Tour de France Stage 12: Montpellier-Mt.Ventoux 184KM **Spoilers**

velo.2010

Disaster! They'll have to take the time at that point.

68 lost souls

Froome prepping for his career in triathlon

Moflojo

What happened there?

Froome's lost at least a minute on Quintana there?

Inquitus

What a farce

CramCycle

Froome is literally sprinting

Eamonnator

Froome will not have completed the full stage on a bike.

pelevin

What a f..g disaster

godtabh

that is crazy. What is going to happen now

Thud

what happened his bike?

Wooooooooow I admit I took great glee in seeing froome running but I would not like to see him cheated out of a tour win because of that . Pure madness

kenmc

what a last few kms, couldn't script it!

laraghrider

ThisRegard wrote: »

Don't leave me hanging, what craziness happened? Following the end of stage on this thread.

In short. All is well then we see a bit of a coming together. Motos stop and Quintana struggles to get by the mess. Then Richie Porte is stopped with a bike issue of some sort. Cut to Froomey running up the mountain screaming into his radio.

Seconds later Porte comes flying by and Foomey is still running. WTF happened his bike? Then he's on a mavic although clearly having issues with it while Quintana and VV sail by him. Porte and Quintana are both finished when Froome finally gets his bike. Think that covers it. Absolute madness!!!!

EDIT: Ah we just saw it. He crashed into the back of a moto!!!!

RobertKK

Am I wrong to hope Dan Martin has been helped by this?

Weepsie

I missed that again due to work. Eh what happened?

retalivity

Fcuk you work and your lack of tvs!!!!

neris

too many people on the roadside and too many idiots not respecting the riders and the race

ThisRegard

C'mon, what happened?!?!?

Edit, cheers Laragh. Will have to be an evening I actively seek out the highlights with a vengeance.

Burial.

Froome running is the funniest thing I have ever seen in a bike race. Madness

check_six

I'm still a bit confused. Did Froome stop for another pee?

Yarghhh

check_six wrote: »

I'm still a bit confused. Did Froome stop for another pee?

No one knows yet. Froome was on a bike then he wasn't

check_six

Yarghhh wrote: »

No one knows yet. Froome was on a bike then he wasn't

Maybe a number 2 so?

RobertKK

Will Froome be penalised for running some of the way?

Thud

Porte hit moto, Froome hit Porte

not Froomes fault, there will be war!
Neutral service Mavic bike didn't work the one time its needed !

dastardly00

I have never seen anything like that before

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

neris

portes going to have a sore face later

donfers

Disappointed Martin lost about a minute and 20 to the lead group... I was hoping he would keep it around 30 seconds but he got no help and towed up another few riders... the fact that he couldn't get clear of them was a bad sign, top 3 hopes dead in the water I'm afraid.

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DirkVoodoo

Can't quite understand why Froome wasn't able to ride the neutral service bike. Would be interesting to see in more detail.

I mean, if Jens can do it, surely the greatest cyclist in the world can do it.

I cringe every time I see that many people so close to the race was bound to happen sooner or later. No idea what caused the bike filming to slowdown /stop and port run straight into it had to have been breaking to avoid a spectator surely.

RobertKK

The people on the mountain who blocked the route were worse than the person/people responsible for the thumbtacks being thrown on the road a few years ago.

mloc123

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Can't quite understand why Froome wasn't able to ride the neutral service bike. Would be interesting to see in more detail.

I mean, if Jens can do it, surely the greatest cyclist in the world can do it.

no motor in the mavic bike

Edit: joking of course.. please don't ban me