Looks like Cav's back then

roadracedave

Well Cav has just taken stage 5!

Hopefully this will help him get him back on track of what he is capable of

Lightning

He might even turn pro in the future!

Bikr23

yeah Well Done Cav! Hopefully the lessons learnt the last few days will lead to a new respect for fellow competitors.

CiB

Thanks prat. Even putting the word SPOILERS in the thread title deosn't stop us opening this section and spotting that Cav has in all likelihood won today's stage.

Thanks for giving it away. My one little bit of joy watching the highlights this evening whilst I do the kitchen after tea, gone. Cheers for nothing. Prat.

:roll:

Ben6899

CiB wrote:

Thanks prat. Even putting the word SPOILERS in the thread title deosn't stop us opening this section and spotting that Cav has in all likelihood won today's stage.

Thanks for giving it away. My one little bit of joy watching the highlights this evening whilst I do the kitchen after tea, gone. Cheers for nothing. Prat.

:roll:

The OP only has 12 posts; is a newb and is probably not aware of the *SPOILERS* etiquette.

While I see where you're coming from, I'm sorry but the tone of your post is terrible. Don't take out your disappointment on the DIY or you could end up with some shyte fitting kitchen cupboards.

secretsqizz

and in the wrong section

redddraggon

CiB wrote:

Thanks prat. Even putting the word SPOILERS in the thread title deosn't stop us opening this section and spotting that Cav has in all likelihood won today's stage.

Thanks for giving it away. My one little bit of joy watching the highlights this evening whilst I do the kitchen after tea, gone. Cheers for nothing. Prat.

:roll:

If you are that bothered about spoilers I recommend not going on a bike forum.

CiB

Ben6899 wrote:

CiB wrote:

Thanks prat. Even putting the word SPOILERS in the thread title deosn't stop us opening this section and spotting that Cav has in all likelihood won today's stage.

Thanks for giving it away. My one little bit of joy watching the highlights this evening whilst I do the kitchen after tea, gone. Cheers for nothing. Prat.

:roll:

The OP only has 12 posts; is a newb and is probably not aware of the *SPOILERS* etiquette.

While I see where you're coming from, I'm sorry but the tone of your post is terrible. Don't take out your disappointment on the DIY or you could end up with some shyte fitting kitchen cupboards.

Course the tone is terrible. What a prize idiot sticking up a thread shouting Whoa Cav's Won. I avoid R5 sports news & R4 sports desk through the day so that I can watch it unfurl later in the evening. I'm not unique in doing that by a long chalk.

RoadRaceDave - you're a prat. And I'm bloody annoyed at you.

CiB

redddraggon wrote:

CiB wrote:

Thanks prat. Even putting the word SPOILERS in the thread title deosn't stop us opening this section and spotting that Cav has in all likelihood won today's stage.

Thanks for giving it away. My one little bit of joy watching the highlights this evening whilst I do the kitchen after tea, gone. Cheers for nothing. Prat.

:roll:

If you are that bothered about spoilers I recommend not going on a bike forum.

Cobblers. It's widely recognised that you don't give the game away. That's all.

mroli

Of course, by replying, you are ensuring it remains at the top of the thread tree and more and more people see it... :oops:

bigmat

I'm with reddd, if I don't want to know the result, I'll steer clear of cycling websites. It isn't that hard. No need to be abusive to the guy that had the audacity to post about cycling on a cycling forum.

redddraggon

It's good manners to put "Spoiler", but it's way down the list of forum crimes behind:

Spamming, Trolling, Txt Speak, poor spelling, poor grammar, posting off topic stuff, etc.

Cleat Eastwood

MatHammond wrote:

I'm with reddd, if I don't want to know the result, I'll steer clear of cycling websites. It isn't that hard. No need to be abusive to the guy that had the audacity to post about cycling on a cycling forum.

+100 CiB sounds as big a knacker as Cav.

The bikeradar front page even ahd the news and pix minutes after the win.

Oh and CiB, you probably dont want to know this either so look away now

1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team HTC - Columbia 4:30:50
2 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Milram
3 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Sky Professional Cycling Team
4 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne
5 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervelo Test Team
6 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Bbox Bouygues Telecom
7 Robbie Mcewen (Aus) Team Katusha
8 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini
9 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
10 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin - Transitions

petejuk

CiB wrote:

Thanks prat. Prat.

:roll:

Do people still use this word?
If you are going to shout abuse, use a decent word. Or are you trying not to offend?

As said, if you were so worried about ruining your evening's highlights why would you come on here?

If your intention is to berate someone, come back when you've grown a pair and do it with real words.

simon johnson

Arggghhhhh!

Please sir, post material of that nature in the PRO RACE section where folk "Talk about competitive road cycling in all its forms" certainly not in the road beginner's where if you're "New to Cycling? Want some advice? Start here..."

I have the forum sections as quick links and usually I'm able to peruse this and other 'safe' sections......I guess lesson learnt, no forum unitl the day's racing is over. ;(

Oh well, it's only a bike race....still 2 weeks of racing to go!!

porker33

If it's that much of a big deal, why not politely ask the mods to amend the title, warning of spoilers or move to the pro cycling section?

elffy

CiB wrote:

Thanks prat. Even putting the word SPOILERS in the thread title deosn't stop us opening this section and spotting that Cav has in all likelihood won today's stage.

Thanks for giving it away. My one little bit of joy watching the highlights this evening whilst I do the kitchen after tea, gone. Cheers for nothing. Prat.

:roll:

If you were stood next to someone in a pub and they told everyone they were talking to that Cav had won and you overheard it, would you call him a prat to his face. I think not. It's easy to mouth off on a chat forum. Pathetic. Surely there are more important things in life, but perhaps not for a narrow minded person. I presume you have never let something slip to someone in the past or are you the perfect human being.

Zendog1

I agree with CiB except that prat seems a bit on the mild side.

:evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

bigpikle

...pretty dim really, especially in this forum...doesnt take a genius to work out some people will be wanting to watch the highlghts when they get home :roll:

cexton

Blimey this is a friendly forum today!!!

The bikeradar website even states " Tour de France 5: Its Cavendish time" I wonder what that means!!

Some people have nothing better to do than complain.

bexley5200

some people need to get a life

Mad Roadie

if Cav wins another stage they can post it everywhere and as soon as they like - I dont mind that kind of 'spoiler'

cougie

Its not rocket science - a bit of forethought gies a long way.

1. Pro cycling news doesn't belong in "road beginners".
2. The decent thing to do is to not give any clues in the title. A simple - "Stage 5 - spoilers" and everyone is happy.

Let's keep the forums a nice place to be eh ?

plowmar

Wether he's back or not I hold my judgement but the tactics employed seemed infinitely better than yesterday. And the course was better suited in the final 600 metres.

Sorry if I've spoilt it for anyone. , but others are right when you try to get onto the forum without seeing any of the bullet points re the day's stage and result on the home page.

CiB

Ok.

Right - I used prat as I didn't want to be offensive; I wanted to use a mild rebuke. Some people got this, most didn't; ho-hum.

I have shortcuts to this and the Commuting forum, deliberately to bypass the main page etc. On Commuting, we have a thread simply called TDF - Spoilers. I avoid it. Like peple have said it's not rocket science.

I looked on here because I'd posted a response to someone in an earlier thread, and guess what - wondered if the recipient had found it useful. A lot of people do - a number of times posters put a +1 next to quotes of my posts agreeing with what I've offered as advice, or smiling at the in-joke.

As for being in a pub; yeah if someone came in shouting a result, I probably would smile at him and call him a prat if I'd been trying to avoid it. Maybe village pubs are nicer places to be than your city drinking factories; I wouldn't know.

As for those who now wish to post threads with the full results in the thread title or whatever, feel free to go right ahead. It's clear that some people would rather confirm that they are indeed a prat rather than accept that not everyone wants to see the outcome in advance of the highlights. I'll take the advice offfered above and simply iginore this place for the next 2½ weeks. Feel free to bandy any thread titles about that please you.

See you in August.

Toddle-pip.

elffy

CiB wrote:

Maybe village pubs are nicer places to be than your city drinking factories; I wouldn't know.

I wouldn't know either as I don't drink in a city drinking factory either. My local is frequently visited by many a footballing star and other celebrities. And as for calling me a prat in my local I would of taken great pleasure in watching an obvious low life with no morales being asked to leave the premises. Making comments about people being prats and also assuming I in drink certain establishments demonstates not only to me but other forum viewers that really the only idiot is yourself.

kettrinboy

Anyway getting back to the OP, Cav looked every bit as fast as he did in the 2009 TDF, and his tears afterwards show how much his teams efforts through the race mean to him, fair play to Petacchi though his team got their tactics spot on yesterday but it looks like Cav learned a lesson from that defeat.

Spatulala

elffy wrote:

My local is frequently visited by many a footballing star and other celebrities.

Did you really just say that? Prat.

;o)

Actually that's unfair, I'm just grumpy cos a mate of mine won a Garmin competition today including flights from Heathrow to Pau via Paris, a seat on the team bus for the briefing, helicopter flights up the Tourmalet and back for the stage finish, VIP treatment and hobnobbing with the pros.

He decided to offer the +1 to his cycling buddies, starting with the closest to A. I'm second in that list. The first guy (amazingly) said yes. What a c**t (now that's a proper insult).

skinarelli

My wife thought she'd try and have a TDF free night by telling the kids who'd won today. All 3 kids met me at the garage door on my return from training this afternoon to inform me Cav had done the business.

She thought I'd want to know.

Cow.

Teach

I understand people's displeasure of hearing results if they wish to watch highlights, but surely venturing onto a cycling forum is always a brave /risky process. Threads frequently go off task and anybody could post an aside which gives something else away. I agree posting it in the title might not have helped. You talk about a spoiler. But what is it? What should it look like? Should the title have been a bit more cryptic eg what did you think to today's results?
This section is for road beginners and I suspect a lot of members are new to cycling forums and even forums. I am on various other forums which are non cycling and I have never heard of 'spoiler.'
The guy made a mistake in your eyes, but I don't believe shooting someone down from behind a computer is the answer. Maybe you should ask the mods to pay more attention to thread titles, or post a sticky about 'spoiler etiquette, or maybe ask for a whole new section on the Tour de France, for those who wish to post a thread and say well done to a British cyclist or those who wish to discuss the race at a different level and look at race strategies etc.'

PS Well done Mark

greasedscotsman

Skinarelli wrote:

My wife thought she'd try and have a TDF free night by telling the kids who'd won today. All 3 kids met me at the garage door on my return from training this afternoon to inform me Cav had done the business.

She thought I'd want to know.

Cow.

I hope you watched the enitre stage anyway, maybe on both ITV and then Eurosport!