This ornament is 3¼ inches long and 2¼ inches tall. The male Bike Racer is wearing a short sleeved shirt that is periwinkle blue around the collar and yoke, white through the middle and on the sleeves and red on the bottom with a red stripe around the hem of the sleeves. His Racing pants are black with wide white strips down the legs. His socks are white and his Racing shoes are black. His Bike Racing Gear consists of a silver and black helmet, yellow water bottle, black Racing gloves and a silver and black Racing Bike. This would be the perfect Birthday Present for a Biking enthusiast. Select this link to view our Sports Ornaments.
Tour de France.
The Tour de France started in 1903, and is the world's biggest cycling tournament/race. It is a grueling 23-day, 21-stage road race that is usually run over more than 1,864 mi. The route traces a circuit around most of France, and often passes through one or more neighboring countries. The race is broken into stages from one town to another, each is an individual race. The time taken to complete each stage is added to a cumulative total for each rider and decides the outright winner at the end of the Tour. Select this link to view our Music Boxes.
The Tour de France is one of the three major stage races and the longest of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) calendar. While the other two European Grand Tours are well known in Europe, they are relatively unknown outside the continent, and even the UCI World Cycling Championship is familiar only to cycling enthusiasts. The Tour de France, in contrast, has long been a household sporting name around the globe, even to those not generally interested in cycling. Select this link to view our Ornament Storage Boxes.
As with most cycling races, competitors enter as part of a team. The race consists of 20 to 22 teams with nine riders each. Traditionally, entry is extended to invitation only, with invitations granted only to the best of the world's professional teams. The tour organizers recently have utilized UCI points, based on team riders results, to determine which teams would gain automatic entry into the tour and then typically reserve 2-4 team slots to ‘at large’ teams or French continental teams who would not be able to race in the tour, based upon their individual team results. Each team, known by the name of its sponsor, wears a distinctive jersey and riders assist one another and have access to a shared 'team car', which is a mobile version of the pit crews in car racing. Select this link to view our Unique Christmas Ribbon.