Tour de Francis - get that idiot off the tele!

rodgers73

Just watch the highlights on Sky+ and fast forward through the ads. I havent seen a single one of them since the Tour started!

Vino2007

Never though it but I've now switched to eurosport and won't be going back. It's sad because Imlach, Boulting and Boardman are brilliant. This drivvle, the old farts and big ears ruin it.

josame

Jeez ... so much vitriol vented on a fellow cyclist who impinges on your lives for 20 seconds...

:roll:

pepelepew_2724

Watch it on x30 and you see him really smashing it.

mm1

He looks like a butcher's boy cycling with a basket of sausages.[/quote]

Ahem...that's how Fausto started.

Le Commentateur

Touché

Rundfahrt

rdt wrote:

ShockedSoShocked wrote:

I haven't seen the one where he cries yet? Is it as cringy as I'm imagining it to be?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmN4OF_6qMU

A quick scan of the mountain bits suggests borderline croaking @4:50-5:05 and more-so at 10:35-10:55.

Hopefully Halfords' stores will offer an equivalent one of these as a memento of the occasion (3 Meg file):
http://pigeonsnest.co.uk/stuff/photos/m ... a-doll.jpg

(EDIT to change img to url)

A few cheesy moments, but, after watching the video, I think it's it's pretty cool.

big_p

don't know if this has been posted already, cant be arsed to check, the missus has just shown me this.....

www.tourdedickhead.blogspot.co.uk

Rundfahrt

big p wrote:

don't know if this has been posted already, cant be arsed to check, the missus has just shown me this.....

http://www.tourdedickhead.blogspot.co.uk

Just ten or eleven posts above your...on the same page.

big_p

like i said "cant be arsed to check".

RichN95.

I have nothing to add except my opinion that Wiggle Bloke is far more deserving of a slap than Francis.

rick_chasey

It'd be 20 times more objectionable had it been me rather than him, so for that reason, it's probably OK.

ginsterdrz

"Even when I found out I was doing this, I didn't know what to expect".

"Sat in a car for 8 or 9 hours a day, with 20 minutes of photos in the rain at the top of a mountain-smashed it".

Ben6899

I'm just trying to get in as many calories as possible... from this bowl of fruit.

disgruntledgoat

RichN95 wrote:

I have nothing to add except my opinion that Wiggle Bloke is far more deserving of a slap than Francis.

Now that you mention it, his smug little smile and plodding cadence do make me want to punch him, yes.

Silly Old Hector

My kids think he is saying "Heinz Beanz, Heinz Beanz" during the "cadence" bit - much to our amusement.....

rodgers73

Stephen Merchant's bloody Barclays ads are ten times worse than this goon on his bike. I can't bear that smug voice of his!

pat1cp

That ice bath is daft too. Bottle o Ricard in the local square is a far better remedy.

ednwireland

mroli wrote:

PKRAZOR wrote:

Whoever he is hes a f*ckin idiot. What annoys me is when he goes through that tunnel shouting "olly...olly..olly", what a c*ck. Thats something my 3 yr old would do going through the Dartford Tunnel.

The French camera crew must have been scratching their heads going " zut aloor...ans ze British hope tu winz le Tour wiz tossiers like zis??.!"

I think you'll probably find that he was shouting "Allez, Allez, Allez" as he went through the tunnel.

In which case the French camera crew would have been scratching their heads going "shocking standard of language they teach in British schools".....

I think people are being a bit harsh - I'm sure he's a very nice bloke and just suffered at the hands of the edit...

yeh but why, is it the only french he knows ? and wasnt he shoutingi it at the top a mountain as well -stopped.

glad i found this thread, 2 advert breaks on the first saturday and i'd had enough

Anonymous

Boardman:

“You just need to do what Jens does and if you’re happy just go out there and smash it. If you’re not happy you just need to go out there and smash it. If you’re having a really bad day then the best thing to do is go out there and smash it”

Just like Francis

Herbsman

big p wrote:

don't know if this has been posted already, cant be arsed to check, the missus has just shown me this.....

http://www.tourdedickhead.blogspot.co.uk

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Cleat Eastwood

why is this shit thread still in pro race - it should be in cake stop where a thread like this already exists.

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ginsterdrz

Since I started the thread, I feel I'm qualified to end it.

So glad I won't have to see the prat anymore and PLEASE Halfords.......bring back Chris.

Well done Team SKY and Wiggo. Awesome performance.

Just off for an ice bath and a cry!

KentPuncheur

I rode the Compact 50 Sportive with a mate who's just getting into cycling at the weekend, and lo and behold who else did I see there...that's right, Mr. Tour de Francis. How did I know this?...well he was wearing his tour de francis jersey no less, to the amusement of all the other riders!
Needless to say, he smashed it!

inkyfingers

KentPuncheur wrote:

I rode the Compact 50 Sportive with a mate who's just getting into cycling at the weekend, and lo and behold who else did I see there...that's right, Mr. Tour de Francis. How did I know this?...well he was wearing his tour de francis jersey no less, to the amusement of all the other riders!
Needless to say, he smashed it!

Bronze time?

KentPuncheur

Haven't seen the times yet. He started in the group ahead of me and I passed him on Coombe Lane descent not to be seen again. Maybe the weather was a bit much for him and he had a little cry on the side of the road...