Tour de France 2015 - may contain nuts and SPOILERS

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threebikesmcginty

Corn Fed Hick...
Location
...on the slake
Despite the incessant bollocks being spouted all over the shop it's great racing this year.
 

the_craig

Veteran
Location
Lanarkshire
Checked my bookie account (McBookie)

16/1 for Roman Bardet to take the win tomorrow. He's had a poor tour so far but can he repeat his heroics from the Dauphine with his spectacular decent from Col d'Allos?
 

oldroadman

Veteran
Location
Ubique
So the thing sticking out from behind the rider's saddles is a data transmitter. Here was me thinking they were small mudguards to help prevent riders getting grit stuck on their shorts and developing saddle boils......and telling that to two of my neighbours who asked about them :headshake:

I hope they catch the tosser who threw the cup of urine into Froome's face and make him drink a bucket of it.
Yep, it was foul, cowardly, and disgraceful. Just like the innuendo of the two former dopers working for French TV and "suggesting" things about which they have no evidence, except that Froome is a bit better at this racing lark than they may have been without a drop of preparation.
 

smutchin

Cat 6 Racer
Location
The Red Enclave
what's the podium gonna look like?

Not too dissimilar to this:
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IGMC
 

Globalti

Legendary Member
I dislike the guy but I'm genuinely sorry to see that Contador and his team-mates have been sweating; I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. Tinkoff being too tight to pay for a decent hotel they are staying in one of those second-rate places that you find all over Europe that can't afford to run the AC chillers. The linked report says that after enduring temperatures of up to 40c out on the road, the temperature in their rooms is 35c. That would be enough to have me marching in fury down the road to a better hotel:

http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-...r-un-hotel-pas-digne-du-tour-de-france/575860
 

smutchin

Cat 6 Racer
Location
The Red Enclave
Just read this piece about Vasseur's proposals to prevent motorised doping:
http://m.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-ro...e-cedric-vasseur-repond-a-chris-froome/574961

Basically, he suggests a post-stage inspection of all bikes, like the parc fermé system in F1. He also says that his comments about Froome were not meant to be insinuations or accusations and that if Froome is riding clean he should be happy to submit to the bike inspection proposal.

Leaving aside the malodorous and distinctly weaselish nature of his comments, he's forgetting that F1 has only 19 days of racing spread out over nine months and only 20 drivers, compared to 21 days of racing in 23 days and 198 riders.
 
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User169

Guest
I dislike the guy but I'm genuinely sorry to see that Contador and his team-mates have been sweating; I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. Tinkoff being too tight to pay for a decent hotel they are staying in one of those second-rate places that you find all over Europe that can't afford to run the AC chillers. The linked report says that after enduring temperatures of up to 40c out on the road, the temperature in their rooms is 35c. That would be enough to have me marching in fury down the road to a better hotel:

http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-...r-un-hotel-pas-digne-du-tour-de-france/575860

As Smeggers says, that isn't how it works. Sky wanted to bring their motorhome for Froome, but UCI wouldn't allow it.
 

oldroadman

Veteran
Location
Ubique
I dislike the guy but I'm genuinely sorry to see that Contador and his team-mates have been sweating; I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. Tinkoff being too tight to pay for a decent hotel they are staying in one of those second-rate places that you find all over Europe that can't afford to run the AC chillers. The linked report says that after enduring temperatures of up to 40c out on the road, the temperature in their rooms is 35c. That would be enough to have me marching in fury down the road to a better hotel:

http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-...r-un-hotel-pas-digne-du-tour-de-france/575860
Some posters have no clue what the Tour is like. 4,000+ beds required every night. If you don't like your hotel find another? Only if you want to drive 200km, maybe if you are lucky you MIGHT find one you like, all air conned and lovely (in rural France..?). The rules are simple, riders have to stay in the hotel the organiser provides. Some nights it's 5 star, others less so (and sometimes not good at all). But as mentioned it's shared out, a leveller for every team. Even Oleg with all his dosh can't buy his way out of things all the time is at least comforting for everyone who has to live on a budget. Not every team has limitless resources - MTN seem to be doing OK and they are a division 2 team with, no doubt, a budget to match.
 

the_craig

Veteran
Location
Lanarkshire
I thought they got allocated 50 stars and when they got a hotel, the star rating was removed from their 50 in order to share the quality of the hotels around all the teams.
 
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