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Was surprised to read on Twitter today some people criticising HTC for being boring in their lead-out train. What are they supposed to do? Pull wheelies for the last 500m?

That is just so RIGHT.

Yessss! *Does backwards somersault off the bed*

Apparently not... Jérémy Roy: “I didn’t care about the polka-dot jersey, I wanted the win” I've really enjoyed the way FDJ have cycled in this year's Tour and would have loved to see them get a stage win. Which leads me to another topic. Has anyone else found themselves almost totally...

I think this might be my all-time favourite post in the history of NSC! :ascarf:

I've been out all afternoon - just got in and switched on the TV... Hushovd? Really?!

Contador completely dropped at the finish!

And a load of the peloton have now come off on the same corner! Oh well, if nothing else, at least Geraint will now feel less of a tit... :blush:

Shit - Geraint is having problems. Twice within a few hundred yards his back wheel has locked up and has sent him off the road. No harm done, but it's going to screw with his descent. Nightmare.

If Twitter's anything to go by, a lot of the riders are getting a bit narked with this whole 'the Tour starts today' business. Can't blame them really - what do people think they've been doing for the past 1500-odd kilometres...?

Apparently Geraint is in a breakaway! :clap2:

I'm not working tomorrow, so everything I need to do will be completed by midday, at which point I will plonk my backside on the sofa and not move until the last cyclist has crawled over the finish line.

I was thinking the same thing. Loved watching him in action in the Giro.

I don't know the statistics, but it certainly seems like a hell of a lot compared with previous years. I wonder what this will mean for the mountain stages - will we get the fearless descents we usually see in the Alps and Pyrenees, or will the riders in general be a little more careful...

Yup - another Cav here, too. (All this agreement, it isn't good for anyone).

Mr Black & White Seagull (AKA Horton's Halftime Iceberg) and I were on the Tourmalet last year when Kolobnev ditched his gilet right in front of us. My gallant husband hurled himself into the road (fortunately there were no France TV cars in the vicinity) to retrieve it. It's easily our best...

It's a 3-D map of the Alpe d'Huez. Apparently, that comely pin belongs to none other than George Hincapie, and they're varicose veins. :ohmy:

More proof, if proof were needed, that cyclists are hard, hard b*stards. Johnny Hoogerland is my new hero. To finish the stage and then be so noble when interviewed and not blame anyone for the incident - definitely close to Tour legend status for me.

And what about this? It would appear that Karpets pushed Contador off his bike earlier... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKuJCGV8m-w

Jesus Christ, what kind of nightmare is this?! Hoogerland seems worse off, despite Flecha having been the one hit by the car. Reckon the driver is on his way home already...