Tour de France 2012

The view from France

Those pedals look a bit niche.

Oh, and whats the deal with Sean Yates?

Is he always like this?

http://www.steephill.tv/players/720/cyclingnewsbc/?title=Did+Sky's+Sean+Yates+drive+the+race+course+after+this+morning's+incoherent+interview?&dashboard=tour-de-france&id=1733495202001&yr=2012

Recreational...

Mick Rogers pissed at Aussies booing him and Richie Porte, you stay classy Antipodeans.

Yeah, no other nationality has ever done that.

Drug cheat Millar wins the stage. Stay classy Brits.

Here is Jens Voigt riding a far too small, clip and strap neutral service bike in the TDF a few years back. It's simply not possible to have the right size bike with right pedals available to all the riders on mountain stages when they are spread over many miles of road.

That pic looks like an Astronaut riding a donkey.

They are/were aluminium Cannondales. Clips and straps, Mavic wheels. Don't know about group sets but I think they're Shimano, probably Ultegra.

Interesting, Thanks.

In the Giro it's Pinarellos.

Looks like the giro sold the advertising space to the highest bidder, so they put better bikes up there. Pretty cool though, cheers.

Thats helped me out quite a bit folks, it hard to research something when you don't even know the name of what you're looking for!

Yeah, no other nationality has ever done that.

Drug cheat Millar wins the stage. Stay classy Brits.

Well, there's a reason he's not in the Sky team.

The yellow bike Jens is riding up there was a kids one from something attached to the tour, not a service bike.
http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/4977/Jens-Voigt-avoids-abandoning-Tour-de-France-with-help-from-kids-bike.aspx

Well done Dave - Peter and Matthew will be busting a gut to win today.

it's flat stage but the Mistral might blow the peloton to pieces today, could be interesting...

According to the forecast, It'll be a crosswind as they turn right onto the D162.
Any long gusts or changes in direction might be interesting

The yellow bike Jens is riding up there was a kids one from something attached to the tour, not a service bike.
http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/4977/Jens-Voigt-avoids-abandoning-Tour-de-France-with-help-from-kids-bike.aspx

Jens is a legend.

Yeah, no other nationality has ever done that.

Drug cheat Millar wins the stage. Stay classy Brits.

sad

He's Aussie... what did you expect? ;)

Very good article by Wiggins BUT I BET FROOME COULD WRITE A BETTER ONE IF SKY WOULD ONLY LET HIM

=Tweet of the day

brilliant

sad

Very sad. He still bites like a piranha yet chooses to live here in this shit country with all these tosser poms.

velocio mentioned a mobile phone t de f app, can't remember what it was called

any suggestions?

The official Skoda one.

It was terrible, beyond belief bad, when it launched. But it's surprisingly good now (or maybe they set our expectations low).

The live updates are particularly good.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aso.tdf2012int&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5hc28udGRmMjAxMmludCJd

This Eurosport page is particularly great if you're on a desktop:
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/cycling/livematch/491468.html

Love the Brailsford quote this morning, "we're here to win the Tour, not read Twitter."

I hope he tweeted that.

Ha

.

Oh, and whats the deal with Sean Yates?

Is he always like this?

Yes, that's his normal speaking voice. I thought he was pretty coherent and articulate for somebody trying to answer the same damn question for the 1000th time. People are making it out to be some kind of novelty that the second man in the team might actually be the stronger, probably because they are too young to remember Hinault/Lemond etc.

sounded he'd been on the Belgian Mix and hadn't slept for a few days.

It's windy today, the road is flat and gets narrow as is zigzags to towards the coast.
All the teams will be wary of the peloton splitting and want to stay well forward.

Stay on Tim!

sounded he'd been on the Belgian Mix and hadn't slept for a few days.

He sounded the same before the tour – like a wreckhead.