TDF 2018, Stage 17: Bagnères-de-Luchon > Saint-Lary-Soulan Col du Portet 25/07/2018 - 65 km *Spo

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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    So all that did was delay Thomas De Gendt a little
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  • twotoebenny
    twotoebenny Posts: 1,542
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    Was that it?

    Not sure why/if people were expecting something more. Essentially every day is the same.some riders start 100 yards further back than those behind the comms car. The gaps would have to have been much much bigger and even then...
  • dolan_driver
    dolan_driver Posts: 831
    Is that it?
  • zammmmo
    zammmmo Posts: 315
    Wonder how much they paid a management consultancy to come up with that idea? Genius.
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Bit early to call this tour crap when the gc is far from over, especially compared to previous years where froome had a huge gap at this point and looked completely insurmountable. Look at what happened in the giro late on
  • slowbike
    slowbike Posts: 8,498
    I think they needed to make a time start gap in there - either that or push the groups further apart ... like by a km or two!
  • richard_t._biscuit
    richard_t._biscuit Posts: 246
    Bit crap for sure, but maybe would make more sense starting every stage like that. It was underwhelming but maybe less underwhelming than a normal roll out for people that have turned out for the depart.
  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    Maybe they should have put everyone who's won the combative rider award (and is still in the race) on the front...
    Pannier, 120rpm.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    Valverde got into the break
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Seems a lot more Giant near the front than Sky at the moment but it could be my eyes as widescreen doesn’t appear to have reached France yet!
  • richard_t._biscuit
    richard_t._biscuit Posts: 246
    10 second bonus 100m after the start? :wink:
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Close up confirms it was my eyes.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    movistar have to get Valverde up the road here if he has any glycogen left in him
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    Pross wrote:
    Seems a lot more Giant near the front than Sky at the moment but it could be my eyes as widescreen doesn’t appear to have reached France yet!
    "Le Widescreen" was prohibited by the French language police.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    speak of the devil
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Alaphillipe's polka kit is the best attempt I've seen in quite a while
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Rowe on the front as per usual. Boy, it's really shaken things up. :oops:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    look at sky ffs...
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    In defence of the start, it's better than a 10km neutral zone
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  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    mididoctors wrote:
    look at sky ffs...

    You mean look at everyone sat behind happy to let them ride to their race plan
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Rowe on the front as per usual. Boy, it's really shaken things up. :oops:


    Shhhhh. I'm hoping he punctures and drops back before Rich gets here, otherwise he's going to be unbearable (sorry Luke).
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Rowe on the front as per usual. Boy, it's really shaken things up. :oops:

    Poor like has a 65km TT to do today whilst every one else has a rest...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Rowe on the front as per usual. Boy, it's really shaken things up. :oops:


    Shhhhh. I'm hoping he punctures and drops back before Rich gets here, otherwise he's going to be unbearable (sorry Luke).
    I'm here. I thought I already was unbearable.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    RichN95 wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Rowe on the front as per usual. Boy, it's really shaken things up. :oops:


    Shhhhh. I'm hoping he punctures and drops back before Rich gets here, otherwise he's going to be unbearable (sorry Luke).
    I'm here. I thought I already was unbearable.

    Damn. Sorry, should have written "even more unbearable".
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  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    mididoctors wrote:
    look at sky ffs...

    Yeah, but they have GC so it's their game to attack.
  • twotoebenny
    twotoebenny Posts: 1,542
    Wait, Atapuma is riding this tdf!?!?!
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,495
    mididoctors wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    davidof wrote:
    Start them on time gaps based on 10% of their GC gaps.

    So, the latern rouge gets to start 20 minutes after the maillot jeune, with a 35 minute hors delay for the stage....
    Interesting. 8) :lol:

    yeah but measured from their start time...ie not the winners start time.
    So a time trial then?
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    TwoToeBenny wrote:
    Wait, Atapuma is riding this tdf!?!?!

    Darwin's obviously evolved to be invisible.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • coopster_the_1st
    coopster_the_1st Posts: 5,158
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Rowe on the front as per usual. Boy, it's really shaken things up. :oops:

    It needs the riders to make the racing but all those who could animate the race have allowed themselves to be subservient to Sky
  • effillo
    effillo Posts: 257
    adr82 wrote:
    I say we just start each team from their individual hotel car parks, that'd bloody well shake things up.

    FDJ would have been allocated a hotel 3km from the finish line and Sky would be in a travel lodge in Cornwall though.


    Demare would probably still require a tow from a team car to make the time cut tho to be fair.

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