[Closed] Le Tour (may contain spoilers)

Well I will be watching the 9pm slot on Eurosport so have to watch a few ads.

Again,

Thanks.

One of the best stages I've seen, so happy for Das Tony.

Big ride from Froome too, should shut some people up!

at least you dont have to suffer the shit ads like that annoying nationwide one.

What happened to Cav? Did he not sprint to give TM the best chance?

Trentin now hiring out his bike to the highest bidder!

Well 3 proper stages, 3 stages of hard racing can't complain about a first week so far. (unless your in hospital)

Tony im Gelben Trikot

Happy days ... popular winner.

Guess Cav can breath a sigh of relief as well

I use Alepecin shampoo because I like the feel of thick hair

I've nearly transferred Dengenkolb out of my team because of those cr4p ads.... glad i didnt... point fest for my fantasy road team today ... 🙂

[quote=mikewsmith ]Well 3 proper stages, 3 stages of hard racing can't complain about a first week so far. (unless your in hospital)

4 different leaders!

Let's hope Cav doesn't miss out on Green by a handful of points at the end - though I guess a MJ in the hand is worth more than a MV in the bush.

Someone get Sagan a haircut, he's starting to look like Eric Idle c.1978

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Well 3 proper stages, 3 stages of hard racing can't complain about a first week so far

Thanks for the updates gents... was exciting reading them must have been great to watch

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5 pages since I looked at this thread a couple of hours ago! Do we really need continual live updates when there are websites who provide them in a far better way?

Loving the first week. It used to feel a bit like the warm up act but no longer. All of the GC boys right up there. Fantastic

Do we really need continual live updates when there are websites who provide them in a far better way?

IJ - if you don't want TdF updates don't read the TdF (with spoilers) thread 🙄

dantsw13 - Member
IJ - if you don't want TdF updates don't read the TdF (with spoilers) thread

Suspect we need daily threads. We need a RealMan!!!!

We will try and be more worthy of your perusal in future Mr Idle 😳

Aswesome photo of Sagan. 8).

Rorschach - Member
We will try and be more worthy of your perusal in future Mr Idle

Ha ha. I've got a bout of sinusitis at the moment so may be more irritable than normal. But it means that I've got a few days of doing nothing but watching the Tour and reading. And even I haven't got the time to read all that up there ^^. Carry on though, I feel like a bit of an interloper. 😳

[quote=mrblobby ]Suspect we need daily threads. We need a RealMan!!!!

I was just thinking that - though we'll have to manage without him. Some of those daily threads had quite a bit of live commentary, but you always got a new one.

So new thread daily...Stage 5,6,7 etc for live updates/musings and this one for deep insightful posts on the nature of racing bikes...in France.....for 3 weeks.

God, Phil Liggett is truly awful now. 🙁
Just watching the ITV4 highlights show. Ned & Chris are brilliant. Phil & Paul need retiring. Phil has just called the World Champion as Rui Costa. Yes that was last year Phil, do try and keep up... 🙄

takes about 2 minutes of skim reading to read 5 pages, dunno what the moanings about

So Phil, was it this stage last year that Chris Froome crashed out? I'd just like some clarification as you've only mentioned it 8 times...

Here's a question.....
When Bertie and Nibbles et al decide to change bikes, why isn't there an immediate attack to make them have to work far harder to get back on?

The same reason the riders had no clue why they were stopped yesterday, they're probably to focused on their own plan, plus I guess its not very sporting and they may very well do the same to them if you have a mechanical.
That's not to say it hasn't happened in the past though.

Great stage, nice to see Froome's generous comments for Martin's win today

[i]Congratulations to Tony [Martin] for his late attack. He’s been really close to the yellow jersey for a few days now and he deserves this after all the hard work he’s put in.[/i]

I guess its not very sporting and they may very well do the same to them if you have a mechanical.

But if it's clearly not a mechanical, why not attack? Surely the teams have people watching live TV and reporting back? They might be able to see an occasion where it's just a bike change and make the call over race radio.

Not a fan of changing bikes, as you might be able to gather. If you're changing bikes for an advantage, you deserve to be attacked.

I am, however, a big fan of the way Tony Martin rides. Lovely to see him getting his just desserts today!

Anyone got a source of English audio commentary that works outside of the UK? It used to be that eurosport sub would do it but no longer unfortunately

****ing **** arse ****ing bollocks, for some reason it didnt record..**** arse **** sticks

you might want to edit that 😉

I feel that was justified use of the asterisk there.

ITV4+1? If that exists! If not, try the interwebz.

they weren't asterisks a minute ago 😉

I missed last nights and caught up with ITV Player, it's ok apart from a few ads.

https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/tour-de-france/series-26/episode-4

alternatively they repeat in the middle of the night, which is how I caught up with yesterday

Well, thank * the *ing swear filter dealt with the nasty ******* words!

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they weren't asterisks a minute ago

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I'm still ****ing fuming mind!

Absolutely loving Paul's repeated 'Excuse Me!' prefix in todays commentary. He's proper lost it, BUT I reckon we'll still be knocking Waldorf and Statler in 2025.

I have set it to record later, fingers crossed!

I reckon we'll still be knocking Waldorf and Statler in 2025.

The maddening thing is that they have found somebody better, it's just that Phil and Paul appear to get disinterred for the TdF.

for info, tho this should be repeated in tomorrows "stage 5 spoilers" thread...
ITV Player had the highlights online about 2100.
ITV4+1 doesnt exist on freeview

what's the deal with the spare wheels from non-team cars, is there a 'standard' tyre, pressure and cassette or something that everyone is happy to ride?

I should think anybody with a puncture is happy to get any tyre - though pressure is probably fairly standard. Cassettes are more problematic, though I guess will work OK if not perfect. More of an issue might be rim widths now those are no longer standard, but they'll just put up with braking not being perfect I suspect.