Oh boy this is one of my favourite things, having followed the tour round France by mountainbike back in the late 80's, being welcomed into the Cafe de Columbia team with Alcala and hooking up with them each night over a period of 10 days whilst in the Pyrenees was one of the highlights of my life...
Anyways, the tour is ON!!
Anyone see the awful pile up at the end today, and David Millars unfortunate chain incident in the prologue yesterday...terrible...
OLN and Lance Armstrong rules regards...
Andrew smile
yeppers, watch it every year.
The first week is always pretty boring, prefer it once it gets into the mountains. However the crash yesterday looked awful, and was always a possibility.
Who is that Spanish/Columbian dude that coaxed Lance up all the mountains last year?
Does he still ride for USPS? he should have gotten his own ride with a new team as their leader after his performance last year.
Hopefully he is on Dave Millars team and can coax him up the mountains this year roll
I'll probably sleep through the sprinters delight that is the first week and wake up for the time trials.
waiting patiently for the Alps and Pyrenees.
Good grief! All of a sudden, everyone in Ann Arbor has donned bizarrely shaped skid-lids, brightly coloured long-sleeved nylon tops ( evil
...And I'm sure they'd be miffed if you called them fickle, but they're making buses look reliable -last week I didn't see a single cyclist, then tonight more than a dozen came along at once! Didn't hit any, though -better luck next time, I guess! grin
Same here - there were three doing a mini-tour on my way home from work yesterday. Wouldn't mind but they seem incapable of riding one behind the other in their lane and insisted on moving out into my zone mad
I shall go out on my mountain bike at the weekend and see how many I can annoy with the same tactics as they try to pass.
Cyclists are great fun. Thats what push bars are made for.
It gets worse. A mother with two teenage boys on bikes turned up at the playground today and virtually bullied the little kids off the tiny-tot basketball court -it is a circular area with banked sides and they were doing "time trials" round the edge. evil
You should have used them as moving targets for "Dodgeball", a fine American game.
The sort of balls we allow our toddlers to play with don't do much damage (coincidence?). Next time I'll take a 12lb medicine ball grin
Patacchi is on fire!!
He's won 4 days in a row....
...and he wasn't gonna do the Tour as he felt tired!
Incredible.
{sigh} Loving the views of France...
Andrew smile
aaaaaah he'll be tired once Sunday rolls around and they see Alpe D'huez in the distance.
Roberto Heras was the fella I couldn't remember.
Now here is a hypothetical question.
If Heras can guide Armstrong up the hills, why can't he do the same to Pena.
Pena is in yellow (as of yesterday) I presume he finished safely in the pack and remains ahead of Armstrong.
Don't the team have a duty to him before the whims of Armstrong wanting 5?
I know this is hypothetical as Armstrong will take yellow either in the mountains or at the time trial, but say Armstrong and Pena were athletically equal riders, would Pena be allowed to win the Tour even though Armstrong is the team leader?
On 2003-07-11 11:11, manc1976 wrote:
aaaaaah he'll be tired once Sunday rolls around and they see Alpe D'huez in the distance.
Roberto Heras was the fella I couldn't remember.
Now here is a hypothetical question.
If Heras can guide Armstrong up the hills, why can't he do the same to Pena.
Pena is in yellow (as of yesterday) I presume he finished safely in the pack and remains ahead of Armstrong.
Don't the team have a duty to him before the whims of Armstrong wanting 5?
I know this is hypothetical as Armstrong will take yellow either in the mountains or at the time trial, but say Armstrong and Pena were athletically equal riders, would Pena be allowed to win the Tour even though Armstrong is the team leader?
It's feasible that Pena will/could still be in yellow tomorrow as the route has a good downhill finish, but did you notice that Armstron was riding for Pena today.
Armstrong is so cool. He's done the same for USPS as Schumacher did for Ferrari.
Can't wait for tomorrow!!
:smile:
aaaaaah he'll be tired once Sunday rolls around and they see Alpe D'huez in the distance.
I need Phil Liggetts job.
How cool is Tyler Hamilton?
One of my uncles (and if I'm not mistaken my his son after him) did a tour in the 80s. My Uncle represented Britain in 4 Commonwealth Games too but admitted that the Tour de France was something else.
Lyle Lovett endears himself to the French while performing in the covetted yellow jersey
lol
Poor old Bulochi (sp) yesterday though (
I've broken both femurs so i know what he feels like...