Tour de France

ChrisLS

...watching avidly. I was wondering if you were in the pro peleton would you be a sprinter, a climber, a time trialist, a domestique or an all rounder and probably a winner.

Me I would be a domestique...put me on a bike and I go all day...I'd earn my money fetching and carrying and leading out sprinters and sheltering and pacing my team leader...et vous?

2wheelzgood

spectator? too much hard work that riding stuff!

graeme_s-2

I've wondered about this. Part of me thinks I have a sprinter-like build, but another part of me thinks that a beer belly probably doesn't count .

I did make a Cav-style effort to get through a set of lights before they went amber yesterday morning though.

robmanic1

Podium girl "fluffer" 8)

Greg T

Mechanic

Just as long as they don't mind some erratic and amusing derailler not quite working how it should episodes.

I'll be fecked if I can get a smooth and seamless gear change all the way up and down the cassette with "minor adjustments of the tensioning adjuster"

tomfoolery

On my commuter I can get a fairly smooth and seamless gear change either up or down, but never both.

N.B. The above only applies to 80% of the sprockets, obviously. Mid-range is a bit of a gamble. It means I get to exercise my wrists as well as legs though, shifting up and down trying to find 5th. It's a feature.

I dream of smooth changes up and down, across the whole set. Think I need to pay for better components to get that. Bad tools - that's what it is. Definitely.

ChrisLS

Robmanic...what is a "podium girl fluffer? Tell me quickly as my imagination is running riot... :P :P :P :P

Greg T

tomfoolery wrote:

On my commuter I can get a fairly smooth and seamless gear change either up or down, but never both.

We are on to something here.....

I'm going to set up a side thread - "Hello I'm a biff - I can't get my bike to work right"

dirk_van_gently

Drug user :?

Sad but true.

cee

Dirk Van Gently wrote:

Drug user :?

Sad but true.

I think I must be a drg user too......your avatar keeps changing its jersey...

dirk_van_gently

cee wrote:

I think I must be a drg user too......your avatar keeps changing its jersey...

The avatar is the drug user, he has all the jerseys :?

secretsam

Sprinter

Or one of those Credit Lyonnaise cuddly lions that they give to winners

clanton

tomfoolery wrote:

On my commuter I can get a fairly smooth and seamless gear change either up or down, but never both.

N.B. The above only applies to 80% of the sprockets, obviously. Mid-range is a bit of a gamble. It means I get to exercise my wrists as well as legs though, shifting up and down trying to find 5th. It's a feature.

I dream of smooth changes up and down, across the whole set. Think I need to pay for better components to get that. Bad tools - that's what it is. Definitely.

lol. Fantastic.

victor ludorum

I'd like to be un grimpeur but, unfortunately, I'm not built like a racing snake... I can crank up hills, but I'd like dance up them like Pantani (without the drugs...)

fizz

When I used to watch Le Tour on C4 in the days of Millar, Kelly and Roche I always had dreams of being a climber, the Polka Jersey was the one I always wanted to wear and I had visions of me breaking away at the bottom of the first big climb of the day and staying away all day, the lonely escape artist...

Then I got a car and discovered beer and now I'm 35 and alot fatter and less fit than I was when I was 15...

Ah well. Stilll one can dream....

richlong28

i'd most probably be a time trialist, i seem to ridee quicker on my own

it makes me laugh how cavendish has won 3 stages, but is still in 147th

Belv

I'd be a domestique (trying to make a name for myself as a climber on the off-duty days)

Bassjunkieuk

I'd like to think of myself as a sprinter, but then most players of the now legendary GAME should!
I do have a new found respect for the riders tho after doing my longest ride to date last week (a 60 miler) and how my legs felt! It's amazing they can still ride the way they do!

Having said that I'm not confident enough in my bike handling to take a "traffic circle" like they do, I was cringing last night as the pack split near the end of stage 12 for that huge one, I had vision's of it all going very wrong!!!

attica

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

I'd like to think of myself as a sprinter, but then most players of the now legendary GAME should

I play the game and would say I'm more of a lone escape artist, grinding it out as fast as I can for hours on the flat. My scalps can take miles to catch and pass, then again it's only shaven roadies who are above me in the FC and my commute is about 13 miles of rural road followed by 2 miles of stop start sprinting.

jefferee

Lanterne Rouge candidate, probably...

greg66_tri_v2.0

Sprinter. And an awesome snake-hipped climbing machine. Like Merckx, but slimmer and better looking.

Time trialling is boring. Like watching the test card.


:twisted:

dirk_van_gently

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

I'm not confident enough in my bike handling to take a "traffic circle" like they do!

Did you see the "Traffic Circle" crash, I think it was Friday, where the rider hit the road sign? He and the bike went temporarily into orbit, upon re-entry the bike burnt up, well was actually in about 3 pieces.
These blokes are either tough, or just plain bonkers!

Bassjunkieuk

Dirk Van Gently wrote:

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

I'm not confident enough in my bike handling to take a "traffic circle" like they do!

Did you see the "Traffic Circle" crash, I think it was Friday, where the rider hit the road sign? He and the bike went temporarily into orbit, upon re-entry the bike burnt up, well was actually in about 3 pieces.
These blokes are either tough, or just plain bonkers!

Yes that one was quite impressive, I was also admiring how close they came to the edge of the roads on the descents yesterday too! Sweep round the corner then roll out to the edge of the road where there's no barrier and a nice drop :oops: