Tour de France 2011

ic1male · 16 Jul 2011 at 10:55

Hope Sammy Sanchez gets another win today.

Gotta love it when Phil Liggett gets all animated - "Ooh my goodness me! He's crashed!"

Russinating · 16 Jul 2011 at 11:26

Apparently every rider who's won the Plateau de Beille stage has gone on to win the tour. Or so says my official TDF app.

Cosimo · 16 Jul 2011 at 11:29

VaderDSL said:
Anyone see the Vultures?

Some funny comments regarding Hoogerland (it was light hearted) and Spanish Beef

They are waiting for today's stage:

Cosimo · 16 Jul 2011 at 11:30

Quick view of the stage:

Russinating · 16 Jul 2011 at 11:38

Anyone know what the estimate finish time is BST?

ic1male · 16 Jul 2011 at 11:48

It depends on their speed but the guide says

Plateau de BeilleVC 0.0 168.5 16:46 17:02 17:21

so that's anytime between 3.46pm and 4.21pm here.

Cosimo · 16 Jul 2011 at 11:50

Russinating said:
Anyone know what the estimate finish time is BST?

See time schedule, times will be in CET (BST+1):

http://www.letour.fr/2011/TDF/COURSE/us/1400/etape_par_etape.html

SDK^ · 16 Jul 2011 at 12:50

I'm watching the Chasing Legends film shown earlier this week on ITV4 which followed the HTC Columbia Team in 2009 and it's epic. It gets deep into the emotion and pain a team go through during the Tour, well worth watching if you missed it.

ic1male · 16 Jul 2011 at 12:52

It's on again tomorrow, 4.30pm. I only saw the first half but that team time trial at Montpellier looked epic.

[DOD]Asprilla · 16 Jul 2011 at 13:05

SDK^ said:
I'm watching the Chasing Legends film shown earlier this week on ITV4 which followed the HTC Columbia Team in 2009 and it's epic. It gets deep into the emotion and pain a team go through during the Tour, well worth watching if you missed it.

Managed to record the first hour before I found I was trying to record three things at once. Will be recording it again tomorrow to watch the end. Was brilliant stuff.

oddjob62 · 16 Jul 2011 at 13:09

Hushovd hit 110km/h on the descent yesterday

VaderDSL · 16 Jul 2011 at 13:10

****!! Was it Hushovd they just said on Eurosport that his engineers after downloading the data from the computer saw a speed of 110kph, 69mph on one of yesterdays descents!

Seriously, it scares the **** out of me doing close to 40mph.

Edit : Ah beaten like the latern rouge

oddjob62 · 16 Jul 2011 at 13:15

VaderDSL said:
Edit : Ah beaten like the latern rouge

Like Cav up an HC climb

EDIT: actually shouldn't joke, whenever i do things seem to turn bad, and after seeing him struggling just now last thing we want is for him to not make the cutoff time.

VaderDSL · 16 Jul 2011 at 13:33

Haha

indeed, he didn't look happy

Would love to have heard his team boss after he got down the other side of that climb.

"Nice one Cav, only 4 more to go"

elmuzzy66. · 16 Jul 2011 at 13:37

Give cav one of contadors burgers, he'll be fine in no time

SDK^ · 16 Jul 2011 at 15:01

^^ hehe

Voigt struggling on the descents, two falls in the space of a couple of KM's.

Big Chris · 16 Jul 2011 at 15:08

Just watching the coverage on ITV4 at the moment, quite like the look of the Orbea the chap in orange is riding so thought I'd have a look how much something like that might set you back...

Holy Christ

It's on sale though, bargain!

Cosimo · 16 Jul 2011 at 15:22

Big Chris said:
Holy Christ

It's on sale though, bargain!

For that price it would be a bike for life for mere mortals.

Cosimo · 16 Jul 2011 at 15:42

.... and so it starts.

ic1male · 16 Jul 2011 at 15:43

I'm knackered just watching them.