2017 Tour de France

['Dale]

Would be great if Berto, Quintana, Pinot could pull a rabbit out of the hat too.

 

EIsh

Berto must ma go for a stage win 

 

#endofanera

[Wannabe]

Jumping ahead one day. What time is tomorrow's short stage starting?

 

I unfortunately wasted my "one afternoon a month off" on last week Wednesday's damp squib. Quite sure there will be fireworks tomorrow.

[ClydeB1]

Dont touch me on my studiohttp://www.steephill.tv/2017/tour-de-france/photos/stage-11/140600_RTX3B6CC.jpg

Is Cuddles back and riding undercover for FDJ?

[Shebeen]

Suspect if The Cheese don't take time off Yates today it's gonna be goodbye to that white jersey. Thus far his form appears the same as previous years, hanging on to the tail end of the train and at some point the cheese sours and rolls in later. Oh how I wish.

If he was further back he could have targeted today for polka points. Depending on what happens to GC, he could go for white with an attack later, but for now he's too close to yellow.

 

 

 

 

I haven't been able to catch many of the highlights but Impey has been pretty quiet so far.  Is the whole team just focused on Yates?

Orica are 100% a GC team for this tour - so in retrospect BlingMathews would have been very bored on their squad here (if picked). Originally the plan was for Chaves to do TdF and both Yates to do Giro. Chaves got injured and the brothers got to pick who did the tour (very cool that!)

 

They got some big dudes, tuft/hayman/howson for the flat stages

Impey has been around protecting yates/chaves in the fnial kms, you know when things get hetcic and the GC okes need to be in the front to avoid timegaps.

[Shebeen]

Lets hope there are no more casualties today. 

 

It has been a bad month for cycling... Valverde, Cavendish, Thomas, Porte,....

 

And for tennis.... Murray, Djokovic...

losing murray and valverde before the business end. 

 

['Dale]

Fuglsang crashed in one of the feeding zones yesterday

Two fractures, wrist and elbow, I think

Will continue apparently but eina-eina

[Shebeen]

Jumping ahead one day. What time is tomorrow's short stage starting?

 

I unfortunately wasted my "one afternoon a month off" on last week Wednesday's damp squib. Quite sure there will be fireworks tomorrow.

http://www.letour.fr/le-tour/2017/us/stage-12.html, go click on schedule

 

kick of 10:55 frog time 

['Dale]

Today's paincave - long and high. Ow!

 

 

http://www.letour.fr/PHOTOS/TDF/2017/1200/PROFIL.png

['Dale]

Damp road alert:

 

Weather: rain will clear to leave sunshine and clouds, a mild 22°C in the valleys and cooler in the summits.

['Dale]

Who will unseat the Skybot dominance of the golden fleece?

 

[Bateleur1]

http://www.letour.fr/le-tour/2017/us/stage-12.html, go click on schedule

 

kick of 10:55 frog time 

 

Which happen to be the same as SA time as well at the moment.

[Velouria]

Today's paincave - long and high. Ow!

 

 

http://www.letour.fr/PHOTOS/TDF/2017/1200/PROFIL.png

 Past my mom's house near Tarbes. Should really have made an effort to visit...

[Velouria]

“Peter is fine. I spoke to him this morning. He is back in the right mind. He took a few days rest, and once again, he is super-motivated. He is focused now on the world championships.”

 

Message from the Vilas in the Bora Bora camp

Read more at http://www.velonews.com/2017/07/news/vuelta-unlikely-sagan-eyes-worlds-three-peat_443410#TbRIKwSEEv1Cvs8v.99

 

[Velouria]

LA mentioning what an honor it is to have Mtb Legend Tinker Juarez following the Stages podcast

 

"Still crushing fools on a daily basis"

 

I was one of those fools in 2010 at the Rietvlei 24hr

['Dale]

And they're off!

Lekka early.

[Pah Bear]

Which happen to be the same as SA time as well at the moment.

See Live screening here only scheduled for 14:27. Is that correct? On such a short stage I wanna see ALL the action from the gun.