Stage 3 of the 1995 France Irontour was the Team Time Trial in Vichy. As an athlete, this is my absolute favourite format. I love the hard effort, working out a strategy and ultimately the team work involved to do well.

On paper Assystem, with Pigg, Riccitello and Metters showing good form on Stages 1 and 2, were probably stronger than St. Quentin. But don’t count out the Fit For Fun Germans. They were a solid bike team and with 6 athletes from the same nation, maybe they’d trained a lot together.

But paper isn’t the road. And St.Quentin were the reigning french national TTT champions. The Vichy stage ended up being close. Very close!

https://thestreakpodcast.com/podcast/the-1995-france-irontour-as-it-happened

Stage 2 of the 1995 France Irontour was in Bescancon on Monday 21st August. Simon Lessing was leading after Stage One. Of course.

But this stage was an opportunity for the attackers and the bike daredevils to put Lessing under pressure.

Mike Pigg was certainly planning something. And an on-form again Ben Bright would surely be happy to help.

Let’s hear what happened!

https://thestreakpodcast.com/podcast/the-1995-france-irontour-as-it-happened

Stage 1 of the 1995 France Irontour took place in Strasbourg, in the east of France on Sunday 20th August.

The questions the pundits were asking were: Will Simon Lessing be as dominant as in 1994? Or will multiple contenders show themselves?

The distances were: a 1500m swim in the Baggersee lake. A 40km draft-legal bike into town and back twice. And a 3 lap 10km mixed-surface run.

Here’s how it went.

https://thestreakpodcast.com/podcast/the-1995-france-irontour-as-it-happened