Victor Fontan, leader of the general classification and therefore wearer of the yellow jersey, crashed in the Pyrenees during stage 10, breaking the forks to his bicycle.

He eventually found one and rode 145 km to the finish line, with his broken bike strapped to his back.

[1] The Tour was won by Belgian Maurice De Waele, although he was sick during the race.

The Tour organisation had invented this rule to make the flat stages more competitive, but it had the effect that the public stopped following the race.

[1] Fontan was caught by the Spaniard Salvador Cardona, but his second place in the stage gave him the lead in the general classification.

[1] De Waele was literally dragged on his bicycle, and his teammates rode shoulder-to-shoulder to prevent opponents from attacking.

[4] At the end of the stage, his teammates had helped him so much that he had lost only 13 minutes to the winner, finishing in 11th place.

In the sixteenth stage, De Waele became better, and only Charles Pélissier could win time on him.

[6] After the race was over, Jef Demuysere received 25 minutes penalty time in the general classification because he had taken drinks where this was not allowed.

The organisers, from the newspaper l'Auto, named a meilleur grimpeur (best climber), an unofficial precursor to the modern King of the Mountains competition.

Eventually the rule changed, but only after Tour director Henri Desgrange retired.

[4] The team-time-trial format, which had been introduced to equalize power between the teams, had completely failed.