TDF 2018, Stage 10: Annecy > Le Grand-Bornand 17/07/2018 - 158,5 km *Spoilers*
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Annecy > Le Grand-Bornand 17/07/2018 - Stage 10 - 158,5 km
On stage 10 of the Tour the France, the riders face the first day in the high mountains. The Alps form the enchanting backdrop of a 158.5 kilometres long race from Annecy to Le Grand-Bornand. Five intermediate climbs, partly on a steep gravel road, before a 13 kilometres drop leads to a false flat run-in to the line.
The opening of the race is basically played out on the flat. Some minor slopes, but that’s it. The first KOM-points are up for grabs on Col de Bluffy, an 1.5 kilometres climb at 5.6%, that’s crested at kilometre 19. The route continues like it did before the first proper climb takes the shape of the Col de la Croix Fry. After approximately 30 kilometres the 11.3 kilometers climb at 7% looms.
The second half of the Croix Fry is steeper than the first and after the passage over the top a 20 kilometres descent leads to the foot of the Montée du Plateau des Glières. It’s a 6 kilometres torture at 11.2% with an extra masochistic element in the last 2 kilometres, as this sector climbs on a dust road. As a reward another long descent welcomes the rider.
Following a modest in-between climb – Col des Fleuries – the riders enter the calm before the storm for slightly over 20 kilometres. On flat roads the route heads for the last two ascents. Firstly Col de Romme, an 8.8 kilometres climb that is averaging 8.9%.
After the crest the route continues for 2 kilometres on a false flat before a 4 kilometres descent drops down to the base of today’s last obstacle. Col de la Colombière is a 7.5 kilometres climb with an average gradient of 8.5%.
The ensuing descent into Le Grand Bornand is 13 kilometres, while the run-in to the line is a false flat of 1.5 kilometres.
In 2013 Le Grand-Bornand hosted its last arrival of the Tour de France. Back then, the 19th stage finished in the ski resort after a 2.5 kilometres descent from the summit of the Col de la Croix Fry. Rui Costa took the win solo, while Andreas Klöden and Jan Bakelants came in second and third.
Favourites 10th stage 2018 Tour de France
*** Vincenzo Nibali, Alejandro Valverde, Chris Froome, Rigoberto Uran
** Thomas De Gendt, Dan Martin, Primoz Roglic, Romain Bardet, Nairo Quintana, Mikel Landa
* Lilian Calmejane, Warren Barguil, Serge Pauwels, Pierre Latour, Jakob Fuglsang, Geraint Thomas
The 10th stage of the 2018 Tour de France starts at 13:35 and the finish is expected around 17:57cet.
The stage is preceded by the women's race: La Course, which this year comprises of this single stage.
At 112.5 kilometres, the route runs from Duingt to Le Grand-Bornand. Following intermediate climbs up the Col de la Romme and the Col de la Colombière, the race ends with a 13 kilometres descent and a false flat of 1.5 kilometres.
Annecy
Four previous stages
Prefecture of Haute-Savoie (74)
129,600 inhabitants (Annéciens)
205,200 inhabitants in the Agglomeration of Grand Annecy (34 municipalities)
Lake Annecy is one of the cleanest lakes in the world. It is also the second largest lake in France after Lake Bourget in Savoie. A glacier lake dating back 18,000 years, it was formed during the melting of the glaciers of the Alps.
Several streams descending from the surrounding mountains feed it: the Laudon, the Bornette, the Ire, the Eau Morte and the Biolon. The Boubioz, an important spring located under the lake completes the picture. At the other end, the Thiou winds through the old town of Annecy serving as a spillway and flows into the Fier, which flows along the Gorges du Fier and finally joins the Rhone. Every year, at the beginning of August, the Annecy Lake Festival (Fête du Lac) is the scene of the biggest pyrotechnic show in Europe.
Overlooking the city, the castle is the former residence of the Counts of Geneva and the Dukes of Genevois-Nemours, the younger branch of the House of Savoy, and was built from the 12th to the 16th centuries. The castle was burned several times and was abandoned in the 17th century. It was recovered to serve as barracks until 1947 before being acquired in 1953 by the city of Annecy which restored it with the help of the Historic Monuments. It now houses the Museum of Contemporary Art and Regional Art Annecy and since 1993, the Tower and the Logis Perrière also home to the Regional Office of Alpine Lakes.
The Palais de l’Isle was built in the 12th century in the middle of the Canal du Thiou. Now a museum it had several functions in the course of history. The palace of the lords of Annecy in the 12th century, it became an administrative building when the Counts of Geneva settled in the city.
It also served as monetary office and a prison.
The basilica of the Visitation, built on the crest of the Maure, the first summit of the Semnoz massif, appears to dominate Annecy and can be seen from for miles around. It is the symbol of the prestigious religious past of the city. Built from 1909 to 1930 on the plans of Grenoble architect Alfred Henri Recoura, it was consecrated in 1949 by Cardinal Tedeschini. It is adjacent to the monastery of the Order of the Visitation, founded in 1610 by François de Sales and Jeanne de Chantal. The remains of the two saints lie at the top of the two lateral naves, in two gilded bronze sarcophagi. They were deposited with great pomp on August 2, 1911, escorted by a huge crowd. Annecy devotes a particular cult to François de Sales, whose work from 1602 to 1622 as bishop of Geneva in exile in Annecy made the city’s renown.
The Bauges massif is one of the best known for the variety of its wildlife.
It is home to 1,600 vegetal species, 150 species of birds and nine amphibians. Its flowers are also extremely varied. Diversity is the rule as the massif is made of small communities each rich of its own identity and traditions yet linked by constant exchanges through the course of time. The rural architecture takes on specific aspects to each of these small territories. Fortified sites, religious buildings and picturesque houses are also traces of the local heritage worthy of the interest of tourists.
ANNECY AND CYCLING
In 2009, seventy years after the first Tour finish in Annecy, Alberto Contador won the last of his three stage victories on the race by taking the time trial held around the lake. After highlighting its harmonious banks, the 2013 course turned to the surrounding mountains that give all its character to the lake. The finish in Semnoz gave Nairo Quintana its first Tour laurels and the Colombian crowned his inaugural Tour with the polka dot jersey and a 2nd position overall. Since we mentioned the first finish in Annecy in 1939, let us remind that it was won by one of the most French of Dutch riders, Antoon Van Schendel, whose brother Albert also took part in the Tour de France. The two were living in Muret, a Tour stage in 2015, where the family had a farm.
If the Tour has long shunned Annecy - half a century ran between the victory of Rolf Graf in 1959 and that of Alberto Contador in 2009 – it is a regular fixture of the Criterium du Dauphine with no less than 22 starts or finishes. Annecy is also the birthplace of Jeannie Longo.
Specialties: Tartiflette (Péla), Raclette, Savoyard fondue, atriaux (pork with liver), crozets, polenta, farcement (grated potato and dried fruits), potato fritters, cardons (vegetables), tome of the Bauges (cheese), bugnes, bescoins (biscuits with anise seeds), milk jam, grolle (gnole with coffee), Savoy cake, rissoles (pastry with puff pastry), Roseaux du Lac (dark chocolates stuffed with liquor), génépi.
Le Grand-Bornand
Six previous stages
Village resort of Haute Savoie (74)
2,202 inhabitants (Bornandins)
The Savoyard resort was also on the course of the 100th edition, which saw Rui Costa seal the third stage victory of his career. He took over from Frank Schleck, who won here in 2009 in front of Alberto Contador under the benevolent eye of his brother Andy. In 1995, Alex Zülle started from Le Grand Bornand to win at the end of the day at La Plagne. In 2007, the victory went to young German Linus Gerdemann, who also seized the Yellow Jersey for a day.
Specialties: reblochon, white tomme (reblochon one hour before ripening), mountain meats, cheese specialties (fondue, tartiflette, péla), matafan (potato donut), farcement (sweet-salted with potatoes), rissoles, bescoins (bread with anise and saffron traditionally offered on August 15 by the godfather to his godson).
On stage 10 of the Tour the France, the riders face the first day in the high mountains. The Alps form the enchanting backdrop of a 158.5 kilometres long race from Annecy to Le Grand-Bornand. Five intermediate climbs, partly on a steep gravel road, before a 13 kilometres drop leads to a false flat run-in to the line.
The opening of the race is basically played out on the flat. Some minor slopes, but that’s it. The first KOM-points are up for grabs on Col de Bluffy, an 1.5 kilometres climb at 5.6%, that’s crested at kilometre 19. The route continues like it did before the first proper climb takes the shape of the Col de la Croix Fry. After approximately 30 kilometres the 11.3 kilometers climb at 7% looms.
The second half of the Croix Fry is steeper than the first and after the passage over the top a 20 kilometres descent leads to the foot of the Montée du Plateau des Glières. It’s a 6 kilometres torture at 11.2% with an extra masochistic element in the last 2 kilometres, as this sector climbs on a dust road. As a reward another long descent welcomes the rider.
Following a modest in-between climb – Col des Fleuries – the riders enter the calm before the storm for slightly over 20 kilometres. On flat roads the route heads for the last two ascents. Firstly Col de Romme, an 8.8 kilometres climb that is averaging 8.9%.
After the crest the route continues for 2 kilometres on a false flat before a 4 kilometres descent drops down to the base of today’s last obstacle. Col de la Colombière is a 7.5 kilometres climb with an average gradient of 8.5%.
The ensuing descent into Le Grand Bornand is 13 kilometres, while the run-in to the line is a false flat of 1.5 kilometres.
In 2013 Le Grand-Bornand hosted its last arrival of the Tour de France. Back then, the 19th stage finished in the ski resort after a 2.5 kilometres descent from the summit of the Col de la Croix Fry. Rui Costa took the win solo, while Andreas Klöden and Jan Bakelants came in second and third.
Favourites 10th stage 2018 Tour de France
*** Vincenzo Nibali, Alejandro Valverde, Chris Froome, Rigoberto Uran
** Thomas De Gendt, Dan Martin, Primoz Roglic, Romain Bardet, Nairo Quintana, Mikel Landa
* Lilian Calmejane, Warren Barguil, Serge Pauwels, Pierre Latour, Jakob Fuglsang, Geraint Thomas
The 10th stage of the 2018 Tour de France starts at 13:35 and the finish is expected around 17:57cet.
The stage is preceded by the women's race: La Course, which this year comprises of this single stage.
At 112.5 kilometres, the route runs from Duingt to Le Grand-Bornand. Following intermediate climbs up the Col de la Romme and the Col de la Colombière, the race ends with a 13 kilometres descent and a false flat of 1.5 kilometres.
Annecy
Four previous stages
Prefecture of Haute-Savoie (74)
129,600 inhabitants (Annéciens)
205,200 inhabitants in the Agglomeration of Grand Annecy (34 municipalities)
Lake Annecy is one of the cleanest lakes in the world. It is also the second largest lake in France after Lake Bourget in Savoie. A glacier lake dating back 18,000 years, it was formed during the melting of the glaciers of the Alps.
Several streams descending from the surrounding mountains feed it: the Laudon, the Bornette, the Ire, the Eau Morte and the Biolon. The Boubioz, an important spring located under the lake completes the picture. At the other end, the Thiou winds through the old town of Annecy serving as a spillway and flows into the Fier, which flows along the Gorges du Fier and finally joins the Rhone. Every year, at the beginning of August, the Annecy Lake Festival (Fête du Lac) is the scene of the biggest pyrotechnic show in Europe.
Overlooking the city, the castle is the former residence of the Counts of Geneva and the Dukes of Genevois-Nemours, the younger branch of the House of Savoy, and was built from the 12th to the 16th centuries. The castle was burned several times and was abandoned in the 17th century. It was recovered to serve as barracks until 1947 before being acquired in 1953 by the city of Annecy which restored it with the help of the Historic Monuments. It now houses the Museum of Contemporary Art and Regional Art Annecy and since 1993, the Tower and the Logis Perrière also home to the Regional Office of Alpine Lakes.
The Palais de l’Isle was built in the 12th century in the middle of the Canal du Thiou. Now a museum it had several functions in the course of history. The palace of the lords of Annecy in the 12th century, it became an administrative building when the Counts of Geneva settled in the city.
It also served as monetary office and a prison.
The basilica of the Visitation, built on the crest of the Maure, the first summit of the Semnoz massif, appears to dominate Annecy and can be seen from for miles around. It is the symbol of the prestigious religious past of the city. Built from 1909 to 1930 on the plans of Grenoble architect Alfred Henri Recoura, it was consecrated in 1949 by Cardinal Tedeschini. It is adjacent to the monastery of the Order of the Visitation, founded in 1610 by François de Sales and Jeanne de Chantal. The remains of the two saints lie at the top of the two lateral naves, in two gilded bronze sarcophagi. They were deposited with great pomp on August 2, 1911, escorted by a huge crowd. Annecy devotes a particular cult to François de Sales, whose work from 1602 to 1622 as bishop of Geneva in exile in Annecy made the city’s renown.
The Bauges massif is one of the best known for the variety of its wildlife.
It is home to 1,600 vegetal species, 150 species of birds and nine amphibians. Its flowers are also extremely varied. Diversity is the rule as the massif is made of small communities each rich of its own identity and traditions yet linked by constant exchanges through the course of time. The rural architecture takes on specific aspects to each of these small territories. Fortified sites, religious buildings and picturesque houses are also traces of the local heritage worthy of the interest of tourists.
ANNECY AND CYCLING
In 2009, seventy years after the first Tour finish in Annecy, Alberto Contador won the last of his three stage victories on the race by taking the time trial held around the lake. After highlighting its harmonious banks, the 2013 course turned to the surrounding mountains that give all its character to the lake. The finish in Semnoz gave Nairo Quintana its first Tour laurels and the Colombian crowned his inaugural Tour with the polka dot jersey and a 2nd position overall. Since we mentioned the first finish in Annecy in 1939, let us remind that it was won by one of the most French of Dutch riders, Antoon Van Schendel, whose brother Albert also took part in the Tour de France. The two were living in Muret, a Tour stage in 2015, where the family had a farm.
If the Tour has long shunned Annecy - half a century ran between the victory of Rolf Graf in 1959 and that of Alberto Contador in 2009 – it is a regular fixture of the Criterium du Dauphine with no less than 22 starts or finishes. Annecy is also the birthplace of Jeannie Longo.
Specialties: Tartiflette (Péla), Raclette, Savoyard fondue, atriaux (pork with liver), crozets, polenta, farcement (grated potato and dried fruits), potato fritters, cardons (vegetables), tome of the Bauges (cheese), bugnes, bescoins (biscuits with anise seeds), milk jam, grolle (gnole with coffee), Savoy cake, rissoles (pastry with puff pastry), Roseaux du Lac (dark chocolates stuffed with liquor), génépi.
Le Grand-Bornand
Six previous stages
Village resort of Haute Savoie (74)
2,202 inhabitants (Bornandins)
The Savoyard resort was also on the course of the 100th edition, which saw Rui Costa seal the third stage victory of his career. He took over from Frank Schleck, who won here in 2009 in front of Alberto Contador under the benevolent eye of his brother Andy. In 1995, Alex Zülle started from Le Grand Bornand to win at the end of the day at La Plagne. In 2007, the victory went to young German Linus Gerdemann, who also seized the Yellow Jersey for a day.
Specialties: reblochon, white tomme (reblochon one hour before ripening), mountain meats, cheese specialties (fondue, tartiflette, péla), matafan (potato donut), farcement (sweet-salted with potatoes), rissoles, bescoins (bread with anise and saffron traditionally offered on August 15 by the godfather to his godson).
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
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im hungry0
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Now isn't that better, we have hills.0
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Little Linus won here in 2007. Them were the days........ :?0
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Love how ASO categorise the early bump as a 4th cat climb but ignore what appears to be a fairly substantial lump in the middle of the stage.
So is this two new climbs to the Tour? Can't recall the Romme before or the HC monster that seems to have been borrowed from the Giro.0 -
Pross wrote:Love how ASO categorise the early bump as a 4th cat climb but ignore what appears to be a fairly substantial lump in the middle of the stage.
So is this two new climbs to the Tour? Can't recall the Romme before or the HC monster that seems to have been borrowed from the Giro.
The climbed the Romme in 2009, I seem to recall. The HC monster is and I think the other newbie is in the Pyrennes: The Col du Portet. The top is also an unprepared surface.
https://www.colduportet.fr/en/col-du-portet
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/raci ... con-383893"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Sorry all I just heard I've won a €3 million grant from the EU so I'm off to get trollied.
Horses can hold.Correlation is not causation.0 -
...did I tell you I'll be I Schiphol in a few hours..?
Interesting juxtaposition for methese next few days. As I make an attempt to re-enter real life, the tour enters one of my old Season stomping grounds. I have driven vans full of bikers around all of these roads...We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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Annecy looks absolutely beautiful0
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There's no way GVA will still be in yellow after this right?
So why did anyone bother talking about GVA extending his lead in yellow yesterday?? I was assuming stage 10 must be a lumpy transition or something the way people were talking about GVA getting extra seconds.
I'm in a yurt in Lancashire. There are no horses or cows, but many many sheep.0 -
Very good chance Thomas is in yellow after tomorrow, all he would need to do is finish with the main bunch
Also there are some cows. They are on the horizon. Not thread worthy cows though.0 -
Jens Keukeleire will not start tomorrow's stage. He was caught up in the same crash as Richie Porte yesterday.
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Blazing Saddles wrote:Pross wrote:Love how ASO categorise the early bump as a 4th cat climb but ignore what appears to be a fairly substantial lump in the middle of the stage.
So is this two new climbs to the Tour? Can't recall the Romme before or the HC monster that seems to have been borrowed from the Giro.
The climbed the Romme in 2009, I seem to recall. The HC monster is and I think the other newbie is in the Pyrennes: The Col du Portet. The top is also an unprepared surface.
https://www.colduportet.fr/en/col-du-portet
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/raci ... con-383893
I have ridden the Col du Portet.
I think it actually made me cry at the time.0 -
This should whet the appetite, I’m off to Annecy in 4 weeks’ time for a 10 day holiday with the family - bikes included!0
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NorvernRob wrote:This should whet the appetite, I’m off to Annecy in 4 weeks’ time for a 10 day holiday with the family - bikes included!
You are in for a treat! We've been the last couple of years and will keep going back for years to come. all around the lake is amazing and then up in to the mountains is awesome, shame they aren't doing Forclaz Instead of Bluffy as it is a touch more scenic from the top as looks back over the lake.0 -
Surprised Bardet isn’t down as a 3 star favourite with his descending skills.0
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Finally, some lumpy bits 8)0
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Above The Cows wrote:Sorry all I just heard I've won a €3 million grant from the EU so I'm off to get trollied.
Horses can hold.
Congratulations, but presumably they want receipts and stuff to find out what you did with it?
Meanwhile the question about this stage is whether the GC competition will be Annecy buoyed, or if it's just Placebo.0 -
I think the stage very hard to predict (esp if Movistar play tactics).Blazing Saddles wrote:Favourites 10th stage 2018 Tour de France
*** Vincenzo Nibali, Alejandro Valverde, Chris Froome, Rigoberto Uran
** Thomas De Gendt, Dan Martin, Primoz Roglic, Romain Bardet, Nairo Quintana, Mikel Landa
* Lilian Calmejane, Warren Barguil, Serge Pauwels, Pierre Latour, Jakob Fuglsang, Geraint Thomas
With two MTFs to follow, some GC contenders may be prepared to allow a break succeed (presumably, as well as being possibly polka-dot claimants, why De Gendt and Calmejane are among the favs - to which maybe add often-breakaway-ers Alaphilippe and the stage's birthday-boy Fraile?)
But I'd like to see those GC-contenders who can descend well, not postpone things till the MTFs, but take take a chance to get a head's start before the MTFs (esp if they are outsider-GC-ers, like Roglic).0 -
effillo wrote:NorvernRob wrote:This should whet the appetite, I’m off to Annecy in 4 weeks’ time for a 10 day holiday with the family - bikes included!
You are in for a treat! We've been the last couple of years and will keep going back for years to come. all around the lake is amazing and then up in to the mountains is awesome, shame they aren't doing Forclaz Instead of Bluffy as it is a touch more scenic from the top as looks back over the lake.
We’re really looking forward to it, first time in the Alps! Forclaz is my #1 target, I won’t be able to get out on my own loads but should be able to get half a dozen mountains in whilst I’m there. We’ve all got bikes for tootling around too though, so should get lots of riding in overall.0 -
Nowadays Linus owns/runs the Restaurant Nama together with his partner Namali – in Deià in the NW of Majorca. Not sure actually how much time he spends there, though.pat1cp wrote:Little Linus won here in 2007. Them were the days........ :?
https://www.restaurantnama.com/0 -
Does no one else find the Col de Bluffy a hilarious name? Who is going to bluff on the Col de Bluffy?Correlation is not causation.0
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Above The Cows wrote:Does no one else find the Col de Bluffy a hilarious name? Who is going to bluff on the Col de Bluffy?
Another one of those occasions where famous teams have left us too soon. Now I'll never get a chance to drop Bluffy the Lampre Slayer casually into a thread.0 -
NorvernRob wrote:effillo wrote:NorvernRob wrote:This should whet the appetite, I’m off to Annecy in 4 weeks’ time for a 10 day holiday with the family - bikes included!
You are in for a treat! We've been the last couple of years and will keep going back for years to come. all around the lake is amazing and then up in to the mountains is awesome, shame they aren't doing Forclaz Instead of Bluffy as it is a touch more scenic from the top as looks back over the lake.
We’re really looking forward to it, first time in the Alps! Forclaz is my #1 target, I won’t be able to get out on my own loads but should be able to get half a dozen mountains in whilst I’m there. We’ve all got bikes for tootling around too though, so should get lots of riding in overall.
I'm in St Jorioz now. Forclasz yesterday from the Annecy side - first part is easy, then bam, last 2.5 kms at 10-13%. Other side is harder. As others have said, Annecy is stunning , loads of cyclists, cycle path all the way around the lake, lake is warm (23 degrees atm). Traffic can be a mare!
Bagged a couple of Movistar bidons this evening, DD, gave zilch!
Will watch the ladies in the neutral zone at 9am, tomorrow, then ride to Annecy for the sign on, then hopefully get to LGB for the finish, then ride back.
Showers re forecast for the middle of the day. Had big thunderstorms the last 2 evenings. Hot, though at 30 degrees today!0 -
Above The Cows wrote:Does no one else find the Col de Bluffy a hilarious name? Who is going to bluff on the Col de Bluffy?
We rode through Gruffy today (which is on the other side of the Semnoz.
So Gruffy & Bluffy about 5 miles apart as the crow flies!0 -
Dorset Boy wrote:Above The Cows wrote:Does no one else find the Col de Bluffy a hilarious name? Who is going to bluff on the Col de Bluffy?
We rode through Gruffy today (which is on the other side of the Semnoz.
So Gruffy & Bluffy about 5 miles apart as the crow flies!
Ha ha, I'm more of a Hautes-Alpes woman myself but this is tempting.Correlation is not causation.0 -
Above The Cows wrote:Does no one else find the Col de Bluffy a hilarious name? Who is going to bluff on the Col de Bluffy?
You know who's going to drop that into commentary tomorrow now don't you?0 -
underlayunderlay wrote:Above The Cows wrote:Sorry all I just heard I've won a €3 million grant from the EU so I'm off to get trollied.
Horses can hold.
Congratulations, but presumably they want receipts and stuff to find out what you did with it?
Thanks although we had to drink on our own €€€ as we don't get our mits on the cash until January. Booo!
Anyway, what the local Savoie chevaux get up to in the winter months...
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underlayunderlay wrote:Above The Cows wrote:Does no one else find the Col de Bluffy a hilarious name? Who is going to bluff on the Col de Bluffy?
Another one of those occasions where famous teams have left us too soon. Now I'll never get a chance to drop Bluffy the Lampre Slayer casually into a thread.
Oh chateau that man!
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
underlayunderlay wrote:Above The Cows wrote:Does no one else find the Col de Bluffy a hilarious name? Who is going to bluff on the Col de Bluffy?
Another one of those occasions where famous teams have left us too soon. Now I'll never get a chance to drop Bluffy the Lampre Slayer casually into a thread.
Correlation is not causation.0
