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  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    Mettan wrote:
    Headwinds for majority of "upcoming" climb - tough - 7 % average gradient.
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Look how this stage ends! Magnificent I am so pleased I am at home to watch it all. Hopefully it will have the excitement of previous stages and then some.

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    how can this be? Surely if it's headwind on the zig it's tailwind on the zag?
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Wonder who'll be in yellow...

    Either a Frenchman or someone from a French team by the looks of it. Will be a popular result either way!
  • Mettan
    Mettan Posts: 2,103
    will3 wrote:
    Mettan wrote:
    Headwinds for majority of "upcoming" climb - tough - 7 % average gradient.
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Look how this stage ends! Magnificent I am so pleased I am at home to watch it all. Hopefully it will have the excitement of previous stages and then some.

    untitled-5.jpg

    how can this be? Surely if it's headwind on the zig it's tailwind on the zag?

    Not sure - that guy in the car mentioned it on the commentary.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Time is coming down now. Slowly. 10;44' with 30 KM to go.
  • sportbilly1976
    sportbilly1976 Posts: 524
    does anyone know of a hill in the UK with such a road up it?

    I would love to have a go at one..... :)
  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,079
    NapoleonD wrote:
    That 1 minute for 10km is a little out IMO, I think it's more like 10 seconds per 1Km.

    But I'm not a cycling commentator.

    I'm not very good at cycling either.

    So make of my comment what you will.

    Admin: Please remove this post. Its absolutely useless.


    :lol:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    edited July 2009
    No.

    No repeated switchbacks in the UK

    :(
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Ben Nevis is 1300 metres above sea level. Even if there was a road from sea level to the summit it wouldn't compare. But there isn't, the high mountains of the Pyrenees and Alps are unique in Europe.
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    will3 wrote:
    Mettan wrote:
    Headwinds for majority of "upcoming" climb - tough - 7 % average gradient.
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Look how this stage ends! Magnificent I am so pleased I am at home to watch it all. Hopefully it will have the excitement of previous stages and then some.

    untitled-5.jpg

    how can this be? Surely if it's headwind on the zig it's tailwind on the zag?

    I think you'll find the zag is actually into the headwind, whilst zig's got the tailwind.
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    edited July 2009
    :D

    zig-zag.jpg

    which one has wind?
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    edited July 2009
    We're going to Europe next year; suffice to say the better half now wants to add Spain to the list.

    Lovely scenery; simply stunning.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Heavymental wrote:
    NapoleonD wrote:
    That 1 minute for 10km is a little out IMO, I think it's more like 10 seconds per 1Km.

    But I'm not a cycling commentator.

    I'm not very good at cycling either.

    So make of my comment what you will.

    Admin: Please remove this post. Its absolutely useless.


    :lol:

    :( on that basis it would mean approximately 96% of my posts would be deleted and the other 4% debatable.
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    Now Paul Sherwin is saying the climb will be done with a tailwind???
  • deal
    deal Posts: 857
    will3 wrote:
    Mettan wrote:
    Andorra's a country? - thought it was a principality - I've no idea.

    (think we played them in Football though).

    Wales is a principality


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principali ... lity_today
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    9 minute lead, 24KM to go.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Wind from top = head wind

    Wind from bottom = trump.
  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    Is it just me or does a Rabobank rider crash every day?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Cav crashed :(
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    There goes Cav's chance of the stage win.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    edited July 2009
    Andorra has two heads of state: the Spanish monarch and the French president. So now you know :wink:

    Gap's coming down now. The final climb is approaching and it should get lively soon.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Cav involved in a crash. Nothing serious. Leipheimer involved also.
  • Mettan
    Mettan Posts: 2,103
    edited July 2009
    Kléber wrote:
    Andorra has two heads of state: the Spanish monarch and the French president. So now you know :wink:

    That's cleared it up :wink:
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Boonen gone down. Again.
  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    Kléber wrote:
    Andorra has two heads of state: the Spanish monarch and the French president. So now you know :wink:

    Kleber, your starting to sound like Alice Cooper, ala Wayne's World.
  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    Levi's down! He's gonna have a big effort getting back.
  • deal
    deal Posts: 857
    someone please attack astana now :twisted:
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    SpaceJunk wrote:
    Kleber, your starting to sound like Alice Cooper, ala Wayne's World.
    The other day I was accused of being Tom Danielson. I don't know which is worse :?
  • TheStone
    TheStone Posts: 2,291
    Astana sent 2 back to pace Levi? Is that just so he's there to help today, or another possible leader??

    Also looked like Rodgers was sent back for Cav?
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I was accused of being a goggle eyed freak with a flat-back head.

    Sometimes my wife can be so cruel.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    8'28" lead with 20 KM to go now. Lead group down to 8

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