Le Tour de Femmes, race chat

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    AvV gets back ....
    "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: 4,334
    Pross said:

    At risk of getting flamed it's like watching a bunch of amateurs at times

    Marvellous, isn't it?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Pross said:

    Looks like there was a glue explosion in the UAE bidon factory but ends badly as Garcia can't let go and gets taken out.

    Instant karma
    "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: 18,908
    Lot of movistar
    "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: 43,463
    Surprised Garcia is prepared to ride behind her team car again, they seem to not like her
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Swiss girl looking better
    "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: 4,334
    Pross said:

    Surprised Garcia is prepared to ride behind her team car again, they seem to not like her

    Surprised the commissaires aren't having a word to stop them pacing her. Not for the drafting, you understand - just for her own safety.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    Pross said:

    At risk of getting flamed it's like watching a bunch of amateurs at times

    Marvellous, isn't it?
    I think the learning curve has steepened somewhat ... The nervous intensity ... This is what it is ..get on with 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: 43,463
    edited July 2022
    Hope Evita wins, should allow for a few puns

    The Lady's Got Potential
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,728
    Pross said:

    At risk of getting flamed it's like watching a bunch of amateurs at times

    It’s the main reason I watch it.
    There are plenty of uneventful races and they can be really boring as there’s often not even a breakaway.
    But then there’s also a lot of wtf stuff and crashes a plenty

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    They had a opening to put LBG and AvV out the back and missed 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
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,728
    edited July 2022
    Pross said:

    Hope Evita wins, should allow for a few puns

    The Lady's Got Potential

    Another headcase in another fall? ;)
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    It's like they all attended the Movistar Racing Tactics seminar. Meanwhile Reusser just rides away to what will presumably be a solo victory
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Picked her moment well
    "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
  • Nemo20000
    Nemo20000 Posts: 3
    Riders are better at their job than are the Eurosport commentators who are appalling.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Great crowds
    "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
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,728
    edited July 2022
    I spent a week in Bar sur Aube one afternoon.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Vos looks strong
    "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: 18,908
    Good race to argue about dubious tactical decisions
    "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: 18,908
    Adam Blythe is correct
    "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
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,728
    An FDJ interview without the F bomb.
    Shows anything is possible in the women’s peloton
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Blythe risking the wrath by being critical of the racing but was spot on.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,728
    edited July 2022

    Good race to argue about dubious tactical decisions

    I am thinking they all realised that the run in wasn’t quite hard enough to go all in, so they took the collective day off in the end.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,334
    Blythe's right - it was curiously neutralised amongst the bunch, wasn't it?
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,334
    (worth adding that we see days like that in the men's peloton too, when the GC race seems to take the day off)
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    Good race to argue about dubious tactical decisions

    I am think they all realised that the run in wasn’t quite hard enough to go all in, so they took the collective day off in the end.
    Yeah once AvV got back and after the gravel .... But before that
    "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: 18,908
    Well I enjoyed that. Good crowds ... Opportunity missed on GC ?
    "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
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,183

    I spent a week in Bar sur Aube one afternoon.

    I read that as you having a week long bend er
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,700
    Guys... Who won??
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,334
    ddraver said:

    Guys... Who won??

    Reusser.

    And whoever benefits from Garcia's swear jar