TDF 2019: Stage 7, Belfort > Chalon-sur-Saône 12/07/2019 - 230 km *Spoilers*

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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    This seems to be just the stage to miss because of a flight.

    Now I've said that there'll be some echelon madness or something.

    Thanks for that. I can see some of this.

    On a train all day tomorrow....
    FFS.

    Rate of this it'll be postponed due to the working time directive.
    Twitter: @canocola @thedreadships
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    edited July 2019
    150kms left and it's coming up to 1pm in the UK......

    ........at least the stage 8 thread got done early.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Giant horse!
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
    Giant horse!
    Followed by lots of normal-sized lovely horses and cows.
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Horses chasing cows!

    This is more like it.
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Gap to the break just fell by nearly 10 seconds. Brace yourselves people, it’s all about to kick off.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Snooze

    Still at least I got some work done, unlike yesterday when there was just too much sportsing going on.

    I might be forced to watch Federer-Nadal later.
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Well, that shoe change certainly livened things up.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Yay! 100kms covered and in only 5 minutes shy of 3 hours. :oops:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    My kinda pace!
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  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Oh look, Nico Roche is still riding
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Did someone just crash?
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Yay! 100kms covered and in only 5 minutes shy of 3 hours. :oops:


    Not sure why the break hasn't gone above 4 minutes ??
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Good crowds. Enjoying the excuse to lunch it over Le weekend Bastille
    "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
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    SpecialGuestStar wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Yay! 100kms covered and in only 5 minutes shy of 3 hours. :oops:


    Not sure why the break hasn't gone above 4 minutes ??
    They’re knackered too after yesterday, no need for anyone to do something daft like try for a win.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    edited July 2019
    SpecialGuestStar wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Yay! 100kms covered and in only 5 minutes shy of 3 hours. :oops:


    Not sure why the break hasn't gone above 4 minutes ??


    Can't be arsed ... Just force the peloton to chase harder. Might as well go slow...save it all for the end. Current thinking is it's way easier just to hold the break nearer the whole day rather than let it go off down the road while you have a nap and speed up hyper at the end
    "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
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    My old PE teacher had the solution to this sort of nonsense. Send them back to start all over again and do it properly. It's their own time they're wasting, etc etc
    Twitter: @canocola @thedreadships
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
    SpecialGuestStar wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Yay! 100kms covered and in only 5 minutes shy of 3 hours. :oops:


    Not sure why the break hasn't gone above 4 minutes ??
    They’re knackered too after yesterday, no need for anyone to do something daft like try for a win.

    There's also zero chance of it making it to the finish as pure sprint stages are fairly few and far between.

    Absolutely bored stiff by Matt Rendells photography lecture
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    mididoctors wrote:
    SpecialGuestStar wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Yay! 100kms covered and in only 5 minutes shy of 3 hours. :oops:


    Not sure why the break hasn't gone above 4 minutes ??


    Can't be arsed ... Just force the peloton to chase harder. Might as well go slow...save it all for the end. Current thinking is it's way easier just to hold the break nearer the whole day rather than let it go off down the road while you have a nap and speed up hyper at the end

    The break keeping the peloton at 4 minutes :)
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Gap is dropping very quickly on this climb - it's down to well under 1 minute...

    They're going to make the catch with 110km to go at this rate.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,459
    I think if I were in the break today I'd slow down - force the gap down to 20 - 30 secs and tempt other riders across.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Gap is dropping very quickly on this climb - it's down to well under 1 minute...

    They're going to make the catch with 110km to go at this rate.

    I don't blame the break for giving up. Ned and Millar openly laughing at how pointless it is

    Aero helmet and skinsuit for Bardet, maybe he's got something planned
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    ShutupJens wrote:
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Gap is dropping very quickly on this climb - it's down to well under 1 minute...

    They're going to make the catch with 110km to go at this rate.

    I don't blame the break for giving up. Ned and Millar openly laughing at how pointless it is

    Aero helmet and skinsuit for Bardet, maybe he's got something planned
    It's now back up to 3 mins so there might have just been something wrong with the graphic - maybe they were taking the time off a moto which then went across to the break?

    Possibly the aero hat and suit is just to make the easy day even easier, as it will save a handful of watts.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    TailWindHome wrote:
    I think if I were in the break today I'd slow down - force the gap down to 20 - 30 secs and tempt other riders across.
    I have seen this attempted along with other extreme tactics. Vaighters chasing a break that wasn't letting his bridging rider to get on.

    You do get resets sometimes. ... The problem to day is if they trackstanded I suspect the peloton would too.... absolutely no interest. Maybe closer to the end.
    "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
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Can’t have a grand tour without flat days.

    If it was cross winds we’d be all very excited.
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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    more miles in the legs, more accumulation of physical and psychological factors . A grand tour does not mean every stage is whizz bang , but every stage contributes to the GC. Somewhere upstream today will affect somebody in some way either positive or negative
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    TailWindHome wrote:
    I think if I were in the break today I'd slow down - force the gap down to 20 - 30 secs and tempt other riders across.

    Certainly something to consider now the gap is down to 2 minutes and there are still almost 70kms to go.
    At least the Sun has come out to make things pretty and Summery again.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Can’t have a grand tour without flat days.

    If it was cross winds we’d be all very excited.

    It's when they have flat stages on weekends that I get really angry
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    iainf72 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Can’t have a grand tour without flat days.

    If it was cross winds we’d be all very excited.

    It's when they have flat stages on weekends that I get really angry

    Fair
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Gap down to 1'-15". They are going to have to slow down or catch the break 40kms too soon.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.

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