Tour de France Stage 4 Le Touquet-Lille *Spoilers*

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    "We were scared out of our wits, like everyone else, but after talking with him, everything seems okay," Portal said. "He hit the tarmac hard, but everything's all right. I'm not superstitious, but this is one fall we could've done without."

    :D
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  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    edited July 2014
    pottssteve wrote:
    Thinking about the Tour going back to the UK, I would like to see a stage from Portsmouth to Folkestone. If they hugged the coast there would be a lot of up and down and it would look great passing along the Downs and through the middle of towns like Eastbourne, Hastings etc, packed with people on staycation.

    Packed with old people who don't know what's going on.

    God the adverts on ITV4 are so low rent. Dodgy loans, insurance brokers, negligence lawyers.... all the shite in the world we could so do without :(
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Tailwind. Peloton doing 52km/hr. Escape down to 2'14. Poor b@stard Ji Cheng still on the front.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Really pleased for him as seemed to be near the back at some points (st 2)?
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    RideOnTime wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    Thinking about the Tour going back to the UK, I would like to see a stage from Portsmouth to Folkestone. If they hugged the coast there would be a lot of up and down and it would look great passing along the Downs and through the middle of towns like Eastbourne, Hastings etc, packed with people on staycation.

    Packed with old people who don't know what's going on.


    Not Brighton. That's packed with young people so out of their minds on drugs they don't know what's going on....

    Anyway, don't knock old people - they are the future.......
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Escapees in St Omer. 2'07" gap
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  • fleshtuxedo
    fleshtuxedo Posts: 1,858
    ddraver wrote:
    FleshTuxedo wrote:
    What's the view on Froome for those of us not watching? Does he look okay? When he's not, he tends to look pale and distant. Does he look pale and distant?

    Hard to say, Carlton says he does but I'm not sure I can tell either way. I'd say he looks very narked off more than anything myself...

    Thanks. I guess we'll find out tomorrow.
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Paul 8v wrote:
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    After a couple of clubs runs where I rode along fiddling with my derailleur like Voeckler here, the wits in the club presented me with a mirror to attach to the down tube so I could see what I was doing!
  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    RideOnTime wrote:
    Not like Yorkshire is it... been spoiled.

    The riders probably thinking the same thing ha!
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  • josame
    josame Posts: 1,162
    knedlicky wrote:
    Paul 8v wrote:
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    After a couple of clubs runs where I rode along fiddling with my derailleur like Voeckler here, the wits in the club presented me with a mirror to attach to the down tube so I could see what I was doing!


    Is the woman in pink checking for BO :shock:
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  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,852
    pottssteve wrote:
    RideOnTime wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    Thinking about the Tour going back to the UK, I would like to see a stage from Portsmouth to Folkestone. If they hugged the coast there would be a lot of up and down and it would look great passing along the Downs and through the middle of towns like Eastbourne, Hastings etc, packed with people on staycation.

    Packed with old people who don't know what's going on.


    Not Brighton. That's packed with young people so out of their minds on drugs they don't know what's going on....

    Anyway, don't knock old people - they are the future.......

    I am fully aware of what is going on around me, thank you nurse.
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Coming up to the sprint at Cassel. I'm currently writing a cycling memoir so here's a little bit about the cobbled section that I rode up but they will be descending:

    "The Avenue Albert Mahieu is a little over one and a half kilometres long and rises a modest 50m or so at an average of 3.2%. However, the maximum gradient is a small section at 10% and what’s more, the whole thing is paved in cobblestones. God knows why the local council has decided not to cover it with tar like any civilised administration would. Maybe it’s a traffic calming measure or possibly to enhance the approach to the town and to suggest a medieval grandeur. Or perhaps its so that the locals get the enjoyment of watching a constant stream of unfit amateur cyclists attempt to retain a crumb of dignity while they weave and crawl their way up the winding street, joints creaking and eyeballs rolling back in their skulls as they drain every last drop of effort from their burning legs in order to arrive in the market square under their own steam. This was certainly the effect it was having on me, although I did get a slight break about half way up the hill as DT Dave set off ahead of me, his backside out of the saddle in order to crush my spirit with his superior climbing skills. Unfortunately for him, the bouncing and rattling effect of the cobbles, together with the liberal coating of mud and grease on his bike meant that a gear cable somehow became jammed and he got stuck in the big chain ring, leading to a nasty collision between his genital region and the crossbar. Having stopped to comfort him, or something like that, I now had to clip in again and set off from a standing start with wobbly legs on the slippery, uneven surface. Luckily I was already in a very low gear, and furthermore I cheated by riding the first 20 metres on the lovely smooth pavement."

    Soon to be available free on Kindle download. :)
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  • adamfo
    adamfo Posts: 763
    FleshTuxedo wrote:
    What's the view on Froome for those of us not watching? Does he look okay? When he's not, he tends to look pale and distant. Does he look pale and distant?

    There's a GIF of the crash here. Not Froome's fault.

    http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/j ... ive-report
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Froome looking at his stem...
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Some English people standing in the road there
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Voeckler takes the sprint points
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Sagan takes third in the sprint
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  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    "Bryan Coquard is the youngest of all the 22 year old riders"

    Class!
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Onto the cobbles
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  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
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    Immediately after Froomes fall...
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  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    Does his steerer break?
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Little downhill bit now into Steenvoorde - pretty fast
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  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    Yep looks like stem or steerer...
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    What the hell happened there? Do his bars just come clean off his stem?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Peloton splitting at over 60kph
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Never let the race get in the way of a good windmill fact Paul!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    ECHELONS!!!!!!!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Is it....? Or just a split...

    They re proper driving it though... not entirely sure why tbh
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    ddraver wrote:
    Is it....? Or just a split...

    Oh don't you go and dampen my squib.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    Above The Cows wrote:
    ECHELONS!!!!!!!

    Is that a drill?

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