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Another drug fuelled win for the lying weasel, will most likely stop watching now!
"Am I in yellow?" - love it!
Ey, that were exciting 😀
I'm looking forward to seeing loads of people going down the hill on my way to work like that... 🙂
Attacked just for a bit of fun, fair play, chapeau.
ASO announcement: Race to be renamed 'Tour de France Britannique'
Awesome ride, cracking to see a different side to Froome.
Also, 8 stages and Brits have won 5. Amazing stuff.
Just over 30 minutes since Froome crossed the line, Cav still on the road.....needs to finish within the next 7 minutes.
Over the Tourmalet I don't think I'd be reaching for my 54 chainring! 34 more like!
Awesome effort.
Looks like he's going to be eliminated......as will Bernie, which is a real shame!
Been an absolutely brutal stage!
[quote=TheDoctor ]Another drug fuelled win for the lying weasel, will most likely stop watching now!
Heres hoping
Oooh,they just caught the autobus! Cracking effort....he was a few k behind it at one point.....the wont be eliminating all of that group that just came in, so all good!
You can always rely on Bernie to see you right!
Another drug fuelled win for the lying weasel, will most likely stop watching now!
Please provide your evidence for this.
Great win for Froome, and not his usual style. He seems to be growing into this riding lark 😀
Turns out he's got a decent left hander on him as well.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CyclingHubTV/status/751803200404131840/video/1
Yep cav and Bernie gained 4 minutes on the autobus on that last climb. As they said on itv [s]he clearly held on to a car[/s] massive effort on that last climb. 😆
Please provide your evidence for this.
Best to just ignore the attention seeker.
Great descent from froome, and great to watch.
Horrible descent from Froome! Ugliest thing I think I've ever seen on a road bike. There's taking risks and then there is descending like a bag of spanners but somehow fluking it. I like to think the other contenders just refused to demean themselves by following.
That elbow / punch from Froome is quality.
Where's Ligget to say "former mountain biker" when you need him?
Froome last heard saying "Wheeee" and giggling a lot.
Well done.
I didn't see it clearly (or wasn't really taking notice) but did Quintana have to dodge the water bottle discarded by Froome as he came over the top. It was all a bit frantic with the camera work.
I think Quintana went to get bottle from a team person at the side so was distracted as Froome took off down the road
Wasn't paying close attention as I had just arrived home and was breathing hard but I think taking a bottle going over the top (Quintana) lost him a couple of lengths and to keep up he threw the recently acquired drink away as he couldn't get it into the carrier and sprint at the same time.
Awwwwww. I was rooting for Adam to take yellow. Great descent though. Dan looking good too.
So given that it's easy to build a bike below the UCI weight limit and all the riders descend on the top tube now - why not use a dropper post?
yeah I saw that, it was just after.
Smokey Jo - I'd wondered that too. Not all descend on the top tube, but I bet if they could have a dropper on the descent without carrying it up, they would use it.
I'm not sure a dropper would be more aero than sitting on the TT. Froome's position was quite Obree-esque, very far forward over the bars.
Dropper post wouldn't make any difference, the point being to get the head and shoulders in front of the bars - arse wasn't anywhere near the saddle.
Guess it's kind of like a nose cone on a fighter jet!
In a word, Froome, I think he will attack and I think he will attack hard.
nah not today, will be tomorrow
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Dropper posts, discs etc just the usual anglo saxon techno bollox way of ****ing up a decent sport(or anything).
200Ch fine for Froome for conduct
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well he didn't on the climb 😆
200Ch fine for Froome for conduct
Hope the spectator got considerably worse than that.
I'm off to A&E tomorrow to see how many mamils i can spot that have had a smash trying out new decending technique.
great Brailsford interview at end of stage, real fighting talk "if they want the points come and do some of the work". "tell that Boardman we got it from Obree" or something like that.
They got it from Sagan.... And everyone else who descends on their top tube.
what next Dave? Indexed gears? F.o.
I don't like sky.
I haven't seen anyone pedalling whilst sitting on the top tube. I think that's what DB was referring to.
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So given that it's easy to build a bike below the UCI weight limit and all the riders descend on the top tube now - why not use a dropper post?
Nibali sometimes has a height adjustable post on is bike with 20mm of up and down, there more to deal with comfort over the day and easing muscles than descending prowess
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because you don't really need to get over the back wheel when descending on a road bike you don't need a dropper post in the mountainbike way of things
[quote=slowoldman ]I haven't seen anyone pedalling whilst sitting on the top tube. I think that's what DB was referring to.
Indeed - that's a new one for me.
Has anybody commented on it being a day of 3s for the Brits*? 3 stage wins in a row, 3 jerseys.
*if we assume for the sake of argument that Froome is a Brit
I tried out the aero tuck this evening on a quiet and gradual descent. **** me it's terrifying. There's so much weight over the front wheel that it's very sensitive to weight shifts. You feel like a projectile, with only limited control/stability. I was only going 30mph or less, not 90km/h but never again.
^^^ 🙂 my thoughts exactly and I've never tried it and no interest in doing so !
Comments from Froome that he picked a bigger gear and post on here about the aero wheels hinting at a downhill attack. I thought it was genius to go just before the peak when other riders will be switching off a little.
Sky need to defend yellow now but from what we saw today as a team they look far stronger, 6 vs 3 from Movistar. Killer move tommorrow ?
I think sky will just defend the jersey as the others need to do something before the time trial. Quintana to try an attack to break froome and fail. Froome to perhaps win a little sprint just to prove a point?
I thought it was genius to go just before the peak when other riders will be switching off a little.
Genius??? Pretty sure that must be tried and tested behaviour? Certainly was what I was taught to do racing xc in the mid nineties, easiest way to get a gap and I can't believe it's taken 20 years for it to cross disciplines!
Brit dominance in the TdF, Brit dominance in the Lenzerheide DH, great stuff, hope Grant Ferguson is inspired in the xc later!
Has anybody commented on it being a day of 3s for the Brits*? 3 stage wins in a row, 3 jerseys.
Or 5 out of 8 stage wins?
Or 2 DH World Cup wins?
Or 3 out of the top 4 in the womens DH World Cup?
Or the top 3 in the womens DH World Cup overall?
Or 9 out of the top 20 in the mens DH Word Cup overall?
😯 😯 😯
This will not do! Brits aren't supposed to excel at sport!!!