Tour de France stage 1 Leeds-Harrogate *Spoiler*

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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    iainf72 wrote:
    Are people watching all of this on TV?
    Blimmin' right Iain. This is ace. Even dyed in the wool, jaded, sophisticates like me are loving it.

    Cool.

    I don't have enough patience to watch a flat stage for more than about 30 minutes.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,541
    iainf72 wrote:
    Are people watching all of this on TV?

    Are you going to watch it roadside on Monday?
  • typekitty
    typekitty Posts: 188
    Absolutely amazing.

    Go Jens.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,325
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Graeme_S wrote:
    Woohoo - just got a sheepdog mention!

    Yes I did notice that. Chapeau.

    Where does the name Buttertubs come from?

    Assuming this isn't because some commentary team have told everyone half a dozen times already, the straight answer is that allegedly the limestone potholes there were used by farmers to cool their produce back down on the way to market.


    Looks bloody amazing covered with people.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,538
    Give me more wrote:
    Spectacular. Well done Yorkshire, and all those who travelled.


    Yep.

    Of course, this is Yorkshire, and it's a free event ;-)
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Loving Paul's obsession with "where have they all parked?"
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    That's a proper 3rd cat climb.

    I'm not sure the peloton will get up there though. The crowd will have to step back a bit.
  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    Traffic jam. No surprise!
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    TheBigBean wrote:
    iainf72 wrote:
    Are people watching all of this on TV?

    Are you going to watch it roadside on Monday?

    Nup. (I find watching cycling at road side really boring)
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Feeling slightly emotional! What a magnificent thing.
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    arran77 wrote:

    Wensleydale cheese differences no less, please let them mention wallace and gromit :lol:
    Sorry but this is a White Rose area and Wallace is red rose Lancashire
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  • southdownswolf
    southdownswolf Posts: 1,525
    I dont think the back of the peloton are enjoying the crowds as much as Jens...
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Turfle wrote:
    Feeling slightly emotional! What a magnificent thing.

    agreed. Crowds comparable with the Alp
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  • type:epyt
    type:epyt Posts: 766
    To all those who moan about foreign spectators, we have proof it happens everywhere.
    Life is unfair, kill yourself or get over it.
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    It's a pretty strong headwind going by the flags.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Of course, this is Yorkshire, and it's a free event ;-)

    Goed koop! :D
    Correlation is not causation.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    GO Jens. Giving it some gas. Love this Buttertubs climb although it is going in for ever. Definitely making a trip to this area of the World. Crowds blowing Ireland out the water. Organizers will be super chuffed. Not good to see Joaquim struggling. 'Dance for me Alberto' - brilliant.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Graeme_S wrote:
    Woohoo - just got a sheepdog mention!

    Yes I did notice that. Chapeau.

    Where does the name Buttertubs come from?

    Assuming this isn't because some commentary team have told everyone half a dozen times already, the straight answer is that allegedly the limestone potholes there were used by farmers to cool their produce back down on the way to market.


    Looks bloody amazing covered with people.

    Thank you underlay.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Not seen crowds like this since they opened the first packet of Salt'n'Shake on George Square in Glasgow, 1979.
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  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    type:epyt wrote:
    To all those who moan about foreign spectators, we have proof it happens everywhere.

    I found that interesting - it's clearly instinct and excitement rather than any intent or historical permission. The crowd looks like any Alpe.









    Just more pastey!
    I'm left handed, if that matters.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,163
    type:epyt wrote:
    To all those who moan about foreign spectators, we have proof it happens everywhere.

    I thought they were pretty well behaved, didn't see any runners which is where I think most people find the problem.


    Chris Horner taking pacing back on to the limits I think. Suspect he'll be a few francs worse off tonight.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    frenchfighter wrote:
    GO Jens. Giving it some gas. Love this Buttertubs climb although it is going in for ever. Definitely making a trip to this area of the World. Crowds blowing Ireland out the water. Organizers will be super chuffed. Not good to see Joaquim struggling. 'Dance for me Alberto' - brilliant.

    Crowds were always going to be big but TdF already having better weather than parts of Southern Italy during the Giro. Not often England gets the rub of the green for a sporting event weatherwise.

    Go North FF you'll enjoy it!
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Pross wrote:
    type:epyt wrote:
    To all those who moan about foreign spectators, we have proof it happens everywhere.

    I thought they were pretty well behaved, didn't see any runners which is where I think most people find the problem.


    Chris Horner taking pacing back on to the limits I think. Suspect he'll be a few francs worse off tonight.

    I thought they were well behaved as well. No-one wants to be I.D'd as the knob who brought down a rider at the TdF. Good safety advert on ITV as well.
    @JaunePeril

    Winner of the Bike Radar Pro Race Wiggins Hour Prediction Competition
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,325
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    GO Jens. Giving it some gas. Love this Buttertubs climb although it is going in for ever. Definitely making a trip to this area of the World. Crowds blowing Ireland out the water. Organizers will be super chuffed. Not good to see Joaquim struggling. 'Dance for me Alberto' - brilliant.

    Crowds were always going to be big but TdF already having better weather than parts of Southern Italy during the Giro. Not often England gets the rub of the green for a sporting event weatherwise.

    Go North FF you'll enjoy it!

    The weather was pretty rubbish first thing - it was raining as I left York and the sun only came out at Harewood about an hour before the race proper started. Interestingly, the wind got up about the same time - it wasn't hugely windy, but definitely noticeable.
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  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    Something else, man, something else!

    Makes me remember how much I liked living in Yorkshire - tho' I don't recall so much sunshine! It's all wonderful.
    d.j.
    "Cancel my subscription to the resurrection."
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    frenchfighter wrote:
    GO Jens. Giving it some gas. Love this Buttertubs climb although it is going in for ever. Definitely making a trip to this area of the World. Crowds blowing Ireland out the water. Organizers will be super chuffed. Not good to see Joaquim struggling. 'Dance for me Alberto' - brilliant.
    Good Heavens, I am in agreement with FF.
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,538
    Tufty has made it to le Autobus. Maybe that second Lanterne really is shining out to him
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Svein Tuft at the back. Putting an early marker down for the lantern rouge.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Cavendish in wrong group it seems.

    Good times
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Tufty has made it to le Autobus. Maybe that second Lanterne really is shining out to him

    It's Last of the Summer Wine for Tufty Swine!
    Correlation is not causation.

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