The Official 99th Tour de France thread, 2012.

[perseus]

Then Tuesday a rest Day

Wednesday: Big Mountain stage and downhill finish
Thursday: Big Mountain stage and summit finish
Stage 17 - Tour de France 2012
Friday: Rolling hill stage with some climbs
Saturday: Time trial
Sunday: > Paris

T Pinot is still in contention for the white jersey (young rider) and if he gets a summit finish he could win the polka dot (mountains) and might want to improve his GC position.

Rolland might have pre-planned his break yesterday to get some more mountain points. Not many points yesterday though.

 

[Stat Brother]

Rolland might have pre-planned his break yesterday to get some more mountain points. Not many points yesterday though.

You're a lot more charitable than is fellow competitors.

Which reminds me, how did we let Tejay get away with that, yesterday.

What is it with American's and chain of command, it was like being back in Vietnam.
I would love to have been on that bus, when Cadel rolled in, I bet it was like squeaky WWE.

 

[Stat Brother]

Aston Martin One-77 Superbike Unveiled In London - BikeRadar

 

[Stoichkov]

Which reminds me, how did we let Tejay get away with that, yesterday.

Very naughty but great eh? All adds to the back-stories going on...

 

[teaboy]

Disc brakes? On a road bike?



And 9.5kg! What's it for?

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Aston Martin One-77 Superbike Unveiled In London - BikeRadar

Is that what James Bond uses when he pops down the shops, does it have a tack gun to dispense of baddies like Vino and Cadel..

 

[Pantani]

Aston Martin One-77 Superbike Unveiled In London - BikeRadar

That is horrible. Disc brakes What is with that fork? The built in computer looks dreadful, the chainset looks like something made by Sunrace... in 1980. Eight spoke wheels? Is this bike a BMX? And those pedals, the only way they could be worse was if they were celeste or something.

 

[Triggaaar]

Is one of the wheels on the wrong way round?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

That is horrible. Disc brakes What is with that fork? The built in computer looks dreadful, the chainset looks like something made by Sunrace... in 1980. Eight spoke wheels? Is this bike a BMX? And those pedals, the only way they could be worse was if they were celeste or something.

I'm more concerned by the fact that the back wheel appears to rub against the back of the frame!

 

[teaboy]

I'm more concerned by the fact that the back wheel appears to rub against the back of the frame!

The seat tube is probably split to house the rear wheel. It's a truely horrible bike and has no use in cycling. You can't race it, it's not a super-light mountain-goat, and nobody who rides would be at all impressed if you turned up on a Sunday morning on that!

It's just all sorts of wrong.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

The seat tube is probably split to house the rear wheel. .

I was joking! But yes - you are right, of course. Looks much nicer in black:

 

[Pantani]

I was joking! But yes - you are right, of course. Looks much nicer in black:

But looks even worse from the front.

 

[Indurain's Lungs]

That is horrible. Disc brakes What is with that fork? The built in computer looks dreadful, the chainset looks like something made by Sunrace... in 1980. Eight spoke wheels? Is this bike a BMX? And those pedals, the only way they could be worse was if they were celeste or something.

I agree. It look shit. What is that split down tube rubbish - that'd flick the muck all over your bike! Although it might come with a nice set of £3000 carbon mudguards for winter runs on crappy english country lanes.

 

[Stat Brother]

So we'll put that in the 'maybe' pile.



(Sorry Chaps I should have posted in our main residence, not the holiday home)

 

[Stat Brother]

Well it made me chuckle.

People standing in the Pierre Rolland complaint line.

 

[Indurain's Lungs]

Chavanel out. Wish I'd known about the chest infection before having him in my team for the last few days!

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Seen this lads?

 

[perseus]

What odds for back marker (130th out of 162) Yauheni Hutarovich to win the race today

I cannot find the page for betting on individual stages.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

All the break aways being chased down by the peloton at present. Hope Cav is involved today.

 

[Pantani]

Jerome out too, nearly put him in yesterday. How many twitter feeds, news articles and web blogs do you have to read to find out exactly who is ill?