Hello everyone.. I’m currently sitting in the Alps looking outside at the rain, and I’m starting to get a little excited. It’s the tour soon.

Ran into Froome and Porte a week or so ago, had a little spin with them and wished them luck, they both looked pretty comfortable and confident, despite Froome’s crash in the Dauphine. But Contador is so strong at the moment.. And there’s lots of others, both old and new, who have something to add to the fight.

But anyway, as it’s the Tour, we’ve already got lots of controversy, see here, here, and here.

It’s time to get ready though…

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUQwztfAk8U[/video]

Fantasy leagues, higthepig already beat me to it for the winning league..

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/stw-tdf-fantasy-league

League Code: 28182017

And the loser league (for those of you who are new to this – you have to spend 100 credits on your team, with the “winner” being the team with the lowest score at the end of the tour)

League Code: 29121638

A recap from last year..

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLoji7CM1RM[/video]

http://www.letour.fr/us/

Yaay! Looking forward to some excellent coverage this year!

RealMan welcome back, daily updates every day?

I’m having trouble with the velogames site – anyone else ?
(can’t see full lists, my “second” team is hidden but I think it has just overwritten mt selection from my first team)

Hope it goes well for Sky again, saw Ritchie before he headed back to Europe and he was keen to be back. He’d just finished riding round tasmania (in a day)

Yesssssssss!!

I’m having trouble with the velogames site – anyone else ?
(can’t see full lists, my “second” team is hidden but I think it has just overwritten mt selection from my first team)

I believe you have to make two accounts to have two teams – that’s what I’ve done anyway.

Realman Tour thread it’s getting serious now 🙂

Looking forward to a good race. I just hope drugs cheat contador doesn’t win

Breathes huge sigh of relief you are doing these again
Those threads are the STW high point IMHO

Ran into Froome and Porte a week or so ago

Were you staring at your slammed stem whilst they were staring at theirs

Those threads are the STW high point IMHO

Definitely up there.

Best coverage on the internet.

I believe you have to make two accounts to have two teams – that’s what I’ve done anyway.

yeah, that’s what I do but they seem to be mixed up. Might need to delete cookies or something, I guess

Come on you lot, get your teams in..

team in

Froome
Nibali
Mevel
Rolland
Degenkolb
Martin
Thomas
Voigt
Dowsett

Some nice understatement from Waitrose in Cambridge.

team in

Froome
Nibali
Mevel
Rolland
Degenkolb
Martin
Thomas
Voigt
Dowsett

You may wanna change that mate, just come up on Twitter that Dowsett has not made Movistar team, blaiming chest infection.

Can we just post it here our selections? CBA’d with redg’ on another site, anyway there aren’t any others 😆

Team order FTW:
Movistar – Valvpiti
Saxo
Sky
OPQS
…..

Expecting the Mov boys to be all over both Sky and Saxo with Sky and Saxo too busy fighting it out between themselves to notice the rest of the teams involved. 😆

Winner, well I’ll stick my short fat neck out and say Valvpiti. 😛

I’m in

mangoingforyellow 🙂

Talansky
Horner
Pinot
Navarro
Kittel
Martin
Gerrans
Cancellara
Nibali

Losing Kreuziger is a big blow to Contador IMO

Big blow? I’d say colossal.

Is this the spoilers or no spoilers thread? Best get it in the title if spoilers will be punishable by instant excommunication. 🙂

Millar not selected by Garmin?

Deselected due to poor form. 🙁

Eh??

Noooooo!, really??

Argh horsecrap..

You’re joshing right?

You’re joshing right?

Nope. Feel bad for him, final ever tour and gets a cough and loses form right before the start.

I was selected for TdF last week, then they pulled me last night. Wiggo, Dowsett, Pete, Swifty, fancy a city break? I hear York’s nice.

Realman Tour thread it’s getting serious now

RealMan, STW’s own INRNG.

I’ll have Wiggins, Dowsett, Kennaugh, Millar, Swifty, Pate, Deignan…

Add Cummings and Stannard CTM… maybe the Yates brothers as well… we’ll have to see 😉

I thought Millar had quite a big financial stake in the G-S team – surprising that he has so little say, if so 😕

If you like numbers..

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/the-2014-tour-de-france-key-figures

And not too bad a video from Froome

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgvDx6y8i_U[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xidmgvk5iOI[/video]

REALMAN!
:high five:

each daily thread contains spoilers, thats just the way it is.
if you want to watch the highlights avoid it.

that said last year i avoided, STW, general news media sites…… only to get told the days result on radio 1 in the car on the way home.

X – Ci– Ted.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/daryl-impey-tests-positive-for-probenecid

Hmmm.. I really liked Impey as well.

Hmmm, everyone’s getting tour crazee.

Pie-Cycle

Odd one that, took long enough for it to be analysed, (Feb -> Jul), although good it wasn’t released before both the A and B samples were tested.

Pity, seemed a nice guy.

Wendybikes? Whos slammin the epo this year?

Overpaid men in lycra riding stupid skinny bikes.

Can this be moved to off topic please?

Can your face be moved to off topic please?

Just seen some of the Confidis Team sat outside at Hotel in Harrogate, do they have anyone decent?

and a Sky team rider in Otley

^^ always had an eye on Coppel but he’s just about to jump from the team… not in the Tour either..
Rein Taaramae’s handy.. Go get an autograph. 😀

Things are hotting up, they’ve the bunting out in York now:

These have been popping up for weeks:

This is my fav: