Tour de France 2017

Breathless finish! I didn't know who to watch then. Poor Eddie. Well done to Demare for getting through that tiny gap without injury, thought he was a goner.

Kittel ftw today

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I think Edvald ran out of steam...

I had a sharp intake of breath as Demare went for that gap.

He came to the boil a bit early.

Wonder if all the Cav haters will have the same opinion about Demare going for a gap against the barriers?

Luckily EBH isn't a dirty cheat.

Im happy with how it all panned out.

Grate win.

I've literally just finished (last week) renovating my kitchen. Why did no-one tell me about these?

They're really expensive and I'm not convinced they actually work.

When we knocked down half our flat and rebuilt it one of my stipulations I wouldn't move on was that I wanted a really effective, powerful kitchen extractor. Told the architect I was happy to splash out on this after years of renting flats with no/crap extractors.

He came back with one which cost £2k. Eventually we settled on this:
http://ao.com/product/i99c68n1gb-neff-integrated-cooker-hood-stainless-steel-36737-6.aspx

This was pre-Brexit so it cost £200 less. So OK a bag of sand, but it's so powerful it blows the branches around of the tree in our back garden when it's on anything above low.

Unconvinced a Bora would work that well. Also Bora means you lose precious cupboard space.

Owning your own home thread >>>>>>>>>> #csb etc.

At that price Id want it to suck more than the trees.

It sucks BIG TIME

Think Bora would have been more than that from what I remember...

BORA Basic is £1700 apparently
https://www.bora.com/en/bora-products/bora-basic/

Around £2600 for two cooking zones and an extractor...

Kittel hit 71 kph !! just silly

FDJ v Confidis part deux. Demare chopped him again in that sprint didn't he?

Jacopo Guarnieri to RAI: "Bouhanni is an asshole, a cunt, an idiot. He just tries to make us crash. Poor boy, he must be nervous: he never wins"

A career in the Italian diplomatic corps beckons.

And CAS have rejected Sagan's appeal.

Disagree - he was moving into a huge gap that became a none gap - it was an excellent move that sadly didn't pan out.

Just shows how important the mental aspect of sprinting is. A lot of people in the peloton, let alone us proles, would have just though 'nope, not today', but I guess going for it anyway despite the obvious risk is what gets you the reward. Or 2nd place.

Jacopo Guarnieri to RAI: "Bouhanni is an asshole, a cunt, an idiot. He just tries to make us crash. Poor boy, he must be nervous: he never wins"

He actually called him a cretin, a halfwit and a dick(head) - halfwit is a PC translation of deficiente tbh, but he's since apologised on Twitter, sort of (said his behaviour wasn't classy but his point still stands).

He should be happy he's not lanterne rouge like yesterday...

Missed today's stage but scrolling past this picture I thought it was an Indiana Jones style boulder.

Bouhanni is well known to try to break apart a rival's leadout train with non-acceptable manners, so I guess it would be normal for them to think that way.
Sure thing he should have avoided to express his thoughts in front of a camera...

Today Dimension Data did a great job of breaking up the Cofidis train. Revenge?

Tomorrows stage looks interesting, I think it's a good chance for a breakaway.

Why the cocking fuck aren't the ITV4 highlights available after they've been on telly telly? I can't watch live because work, I can't watch the 7pm show because baby and I can't watch the highlights on the stupid ITV player.

TV sucks

You can find the full stage here in the evening.
http://tiz-cycling.racing/