TDF 2013 - *SPOILERS*: Le Tour: Etape 3 Ajaccio-Calvi

oneof1982

Vichot down

TMR

No tA Doctor wrote:

To be fair, you could have left "on the drops" out of that second sentence ;-)

Nothing my wife hasn't said umpteen times!

andytee87

Above The Cows wrote:

Jens is not riding a Smurf bike. Is he just too damn 'hard' for a Puffo bike?

Didn't notice, but if it looks steel grey in colour, it could be this one

http://www.bikeradar.com/road/news/article/trek-equip-jens-voigt-with-custom-themed-bike-33997/

hammerite

No tA Doctor wrote:

PS - any good live text-ticker updates out there? One with a profile graphic would be ace.

The cyclingnews tour tracker app and graphic is pretty good if you have an iDevice, I'd imagine they have the stuff on their website too.

I'm watching on itv player at the moment and the info graphic stuff under the video screen is pretty detailed too.

above_the_cows

andytee87 wrote:

Above The Cows wrote:

Jens is not riding a Smurf bike. Is he just too damn 'hard' for a Puffo bike?

Didn't notice, but if it looks steel grey in colour, it could be this one

http://www.bikeradar.com/road/news/article/trek-equip-jens-voigt-with-custom-themed-bike-33997/

Ah yes, his 'Shut up Legs' bike. I think that may be the one.

hammerite

Although here's a maths riddle from Cyclingnews.....

"There are (were) 198 riders in this race. Where do they all come from? Not surprisingly, the largest contingent is French, with 42. That is followed by Spain 42, Italy 18, Netherlands 18, Belgium 12, Australia 11 and Germany 10. In all, 27 nations are represented here."

ddraver

Here you are AtC

Corsica sprang into being about 250 million years ago, when geological upheavals threw up the mass of granite which forms the backbone of the island

Some 200 million years later the upheavals which brought the Alps into existence also had an effect on Corsica. A mass of sedimentary rock was thrust against the eastern side of the island. The pressures involved causing a metamorphosis into a folded bed of hard, resistant schists.

The final changes to the Corsican landscape were caused by the effects of erosion. Glaciation in the ice ages had some effect on the highest peaks, but most of the work was done by the island's abundant precipitation. This has covered the land with rows of parallel steep sided, V shaped valleys.

It's actually really complex and I'm struggling to get my head around some of the more technical descriptions available...

hammerite

ddraver wrote:

Here you are AtC

Corsica sprang into being about 250 million years ago, when geological upheavals threw up the mass of granite which forms the backbone of the island

Some 200 million years later the upheavals which brought the Alps into existence also had an effect on Corsica. A mass of sedimentary rock was thrust against the eastern side of the island. The pressures involved causing a metamorphosis into a folded bed of hard, resistant schists.

The final changes to the Corsican landscape were caused by the effects of erosion. Glaciation in the ice ages had some effect on the highest peaks, but most of the work was done by the island's abundant precipitation. This has covered the land with rows of parallel steep sided, V shaped valleys.

It's actually really complex and I'm struggling to get my head around some of the more technical descriptions available...

Did your hairdresser tell you all that?

above_the_cows

^Thanks!

I was hoping you'd produce something when Kirby just started to talk about hanging rocks.

RideOnTime

hammerite wrote:

ddraver wrote:

Here you are AtC

Corsica sprang into being about 250 million years ago, when geological upheavals threw up the mass of granite which forms the backbone of the island

Some 200 million years later the upheavals which brought the Alps into existence also had an effect on Corsica. A mass of sedimentary rock was thrust against the eastern side of the island. The pressures involved causing a metamorphosis into a folded bed of hard, resistant schists.

The final changes to the Corsican landscape were caused by the effects of erosion. Glaciation in the ice ages had some effect on the highest peaks, but most of the work was done by the island's abundant precipitation. This has covered the land with rows of parallel steep sided, V shaped valleys.

It's actually really complex and I'm struggling to get my head around some of the more technical descriptions available...

Did your hairdresser tell you all that?

Mine just asks if I'm planning a holiday.

No_Ta_Doctor

Cheers all.

hammerite

RideOnTime wrote:

hammerite wrote:

ddraver wrote:

Here you are AtC

Corsica sprang into being about 250 million years ago, when geological upheavals threw up the mass of granite which forms the backbone of the island

Some 200 million years later the upheavals which brought the Alps into existence also had an effect on Corsica. A mass of sedimentary rock was thrust against the eastern side of the island. The pressures involved causing a metamorphosis into a folded bed of hard, resistant schists.

The final changes to the Corsican landscape were caused by the effects of erosion. Glaciation in the ice ages had some effect on the highest peaks, but most of the work was done by the island's abundant precipitation. This has covered the land with rows of parallel steep sided, V shaped valleys.

It's actually really complex and I'm struggling to get my head around some of the more technical descriptions available...

Did your hairdresser tell you all that?

Mine just asks if I'm planning a holiday.

In the past 3 years mine has turned from getting a mountain bike to pootle about on, to training every day of the week and road racing. So we just tend to talk about bikes or racing.

Bo Duke

I guess you heard Geraint Thomas has a hairline fracture to his pelvis after day 1? He returned to hospital last night for further x-rays. Poor lad, seems not only unable to continue but also unwise to continue.

salsiccia1

Bo Duke wrote:

I guess you heard Geraint Thomas has a hairline fracture to his pelvis after day 1? He returned to hospital last night for further x-rays. Poor lad, seems not only unable to continue but also unwise to continue.

I think most of us have agreed him continuing is bonkers.

Lichtblick

Some bloke in orange has just given another bloke in orange his back wheel

oneof1982

Bo Duke wrote:

I guess you heard Geraint Thomas has a hairline fracture to his pelvis after day 1? He returned to hospital last night for further x-rays. Poor lad, seems not only unable to continue but also unwise to continue.

He is still in there.

hammerite

so going in to this final climb - apart from the lead bunch and 2 off the back (Veelers and Bouhanni) is everyone still in the peloton?

Bo Duke

oneof1982 wrote:

Bo Duke wrote:

I guess you heard Geraint Thomas has a hairline fracture to his pelvis after day 1? He returned to hospital last night for further x-rays. Poor lad, seems not only unable to continue but also unwise to continue.

He is still in there.

Yep but that's why he's No 198....

hammerite

hammerite wrote:

so going in to this final climb - apart from the lead bunch and 2 off the back (Veelers and Bouhanni) is everyone still in the peloton?

ah no to answer my own question! riders now starting to fall off the back.

Lichtblick

I wish they'd stop changing cameras. It makes it very hard to pick people out!

RichN95.

hammerite wrote:

Although here's a maths riddle from Cyclingnews.....

"There are (were) 198 riders in this race. Where do they all come from? Not surprisingly, the largest contingent is French, with 42. That is followed by Spain 42, Italy 18, Netherlands 18, Belgium 12, Australia 11 and Germany 10. In all, 27 nations are represented here."

They've written that wrong. They should have said 27 other countries. There's 34 in all:

Western Europe (14): France, Spain, Portugal, UK, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Germany
Eastern Europe (9) : Russia, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia
Asia (3): Japan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
North America (3): USA, Canada, Costa Rica
South America (2): Brazil, Colombia
Oceania (2): Australia, New Zealand
Africa (1): South Africa

ddraver

No, it would appear that Dutch hairdressers don't work on a Monday...

Essentially it's an extension of the Alps into the Mediterranean...

A Carboniferous age, large granite batholith (think Dartmoor) was thrusted up during the Hercynian Orogeny (Orogenesis = Mountain building).

Granite is formed deep in the earths crust and so requires a major amount of crustal deformation to lift them high enough to be exposed by later erosion. The Hercynian Orogeny occurred when Laurentia and Gondwana came together to form Pangea and is probably the main control on geology for most of Western Europe and North Africa.

Later, the Alpine orogeny resulted in a series of oceanic and continental crust thrust blocks being thrust up against that batholith. These are where the Blueschist and eclogite schists that TWH mentioned come from...

When mountain chains are formed, they and their surrounding areas sink down into the mantle (isostacy - same as a boat in water) which is what caused the formation of the Mediterranean. This occurred around 30Ma and is what resulted in the separation of Corsica and Sardinia from Mainland France (30Ma) and the Italian Apennines (18Ma)

More info (and in true Geological Style, a lot of controversy) here - http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00 ... cs2004.pdf

RideOnTime

Clarke looks whacked...

hammerite

RichN95 wrote:

hammerite wrote:

Although here's a maths riddle from Cyclingnews.....

"There are (were) 198 riders in this race. Where do they all come from? Not surprisingly, the largest contingent is French, with 42. That is followed by Spain 42, Italy 18, Netherlands 18, Belgium 12, Australia 11 and Germany 10. In all, 27 nations are represented here."

They've written that wrong. ThereThey should have said 27 other countries. There's 34 in all:

Western Europe (14): France, Spain, Portugal, UK, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Germany
Eastern Europe (9) : Russia, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia
Asia (3): Japan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
North America (3): USA, Canada, Costa Rica
South America (2): Brazil, Colombia
Oceania (2): Australia, New Zealand
Africa (1): South Africa

Not to mention 42 not being any more than 42.

hammerite

polka dot shorts never a good idea.

Lichtblick

hammerite wrote:

polka dot shorts never a good idea.

I completely agree.

oneof1982

ddraver wrote:

No, it would appear that Dutch hairdressers don't work on a Monday...

Essentially it's an extension of the Alps into the Mediterranean...

A Carboniferous age, large granite batholith (think Dartmoor) was thrusted up during the Hercynian Orogeny (Orogenesis = Mountain building).

Granite is formed deep in the earths crust and so requires a major amount of crustal deformation to lift them high enough to be exposed by later erosion. The Hercynian Orogeny occurred when Laurentia and Gondwana came together to form Pangea and is probably the main control on geology for most of Western Europe and North Africa.

Later, the Alpine orogeny resulted in a series of oceanic and continental crust thrust blocks being thrust up against that batholith. These are where the Blueschist and eclogite schists that TWH mentioned come from...

When mountain chains are formed, they and their surrounding areas sink down into the mantle (isostacy - same as a boat in water) which is what caused the formation of the Mediterranean. This occurred around 30Ma and is what resulted in the separation of Corsica and Sardinia from Mainland France (30Ma) and the Italian Apennines (18Ma)

More info (and in true Geological Style, a lot of controversy) here - http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00 ... cs2004.pdf

Corsica rocks.

oneof1982

hammerite wrote:

polka dot shorts never a good idea.

look at these guys in fancy dress.....Oh, its Rolland 8)

Lichtblick

where's Sagan?

Bo Duke

Pierre Rolland first over the top and gets the points.