TDF 2013 - Stage 6 *SPOILER* Aix-en-Provence - Montpellier

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  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Pointless guff? Pointless guff? :wink::D
    Yeah, but it's appreciated pointless guff :D
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    OGE looking majestic down the left hand side of the peleton
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Every time the road twists, every radio earpiece in the bunch will crackle with 22 directeurs sportifs barking out the same order in unison – “Be in front.” Thomas Voeckler, for one, has regularly blamed such instructions for whipping up the tension in the bunch still further and increasing the chance of crashes.
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    I tuned in and see Europcar stringing things out :roll:
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    A Frenchman has just popped into my office to store a giant sausage (and some cheese) in my fridge :shock: and no that is not a euphemism. :wink:
    Correlation is not causation.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Graeme_S wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Pointless guff? Pointless guff? :wink::D
    Yeah, but it's appreciated pointless guff :D

    Damn straight. Don't stop with the guff.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • doug5_10
    doug5_10 Posts: 465
    Carlton blethered over the top of a replay of him riding the ditch/verge for a good 50m
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Above The Cows wrote:
    A Frenchman has just popped into my office to store a giant sausage (and some cheese) in my fridge :shock: and no that is not a euphemism. :wink:

    :lol:
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Wow Belkin are trying not to do a Rabobank. Right up at the front, determined not to be on the wrong side of any splits.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    King of the Mountains looking very understated today...oh that was the Japanese National champion.
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  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    How many times does he say 'put the hammer down' in the whole Tour?
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    I wonder how common is it that a rider completes the entire without suffering one puncture :?:
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  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    Lichtblick wrote:
    How many times does he say 'put the hammer down' in the whole Tour?

    If you think about it, putting the hammer down is exactly the opposite to what he presumably means. If you put the hammer down, you're not hammering any more, are you?
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    Lichtblick wrote:
    How many times does he say 'put the hammer down' in the whole Tour?


    And:

    Oh my goodness
    Right here
    Right now
    Pinch point
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    emadden wrote:
    I wonder how common is it that a rider completes the entire without suffering one puncture :?:

    Well, tacks aside, if they used conti gatorskins instead of these GP4000's...
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,402
    emadden wrote:
    I wonder how common is it that a rider completes the entire without suffering one puncture :?:

    I suspect it's actually more common that you'd think....excluding crashes there are about (pffft) 10 a day?

    so thats 210 punctures in total for 190 odd riders...I doubt it's exactly one each?
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,901
    The stage is pointless guff.
    french saying Cav has crashed.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,402
    Noooooo!!!!!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,402
    Come on GC teams, sit up a bit....
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    When the riders are flat out like this coming up to a mass sprint, if you are off the back there is zero way you are getting back on without drafting a car.

    Cav doing it nicely.
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  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,550
    Cav crashed, bike change, about 1 minute back.
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  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    Why doesn't Cav have any team mates bringing him back on?
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,738
    Isn't he risking a points deduction?
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,402
    Woahh Gnarly dude!!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Class around that roundabout by Cav
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Photo of Cav winning the sprint with a ripped and dirty jersey would be Gold. Please.
    I just hope he has shaved as he had a lot of it yesterday and it was not pretty on the close-ups.


    WOWOWOW you see Cav do that bunny hop at the roundabout? Claaaaaaaaaaaaaaasy.
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  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,550
    Graeme_S wrote:
    Why doesn't Cav have any team mates bringing him back on?

    he"s using the cars well eniough on his own. Why make the train do more work?
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  • gsvbagpuss
    gsvbagpuss Posts: 272
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    I have to say I'm loving Phil and Paul at the moment. Good info, very few errors, they're having a good start to the Tour.

    I've onyl watched 15 minutes of stage 2 but they were all over the shop then. Mis-identfiying very famous riders, talking rubbish and managing to not be able to count to 4.
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    Chav slowing it down a la Cancellara :D
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Where the hell are his teamamtes?

    Ah, no OPQS slowing it down on the front like pros :D
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  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,550
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Isn't he risking a points deduction?

    Comms will turn blind eye due to crash
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