If you ’ve been look out the Tour de France you fuck that it ’s been one of the more brutal tours in recent years , with intense weather shape and awful crashes that have led to several top contenders desolate the tour already . It ’s alsothe first year that rider are allowed to put camera on their wheel — so viewers can get at the firsthand perspective for the very first time .
There are nine different teams using onboard cameras in the term of enlistment this year , but they ’re not using GoPro : Rather , most of them are using the CM-1000 tv camera made by the component part giant Shimano , presumably based on weight and size worry ( the Garmin - Sharp team , of course , is using Garmin cameras ) . Like your average onboard camera , they either hang from the handlebars or the bicycle seat , and memorialise astonishingly steady footage .
But unlike regular sport cameras , these babies are light : Only 3 ounces , compared to a super - light GoPro HERO3 , which count almost 5 ounces with its living accommodations . Still , according toThe New York Times , some riders wo n’t bear their cameras in the wad stages — like this week’s — because even a few ounces can make all the dispute when you ’re climbing . “ From the chopper , it look hectic , but it ’s nothing compared with what we really go through and what we see from the bike camera , ” Giant - Shimano ’s Koen de Kort told the NYT .
Here ’s a speedy video charge from below a saddle on a Cannondale passenger in Stage 1 , showing the craziness of the first day and Peter Sagan win the white jersey :
Here ’s a short compiling from Stage 3 , which wound its elbow room through London and features a little glimpse of thecrazy fan actionwe heard so much about :
And an absolutely torturous video from Stage 5 , the brutal point that include portions of pave , or cobblestones , made even more dangerous by the changeless rain :
Of naturally , it would be amazing to watch this footage live — but that ’s further down the road . For now , we can get at the high spot online after they happen , which is also fun ; watching the sheer insanity of each leg from the whirlybird or a motorcycle camera only tells you so much . Later , you could lumber in and find out what was really going on .
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