Not all cyclists were competing for the victory in the 1907 Tour de France, some only joined as tourists. The most notable of them was Henri Pépin. Pépin had hired two riders, Jean Dargassies and Henri Gauban to ride with him. They treated the race as a pleasure ride, stopping for lunch when they chose and spending the night in the best hotels they could find. Dargassies and Gaubin became the first cyclists in the history of the Tour de France to ride not for their own placings but for their team leader's interest. During the race, they found another Tour de France competitor, Jean-Marie Teychenne, lying in a ditch. They helped him get up, fed him, and from that moment Teycheime was also helping Pépin.

As in the previous years, there were two classes of cyclists, the coureurs de vitesse and the coureurs sur machines poinçonnées. Of the 93 cyclists starting the race, 82 were in the poinçonnée category, which meant that they had to finish the race on the same bicycle as they left, and if it was broken they had to fix it without assistance. The coureurs de vitesse could get help from the car with bicycle repairmen when they had to fix a bicycle, and when a bicycle was beyond repair, they could change it to a new one.

Although the riders officially rode the Tour as individuals, some had the same sponsor and cooperated as if they rode in teams. At the start of the race, it was clear that the riders sponsored by Alcyon and the riders sponsored by Peugeot would compete for the overall victory. Alcyon started with three main contenders: Louis Trousselier, Marcel Cadolle and Léon Georget; Peugeot counted on Emile Georget.

By starting number + Legend No. Starting number worn by the rider during the Tour Pos. Position in the general classification DNF Denotes a rider who did not finish

No. Name Nationality Pos. 1 Édouard Wattelier DNF 2 Augustin Ringeval 8 3 Lucien Pothier DNF 4 François Faber 7 5 Constant Ménager DNF 6 Alfred Faure DNF 7 Gaston Tuvache 16 8 Albert Chartier 33 9 Prosper Rau DNF 10 Marcel Cadolle DNF 11 Louis Trousselier DNF 12 Lucien Mazan 1 13 Henri Lignon DNF 14 Marcel Lequatre DNF 16 Albert Baudet 25 17 Noël Prevost DNF 18 Ferdinand Payan 10 19 Armand Roume DNF 22 Jean-Baptiste Roux 18 23 Paul Adeh DNF 24 Marcel Dozol 32 25 Marcel Lallement DNF 26 Fernand Vercher DNF 27 Gabriel Mathonat DNF 28 Léon Riche DNF 29 Georges Fleury 12 30 Georges Bronchard 21 31 Henri Timmermann 20 32 David Dupont DNF 34 Henri Gauban DNF 35 Gaston Angeli DNF 36 Louis Lavalette DNF 37 Jules Chabas DNF 38 Louis Gardent DNF 39 Louis Lorillon 28 40 Carlo Galetti DNF 42 Luigi Ganna DNF 43 Eberardo Pavesi 6 44 Léon Aumonier DNF 45 Cyrille van Hauwaert DNF 46 Alzir Vivier 15 47 François Poiry DNF 48 Marceau Narcy 22 49 Joseph Ponthieu DNF 50 Georges Landrieux DNF 52 Martin Soulie DNF 53 Honoré Genin 23 54 Claude Cursillat DNF 55 Charles Crupelandt DNF 56 André Sevestre DNF 57 Alfred Le Bars 26 58 Jacques Mendes DNF 59 Henri Pépin DNF 61 Marius Vilette 14 62 Eloi Guichard DNF 63 Julien Maitron DNF 64 Arsène Tuale DNF 65 Alfred Quenon 27 66 Jean Dargassies DNF 67 Henri Anthoine DNF 68 Léon Georget DNF 70 Georges Passerieu 4 71 Gustave Garrigou 2 72 Henri Cornet DNF 73 Émile Georget 3 76 Jean-Michel Teychenne DNF 78 Georges Jeanblanc DNF 79 Jean Vezie DNF 80 Georges Devilly DNF 81 Charles Jeanperin DNF 82 Auguste Dufour DNF 83 Octave Noel 30 84 François Lafourcade 13 86 Pierre Privat 11 87 François Beaugendre 5 88 Philippe Pautrat 19 89 Aloïs Catteau 9 90 Marcel Lecuyer DNF 92 Julien Gabory DNF 93 Ernest Ricaux DNF 94 Marcel Godivier DNF 95 Jules Bertholat DNF 97 Christophe Laurent DNF 98 Joseph Rouaix DNF 99 Eugène Delhaye 17 100 Anselme Mazan DNF 101 Henri Star DNF 103 Raymond Etcheverry DNF 104 Albert Geraud 31 105 Antony Wattelier 24 106 DNF 108 Pierre Desvages DNF 109 René Fleury 29

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Notes 1.His real name was Dargaties but the Tour spelled his name wrongly and the error stuck.