Tour De France 2018

No, only Sky's oligarchy are able to do that, these specialists must be trained for years

If you can read French here's a piece on Dan Martin

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjGRMmXWwAAPvUh.jpg:large

59kg! Also as much as I like him people give Froome a lot of shit for what he looks like on a bike but Martin isn't much better.

They'll be doing it in a sub-optimal manner though. The Sky bottles contents are measured out to the ml depending on where the handler is standing on the course and specific micro climate modelling for that location; it's more expensive, but anything other than that is just a waste of time.

Speaking of bottles, I'd like to think that Luke Rowe was the Sky rider who chucked a bidon at the wheel of LaPorte's Confidis team mate who nearly crashed the peloton when he stopped dead in the road yesterday.

Looks like Sunweb might try and do something today.

Sagan looks in a state already. Going to be a horrible day out.

I didn't see it: was he the lead out man?

Wasn't in the sprint, much earlier on Laporte pulled right over to the side to get some rubbish out of his wheel or something and his team mate stopped 3-4 foot out into the road causing mad swerves and got a bottle thrown at him

I saw that. Millar thought maybe it was a place to ditch things. I'll have to try watch a replay.

He's 100x better, even for a stick bandit. He looks where he's going most of the time for one.

I presume someone is translating that French article for us all? Yes? great. I'll put the kettle on, cheers.

I liked that castle!

TL;DR: "Dan's a cool guy - we like his style and heritage. Unlike that Froome guy. Now pass me the wine.".

says he looks tired and rides old school. he says would have made a mistake going to Sky.

Martin has a world class suffer face.

At what point do they hit the Tourmalet? About 110k to go?

Why are Katusha riding? missed the break?

I love that Lotto Jumbo just like the Tokyo team out of Rollerball.

Lotto Jumbo attacking Thomas on the Tourmalet.

Sagan's dominance is as bad for the Tour as Sky's. Discuss.

If Froome did a wheelie he would have mad respekt.

Peloton is very agitated today

Just listening to Mr G's first coach and up popped a photo of him and his fixeh skidder.

Is he the G in LFGSS?