Le Tour 2017

[jimmycase]

Started yesterday with what I view as a boring time trial. Cant abide watching TT's and they do absolutely nothing for me although I understand the effort required.

 

Hopefully today's 200km ride should whet my appetite. Programme due to start on EuroSport at 11, hope they dont fucking talk for an hour before the stage gets underway.

 

Some favourites and outsiders to win the Tour? Froome, Porte, Quintana, Aru, Bardet, Fuglsang?

[Champ]

I wish I could get involved with these grand tours. Every last mile will be on at ours. I love cycling myself but watching others cycling on the road leaves me cold

[DJLJ]

Nothing like watching cycling and seeing who is best at doping and not getting caught.

[Remmie]

My olds love it but have no interest in the actual sporting side of it, they just love watching the French countryside.

 

Although I want Froome to win again, it'd be nice if there was a little bit of competition and it gets down to the last few races.

[stringvest]

The British riders will be unfairly constrained in future, having to stop to get their passports checked at every border.

[Mendoza]

[Bjornebye]

They are all wankers. Especially Froome and Cavendish. 

[VladimirIlyich]

Nothing like watching cycling and seeing who is best at doping and not getting caught.

This.

[setreal]

I wish I could get involved with these grand tours. Every last mile will be on at ours.

 

This is fine policy for the flat stages but do yourself a favour and watch the mountain stages in their full glory.

[Champ]

This is fine policy for the flat stages but do yourself a favour and watch the mountain stages in their full glory.

Noo! I meant he will be watching every single mile

[setreal]

Oh!

 

Well either way you should watch the climbs.

[Champ]

Oh!

 

Well either way you should watch the climbs.

I imagine I won't be able to avoid them

[VladimirIlyich]

To be fair to 'Le Tour' its actually more of a travelogue with some fellas on bikes taking you through some fantastic terrain and scenery. They pay millions to get towns and villages on the route as it boosts tourism tremendously. That's the watchable thing about it for me.

[setreal]

Düsseldorf paid 13m€ to host the start this year. And it rained all weekend.

[Total Longo]

I'll be surprised if Froome wins this year, from my recollection its not set up to suit him that much. 

 

Can't beat Le Tour winding through the French countryside though, one of the sporting events of the year for me. They're absolute lunatics....and so are the cyclists.

[setreal]

This should go into the Perks of your job thread, but: Being able to have a Tour live-stream running in a browsertab while at work is great.

[stringvest]

tedious, though the scenery is nice.  A few of my mates ride some of the mountain stages before the start of the Tour, then they hang around drinking wine and smoking baguettes watching it for a few weeks.  Then they come back and bore the ring off me about it for three months.  I would quite like there to be a cataclysmic event during it this year.   

[Champ]

tedious, though the scenery is nice. A few of my mates ride some of the mountain stages before the start of the Tour, then they hang around drinking wine and smoking baguettes watching it for a few weeks. Then they come back and bore the ring off me about it for three months. I would quite like there to be a cataclysmic event during it this year.

Don't even jest

[Champ]

This isn't the thread jimmycase had in mind, is it?

[Ginny]

Don't mind watching it but not a massive fan. Can't help but feel like they are all doping though - that's why I can't fully get into it .

[Total Longo]

I went to watch it in Yorkshire a couple of years ago at Holme Moss, it was a boss day. Got loads of free nonsense and fell asleep in a field and got slightly sunburnt. 

[Bellflower]

Guy at the side of the road in the middle of a Luxembourg forest with a cardboard sign

 

"WENGER OUT"

[VladimirIlyich]

Guy at the side of the road in the middle of a Luxembourg forest with a cardboard sign

 

"WENGER OUT"

That might mean something else in the villages of the Benelux countries.

Or he may have omitted the words 'I've got my..' before it.

[Mathewbet1]

been exciting so far, froome crashed , a welshman in the yellow jersey , good sprint finish from segan today for the stage win. 

[VladimirIlyich]

Why don't they blood test them if they have a crash? That would be interesting 'Thats not EPO officer,thats from the 2 bottles of wine I drank last night,honest!'