Tour de France 2017: Stage 5 Vittel - La Planche de Belles Filles, 160.5km

MPFGLB

stecleary wrote: »

Don't say that, That means Dan Martin is gonna go with 6k to go and fall 50M from the finish

Don't think he will attack at 6km or fall ..in fact he has the best chance of wining if he stays with Froome and Porte as fastest finisher

BTW when you see all the teams like Katusha, UAE, Sunweb, Lotto Soudial, Lotto NLJ, FDJ, Dim Data having no GC man in the Tour and then you see SKY with a possible 5 GC leading men ...seems so wrong not just in competitive terms in this Tour but for cycling as a whole

Inquitus

simonw wrote: »

Hopefully nothing serious

Should say Tony not Dan

mhiggy09

stecleary wrote: »

MPFGLB wrote: »

They key for the stage is to attack at the right point ...I think 4km to go point ...half way up the climb so Porte will need someone for half the climb

Don't say that, That means Dan Martin is gonna go with 6k to go and fall 50M from the finish

Now now he's learned his lesson from last year

Doc07

simonw wrote: »

Hopefully nothing serious

If Dan Martin has become a Katusha TT specialist then it's very serious indeed!

robyntmorton

Doc07 wrote: »

If Dan Martin has become a Katusha TT specialist then it's very serious indeed!

If he thinks that, that's a sign of serious concussion, and he should be taken off the road!

Somedude9

MPFGLB wrote: »

They key for the stage is to attack at the right point ...I think 4km to go point ...half way up the climb so Porte will need someone for half the climb

Yes and that would be Roche I expect or he could just ride the Sky train to victory

kyeev

JiffyJ wrote: »

Totally gutted today, only a win for Dan the man can cheer me up!

I've been waiting all year for the Cav show.
Was delighted he made it back to health in time for the tour, after the glandular fever thing.
Can hardly find it within myself to forgive Sagan (who we all love).

Will Cav be too old next year to add to the 30? Griepel is older and still going I spose.

neris

vockler in the break, this could end in heroics or total abject failure........... im going for total abject failure

oflahero

Got to hand it to Sky. Not doing a tap at the front, BMC emptying themselves.

irishrover99

oflahero wrote: »

Got to hand it to Sky. Not doing a tap at the front, BMC emptying themselves.

But every other year you hear that Sky are allowed to control the pace too much and other teams should intervene and take control.

That's probably what BMC are actually doing this year, for a change.

MPFGLB

https://twitter.com/velonews/status/882601050213101570

neris

vockler could learn alot from steve cummings about breakaways and riding away

Inquitus

neris wrote: »

vockler could learn alot from steve cummings about breakaways and riding away

Cummings could learn alot from Voeckler about gurning!

WinnyThePoo

Pinot taking it easy.

retalivity

neris wrote: »

vockler could learn alot from steve cummings about breakaways and riding away

Hes got 16 days to cram!

brianhalpin

Anyone know a site with live data (Current speed, power, gradient)?

irishrover99

Go on Alf. At least somebody is giving it a go

neris

go on dan keep in there

irishrover99

Contador and Quintana gone. How predictable

spock.

Fantastic win from Aru.

neris

quintana gone, left for dust by froome dan & porte

Weepsie

irishrover99 wrote: »

Contador and Quintana gone. How predictable

They're closing pretty quick, how predicatable

spock.

Dan 2nd

Inquitus

If they hadn't let Aru go I think Dan had the winning of that, shame.

neris

good man dan, a good 2nd place

WinnyThePoo

Aru has such a dramatic riding style. Great win.

mhiggy09

What a finish by dan

robyntmorton

Chapeau to Fabio Aru and Dan Martin. Great results for both of them.

Makes a change for Dan not being passed in the last few metres.

REBELSAFC

Dan looks really really strong

irishrover99

Aru looks in great form and Dan looks lively too.
Its good to have hope of a competitive tour after the first mountain stage and not the usual Froome win.