Apart from the clear excruciating pain the riders suffered daily, I thought the highlight of the movie was the old couta who looked after them.

He cracked me up when he'd just stand there, not saying anything, drink in one hand and towel in the other when the riders were coughing their lungs out of their chests. No emotion, just very matter of fact...If it were me, I be saying crap like, "mate, you look f*cked, that musta really sucked."

yeah, the old guy was a cracker. I wonder how long he's been doing that.

8 hours anybody?

https://users.tpg.com.au/audiotek/ride.html

*laugh* Can somebody tell me - What IS the cubic metreage of McEwans ego? There was an interview with him yesterday where he basically said that without Petacchi and Zabel there, he's the only 'first tier' sprinter in the TdF this year.....then Boonen blows his doors off in the second stage!

Gotta confess, I had a good chuckle about that.

I watched the first stage live as I was just p¡ssed enough to be able to comandeer the TV remote at a party I was at, and everyone else was too p¡ssed to complain.
The highlight for me was trying to explain to a very, very drunk friend how the Tour works....

Me - "Well, after the first stage, if you're 40 seconds ahead of everyone else then you win that day's stage, but after 21 days of racing, the guy who finishes the entire 3000 odd kms the fastest wins overall"

Friend - "Huh?"

I thought McEwen said something like: "it doesn't matter if Petacchi's not there because there's plenty of others that will step up, such as Boonen, Hushovd, etc....

but I admit I didn't watch that whole interview because I can only take Mike Tomilaris in small doses.

Tomalaris = tool of the week.


For all three weeks.

so, are all you guys staying up to watch the end of every stage?

Negative.

I'm ratsh*t already after only one night!!

If I were you I'd tape it and watch the last 10 minutes when I got up.

The only problem is that if McEwen (I can never spell his name) wins the stage, it's all over the news, and therefore hard to avoid

....me 3!...I'm conserving myself for the mountain stages...nothing much will happen before that.....& the bloody coaching nazi has scheduled me for 3 morning sessions this week (ie: before work)....kinda hard to get to bed at 1.30am & be on the bike at 5!....now wheres those bloody no-doze!

Hitchy

highlights at 6pm if I get home in time, that's about it for me. I'll tape the mountain stages and watch them later.

got the details on our B grade crash on Saturday. One guy broke both collarbones, a shoulder blade and 2 ribs - OUCH !!!!! He's on some good drugs at the moment

Sounds fun, where do we sign up?

oh no... up working on a presentation for work tom... and the TDF has started... could be bad

WARNING: stage 3 spoiler :


pic of the year so far!!!!! AWESOME!!

https://www.velonews.com/images/details/8385.11696.f.jpg

great pic, Robbie's going to be pissed off now... go Boonen, he's got to keep the green jersey to the end now.

Did you stay up Paul? I'm waiting for the mountain stages, hopefully some good ones are over a weekend.

i can send you a form

it does put a bit of reality in to what can happen but honestly, it doesn't happen that often. And you can use your own skill and judgement most of the time to avoid this sort of stuff.

head butt?? What head butt?


Looks like Gary Anderson winning the scratch race at the the 1990 Comm Games in Auckland. I reckon he rode the whole final lap in that position.


Gawd I'm old.....

I'm glad I missed it. Not a good place to have a bad accident: 15-25mins before ambo's can get to you.

First time I've watched the TdF over the last 2 nights. Think I'm starting to get hooked. Phil and his mate sure do a good job of making something that's really quite boring seem exciting. That and I love the French countryside.

That's all fro mthe nob that's come in late.

Boring!!!!**********?!!???

Having a fun filled day there ed

On a cycling note (heaven forbid). Ed, you've mentioned Cytomax as the drink of choice, do you know where you can get it without paying a fortune?

Cheers,
Dave

Cytomax...good but pricey. All those friggen drinks are.

Maxim might be a bit cheaper....that's pretty good. I think Boardman used it when he was racing.

Extran is my very favourite, both the powder and the little squeezy rectangles.

thanks mate. Looks like good stuff. Do you know where you can get it in Aus?

No idea.


Sorry!