Tour de France 2017 ***SPOILERS***

[SWSteve]

We need a new thread for ways to improve bike racing in general, and the TdF in particular. My vote is for more TV coverage of the caravan. We need more shots of bored young men and women dressed as bags of chips and bottles of water.

We get adverts for a young woman dragging a disembodied arm around, isn't that enough?

 

[brommers]

Shouldn't have Aru been moved up to 2nd with Uran's penalty and therefore be given another 2 seconds and hence be 8 seconds in front of Froome?

 

[SWSteve]

Not according to the ITV team: Time penalties apply only to GC totals, not stage results.

Was bouhanni docked a minute on the stage, or overall earlier this week?

 

[jarlrmai]

Some of the stages have been competing with the adverts in terms of which I'm looking forward to more.

 

[smutchin]

That awful Thatchers advert is even more irritating than the KP one.

"You wouldn't want a cider that's almost perfect. Luckily, Thatchers make sure theirs is." Eh? Thatchers make sure their cider is almost perfect?

It's all over the place grammatically. And as for comparing crap cider to non-flying hot air balloons... I don't think it was cider they'd been on when they came up with that one.

 

[hoopdriver]

Was bouhanni docked a minute on the stage, or overall earlier this week?

That was for punching a fellow rider...

 

[MacB]

We should be saving the advert debates for the next flat/sprint stage

 

[Adam4868]

That awful Thatchers advert is even more irritating than the KP one.

"You wouldn't want a cider that's almost perfect. Luckily, Thatchers make sure theirs is." Eh? Thatchers make sure their cider is almost perfect?

It's all over the place grammatically. And as for comparing crap cider to non-flying hot air balloons... I don't think it was cider they'd been on when they came up with that one.

As soon as I hear her name 'thatcher' I'm off on a rant !

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

We should be saving the advert debates for the next flat/sprint stage

I think, given the late start time of today's stage, that some advert critique is only to be expected.

 

[MacB]

I think, given the late start time of today's stage, that some advert critique is only to be expected.

Nah you're just greedy, now be patient or it'll be bed with no tea again

 

[smutchin]

I needed to get the Thatchers rant off my chest. Not waiting another day.

 

[400bhp]

The second hand watch advert is the worst.

The bloke's setup on the bike is farking annoying.

 

[hoopdriver]

What I find particularly loathsome are those tediously long, wretched, manipulative and relentlessly downbeat advertisements for various animal welfare agencies and the thrusting of images of emaciated, abused, disease-ridden animals in my face. That kind of stuff just annoys me. It does not make me want to donate to them at all. Indeed, my wife who does tend to donate to these animal protection societies, was so put off (n the past) by these in-your-face ads that she stopped. I suspect others do as well.

 

[Dave Davenport]

We get adverts for a young woman dragging a disembodied arm around, isn't that enough?

Oh, it's his arm she's got hold off!

 

[Dave Davenport]

The second hand watch advert is the worst.

The bloke's setup on the bike is farking annoying.

It's like they got a random hairy bloke to ride and fiddle with a bike as if in slow motion 'cos they couldn't afford a slow motion camera.