Tour De France 2010

[midfielder]

Starting soon people ...

 

[Arabmariner]

The race where overtaking on the last day is against the rules :-(

 

[serious14]

Where abouts is it (the route) on Tuesday and Wednesday??

 

[fedelta]

http://tdf.sbs.com.au/tdf2010/stages-map/index/

 

[Hagar the Horrible]

Tuesday is the stage from Wanze to Arenberg with the cobbled sections (but they're not going through the trench) and the stage on Wednesday travels south-east from Cambrai to Reims.

 

[dibo]

This thread = the duck's nuts.

Love pro cycling and the TdF is as good as it gets.

Key stage this year will be 17 - summit finish atop le Col d'Aubisque. The cobbles of stage 3 on Tuesday night will be pretty good too.

 

[Hagar the Horrible]

This thread = the duck's nuts.

Love pro cycling and the TdF is as good as it gets.

Key stage this year will be 17 - summit finish atop le Col d'Aubisque. The cobbles of stage 3 on Tuesday night will be pretty good too.

I presume that you mean the summit finish on the Tourmalet.

 

[dibo]

Yes. Getting my climbs mixed up.

 

[midfielder]

Stage 7 Saturday night ... Station Des Roussess... some good climbs in it ... after stage 6 tonight not that steep but all up hill...

Yell for Cadell he my wear the yellow after Saturday night..


Stage 8 on Sunday boy a couple more steep climbs..

Stage 9 .. Farkkkkkkkkkkk especially the dopwnhill at the end ... Farkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Stage 10 ... challenging more climbs

Stage 11 ... back to more normal...


Then watch stage 12 , 14 another Farkkkk, stage 15 more Farkkkkkk, stage 16 is it possible... and then stage 17 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFfAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRKKKKKKK

Getting to an interesting point the mountains are coming...

 

[hasbeen]

Like watching F*ing grass grow ...

 

[dibo]

Live and let live, etc.

 

[scottmac]

Like watching F*ing grass grow ...

Mega crashes, cobblestone roads, dangerous descents, the French countryside with all its history, and with two climbs of the Col du Tourmalet one being a stage finish to come, this is going to be an absolute cracker tour.

 

[Bex]

Its like most things, if you don't take the time to appreciate what they're doing then it's probably boring. Grab a bike and go up a 200m rise at 6% grade and 15km/hr and see how you feel. Then watch these guys average 40km/hr over 1200km in 5 days and then watch them do a 300m climb, two 400m climbs, a 700m climb and a 1000m all on the next day and tell me you're not impressed with what they're doing.

I'm speaking from experience as I took up road cycling at the end of last A-League season and do a 50km race every weekend plus training rides and the occasional 100km ride - couldn't watch The Tour in the past and now I'm glued to the coverage. Won't be shaving the legs any time soon though

 

[midfielder]

Won't be shaving the legs any time soon though

Then you can not go to the Sydney match

 

[Bex]

Can't anyway MF, am in Perth for 6 months for work. 1 week home per month and Sydney game not in that week :-(

 

[dibo]

clip of specialized bikes TdF ad (OS version):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzPq0hDdDhs

 

[scottmac]

Devastated for Cadel. Finally he had a team which was willing to protect him and ride for him and he has a day like that. Heartbreaking.

 

[dibo]

Fractured elbow. I'm stunned he's still going.

 

[TiredLLegs]

Playing AA in KDSA quite a few (too many) years ago against "Snives". Young defender lets out this "Whoooa" & stops playing. Completely.

Hot Chick? thinks I.

Nope. Some lycra clad nimrod on a glorified malvern star goes past. It's a <some obscure brand> pipes the clocked-off CB. Im still not convinced it was the bike, but hey...