Tour de France *Spoilers*

[deptfordmarmoset]

View: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20y0wu_fr-camera-embarquee-etape-1-leeds-harrogate_sport

how quickly a crash develops!

 

[400bhp]

Great racing-loving all the big guns fighting it out on some council estate.

Interesting to see what (if anything) Nibble's team will do to control things. I hope they go against the grain and don't hold it together. With the slender lead and so early in the tour I don't see the point.

 

[Louch]

it was like 100 miles of an alpine finish. to have that far, and no riders down due to spectators is amazing. fans all seemed amazingy sober too, and full of enthusiasm. I only counted a handful trying to get on tv first. the selfies are just dangerous for all. save them for bathroom mirror like me!

 

[fimm]

http://app.strava.com/activities/162458459

Laurens Ten Dam's Stage 2

Note his title: "HARD DAY. People, you're amazing, but please stay off the road..."

 

[Crackle]

Like I said earlier, Talansky whacked a few phones out of peoples hands who'd stuck them in his face.

 

[Crackle]

Was it Hainault who stopped and punched a photographer who stood in his way?

Possibly, it's hard to say. Hinault punched such a lot of people.

 

[ColinJ]

Was it Hainault who stopped and punched a photographer who stood in his way?

The one I remember was in a group of protestors blocking the road ...

Don't f**k with 'Le Blaireau' (The Badger)!

 

[RhythMick]

it was like 100 miles of an alpine finish. to have that far, and no riders down due to spectators is amazing. fans all seemed amazingy sober too, and full of enthusiasm. I only counted a handful trying to get on tv first. the selfies are just dangerous for all. save them for bathroom mirror like me!

They're not dangerous if done properly, like mine, with me off the road. I'll grant that the idiots might be encouraged to do it and not have the intelligence to draw the line...

 

[RhythMick]

http://craftybikegirl.wordpress.com...s-are-places-for-living-not-just-for-driving/

 

[Louch]

I wasn't having a pop at you, but what if rider had swerved and ran into back of you? I'd not turn by back on something coming that quickly towards me

 

[RhythMick]

I wasn't having a pop at you, but what if rider had swerved and ran into back of you? I'd not turn by back on something coming that quickly towards me

Understood and no offense taken, but he'd have had to have mounted the kerb to hit me. That's the difference.

 

[Ganymede]

http://craftybikegirl.wordpress.com...s-are-places-for-living-not-just-for-driving/

That's a great blog.

 

[RhythMick]

Have to say my fav image so far was Chris Froome striking out up Jenkin Road. 33% gradient at one point?

 

[Saluki]

Understood and no offense taken, but he'd have had to have mounted the kerb to hit me. That's the difference.

Let's face it. We all walk up pavements with kerbs every day with bloody great cars, lorries etc piling up behind us on the road at 40+ mph and we don't worry about them losing control and wiping us out. A cyclist, not in a whole swathe of other cyclists is probably less to worry about in reality. I'd have taken a selfie there - had I not worried about cracking the camera.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Have to say my fav image so far was Chris Froome striking out up Jenkin Road. 33% gradient at one point?

The kids going up it at the start of the ITV coverage was better, crowd cheering them all up it as if the kids were winning the Tour