It will not be lost on Wiggins that Simpson became the first ever British cyclist to wear the maillot jaune exactly 50 years ago .
Simpson literally rode himself to death on the parched slopes of Mount Ventoux in the Tour of 1967 .
It will not be lost on Wiggins that Simpson , who literally rode himself to death on the parched slopes of Mount Ventoux in the Tour of 1967 , became the first ever British cyclist to wear the maillot jaune exactly 50 years ago .