galumay quick pic of my rig, its purpose built for riding the bike track to work, (wouldnt be much good for the hills in TDF!) Single speed, carbon fibre forks, bars & seatpost, Stans ZTR Flow wheels, tubeless Schwable Super Moto tyres in 29 x 2.35
Koffee_Kosmo galumay wrote: quick pic of my rig, its purpose built for riding the bike track to work, (wouldnt be much good for the hills in TDF!) Single speed, carbon fibre forks, bars & seatpost, Stans ZTR Flow wheels, tubeless Schwable Super Moto tyres in 29 x 2.35 Very nice And good of you to be getting into the spirit of the big race My bike has flat tires
Koffee_Kosmo Tour Update for stage 3 TDF Watching the race live last night / early morning I was a thrilling stage that was made for team support or be left behind Very narrow road sections with many bikes wanting to get past caused several crashes splitting the peloton into sub groups The Stage has several hilly sections that drain the energy from the riders The front runners were well supported by there respective teams Cadel Evans ran a shrewd race with his team keeping him relaxed and out of harms way The standings as follows Orchies to Boulogne-sur-Mer Stage 3 (197 km) 1. CANCELLARA F. RNT 14h 45' 30'' 2. WIGGINS B. SKY 00' 07'' 3. CHAVANEL S. OPQ 00' 07'' 4. VAN GARDEREN T. BMC 00' 10'' 5. BOASSON HAGEN E. SKY 00' 11'' 6. MENCHOV D. KAT 00' 13'' 7. EVANS C. BMC 00' 17''
Koffee_Kosmo Tour Update for stage 4 TDF The standings as follows Abbeville to Rouen Stage 4 (214 km) 1 012 Fabian CANCELLARA RNT 20:04:02 00:00:00 2 101 Bradley WIGGINS SKY 20:04:09 00:00:07 3 192 Sylvain CHAVANEL OPQ 20:04:09 00:00:07 4 009 Tejay VAN GARDEREN BMC 20:04:12 00:00:10 5 102 Edvald BOASSON HAGEN SKY 20:04:13 00:00:11 6 131 Denis MENCHOV KAT 20:04:15 00:00:13 7 001 Cadel EVANS BMC 20:04:19 00:00:17 8 051 Vincenzo NIBALI LIQ 20:04:20 00:00:18 9 061 Ryder HESJEDAL GRS 20:04:20 00:00:18 10 015 Andr
hiphipharar Koffee Kosmo wrote: Abbeville to Rouen[/b] The road to Rouen, huh? I think a few of us may have been on that road at some time in our lives? 🙂
Koffee_Kosmo hiphipharrar wrote: The road to Rouen, huh? I think a few of us may have been on that road at some time in our lives? 🙂 I should have used that in the mini description of stage 4 TDF
Seeya_Latte Trying not to be too biased here, but I reckon Cadel's sitting very nicely for now. My view of week 1 of any TDF is that all the GC contenders primarily make sure they stay within reach of each other (time wise) while getting protection from their teams and staying out of the bash n crash that comes in the first week. Once Week 1's out of the way, we're into some hills and that's where they start freeing up and you start seeing team tactics and strategies playing a key role is setting up a winner...great stuff.
beanflying Great finish tonight with the breakaway just getting caught in the last couple of hundred meters. Huge effort by Greibel to just pip the others in the uphill sprint including Australias Matty Goss in third. Cadel sitting nicely, safe, uninjured and just where he would be happy toward the end of week one. 🙂 Time for some sleep I reckon :coffee:
Koffee_Kosmo Update snip Furious United States sprinter Tyler Farrar tried to storm into a rival team's bus after another crash in week one of the Tour de France Story here http://www.sbs.com.au/cyclingcentral/news/37462/garmin-s-farrar-attempts-to-storm-argos KK
Koffee_Kosmo Tour Update for stage 5 TDF The standings as follows Rouen to Saint-Quentin Stage 5 (197 km) Stage winners 1 114 Andr
beanflying Time everyone took a chill pill and relaxed the pack spacing a little - OUCHY. :o Bring on some hills tonight should help spread the peloton out hopefully and maybe not a bunch sprint for the line would be nice 🙂
Kevohere Anger Management wrote: Just my 2 cents on this subject. I might just throw in another two, bringing the tally up to four cents. :stir Why is it that the news reports/reporters, media and here as well it seems, refer to this event as: "The Tour de France"? :tearhair: It's either "Le Tour de France" or "The Tour of France" :exclaim: Great information and pics by the way KK. :thumb: Shows how keen you are. You could be referred to as "Keen Koffee Kosmo" but...... I don't think the abbreviation of "KKK" would sit too well with some. ;D
Koffee_Kosmo Kevohere wrote: I might just throw in another two, bringing the tally up to four cents. :stir Why is it that the news reports/reporters, media and here as well it seems, refer to this event as: "The Tour de France"? :tearhair: It's either "Le Tour de France" or "The Tour of France" :exclaim: Great information and pics by the way KK. :thumb: Shows how keen you are. You could be referred to as "Keen Koffee Kosmo" but...... I don't think the abbreviation of "KKK" would sit too well with some. ;D The word " de " in French means " of " in English The preposition de, often meaning from or of, combines with the definite article to produce the following contracted forms. These forms thus all have the rough meaning of "of the...", "from the...":
Koffee_Kosmo Tour Update for stage 7 TDF The standings as follows Tomblaine to La Planche des Belles Filles Stage 7 (199 km) Sky Racing Team dominated today's stage wanting to place there rider Bradley Wiggins into the yellow jersey Making Bradley Wiggins only the fifth Briton to pull on the Tour de France yellow jersey, after taking the race lead at the end of the seventh stage Saturday This stage was the first of the mountain stages with some sections having up top 20% inclines The leader board has changed and the contenders will be trying not to loose any time to rivals Stage 7 Standings 1 105 Christopher FROOME SKY 04:58:35 00:00:00 2 001 Cadel EVANS BMC 04:58:37 00:00:02 3 101 Bradley WIGGINS SKY 04:58:37 00:00:02 4 051 Vincenzo NIBALI LIQ 04:58:42 00:00:07 5 081 Rein TAARAMAE COF 04:58:54 00:00:19 Overall Race Standings 1 101 Bradley WIGGINS SKY 34:21:20 00:00:00 2 001 Cadel EVANS BMC 34:21:30 00:00:10 3 051 Vincenzo NIBALI LIQ 34:21:36 00:00:16 4 081 Rein TAARAMAE COF 34:21:52 00:00:32 5 131 Denis MENCHOV KAT 34:22:14 00:00:54 6 019 Haimar ZUBELDIA RNT 34:22:19 00:00:59 7 016 Maxime MONFORT RNT 34:22:29 00:01:09 8 079 Nicolas ROCHE ALM 34:22:42 00:01:22 9 105 Christopher FROOME SKY 34:22:52 00:01:32 10 108 Michael ROGERS SKY 34:23:00 00:01:40 KK
Koffee_Kosmo Tour Update for stage 8 TDF Belfort to Porrentruy Stage 8 (154 km) The standings as follows Stage 8 Standings 1 146 Thibaut PINOT FDJ 03:56:10 00:00:00 2 001 Cadel EVANS BMC 03:56:36 00:00:26 3 013 Tony GALLOPIN RNT 03:56:36 00:00:26 4 101 Bradley WIGGINS SKY 03:56:36 00:00:26 5 051 Vincenzo NIBALI LIQ 03:56:36 00:00:26 Overall Standings 1 101 Bradley WIGGINS SKY 38:17:56 00:00:00 2 001 Cadel EVANS BMC 38:18:06 00:00:10 3 051 Vincenzo NIBALI LIQ 38:18:12 00:00:16 4 131 Denis MENCHOV KAT 38:18:50 00:00:54 5 019 Haimar ZUBELDIA RNT 38:18:55 00:00:59 6 105 Christopher FROOME SKY 38:19:28 00:01:32 7 016 Maxime MONFORT RNT 38:20:04 00:02:08 8 111 Jurgen VAN DEN BROECK LTB 38:20:07 00:02:11 9 079 Nicolas ROCHE ALM 38:20:17 00:02:21 10 081 Rein TAARAMAE COF 38:20:23 00:02:27 Today was an up and down hill stage (see map)and I believe the shortest of the tour by some 45 km (excluding time trial stages) This gave the opportunity to some individuals to make a run for it and beat the peloton to the finish line As noted above this is exactly what happened two groups were formed in front of the peloton and one Frenchman Thibaut Pinot prevailed to the finish 26 seconds ahead of the chasing group led by Cadel Evans Cadel Evans tried to make time on the leader Bradley Wiggins without success but I think he managed to sap a little more energy from him Its a long race and every move has consequences over the coming days Wiggins Sky team has lost members due to accidents while Evans BMC team remains unscathed and intact KK philosophy - Teams win races TDF KK
