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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #100 on: 08 July, 2016, 08:40:54 pm »
Twas rather chapaeurifique, n'est ce pas?
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #101 on: 08 July, 2016, 08:46:33 pm »
Quote from: Pingu on 08 July, 2016, 08:11:11 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 08 July, 2016, 04:10:47 pm
"Bravo Bravo" as they said on France 2 today :)

And he didn't get overtaken by a granny!  ;)
Hehe, we talked about that ride today, jolly good fun :)
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #102 on: 08 July, 2016, 09:07:39 pm »
Steve's cumming of age, oui?
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #103 on: 08 July, 2016, 09:38:38 pm »
I thought that was last year into Mende, when he sneaked up on a pair of FOREIGNS and made them look silly.
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #104 on: 08 July, 2016, 10:34:29 pm »
Yebbut I think my sense of humour has got more puerile in the meantime.
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #105 on: 08 July, 2016, 11:27:57 pm »
Quote from: woollypigs on 08 July, 2016, 08:46:33 pm
Quote from: Pingu on 08 July, 2016, 08:11:11 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 08 July, 2016, 04:10:47 pm
"Bravo Bravo" as they said on France 2 today :)

And he didn't get overtaken by a granny!  ;)
Hehe, we talked about that ride today, jolly good fun :)

Still makes me  :)
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #106 on: 08 July, 2016, 11:38:45 pm »
Quote from: LEE on 08 July, 2016, 11:31:13 am

Hoy, Wiggo & Cav would make a perfect "Holy trinity" outside the London Velodrome (even more so if Cav & Wiggo get medals in Rio).

Velocity in Manchester would be a better site.  It is the home of British Cycling and just about the epicentre of the trio, only one of which is a Londoner (if you don't think he's actually Belgian!).
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #107 on: 08 July, 2016, 11:44:24 pm »
... or Australian
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #108 on: 08 July, 2016, 11:50:51 pm »
And the award for the most bizarre non-selection at the Olympics goes to....
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andrew_s

Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #109 on: 09 July, 2016, 06:14:15 am »
Quote from: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 08 July, 2016, 11:50:51 pm
And the award for the most bizarre non-selection at the Olympics goes to....
Indeed.

I'd guess that BC are putting all their eggs in the Froome basket, and the selection criteria are all about who can best support him, a la Sky train.
Of course what that leads to is a break going up the road with no British riders, and all the other teams who have got riders in it sitting back and waiting for GB to chase. See Cav in London.

Youtube of the flamme rouge falling on Adam Yates, from a following Mavic neutral support moto.
No chance whatsoever of avoiding a crash, lucky to get away with just the stitches in his chin, and about 14 secs before the next following rider appears in shot.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L7bR0J-Ztuw&feature=youtu.be
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #110 on: 09 July, 2016, 09:41:14 am »
"Video not found" it says here, before trying to make me watch some feeble commercial about IKEA meatballs.  Srsly :(
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #111 on: 09 July, 2016, 10:33:54 am »
"This video has been removed by the user"
It's now on cyclingnews at http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/adam-yates-flamme-rouge-inflatable-banner-crash-video/

It was in with the Velon on-bike video compilations. I guess cyclingnews paid for it, so it's now off thr free lisr.
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #112 on: 09 July, 2016, 04:12:23 pm »
Feck me I got no more nails left .... and there is five k to go
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #113 on: 09 July, 2016, 04:20:48 pm »
Between 1st and 2nd place, I think there's at least one British rider in there.
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #114 on: 09 July, 2016, 04:24:31 pm »
Don't try this at home, folks.
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #115 on: 09 July, 2016, 05:13:53 pm »
C. Froome: O hai!  I am C Froome and I am made of teh WIN!
A. Yates: You utter git, C Froome!
M Cavendish: Oww!
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #116 on: 09 July, 2016, 05:48:48 pm »
It was a little amusing, that after the commentary on ITV4 was discussing how quiet the Sky team had been this morning, so they obviously had a cunning plan, and then Chris Froome was basically saying that he just felt good and decided to go for it!

Either way, he clearly is on very good form, and is surprising the hell out of the other riders and teams. :thumbsup:
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spesh

Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #117 on: 09 July, 2016, 06:05:01 pm »
Cardinal Brailsford: “No one expects the Sky Improvisation! Our chief weapon is surprise, fearless descending and surprise; two chief weapons, fearless descending, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our chief weapons are: fearless descending, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near-fanatical domestiques! Um, I'll come in again...”
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #118 on: 09 July, 2016, 06:19:42 pm »
Punchy...
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spesh

Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #119 on: 09 July, 2016, 06:52:17 pm »
Hand-off's with extreme prejudice, again? :demon:
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #120 on: 09 July, 2016, 07:00:54 pm »
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #121 on: 09 July, 2016, 08:01:44 pm »
Blimey. Descending at 90km/h
And pedalling.
While astride the top tube.
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #122 on: 09 July, 2016, 08:06:51 pm »
It takes balls of steel to do that.
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #123 on: 09 July, 2016, 08:47:51 pm »
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 09 July, 2016, 05:13:53 pm
A. Yates: You utter git, C Froome!
Yeah I felt a bit sorry for Yates too.

However I did think that the running idiot fully deserved a smack in the chops and furthermore I think the Commissaires should have given Froome a 200 euro bonus rather than fining him.
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Re: TdeF 2016
« Reply #124 on: 09 July, 2016, 09:34:37 pm »
Quote from: Tim Hall on 09 July, 2016, 08:01:44 pm
Blimey. Descending at 90km/h
And pedalling.
While astride the top tube.

I could hardly bear to watch
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