There are currently four riders up the road.

Brent van Moer, Burno Armirail, Andreas Leknessund and Yevgeniy Fedorov have around 95 seconds on the main peloton as Tadej Pogacar head up towards the front of the main bunch.

Cofidis had 11 bikes stolen from their truck overnight before the start of the second stage of the Tour de France, the team said on Sunday.

The French team, based near Lille, were able to find enough bikes to start stage two but unsurprisingly have condemned the burglary given each bike is worth around 13,000 euros (£11,200).

"The door of the workshop truck was forced open, and 11 of our LOOK Cycle bikes were stolen despite the security measures that had been put in place," the team said in a statement.

"The Cofidis team strongly condemns this act of incivility and calls on the perpetrators to act with civility and responsibility."

The team added that police officers visited the hotel to document the burglary and have begun their investigation.

There was a pile up towards the back of the peloton just before the 105km to go mark.

Lennert van Eetvelt had a job chasing with Jarrad Drizners, Jasper De Buyst and Eduardo Sepulveda.

Meanwhile, British rider Fred Wright is back with the medical car.

Matt Warwick
BBC Sport Matt at Lauwin-Planque

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Many of the riders had marked out stage 2 as possibly very tricky, including Tadej Pogacar when we spoke to him at the teams’ presentation. He said it’ll be more difficult than people think in the first week, and in the first two hours at Lauwin-Planque it was mayhem. Torrential rain left fields sodden and cars stuck in the mud - including BBC Sport’s. Teams were delayed getting the buses into the paddock for over an hour. Riders eventually set off around 30 minutes late. They, were the lucky ones. The great escape from Lauwin-Planque for some, continued well into the start of racing.

If stage one was all about the sprinters today a rolling route with a punchy finale looks ideally set up for the puncheurs, who will fancy their chances of ending the day in yellow.

This is all set up for a cracking final 30km or so...

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