Tour de France - Drinking Raids - When the riders used to stop at cafes and take what they wanted.
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- 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. - Sport
"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.
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
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
And some people say there's no honour among thieves.
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!
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.
The film is "Vive le Tour" by Louis Malle from 1962 if anyone is wondering.
Thanks a lot !
oh thanks, merci !
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
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.
In Philadelphia there was a riding club called Vino Velo...
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 CZcams.
@@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!
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.
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"
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.
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
Dude if the cycling was still like this maybe people my age would watch it. 😂😂😂
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.
Looks like Monty Python made this up 😂
Hahah, that is exactly what I thought 😀
Lol
yes!
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. :)
This was incredibly wholesome, love the brothers in arms feeling
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.
When the Tour was actually a tour.
Tour de Slum. What a shit hole of an experience
You've said it Mr. :)
Bring this back, I'd watch for these moments.
That's actually extremely cool to see this for a person new to understanding this sport! Cheers from Idaho!
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.
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 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
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.
Climbing Alpe D'Huez with red wine and cheese. xD This is how TDF should be.
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
The music and the French narration just makes it so much better
This is brilliant! And it's not even a Monty Python comedy! The good old days 🙂
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.
This is too completely awesome. I'm upset with Bob Roll that he didn't have it in his NBC contract to show this video every year.
The way they were all mutually sharing was pretty nice
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!
So thats why they were so strong..cause they drink beer, wine and champagne during the ride 😂😂😂
Don't forget the sausages
Plus cocaine and amphetamines
It’s amazing that these videos are being shown, I still have my Magistroni bicycle and sweater/jersey..
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
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.
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
Tdf needs more wine raids. At least a single stage with a loot hall arrangement
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
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.
'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
The most fun and funniest thing I've seen in a couple of days.
"dehydrated, searing heat, hmm, better get some beer and wine before my 60mph descent". Crazy!!
This would be more fun to watch than the modern supply cars/ domestiques system!
The two guys sharing an ice cream and taking lil nibbles is the most French thing ever
I can't think of anyone less thirst quenching than red wine.
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.
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
I like how everyone is enjoying and not only competing
Bring this back! I'd then watch the races again.
This is actually me every time I pass the kitchen and my wife isn't looking.
Ah, Tour de Beer! 😂 We call that jockingly when we go for rides and know there are planned stops in pubs.
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.
This is the only time I find the french voice way more entertaining 😂
So there was a time when the tour wasn't a gruelling death match, nice :)
No push starts either, incredible!
I want to see wholesome videos like this on my recommendations.
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.
Ah, man, the golden age of cycling. What's the name of this documentary again? I remember it being well worth watching in its entirety.
That was absolutely nuts! Funny really
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.
Imagine being dry mouth all sweaty and mad thirsty and drinking champagne and riding a bike that’s insane
WTF, there is literally nothing better than water when you're really exhausting yourself physically and sweating like crazy. Water just tastes like pure bliss in that kind of situation.
Haha. The good old days. I would watch the Tour de France if riders still did this
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...
This looks way more fun, I would watch this
The days before they casually changed blood, they changed bottles.
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
Amazing to look back at the good old days :)
❤ 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.
I love how they share food and drinks. True sportsmanship ❤
….would consider road racing if it were more like this…
....!?The time when tour the France actually fun to watch and participated, they need to bring this back😆
Even though they lost 2-3 minutes, the remainder of that race was so much more fun for them!
There should have been a price for the rider who ate the most ice cream. 😂
The locals with the hoses hahaha that's too funny
Rum is cheapest and most effective it was rationed out to soldiers on the front line in WW1, it increases rage, stamina, bloodflow
Ha ha - now that looks like an entertaining Tour De France. Just a free for all!
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!
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.
This is just adorable
Excellent, ide watch that with pure pleasure, not today's boring version
I'd line up bottles of whiskey and watch as they drop one by one lol
Our parents lived during way better times and it's not even close, cost of living and the general society were so much better than today and every other person wasn't on 5 anti depressants
Hilarious! Top tier athletes actually having fun
I'm not a nostalgic person, but this has me going *c'mon* really hard. Simpler times.
What an awesome tradition! Please bring it back!
Would consider road racing if it were more like this.
I'm with you. And hot podium chicks in bikinis.
These French folks be sippin beer and hollin ass on the bike going 20 mph RESPECT!
This feels like it's from an entirely different dimension.
words cannot describe how epic this video is. thank you.
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."
A video i never expected. Never knew of this kind of history
Only a Frenchman would describe aggravated theft as "not quite looting"
Really lovely too see. Also the sharing , how amazing it must feel too have a good french Champaign or wine on a hot Sommer day in the Bretagne. When you riding for a long day 🍾
Weird, seen the exact same typo in like 3-4 comments. Pretty sure it should be Champagne.
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