Tour de France 2021

Easy day, predominantly downhill.

Just one big pump track.

The 504 minutes of Sex they're having midway through is going to drop the stage average speed quite a bit, no?

another proof that everyone is horny

It’s Seix. I have/had a photo of me by the road sign somewhere. That was the most fiercely contested sprint of the trip.

I need rest days, never mind the pros

Absolutely, it is apple and oranges and I am not saying the other pro riders in the Tour are not absolute racing machines pushing their bodies to the limit (in a different bite-sized sharper way).

But the guy rode 5000 km in sandals held together by a piece of inner tube.

It’s Sex.

Yes it is.

He only did some of it in sandals. Maybe he should see Scherrit for a bike fit :)

Yes, get some proper, sensible shoes. Sandals are grotesque and should be for the beach only.

Pretty sure he was in sandals from before the Alps

He was swapping in and out of them when he had issues.

Anyway he's not the first person to tour in sandals. It's de rigueur for the Ortlieb crew, dahling.

I think far more of us could plod round France in sandals than finish the actual Tour within the time limit.

It's quite a cool thing but as usual the hype has been multiplied by the usual Rapha marketing bullshit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asthgB4mrtA&ab_channel=SpecializedBicycles

He only did some of it in sandals.

Are we still talking about sex?

It's quite a cool thing but as usual the hype has been multiplied by the usual Rapha marketing bullshit

Maybe this was JV's plan B if Uran had flopped to flog a PPT to the next sponsor. The eyeball/click argument is flawed in cycling if it cant convert to real money and pls lets not mention the hammer series.

Are sandals the equivalent of living the rockstar pamper life in between stages?

/goadymcgoadersonandthefourgoads

Bolder than sandals was his tyre choice

He could choose his tyres?

Is a lot easier to do good in alternative events. Just see all the pros smashing gravel races and the like, imagine if it was any of the big guns.

I mean he doesn’t strike me as someone to obsess over details, but perhaps there’s marginal gains in the mismatched.

Ooff. Throwing some shade at poor Lachlan there.

I think far more of us could plod round France in sandals than finish the actual Tour within the time limit.

100%

Is a lot easier to do good in events where most of your competitors are amateurs with day jobs.

Indeed.