Le Tour – Stage 5 – Not the real man – accept subs…

It’s all gone a bit dull ain’t it.. after yesterdays juddery wobbles today it’s only a bit of wind and some wetness causing mild agitation.

In that, and the tube strike, means I’m off home.

Should be back in time for the finish….

It’s all gone a bit dull ain’t it.. after yesterdays juddery wobbles today it’s only a bit of wind and some wetness causing mild agitation.

It’ll be mentally very taxing work sitting there in that bunch – might be relatively easy physically until it all kicks off but watching, waiting, concentrating, trying to calculate time gaps all in that wind and rain won’t be easy.

On-bike camera highlights from the first 4 stages:

Skittles again. Pinot must be about to go all Falling Down.

Are Etixx binning their crap driving video from yesterday? Seems to have been removed from youtube.

That on bike footage is excellent. How long away do you think we are from being able to get live footage from the on bike cameras?

I think it’s more UCI rules than technical that’s holding back live footage.

At home, bought supper, got changed 😀

Watching the telly, looks like a proper headwind 😕

6k to go, around a roundabout… all round, over the bridge into Town.. big ringing it and all pulling hard

4k now.. all bumping and bore’ing and elbows, main teams in the front, all looking at each other… Sagan about 10th..

Geraint Thomas on the front again, the man is a machine.
Oddly with 4km to go there seem to be no real sprint trains forming.

2k.. etixx in a stream of 5 on their own on the left, couple of riders that pulled hard dropping off… MTN out front, etixx on the left…Giant pushing up..

Oddly with 4km to go there seem to be no real sprint trains forming.

Too much of a headwind, they’d die if they formed up this early.

2.3k martin should go again, the rest are looking sleepy

Martin pulling hard at the front, another man machine.

1k… Tonys on the front, Giant pushed ahead, flat straight road…more elbows..

Spoke to soon, Giant on a charge .8k

all waiting for each other…

Peleton fragmenting, Lotto and Ettixx up front

kristoff, cav…griepl

greipel!

Cav has gone too soon

Sagan 2nd
Cav 3rd

Messy sprint, Cav lost Renshaw completely, but Greipel just looked strongest.