Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
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- Wilmslow, Cheshire
Cancellara was seen shoving a bottle of San Pelegrino down the back of his jersey at one point. Not quite the same but a bit odd.
Tour de France 2012 (with SPOILERS)
- Thread starter Flying_Monkey
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Cancellara was seen shoving a bottle of San Pelegrino down the back of his jersey at one point. Not quite the same but a bit odd.
zizou
Veteran
Great victory today ranks alongside one of his best.
In the absence of a train like highroad the final few KM are really chaotic at the moment just waiting on an accident to happen. Anyone see the idiot (from Argos Shimano i think) drop his bidon on the corner with the bouncing through the peloton...could have caused a major pile up!
Some footage about 5 minutes into this
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3EHJjHP6yc
In the absence of a train like highroad the final few KM are really chaotic at the moment just waiting on an accident to happen. Anyone see the idiot (from Argos Shimano i think) drop his bidon on the corner with the bouncing through the peloton...could have caused a major pile up!
Some footage about 5 minutes into this
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3EHJjHP6yc
frayBentos59
Specialized OCD
- Location
- Royal Liverpool
using his old 'friend' and beating him on the line must have made that victory even more satisfying. Still absolutley astounded by a terrrific victory 
brockers
Senior Member
- Location
- hollowed out volcano
^^ A stomach bug, apparently
Orange
Active Member
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Reading this during ITV4's adverts and now I know what I've got to look forward to! Go Cav!
BTW, anyone else unable to stop constantly humming the theme tune during their commute home? Somehow it seems more unavoidable in the wet, like today.
BTW, anyone else unable to stop constantly humming the theme tune during their commute home? Somehow it seems more unavoidable in the wet, like today.
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
Wow! That is all. Just wow!
just jim
Guest
Couldn't have put that better myself! Didn't realise Sky had rolled out teleportation yet...
frayBentos59
Specialized OCD
- Location
- Royal Liverpool
he's tweeted...Anybody know what happened to Kittel ? Seemed a long way out to run out of gas, and it wasn't exactly flat out all day was it.
golden rule for me today: Never trust a fart. I'm happy that I finished the race but last night has taken its toll so no sprint today.
Lovely.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Reading this during ITV4's adverts and now I know what I've got to look forward to! Go Cav!
BTW, anyone else unable to stop constantly humming the theme tune during their commute home? Somehow it seems more unavoidable in the wet, like today.
Not humming it yet but that final fluffed accordion note has been bothering me for 2 years now! I think the player just got bored playing the same notes again and again and failed an attempt at a grace note.
Incredible timing from Cavendish this afternoon. If he has lost top-end speed he looked like he was really aware of what he was capable of.
Paul_L
Über Member
- Location
- Shipley, West Yorks
Top win. Watched the highlights without knowing the result. Cav's showing real guile and maturity now he's only got limited team support. Bernie and EBH down one side, but he picked his own lead out with Greipel.
Super stuff. Still reckon Sagan for green though. There appear to be a few more undulating sprint stages this year.
Super stuff. Still reckon Sagan for green though. There appear to be a few more undulating sprint stages this year.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
We discussed this a few pages back. Basically, there is a certain amount of bandwidth available to broadcasters and they can use that to broadcast a few channels with higher picture quality or many more channels with lower quality. ITV have gone for quantity rather than quality!
The bitrate they use for ITV4 on Freeview is much lower than that used by BBC1 (for example) and the effect is obvious when the picture being displayed is changing rapidly - there is a digital bottleneck which prevents the picture data getting through fast enough and the picture breaks up into pixellated blocks which are horrid to look at.
Oh, and yes - a great win by Cavendish!
Steve H
Large Member
- Location
- Brighouse in West Yorkshire
Been at work all day, so a bit behind everyone with my viewing. I recorded the live show and have just watched in full, but fast forwarding the adverts. That has got to be the most exciting last 10kms of any race I've seen. GC teams fighting to keep their teams out of trouble, sprint teams fighting to get their lead out trains in place. Lots of jostling, lots of overtaking. Fantastic!
A totally different situation to the last few years where a 9 man HTC train dominated the sprint stages and all other trains had to really fight hard to get a look in. I think all the flat stages are going to be great to watch this year and I think we will see a lot of different winners.
Awesome to see Cav win this one. Brilliant tactics and awareness from him to spot the right wheels to follow with very little support. To be fair he did have a bit of luck, and I'm not sure he'll take 5 stage wins like previous years, but I really hope he continues this kind of combat because it makes great watching!
A totally different situation to the last few years where a 9 man HTC train dominated the sprint stages and all other trains had to really fight hard to get a look in. I think all the flat stages are going to be great to watch this year and I think we will see a lot of different winners.
Awesome to see Cav win this one. Brilliant tactics and awareness from him to spot the right wheels to follow with very little support. To be fair he did have a bit of luck, and I'm not sure he'll take 5 stage wins like previous years, but I really hope he continues this kind of combat because it makes great watching!
