TdF 2012 Stage 1 **Spoilers**

islwyn

76,6km to go, not much excitement so far... Time to go out on the bike and then return. Keep me updated folks.

RichN95.

It was interesting to see who was up for the green jersey points.

Goss, Cav, Renshaw, Greipel, Van Hummel, Sagan, EBH, Rojas (in roughly that order)

No Kittel, No Farrar, No Gilbert

Yellow Peril

Islwyn wrote:

76,6km to go, not much excitement so far... Time to go out on the bike and then return. Keep me updated folks.

There will be an expectation that you cover at least 70km (small allowance for kitting up and getting the bike out the garage)

ilm_zero7

Cal_Stewart wrote:

How's people liking the new saxo and garmin tops?

bloody awful ! even the Leopard trek team have taken a backward step with Radioshack on board - perhaps, for me at least, the best looking are Sky and Omega Pharma this year?

ddraver

Ok so cue 20 pages on Cav's lack of top speed, his ambitions on making it to Paris and green jersey hopes....

On the plus side - tha Spesh advert with the litle kid pretending he's Boonen is Brilliant! Pretty much a documentary on your life eh Chasey?

frenchfighter

Those lids are awful - spoiling the look of the peloton.

French tv just said that Brailsford originally didn't want Eisel. Cav said bring him or I won't ride either

ddraver

Tour of Poland is the cycling Champions League?

hmmm.....

Turfle

Roche comes on = switch to Phil and Paul.

takethehighroad

RSN not going to wear yellow lids if they get team comp.

Apparently "it's encouraged, not enforced" so they don't have to

emadden

Levi hanging out at the back... with bike handling skills like his, and with all the crashes in the first few days, he is playing with fire

emadden

If Movistar lead the "team points classification", they have decided to ride with green lids

Turfle

Alright, I've had to switch back to Roche already.

afx237vi

Turfle wrote:

Roche comes on = switch to Phil and Paul.

I can't understand a word he says tbh.

iainf72

afx237vi wrote:

Turfle wrote:

Roche comes on = switch to Phil and Paul.

I can't understand a word he says tbh.

You should broaden your cultural horizons, you might have more success with things like accents then.

:P

afx237vi

iainf72 wrote:

afx237vi wrote:

Turfle wrote:

Roche comes on = switch to Phil and Paul.

I can't understand a word he says tbh.

You should broaden your cultural horizons, you might have more success with things like accents then.

:P

Look, I'm fine with Gavin & Stacey and Pobol y Cwm, it's just everything else I have trouble with. Radio 4 is a total mystery to me.

afx237vi

Good grief, even Carlton is more interesting than this!

TMR

Phil & Paul's commentary is killing me.

Is it possible to get Eurosport on Freeview as a paid channel?

Gazzetta67

Great Eurosport HD doing that jumpy thing again....Does it just do that on HD ????....yet just switched over to ITV4 HD and its fine :roll:

emadden

The Mad Rapper wrote:

Phil & Paul's commentary is killing me.

Is it possible to get Eurosport on Freeview as a paid channel?

I think you can listen to Eurosport live on the website? Used to be able to do that, but it was always a few seconds behind the images due to usual internet delays

RichN95.

The more I see of Wiggins's helmet, the more it makes him look like Bob the Builder.

Gazzetta67

The Mad Rapper wrote:

Phil & Paul's commentary is killing me.

Is it possible to get Eurosport on Freeview as a paid channel?

You think they were sitting in a Primary school class with Sherwin telling you what every word in cycling is or when this chateau was built....then you remember he's pandering to the "Thick as shyte americans"

fungus_the_muffin_man

Those yellow helmets are bloody horrible. Why do we need to know which is the next team in the competition? It's not even that relevant.

And what I could understand of Roche sounded quite good. Will they put subtitles on it for the repeat as I'd have loved to have understood everything.

iainf72

Dear people new to the Tour. To answer your question, no, it's not always this dull.

TMR

Gazzetta67 wrote:

You think they were sitting in a Primary school class with Sherwin telling you what every word in cycling is or when this chateau was built....then you remember he's pandering to the "Thick as shyte americans"

In the sport of professional cycling...

Yellow Peril

Gazzetta67 wrote:

The Mad Rapper wrote:

Phil & Paul's commentary is killing me.

Is it possible to get Eurosport on Freeview as a paid channel?

You think they were sitting in a Primary school class with Sherwin telling you what every word in cycling is or when this chateau was built....then you remember he's pandering to the "Thick as shyte americans"

Paulhas surpassed himself today with variations of "the sport of professional bike racing" heaven forbid some amateur clubber might have started today's stage :roll:

First class chateau coverage though

afx237vi

Gazzetta67 wrote:

The Mad Rapper wrote:

Phil & Paul's commentary is killing me.

Is it possible to get Eurosport on Freeview as a paid channel?

You think they were sitting in a Primary school class with Sherwin telling you what every word in cycling is or when this chateau was built....then you remember he's pandering to the "Thick as shyte americans"

Give it a rest, eh?

Le Commentateur

Carlton's little stories about his life... very endearing and better than his commentary.

Yellow Peril

Good ride today by Morkov. He must be chuffed as mintballs considering it's his first TdF

Yellow Peril

So many yellow helmets..it's a health and safety fest!

Rundfahrt

Carleton was killing me. When things would happen, like a sprint for the KOM points, he would ignore it and go on chatting with Roche.