Tour de France 2014

I was thinking the reverse of this. Once the riders and convoy have passed through, will it be ok to jump on the course and follow them down the route? What's the form for this over in France?

This has to be worth a go.

In fact.

I'm going to do it.

It is worth a go.
This is exactly what I and a couple of others did in London in 2007. As soon as the peloton passed we looked at each other, popped our bikes over the barriers and rode behind the tour riders. We got to Tower Gateway and the English plod looked quizzically at their French colleagues. Les Gendarmes grinned and waved us through. we rode over Tower Bridge, band playing, people cheering, officials saluting and Ken Livingstone smiling at us. It was fucking brilliant.