Tour de France Support Vehicle

pneumatic

Young Master Pneumatic and I are off on a road trip to France and we are planning to spend a day at a bucolic roadside spot watching the passage du Tour.

Since we have the support vehicle with us, we are taking just a few essentials:

Travel fridge
Cheap picnic table
Table cloth
Sunshade
Garden chairs
Beer
Wine
Pastis
Baguette
Rillettes
Saucisson
Fromage
Soft fruit
Large Saltire
Devil Costume
Beret
Spray paint
Butterfly net to catch the freebies in

Oh, yes! and the bikes to lean against the ditch behind us

Have we forgotten anything?

thecrofter

Afootball - help pass the time while waiting for the peleton and to demonstrate to any passing Englanders that the ball was quite clearly NOT over the line in '66

skyd0g

Mankini, wig, + false moustache plus a Basque flag.

avoidingmyphd

big stencil of blood values graph

Anonymous

Lone star of Texas flag, for the "Old Redneck ?"

Stewie Griffin

A vuvuzela, go on you know you want to and the Locals would love it

GiantMike

pneumatic wrote:

Have we forgotten anything?

Suncream
Stripey tee-shirt and a string of onions

Which stage(s) are you waching? I'll be at most stages from Stage 3 to 9.

cycologist

My envy, my jealousy, but most of all, my best wishes.

rob_spedding

Sounds great! If you get some nice pics fancy sending them to us at CP? Would love to get some fans stories from this year's Tour de France for our post Tour coverage...yep basically I'm asking you to do my job for me...

Rob

pneumatic

Rob Spedding wrote:

Sounds great! If you get some nice pics fancy sending them to us at CP? Would love to get some fans stories from this year's Tour de France for our post Tour coverage...yep basically I'm asking you to do my job for me...

Rob

Rob, it's a deal. We got some fantastic ones the last time we went (2007). It is actually the youngsters that have demanded that we do it again; they said it was the best excursion of the whole holiday.

We are heading for the stage that finishes at Mende Aerodrome, not at the finish itself but a few kms back up the road at the top of the penultimate hill. It was the boy's choice; he didn't want it to be so crowded that he couldn't set up his dining table! :shock:

rick_chasey

Mankini - borat style.

pneumatic

Rick Chasey wrote:

Mankini - borat style.

The teenagers have got morph suits - but given my dignified middle-aged shape, I have been absolutely forbidden even to try one on, so I'm guessing the mankini is going to be out of the question!

They have also vetoed my speedos (apparently unnacceptable to modern youth on account of the episode of the Simpsons where Homer goes to Copa Cabana beach).






I'll just have to stick to my lycras! (I usually do!)

greasedscotsman

How about a dog, just let it off the lead just as the bunch is approching...

STEFANOS4784

A stick to put through someones spokes and leg it with a nice shiny new bike

Ollieda

don't forget it's not like the WRC where when drivers come near you move out the way.....infact during the TDF the riders actually appreciate as many people as possible blocking up the road and getting in the way as it makes riding that stage far more interesting for them

greasedscotsman

STEFANOS4784 wrote:

A stick to put through someones spokes and leg it with a nice shiny new bike

Wouldn't it be a slightly bent shiny bike?

rml380z

Why are you taking wine with you to France?

Take it out and put in some Marmite and tea bags.

bearfraser

How about a "Germany" flag

Mike67

greasedscotsman wrote:

STEFANOS4784 wrote:

A stick to put through someones spokes and leg it with a nice shiny new bike

Wouldn't it be a slightly bent shiny bike?

Just wear some replica kit.
The team car will be along to fix it for you in no time

pneumatic

rml380z wrote:

Why are you taking wine with you to France?

Take it out and put in some Marmite and tea bags.

No no! Foodwise, we are just taking a big empty space in the car into which we will be putting the plunder from our first raid on Intermarche or Carrefour or whichever hypermarket looms out of the suburbs of Le Havre first. 8) 8)

We hate shopping but we LOVE French supermarkets; compared to the experience of our local Tescopoly, it is like it must have felt crossing the Berlin wall from East to West in the early 1980's.

greasedscotsman

Mike67 wrote:

greasedscotsman wrote:

STEFANOS4784 wrote:

A stick to put through someones spokes and leg it with a nice shiny new bike

Wouldn't it be a slightly bent shiny bike?

Just wear some replica kit.
The team car will be along to fix it for you in no time

That's a freakin' awesome idea. I was gonna wear club kit tomorrow, but now it's gonna be Sky, quite fancy a new Pinarello! Must remember to suck my gut in, otherwise I might be rumbled...

pneumatic

Ok, so now all young Pneumatic and I have to do is to round up some unruly dogs, shave our legs and get some team kit. I also need to lose about four stone.

Then, we will be open for business, salvaging nice bikes from the middle of yet another collapsed peleton.

So who wants what? Form an orderly queue, please and place your orders!

BTW, I absolutely refuse to blag any Fuji bikes, if it means having to put on that Footon kit -it is just SOOOOOOOOO beige! :shock: