Tour de France 2013

I think skinny arms was referring to le tour not any old tour

I'm just taking the mick. I have no idea what Van Den has done, ever.

He's the great Belgian hope. The next next Merckx.

Oh, right, yeah, of course, how could I forget..

VDB = EBH = JTL = MEH

Calculation. DrinK!

There always seems to be quite a few crashes at the start of the TDF. Do you see more or less crashes during amateur racing?

Probably more but they tend to involve less riders as the bunches aren't so big, speeds aren't so high.

Bouhanni's abandoned. He didn't look well.

Kessiakoff also abandoned

makes you wonder why they signed up for the race in the first place

You would

makes you wonder why they signed up for the race in the first place

They were both doing it for charity.

do you have a link to their justgiving page?

What happens now? Do they have to give the £456.98 back?

Who the hell is Ben King?

Nice one ITV

You would

Yeah there's that, but don't most teams have a few riders who didn't make the cut? I'm not sure I'd be keen to look my 'benched' team mates in the eye if I had given up on the 5th day.

if your selected for the tour then you have made the cut...

Can kirby stop getting confused about the fizik branding on the back of the cannondale kit.

In fact, can he just shut up for a while.

If you're giving up in a grand tour you can be sure there's a good reason
But if a sportsman gets selected for the biggest event of their sport you can be sure they'll want to go no matter want until it becomes too much
Case in point, G not giving up despite his obvious agony on the bike

What was the Cav crash about?

^^ this. I missed the last 30 minutes of the race.

Did it have something to do with his superhuman memory that they keep banging on about?

Only got a text feed, heard he's crashed and is bunny hopping over roundabouts

Awesome passage of that roundabout Cav... like a boss!