2024 Tour de France Fantasy League, and general TdF discussions.

[Garth Bimble]

How are these guys professional bike riders and they can’t even put a dropped chain back on?
They try for 15 seconds then put their arms up in frustration and wait for a team car.
Just watched a spectator put the chain back on for WVA after he gave up after 15 seconds of trying.

Didn't want to get his hands dirty. Those things are gross, all oily and shit.

[dan_pdx]

Did you guys see these shenanigans? Local MTB guy gap jumped some riders on stage 11: http://instagram.com/p/C9P5NRPsJDv

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Did you guys see these shenanigans? Local MTB guy gap jumped some riders on stage 11: http://instagram.com/p/C9P5NRPsJDv

ha, i did not!
that must have stoked out the riders seeing it

[fomofo]

This is going to be insane heading into the Pyrenees. Is the giro showing in TP’s legs? Is Jonas just getting warmed up? Are the rest of UAE cooked? What will Remco come up with?

Regrets, I've had a few.



Interesting discussion/analysis starting 6:45

[TBS]

Did you guys see these shenanigans? Local MTB guy gap jumped some riders on stage 11: http://instagram.com/p/C9P5NRPsJDv

It’s been done five times before - Mr. Anouilh is the first to do it twice

This was actually Anouilh's second time jumping over the Tour de France peloton, after first doing it in 2019. This time, he says that the drop was his biggest ever, at 12m high and 8m long. He started building it one week ago and just finished it last night, the evening before Stage 11 passed under it.

The first rider recorded doing the peloton huck was Dave Watson, who crashed on the landing in 2002. Since then, Alexis Bosson, Roman Marandet and Dan Leclercq have also given it a go.

As far as we know, no rider has attempted the feat twice.

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/video-...cond-time.html

[xyz]

A couple of podium girls were hot today. Highlight of the stage for me.


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I see I used up my credits so no more rider changes for me. And my token team filler Renard (rating: 5) dropped before today's start [I guess he actually didn't make it thru stage 11]. So, i ride with this crew to the end!

(I doubt my team will magically resolve into the points powerhouse required to win, but who knows maybe it will fit into the results somehow? Doing pretty well for now...)

Tomorrow would suggest a breakaway tries to foil the sprinters, but, with bonus points on the finish line, I suspect they come in mostly together.

[TBS]

No comments about DeMare and Cav getting relegated in today’s sprint?

Did DeMare deviate from his line or did the organizers choke down the course in the final meters? Couldn’t tell from the camera angles but DeMare looked like he was going straight to me.

And I saw Cav changing lines - that’s what happens in a mass sprint - but couldn’t tell from the finish line camera angel whether he impeded anyone?

[xyz]

2024 Tour de France Fantasy League, and general TdF discussions.

No comments about DeMare and Cav getting relegated in today’s sprint?

Did DeMare deviate from his line or did the organizers choke down the course in the final meters? Couldn’t tell from the camera angles but DeMare looked like he was going straight to me.

And I saw Cav changing lines - that’s what happens in a mass sprint - but couldn’t tell from the finish line camera angel whether he impeded anyone?

Cav looked clean. He swerved hard but he was just moving around a gassed lead out. Maybe he interfered with the cofidis ruder behind.

Waut got pinned on the barriers. Too bad he may have taken it.


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Cav interfered with multiple riders on the run to the line. He was bouncing all over the place. (Luckily no one went down ultimately.)
It’s actually fascinating watching how that scrum morphs every meter approaching the line.

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And no Primoz today

[Foggy_Goggles]

Question about the crash yesterday. I hear the talk about whether that center divider should have been marked, but why don't the riders have all the course info? They've got radio and on bike mapping and such. How does the collective brain of the peloton not have a handle on it?

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2024 Tour de France Fantasy League, and general TdF discussions.

There have been situations in the past where the Tour has removed road furniture for the race & replaced it when the stage was through. I imagine they don’t do much of that given the expense.

But yesterday’s issue wasn’t knowing the dividing curb was there — they were already in the divided road. The crash occurred because a rider’s wheel got caught up in it as he was avoiding a brief slow up in front of him (micro slinky effect in the peloton). Then he fell across the divider into the peloton in the other lane.

[TBS]

^^^Yup - no place to go.

And Roglic was not up front, where he should have been.
Maybe it’s because he came to bike racing late, but his bike handling skills are right down there with Jan Ullrich & Chris Froome

[TBS]

Oh, and fuck Maxim Van Gils- should be DSQ