TdF stage 6 *spoiler*

iainf72
iainf72 Posts: 15,784
edited July 2010 in Pro race
Long bumpy one today.

I've read it's either a) bucketing it down or b) cool and a lovely day for cycling

Breakaway FTW
Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Apparently it's raining stair rods at the start, big thunderstorms last night. But it's meant to dry out later on.

    Longest stage of this year's Tour. The run into the finish looks nice and steady, one roundabout just before the red kit, then a right hander onto a bridge before a sweeping lefthander and then a pan flat 800m to the line.
  • shakey88
    shakey88 Posts: 289
    Love to see Cav win again.
    Breakaways suck
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    A good chance of a break and we'll see which teams are willing to chase, it'll be interesting to see if everyone else expects HTC to do the grunt work or not.
  • Sheptastic
    Sheptastic Posts: 298
    I doubt they'll bother, 2 days on the front of the trot already.

    bit hilly towads the end for Cav too.

    Hopefully we'll see a few Brits in the breaks.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Probably, the onus was on HTC even when Cav was looking out of sorts. For some reason Lampre never seem to work to pull things back. I think Sky might also help out as EBH looks in with a chance of the green jersey.
  • mroli
    mroli Posts: 3,622
    Lampre seemed to do some work yesterday?
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    mroli wrote:
    Lampre seemed to do some work yesterday?

    not a lot
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Windy out on the road.

    I wonder if anyone has any appetite to make it tough.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    Break of 3 riders.. Its going to be very hard for them to last the longest stage of tis years tour with just 3 riders..

    12:22 CEST

    Ruben Perez Moreno (Euskaltel-Euskadi) is the best placed rider of the break. However he has some work to do before coming virtual race leader. He started the stage in 102nd place, 8:07 behind Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank).

    SITUATION:

    Mathieu Perget (Caisse d’Epargne), Sebastian Lang (Omega Pharma-Lotto) and Ruben Perez Moreno (Euskaltel-Euskadi).

    Peloton at 3:00.
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Lang's a decent time trial rider but given the conditions are meant to be windy in places I can't see them holding out for too long.
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    hopefully it will get brought back or fail and a larger group has a pop otherwise its going to be another snoozefest
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    It'll be interesting to see how the riders cope with the distance and the weather. If it's wet then some riders prefer it but the distance might be interesting too, for example EBH always seems to struggle after 200km but at the same time not being a pure sprinter he might be able to use the raw power to do well today.

    No certainty of a bunch finish though, even if several teams have a interest in chasing. I'd expect the French teams and others without a sprinter to have a go later on.
  • schweiz
    schweiz Posts: 1,644
    Not conviced by this Columbia HTC/Google Tracker

    Cav went AWOL yesterday, and just check out his speed today:

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Kléber wrote:
    It'll be interesting to see how the riders cope with the distance and the weather. If it's wet then some riders prefer it but the distance might be interesting too, for example EBH always seems to struggle after 200km but at the same time not being a pure sprinter he might be able to use the raw power to do well today.

    No certainty of a bunch finish though, even if several teams have a interest in chasing. I'd expect the French teams and others without a sprinter to have a go later on.

    bu66er..forgot about the EBH 180km+ power drain.. your right to mention that faded on stage 3 pretty badly and all
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    schweiz wrote:
    Cav went AWOL yesterday, and just check out his speed today
    A practice effort for later?
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    mididoctors wrote:
    Kléber wrote:
    It'll be interesting to see how the riders cope with the distance and the weather. If it's wet then some riders prefer it but the distance might be interesting too, for example EBH always seems to struggle after 200km but at the same time not being a pure sprinter he might be able to use the raw power to do well today.

    No certainty of a bunch finish though, even if several teams have a interest in chasing. I'd expect the French teams and others without a sprinter to have a go later on.

    bu66er..forgot about the EBH 180km+ power drain.. your right to mention that faded on stage 3 pretty badly and all

    but...but... He's the greatest rider since Merckx!
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    No, you're confused with Peter Sagan :wink:
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    What, so he's the greatest rider to precede Sagan? :wink:
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    schweiz wrote:
    Not conviced by this Columbia HTC/Google Tracker

    Cav went AWOL yesterday, and just check out his speed today:

    He may have swapped bikes and that speed is the car making its way back?
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  • schweiz
    schweiz Posts: 1,644
    Doobz wrote:
    schweiz wrote:
    Not conviced by this Columbia HTC/Google Tracker

    Cav went AWOL yesterday, and just check out his speed today:

    He may have swapped bikes and that speed is the car making its way back?

    nah, his 'dot' on the map was in amongst all the others. He must have a dodgy HTC phone. Hope they've got French SIMs in them or else the roaming costs will bankrupt the team!
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    schweiz wrote:
    Not conviced by this Columbia HTC/Google Tracker

    Cav went AWOL yesterday, and just check out his speed today:

    The riders don't go completely missing, if you zoom out completely, you can often see them about 500 miles off the coast of Ghana.




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  • Abdoujaparov
    Abdoujaparov Posts: 642
    Last flat stage till next Thursday so my money's on a bunch gallop. Columbia will be very tired at the end of the day though - nice way to enter the mountains!
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Someone wake me up when they get to the finish.
  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    Harmon 'How deep is your rim?' 'Supose it depends on the wind'!

    Jaysus :roll:
  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    edited July 2010
    Listening to Eurosport coverage - what drivel!

    Sean Roche I think chatting with some numptee about deep section rims. Who is this berk commentator who has just said "How deep is your rim? Sounds like a Bee Gees song."
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  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    Tom BB wrote:
    Harmon 'How deep is your rim?' 'Supose it depends on the wind'!

    Jaysus :roll:

    I guess you answered my question. Harmon ..... eh. What a dipstick :lol: !
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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Sean Roche?

    What do you want these guys to talk about when nothing's happening?
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  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    DaveyL wrote:
    Sean Roche?

    What do you want these guys to talk about when nothing's happening?

    Ooops, Sean Kelly. 'Tis my first time listening to Eurosport.

    I'm sure they can do better than that piece of drivel.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    DaveyL wrote:
    Sean Roche?

    What do you want these guys to talk about when nothing's happening?

    The French have it sussed. They have an guy with a soporific voice, who comes on each time the heli does a flyover of a historical building.
    By the time he's told folks when it was built, who lived there and what it's used for, I'm usually asleep! :oops:
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  • mroli
    mroli Posts: 3,622
    I think the commentators do an admirable job. Look at the chat on other similar length sports (golf, cricket, er...) and they struggle too - with much bigger resource and the likelihood that something is going to happen in the first 4 hours too....
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