***Spoiler*** Tour of Britain Stage 4

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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    RichN95 wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    (Resisting making my one Welsh cheese joke...)
    You can make jokes about Welsh cheese if you like, but do it Caerphilly


    (That was the joke wasn't it)


    Well sort of. I'd bastardised it to make it cycling relevant.

    What does a Welsh cheese and Bradley Wiggins have in common?

    They descend Caerphilly.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,660
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    UK Cycling Expert ‏@ukcyclingexpert 10m
    Team Sky are riding at 320 watts today, which is 28 miles per hour. #science

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    Like the other Grand Tours the Tour of Britain sometimes visits foreign countries. This year's started in Scotland and is in Wales today!
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    Into a headwind, no less.

    Shane S been telling fibs to ITV 4............
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,158
    Talking of Sky personnel telling fibs I couldn't help thinking Wiggins was stretching things a little when saying how he had built his speed through the one roundabout yesterday. He said he tried it gradually getting faster and on the final attempt he rode it at 60kph which seems a bit odd as it suggests he went through the corner 10kph faster than his overall race average so must have slowed down for the straights!
  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    Pross wrote:
    Talking of Sky personnel telling fibs I couldn't help thinking Wiggins was stretching things a little when saying how he had built his speed through the one roundabout yesterday. He said he tried it gradually getting faster and on the final attempt he rode it at 60kph which seems a bit odd as it suggests he went through the corner 10kph faster than his overall race average so must have slowed down for the straights!
    Perhaps there was a hill before the roundabout.
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  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Into a headwind, no less.

    Shane S been telling fibs to ITV 4............
    What's he been saying?
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    If it doesn't move and should, use the WD40.
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Cav tucked behind Stannard. Wise man, plenty of shelter there
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Things are getting strange, I'm starting to worry,
    This could be a stage for Thomas Scully!
  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,581
    Bloody hell that was a close call. Anyone got a screen shot of that car almost creating a ToB Hoogerland at 52.9km to go?
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Cav seems to have forgotten he changed teams at the end of last year.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    2.3km at 5% is not exactly a 2nd cat climb, well outside the UK, that is.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    2.3km at 5% is not exactly a 2nd cat climb, well outside the UK, that is.

    Where I am it would be HC double plus.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    The nice people of Surrey are at it again:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24077383

    Tosseurs.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    "confined to their homes"

    Do people in Surrey not have feet?

    The wording of the petition if it wasn't actually serious would be hilarious! I particularly like:

    "cyclists, practising months in advance of the event, who ride the route in very large numbers from very early in the morning shouting at each other"
    Correlation is not causation.
  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    edited September 2013
    This is all covered in Road General

    viewtopic.php?f=40013&t=12935318
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Above The Cows wrote:
    "confined to their homes"

    Do people in Surrey not have feet?

    The wording of the petition if it wasn't actually serious would be hilarious! I particularly like:

    "cyclists, practising months in advance of the event, who ride the route in very large numbers from very early in the morning shouting at each other"


    he he. Yes, Movistar and Garmin have been here for months, 'practising'
  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    Yes - us Surrey cyclists used to always wave or nod at each other but that started p!issing people off (See Road General again - numerous topics) so we've started shouting at each other now
  • spaceman147
    spaceman147 Posts: 77
    afx237vi wrote:
    Things are getting strange, I'm starting to worry,
    This could be a stage for Thomas Scully!

    I like what you did there! :lol:
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    spaceman147 wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    Things are getting strange, I'm starting to worry,
    This could be a stage for Thomas Scully!

    I like what you did there! :lol:

    Welsh theme day, innit.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Well I now know how to 'slow' in Welsh.

    This has been a successful day.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,158
    Keep watching the road and you may learn 'bus stop' too.
  • mike6
    mike6 Posts: 1,199
    Can the 4 Sky guys keep this going, trying to pull back 11 committed riders in the breakaway? Its the reverse of the usual, small breakaway being chased down by the whole peloton. Even if they do keep Wiggins in the leaders jersey they will be knackered for the big stage tomorrow.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,158
    They'll be fine. The break won't keep working together for much longer.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    I tuned in for 15mins but all I have seen for the whole time is the Blue Brigade stringing out the peloton. So now I am tuning out. Really hope this breakaway holds out and the TT wonderman loses his lead. What a shi t race.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    Meanwhile, in Wallonie, the race has blown apart, with echelons everywhere.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Meanwhile, in Wallonie, the race has blown apart, with echelons everywhere.

    What's an echelon?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,382
    frenchfighter wrote:
    I tuned in for 15mins but all I have seen for the whole time is the Blue Brigade stringing out the peloton. So now I am tuning out. Really hope this breakaway holds out and the TT wonderman loses his lead. What a shi t race.

    I don't think I can recall any other race ever where a team has tried to chase down a breakaway. Anyone else? :roll:
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,660
    Someone stop Sagan doping a lap of Penmachno!
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Meanwhile, in Wallonie, the race has blown apart, with echelons everywhere.

    What's an echelon?

    Y tipyn bach peloton. :wink:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.

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