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  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,374
    I wouldn't want my team car at the back of the file today.


    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ProssPross Posts: 34,823
    Declerq seems to be on duty to stop anyone else getting away which seems odd so early in the race.
  • No_Ta_DoctorNo_Ta_Doctor Posts: 11,940
    “Road racing was over and the UCI had banned my riding positions on the track, so it was like ‘Jings, crivvens, help ma Boab, what do I do now? I know, I’ll go away and be depressed for 10 years’.”

    @DrHeadgear

    The Vikings are coming!
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,374
    Klaxon time?
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • above_the_cowsabove_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    KLAXON!!!!!!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,374
    So Michael Valgren decided to take a comfort break? #amateurmistake
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • No_Ta_DoctorNo_Ta_Doctor Posts: 11,940
    Who's got the echelons klaxon?
    “Road racing was over and the UCI had banned my riding positions on the track, so it was like ‘Jings, crivvens, help ma Boab, what do I do now? I know, I’ll go away and be depressed for 10 years’.”

    @DrHeadgear

    The Vikings are coming!
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,374
    That's a big group of big names that's heading up the road.....
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • twotoebennytwotoebenny Posts: 1,250
    strong group going up the road
  • takethehighroadtakethehighroad Posts: 6,199
    Luke Rowe and GVA in the group. Kung as well
  • takethehighroadtakethehighroad Posts: 6,199
    Siskevicius in the group, who I tentatively put a pound on last night at 500/1
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,374
    Kung down hard on a roundabout.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,374
    Jordi Meuss also off on the same spot from the peloton.

    The break have now lost both Doull and Kung and the gap is closing.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ddraverddraver Posts: 25,186
    10km to go...

    (...to the start)
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ProssPross Posts: 34,823
    Irish favourite Mark O'Hallagh punctures out of the break.
  • ddraverddraver Posts: 25,186
    Fair play, that was a decent wheel change from the Shimano mechanic.


    Crash... 😯
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ProssPross Posts: 34,823
    Skittles. Bit of an insurance claim on the parked car on the outside of the bend. Kung down again, needs to look at his tyre ) pressure choices.
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,374
    Groupama big sliding chute which has Kung tasting tarmac for the second time, even before the cobbles.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ProssPross Posts: 34,823
    Kung then loses his nerve on another corner and goes so wide he actually had to go behind a parked car.
  • above_the_cowsabove_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    1km to go!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • ProssPross Posts: 34,823
    Still, at least the tricky wet tarmac is nearly behind them
  • ProssPross Posts: 34,823
    Nasty little climb into the first sector.
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,374
    Right, time for the race proper to begin...
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ProssPross Posts: 34,823
    Rowe leads into the first pave.
  • mididoctorsmididoctors Posts: 12,940
    get off and walk if its flooded i say.....cancel nothing
    "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
  • ddraverddraver Posts: 25,186
    Oohhh that La Vie ne Claire pas kit does look good covered on mud...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • mididoctorsmididoctors Posts: 12,940
    this is proper
    "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_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 65,367 Lives Here
    Fairly few crashes
    _
  • ProssPross Posts: 34,823
    Grim - love it :)
  • johnboy183johnboy183 Posts: 829
    Miserable going over that section Doesn’t look much fun at all to be riding
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