i can't imagine how it feels to do a step of Tour the France while drinking red wine lol. What legends these guys
If Sports were more like this these days, I would definitely watch more of them
Yea it’s a good test of endurance
You might enjoy the Irish sport known as Hurling. All of the players are amateur (in the essence that they are not paid money to play otherwise they would be considered professional.) It's the fastest sport on grass, and its history is a few thousand years. I love watching the players run full speed while balancing the sliotar on the end of the hurley. They would crush everyone in egg spoon races; their balance is that good.
The days before they casually changed blood, they changed bottles.
Could you imagine if they still did this? Line the sides of the course with food trucks and vendors, it would be great publicity for their businesses.
God damn those seem to be some nice times, I feel jealous!!! Everything seems more chill, drinking during the race, sharing ice cream popsicle without overthinking it
If they were still doing this today,it would make great television..
true
Now THIS is the true spirit of gravel!
Imagine drinking wine on summer while racing your bike. I cant imagine worst thing to do.
I can't imagine better.
Better would be drinking wine in summer without racing your bike
@@pudibo
If you wanna die, yes.
"I can't imagine worst thing to do"
How about eating your own fingers with mustard, whilst listening to Heidi the musical? I imagine that would be a worse thing to do!
A video i never expected. Never knew of this kind of history
I still do this… highly recommend when touring France’ ⚡️🤙🏻
As bad as it is for dehydration and their coordination, I'd imagine a few glugs of wine, strong beer or a drop of brandy would really help to numb the pain after doing half a day of hill riding in the baking heat! They also used to put raw steaks on the inside of their cycling shorts to reduce the likelihood of friction sores around their crotch and inner thighs. Then at the end of the race the meat would be nice and tender so they'd all grill their steaks for dinner at the finish line!
They'd have hotdogs too 🍩
Sure those steaks tasted great with the ball sweat flavour. A little something to go with the leftover wine.
The good ole days.They were not paid as the cyclists nowadays(not even close) so i suppose it was some kind of a big bonus to have champagne on the jerseys.
...even water
Rum is cheapest and most effective it was rationed out to soldiers on the front line in WW1, it increases rage, stamina, bloodflow
Only a Frenchman would describe aggravated theft as "not quite looting"
Dudes are biking away with glass bottles of who knows what. I'm guessing they all carry bottle openers?
i did wonder that either they were using their teeth to open the beer or where carrying corkscrew opener for the wine
Probably, along with their combs, to make sure their hair was proper for the finish. Campagnolo still has their own bottle opener brand I'm sure.
The documentary this clip was excerpted from shows those riders popping the beer covers off against the bike handlebar stems. I've forgotten the name of the documentary but you can try searching "1962 Tour de France documentary".
You can tell health and safety was nonexistent in those days, imagine falling off your bike whilst carrying a beer bootle on your back it’s something not worth thinking about
There was something so simple and cool about this. I wish they would have kept this tradition.
Old school cycling 👍👍👍😉
I didnt know this was a thing. I WANT IT BACK NOW
Like everything ever ruined, some mom somewhere went "ca c'est trop dangereux!"
How is the tour director supposed to know which bills are actually true ? 🤣
business expenses i guess
All honor system which probably worked okay until later years of gaining popularity. False invoices and complaints likely did happen and caused the tour organizers to flat out say the tour itself will not be responsible for this anymore, that individual teams and even riders themselves will have to pay it else face voided results and even criminal penalties. Teams then told their riders don't you even dare do this anymore.
@@oldtwinsna8347I can believe this.... they take wine or champagne and shop owner claims it was their anniversary 10,000$ bottle.
"2 hours and a bottle of Champagne in Lolas Massage parlor ... Hm. Sounds relaxing and plausible."
"the good old days"
The good old days.