Cobbles, climbs and Yorkshire – the route for the 2014 Tour de France certainly has a ‘little bit of everything’, according to defending champion Chris Froome.
But what else did the riders make of next year’s route after it was revealed at the Tour presentation in the Palais des Congres?
We have collected the best Twitter reaction from some of the likely GC and stage contenders next year, while Yorkshire’s finest also took to the social media site afterwards.
See what Froome, Bauke Mollema, Alberto Contador and more had to say below.