Le Tour De France 2014

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norbs wrote:Does this mean I have made it?
Pretty sure that's exactly what it means :P next you'll be writing guest columns for magazines and all sorts of crazy stuff :P
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May be irrational Contadope hate, but anyone else think it's a bit presumptuous of Saxo to give him a yellow bike ... he ain't in Yellow.
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It's called confidence isn't it? He may well be in yellow soon.
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Swain OHaw wrote:May be irrational Contadope hate, but anyone else think it's a bit presumptuous of Saxo to give him a yellow bike ... he ain't in Yellow.
Aren't all the Saxo bikes yellow, blue and black? Apart from one I saw the other night that looked orange.
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I only noticed his being yellow, the others different colours such as the blue and orange but maybe the other yellow bikes had gone by that point. Only been able to watch one stage in full though as I've been at work during the others.
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norbs wrote:Does this mean I have made it?

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Although I don't like him comparing it to war.
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Jesus. That was a massive chunk out of Berties leg.

It is Nibbles to lose now.

Edit : Fucking hell. Broken tibia, and he got back on and road up a huge hill for kms. Damn.
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Fucking hell indeed. First Froome and now Contador. Grande Showdown in the HC mountains cancelled :( I was so looking forward to it.
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I wonder if Richie can hang on to Nibbles? The race could come to him if something happened to Nibbler!
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So what's the opinion around here.. specialized frame failure? or something else?

To me, it sounds like something is being covered up.. :/
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Crazy stage, I went to be as they started the descent for the climb where it all happened :(

Saw a lot of shit on twitter around this morning, looks like a genuine crash from hands jumping off bars on downhill (we have all had this), he jumped on roach's bike then crashed again..
Snapped bike was apparently from hitting Belkin car trying to pass, but seriously even if it was from crashing from 70km/h why would anyone care if a bike snapped..
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nutty wrote:
but seriously even if it was from crashing from 70km/h why would anyone care if a bike snapped..
I think the concern was that the accident was caused by the frame snapping.
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Nutty has pretty much nailed it from what I have read.

18kms with a fractured tibia. Love him or hate him, you have to give him kudos for guts. That shot of him and Rogers was pretty sad.
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Well then, like Nutty said...who would care.

Fark 18kms...cannot imagine the pain.

The tour has been pretty full on so far.
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Forgot to mention that part, the fact he did 18km is fucking mental.. seriously mental
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Bah pussy, I did 7-8km with a broken back and pelvis ;)
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10 rounds and lots of action thats has been... is this to be know as the TOUR OF CRASH year? Fuk me its taken all the top players out, now its wide open, but Nibbles looks good and strong last night
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These 2 articles pretty much cover exactly what happened. As you will read it was not caused by a broken frame...
http://road.cc/content/news/123757-so-w ... -yesterday
http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-s ... 31225.html

Poor Bertie it never looked good from when we started seeing the TV pictures.
When you read Roche's account of events in that Independant article, Bertie had already ridden a few k's from the scene of the accident when the first live pictures started coming in.
No wonder he didn't look great or in a desperate hurry to get going again, I think he knew it was over but just didn't want to give in or more like he had to prove to that "cock-head" Riis that he was seriously injured. So all up it was probably more like 20km's with a broken leg with most of it up hill. :fall:

The way it happened is very easy to get caught out. It has happened to me many times but luckily it has never resulted in a crash. In my cases I have been lucky & able to keep one hand on the bars to keep control but it is very easy to do when in a peloton, unsighted of what is ahead while having one hand off the bars fiddling with stuff in your pockets.
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Flinty72 wrote:
norbs wrote:Richie Porte is the Aussie Gesink. Always guaranteed to have a shocker of a day.
Harsh...

But Porte's never been designated team leader yet either...

Clears throat. :)
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norbs wrote:
Flinty72 wrote:
norbs wrote:Richie Porte is the Aussie Gesink. Always guaranteed to have a shocker of a day.
Harsh...

But Porte's never been designated team leader yet either...

Clears throat. :)
Oh get off your farken high horse... Gees!!!

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last couple of stages have been absolute rippers.

competition for the white and polka dot jerseys seems to be fairly enthusiastic. while i would have loved to see more competition for the yellow, the racing has been pretty impressive IMHO.
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