Tour de France Stage 6: Arras - Reims ***Spoilers***

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  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    I'm going into a meeting at 2:30. If the Echelon klaxon goes off, could someone phone my employer with news of a fake family emergency of some sort please?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,710
    ddraver wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    It's raining again. Loads of roundabouts on the Reims run in.
    ABANDON STAGE ABANDON STAGE!

    And ooh look theyre going slowly...fancy that

    Yes, clearly nothing to do with the break having just 3 minutes and 95 kms to go.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Not sure if you lot are joking but it doesn't look windy at all.
    _
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Paul, that is a great avi you have there.
    Thought you might like it! You should change yours to a Toblerone ;-)

    For the Echelon Klaxon, may I nominate the humble vuvezela? I got one for the tour but it unfortunately didn't turn up in time. It really is the loudest thing ever, going to have to save it for the CX world cup now...


    Ooo that is a good idea about the Toblerone. Less so about the vuvuzela, the most evil thing to come out South Africa since apartheid.
    Like the new pic ATC, Vuvezelas are only evil when you aren't in charge of them :mrgreen:
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Not sure if you lot are joking but it doesn't look windy at all.
    Nah, they've been going on about echelons for a while now ont' Telly
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,710
    LOL.
    Phil Ligget talking about Brigitte Bardot's son, Romain. :oops:
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    It's raining again. Loads of roundabouts on the Reims run in.
    ABANDON STAGE ABANDON STAGE!

    And ooh look theyre going slowly...fancy that

    Yes, clearly nothing to do with the break having just 3 minutes and 95 kms to go.

    As opposed to there being nothing to get excited about until the end of course no no no no

    Not much else to talk about Rick...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Wow there's some funny people on here today.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Not sure if you lot are joking but it doesn't look windy at all.
    Nah, they've been going on about echelons for a while now ont' Telly

    Ah ok.

    Till Monday I have the pleasure of Sporza :) who are instead discussing the GC leader qualities (or lack of) of Porte.


    Seperately once the Froome thing dies down it'll be like an old Tour again.

    No Brit interest for you lot to get all foamy at the mouth about.
    _
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    Who's more determined to make their nickname stick do you reckon? Rich with Gonzo or AtC with Toblerone? ;)
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    I was foraging for beer in a local branch of Park n' Shop in Tai Po and came across a bottle of Neubourg. I'd never heard of it so took a closer look. Turns out it is made by the Gulpener brewery of Gulpen, near Maastricht. I have ridden past there on numerous occasions.

    Small world, really......
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    edited July 2014
    It's gonna be one of those threads innit Steve ;)

    I ve taken to listening to the Cycling Podcast over the pictures for the first few hours of the stage now. But if you ve done that then this is the best thing I ve seen from the World Cup yet - http://screamer.deadspin.com/here-is-j- ... 1601968953
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    If we get enough references to Toblerone we can add it to his nicknames on Wikipedia :-)
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    ddraver wrote:
    Who's more determined to make their nickname stick do you reckon? Rich with Gonzo or AtC with Toblerone? ;)

    Toblerone Boy would understand his nickname, he's not shy about his love for the 'rone. Gonzo for Nibbles will be a harder sell as good as it is.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Paul 8v wrote:
    If we get enough references to Toblerone we can add it to his nicknames on Wikipedia :-)

    Yep, The Toblerone Tassie has a certain ring to it. (I think RR might have come up with that first).
    Correlation is not causation.
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    ddraver wrote:
    It's gonna be one of those threads innit Steve ;)

    I don't know what you mean!

    By the way, it's quite a nice beer. Quite a strong flavour, a little reminiscent of Duvel, though less alcoholic. Nice blue bottle, too...
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    small hill
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,538
    Above The Cows wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    Who's more determined to make their nickname stick do you reckon? Rich with Gonzo or AtC with Toblerone? ;)

    Toblerone Boy would understand his nickname, he's not shy about his love for the 'rone. Gonzo for Nibbles will be a harder sell as good as it is.

    I managed to get Ned Veelers to stick last year in the Lanterne thread.

    *PROUD*
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Quite happy to go with toblerone for Porte. I think he might enjoy the "notoriety".

    I may refer to him from now on as just "the Toblerone"
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  • Coriander
    Coriander Posts: 1,326
    When it's not Cheng Ji on the front for Giant, who is it?
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Yay, poetry corner...A bit of Wilfred Owen.

    I used to regularly ride past the two American cemeteries near Maastricht - one near Margraten and the other in Belgium at Henri Chappelle. So sad.
    Those poor, dead dears...
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Coriander wrote:
    When it's not Cheng Ji on the front for Giant, who is it?


    I thought the little moustache was Degenkolb, no?
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    There's a Bruce Lee type joke in there somewhere...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Coriander
    Coriander Posts: 1,326
    edited July 2014
    pottssteve wrote:
    Coriander wrote:
    When it's not Cheng Ji on the front for Giant, who is it?


    I thought the little moustache was Degenkolb, no?

    That's what I thought, but recent photos show the facial fluff has gone. Also, hasn't he only got one side of his bum to ride with today?
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    ddraver wrote:
    There's a Bruce Lee type joke in there somewhere...


    I did suggest Cheng was the Bruce Lee of pro cycling
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  • GentlemanBear
    GentlemanBear Posts: 280
    Coriander wrote:
    When it's not Cheng Ji on the front for Giant, who is it?

    Someone who's about fifteen seconds away from flicking his elbow out to restore order to the universe.
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Talking of hills, I was on a field trip a few years ago with some kids on a small island called Tung Lung Chau just off Hong Kong. One of the outward bound leaders was English and I asked him where he was from. Turns out his mother lived next door to me in North Manchester about 30 years ago....

    small world, really...
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    Yeah something like a Cheng Ji is never off the front - he's just caught up the back of tomorrows stage...or similar
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Are they on that road that inrng said might give echelons?
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  • GentlemanBear
    GentlemanBear Posts: 280
    GentlemanBear wrote:
    Coriander wrote:
    When it's not Cheng Ji on the front for Giant, who is it?

    Someone who's about fifteen seconds away from ******* his elbow out to restore order to the universe.

    Seriously? The forum censors f-l-i-c-k-i-n-g?

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