TDF Stage 6 **SPOILERS**

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  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    Hushovd's bike needs a Fizik saddle with a yellow stripe to match.
  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    RC856 wrote:
    Is there a direct link between cycling and varicose veins?
    Not sure, but I remember Sean Yates had horrendous varicose veins. Had to have an op to remove them when he retired. Gruesome pic here if you're that way inclined.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    From CN
    "The Garmin boys at the front of the bunch are not having a good time, David Millar seems to be very cold."

    Poor Millar - he doesn't like the cold and he's allergic to the heat.

    Break down to 8 minutes, HTC helping with the chase
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Bronzie wrote:
    Not sure, but I remember Sean Yates had horrendous varicose veins. Had to have an op to remove them when he retired. Gruesome pic here if you're that way inclined.

    Hoogerland also heading down that same road
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    roux takes the intermed sprint from duque. peloton now approaching, cav takes it ahead of rojas.
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    gosh, that intermediate sprint might stand...
  • stokepa31
    stokepa31 Posts: 560
    I must be mellowing in my old age. im starting to enjoy CKs little interludes
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    stokepa31 wrote:
    I must be mellowing in my old age. im starting to enjoy CKs little interludes

    I agree, he's like the alan partridge of the cycling world.

    On the road at the mo my hero Hoogerland leads the polka dot comp.
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    2'12" for the breakaway... it was nearly 12 minutes 40 km ago.
  • shinyhelmut
    shinyhelmut Posts: 1,364
    contador wrote:
    “Thanks to a photographer who pushed my teammate; I don’t know how he can continue in the race after that blow. He dragged the bike for more than a kilometer.”

    I missed the original incident but it looks to me like the moto was driving in a dead straight line as close to the edge of the road as he could possibly be when the peloton moved over towards him. I think it's unfair to pin all the blame on him, and an over-reaction to sack him immediately over the race radio
  • shinyhelmut
    shinyhelmut Posts: 1,364
    Ps great stage yesterday. For some reason bikeradar wouldn't let me post from Angola but seems to be working again from Hampshire :)
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Just going back to varicose veins, I have one vein in each calf that show up during/after big efforts and also a permanent blue looking one on my right ankle. So they might be cycling related? My uncle played rugby professionally and his legs look like the UK motorway network.
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  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    LangerDan wrote:
    From CN
    "The Garmin boys at the front of the bunch are not having a good time, David Millar seems to be very cold."

    Poor Millar - he doesn't like the cold and he's allergic to the heat.
    Maybe that's what happens when you're a Scotsman born in Malta and brought up in Hong Kong!
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Graeme_S wrote:
    Maybe that's what happens when you're a Scotsman born in Malta and brought up in Hong Kong!

    Or, as Geoffrey Wheatcroft wrote, "from the Highlands of Buckinghamshire"
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    There's a group about 1'00 off the back of the peloton which includes Chavanel.
  • jibberjim
    jibberjim Posts: 2,810
    Milton50 wrote:
    There's a group about 1'00 off the back of the peloton which includes Chavanel.

    And Renshaw and Cavendish...
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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    jibberjim wrote:

    And Renshaw and Cavendish...

    Which group is Contador out the back of, the front peloton or the group behind?
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  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800

    Which group is Contador out the back of, the front peloton or the group behind?

    he just had a bike change and is now back in the front peloton
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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Doobz wrote:

    he just had a bike change and is now back in the front peloton

    Cheers, Eurosport are too busy talking about cycling ferrets or some such rubbish!
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    i think Cav is in front of peloton
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    camerone wrote:
    i think Cav is in front of peloton

    Yes, looks like he might be. The wet conditions may help him if they decide not to push the pace so much in the latter stages.
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Very professional. Harmon on Eurosport helping the noobs identify Europcar's Cyril Gautier by pointing out the "little Frenchman's" "sticky-out elf ears."

    :D
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  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    chris boardman just tweeted me(!!!) to say Cav dropped
  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    hang on, now Boardman saying he IS in the front group!
  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    Alan A wrote:

    It's like something out of Harry Potter. Big George stores the remains of Lance's reputation within his varicose veins.

    OMG. This is what happens when you drink a lot of EPO .............
    Life is like a roll of toilet paper; long and useful, but always ends at the wrong moment. Anon.
    Think how stupid the average person is.......
    half of them are even more stupid than you first thought.
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    I think Cav may have been dropped but then got back on. But bear in mind that this is going by the commentary of Ligget and Sherwen, which isn't exactly accurate all the time.
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    dilemna wrote:
    OMG. This is what happens when you drink a lot of EPO .............

    In fairness, its not just EPO... but also HGH and testosterone 8)
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    5hrs10mins riding, 4hrs55mins in the lead. Very impressive.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    He's only 23 years old and the reigning Italian time trial champion.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,259
    He's only 23 years old and the reigning Italian time trial champion.

    And the reigning Lanterne Rouge from 2010
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