Tour of Britain "it doesn't come past my house" thread

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Heart warming kid attacks ..
    Wins bidon
    "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
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Break 3 minutes with 9k to go so the win will come from the front 5. Did look an outside chance of them getting caught when Burgos, ISN and Alpecin started working, not sure why they didn't do that 10km earlier
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Jorgensen and Lampert ride off the front. Lampert looking strong.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Lampert almost falls off. Gibson trying to cross. Eenkhoorn struggling. Gibson gets there, good ride.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Gibson canny riding to bridge there
    "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
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Needs to avoid Lampert bullying him.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Think he's making a mistake here, should make Ballerini work to get across and call Lampert's bluff
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    edited September 2021
    Jorg is fading unless playing a good ruse ...
    "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
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Nasty run in for the peloton, narrow and twisty
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    edited September 2021
    Pffttt lampert but had to work or it
    "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
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    For all the talk of Gibson's sprint he ends up third. Lampert takes it from Jorgensen. Ballerini 4th 40" down. Slightly naive by Gibson at the end but very good ride in that company
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Shoot the flipping director.
    Obviously been a crash inside the km but he had show 3 riders standing around having a chat.
    Clueless idiot
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Dennis and Hayter trying to distance WvA.. peloton string out ...
    "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
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Hayter brings in the peloton with WVA on his wheel. All to play for tomorrow. Peloton in pieces presumably due to the narrow twists and turns on the run in.

  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Pross said:

    Hayter brings in the peloton with WVA on his wheel. All to play for tomorrow. Peloton in pieces presumably due to the narrow twists and turns on the run in.

    Who knows why the peloton was split into pieces?
    I reckon there must have been a crash on that narrow "S" curve.
    It looked like trouble to me, when the leaders came through it.
    Just happened to be the moment that the moron in charge switched cameras.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Lampert interviews quite well.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Xandro Meurisse, Mauro Schmid, Carlos Barbero and Rhys Britton came home, between 3 and a half and 4 minutes down, but have been given the same time as the reduced peloton.
    So, I guess that confirms there was a crash, just moments after the director chose to switch cameras.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • notquite6foot
    notquite6foot Posts: 248
    GC is finely poised for tomorrow's finale into Aberdeen.

    Assuming it ends in a bunch sprint and WVA finishes ahead of Hayter, 1st or 3rd wins him the overall, or 2nd if Hayter isn't 3rd.

    Dream scenario from a British POV would be Cav/WVA/Hayter across the finish line in that order.
  • notquite6foot
    notquite6foot Posts: 248
    Pross said:

    Lovely moment that with the kid attacking on the pavement and the JV rider handing him a bottle. Class, good skills too

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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717


    Great Pic...
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Looks like an illegal feed to me.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
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  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    edited September 2021
    Highlight of the day for me was watching the Arkea bus getting hopelessly lost in Dundee this evening. Last seen heading deep into the depths of Freshers Week on the Perth Rd*. Genuinely thought about intervening. #thoughtsandprayers.

    *I appreciate only a select few locals in here will know what I mean.
  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933
    thegreatdivide said:

    Highlight of the day for me was watching the Arkea bus getting hopelessly lost in Dundee this evening. Last seen heading deep into the depths of Freshers Week on the Perth Rd*. Genuinely thought about intervening. #thoughtsandprayers.

    *I appreciate only a select few locals in here will know what I mean.

    Into the lions (or indeed lionesses den). I did wonder where the teams would be spending tonight. Thought most would just plump for Aberdeen and head back down to Stoney in the morning. Not much in the way of decent sized hotels in Stoney itself. The Commodore is long gone, not that it was very inviting anyway 🤣
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,269
    😊 Presenter on the Highlights show ITV4 just pronounced Finzean the right way. We've given the game away.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    Doping for sure ...no one has ever heard of this kid
    "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
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,379
    mididoctors said:

    Pross said:

    Not an area I've ever visited but looks a lovely part of the world for cycling. Feels a bit like mid Wales where there are some superb roads virtually devoid of traffic.

    Forgotten part of the country
    This. It is fantastic.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575
    Pross said:

    For all the talk of Gibson's sprint he ends up third. Lampert takes it from Jorgensen. Ballerini 4th 40" down. Slightly naive by Gibson at the end but very good ride in that company

    Given in the last 10 kms he'd bridged across to the front two on his own, and had a couple of digs to get away, it was no surprise he didn't have much left at the end. He's more of a bunch sprinter too, no? There's a lot of difference between that and sprinting in a small group.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    andyp said:

    Pross said:

    For all the talk of Gibson's sprint he ends up third. Lampert takes it from Jorgensen. Ballerini 4th 40" down. Slightly naive by Gibson at the end but very good ride in that company

    Given in the last 10 kms he'd bridged across to the front two on his own, and had a couple of digs to get away, it was no surprise he didn't have much left at the end. He's more of a bunch sprinter too, no? There's a lot of difference between that and sprinting in a small group.
    Sure, he did a great ride. I think his mistake, if you can call it that, was allowing Lampert to bully him into working on the front when Ballerini wasn't looking like he was going to come across and Gibson could have played the 'you just forced me to close the gap' card.

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