Another bout of cycling fandom will keep us busy for a bit this July. Obviously, as of last night we’ve only had a handful of stages, but unlike with the Giro I have a bit more historical data to compare it do. I’m only going to do a handful of types of graphs for the Tour, but update them regularly. So we’ll start things off with a simple bumps chart that compares this year’s Tour to the last several years:
![](http://www.statisticalskier.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/stage2_yr.png" "stage2_yr")
(Click for a larger version.)
Related posts:
- <Tour de France Bumps Chart: Stage 14
- <Tour de France Bump Chart: Stage 16
- <Tour de France Charts: Stage 17
