/TdF/ Tour de France

Saturday, July 16th Stage 14
Montélimar › Villars-les-Dombes Parc des Oiseaux (208.5k)

Since nobody started one I gave it a shot. Flat stage with several category 4 climbs, so most likely a sprint finish.

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>pinot

Ty fellow burger

flat

solid effort, op

>Chris Froome that's "blown-apart" everything

I hope there are a lot of castles along this
>boring
stage

theyre all on steroids

Why did they put this boring stage on a saturday ;_;

Froome ran over the competition Nice style

>all this hating on flat stages
why?

The finish is typically very exciting, to be quite honest.

>69569109
>flat
Just how I like my women.

TdF intro montage showing the Froome trio crash and him running as if they're proud of their mismanagement.

Flat stages are calm and comfy.

flat stages are cool at the beginning of the Tour to slowly set the mood. In the second week end it's annoying

unless the wind blows apart the peloton

so it's a win/win

froome crashes today

Well it's basically the only exciting thing that's happened so far. This has, so far, been an early 00's tier Tour.

nothing wrong with a day off, also there would be no reason for sprinters to stick around if all that's left after week 1 is Champs Elysée

THANKS JUAN

So we calmly post our best skeletons.

Learning how to make bread on the Tour. Excellent.

but what did he mean by this

G'day lads, 2agan win today? Or will it be Greipel as a birthday gift to himself?

shooped

...

Too flat. 2agan needs a technical finish or a slight climb to beat the pure sprinters. Gorilla should get a bday present.

>tfw evwn this flat stage has higher hills than can be found in my whole country

i really would like to be able to climb something during my rides ;_;

What about Cav? Did he drop out? His leadout train has looked incredibly strong this year.

>tfw live in west flanders

hold me bro

You're a big skeleton

Happy 52th Birthday Indurain!

why is quintana still occupying valverde's place on the team

>dead thread
>flat stage

Sup Forums casuals do it again!

How do you guys keep your water fresh during summer while ridding ?

clean out my bottles regularly.

fresh?

I fill up at taps or fountains any opportunity available.

ARE ARE ARE ARE ARE

Did you mean: cold?

niggas pls someone post the pic of the /tdf/ sign the frenchie used on that stage

Double-walled,vacuum-sealed steel bottles.

I use Hydroflasks.

Kek i meant cold

I piss on my bottle, drink it while it's hot for maximum freshness.

Best thing you can do is use insulated bottles and start with some level of ice.

>this #trolldj

ok

gotchu, family

Not that one, but the one he took of the sign.

I never drink cold water desu, it's bad for the stomach. Usually just fill both bottles from the tap

Once I was about to drink water from the tap, but a arm came out and I gave up.

Fill up the bottle a quarter of the way and put it in the freezer. Then, when you go for a ride, fill the bottle up to the top. You have water right away and a giant ice chunk to keep it cool.

What happend to that user? I was curious to see if he would post here with his sign after the stage.

>brazil problems

Froome has set his sights on a victory.

Sry i missed the stage Yesterday, TT is just too boring for me

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Pre tour: youtube.com/watch?v=RHGeb4k69AY

-Stage 1: youtube.com/watch?v=1ATydbtwpf4
-Stage 2: youtube.com/watch?v=A3ariGnY2v8
-Stage 3: youtube.com/watch?v=oT2HdqA8d0A
-Stage 4: youtube.com/watch?v=8SKbQkhgNoU
-Stage 5: youtube.com/watch?v=Wnsnx2fbQtQ
-Stage 6: youtube.com/watch?v=a84vky0Obsw
-Stage 7: youtube.com/watch?v=HBW1yRulVpw
-Stage 8: youtube.com/watch?v=5iNTLmSmm0Q
-Stage 9: youtube.com/watch?v=AshcHDVgOfs
-Stage 10: youtube.com/watch?v=YH0FL-KRL8Q
-Stage 11: youtube.com/watch?v=OKJyywOCfI8
-Stage 12: youtube.com/watch?v=8tBULgdoLmM
-Stage 13: youtube.com/watch?v=i7tOE8C8E_4

Yeah but your water gets hot while risibg right ?

Leave making Tour boring to me

Didn't know he was Team Instinct Too

kek

I honestly have no idea what's going on with Cav.

>tfw so skinny you need a girl to help you draw

WE NOSTALGIA DAY NAO

I don't live in a desert so not really a problem. Yeah it gets a bit warm sometimes but it doesn't really bother me.

He's getting plenty of help from team Sly.

Based Poels!

lol

>gif

Ha!

That's true, but it never really bothered me.

THE SEIZURE JERSEY

Who /Laura/ here?

I always find myself rooting for the breakway, especially when it's made up of far-down riders. I hope they make it.

all the excitement has come from him and sagan

SKELETON CASTLE

appearantly Martin Elmiger loves cows

who /misses >pinot/ here?

The others should ride faster then

>not one precarious live railroad crossing
shit race 2bh

I honestly feel super bad for Pinot. Appearantly he's a mentally fragile person who doesn't enjoy riding the Tour because of the huge pressure and expectations put on him because of his undoubted talent

Poor guy, I hope he gets his head in order the next years and becomes a proper contender

>its the fault of the only guy who is even trying to win

yeah how dare he attack so much why isnt he glued to the backwheel of his opponent that would be so much more exciting

in his new contract he insisted to be allowed to ride the giro next year

So how do we fix the Tour?

- Ban team radios, apart from safety messages. Make the riders correctly time their own tactical moves.

- Ban power meters. Make the riders attack when they feel good, not when the computer says they are optimal.

- Eight-man teams. Less riders means less risk of crashes (or it just means more teams) and it's harder to cram a team full of time-triallists who can climb well to support the team leader in an endless procession.

That's what I miss most about Jens Voigt riding. He loved doing shit like that.

>"I came to fuck shit up"

BLACK AND YELLOW
SKETCH-E
SWITCH-E

Wow, didn't know that. Interesting

What does "no-drop ride" mean? I'm considering stop being a hermit and riding along a local bike shops' Sunday morning route

I'm pretty sure winning giro or vuelta would be really good for his career. And he could even have a decent chance at doing it since there would be much less pressure on him and best riders wouldn't be there.

Is
>Bardet
a new meme now that
>Pinot
is gone for good?

No drop ride means casual bullshit where they stop and regroup for the slowpokes.

do you mean "no-dope ride"?

It's not Froome, or SKY. It's literally everyone else. They aren't even bothering. SKY are too strong, too well-funded and too single-minded to be beaten by teams that have a GC rider...and a sprinter...and also compete to win other GTs and one day races over the year.

SKY exist for a single purpose: to put a British rider on the top step of the podium. Anything else is for training purposes.

And he always wanted to be a Snorlax.

I see thanks, though I presume there's a slow group and a fast group that goes ahead

"drop" means they drop you off the back if you're too slow. "No-drop" doesn't necessarily mean the pace will be slow, but they will always have someone stay behind with a rider that's been dropped. i.e. you never ride alone.

There's currently a 4-man breakaway in front of the main group, or, "peloton".

they state a 13-16 mph average over mildly undulating terrain, which for a high-end store I presume is pretty slow to be quite honest

go 2agan

>No-drop ride.

Casual Americans.

That's really slow for a group ride if there are no major climbs.

You will catch a lot of Pokemon with that pace.

I've heard there's a go slow protest today, not seen any of the stage, true?

They've got 60km/h headwinds, they're just being fucked by that