Le Tour (may contain spoilers)

ace.

WHO WON ?????

Pinot, werent you listening?

What a finish, looking forward to watching it later.

Gits…

TM won

Martin. Solo break with 2km to go.

I wonder what will be made from his motor pacing back into the lead group with about 20km to go after his mechanical.

Ah, beautiful. There was a lot of shouting at the screen going on at the end.

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

What a corking stage, everyone played their part and a worthy winner. Much better this than the crashfest last time out.

Martin wins and takes yellow (puts bikebouy out of his misery)

Ta.

Huge thanks for that Lads, really apreciate it. I know it’s like wroking for a living watching the TV and typing but Cheers, proper thanks n ‘ all 😀

Awesome!! I love it when the big break pays off.

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?

They sacrificed themselves by playing interference on the corners.

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

Martin went at about 3km out, Cav didn’t really have a chance

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.

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

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

In a way he was a back up for Etixx-Quickstep: if TM had been caught then Cav would be keeping on the fastest rider’s wheel to sprint for the line. Getting the maillot jaune was priority #1 for them but if they weren’t going to get that then the stage win was the team consolation prize.

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 … 🙂

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

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

Froome does know it’s 3 week race doesn’t he? I thought this stage was going to end with Thomas leading him out for the sprint 🙂

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

ta

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?

How very dare you!!
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And yes.

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

Fair enough. Could be an interesting discussion thread, this, but having to skim though 7 pages a day before finding a reply, or a comment worth replying to,isn’t worth it. My fault – I got the wrong idea.

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. 😳

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