***Spoiler*** Tour of Britain Stage 3

smithy21

ddraver wrote:

Ah the feign ignorance approach...we meet again.

No idea where you are going with this. Fun stuff thats funny, I like. :?

prawny

I want to know more about the geology of Knowlsey, and what cheese do they make.

Richmond Racer

prawny wrote:

I want to know more about the geology of Knowlsey, and what cheese do they make.

Rouleur offered no cheese prize yesterday - and frankly, it was a diappointment

adr82

Yellow Peril wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Did Stannard crash? Or was it an old one opening up?

I sincerely doubt he crashed at any point bearing in mind he came home second. Can't see your image, is it an old injury?

Maybe he had to fend off a stray car at some point on the course. Of course with it being Stannard I'm sure the car came off second best...

graeme_s-2

adr82 wrote:

Maybe he had to fend off a stray car at some point on the course. Of course with it being Stannard I'm sure the car came off second best...

Perhaps he stopped for a spot of tiger wrestling on the way round as 10 miles is too short a distance for him to hit his suffering quota for the day?

mike6

Cannock Chase wrote:

Tour of Britain 2.5 stages and we can all go home ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz
Lets face we all know who the organisers put the TT in the race for and a certain person lives 10 mins away

Jesus Christ some people are never happy. Some of the worlds best riders. A cracking course. Thousands of spectators despite the weather... and you are shooting it in the foot.

Surely it's not unusual for a week long race to have a time trial? Excellent idea. Great for spectators. Far better for the non-cycling public waiting at the side of the road for an hour then all over in ten seconds..!! At least the short distance of the TT ensures that no matter how fast the winner is, he will not gain enough time to guarantee race victory. There's more than enough hills to bu**er that up.

The Tour of Britain is excellent and it gets better every year.

This.^

We still dont know who will win. Long way to go yet. Anyway, a 10m TT is nothing like long enough to give even the best tester a big advantage,
No one complains about big steep climbs that favour the specialist climbers. There are TTs in almost every multi day race, it is up to the riders to work on the aspects of the sport they are not naturally good at. Wiggins is not a natural climber but he shed weight and worked on his climbing to win the Tour.

tailwindhome

prawny wrote:

I want to know more about the geology of Knowlsey, and what cheese do they make.

The geology I could live with out but I'm partial to a bit of cheese.

Beer.

The threads need more Beer.

tailwindhome

Blazing Saddles wrote:

TailWindHome wrote:

You see now.

We can have a decent spoiler thread if everyone plays nice.

It's not my idea of a decent thread.
Up to the final page humour, as dull as yesterday's weather.

Ok.

What's brown and sticky?

ocdupalais

prawny wrote:

I want to know more about the geology of Knowlsey, and what cheese do they make.

Don't know about those: but the whines have so far been of a thin, poor-vintage quality... Sour grapes?

prawny

Richmond Racer wrote:

prawny wrote:

I want to know more about the geology of Knowlsey, and what cheese do they make.

Rouleur offered no cheese prize yesterday - and frankly, it was a diappointment

Oddly the closest match on Google is a Mozzarella supplier in Cheshire :?

Pross

frenchfighter wrote:

Deignan looking very skinny before his crash.

Did he put weight on after it then?

Prime586

adr82 wrote:

Yellow Peril wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Did Stannard crash? Or was it an old one opening up?

I sincerely doubt he crashed at any point bearing in mind he came home second. Can't see your image, is it an old injury?

Maybe he had to fend off a stray car at some point on the course. Of course with it being Stannard I'm sure the car came off second best...

Was it Stannard who had a very close brush with the cones down the middle of the road as he made the left turn out of the park back onto Knowsley Lane? Maybe he caught his knee on one?

The geology round here is hard red sandstone, by the way - there used to be a large flagstone quarry about a mile down the M57 at Huyton - to quote the British Geological Survey:
"Some quarries within the Knowsley and St Helens area of Merseyside lie within the Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation outcrop, although the specific sandstone units cannot be identified. They vary in character from massive and coarse-grained to cross-bedded, medium- or finer-grained and flaggy. Sedimentary features such as cross-bedding and lenticular-bedding are common. The sandstones are often recorded as being white and grey when fresh, weathering to yellow, buff and brown."

alan_a

Was it Stannard who had a very close brush with the cones down the middle of the road as he made the left turn out of the park back onto Knowsley Lane? Maybe he caught his knee on one?

Dowsett nearly hit a cone and had to slightly correct on a fast left turn.

davidof

MrTapir wrote:

That's a bit homophobic, why tar gay people with the triathlon brush?

Yes, you are right, a cheap shot, I lacked inspiration but I would like to apologise to any gays reading this thread for any implication that they may, in any way, be involved in the triathlon scene.

kentphil

Anyone know why Wiggins had a water bottle on his TT bike? No one drinks in a 10mile TT. Perhaps his bike was so light he needed a bit of ballast?

okgo

The bottles that are shaped like that often act as a fairing and actually make the bike more aero than not having it.