TDF Stage 15: Tallard - Nimes ***spoiler***

thomthom

I'm so bloody creative I don't what to do with myself.

OPQS

You should send that to JV.

inseine

frenchfighter wrote:

Lots and lots of people on here mentioning Bauer not Elminger which is odd. Both did enormous work and if I had to choose I would definitely say Elminger did the most. Maybe it is because Bauer speaks English.

Everyone seems to have gone with the Bauer angle, and it can't just 'cos he speaks English. This is L'equipe's take..

Jack Bauer (Garmin-Sharp), échappé pendant plus de 200 km, a été repris à 50 mètres de la ligne.


Got to feel sorry for Elminger, but I'm not sure it's pro English speaking reteric.

overlord2

Above The Cows wrote:

type:epyt wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Miss. This.

How that team couldn't get sponsorship beggars belief ... I'm sure even Teejay could have made something of himself in that environment.

It really is amazing that they couldn't get sponsorship and I miss it too.

I could never understand it at the time and it still baffles me. HTC spend $100m on really really s*it adverts but could have put in $10m per year into running a cycling team that were billboards on wheels.

TimB34

Morning all, sorry for the lack of cheese and wine posting yesterday as the Tour entered my local area, but I was busy taking photos in Nimes:

above_the_cows

Fantastic work Tim!

The Lotto bus is a 'thing' now isn't it. Can we try and get pictures of it at every race people attend?

Macaloon

TimB34 wrote:

Morning all, sorry for the lack of cheese and wine posting yesterday as the Tour entered my local area, but I was busy taking photos in Nimes:

^ Outstanding.

RideOnTime

TimB34 wrote:

Morning all, sorry for the lack of cheese and wine posting yesterday as the Tour entered my local area, but I was busy taking photos in Nimes:

It just occurred to me that the riders are not looking out of the windows. They can't be!! Their faces haven't changed expression since Harrogate.

frenchfighter

Not sure what stage this is but nice:

frenchfighter

frenchfighter

Elminger won the combativity award which is great.

frenchfighter

Poulidor is HUGE :shock:

OPQS

frenchfighter wrote:

That looks unstable to me.

DL1987

frenchfighter wrote:

Poulidor is HUGE :shock:

That is a big ol' head.

TimB34

frenchfighter wrote:

Not sure what stage this is but nice:

That's Albert Timmer - handing out bottles might be something he makes a habit of, as he kindly dropped one right in front of my daughter under the flamme rouge in Nimes yesterday! She was delighted, and we can exclusively reveal that it contained apple-flavoured energy drink (judging by the smell anyway).

Thanks Albert!

Edit : added pic for clarity, and it appears that Giant-Shimano really do use their sponsors products: Apple-flavoured IsoPro http://www.born.eu/products/sportdrinks.html#products (but he hadn't drunk much...)

Macaloon

OPQS wrote:

That looks unstable to me.

Don't worry. Whilst Jack refuses to use a stunt rider, they're not above a little light CGI.

tailwindhome

Gruber

ddraver

Macaloon wrote:

OPQS wrote:

That looks unstable to me.

Don't worry. Whilst Jack refuses to use a stunt rider, they're not above a little light CGI.

I was listening to one of the velocast tech podcasts with a bloke who wrote a book on cycling science (might actually be called cycling science but I forget...) and he said that actually you don't need to be going all that fast to reach a point where pedalling will not do any more good and actually you re far better off just getting into an aero tuck a la a skier

nic_77

DL1987 wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Poulidor is HUGE :shock:

That is a big ol' head.

Look at Jeff Wode. His head must weigh fifty pounds on its own.

RideOnTime

nic_77 wrote:

DL1987 wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Poulidor is HUGE :shock:

That is a big ol' head.

Look at Jeff Wode. His head must weigh fifty pounds on its own.

Are they hob nobbing?