2012 Tour de France; Stage 1: Liège → Seraing (198km)

[Waterloo Sunrise]

PHil & Paul currently claiming to have spoken to the Argos DS this morning.

Strange they recalled that conversation 5 minutes after letour's live ticker posted the interview, and the Argos DS told them the exact same thing.

 

[goggalor]

Those yellow helmets are a total disgrace. Someone should do something for this embarassment.

It'll look even more ridiculous in the mountains, once Wiggo's team mates are dropped, and maybe Menchov is in the yellow jersey and Brad's sitting there like a tw*t in his ****ing yellow helmet. At least now that the Skys are all together it's obvious that it's a team thing.

 

[Bernie's eyesore]

PHil & Paul currently claiming to have spoken to the Argos DS this morning.

Strange they recalled that conversation 5 minutes after letour's live ticker posted the interview, and the Argos DS told them the exact same thing.

I'm quite impressed that Phil and Paul have heard of Argos tbh.

 

[Trunnions]

French I understand, I thought he was speaking Gaelic.

Let's call it "Gaulic".

 

[Mellow Velo]

Matthew Lloyd spends more time on tarmac inspection, than he does on his bike.

 

[euanli]

I have it on good authority that Wiggo has yellow underpants on today

surely you mean yellow chamois cream?

 

[180mmCrank]

Why are they trying to bring back the break so far from the finish? Any thoughts?

 

[FellOff]

People thought it was just an ordinary bike race until ... The Invasion of The Yellow Knobheads

 

[ggusta]

God I hate these tour only fans

I just love these posters who can't wait to hate anyone who they deem tour only fans. Shall I kiss thy non-drive side spoke my liege! Just kidding. Of course, these people know all about how much cycling I follow..... and we should know that they know everything... The tedium of the board results in its form of entertainment.

Speaking of tedium, Actually, I am enjoying nbc's coverage as they struggle mightily to avoid any mention of the USADA case and he who they shall not name, ie, A Certain Texan, A certain 7 Time Soon to be Zero Time Soon to be All time Disgrace.

Not exactly the queen stage today. Petacchi's almost crashing into the island and Levi's seat adjustment were second and third only to Philippe Gilbert's ridonkulous wife for highlight's. Can we just get some clips of her shopping in paris during some of the slower sections????

these July only fans are just so sickening.... they need their own kiddie pool forum

 

[Froome19]

Very strange 180mm, maybe so they can then sit back and allow the sprinters and puncher teams to control the peloton but they must know that riders like Chavanel are bound to attack so a strange move indeed

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Some serious d-baggery from Team Sky. Yellow helmets with no jersey. Tools.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Who knows.

Other question - given some people have tried to define the role of a domestique as keeping your leader at the front, and declared BMC as masters of this, why has no effort been made to keep Evans at the front yet?

 

[Froome19]

Vino says that they will be working for Iglinsky..

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Some serious d-baggery from Team Sky. Yellow helmets with no jersey. Tools.

Yeah, stupid rule following tools.

 

[Gloin22]

Some serious d-baggery from Team Sky. Yellow helmets with no jersey. Tools.

What is your problem ? You should first try to find out why they wear them

It's ASO rule. Nothing Sky could you moron

 

[Mellow Velo]

Saygone?
Levi sucking the entire peloton.

 

[stazzy]

Lots of sky hate here..understandable. The best team does usually accumulate a hoard of haters

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Why are they trying to bring back the break so far from the finish? Any thoughts?

Seems like they were just upping the tempo so the gap measurement shortened, but the break upped the pace too so the gap is pretty static after the adjustment.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

I just love these posters who can't wait to hate anyone who they deem tour only fans. Shall I kiss thy non-drive side spoke my liege! Just kidding. Of course, these people know all about how much cycling I follow..... and we should know that they know everything... The tedium of the board results in its form of entertainment.

Speaking of tedium, Actually, I am enjoying nbc's coverage as they struggle mightily to avoid any mention of the USADA case and he who they shall not name, ie, A Certain Texan, A certain 7 Time Soon to be Zero Time Soon to be All time Disgrace.

Not exactly the queen stage today. Petacchi's almost crashing into the island and Levi's seat adjustment were second and third only to Philippe Gilbert's ridonkulous wife for highlight's. Can we just get some clips of her shopping in paris during some of the slower sections????these July only fans are just so sickening.... they need their own kiddie pool forum

i am not the ony one to notice I see

 

[180mmCrank]

Very strange 180mm, maybe so they can then sit back and allow the sprinters and puncher teams to control the peloton but they must know that riders like Chavanel are bound to attack so a strange move indeed

It just seems like it will make it harder not easier to control...

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

I see the Sky ball-sniffers are put out by my comments.

Seriously though, why are they wearing yellow helmets today?

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Very smooth retreat, no one who uses a smiley could possibly have looked like a tool.

In response to your edit, as already noted, it is the rules. The ASO clearly want to build up the team competition; if you want to blame anyone it's Radiofail and their sad attempts to claim a win somewhere.

 

[Pippo_San]

I see the Sky ball-sniffers are put out by my comments.

Seriously though, why are they wearing yellow helmets today?

Stupid new Aso rule.
Embarassing to say the least.

Imagine if it was Rabofail to wear them...

 

[Fetisoff]

What a beautiful fortified farm house

Stupid new Aso rule.
Embarassing to say the least.

Imagine if it was Rabofail to wear them...

Europcar would look pretty ugly in those. Euskaltel would look pretty weird too

 

[180mmCrank]

I see the Sky ball-sniffers are put out by my comments.

Seriously though, why are they wearing yellow helmets today?

It's a new rule made by the race organisers that the leading team has to wear yellow helmets - or they get fined. It's not a SKY thing it's a TdF thing.

It's marketing!!

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