Tour de France stage 8 – Pau / Bagnères-de-Luchon – Pyrenees number 2

Wow that was quite something from Froome. Terrifying, but effective!

Who said that? He’s always been pretty good.

Not watching it live today… crazy risk taking for a GC contender?

Armchair pundits. Even the commentators spout it sometimes.

It’s something you’ll never have seen before from Froome. Maybe from Sagan.

That last climb and descent was bas news for Cav….he’ll still be quicker on the descent, but possibly not by much…..he’s going to have to dig deep on this climb to stay in the race. All the track training seems to have helped his leg speed and sprinting, but must be really hurting his ability to climb.

Part of Cav’s plan to exit the race? 🙂

Attacked just for a bit of fun, fair play, chapeau.

Another drug fuelled win for the lying weasel, will most likely stop watching now!

“Am I in yellow?” – love it!

Ey, that were exciting 😀

I’m looking forward to seeing loads of people going down the hill on my way to work like that… 🙂

Attacked just for a bit of fun, fair play, chapeau.
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Awesome ride, cracking to see a different side to Froome.

Also, 8 stages and Brits have won 5. Amazing stuff.

Just over 30 minutes since Froome crossed the line, Cav still on the road…..needs to finish within the next 7 minutes.

Over the Tourmalet I don’t think I’d be reaching for my 54 chainring! 34 more like!

Awesome effort.

Looks like he’s going to be eliminated……as will Bernie, which is a real shame!

Been an absolutely brutal stage!

Heres hoping

Oooh,they just caught the autobus! Cracking effort….he was a few k behind it at one point…..the wont be eliminating all of that group that just came in, so all good!

You can always rely on Bernie to see you right!

Another drug fuelled win for the lying weasel, will most likely stop watching now!

Please provide your evidence for this.

Great win for Froome, and not his usual style. He seems to be growing into this riding lark 😀

Turns out he’s got a decent left hander on him as well.

https://mobile.twitter.com/CyclingHubTV/status/751803200404131840/video/1

Yep cav and Bernie gained 4 minutes on the autobus on that last climb. As they said on itv he clearly held on to a car massive effort on that last climb. 😆

Please provide your evidence for this.

Best to just ignore the attention seeker.

Great descent from froome, and great to watch.

Horrible descent from Froome! Ugliest thing I think I’ve ever seen on a road bike. There’s taking risks and then there is descending like a bag of spanners but somehow fluking it. I like to think the other contenders just refused to demean themselves by following.

That elbow / punch from Froome is quality.

Where’s Ligget to say “former mountain biker” when you need him?

Froome last heard saying “Wheeee” and giggling a lot.

Well done.

I didn’t see it clearly (or wasn’t really taking notice) but did Quintana have to dodge the water bottle discarded by Froome as he came over the top. It was all a bit frantic with the camera work.

I think Quintana went to get bottle from a team person at the side so was distracted as Froome took off down the road

Wasn’t paying close attention as I had just arrived home and was breathing hard but I think taking a bottle going over the top (Quintana) lost him a couple of lengths and to keep up he threw the recently acquired drink away as he couldn’t get it into the carrier and sprint at the same time.

Awwwwww. I was rooting for Adam to take yellow. Great descent though. Dan looking good too.

So given that it’s easy to build a bike below the UCI weight limit and all the riders descend on the top tube now – why not use a dropper post?

yeah I saw that, it was just after.

Smokey Jo – I’d wondered that too. Not all descend on the top tube, but I bet if they could have a dropper on the descent without carrying it up, they would use it.

I’m not sure a dropper would be more aero than sitting on the TT. Froome’s position was quite Obree-esque, very far forward over the bars.

Dropper post wouldn’t make any difference, the point being to get the head and shoulders in front of the bars – arse wasn’t anywhere near the saddle.

Guess it’s kind of like a nose cone on a fighter jet!

In a word, Froome, I think he will attack and I think he will attack hard.
nah not today, will be tomorrow

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Dropper posts, discs etc just the usual anglo saxon techno bollox way of **** up a decent sport(or anything).

200Ch fine for Froome for conduct

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well he didn’t on the climb 😆

200Ch fine for Froome for conduct

Hope the spectator got considerably worse than that.

I’m off to A&E tomorrow to see how many mamils i can spot that have had a smash trying out new decending technique.