TdF Stage 5 – A Stage Riddled With Dangers [Spoilers]

Not seen much of Porte but looks like he’s going to be bothering the Rapha tailors tonight too.

Well yes. That goes without saying but Froome out, Contador nearly 3 mins behind is quite a shocking day

Boom!

Porte and Thomas putting time into Contador/Valverde too.

What a ride from Boom

Bertie’s bonked by the looks of it.

what
a
race

wow. I might have to watch both the ITV and EuroSport highlights tonight.

Looking forward to Contador attacking in the mountains now 🙂

It’s set up the rest of the race beautifully. Well done Nibbles. 🙂

well thats something, once froome went down i feared a dull race without a climbing challanger to contador but i’ll take nibali with a 3 minute headstart. 🙂

Looking forward to Contador attacking in the mountains now

Looks like he may need a visit from his special butcher!

wow what a stage….

WHAT a stage! Well pleased for Nibali and also for Lars Boom – you’d never guess he’s a previous CX World Champ would you! 😉

Great to see Porte and Thomas pick it up with no hesitation. Nibali’s not going to be too worried by the mountains, hopefully some dry roads so he can throw himself down some of the descents.

Time for Greg Lemond and his dickhead sidekick.

all that sunshine did Yorkshire a disservice 😉

Porte 8th on GC

Amazing performance by Nibbels

all that sunshine did Yorkshire a disservice

I’ve just turned on – is this not Yorkshire?

That sounded fun just by text!

I’m so glad my boss is off for 2 weeks & we have a TV here at work 😀

Still going to have to watch all of it again as I was flitting in and out of the mess room pretending to work 😉

BOOM indeed

for stage 5 the time gaps are massive 😯

I’m liking the Greg Lemond and his sidekick bit, as I’m stuck in Brussels and all I’m hearing is flemish on the TV coverage up to this point.

Wow, what a dramatic day.

Just trying to catch up, read back through the thread.

Fantastic. Just overloaded with excitement and information, gonna take a while to process all this.

I fell in love with Porte a while ago, I believe during the TT stage of the tour last year. I’m gutted for Froome, but so excited to see what Richie can do.

What a stage.

BOOM BOOM SHAKE SHAKE THE FROOME

clever ploy Geraint and Richie putting time into Bertie, Richie can sit in behind and let Contrador & his team do all the work chasing down Nibali.

Can’t wait for the mountain stages now, it’ll be like cat and mouse (hopefully!!)

Phew, wow, what a day, proper bike racing!

Anyone put Nibali in their fantasy team specially for today???

Nibali is the best all-round road cyclist I’ve seen in decades.

The racers racer.

Missed it. Had to do actual things.

Will have to record highlights later, after football.

Can anyone in the Eccelston area of Lancashire confirm reports of a very loud Nelson Muntz-style “HA HA” echoing around the hills?

😆

JCL – Member

Nibali is the best all-round road cyclist I’ve seen in decades.

The racers racer.

He’s definitely up there, one of my favourite cycling pics is from the Giro last year:

I’ll say it too, Wiggins should have been on the team. Porte is a potential GC winner and Wiggins probably couldn’t have won this tour given the stages but he had a slim chance and Sky look pretty thin now.

Gutted for Froome, can’t say I like him but he tried to tough it out and defend his title, so respect for that.

Love to be a fly on the wall in Dave’s office in a few weeks time
Ring ring
“Hi brad it’s dave yer sorry about that!,anyway what you doing next year”
“Brad,brad!! You still there brad,brad”
😀

For those of you obsessed with Wiggins…

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/may/29/orica-greenedge-interest-bradley-wiggins

@RealMan – I did read that when it came out, in May 😉

More banner amendment needed – Go Wiggo Cav Chris Geraint