Tour de France 2016 **SPOILERS**

[HF2300]

You want to know which ad I really hate? the feckin' GoCompare one with the deeply irritating taxi driver.

Fantastic!

 

[HF2300]

It doesn't even have its own thread in cyclechat!

I like to think it made the main TdF thread on merit.

 

[coffeejo]

"it makes the riders feel like they've been on a proper tour"

Hmm, I'd like to see them do it with panniers and bar bags!

 

[HF2300]

Would they show fat dads having a sunday knock around if they were sponsoring the World Cup?.

Nike Parklife ad (though admittedly it showed top stars as well)? Or any number of other ads that have featured Joe Public?

Skoda: let's point and laugh at cyclists to distract from the fact we're emissions-test-cheating VWs really so have been poisoning cyclists for years..

Suspect that might be overthinking it far more than the people making the ad ever did...

 

[jarlrmai]

Fantastic!

It's still better than the horse one.

 

[brommers]

This is the preview of today's stage on the TdF website
'The grand finale is a parade but also the sprinters' queen stage, as Mark Cavendish likes to describe it. But the most successful of them all this year (3 victories) has pulled out in order to gear up for the Olympic Games on the track. Therefore, only Peter Sagan can reach the number of four stage wins like André Greipel and Marcel Kittel (twice) in the past three years.'
What tosh.

 

[Globalti]

On Saturday morning we left Megeve at 7.00 to get out and on the road to Geneva TGV station before they closed the road. As we drove past the Katusha hotel outside Megeve a bunch of rather scantily-dressed young women emerged from the hotel lobby looking tired, almost as if they had been doing Egyptian PT all night. Or maybe they were the night staff clocking off....

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

What is this Australian guy saying?? My family are fannying about here in the background and I can't hear a thing

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Also, Millar, STOP MUMBLING!!

 

[smutchin]

Also, Millar, STOP MUMBLING!!

It's nearly 6pm French time - the bar will have been open for hours by now.

 

[mjr]

What is this Australian guy saying?? My family are fannying about here in the background and I can't hear a thing

Can't you drop them?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Can't you drop them?

I wish!

 

[HF2300]

What is this Australian guy saying?? My family are fannying about here in the background and I can't hear a thing

Stick the subtitles on. Might not be any clearer though. They were just talking about someone called Welcome Rodriguez.

 

[HF2300]

What was Copeland just saying about changing Meintjes mentality?

 

[Dayvo]

"it makes the riders feel like they've been on a proper tour"

Hmm, I'd like to see them do it with panniers and bar bags!

Yeah, and trying to pitch a tent in a sudden downpour and get the stove going.