Vintage map - Tour de France 1988
Poster sold unframed but easy to frame!
This poster is sold rolled up inside a rigid protective tube. Our sizes are standard and you will easily find a frame or poster hanger (magnetic poster holder) to suit your taste!
Description
Relive the intensity of the Grand Boucle of the late 1980s with this exclusive reissue of the official map of the 1988 Tour de France. Co-presented at the time by the famous bicycle manufacturer MBK and the leading cycling magazine Miroir du Cyclisme, this superb vintage map traces the ultra-comprehensive route of the 75th edition of the Tour de France, which took place from July 4 to July 24, 1988. A box at the top left immortalizes the Fagor-MBK professional cycling team in its entirety, listing its iconic riders such as Stephen Roche, Robert Millar, and Eddy Planckaert.
The document maps out with immense graphic clarity a route composed of 22 stages, starting from a grand departure in Pontchâteau in Loire-Atlantique to trace a massive loop across France. The riders cross Brittany before heading north via a team time trial in Liévin, then heading back east through Strasbourg and Belfort. The route then tackles the Alpine massifs with legendary stages in Morzine, l'Alpe d'Huez, and Villard-de-Lans, crosses the Massif Central via the Puy de Dôme, then faces the Pyrenees at Guzet-Neige and Luz-Ardiden, before beginning a return through Bordeaux and Santenay to conclude with the final triumph on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. A detailed legend at the bottom left allows you to distinguish the start cities, stage cities, routes, individual and team time trials.
This poster is a true goldmine of information for vintage cycling enthusiasts, notably thanks to the large official classification table located on the right border. Each stage is meticulously listed with its mileage, its mountain profile (detailing the great mythical climbs to ascend such as the Col du Tourmalet or the Col d'Aspin) and features blank vintage boxes to write in the winners of the day and the evolution of the general classification of this historic edition won by the Spaniard Pedro Delgado.
Carefully printed on high-quality paper, this vintage Tour de France poster on a retro metallic gray background is the ideal collector's item to elegantly and nostalgically decorate the wall of a living room, an enthusiast's office, or a cycling workshop.
Creative paper
For vintage paper posters, we use a natural-toned and textured, slightly grained, 200 gsm FSC®-certified fine art paper. We chose this paper for its durability and to preserve its vintage look: it is an uncoated paper, so the colors will have an "aged" appearance that stays true to the spirit of the original card.
If you would like to get an idea of how the printed result will look, which is always different from what you see on screen, please contact us and we will be happy to help! Rest assured that we will do our utmost to respond to your request as quickly as possible!
Shipping costs
For shipping, we use Colissimo by La Poste.
You can choose your Colissimo pickup point after paying for your order (you have 10 business days to collect your order).
We recommend choosing delivery to a pickup point, as you can select the one that suits you, to avoid being delivered to a pickup point you cannot choose if you are not home for a home delivery with Colissimo.
- Mainland France : €6 to a pickup point, €8 for home delivery without signature, €9 for home delivery with signature, free delivery to a pickup point on orders over €60
- Europe (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland): €12, free delivery on orders over €100
- United Kingdom: €18, free delivery on orders over €120
Manufacturing and delivery
For paper posters : we print to order in our workshop in Bordeaux.
- We prepare orders within 24 to 48 hours (Monday to Friday) after receipt of payment and hand over the packages on day 2/3. Colissimo then delivers within 3 to 4 days.
- If your order contains several posters, they will be shipped in a single shipping tube.
If you wish to receive your posters in separate tubes, you will need to place as many orders as desired tubes.
- Please allow a total delivery time of 5 to 7 business days to receive your order (excluding holiday periods or exceptional circumstances).
- For urgent orders, you can call us at 05 56 02 03 20 or write to us at bonjour@cartopolo.fr
For complaints related to delivery, you have a maximum of 7 days from the receipt of the package, dated by the delivery notice, to send them to us. Sending photos of the packaging, the shipping label attached to the packaging, as well as the product will facilitate the processing of your request.
Satisfied or your money back!
Not satisfied or have you changed your mind? You have 14 days from the date of receipt to return your order to us.
Once the returned product has been received by Cartopolo in perfect condition in its unopened original packaging, the refund will be issued to the credit card used for the purchase within 30 days.
Returns are only accepted for standard products from our online catalog. Any order that has been customized cannot be returned or refunded.
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