Tour de France 2016 **SPOILERS**

[coffeejo]

"Voeckler's going home..."

Probably got time to stop for a cuppa since the peloton is taking it easy*.

* by easy, I mean would leave me in an ambulance within five minutes.

 

[Basil.B]

Go Voeckler!

 

[SWSteve]

Why do they let Teams wear yellow for the TDF?

It makes it very difficult to see where the race leader is in the Peloton.

Graham

Tinkoff used to wear a proper yellow, then swapped to the flouro kit for the tour *last/one year* and seem to have never swapped back

 

[mjr]

Why do they let Teams wear yellow for the TDF?

Because having teams continually change their kits to avoid the yellow (France, Britain, Yorkshire, many ASO races ...), red (Spain), pink (Italy, Portugal, ...), green (Catalonia), blue (Trentino), yellow+blue (Dauphiné), or whatever leader's jersey would make it very difficult to identify riders from race to race. Then what about the mountains, points, U23 and maybe sprints jerseys? No, it's confusing enough that teams are allowed one kit change a year, although most now restrict that to slight variations on their main kit.

 

[BrumJim]

Brown?

Strangely, I can only find five countries that have brown in their flag, and in all cases, it is the colour of an object, rather than part of the livery. And one of them isn't Lebanon.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Brown?

Strangely, I can only find two countries that have brown in their flag, and in both cases, it is the colour of an object, rather than part of the livery. And one of them isn't Lebanon.

They are the AGR2 La Mondials' of this world?

 

[Louch]

Slooooooooooooow day today

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Brown?

Strangely, I can only find five countries that have brown in their flag, and in all cases, it is the colour of an object, rather than part of the livery. And one of them isn't Lebanon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flags_by_color_combination

 

[smutchin]

Thomas feckin' Voeckler. Flappy-tongued wainquer.

 

[smutchin]

Brown?

Do you remember the Footon-Servetto kit that briefly appeared in the peloton in 2010? Possibly the worst kit ever invented. They changed sponsor the following year, thank god.

 

[Bollo]

Cav?

 

[HF2300]

Greipel I thought, but vid looks Cav. What about that swerve from Greipel though?

 

[Bollo]

Cav!

 

[Bollo]

Confirmed.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Cav has it!