Tour de France 2017 ***SPOILERS***
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Adam4868
Guru
Don't know if it was richp who summed it up early in thread.Its like the voice in advert is on mogadon !
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
Well, it would be unfair to penalise Bardet now they've rescinded Uran and Bennett's penalties.
Adam4868
Guru
Thanks didn't know that,must lay off the cider in hot weather....Well, it would be unfair to penalise Bardet now they've rescinded Uran and Bennett's penalties.
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
They only just announced it about an hour ago.
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
Talking of Bennett, he's having a cracking Tour, isn't he? I didn't read too much into him winning in California given the calibre of the opposition, but it seems he's turning into a real contender and getting stronger as the race goes on. Likely to finish above Quintana on GC the way things are going.
Dave Davenport
Guru
- Location
- Hampshire
Talking of Quintana; Why did the TV spend so long focused on him after he was dropped from the leading group? It's not like he was top three and loosing his placing, he was already miles behind.
Can't believe he's the same rider from a couple of years ago (even accounting for him doing the Giro). Maybe he's been lying about his age and he's actually as old as he looks.
Can't believe he's the same rider from a couple of years ago (even accounting for him doing the Giro). Maybe he's been lying about his age and he's actually as old as he looks.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Oh crikey, Kirby's been reading the Tour website again.
Well, North Somerset is the place to go if you want to hear the English language tortured in multiple ways - even though I've moved away!
Thatchers are cool though. They allowed the Strawberry Line cycleway (NCR26) to reconnect across their land after a neighbouring farm wouldn't. (It already had to leave the line because of a sewage farm or something like that.)
"But hairy's macho, innit?" said the ad director who knows nothing about cycling...
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
So is that the same Porte who called the same descent of the Mont du Chat "fast but safe" in the Dauphiné? http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/porte-purrs-on-dauphines-mont-du-chat/
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
"Froome cops a lot of flak from people who say that he can't descend but he showed today that he went full gas on the descent. I knew just to keep my cool and it wasn't at the point where I had to panic. We did a fast but safe descent."
I guess it's easier to "keep your cool" if you're the race leader. But Porte has shown in the past that he can't handle pressure so well.
MacB
Lover of things that come in 3's
- Location
- Farnborough, Hampshire
Ah Froome isn't that great he bottled the cross country bit yesterday. The real legend, Armstrong, would have ridden over the grass, bunny hopped the motorhome and re-joined the race.
jarlrmai
Veteran
hoopdriver
Guru
- Location
- East Sussex
And then unpunished when footage emerged showing that they'd ridden in the tracks of a French rider who'd done exactly the same thing thirty seconds earlier...
