Tour de France 2009

Epic Win.

How'd you do it? IP addresses?

IP address and a different browser.

This will be fun:

And the last 1km:

Shit, I've been there and found walking up it bad enough.

never mind - got it.

Can't help sorry, watching live at home..

I like Roche's prediction, Astana send Kloeden ahead, Evans, Sastre and Schlecks will mark him, Contador following up, Armstrong hanging on apparently.. breakaway has already started, that should keep Hushovd out of any intermediate sprint points and hopefully Cav in green jersey today..

Ha!! from BBC live text:

**1103: **From Bobby G, via text on 81111: "Have seen more Astana jerseys on my ride to work than Man Utd shirts. Thought I saw somebody trying to emulate Mark Cavendish's new look but it turned out to be a recycling bin."

That's classic.

Feckstix. Anyone having issues with the feed from Eurosport?

Ha!! from BBC live text:

**1103: **From Bobby G, via text on 81111: "Have seen more Astana jerseys on my ride to work than Man Utd shirts. Thought I saw somebody trying to emulate Mark Cavendish's new look but it turned out to be a recycling bin."

Thank you for sharing Soul ... cracked me up big time.

Thank you for sharing Soul ... cracked me up big time.

I just really hope i don't see one on the way home now... explaining to the ambulance man that i had a fit of laughter and crashed because i saw a recylcing bin is going to sound a bit odd.

Ha!! from BBC live text:

**1103: **From Bobby G, via text on 81111: "Have seen more Astana jerseys on my ride to work than Man Utd shirts. Thought I saw somebody trying to emulate Mark Cavendish's new look but it turned out to be a recycling bin."

brilliant, although i think cav looks more like Bingo from the Banana Splits..

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uTcr2DzJ8Sc/ShctFU6g6UI/AAAAAAAAADo/rRDi3ZSyBNo/s200/bingo-banana-splits.jpg

Fiddy with his lateness and extreme diversionary tactics mean I've just had a shower (imagine it, oooOOOhhh). So we're on our way in in 5. Will post back from Charlotte Street.

Feckstix. Anyone having issues with the feed from Eurosport?

I am. Muthaf*ckaz...

Good. I feel less like an idiot. Haven't seen a second of today's action. Been trying to log in for the last hour and a bit.

What a fncking joke. Aggravating stuff.

what is the issue? Is it not loggin you in or is the player not working?

The stream has been so good up until now. Sometimes I'm able to log in and other times it just stops at the log in screen with the rotating green loading circle thing. Either way I can see no cycling!

Today's the first day I've used the Eurosport stream, rather than one of the pirate ones. Logged in no problem. The stream isn't that great though. Quality is less than I expected and I'm getting syncing issues. Oh well.

it took me a while to log-in (watched the green circle thing), just keep trying. I tried restarting comp a couple of times, also cleared browser cache.

Then once in i had to watch the stream embeded in the page at first to make it work. But got it working in quicktime by clicking back and forth between eurosport 1 and 2 a couple of times.

@horatio, yeah i've been getting syncing issues but felt it doesn't matter to much as it's mainly just commentary.

Quality wise i think the 'very high' stream is pretty damn good for a live stream.

The very high was stuttering for me, so I went to normal. I'll give it another shot perhaps.

I had syncing issues running Flip4Mac in Firefox on (you guessed it) a Mac. I use a PC at work though with IE so shouldn't be an issue. Annoying! Gonna try restarting and clearing browser cache.

Up front, the Astana riders appeared to be pushing the pace; if so, that breaks the unwritten rule that the yellow jersey's misfortune should not be exploited

Aroogah, yours working yet? Balls. I was actually getting more work down when it was running fine!

any strong climbers in the breakaway to keep an eye on?