Celebrate Tour de France in Style

What better way to enjoy the Tour de France than sampling French cuisine while watching all the action on a big screen TV? La Musette  is an excuse to celebrate delicious food and cycling-as-sport at once. They'll be serving multi-course meals inspired by the regions along this year’s tour, Friday, July 23 to Sunday, July 25 at $85 a ticket. The dinner will be held at Grochau Cellars in N.W. Portland.

The event post on Travel Oregon suggests going for a good, hard ride before dinner, and also dressing appropriately for a cool evening. So, does that mean we should arrive looking like MC SpandeX? After all, if we want to be considered serious cyclists (and not hipsters), it’s spandex all the way.

Speaking of wearing spandex to dinner, consider traveling down to Eola Hills Wine Cellar near Salem for their Bike Oregon Wine Country Sunday rides. After a 45 to 70 mile ride through countryside and vineyards, cyclists dig into a BBQ, with of course, a glass of wine. Cost is $65 per rider.

After watching the Tour de France, be sure to watch Commuter Dreams, a short film by a Portland cardiologist. According to the Oregonian, this film will be shown at the Canadian film festival, Bike Shorts. It portrays one cyclist's Tour de France daydream that I'm sure many people can relate to. Personally, my cycling daydreams run more along the line of a cycling version of Speed Racer.

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