The Official 99th Tour de France thread, 2012.

[1066familyman]

10 minutes is nothing in the mountains, if one of the big GC names goes for it over the Aspin they will reel that in no problem.

'Tis a good point, but there's none better at digging in than old Tommy He can descend too.

 

[Pantani]

The one thing we are all waiting for.

Yep, VdB, Nibali and Evans have to have a go. Who cares about finishing 3rd or 10th, it makes no difference, try and win the thing or do not bother at all. And I don't want to hear anything about UCI points like those Eurosport muppets go on about all the time.

 

[Stoichkov]

'sake - are Nibali etc going to at least have a go? Armchair ride for Sky at the moment...

 

[perseus]

I make the KoM points like this now:

1. Kessiakoff 103
2. Voeckler 87
3. Sorensen Who cares

Point Distribution Grid as of 2012
[TEMPLATE]4C 3C 2C 1C HC
1st 1 2 5 10 25
2nd 1 3 8 20
3rd 2 6 16
4th 1 4 14
5th 2 12
6th 1 10
7th 8
8th 6
9th 4
10th 2[/TEMPLATE]​

Put the cursor over the numbers to see the allocation of points. Two !C climbs to go with 10 points for first over the summits. Voeckler could be in the polka dot jersey at the end of the day, but it could be very close. maximum clear is 4 pts. K---off is 8th currently and that gets no climbing points in a !C,

Mountains classification in the Tour de France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Stat Brother]

'sake - are Nibali etc going to at least have a go? Armchair ride for Sky at the moment...

They have too, simple as.

 

[1066familyman]

Tommy Voeckler's facial expressions are superb ! Love him as a rider.

 

[1066familyman]

Descent off Aspin or just wait until Peyresourde ? If none of them try anything then it's beyond a joke.

 

[Stat Brother]

Oh yeah.
I've caught a few threads elsewhere slating The Cycling Show, for being sh*te, even though it's yet to be broadcast.

 

[1066familyman]

Oh yeah.
I've caught a few threads elsewhere slating The Cycling Show, for being sh*te, even though it's yet to be broadcast.

I can't imagine where those threads would be Blimey !, there really are some miserable gits over there.

 

[1066familyman]

Here we go Liquigas coming to the front.

 

[Stat Brother]

Here we go.

 

[Pantani]

At last, this is proper.

POP!

 

[Stat Brother]

Great heli shots

 

[Stat Brother]

You've never smelt air like it, in the mountains by the rivers.

 

[Stat Brother]

Top riding from BMC, but was it worth it?

 

[Pantani]

Nibali and VdB could have got rid of Evans and cement their positions, and put pressure on Sky so what did they do? Let Sky set the tempo again, idiots.

 

[Pantani]

Voeckler goes it alone.

 

[Pantani]

This is ridiculous, do something.

 

[Stoichkov]

Its stages like this why I think the peloton is cleaner than it was a few years ago.

We expect fireworks and it doesn't happen - everyone is on their limit and cannot attack. The 'big' teams can stretch the race out so everyone is pulled from their comfort zone

Its not like Rasmussen Vs Contador doing track sprints up mountains!

 

[Indurain's Lungs]

Looks like a low scoring day for all of out fantasy teams again!