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  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    FocusZing wrote:
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    Liking the red white and blue Lapierre.



    Smartarama

    There's only one smartorama:

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    Team My Man 2018: David gaudu, Pierre Latour, Romain Bardet, Thibaut pinot, Alexandre Geniez, Florian Senechal, Warren Barguil, Benoit Cosnefroy
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    ^ I can't even.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    I'd forgotten those - they're worse than Carrera.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Oh, the humanity. Imagine what Fignon felt when having to put that lot on.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    The team presentation just starting on Eurosport.
    Schedule now says it's on until 9pm. :shock:
    Really, that's far too much cringe worthy tv.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    The team presentation just starting on Eurosport.
    Schedule now says it's on until 9pm. :shock:
    Really, that's far too much cringe worthy tv.

    Apparently no gimmicks this year though. Just being shepherded on with stereotypical efficiency. Boooooo...
    Twitter: @canocola @thedreadships
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Aru wearing a proper Italian champs jersey onstage. :D
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    The team presentation just starting on Eurosport.
    Schedule now says it's on until 9pm. :shock:
    Really, that's far too much cringe worthy tv.

    Apparently no gimmicks this year though. Just being shepherded on with stereotypical efficiency. Boooooo...

    The cabaret act suggests I could be quite a John Travolta in Dusseldorf.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    yourpaceormine wrote:
    Aru wearing a proper Italian champs jersey onstage. :D

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    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    yourpaceormine wrote:
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    The team presentation just starting on Eurosport.
    Schedule now says it's on until 9pm. :shock:
    Really, that's far too much cringe worthy tv.

    Apparently no gimmicks this year though. Just being shepherded on with stereotypical efficiency. Boooooo...

    The cabaret act suggests I could be quite a John Travolta in Dusseldorf.
    I had really high hopes for some proper what-the-flippery though. My wedding reception (about 25 miles down the road) was gatecrashed by the local carnival dance troupe, for example.
    Twitter: @canocola @thedreadships
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    "Smiley" Degenkolb entertaining the locals.
    Can't help but think that somewhere, Frenchie is throwing things at the tv.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Cummings has black shorts. Phew!
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    edited June 2017
    Not sure that Kittel will be able to get up that ramp.....
    Bouhanni going with the innocent schoolboy look.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    "Smiley" Degenkolb entertaining the locals.
    Can't help but think that somewhere, Frenchie is throwing things at the tv.

    Proof that Contador is yesterday's chip papers...

    Cavendish resolutely playing down expectations. Only bit that confuses me is how you work for a team leader (Cummings) who's either swanning around at the back or pissing off without you?
    Twitter: @canocola @thedreadships
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    eurotastic
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    they like the Stybar
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    yourpaceormine wrote:
    Cummings has black shorts. Phew!

    Another win for style and good taste
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Meh. Didn't even ask Marcel what form his hair was in.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    "Smiley" Degenkolb entertaining the locals.
    Can't help but think that somewhere, Frenchie is throwing things at the tv.

    Proof that Contador is yesterday's chip papers...

    Cavendish resolutely playing down expectations. Only bit that confuses me is how you work for a team leader (Cummings) who's either swanning around at the back or pissing off without you?



    That really should be Stevo's epitaph :D
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Very disapointing... they've got a pub covers band providing the musical interlude, and not Düsseldorf's own Kraftwerk.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Oh God and it was all going so well until Arnaud Demare, Jens. :oops: :lol:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    whoops - which is Demare ( he's stood in the French national jersey!)
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    BETANCUR!
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    yourpaceormine wrote:
    Very disapointing... they've got a pub covers band providing the musical interlude, and not Düsseldorf's own Kraftwerk.

    I know odd..can you imagine ...

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Too many German speaking riders in this Tour.
    At least the Belgians are speaking Brexit.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    For all the worries about Germany's ambivalence towards pro cycling (caused by the drugs history), the longest bar in Europe seems pretty happy to have the Tour drop by: https://twitter.com/TDFReporters/status/880479936724828161
    Twitter: @canocola @thedreadships
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Froome shamelessly milks the crowd, while Marcel Wüst shamelessly milks Christian Knees.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    Can you imagine the relief of the director when he realised he could switch from children 'singing' to an interview with Quintana?
    Twitter: @canocola @thedreadships
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    Can you imagine the relief of the director when he realised he could switch from children 'singing' to an interview with Quintana?

    Funny, I would have thought it would be the other way around.....
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    Can you imagine the relief of the director when he realised he could switch from children 'singing' to an interview with Quintana?

    Funny, I would have thought it would be the other way around.....

    You obviously didn't have sound up...

    Twenty kids singing a song they didn't know, in a key they couldn't find, in a language they didn't speak. My wife actually came upstairs to see why I was laughing so loudly.
    Twitter: @canocola @thedreadships

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