Tour de France 2013

Oh hai, I hear you someone to win a criterium

How long will it take for the Great British Public™ to turn its back on Froome? Wiggins fall from grace took a mere 10 months, the Kenyan (as I'm sure he'll be referred as when he stop winning) doesn't stand much of a chance does he?

How long will it take for the Great British Public™ to turn its back on Froome? Wiggins fall from grace took a mere 10 months

Has the GBP™ really turned its collective back on former-cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins?

I'm sure he'll find his popularity again. Once he announces his retirement.

Has the GBP™ really turned its collective back on former-cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins?

Most people really never knew who he was. Let's be honest.

Wasn't he in Oasis?

In other news, Cav came off really good in Matt Rendell's interview with him yesterday. He continues to go up in my estimation. I think it's mostly his fans now that annoy me.

hi there :)

I'm going to say this right now...

The counter-argument is, I suppose, that intermediate sprints provide an opportunity for sprinters to gain points on mountain-top finishes and other non-sprinty stages.

The problem this year was most of those Intermediate Sprints before mountains seemed to also be either after mountains or on stages so lumpy pure sprinters needed to save themselves in order to chase the time-cut later.

...they should have is a stage winner's jersey, and perhaps something at the end for the winningest rider, although most will say winning stages is reward enough in itself.

Enough shirts already! You can make the front page in Europe with a win – more prizes = a messy story and less easy for the public to understand.

Enough shirts already!

That's why they got rid of the red (intermediate sprints) and combined jerseys.

Having the green won by a decent sprinter who can also climb is hardly new, I think it's probably as common as having one sprinter so dominant in the flat stages that he takes green just on the basis of 4 or 5 stage wins.

I think it's probably as common than having one sprinter so dominant in the flat stages that he takes green just on the basis of 4 or 5 stage wins.

wut?

It's as common as a 'pure' sprinter dominating.

Surprisingly there is another robin hood inn:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/preview#!q=The+Robin+Hood+Inn%2C+Pecket+Well%2C+Hebden+Bridge&data=!1m4!1m3!1d32782!2d-2.0325764!3d53.7519182!4m10!1m9!4m8!1m3!1d17052!2d-0.7576441!3d52.0381382!3m2!1i1366!2i667!4f13.1

From the route it looks like they will be decending down into hebden from there, it seemed bloody steep when I drove up it the other day.

drove = cunt (a red one at that) :0

well that was all just fucking awesome.

all of it.

Has this been resolved yet?

Yeah the thin guy won

Didn't win it as well as that Wiggly bloke though, he was proper good at the bicycling.

he had better hair

^ and the teeth of an adult

Yeah the thin guy won

Doh! My hopes to be competitive in the 2014 Tour dashed once again..

Stick to RAAM

http://24hrworlds.com

What's happened to the cyclingnews forums btw? Did they drown in their own bitterness and saliva after frothing at the mouth for the entire three weeks of the Tour, creating flash floods and mudslides that leveled a couple of nearby schools and flooded the local tin mile.

No one cares

Their last tweet said something about a 3rd-party provider breaking 'em.

and you know nothing about it, right?