Tour de France stage 1 Leeds-Harrogate *Spoiler*

alihisgreat

Jens Voigt is amazing.

southdownswolf

Got to love Jens

FocusZing

"What the heck was I thinking?"

frenchfighter

typekitty wrote:

southdownswolf wrote:

The organisers, including the French team, knew what it was going to be like on the hills. If they had any fears then they should have put barriers up.

Wonder how today's stage will impact tomorrows, if it will. I know the TourMakers get briefed the morning of the stage, so they might be more hardass tomorrow with keeping the crows back (along with the support of 'safety stewards' who are effectively security guards). Barely saw any along the route, except for the flag marshals.

Too many people in this country. Most densely populated in europe no doubt.

luv2ride

watching the post race ITV4 coverage. You gotta love Jens! KOM well-deserved...

smithy21

Don't know what the fuss is about. No major incidents as a result of the crowds. Big crowd has got to be better than a small one.

Oh dear Cav. What were you thinking?

jscl

Milton50 wrote:

At the back of my mind I was thinking Cancellara might have a go on that ramp today. Awesome rider.

I had wildcard bets on the stage win for today being 2seconds or more and for Spartacus to win. I was getting very excited.

frenchfighter

Ned needs to stop shaking.

stagehopper

Slowed it down frame by frame and here's where Cav starts the lean on Gerrans who hasn't moved in on him and is just cycling straight at this point:

http://twitpic.com/e7ldlb

FocusZing

iainf72

frenchfighter wrote:

Too many people in this country. Most densely populated in europe no doubt.

You mean aside from Netherlands and Belgium, right? :P

southdownswolf

Kittel - I hope that Cav makes a recovery and that he is ready for me to beat him tomorrow...

(not his actual words, but what he meant :-) )

above_the_cows

frenchfighter wrote:

Most densely populated in europe no doubt.

No. That's Malta followed by the Netherlands.

frenchfighter

Rich looks like you go that info wrong - Talansky came in about 4mins back but gets 0:00 which means he was held up by the crash. Unless I am misinterpreting the results sheet.

RichN95.

frenchfighter wrote:

Rich looks like you go that info wrong - Talansky came in about 4mins back but gets 0:00 which means he was held up by the crash. Unless I am misinterpreting the results sheet.

It was right at the time of writing. I only have the information from the Tour website.

Still, taking four minutes to cross the line can't be a good sign.

Give me more

RichN95 wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Rich looks like you go that info wrong - Talansky came in about 4mins back but gets 0:00 which means he was held up by the crash. Unless I am misinterpreting the results sheet.

It was right at the time of writing. I only have the information from the Tour website.

Still, taking four minutes to cross the line can't be a good sign.

Possible that he finished on someone else's bike?

pb21

frenchfighter wrote:

Rich looks like you go that info wrong - Talansky came in about 4mins back but gets 0:00 which means he was held up by the crash. Unless I am misinterpreting the results sheet.

Not quite sure how you would be held up by four minutes in that crash? Cavendish was probably less than that!

curium

What the hell happened to Andrew Talansky? He's showing +4'15" on GC !! :O

frenchfighter

iainf72 wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Too many people in this country. Most densely populated in europe no doubt.

You mean aside from Netherlands and Belgium, right? :P

According to current wiki stats yes but other stats have it over 400 with 500 predicted in 2050. Malta doesnt count.

frenchfighter

pb21 wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Rich looks like you go that info wrong - Talansky came in about 4mins back but gets 0:00 which means he was held up by the crash. Unless I am misinterpreting the results sheet.

Not quite sure how you would be held up by four minutes in that crash? Cavendish was probably less than that!

Yeah its odd. And yes Cavendish has less (by 10 secs).

iainf72

frenchfighter wrote:

According to current wiki stats yes but other stats have it over 400 with 500 predicted in 2050. Malta doesnt count.

What, stats written by Nigel Farage?

:P

fleshtuxedo

Must have been another incident in last 3km. Surely Garmin would have dropped back otherwise.

BR 1979

iainf72 wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Too many people in this country. Most densely populated in europe no doubt.

You mean aside from Netherlands and Belgium, right? :P

Doubt those two fit with Napoleon's agenda.

above_the_cows

frenchfighter wrote:

iainf72 wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Too many people in this country. Most densely populated in europe no doubt.

You mean aside from Netherlands and Belgium, right? :P

According to current wiki stats yes but other stats have it over 400 with 500 predicted in 2050. Malta doesnt count.

Why doesn't Malta count? It is a country in Europe.

RonB

frenchfighter wrote:

pb21 wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Rich looks like you go that info wrong - Talansky came in about 4mins back but gets 0:00 which means he was held up by the crash. Unless I am misinterpreting the results sheet.

Not quite sure how you would be held up by four minutes in that crash? Cavendish was probably less than that!

Yeah its odd. And yes Cavendish has less (by 10 secs).

Maybe he has spare bike & no timer chip and his damaged one is back on team car at the back?

TMR

Who was the Garmin rider contesting the sprint? Really nice turn of speed.

TMR

I am feeling really p*ssed off at the moment. I am gutted Cav is out

iainf72

TMR wrote:

Who was the Garmin rider contesting the sprint? Really nice turn of speed.

Navardauskas aka The Honey Badger

kleinstroker

So who is leading OPQS now then?

above_the_cows

Apparently Talansky given wrong time and he has in fact not lost any time.