TDF 2022:- Stage 12: Briançon to Alpe d’Heuz 165.1Km ***Spoilers***

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  • Kauto5
    Kauto5 Posts: 90
    No commentary on Eurosport for me - it's actually blissful not to have a certain bloke's inane shout ramblings over the pictures. I wish this was an option for each stage
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Switch to itv4 player. Kennaugh is always interesting
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    I'm noticing a distinct lack of "fond memories of riding La Croix" posts, tweets and group messages...
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Grovelling peloton...
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Grovelling peloton...
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    I'm noticing a distinct lack of "fond memories of riding La Croix" posts, tweets and group messages...

    It's not that bad a climb really ..by the time you get to the step in it the worst is behind
    "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
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,108
    edited July 2022
    Any chance of Pidcock going solo on the CdF descent - I don't think it offers quite the same challenge and there's a bit of flat valley before the Alpe but got to be a possibility.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    edited July 2022
    We did the Galibier the day before in the sun but the day we did this it was raining. I liked that much more.

    That said the descent was one of the worst cold-experiences of my life. One of the few times I've ever lost it with my BFF.

    "Do you think we should..."

    "NO! I'M GETTING THE **** OF THIS ****ING BIKE!!!"

    I've made a fair few cold-related mistakes in water and snow but none were as bad as that.

    (he's off doing the pan-celtic this week. Good on him, he's welcome to it...)
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    Not climbed the CdF from this side (went up the Glandon), but descended it on the 2015 Etape. Done up and down on the other side - it's fast in places, but there is a 3km climb half way down. then there's around 10 kms of valley before the Alpe. I liked it from the south, particularly as I outsprinted a french guy half my age to the top. :D
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Robbie perfectly summing up my feelings regarding downhill sections on climbs, most recently expressed half way up Snowdon 20 miles into a marathon last Sunday. I absolutely hate going downhill knowing that you just have to regain that height to get back where you were. The end of Llangynidr Mountain is a bastard for it!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    This climb is ticking by so slowly
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Lots of riders have rejoined the yellow jersey group, Castroviejo went out very early on the Galibier but is now in there and there must be over 100 riders. The sprinters will presumbly be quite happy with how the day has gone so far as it was a dangerous one for them.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Apparently the temperature has dropped from 38 degrees in the valley to a mere 30 on the climb.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    NGL Froome doesn't look super comfortable in the group.


    Then again, it's Froome.
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  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,065
    edited July 2022
    Pross said:

    Robbie perfectly summing up my feelings regarding downhill sections on climbs, most recently expressed half way up Snowdon 20 miles into a marathon last Sunday. I absolutely hate going downhill knowing that you just have to regain that height to get back where you were. The end of Llangynidr Mountain is a censored for it!

    The ~1 mile descent after the nasty wall at Peniel is very welcome, part way up Road To Hell, especially if you aren't a lightweight rider.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Peloton looks spent - certainly seems like they want to let the break go.

    Nice montage of how hot everyone is and how they're pouring water all over each other.
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575
    Dorset_Boy said:

    Not climbed the CdF from this side (went up the Glandon), but descended it on the 2015 Etape. Done up and down on the other side - it's fast in places, but there is a 3km climb half way down. then there's around 10 kms of valley before the Alpe. I liked it from the south, particularly as I outsprinted a french guy half my age to the top. :D

    It's less than 2 kms. Seems to get longer every year though.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    rick_chasey said:

    Come on lads, we need some Alp videos.

    https://youtu.be/Zd3BkQRDC68

    That's the Galibier.

    Sorry, but the geographer in me cannot let that pass. Plus I distinctly remeber them from 2019 as they were even doing it in the morning of the stage when I rode up it.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Froome swinging off the back now, leaving gaps etc.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    rick_chasey said:

    NGL Froome doesn't look super comfortable in the group.


    Then again, it's Froome.

    Thought he was getting dropped a while back and that Pidcock should find a different wheel.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    edited July 2022
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    I'm noticing a distinct lack of "fond memories of riding La Croix" posts, tweets and group messages...

    It's horrible. A distinct lack of marmots and even the cows cannot make up for it.

    Anyway is no one going to post this following the discussion they've just had on the English Eurosport commentary...



    Correlation is not causation.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    On ITV sorry.

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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    edited July 2022
    Pross said:

    Robbie perfectly summing up my feelings regarding downhill sections on climbs, most recently expressed half way up Snowdon 20 miles into a marathon last Sunday. I absolutely hate going downhill knowing that you just have to regain that height to get back where you were. The end of Llangynidr Mountain is a censored for it!

    Be more zen - that's where the road goes, and it's not changing.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Pross said:

    This climb is ticking by so slowly

    Not helped by the dribbling ramblings from the Eurosport commentary box.

    I've been having a siesta. Yesterday, something kept me awake. Not so today.
    Yawn.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Pidcock gets rid of the dead wood. Froome hangs on looking the best I've seen him post crash.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227

    Pidcock, Meintjes, Froome, Ciccone and Powless - that's a decent bunch of climbers
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    It will be interesting to see who can stay with him on the descent. I amy be wrong but my memory is that Mientjes isn't great going downhill.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    They are frying out 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
    The leaders need to pick it up a bit now, descent might help them but it has come down quite quickly recently.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    Pross said:

    It will be interesting to see who can stay with him on the descent. I amy be wrong but my memory is that Mientjes isn't great going downhill.

    He's had a few moments on downhills.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    The Madeleine is the one I hate
    "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

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