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Dunno how this thread can be a spoiler, everyone knows what's going to happen..
4 man break, peloton at ~6 mins, 195km to go.
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Interesting to see how close the intermediate sprint is to the finish.
Going for Cav for the win here.
Suicidal breakaway would be good.
Bertie to puncture /crash get chased by beef
Someone to mention drugs /cheating
Oh and well done you got up by dinner time
Oh and well done you got up by dinner time
What time zone is he in? It's barely lunchtime, let alone dinner time!
Cav should have a nice run in here, I think. Fingers crossed!
Is anybody tipping someone other than Cavendish for the win today?
Did you have lunch ladies at boarding school flash ? 😛
All the sprinters teams will be on their toes today. Breakaway's definitely in the suicidal camp unless they can get a 20 man effort going from the non sprinter teams.
Another vote for Cav, more so by the way he's ridden prior to his stage win.
What do you think, Junky? 😉
Oh and well done you got up by dinner time
😆
Saying that, it does feel like it's time for breakfast.
Bare with me on this, first time I've paid attention to the tour, what's the point of the small 4/5 rider break each day? A chance for the smaller teams to pick up a few points?
what's the point of the small 4/5 rider break each day? A chance for the smaller teams to pick up a few points?
1 - Points en route towards Green, KoM competitions.
2 - Plenty of publicity for the sponsors
3 - Plenty of publicity for the riders
4 - Outside chance of making it stick and getting a stage win! Which would equal lots more of the above.
Oh, and as to
, you're on your own I'm afraid. Sitting naked in the office wouldn't go down too well, I can tell you. 😉Bare with me on this
where are you today captain? not in the UK i take it?
Bare with me on this, first time I've paid attention to the tour, what's the point of the small 4/5 rider break each day? A chance for the smaller teams to pick up a few points?
Also, for the most part, the smaller teams suck. They aren't going to contest any sprints - most of them seem to get dropped just on the run in. They aren't going to contest any of the TTs. A few of them might have some ok climbers, but nothing special. Breakaways are their only realistic chance of winning a stage sometimes.
Ah, cool, thanks!
Yosarian, am in That London's Famous City of London at the moment, having a rather nice lunch. At lunchtime. 🙂
What are you having for lunch, Flashy?
I think I've got some prawns somewhere...
(Goes off for a rummage)
Last night's rather excellent meatball pasta reheated. Which is nice.
Ooh nice. I had a lovely spag bol the day of yest, but it's all gone now. All gone.
Found some prawns, but I'm out of ginger so I'll have to nip out in a bit bah it's bloody raining again.
Prawns with ginger, lime, a teeny bit of chilli and some fresh corriander. Some nice fresh tagliatelli tricolori too methinks. Possibly a little tomato and red onion salad.
(Scuttles off to Waitrose)
Following my frankly damned good form in predicting the stage winner up to press (EBH yesterday, as well as Cav's win, Gilbert's and Farrar's) I'm sure you'll all be hanging on my every word, waiting for today's foretelling. Today, I'm going to predict not just the stage winner but the runner-up too...so here we go:
1. The Manx Missile, hailing from the Isle of Man, our very own British bulldog, Mr Mark Cavendish!!!!
2.Tyler 'Farrar away but getting nearer and nearer' Farrar!
Be great to see HTC get their sh*t together and have the full lead-out train running properly.
[EDIT: would Tyler 'not as farrar away as you think' Farrar have been better?]
🙂
make sure you reheat your meatballs properly, nothing worse than a bout of loose stools when you are chatting up the girls in the typing pool.
Swift for the win, Sky are on a roll.
(Scuttles off to Waitrose)
Oooh, look at the man of the people, off to the poshest supermarket in town....! 😉
Yossarian, they're really hot, as well! As are the meatballs.....! 😈
Jonba, I'm not one to start an argument, but No.
[EDIT: would Tyler 'not as farrar away as you think' Farrar have been better?]
Don't force it.
(See what I did there?)
(See what I did there?)
No.
Swift for the win, Sky are on a roll.
That's pretty much the same as predicting a massive crash.
Everyone is betting on Cav.
Unfortunately for Cav, everyone else in the peloton knows that he's the hot favourite so he'll be marked out of contention unless HTC can do something very special with their lead-out train. The other guys - Farrar, Pettachi, Greipel, even Boassen Hagen, know exactly how to get in amongst it all and disrupt it.
There's an outside chance Cav will get a bit of help from Sky again though...
Three words:
Ca
Ven
Dish
I think Tyler 'so near and yet so' Farrar is better.
Re Sky, I was actually quite pleased to see them helping out Cav. It's as if GT took pity on him being knobbled by the race organisers and not being able to fulfil his potential this year.
Having said that - a win here would make him the all time most winningest stage winner, wouldn't it? Pretty impressive in 98 years of the race and so many greats...
I think Tyler 'so near and yet so' Farrar is better.
I bow to your greater wisdom.
Apparently punning and humour aren't allowed on this thread, so I shall have to leave you to try and work it out without any visual clues, headfirst.
CFH, please help me, I'm lost..did you mean:
Dont [b]Thor[/b]ce it.
Don't force it.(See what I did there?)
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a win here would make him the all time most winningest stage winner, wouldn't it?
no miles behind merckx 34 iirc
Well, I tried to post an illustration to help you along. A picture of a well known actress by the name of Farrah Fawcett (See, Farrar and "force it"). Terrible pun, I know.
Still, I shall keep my comments on the modding of said pic to myself.
I think you should go to a quiet corner and think about what you've done.
CFH, thank you. But now I'm more confused: you posted a picture of the lovely Farah Fawcett and it was removed by the Mods? I'm pretty sure she didn't do any hard-core photoshoots (will Google when I get home) so it can't have been that bad. RM's pic is the little square and red cross for me too, what's going on? Is it political correctness gone mad????!!!!!
An image from the well kown, totally worksafe website Wikipedia was posted and modded.
testing testing
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ban this kind of filth!
Oh.. well wtf was I reading then? Maybe it was most wins by a sprinter.. dunno.
Back on track (somewhat)..
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*drools*
Anyway, while headfirst reads the stern email he's just received from teh mods for such an affront to the senses, back to La Grande Boucle.
HTC will indeed need a little help, but I get the feeling that there's a lot of love between them and Sky. And between them and a part of Garmin-Cervelo....
That bike's got measles! 😯
Unclean unclean!
Run away run away!
Tom Boonen has climbed off. shame, he's a great, comitted rider.
Re. Cav being the 'most winningest', perhaps he's won the highest percentage of stages of the Tour that he's been in? I think he's just made it into the Top 10 of stage winners IIRC.
I'm off now, don't want to see any more spoilers - shame about Boonen.
Sham and Boonan go well together.. Pointless, lost his soul for riding that fella.
Totally pointless entering this race for him, pointless and dissapointing. QuickStep should never have picked him, he's pulled out of nearly every Tour he's entered.. (scuttles off to Wiki to find facts)
Ok, BOT,
I'd go Far(rar) to say this lads in Transition..
Did you see what I did there, did ya's??
Wikkid. £4, I now have Eurosport player at work. And I can switch the audio feed to English 🙂
Sod the cycling; I want to visit that Framboise place! 🙂
Have you guys seen this site?
SRM power meters tracking live. Go to terrain mode on the map, pretty cool esp when I cant see the race live......
(You all know about this already dont you)
Yes, we do 🙂
Well at least I found it before they have go over the Telegraph/Galibier/Alpe Axis of Evil.....I did that last year and I swear my heartrate almost went to zero permanently.
thanks for that mcboo. I hadnt seen it. Now for total immersive TdF viewing! 😉
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Kleenex by the computer, Stoner? Classy.....! 😉
urrrgh. you have a foul mind CFH!
That site is ace.
Shame it only has a few riders.
Crash.
bloody ads!
Ooof!!
No!
Wiggins down
Does that look like abroken collarbone for wiggins?
collarbone
Wiggins injured?
not looking good
He doesn't look keen to get back on. Support riders have gone on
out
I think I saw the medic put some green screens up and charge the bolt gun 🙁
Yep, even if he does get on, he's now stuffed in terms of GC. 🙁
****sticks.
Do you think sky will start riding for Geraint now..?
gutted for him
Don't think G can climb mountains.
Anyway what's going on all I have is STW and a text feed.
Do you think sky will start riding for Geraint now..?
Logical choice except he's not a GC contender really. White jersey is probably a realistic shot. I imagine Sky won't be too keen to ride at all at the moment, the loss of Bradley will hit them hard.
A quote from Bradley Wiggins earlier "Some of them cant ride their bikes very well." Tempted fate there.
I cant imagine what's going through his head right now and am not entirely sure I want to.
he is out today
Is he def forced to abandon?
yep confirmed out just before they went to the break.
Wiggins waiting for an ambulance. Gutted for him 🙁
Wiggo's abandoned. 🙁