/tdf/ - Tour de France, Stage 18, Time Trial

>ASO Live Race centre: racecenter.letour.fr/?v=3#/timetrial

>Tissot Live timing: live.tissottiming.com/?id=00030D02&style=Tissot

>Stage info: letour.com/le-tour/2016/us/stage-18.html

Only 17 out of 206 individual time trials of the Tour de France since the first one in 1934 have been contested uphill.
The first one was up the Mont Ventoux on 13 July 1958.
There hasn't been any stage of this kind since the timed climb to L'Alpe d'Huez in 2004.

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Is this a horse category?

The bookies are giving this stage to our Spooky Skeleton or Tom Dumoulin and maybe skybot in disguise and Aussie shitposter Porte.

No category since TT??, although a horse would struggle on some bits.

Froomey's got this, lads.

Looking forward to this. See how weak Quintana actually is.

"There are lots of years left," he said.

"I'm 26 and the guys ahead of me are much older and have much more experience. The dream is not over and there are many years to come, many years to keep trying."

Until this point the Movistar rider has made a point of saying there are still many days and many mountains left in this particular Tour. That has now turned to years in his career.

cyclingnews.com/news/quintana-i-have-many-years-left-to-win-the-tour-de-france/

Nairo Excuses Quintana

You watching tv2 right now?
A bit much..

Failana

Nope, making breakfast atm, what's happening?

i still believe in him. he just needs a better team. movistar a shit

>"I'm 26 and the guys ahead of me are much older and have much more experience

3 Adam Yates 2:53
4 Nairo Quintana 3:27

Poels will win this

Oh yeah, 20 years ago on this date that Riis won the Tour. We like to dwell in past achievements, eh?

We're still riding on the high horse from 1992

Celebrating Bjarne's 20th anniversary with champagne.
At least they mentioned the "bad things"

Trek and Orica haven't exactly brought monster support for Mollema and Yates.

Froome said: "It's been a very difficult Tour for Nairo. He is still a great rival and a big challenger for me, but he lost more time today.

"I think for him to re-enter into the game again, he is going to have to do a real good time trial tomorrow."

I bet Froome really wants to say 'fuck this overhyped goat herder, you've all been shitting on me for years and hoping he wins, I've fucking rekt him, fuck you all.'

skysports.com/cycling/news/15264/10507489/tour-de-france-chris-froome-sympathises-with-nairo-quintana

Of course, it's Armstrong over again, except he's humble - He's trying to salvage some face, by being humble.

Happy Birthday!

Mate, see if you can go 4 posts without mentioning Armstrong or Riis.

>tfw you're turning into a Froome supporter
Ugh

>save some face
What, after winning his third tdf and no scandals whatsover?

No, he's just a decent guy with a world class PR operation behind him.

I think you misinterpret me. What I'm trying to say, is that he's trying to turn into a likeable guy, from an unlikeable one, thus saving face.

It should be of no surprise to you that Froome isn't liked in most of Europe, except Britain.

same here

Daily /OBE/ Backstage pass reminder:

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

-Stage 14:youtube.com/watch?v=rvoHHs701mw

-Stage 15:youtube.com/watch?v=Q7HwBNYLubk

-Stage 16:youtube.com/watch?v=-jCBjbpeRrU

-Stage 17:youtube.com/watch?v=M7tvQ5ki4G8

>It's contagious.

What do we reckon, TT or road bikes?

How was the morning ride lads?

Mine was depressing. Legs felt heavy and couldnt get my heart rate up since the legs were just incapable of putting out any significant amount of power. I had grand plans for today, but turned around after about 650m of climbing and then had my descent ruined by some old people in cars. I even overtook one of them, which is not a nice thing to do on a bicycle as you have no means of proper acceleration. Fuck.

I hope I am fine tommorow as that will be my last day here.

Always liked the Skeleton King

Salty Europeans are just angry that none of their riders are good enough and none of their teams as well organised as Sky

Adam Yates is coming through now too - expect to see him in yellow for Team Sky soon enough

>Mollema, Bauke

Are the bookies retarded?

Did they not see him explode on the mountain yesterday?

>tfw no TT downhill stages over cobblestoned tracks

If I was a betting man I would unironically put 1000 euro's on froome winning it

I so expect him and his brother to be reeled in by Sky, Simon bunked with Froome at the Commonwealth games in '10, clearly some of that Froome magic rubbed off on Simon and subsequently on Adam.

He's 34/1, which means 'he cannot win but here's a price anyway, gib monies'.

TT bikes apparently. Surprising to me.

Simon can't join Sky because of his suspension. Adam won't join Sky because they didn't want him when he was turning pro.

surely you would barely get anything if you won right? Or do you mean just this stage? I personally think Big Tom could take the stage, most of the climbing is not steep at all which would suit him.

.....until Sky offer Adam twice as much as any other team will.

>I hope I am fine tommorow as that will be my last day here.
Jeeeez. Could you end on a less suicidal note please?

This, Sky pays their domestiques more then most other teams their leaders.
Keeps Geraint and Poels from riding as a leader for a smaller team.

rest and eat all day, you've totally burned out

trips confirm

Dumoulin 2nd.

Max Verstappen 3rd.

Body and back is sore from multiple shifts as a bike courier and running
>ten hour shift today

fuggg

kek

He would get 1888 euros back, earning 888 euros.

Thats for the stage though, which is not that much of a certainty. What would you get for betting on him winning the tour now?

a heart attack when some french fan pushes him down a cliff in the last Alp stage

I really really dislike team sky >:(

kek

*hugs*

betfair.com/exchange/plus/#/cycling/market/1.119710618

For every £100 invested you'd win £3
A bet that Froome doesn't crash/die in his sleep/get busted.

:_:

no streams yet lads?

coverage starts at 14:15 eurotime usually m8, so in about half a bong

>last stage has ceremonial value only for GC
what a waste of time tb h

it's a sprint stage

Should be a time trial into paris, nothing like a proper time trial to stir up the GC on the last day.

i think you're trying to re-catch lightning in a bottle with that one.

paris sprint stage is great. full peloton bombing around paris is one of the great spectacles.

have a stage 20 tt if you want.

His arrival into the elite was über-suspicious, but Froome has slowly gained me too.

he's a real friendly and polite chap

just chucked 500 on valverde

>no TTT
why are teams allowed

he was always good, but unlocked his final form only when he exposed his bare skellington.

fuck off, TTTs are boring as fuck. Most people only care about individual riders they like, not teams.

>Mollema will race today with a 50mm + disk wheel combo

absolute madman

they wouldn't be boring if they were in a 20km technical descent

Just did a 6km ride to get something in a shop
I'm sweating like I've climbed the Ventoux fuck it's hot

>tfw global warming
glad I don't live on the coast 2bh

>tfw I'll have to leave the house tomorrow to buy supplies

What's he upto, that crazy molemother

I want to see Porte and Yates on the podium

I want to see Froome crash and break his collarbone

are these connected in any way?

Meme magic can make it happen

I know nothing about the technical sides of riding, why is this weird? What does it say about his plan?

Wouldn't be mad

It's a climbing TT so the weight of the disk wheel sort of outWEIGHS the aero benefit

I can see him crash and then crawling to the finish line.

getting caught is not part of it

MULLET MAN, NO

Disk wheels and >45mm wheels are most efficient for straightline speeds above 20-25+ mph, otherwise they're pretty heavy and awful for crosswinds in descents

>clip-on TT bars
k-kimo

Thanks friendo

What a shitty mountain time trial.
Why didn't they use Ventoux or the Alp instead?
Froome or based Tom to win.
Cantana to show his true form today, no hiding.

Give me a (You) if you think that Froome is using a motor and the UCI is in the conspiracy, they are letting Sky get away with it and all kinds of doping as well. I can't be the only one.

Just look at him when all of a sudden, at the end of a killer climb section he switches to Onoda mode, not even standing out of the saddle, just effortlessly raising his RPM to insane levels while all other riders are struggling. I just can't believe that this is for real.

It's exactly like Cancellara in that infamous Ronde van Vlaanderen video. He just switches up in an instant like it's nothing. J can't believe how nowbody is able to match his attacks. They aren't even real attacks, they are the push of a button.

>it's a not bothering to open stream episode

I want to see Froome kruijswijking

have one freshly made (you), Kötëlëtï

>bullying by post

G'day lads, who's ready for some super comfy TT today?

Also >dem 2agan fans in the Extra
>Writing 2agan as S4agan

Full plebs.

Worst tour de France since 2012.
Sky and Froome are a level above everyone else.
As long as Froome doesn't win 5 tours, it's not as bad Lance.

no brakes on the sky train

is there still no livestream?

youtu.be/g-XkOdK6mVE?t=234

The UCI set a weight limit (6.8kg) and Dan Loyd says Mollema's bike is going to get down to 6.8 even with the disc wheel so I don't think there's any disadvantage to using one

It's the best tour since 2011 what are you on?

2010
2011
2016
2014
2015
2013
2012

Motor are so 2014. Now they use magnets in the wheel. Look it up it's real

2013 and 2015 were better than this. At least we saw Froome crack and Quintana attacked.
Even 2014 was better, only because of the cobbled stage.

the tour was never good

>Determining how good a tour is looking at only Vroome and Can'tana

M8..

If Bauke Mollema or Adam Yates steal the yellow in the final mountain stage, would you say this was one of the best tours in recent memory?