Bike.com offers stage-by-stage preview

Bike.com | Tour de France Preview

Hugo Gladstone offers a stage-by-stage preview of the upcoming Tour, looking at how organizers put the Tour together.

Check out the last week: After the second rest day, a fairly hard mountain day, then the Alpe d'Huez time trial, then a stage with 3 first-category climbs, one relatively sedate stage, and the long time trial.