TheKillerPenguin

If Perfume Genius cosponsored Cannondale Garmin, it would go a long way toward making up for their lack of argyle.

Racer Ex 

What struck me over the last few days is that this Tour of France thing is actually a professional bike race and these are professional bike racers. Paul's insight to pick this up has been a game changer in how I look at the race. And it's cool his talking parrot has started repeating this as well.

shovelhd

Athens80

We're talking the *winner of the 2010 TdF?

hack

So ... I may be out of touch, but is Kennaugh really pronounced "Kenyuck" or are P&P just making this up?

save10

*yes

wens

Re pronunciation, yes or at least the gh as ck part.

save10

i'm giving a thumbs down to the new Oakleys E/quickstep, sagan and others are wearing.

Racer Ex 

Yeah, Giant did. At one point they had three guys lined out on the front.

After a brutal stage where you are on the rivet for most of it, fighting to make selections that took a field of 180 down to 30, you don't just press the "magic legs" button on the handlebar and run down the World TT champ like he's standing still. He finished 3 seconds ahead. That's not letting someone ride off.

There was a lot of burnt meat in that little pack.

dz_nuzz

Too bad Cancellara crashed out.

save10

um...I thought's what the little motors in the bottom bracket are for.

side note...collar bones

dz_nuzz

So this year the yellow jersey apparently has a curse set upon it. The way this is going it will be the lantern rouge wearing it by the end of the tour.

Ygduf

fair enough. I watched it the one time and watched them give him 100m or whatever, then next I saw they were sprinting for 2nd. I am very far from an educated or attentive viewer.

it just looked like they spotted him 10 seconds and then none of his guys or Froome's guy were doing anything so the response seemed sluggish. But, he's the champ, and I didn't think it was easy.

Racer Ex 

Turn off the internet pron and pay attention. This stuff is important and there will be a test later.

Ygduf

but my ****** karma and nba free agency...

I didn't start cycling until well after I was already an american and liked american sports, except baseball which is super boring.

topflightpro

Did you know that Saab was born from Jets?

save10

i watch on a eurosport feed....did you know Alpecin is a shampoo with caffiene in it??!!! and Bora is a company that sells kitchen hoods?

echappist

that thing looks interesting. if i ever save up enough for a down payment, i'm gonna get one of those extractors for all the steak au poivre i'm gonna cook

shovelhd

Collarbone shattered into pieces. Living that dream. Sucks. Great show Tony, too short.

mattm

poor tony. seemed like it was 70% his fault tho.. ok maybe 51%.

then stybar didn't seem to know what had happened yet when tony congratulated him, and stybar gave him a hug. ouch #2 .

revchuck 

Hey, I've got something in common with Tony Martin! I touched a wheel, went down and shattered my collarbone into pieces too! Does that mean that he and I are, like, bros?

Yeah, it does suck. I wonder if Froome will decline to wear yellow today...

Grumpy McTrumpy

Chris Froome ‏@chrisfroome 3h3 hours ago

For those asking, I won’t be wearing yellow today! All the best to @tonymartin85 with his op & recovery #MaillotJaune #TDF2015

revchuck 

Cool.

TheKillerPenguin

BBC Radio 5 live - 5 live Sport, 5 live Cycling, Mind of A Cyclist - Sir Bradley Wiggins

Interesting stuff starts at 5:30ish into the clip

save10

Luca Paolini, he of the epic beard, tested + for cocaine at TDF. Its a hell of a drug.

Paolini informed of cocaine positive at Tour de France | Cyclingnews.com