handbags!

So Rolland held his minute just about despite the Nibali charge. Impressive.

Oi, frooomie, leave iiiiiittt ! 😆

My Skys gone pop because of the rain 😐

Eurosprt online then 😀

Urans gone pop too 😐

Froome is in the pain locker here I reckon, this does not bode well for the final climb.

i like Rollands climbing style..

Reminds me of someone…

That’ll be me then 😆

I’m only looking at the tracking online so whats happening at the front of the yellow jersey group? Is froome chasing?

Anyone see a time check on Geraint – it’s not showing on the Letour.com ticker

If I held a bottle in my teeth like Nibbs, they’d be attached when I took the bottle out of my mouth 😕

Froomes right there, tagged to Valvs wheels and Nibbs up front. All the chasers (CG) are together just tapping away at pace up the 5k cat 2 climb.

Rollands a minute up ahead of Nibbs.

G not in the CG group..

Haven’t seen him in a while TBH.

He’s not even in the Peloton – he’s in the Grupetto according to the ticker, but no time gap.

Rob Hayles on 5 live just did the classic disc brake argument about ‘it’s easy to lock the wheels as it is, traction is limited by tyres..’ etc. Facepalm!

I’m not really watching this but every time I take a peek, Nibbles is having another sticky bottle passed up 😕

Rolland eased up as Nibbs comes up under him.. less than 500mtrs before the decsent and Nibbs will have this I reckon..

Nibbles has caught Rolland. I reckon he’s going for the stage!
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Rob Hayles on 5 live just did the classic disc brake argument about ‘it’s easy to lock the wheels as it is, traction is limited by tyres..’ etc. Facepalm!

Sorry if this has been done a million times, but what’s wrong with that statement?

Bardet popped off the front of CG, in chase to Nibbs..

I don’t think the argument was about descending antics, I think it was about Movistar not helping to chase Nibali.

I won’t get into that debate, other than to say it is a tired and i’ll informed statement!

Twitter is saying GT has lost 7+ minutes, a bad day for him, though he could well stay top 10 if he doesn’t lose too much more.

yeah shut up phil

Its all swoop and slide downhill, so much so I’ve had to make myself a Tomato Cup-a-soup 😀

I think it was about Movistar not helping to chase Nibali.

Don’t understand why they’re not, they have the most to lose. Froome can just sit there and save himself for tomorrow. Nibali just out for a bit of glory with a stage win I guess.

Ligget is a complete muppet FFS!

Bardet’s mech broken / battery gone?

thats my sort of mechanicing, if in doubt boot it

Well that was a nice loop wasn’t it? They’re almost all down the bottom now, nothing too scary but Bardets got front mech problems and he was chasing down Nibb and Rolland too 😐

Thomas 9’40 from the front.
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Thomas at 9:40 🙁

Are we allowed to talk about electric gears?

Bardet car is not allowed to come through .

he is on small ring .

AG2R are with Sram , not sure they have electric gears ?

my ring would be small going down there at that speed

Sure talk about leccy stuff packing up, go ahead 🙄

#sramred22mechanicalrules 😉

Huge shame for Bardet that. Seems to be on great form. A most public fail for SRAM too.

DOn’t know why they went leccy in the first place 🙄

Bike change for Bertie too – puncture?
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Right, just going back up the hill, Rolland and Nibbs still out front at 1;40 odd.. This is the same climb that Froooomie span off in front of Wiggo all those years ago.. 😆