Tour de France 2015 - may contain nuts and SPOILERS

[mjr]

That closing credits music was absolutely perfect for the shots of the riders hooning down the road - a really excellent choice. Gotta get it on iTunes.

That video is bizarre. Paris's Little Manhattan, apparently. And no sooner did I finish watching it did the tune come on the radio again... STOP MESSING WITH MY REALITY!

 

[raindog]

here are the Sky figures for Froome's climb of Pierre-Saint-Martin last week
http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-route/Actualites/Sky-publie-des-donnees-de-froome/575800

 

[ColinJ]

here are the Sky figures for Froome's climb of Pierre-Saint-Martin last week
http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-route/Actualites/Sky-publie-des-donnees-de-froome/575800

Or in English, wot tug benson posted above an hour ago!

 

[raindog]

oops, sorry tug me old mate

 

[Crackle]

Whilst Thomas is most amusing the feckwittedry of replies is astounding - from both the haterz to the fanboy ass-lickers

I never read the replies, it's just the hoi polloi after all.

 

[Aperitif]

oops, sorry tug me old mate

That would be called a TMN in other circles...a "Tour Moi Non"

 

[Shadow]

Rest day today, so time for a little reflection.

As usual, am really enjoying the race, even though many seem to be disappointed with how the GC is evolving. Highlight so far for me, has to be Cummings' win, partly because the bloody french tv did not show him chasing back, so he seemed to come from nowhere as Bardet and Pinot watched each other.

Yesterday was also another good day's racing. MTN had 3 guys in the top 19, thereby jumping to second place overall in the team classification. Astonishing for a wild card team, pushing down the big budget boys of BMC, Sky etc. MTN are having a fantastic debut TdF.

 

[Wafer]

Unplanned working from home this afternoon as the dogs been ill, thought, 'ooh I could put the TDF on in the background', turn on ITV4, oh, it's not on yet, go into tv guide, oh it's not on next either, oh hang on....
Why couldn't the dog be ill while they are in the Alps?

 

[jarlrmai]

I find it linguistically pleasing that the rest day, which places a break in proceedings in in Gap.

 

[HF2300]

I never read the replies, it's just idiots like us after all.

FTFY

 

[HF2300]

@inrng: Froome on Col du Soudet to La Pierre St Martin
RPM avg 97
HR avg 158bpm, 174 max
5.78W/kg
via L'Equipe's @a_thomas_commin at Sky press conf.

You just couldn't let it lie...

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

That would be called a TMN in other circles...

Surely in the Tour thread it would be a TMN-Qhubeka

 

[Hont]

@inrng: Froome on Col du Soudet to La Pierre St Martin
5.78W/kg

Which just shows the large margin of error the "pseudo-scientists" (to paraphrase Brailsford) are working under. The original estimate was 6.1 W/Kg, but they had Froome's weight at 71 Kg not the 67.5 Kg Sky quote. I did ask Ross Tucker via Twitter whether he was sure on Froome's weight, but he didn't reply. Clearly the answer would have been 'no'.

So we appear to have had a week's worth of finger pointing based on error. But you do wonder why Sky didn't release this earlier. We might have been able to follow the race without wading through a load of BS each day.

F**k knows where France TV got 7 W/Kg from.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

We might have been able to follow the race without wading through a load of BS each day.

I have managed that as it is

 

[raindog]

F**k knows where France TV got 7 W/Kg from.

they got it from Pierre Sallet who gives a figure of 7.04 w/k for Froome that day
it's on the video I linked to
http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-route/Actualites/Sky-publie-des-donnees-de-froome/575800