Author Topic: TdeF 2017  (Read 95965 times)

T42

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Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #600 on: 19 July, 2017, 01:16:25 pm »
Tell you on Monday.

Meanwhile it's quite amusing watching guys pick up bidons from the Vittel motorbike: they're held in quite tightly but they all anticipate an easy lift and woboboboble.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

woollypigs

  • Mr Peli
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Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #601 on: 19 July, 2017, 01:19:30 pm »
Wonder if El Pistolero has reloaded himself today, he is flying up that lump, or just got given a biiig carrot to get up and over these lumps today.
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woollypigs

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Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #602 on: 19 July, 2017, 01:20:09 pm »
Tell you on Monday.

Meanwhile it's quite amusing watching guys pick up bidons from the Vittel motorbike: they're held in quite tightly but they all anticipate an easy lift and woboboboble.
yup one or two of them are rather sticky too ;)
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Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #603 on: 19 July, 2017, 02:00:27 pm »
Kittel abandons! Miaow

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #604 on: 19 July, 2017, 02:30:12 pm »
https://youtu.be/mqWqrmsS-uU

Sorry about crash all the same - missed it but after-effects look nasty. :(
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woollypigs

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Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #605 on: 19 July, 2017, 03:36:17 pm »
Dan !!! come on!

and ooop it goes ....
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woollypigs

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Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #606 on: 19 July, 2017, 03:57:00 pm »
Attack and Attack !!!
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woollypigs

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Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #607 on: 19 July, 2017, 04:02:40 pm »
Now wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!!!
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Ruthie

  • Her Majester
Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #608 on: 19 July, 2017, 04:06:09 pm »
That Galibier is a bit of a hill isn't it!
Milk please, no sugar.

Ruthie

  • Her Majester
Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #609 on: 19 July, 2017, 04:19:26 pm »
And Contador's red and white bike is so pretty.
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T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #610 on: 19 July, 2017, 04:37:16 pm »
Poor old Alberto, I would really have liked to see him take a stage.  Red pockets are a poor reward.

Tell you what, though, this bit where they lie on the bars and crossbar is a graceless way to ride a bike.
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cameronp

  • upside down
Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #611 on: 19 July, 2017, 04:47:21 pm »
And Contador's red and white bike is so pretty.
I was rather admiring Roglic's Bianchi during the descent.

Feeling a bit sorry for M Kitteh, but what a day! Top four still within a minute of each other.

Beardy

  • Shedist
Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #612 on: 19 July, 2017, 04:49:25 pm »
And two of them on the same time!
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Samuel D

Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #613 on: 19 July, 2017, 04:50:22 pm »
And one of the two can TT on a good day. And he’s having many good days. Not the sort of situation Sky likes going into a time trial. Therefore I expect Sky to try something tomorrow.

Karla

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Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #614 on: 19 July, 2017, 05:01:19 pm »
Bardet will be kicking himself for letting Froome past him - he's lost eight seconds and one place for that.

Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #615 on: 19 July, 2017, 05:09:06 pm »
Don't think there was any 'let' about it, it was all he had (but he started his sprint too far out).

citoyen

  • Occasionally rides a bike
Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #616 on: 19 July, 2017, 05:35:29 pm »
That was a pretty good sprint by Bardet's standards. Froome and Uran were always going to beat him. I was surprised he beat Barguil.
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Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #617 on: 19 July, 2017, 05:45:11 pm »
Tell you what, though, this bit where they lie on the bars and crossbar is a graceless way to ride a bike.

I believe they are more interested in speed than grace.  On a downhill I often sit-up and maximise body air brake to save using brakes so position must make a difference, graceful or not!

Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #618 on: 19 July, 2017, 06:03:20 pm »
Andy Wilkinson said 'never sacrifice style for speed'.

Mr Larrington

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Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #619 on: 19 July, 2017, 06:07:10 pm »
PPTM sez soz 4 teh l8; meeting wif financial advisor & collecting motor-car from hostipal.  Rest assured that teh TdF Fake News will appear after teh news.
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Beardy

  • Shedist
Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #620 on: 19 July, 2017, 06:24:29 pm »
PPTM sez soz 4 teh l8; meeting wif financial advisor & collecting motor-car from hostipal.  Rest assured that teh TdF Fake News will appear after teh news.
Well I don't know about that. It's not as if the meeting the the FA or the collection of the automobile from the menders were surprise events and will have been planned in advance. I may have to consider my subscription to PP.
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Mr Larrington

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Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #621 on: 19 July, 2017, 06:33:47 pm »
Iz question ov enough hours 2 catch up with teh recording. F Aru crossed teh finish lien @ 6pm local tiem.
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Mr Larrington

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Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #622 on: 19 July, 2017, 07:15:24 pm »
Chapeau to P Roglic for getting one "for sure" and four "crazy" into a single thirty second interview...
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Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #623 on: 19 July, 2017, 07:20:15 pm »
Well, somebody had to restore the "crazy" quotient in post-stage interviews.
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Mr Larrington

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Re: TdeF 2017
« Reply #624 on: 19 July, 2017, 07:32:49 pm »
Stage 17: La Mure->Serre-Chevalier

G Imlach:O hai! I Montoya N Quintana! T AS-TA-NA? T $ky?
M Rendall:Alohohahaha! Mi spikim SMERSH! Unser pelahim Bond James Bond dictu nyetski! A Valverde M Landa C Waddle! Major motion picture? Rosa Klebb!
G Imlach:I think that means “no”.
N Boulting:O hai! M Matthews?
SD Millar:O hai! Race within race! Whole different race! Ball race, mill race, horse race! Master race?
Omnes:Bridge!
C Lion:w00t!
N Boulting & SD Millar:Wind!
Omnes:What, again?
SD Millar:AG2R. Sneaky fckrs. Rampy!
Omnes:What, again? Get in teh cannon, SD Millar!
[…]
N Boulting:Chute!
Omnes:U gr8 ponce!
W Barguil:Piss!
Bethany (7):Noes!
TD Gendt:w00t! 4 sure!
M Kitteh:Arse! Bai bai snottyjumper!
T Katusha:We changed our mind. We don’t want him!
S Cummings:C me bide my… WTF? Mi trousis!
Omnes:5.8 from teh YACF judge!
S Cummings:GITS!!1!
M Kitteh:Hurrah 4 mi l33t car-holding 5k1llz! Back in teh pelican!
[…]
SD Millar:M Matthews… just having fun. Wot a creep1!
P Roglic:Oww!
Omnes:5.1. Poor!
SD Millar:Desperately desperate2!
Up teh Ornon…
TD Gendt:Ha! While W Barguil is stuck inside teh pelican I, T ‘Racing Beast’ D Gendt will steal all teh spottypoints! 4 sure!
M Matthews:O RLY?
Omnes:Power in teh darkness? LOL!
TD Gendt:U utter git, M Matthews! 4 sure!
M Matthews:Not’ing poisonal, jus’ bizniz!
[…]
N Boulting:Sprint, sprint, sprintEEEE!
M Matthews:Iz not I don’t trust u, TD Gendt, but I don’t trust u!
TD Gendt:4 sure… (Whistles innocently…)
N Boulting:Reboot! Also, lunch! M Smith & B Hoban, make with teh erudition!
B Hoban:E Merckx!
M Kitteh:U remember wot I said yesterday? That, only more so!
N Quintana:O hai! Mi naem ect ect.
A Contador:O hai! Remind me which way 2 Spaign-o?
N Quintana:Giro? WTF woz I thinking?
Omnes:Have u tried hanging onto a motorbike, N Quintana roffle?
SD Millar:B Mollema, TT Segafredo, B Mollema! Pace. B Mollema!
N Boulting:Iz M Gogl!
SD Millar:(Improvising desperately…) TD Gendt?
M Gogl:(Gurgles)
S [“Poisonous term” – Ed.]anel:(Whimpers…)
S Geschke:Oog!
A long way upper…
D Navarro:O hai, TD Gendt, o hai M Matthews! Made ov teh win, me!
TD Gendt!WTF?
M Matthews:OK, u win! Soz, W Barguil!
Bethany (7):Bum!
JJ Jarlinsson:O hai, A Contador! In spite ov ur crimes ov yesterday I, JJ Jarlinsson, teh Colombian Viking, will assist u in ur quest! Say hello 2 mi Questing Beast, El Fenrîrø!
A Contador:Nice doggie!
B Mollema:Wot about me? I pwned a stage too, u know!
Omnes:Who said that? LOL!
TD Gendt:Yay! MOAR spottypoints! Go me!
W Barguil:Yeah yeah and, moreover, wha’evs…
[Eventually…]
TD Gendt:OK, ‘nuff’s enuff! Tiem 4 a breather!
B Hoban:E Merckx!
M Kitteh:OK, ‘nuff’s enuff! Miaowwwwwwww!
M Matthews:FFS, M Kitteh, couldn’t u have doned that b4 teh Ornon?
B Hoban:Teh French, eh? J Anquetil! E Merckx!
P York (via email):Eat MOAR pies!
B Hoban:E Merckx!
[At teh bottom ov teh Télégraphe]
N Boulting:A Contador! L Minkies?
SD Millar:Yarbles! Negativity! All wrong! No RISPEK! Or somethings.
Omnes:Do u ‘ave a licence 4 ur Minkies roffle?
JJ Jarlinsson:OK, A Contador, up 2 u and Bignose over there!
SD Millar:B Swift. Wot’s he playing at? Wnkr!
[Onto teh Galibier…]
P Roglic:O hai! I may have felled off earlier but I haz teh spottypoints Télégraphique also!
A Contador:Snoo 2 ur spottyambitions, P Roglic! I, A Contador, haz fooled u all agane!
S Pauwels:O hai! Win, me!
N Boulting:Wind!
P Roglic:ComeonecomeOnCOMEON, A Contador!
A Contador:U not been here b4, have u, laddie!
SD Millar:Descent! C Froome!
A Contador:Fck! Off!
JD Notapuma:O hai! I, JD Notapuma am aktualy in teh race too, am made ov teh win and in teh absence ov M Kitteh, am teh only feline left on teh road! Thus it fall 2 me 2 say “Miaow”!
M Kitteh:Fck! Off!
D Martin:I ATE’NT DEAD!!1!
S Yates:Fck! Off!
M Kwiatkowski:Ug! Bai! M Nieve, over 2… Oh!
C Froome:Yoicks!
M Landa:Ph3@r not, C Froome, I will save u. Agane >:(
D Martin:Plz not 2 trouble ur self, M Landa! Oh.
W Barguil:Mi turn!
Bethany (7):Yay!
R Bardet:Mi turn!
C Froome:O RLY?
R Urán:O RLY?
F Aru:STOP THAT! IT’S SILLY! Oh. Arse!
Bethany (7):Leave W Barguil alone, u horrids!
P Roglic:Yay! Spottypoints!
W Barguil:Yay! Spottypoints!
P Roglic:Also, I am used 2 throwing miself off teh mountainz!
ML Maire:Look, see, that’s where mi motorcar b0rked its clutch cable in 1991!
[And breathe…]
P Roglic:\o/ Wot’s all teh fuss about, eh? I haz mi eye on ur spottyjumper, W Barguil!
Bethany (7):Fck! Off!
R Urán:Ha!
C Froome:Ha!
R Bardet:Piss!
F Aru:Aroooooooh… Fckls!
S Yates:U utter git, D Martin! But I still haz teh juniorshinyjumper so poo on L Minkies!
A Yates:Told u we should ov shared teh riding!
P Roglic:Crazy! 4 sure! Crazy!
CP Sagan:I heard that!
P Roglic:Crazy! Mi Mum & Dad & grilf! Crazy!
CP Sagan:I’m warning u!
E Macron:O hai! Je suis le président, aussi win. Wot u do?
R Bardet:WTF?
Bethany (7):Oi, G Imlach, u still not said wot u kno about mi Mum!
Bethany’s Mum:I ‘eard vat, u little slag! U gerrin ‘ere an’ do yore ‘omework!

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