TDF 2023: Stage 8:- Libourne to Limoges, 201km ***Spoilers***

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Am I the only one who finds Cav difficult to distinguish from the green jersey in overheads?

    Break forming of all the main sprinters!
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    edited July 2023
    Initiate plan gamma
    "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: 43,462
    Alpecin keen to press on.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Cav and Philipsen not keen to carry on.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    This is going to keep the peloton nervous
    "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: 43,462
    Caused a split on the bunch and a suggestion of a crosswind.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Fun and games over for now but that livened things up briefly.
  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,054
    Ooo some action, Mvdp and a load of sprinters breakaway after intermediate sprint and Jumbo aren't happy, trying to chase them down.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Beautiful part of the country.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    WvA wants the stage
    "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
    Tim & co are going to make this hard
    "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
    Will JV want this extra work ?
    "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
    edited July 2023
    Pross said:

    Beautiful part of the country.

    Used to live just south of here in the summers racing ...touring and roofing expats tumbled down farms they bought .. 10k could get you an abandoned farm ..stables barns and house in 1992

    "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
    edited July 2023
    DIY chateau but less ambitious and more cycling
    "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: 43,462

    Pross said:

    Beautiful part of the country.

    Used to live just south of here in the summers racing ...touring and roofing expats tumbled down farms they bought .. 10k could get you an abandoned farm ..stables barns house in 1992

    My old work mentor loved Limousin and always planned on moving there when he retired. Unfortunately for him now he’s retired family matters have meant it never became a reality. Not a part of France I’ve visited but might give it a go on my next trip.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    I keep thinking Turgis is Sagan. Really don’t know how commentators identify riders in big groups when I can’t do it in a group of three!
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    edited July 2023
    Pross said:

    Pross said:

    Beautiful part of the country.

    Used to live just south of here in the summers racing ...touring and roofing expats tumbled down farms they bought .. 10k could get you an abandoned farm ..stables barns house in 1992

    My old work mentor loved Limousin and always planned on moving there when he retired. Unfortunately for him now he’s retired family matters have meant it never became a reality. Not a part of France I’ve visited but might give it a go on my next trip.
    It's ok not my fave part was super cheap ....not anymore

    .we would go to Pyrenees and ride the cols ahead of the tour each year


    ....there are tumbled down properties in vercors and the Dromê I fancy ...but brexit etc

    "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
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953

    Pross said:

    Pross said:

    Beautiful part of the country.

    Used to live just south of here in the summers racing ...touring and roofing expats tumbled down farms they bought .. 10k could get you an abandoned farm ..stables barns house in 1992

    My old work mentor loved Limousin and always planned on moving there when he retired. Unfortunately for him now he’s retired family matters have meant it never became a reality. Not a part of France I’ve visited but might give it a go on my next trip.
    It's ok not my fave part was super cheap ....not anymore

    .we would go to Pyrenees and ride the cols ahead of the tour each year


    ....there are tumbled down properties in vercors and the Dromê I fancy ...but brexit etc

    Vercors is a lovely area. So many spectacular balcony roads and generally really quiet for riding.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695

    Geology stuff is a good addition by itv

    *Grumble*
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Sneaky jumbo attack for GC is not impossible...
    "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: 43,462

    Pross said:

    Pross said:

    Beautiful part of the country.

    Used to live just south of here in the summers racing ...touring and roofing expats tumbled down farms they bought .. 10k could get you an abandoned farm ..stables barns house in 1992

    My old work mentor loved Limousin and always planned on moving there when he retired. Unfortunately for him now he’s retired family matters have meant it never became a reality. Not a part of France I’ve visited but might give it a go on my next trip.
    It's ok not my fave part was super cheap ....not anymore

    .we would go to Pyrenees and ride the cols ahead of the tour each year


    ....there are tumbled down properties in vercors and the Dromê I fancy ...but brexit etc

    I know so little of France. I’ve done northeast Brittany a couple of times, my home town’s twin town near Cholet, the Loire around Saumur, Dordogne and the Ardeche which is the part I really loved.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    edited July 2023
    phreak said:

    Pross said:

    Pross said:

    Beautiful part of the country.

    Used to live just south of here in the summers racing ...touring and roofing expats tumbled down farms they bought .. 10k could get you an abandoned farm ..stables barns house in 1992

    My old work mentor loved Limousin and always planned on moving there when he retired. Unfortunately for him now he’s retired family matters have meant it never became a reality. Not a part of France I’ve visited but might give it a go on my next trip.
    It's ok not my fave part was super cheap ....not anymore

    .we would go to Pyrenees and ride the cols ahead of the tour each year


    ....there are tumbled down properties in vercors and the Dromê I fancy ...but brexit etc

    Vercors is a lovely area. So many spectacular balcony roads and generally really quiet for riding.
    It's a cycling secret ...for real secret riding the hills and mountains south of the D93 down to nyon and into Provence are amazingly empty


    Love it round 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
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Cav down and probably out!
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Cav collar bone
    "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
  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,814
    Oh FFS
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    FFFFFFGFFFFFFFF!
    "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: 43,462
    Cav down and looks like collarbone
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Not to be I guess
    "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: 43,462
    Absolute nothing crash with no-one else getting a scratch.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Cav abandons
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.