Buck Rogers

Mollema third.

Kwiatkowski wins with Tony Gallopin in second!

VSP PICKS:

1. Kwiatowski
2. Greg Van Avermaet
3. Mikal Landa
4. Phil-Gilbert
5. Tony Gallopin

@BaltoSteve

newfound respect for Dan Martin

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Pure fucking Class Act!  He is my new favorite rider hands down.

Here’s his quote at the finish today: Reporter says–You would be in yellow if not for that stage 9 crash.  Martin replies: It’s all ‘What if’, you know? I might have been in yellow and then lost five minutes because everyone a…[Read more]

@wiscot

@Rick

Surely there could not be a double standard favoring the French. Demare clearly deviated from his line in Stage 4. While Sagan was booted, Demare escaped punishment and took the stage. Bouhanni punches a Quickstep rider and gets a laughable punishment. Now, three riders take water bottles and two get 20-second penalties. Bardet…

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@Harminator

@RobSandy

@wiscot

@Teocalli

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Computers, “syncing it up”, powermeters, wattage. What is this madness? Can’t we just have a bloody bike race where you race how you feel? Bernard Hinault said (and I may paraphrase here) “As long as I breathe, I attack.” He certainly didn’t say, I’ll attack within the perameters dictated to m…

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@Rick

Sorry, thought I put in the link: https://twitter.com/davidbuonomo

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Really great!  He’s not the same guy who did the cartoons for Rouleur that were on the cover one time, is he?

Doesn’t look exactly the same but they are similar.

@Buck Rogers

And then when it actually posts–the font is all the same.  Fuck!  I need a drink!

@BacklashJack

Greg LeMan chimes in on the Aru attack:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cycling-france-lemond-idUSKBN19U0XK

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Especially agreed with this point.

“The American was also very critical of Froome as he witnessed the three-times champion fiddling with his on-board computer on his new bike before making it back to the…[Read more]

@wiscot

Crazy times, crazy race. I’m hoping Dan Martin will recover today and show that he has podium form. He has nothing to lose at this point but to attack. Maybe he and Aru can go for it? Quintana could surprise and Bertie has nothing to lose but his pride in what looks like he last Tour. The Fat Lady is still in her dressing room and is j…

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@frank

Somethings gone amuck with the rest day swaps code. I’ll see if I can get them working in time, but worst case is that no one swaps, which is not a terrible worst case…

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This is obviously the Will of the Velominati Gods!

Merckx himself must have visited the site, saw the “Rest Day Swap” bullshit and decreed that it must stop now…[Read more]

@wiscot

@Buck Rogers

Ohhhhhhh! Heartbreak for Barguil!

Uhhhg.

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Lots of swaps on the cards for tomorrow I think . . .

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Not for those of us with integrity and honour!  (insert smiley/snarky face here!)

Ohhhhhhh!  Heartbreak for Barguil!

Uhhhg.

@wiscot

Following this on updates. Sounds like a stage for the ages and it isn’t even over yet! Gutted for Geraint and Richie.

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Fucking amazing stage!  So awful for GT and Porte.  Still waiting updates on them.

And fucking awful for Martin as he was right in there and got wiped out by a flying Porte.

Ended up losing over a min…[Read more]

Well played by everyone except Aru.

Replays showing Froome raising his hand for a mechanical and then Aru, who is behind Froome, immediately attacks.

Aru pushes the pace, the other contenders follow him but refuse to come through.  Aru got mad and tried to get the others to pull through but they would not and now all back together…[Read more]

@eightzero

Correction: “…get your picks in by the time the clock goes to EIGHTzero..”

Can’t do it. I lived through pharmsrong and qui tam Landis. They ripped out my heart, and tossed on the Champs. I have a rock on my desk that came from the famed final circuits. I can’t do it anymore.

I was young and carefree.

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I feel your pain…[Read more]

@Teocalli

@37 mins at the finish……..

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Wonder how many “sticky-bidons” he had today?

@Rick

Assuming “sick” means he is allergic to the mountains.

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Ha!

Oh man, I love karma.

@Rick

@Teocalli

Will Damare make it through today – 5 mins out the back and a long way to go……

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the answer may depend on how close his team car is.

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Ha!  You beat me to it!!!

Demare(d) will need another fucking “Cipressa Ride”!

@Rick

@Buck Rogers

@Rick

@Buck Rogers

They used to call him Abdu-push-em-off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nt4x3nuzfQ

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Ha! Yup, he is the undisputed Argy-Bargy-Craziest sprinter in the history of cycling!

Guy was Fucking NUTS! No fear at all!

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Seeing that crash on the Champs still gives me chills.

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And the…[Read more]