TDF 2021: Stage 6, Tours > Châteauroux 160.6 km **Spoilers**

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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,247
    edited July 2021
    Who benefits today from GVA not just sitting up and going back to the bunch? Other than the sprint teams, obviously.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,326
    Big glass tit alert!
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,326

    Big glass censored alert!

    *breast*
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406

    Big glass censored alert!

    Distinct lack of cows though.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,326

    Big glass censored alert!

    Distinct lack of cows though.
    Well there's a possibility Theresa May is in one of those wheat fields
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812

    Big glass censored alert!

    Distinct lack of cows though.
    The word is demain...........
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,091

    Big glass censored alert!

    *breast*
    Trying to work out what got censored. Tit? Boob?
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406

    Big glass censored alert!

    *breast*
    Trying to work out what got censored. Tit? Boob?
    Boobies? Baps? Knockers?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,091
    Serious danger this thread turns into a Two Ronnies sketch.

  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,194
    Four candles?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,860
    4 candles
    "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
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Ooo handbags from Colbrelli
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,860
    Words said
    "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
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,247
    Think Morkov beat Cav at the intermediate even after stopping pedalling.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,326
    edited July 2021

    Big glass censored alert!

    *breast*
    Trying to work out what got censored. Tit? Boob?
    Boobies? Baps? Knockers?
    It was tit.
    Handy little italic trick there, LR
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,326
    Cav got quite badly leaned on there, but what was Colbrelli's problem?
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,247

    Cav got quite badly leaned on there, but what was Colbrelli's problem?

    I think Cav and Morkov did most of the leaning tbh. Neither went on anything like a straight line. No idea what got Colbrelli wound up though.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,691
    Colbrelli kicking off? I am surprised.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,247

    Colbrelli kicking off? I am surprised.

    He was even more annoyed than when he knocked Roglic off the other day.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,540

    Cav got quite badly leaned on there, but what was Colbrelli's problem?

    Italian temperament
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,111

    Of course it is a stage remembered for more than the result. There were one or two minor names who had to abandon the race after crashes on those straight, wide roads.

    From Eurosport's description at the time:

    The fast pace and strong crosswinds made the peloton increasingly nervous and with 50km left to ride a small crash occurred involving a handful of riders, including Kreuziger and Popovych. But it was merely a taster of things to come. 10km later, a huge spill in the peloton brought down more than 20 riders, sending many of them into the ditches on both sides of the tree-lined road.

    Wiggins:


    Horner:



    Boonen


    Yup, totally different to nowadays.

    Was that the stage where Horner was heavily concussed and had no recollection of riding the rest of the stage?
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,091

    Cav got quite badly leaned on there, but what was Colbrelli's problem?

    Watching it back (I was on a call, annoyingly), I assume Colbrelli was offering an opinion on the way Bouhanni leant on Cavendish - it caused Colbrelli to hang back initially, I think, as he was sitting on Cavendish and had a grandstand view. In the background there was an apologetic hand from Morkov on Sagan's shoulder at the same time.

    For anyone wondering about whether we can extrapolate anything from the intermediate, Cavendish was the only one to remain seated as they crossed the line.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    andyp said:

    Of course it is a stage remembered for more than the result. There were one or two minor names who had to abandon the race after crashes on those straight, wide roads.

    From Eurosport's description at the time:

    The fast pace and strong crosswinds made the peloton increasingly nervous and with 50km left to ride a small crash occurred involving a handful of riders, including Kreuziger and Popovych. But it was merely a taster of things to come. 10km later, a huge spill in the peloton brought down more than 20 riders, sending many of them into the ditches on both sides of the tree-lined road.

    Wiggins:


    Horner:



    Boonen


    Yup, totally different to nowadays.

    Was that the stage where Horner was heavily concussed and had no recollection of riding the rest of the stage?
    Yes it was.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,860
    They just don't care ...looks hot bothered kind of day
    "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
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,247
    Coming up to Kluge's big moment.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,860
    Ineos left hand side of the road fetish
    "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
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,247

    Coming up to Kluge's big moment.

    He's miscalculated this today.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812

    Coming up to Kluge's big moment.

    He's not looking like he's going to be making big gains today, unless he's booked himself in for a late Plat du Jour somewhere nearby.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,540

    Pross said:

    Geraint noticeably not riding bear the front with Carapaz and the main Ineos flatland domestiques.

    Visited that Chateau a few years ago when we'd be staying near Saumur before heading down to the Dordogne



    Is that the one across the Loir (no 'e') that in WW2 had one side in occupied france and the side in Vichy France?
    No, this one is on the Loire with an 'e'

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Château_de_Chenonceau
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    DQS doing the full train today.

    Turned it on at 5.5km and within about 30 seconds Kirby came out with his "toot on the bidon" line.