Pictures of the day thread
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nervous...
Chris Froome's kitten/snake thread thataway
>Team My Man 2018: David gaudu, Pierre Latour, Romain Bardet, Thibaut pinot, Alexandre Geniez, Florian Senechal, Warren Barguil, Benoit Cosnefroy0 -
nervous...
Chris Froome's kitten/snake thread thataway
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Both Froomecat And Froomesnakes will have poor kitty as an amuse bouche
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seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
If we are posting older photos - then just found this one when I was checking details for another post elsewhere. That grin is almost as big as Chaves'0 -
I did post a picture from Wednesday's stage admittedly. However, the other thread has descended into posting any old thing so why not have a space just for that?seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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Surely that's Lacets de Montvernier?
ie stage 18 of the Tour0 -
Ooo, that''s odd ^. I got this photo after looking at Tweets about stage 11 in the Vuelta - Spanish version. Well spotted. Still a good shot.
You see? What did I say about posting any old thing ?
Interestingly, Chris Froome and Nicholas Roche tweeted - scroll down (way down) about stage 11. 2 tweets past some pictures of old buildings.
https://twitter.com/lavueltaseanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Ooo, that''s odd ^. I got this photo after looking at Tweets about stage 11 in the Vuelta - Spanish version. Well spotted. Still a good shot.
You see? What did I say about posting any old thing ?
Interestingly, Chris Froome and Nicholas Roche tweeted - scroll down (way down) about stage 11. 2 tweets past some pictures of old buildings.
https://twitter.com/lavuelta
It went straight in my bucket-list of things to do/climbs to ride so I had a fair few photos of it (and a mad french pop song). I do like Nico Roche - I imagine with him and G there is a good atmosphere on the otherwise potentially dour death-star/team sky bus0 -
Have you got the Col de la Petit St Bernard and Cold de la Croix St Bernard on that list?
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Have you got the Col de la Petit St Bernard and Cold de la Croix St Bernard on that list?
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la Petit looks just my sort of climb - long but no real kicks. I may have to retire early and spend an entire summer in southern europe to get these done. Trying to get a decent route of the Cross of St Bernard to look at0 -
Here you go. Izoard. Courtesy the one and only Gruber.
jeredgruberI have a tendency to immediately discount the famous climbs as overrated...if only because they're well known. Maybe I'm turned off by them on race days when they're overrun with campers and cars and absolutely everything but peace and quiet and solitude. I'm not sure why my initial impulse is to disregard famous, but what I am sure of - that's a terrible attitude on my part. I repeatedly learned on our recent trip through the Alps with @ingambatours that that mindset is just plain dumb. Climbs like the Galibier and Bonette and the Izoard (in this shot) are unbelievable. They might not be half a lane wide in the middle of nowhere, but wow, they deliver. We rode the Izoard in August - we didn't leave early either - and we might have seen a couple dozen cars on the way up. It's huge, it's pretty quiet, and the upper part of that climb on both sides is magnificent.Contador is the Greatest0 -
That looks stunning - Izoard is one for the bucket list for sure.Have you got the Col de la Petit St Bernard and Cold de la Croix St Bernard on that list?
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la Petit looks just my sort of climb - long but no real kicks. I may have to retire early and spend an entire summer in southern europe to get these done. Trying to get a decent route of the Cross of St Bernard to look at
Climbed Col des Aravis a few weeks ago, not the hardest climb (I'd just come over the Colombiere) but the sight of Mont Blanc appearing in front of you as you crest the col is something I'll not forget. Not many good photos on Google though
Thevenet defending the Yellow on the Colombiere in 1975 (they did the side I descended through Grand Bornand and St Jean de Sixt):
Shorts most definitely too short...
(n.b., photo might not actually be on the Colombiere but it's that stage)0 -
Ooo, that''s odd ^. I got this photo after looking at Tweets about stage 11 in the Vuelta - Spanish version. Well spotted. Still a good shot.
You see? What did I say about posting any old thing ?
Interestingly, Chris Froome and Nicholas Roche tweeted - scroll down (way down) about stage 11. 2 tweets past some pictures of old buildings.
https://twitter.com/lavuelta
It went straight in my bucket-list of things to do/climbs to ride so I had a fair few photos of it (and a mad french pop song). I do like Nico Roche - I imagine with him and G there is a good atmosphere on the otherwise potentially dour death-star/team sky bus
The Lacets is a really nice climb - quite steady gradient, very short by Alpine standards (though you can turn left at the top and carry on up the Col du Chaussy to 1533m). The views from the Lacets are fantastic into the valley.0 -
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That's properly twisting my noodle, that one. Like it lot's though.Cube - Peloton
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Tons more great ones here:
http://www.boredpanda.com/mind-bending-photos-real-no-photoshop/Contador is the Greatest0 -
Is there any faint chance we can keep this thread cycling related?seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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Tons more great ones here:
http://www.boredpanda.com/mind-bending-photos-real-no-photoshop/
Very good those!Cube - Peloton
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Nobody really knows if that Kino tape actually works. Not even Dr's in physiotherapy. Maybe it has that placebo effect?"The Prince of Wales is now the King of France" - Calton Kirby0
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How about this one I took at the club annual hill climb comp thursday?
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Pinno, where was it taken?"The Prince of Wales is now the King of France" - Calton Kirby0 -
If this is the new Greatest Photo Ever thread. This image sticks with me from the 2015 TDF...
Watch it on Youtube 01:30 into the video to 02:37. I like the Lotto Jumbo guy trying to get the crowd going.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sv2AKVNzgo"The Prince of Wales is now the King of France" - Calton Kirby0 -
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/sep/04/bradley-wiggins-tour-of-britain-pursuit-rio“It’s a matter of seeing how it goes. If you can manage to get up the road one day that’s great. I’m not aiming to win it or go for GC. It’s a training event so you want to get through safely, getting all the conditioning out of it before we go into the next track block. You want to get through without getting ill, or crashing, or anything that will hamper training for the next phase of the pursuit, which is the Europeans.”
The next eight days are only one step on the way to Brazil, where Wiggins feels the 3min 50sec barrier is bound to be beaten for the 4,000m. “That’s what we think it will take to win gold. It helps we have no distractions on the road. I haven’t got to juggle it with the Tour de France; we’re all in one team, which is set up for the pursuiters, so we can say: ‘We want this race, that race and so on’. It’s all to facilitate that.”
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