I don’t know where they hid last year but the Tour de France makes sense again with these little critters that when they die force you from time to time to stop on a highway and clean the glass
There are small pieces of news that become huge pieces of information, things that sometimes do not have an apparent importance but that give meaning to life. I have a very year worried about bugs. I admit that my forte is bikes, among a few other things, and that environment I understand almost nothing, but that you make, as in 2022, a trip by car from Barcelona to Copenhagen to go to the start of the Tour and that when you arrive you can almost pass your tongue, without being disgusting, through the glass of the car, is something very worrying and that you come to question that there are no longer insects flying over the highways and the adjoining meadows.
Well, I have good news to give and that, of course, my partner will love. Valentina Raffio. They have returned. I don’t know where they hid last year but the Tour de France makes sense again with these little critters that when they die force you from time to time to stop on a highway and clean the glass because otherwise you can’t even see cake.
In the Vuelta it happened the same
In 2022, the Tour left Denmark and when making the trip by car there was not even an insect corpse attached to the glass. Nothing at all. ‘Laughs laugh’. And so we followed the whole race when he entered French territory. But what was even more alarming, a month later, already in the Vueltafrom the Rioja Alavesa to the lands of Córdoba, the insects also disappeared from the face of the cycling world.
Now it’s different again. Of Barcelona to Bilbao -making a stopover at logrono, a small and charming city- to go to the start of the Tour it was necessary to stop twice in a rest area to proceed to clean the glass. Hallelujah! I don’t know if we are doing something good in the fight against climate change, although some deny it and show up to the polls, or simply that last year the insects had gone on strike.
Good news
And another data. In 2022, there were hardly any runners who went down to the medical car, a convertible that sits at the back of the peloton to give assistance to the cyclists, requesting an ointment to soothe the pain from an insect bite. Other things could hurt them, but wasps, bees and horseflies They left the runners alone. This year we will have to be aware of the medical report that the Tour organization delivers at the end of the stages to see how the situation is, but in the end it may turn out that the information of a bite to a cyclist, resolved without major problems, still becomes in good and hopeful news looking to the future of a planet that, the truth, we do not take care of excessively.