Tour De France riders

[CyclingSAM]

Question.

Do Tour de France riders have jobs?

I really want to get in the Tour De France, but i need a job to get money to pay for all cycling bits and pieces?

How did the TDF riders get all there stuff if they dont have a job?

Sponsers?
Supporters?

 

[Radius]

They get race prize money, and sponshorships etc. They are in professional cycling teams. Bear in mind, the TdF is invite-only!

 

[Randochap]

It's a long road to the Tour. Start at home.

 

[gavintc]

Have you joined a club yet? Are you entering local junior races? Are you now training 6 days out of 7 days and covering at least 150 miles per week?

 

[jimboalee]

Have you joined a club yet? Are you entering local junior races? Are you now training 6 days out of 7 days and covering at least 150 miles per week?

Make that 150 miles in two days and then one day off.

A 'Pro' cyclist is exactly what it says on the tin, professional.

Yes, most of the daily 'lolly for living' comes from sponsors.
Pro cyclists need to be very clever with cash - retirement fund if everything goes T*ts up in a crash.

Also, there is no winter break. 75 miles a day is EVERY week, winter included - wet, snow etc.

 

[montage]

Basically various teams in the TdF will scout for riders they wish to sign on....these teams are sponsored and usually named after their sponsors. The teams will pay wages to the cyclists.

To be scouted, I believe you will need to be cat 1? - I could be wrong here.

 

[yello]

Sam, join a club. If you can't take that simple first step then you really are going to struggle to get to the top. Everyone here is behind you, we want you to do it, but you have to take some steps yourself.

 

[Crackle]

You've had some good advice Sam, it's time to get real now. JOIN A CLUB. Race in the club. Basically if you don't improve in the club over time, to the point you are winning everything you enter, then you've got no chance of ever being picked for a team to enter the tour.

Read some books as well. Start a seperate thread asking for book recommendations. Once you've read one, it should sink in what you need to do to make it in the sport, the pinnacle of which is riding the Tour. Think Olympic standard and then a bit for how good you'll need to be.

 

[Will1985]

Take up track riding - the shortsightedness of BC means that this is the most common way to get noticed and go places.

 

[TVC]

http://www.amgentourofcalifornia.com/Peloton/TNT-corner/life-of-a-pro.html

There are thousands of pro cyclists in the world and only 181 get to ride the tour. Only the Gods of the cycling world make any money (And if you're not already winning national age group races then you're never going to be one of them!) Your average domestique makes less than a trainee teacher and is on the scrap heap by the time they're 32.

If you want to be a pro cyclist then get serious SAM and make it happen, or do you think that just because you can drive a car Ross Brawn is going to bowl up to your door and give you an F1 drive?

 

[palinurus]

Set yourself some goals you can achieve in the short term. Start with joining a club, a race-oriented club, and getting some group riding experience. Get yourself a racing license. Then have a goal of just entering a race.

If you start getting results your club should notice and you'll probably get a lot of advice from that direction.

As amateurs cyclists generally get money for their stuff by having a job, preferably one that allows plenty of time for training.

 

[Dave5N]

Take up track riding - the shortsightedness of BC means that this is the most common way to get noticed and go places.

Nonsense.

 

[Dave5N]

Sam, how old are you?

 

[Radius]

14 IIRC

 

[Tynan]

that lot are the very best in the world I assume

so it's like wantig to play football not only in the Premier League but for one of the top six teams

shooting very very high indeed

someone dig out that letter from the chap that died on Ventoux, when he writes to someone official asking hw he can become a pro