Tour de France 2022 with SPOILERS

[Shadow]

What an incredible last 11/13km.
Not only WVA but Van Hooydonck and Benoot to set him up. He still had to TT the last 10 km but he's not exactly a poor TT rider. But it took almost half that for any other teams to come together to put a chase together.
Poor Philipsen, he won't enjoy watching re-runs at the line.

 

[Domus]

Philipsen needs to go to Specsavers

To be fair though, he came from a loooooooong way back.

 

[Cathryn]

Cracking end of race today! And Calais looked NICE! Bearing in mind it’s our family tour’s Grand Depart in a few weeks, I was encouraged!

 

[roadrash]

Philipsen not the first to do it and I doubt he will be the last

 

[mjr]

Cracking end of race today! And Calais looked NICE!

No, Nice is on the south coast. 🤡

Bearing in mind it’s our family tour’s Grand Depart in a few weeks, I was encouraged!

Aw! All those lovely ports and you ended up with Calais, which has been rebuilt recently to be so obnoxious for cycling that I've read you now have to wait for an escort car. Did someone else book it? Anyway, I hope it's better than my last visit or recent reports and you get to the pretty bits of town shown on the TV easily.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I've just seen it pointed out that WvA won the last two stages of the '21 Tour. So his placings have gone 1,1,2,2,2,1

 

[Cathryn]

No, Nice is on the south coast. 🤡


Aw! All those lovely ports and you ended up with Calais, which has been rebuilt recently to be so obnoxious for cycling that I've read you now have to wait for an escort car. Did someone else book it? Anyway, I hope it's better than my last visit or recent reports and you get to the pretty bits of town shown on the TV easily.

Don’t you rain on my parade! It’s going to be fantastic!

 

[matticus]

I think touring to/from Calais deserves another thread ...
... but if I may make one comment:

It's rare that a Grand Tour stage links two local ports together. So I'm VERY tempted to make a ride of this stage route into a day trip!
[Of course every rider present must do the Eagle's Wings dance at some point, that's Da RUlez.]

And WHAT a stage! The planners must be feeling very smug.

 

[Mike_P]

Looking at Strava stats for 80 riders nice to see their GPS devices are as inaccurate as everyones with up to 2000ft differences in elevation gained.

 

[rich p]

What a load of old cobbles....

Could be carnage but at least it's dry

 

[Dogtrousers]

Looking at Strava stats for 80 riders nice to see their GPS devices are as inaccurate as everyones with up to 2000ft differences in elevation gained.

Oh dear. You've given me an idea. It would be interesting to look at the distribution of values. And it would take ages messing around with spreadsheets. Time wasting here we come

Mind you - it's not necessarily true to say that they are inaccurate. I suspect that they are imprecise. Which is different. But some of them may be inaccurate.

 

[Adam4868]

What a load of old cobbles....

Could be carnage but at least it's dry

Got yesterday's stage mixed up with today's ! Too many late nights....MVDP fancied this 😁

 

[rich p]

Got yesterday's stage mixed up with today's ! Too many late nights....MVDP fancied this 😁

A few of the classics boys might too.
Asgreen, Lampaert, Pollitt etc?

 

[Adam4868]

A few of the classics boys might too.
Asgreen, Lampaert, Pollitt etc?

Had Phillipson and Mohoric.....just to make sure 😊

 

[matticus]

Oh dear. You've given me an idea. It would be interesting to look at the distribution of values. And it would take ages messing around with spreadsheets. Time wasting here we come

Mind you - it's not necessarily true to say that they are inaccurate. I suspect that they are imprecise. Which is different. But some of them may be inaccurate.

I'm going to make (yet another ...) rash prediction - there will be a few outliers amongst the 180-odd GPSes that are 1000' feet out - and over 90% will be much more tightly grouped.
But of course GPSes will never be very good at measuring elevation gain - at least not compared to their distance measuring. And of course they're not actually designed to measure distance - they only measure POSITION (the clue is in the name!).
Simple geometry - and the limitations of using satellites - means that elevation will never be as accurate as position.

And you probably know all this already ...