Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Tour de France 2019 General Thread

Options
1234689

Comments

  • Options
    #152
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    MPFGLB wrote: »
    Oomen, Kelderman ,Roche & Kemna are as good as any team out there (when fit) to support Dumoulin ... And no way was the team in 2017 better ...out right wrong

    Really annoying when poor comms by Hatch & Kirby is 1. Believed and 2. spouted back verbatim

    Most of what Kirby & Hatch say on 'weak' teams is redundant

    Dumoulin is not leaving cos of team...the is leaving becasue of money

    Sad really that Ineoa & JV will have all the top riders....not much chance for the rest with the smaller budgets .Plus we wont see some top riders ride against each other .Very bad for the sport

    It's only a little insulting for you to think I'm incapable of forming my own opinion :rolleyes:


  • Options
    #153
    MPFGLB
    Registered Users Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭MPFGLB


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It's only a little insulting for you to think I'm incapable of forming my own opinion :rolleyes:


    Apologies...does sound bad.... if that what you believe you are entitled to you opinion and after all we only all here have opinions :(

    More furious with comms for everyday on and on about weak teams ...
    Riders on a climb man o man o and all they say is Alaphilipe or Dumoulin or whoever is isolated and the team is weak ....everyone is isolated at that point and even if they weren't its not much anyone can do ...unless you have Bernal with you and even then? Rob Hatch is particularly annoying


  • Options
    #154
    dastardly00
    Registered Users Posts: 13,425 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    Andrey Amador's "modified" Fizik R1 shoes :eek:

    amador_cut_shoes_670.jpg


  • Options
    #155
    De Bhál
    Registered Users Posts: 2,918 ✭✭✭De Bhál


    MPFGLB wrote: »
    ....everyone is isolated at that point and even if they weren't its not much anyone can do ...

    in fairness, it is very useful having a teammate there with you if you have any bike issues and need to take his. Could be the winning or losing of the Tour for someone.


  • Options
    #156
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,436 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    De Bhál wrote: »
    in fairness, it is very useful having a teammate there with you if you have any bike issues and need to take his. Could be the winning or losing of the Tour for someone.

    Unless you're Conor Dunne. Twould be like me on a child's bike if he had to take a team mates


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #157
    De Bhál
    Registered Users Posts: 2,918 ✭✭✭De Bhál


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Unless you're Conor Dunne. Twould be like me on a child's bike if he had to take a team mates

    "have you got your allen key set on you there Conor, and we'll get about dropping this saddle a bit"

    Didn't a rider take a fans bike years ago to get down a mountain? maybe not...

    edit...maybe so
    https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/fan-gives-tyler-farrar-shoes-and-bike-after-crash-to-save-his-tour-down-under-207960


    and an even more extreme example
    http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/pro-rider-climbs-summit-finish-on-fans-1980s-granny-bike-after-crash/


  • Options
    #158
    Tim76
    Registered Users Posts: 953 ✭✭✭Tim76


    De Bhál wrote: »
    Didn't a rider take a fans bike years ago to get down a mountain? maybe not...

    Did Froome take the runners off a jogger and start running up a mountain? :P


  • Options
    #159
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    What happened to Luis Leon? Non starter today, was he involved in the crash yesterday?


  • Options
    #160
    MPFGLB
    Registered Users Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭MPFGLB


    Deleted User wrote: »
    What happened to Luis Leon? Non starter today, was he involved in the crash yesterday?

    He hurt his back at the very beginning of the race


  • Options
    #161
    Inquitus
    Registered Users Posts: 13,761 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Ineos losing most of the team there no?


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #162
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Luke Rowe, was thrown out of the race, together with his Jumbo Visma counterpart Tony Martin, after the pair had an altercation towards the end of stage 17.

    a bit OTT?


  • Options
    #163
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    fryup wrote: »
    a bit OTT?

    Not really the rules are clear to the riders. Apparently there's more than what the live feed picked up. Get the impression that Luke Rowe isn't the most popular rider in the peloton


  • Options
    #164
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    bit of an @sshole?


  • Options
    #165
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,925 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    They both deserved it, no matter the instigator. One grabbed the other by the neck, the other switched out, on purpose, repeatedly. Christ, any other riders pulled this sh1t at an amateur race and they'd struggle to be let ride again if seen by the Comms. They got off lightly and am shocked everyone else seems to think a fine would have been more appropriate. Both maneuvers, regardless of instigation, could leave half the group in hospital very easily.


  • Options
    #166
    martyc5674
    Registered Users Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭martyc5674


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Both maneuvers, regardless of instigation, could leave half the group in hospital very easily.

    Exactly my thoughts... could have caused carnage.


  • Options
    #167
    MPFGLB
    Registered Users Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭MPFGLB


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    Not really the rules are clear to the riders. Apparently there's more than what the live feed picked up. Get the impression that Luke Rowe isn't the most popular rider in the peloton

    That is what Nicolas Roche told Orla of Eurosport


  • Options
    #168
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    MPFGLB wrote: »
    That is what Nicolas Roche told Orla of Eurosport

    Oh right I didn't think anyone would openly say it.


  • Options
    #169
    MPFGLB
    Registered Users Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭MPFGLB


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    Oh right I didn't think anyone would openly say it.

    Oral said to Wiggo yesterday that Nicolas Roche told her Luke Rowe wasn't liked in the peloton ...not sure he meant it to be said live on TV though :D


  • Options
    #170
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    MPFGLB wrote: »
    Oral said to Wiggo yesterday that Nicolas Roche told her Luke Rowe wasn't liked in the peloton ...not sure he meant it to be said live on TV though :D

    He can pass that off with a "she said that he said" and he won't need body armour next time he rides along side him in the peleton.

    Just a note I think all former ras riders are now out of the tour. Postelberger went today and Martin yesterday , is or was there any more than them in this years tour?


  • Options
    #171
    MPFGLB
    Registered Users Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭MPFGLB


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    He can pass that off with a "she said that he said" and he won't need body armour next time he rides along side him in the peleton.

    Just a note I think all former ras riders are now out of the tour. Postelberger went today and Martin yesterday , is or was there any more than them in this years tour?

    Did Xandro Merruise ride the RAS ??


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #172
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    MPFGLB wrote: »
    Did Xandro Merruise ride the RAS ??

    When do you think he might have?


  • Options
    #173
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,925 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    When do you think he might have?

    I don't think he did, I know he rode for AP-CRC but he didn't come out for the Ras


  • Options
    #174
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    When do you think he might have?

    He's in this provisional start list for 2015. Did he actually take part though?

    http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/its-getting-close-now-start-list-for-the-2015-an-post-ras/


  • Options
    #175
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Someone's feeling the heat at DQS. Lefevre responds to a tweet about the Alaphillipe/soigneur pushing incident by calling Thijs Zonneveld a loser, half journalist and failed pro.

    A bit petty, you'd assume someone in his position has better things to do in the evening these days than responding to inflammatory tweets from journalists.


  • Options
    #176
    dastardly00
    Registered Users Posts: 13,425 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    The driver won't be able to see out the windscreen soon!

    EAY5yOdX4AERoBm.jpg:large


  • Options
    #177
    Mefistofelino
    Registered Users Posts: 1,852 ✭✭✭Mefistofelino


    JA's goatee just reminds me of Blackadder

    url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjq4IXMp9LjAhXQi1wKHWuUB68QjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fprogrammes%2Fb006xxw3&psig=AOvVaw3wn3_vddh94J9axhK8aVT4&ust=1564220912893155


  • Options
    #178
    dastardly00
    Registered Users Posts: 13,425 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    https://twitter.com/robhatchtv/status/1155009440879448065


  • Options
    #179
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,054 ✭✭✭✭neris


    dastardly00 wrote: »
    The driver won't be able to see out the windscreen soon!

    EAY5yOdX4AERoBm.jpg:large

    he wouldnt be far out the carpark like that before being pulled over by an eagle eyed gendarme for having his vision obstructed


  • Options
    #180
    Acosta
    Registered Users Posts: 2,363 ✭✭✭Acosta


    Just saw a video of it snowing heavily at the finish.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #181
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,083 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Acosta wrote: »
    Just saw a video of it snowing heavily at the finish.

    Here's a webcam from the resort. Looks OK.

    https://www.valthorens.com/en/webcam/restaurant-la-maison


Advertisement