Le Tour 2022

AgentOrange76 said:
no diferent to having to carry a 15mm spanner to remove wheels before quick release was introduced. Many riders have an allan key taped to the underneath of the saddle to help with neutral service, its just quicker full stop to swap bikes with a team mate or from the team car than it is to remove a wheel and put a new one in. Once you use disc brakes you will never want to be a rim brake bike ever again. Discs have much more modulation than rim brakes giving far more controll to braking especially quickly from speed
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also enables much tighter tolerance on the frames as well and has lead to some brilliant stem designs
i love the way technology on bikes is still moving, electric self adjusting gears :-)
 
And the same batteries can be used to power the tiny motor hidden in the bottom bracket...
 
I know, hence the comment. ;)
 
massive day today in the mountains , sat in the the shade 29 degrees here in Chania watching it

was up early this AM to go source paint for the villa holy crap its expensive chuffed my eurosport is streaming lovely on my hairy string broadband
 
Well, it looks as though Quickstep have let Mark Cavendish go, pity they couldn't have done it before the Tour and then he may have been able to join another team.

www.eurosport.co.uk

'What the hell?' – Blythe rips into Cavendish decision

Adam Blythe has ripped into Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl boss Patrick Lefevere after it was announced Mark Cavendish will leave the team.
www.eurosport.co.uk www.eurosport.co.uk
 
Great finish in the mountain stage today. However, must be hell having to weave through the appalling spectators. Some of them seem to stand in the most inappropriate places trying to get selfies and not even looking where the cyclist is. As a photographer, I have taken a few snaps locally of the Tour of Britain. I go to the top of the highest climb about 1000ft (this is England not the Alps) and while this attracts a bit of a crowd, I go to a bend just before the top and away from the spectators. By setting myself out the outside of the bend around the middle, I am never in the way. The cyclist cling to the inside as the shortest route but are still only a few metres away so no need even for a long lens.

Dave
 
well what a day today
perfect plan by jumbo visma
executed perfectly

tomorrow could be carnage
 
andya700 said:
Well, it looks as though Quickstep have let Mark Cavendish go, pity they couldn't have done it before the Tour and then he may have been able to join another team.

www.eurosport.co.uk

'What the hell?' – Blythe rips into Cavendish decision

Adam Blythe has ripped into Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl boss Patrick Lefevere after it was announced Mark Cavendish will leave the team.
www.eurosport.co.uk www.eurosport.co.uk
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yup politics
eddie merx = belgium
quick step = belgium

= dont want cav to take record

f*** em hope cav gets a ride for next year
 
I said to my other half a couple of days ago that Ineos had an opportunity here. With Martinez out of contention they should use Thomas and Yates to alternatively attack Pogacar.
They didn’t, but that’s what Jumbo-Visma did.
A missed opportunity there.
Great ride by Quintana who has so far been under the radar in this race.
 
Yorkshire for the win

Boom !!!
 
First TdF and he wins on the Alpe on Bastille Day - pure class.
 
Pleased to see Froome 3rd as well. I cannot understand why the French allow these wild crowds to behave so badly. I saw that many of the cyclist had to keep swerving to avoid colliding with spectators. They also keep throwing liquids over the cyclist and we know it has not always been clean water in the past. Pidcock mentioned that he was partly deaf after these hundreds had shouted in his ear (hopefully a temporary effect). In the chasing Group, I sensed that one or another would have overtaken to improve their position but could not due to the crowds. Are the French trying to pretend that the crowds do not interfere with the race. I do not know why the professional cyclist put up with this.

I cannot understand what pleasure you get from standing in the road of the Tour and shouting while the riders pass (all over in minutes). It is much easier to follow the race on TV.

Dave
 
Dave Canon said:
I cannot understand what pleasure you get from standing in the road of the Tour and shouting while the riders pass (all over in minutes).
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what you have to understand is that the brief passage of the riders is probably the culmination of up to 3 days of anticipation of the event whilst camped on the side of the road, surrounded by thousands of like minded fans of a sport that is normally in its execution largely either a solitary, or if you're a club rider, done with a select number of well known friends. To be in the environment where EVERYONE around you is a cycling nut is, I'll admit, from first hand experience, an intoxicating thing to experience, And, of course, you have to understand that most of the camper vans come stocked with copious amounts of beer! As to the "bad behaviour" - well - just Imagine what (say) a typical football crowd would be like if you allowed them to assemble in the surrounding streets around the venue for three days...

Lots of the people on "the alp" are from countries where being a cycling fan, is as big and as passionate, and as partisan as any football teams following - Dutch corner on the evening before the race comes through is an experience that can barely be described - and probably not recalled very well the following day...

In short, the riders passing through is basically the orgasm, from 3 days of foreplay... of course its intense.

Watching it on TV with Carlton, Sean and Robbie (or god forbid Ned and David) is more like watching internet porn in comparison.
 
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I stopped watching football many years ago because of the behaviour of the "fans". Your explanation does seem to add up but just confirms that they are a drunken rabble.

I admit that I am not even a cyclist but became interested having seen the events on TV and marvelled at the skills and fitness of these professional cyclists. When I have attended The Tour of Britain live, it is to take photographs and I want to be well away from crowds.

Dave
 
good stage today, lumpy GC didn't do much but they are happy with 1,2 and 3 at mo
 
TheBigYin said:
what you have to understand is that the brief passage of the riders is probably the culmination of up to 3 days of anticipation of the event whilst camped on the side of the road, surrounded by thousands of like minded fans of a sport that is normally in its execution largely either a solitary, or if you're a club rider, done with a select number of well known friends. To be in the environment where EVERYONE around you is a cycling nut is, I'll admit, from first hand experience, an intoxicating thing to experience, And, of course, you have to understand that most of the camper vans come stocked with copious amounts of beer! As to the "bad behaviour" - well - just Imagine what (say) a typical football crowd would be like if you allowed them to assemble in the surrounding streets around the venue for three days...

Lots of the people on "the alp" are from countries where being a cycling fan, is as big and as passionate, and as partisan as any football teams following - Dutch corner on the evening before the race comes through is an experience that can barely be described - and probably not recalled very well the following day...

In short, the riders passing through is basically the orgasm, from 3 days of foreplay... of course its intense.

Watching it on TV with Carlton, Sean and Robbie (or god forbid Ned and David) is more like watching internet porn in comparison.
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You forgot to mention that the excitement is ramped up even further by the huge publicity caravan that passes in advance of the race.
 
Turned on to watch the last stage and got a load of jibber jabber instead of the race.
Not especially interested in what they had to say, I like watching all the light hearted messing about.
 
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