Tour de France Stage 11 *Spoiler*

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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    ddraver wrote:
    Contador is not a fantastic climber by any means

    What!?
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,891
    Whilst we're all complaing about this year's tour, I would like to add how frustrating I find it that the two best riders are on the same team.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Moinard (BMC), Horner (RNT), Kern, Malacarne and Rolland (EUC), Scarponi and Marzano (LAM), Koren and Basso (LIQ), Martin (GRS), Kadri and Riblon (ALM), Feillu (SAU), Hoogerland (VCD), Ten Dam and Kruiswijk (RAB), Valverde and Kiryienka (MOV), C. Sorensen (STB), Kessiakoff, Kiserlovski and Vinokourov (AST), Leipheimer and P. Velits (OPQ), Weening (OGE) are the riders in the lead of the stage.

    :D Hoogerland :D
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Nice to see the Dutchies finally doing something.

    Last time a Dutchman won a Tour stage?

    2005...
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Nice to see the Dutchies finally doing something.

    Last time a Dutchman won a Tour stage?

    2005...

    The Wookie getting across too!
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Kaissekoff (who has his own brand of coffee btw) is so going for polka.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Moinard (BMC), Horner (RNT), Kern, Malacarne and Rolland (EUC), Scarponi and Marzano (LAM), Koren and Basso (LIQ), Martin (GRS), Kadri and Riblon (ALM), Feillu (SAU), Hoogerland (VCD), Ten Dam and Kruiswijk (RAB), Valverde and Kiryienka (MOV), C. Sorensen (STB), Kessiakoff, Kiserlovski and Vinokourov (AST), Leipheimer and P. Velits (OPQ), Weening (OGE) are the riders in the lead of the stage.

    :D Hoogerland :D

    I like Hoogerland, I think he has panache.
    @JaunePeril

    Winner of the Bike Radar Pro Race Wiggins Hour Prediction Competition
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Scarpo is interesting.

    Maybe he heard Bradley's interview yesterday?
  • DavMartinR
    DavMartinR Posts: 897
    Nice to see the Dutchies finally doing something.

    Last time a Dutchman won a Tour stage?

    2005...

    And was that Weening?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Moinard (BMC), Horner (RNT), Kern, Malacarne and Rolland (EUC), Scarponi and Marzano (LAM), Koren and Basso (LIQ), Martin (GRS), Kadri and Riblon (ALM), Feillu (SAU), Hoogerland (VCD), Ten Dam and Kruiswijk (RAB), Valverde and Kiryienka (MOV), C. Sorensen (STB), Kessiakoff, Kiserlovski and Vinokourov (AST), Leipheimer and P. Velits (OPQ), Weening (OGE) are the riders in the lead of the stage.

    :D Hoogerland :D

    I like Hoogerland, I think he has panache.


    The Dutch avondetppe have a "where's Jonny?" feature every day.

    Recently had an interview with him. At the beginning of the TOur they were mocking his haircut (super short - looks ridiculous) Now he has a helmet vent shaped tan on his forehead so he looks even more ridiculous.

    He's hilarious in interviews.

    Classic example. Massive crash in the peloton, and suddenly, having missed it all, at the back, you see Jonny up shouting "I need a rear wheel!" when there's carnage behind him.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    DavMartinR wrote:
    Nice to see the Dutchies finally doing something.

    Last time a Dutchman won a Tour stage?

    2005...

    And was that Weening?

    Friesland's finest.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Harmon "Plenty of English voices, usually shouting Come On Brad"

    No Dave, that's your own voice you can hear! :lol:
  • oldwelshman
    oldwelshman Posts: 4,733
    ohmy god I need to get my glasses, I am sure I just spottel Leipheimer in a break and even on the front ?
  • Pross wrote:
    Harmon "Plenty of English voices, usually shouting Come On Brad"

    No Dave, that's your own voice you can hear! :lol:

    I shouted "Come on Brad" as he went over the Galibier back in 2007 when he was just some sh*t rider.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Any links to a decent live stream? ITVs keeps buffering every 15 seconds and practically all the links on Steephill.tv are either geo-restricted or completely borked.

    Thx
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Another terrible day for the dutch. Westra and Ruigh both out.
  • DavMartinR
    DavMartinR Posts: 897
    LangerDan wrote:
    Any links to a decent live stream? ITVs keeps buffering every 15 seconds and practically all the links on Steephill.tv are either geo-restricted or completely borked.

    Thx

    http://www.steephill.tv/tour-de-france/#live

    Eurosport links working fine.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Kaissekoff (who has his own brand of coffee btw) is so going for polka.

    Is this compulsory for Swedish pro cyclists then (the coffee not the polka dots)?
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    Feillu (SAU).

    Jaysus these cyclists are a tough bunch!
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Pross wrote:
    Kaissekoff (who has his own brand of coffee btw) is so going for polka.

    Is this compulsory for Swedish pro cyclists then (the coffee not the polka dots)?

    5 points if you can guess the name.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    edited July 2012
    Big Freddie's?

    EDIT

    Doh, Kessiakoffee I guess?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Pross wrote:
    Big Freddie's?

    Fail.

    Kessiacoffee...
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Carlton brooks no argument about Albertville!

    They are correct by the way, the top 5km of the mollard are horrible. Terrible surface, narrow, twisting and under trees so always greasy. I had a mare last time I went down it... I felt better when I saw the chicken do the same a few weeks later
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    edited July 2012
    Pross wrote:
    Kaissekoff (who has his own brand of coffee btw) is so going for polka.

    Is this compulsory for Swedish pro cyclists then (the coffee not the polka dots)?

    5 points if you can guess the name.

    It's going to be Kessiakoffee isn't it?

    Edit: Too late. I was right though
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Europecar breaking the group up.
  • http://www.cannondale.com/news/fredrik- ... siacoffee/

    Mild in profile but rich in flavour, with a long heavy finish.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    I take it the last 500m of the Madeleine is pretty flat judging by those multiple sprints for the KOM?
  • oldwelshman
    oldwelshman Posts: 4,733
    Think sky should ease a bit as no one in front group a worry about and let any domestiques up there burn themsleves out so they will be no use for next couple of stages
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Think it was an error for sky to let a group of this size go...
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Mollema also out. FFS.