badgerx16 Posted 2 July, 2023 Share Posted 2 July, 2023 Stage 1 fought out by the Yates twins. Stage 2 gives COFIDIS their first win since 2008. More worrying - some twats scattered tacks across the road towards the end of today's stage, causing several punctures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winnersaint Posted 2 July, 2023 Share Posted 2 July, 2023 Its been a fun start to it. The Pays y Basque has done the Grand Depart proud. Could be Cav's opportunity tomorrow into Bayonne but gut feeling is that Jakobsen and Philipsen may have more. Off to Stage 17 territory on Friday. A week just outside Bourg St Maurice, so its the Petit St Bernard, Les Arcs, Tignes and possibly the Iseran but not sure about 65 year old legs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat Posted 2 July, 2023 Share Posted 2 July, 2023 Excellent start to the race so far, much better having a couple of lumpy stages to start with rather than a dull time trial and a sprint day. A chance for Cav tomorrow but there's so many good sprinters in the race it will be very tough for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 3 July, 2023 Author Share Posted 3 July, 2023 Tacks on the road again. Thankfully tubeless tyres are unlikely to catastrophically blow out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winnersaint Posted 4 July, 2023 Share Posted 4 July, 2023 Going to be a long, slow day in the peloton by the looks of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 4 July, 2023 Author Share Posted 4 July, 2023 I look ve the way they rarely describe something as dangerous, merely 'technical'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 8 July, 2023 Author Share Posted 8 July, 2023 Tadej Pogacar to Mathieu van der Poel "How are you feeling ?" VDP replies "More fucked than you". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 8 July, 2023 Author Share Posted 8 July, 2023 Cav crashes out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 13 July, 2023 Author Share Posted 13 July, 2023 "Bazball" comes to stage 12. Utter chaos - who needs team orders ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winnersaint Posted 16 July, 2023 Share Posted 16 July, 2023 (edited) Pog and Vinegaard continuing to take lumps out of each other today, What a pull by Adam Yates up that last climb btw. Did a couple of bits of Stage 17 last week. Down the Cormet de Roseland. 20km downhill, it's really brisk at the top and in the middle its the only time I've been pedalling at around 65kmph, god knows what speeds they'll hit. We also did the Cat 2 Cote de Longefoy. Its at the start of the climb to La Plagne (Its Stephen Roche! It's Stephen Roche!!) turning right instead of following to the left. Around 7km at 7.7%, its not nice. Saw the Jumbos not at the TdF descending, don't know if Primoz was amongst them as they were travelling like shit off a shovel in aero tucks. Edited 16 July, 2023 by Winnersaint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picard Posted 18 July, 2023 Share Posted 18 July, 2023 Aren't we getting into raised eyebrows territory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weston Super Saint Posted 19 July, 2023 Share Posted 19 July, 2023 6 hours ago, Picard said: Aren't we getting into raised eyebrows territory? There was a suggestion of that from the commentators during Sunday's stage. The rumours will only get stronger after yesterday's performance. Shame really as the ding dong battle has been fantastic for the whole race and has re-written how 'modern tactics' are played out with two very strong contenders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winnersaint Posted 19 July, 2023 Share Posted 19 July, 2023 Well that was anticlimactic in the end. I said to my neighbour this morning that Pogacar looked wrecked in the same way Remco looked after the Giro TT before he pulled out with COVID. Writing was on the wall when he didn’t make his home tour in the run up. As for Vingegaard he’s possibly the best rider out there at the moment. 59kg and a huge VO2 max, there’ll be more where that came from in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 19 July, 2023 Author Share Posted 19 July, 2023 18 minutes ago, Winnersaint said: Well that was anticlimactic in the end. I said to my neighbour this morning that Pogacar looked wrecked in the same way Remco looked after the Giro TT before he pulled out with COVID. Writing was on the wall when he didn’t make his home tour in the run up. As for Vingegaard he’s possibly the best rider out there at the moment. 59kg and a huge VO2 max, there’ll be more where that came from in the future. I'm not sure Pog was 100% before the Tour started, and his efforts on the couple of stages before the second rest day were a desperate attempt to paper over the cracks he knew were there. I think he went too deep yesterday and today's crash, even if slight, was a psychological hammer blow. ( Jealous of your piccies from the Alps ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winnersaint Posted 24 July, 2023 Share Posted 24 July, 2023 (edited) It was a good trip. Good up to Les Arcs, death by a thousand pedal strokes on the Roseland, had to stop 4 times in last 4k, cramp in both legs, but good by the end of the week up the Petit St Bernard Edited 24 July, 2023 by Winnersaint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weston Super Saint Posted 17 September, 2023 Share Posted 17 September, 2023 Nice win for Sepp, he's definitely put the hard yards in for the team to gift the win to him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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