Frantz had a mechanical failure between Metz and Charleville and had to finish 100 km of the stage on an undersized women's bicycle, resulting in a loss of 28 minutes.

[1] The 22nd tour featured the first appearance of an Australian/New Zealand team, indicating the beginning of a more international sporting field.

[2][3] Their experience was turned into a film by Phil Keoghan, Le Ride, released in July 2016.

Three of them – Alcyon, Armor and Thomann, all of which had sponsorship from Dunlop – combined to compete as a single unit of ten riders.

After The Melbourne Herald had a campaign to send Opperman to the Tour de France, a team was made.

[6] Opperman rode some races in Europe and could compete with the European top cyclists, but the rest of his team could not.

Because a major part of the race was in the team time trial format, Opperman had no chance to win the Tour.

[4] The Kennett Brothers wrote a book about the New Zealander on the team—Harry Watson—that was read by cycling enthusiast and The Amazing Race-host Phil Keoghan, who was surprised that he had never heard of the fellow Cantabrian before.

Keoghan decided to celebrate the team's achievement and with a friend, he rode the 1928 stages on period bicycles to the original 26-day schedule.

Their experience was turned into a film, Le Ride, which premiered in July 2016 in Watson's home town Christchurch.

Instead, Victor Fontan, who was more than one and a half hour behind in the general classification,[10] was allowed to escape and win the stage.

[1] In the tenth stage, the Alcyon team-mates Leducq, Frantz and De Waele finished first, and they now had the first three places in the general classification.

After the alps, the three Alcyon cyclists still held the first three places in the general classification, with Frantz comfortably leading by more than 75 minutes.

[17] The organising newspaper, L'Auto named a meilleur grimpeur (best climber), an unofficial precursor to the modern King of the Mountains competition.

The team time trial method had not given the desired result; in the 1929 Tour de France it was only used if the previous stage had been too slow, and after 1929 it disappeared.