2012 Tour de France: Stage 16: Pau → Bagnères-de-Luchon, 197 km

[Frosty]

What is the temperature?

At 1300 CEST it was 28.8 at Pau and 29.1 at Luchon.

30.5 at Tarbes down the valley from the low point between Aubisque and Tourmalet.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Who wants to predict when"

rogerssss timeeeee

" will start

Col de Peyresoude.

 

[greenedge]

I know the TDF has been considered boring and if this stage is ( i will be really disappointed ) but this thread has already more pages than most of the 2nd week stages.

 

[cineteq]

At 1300 CEST it was 28.8 at Pau and 29.1 at Luchon.

30.5 at Tarbes down the valley from the low point between Aubisque and Tourmalet.

Feels like? Humidity factor? That'll give us the true temperature.

 

[fluffkitten]

Cav wasn't far off the front on a HC climb! They are going slow and anoth45km or so till the start of the weaker side of the Tourmalet.

And he's still with them. That's serious soft peddling.

 

[taiwan]

MARTINEZ Egoi 35EUS+00:18:04
COSTA Rui Alberto 163MOV+00:19:02
SORENSEN Chris... 178STB+00:20:12
VORGANOV Eduard 139KAT+00:20:35
CASAR Sandy 141FDJ+00:27:03
VOECKLER Thomas 21EUC+00:44:28
TEN DAM Laurens 157RAB+00:45:35
KRUIJSWIJK Steven 152RAB+00:48:34
VINOKOUROV Alexa... 189AST+00:57:28
TAARAMAE Rein 81COF+00:58:59
CARUSO Gianpaolo 132KAT+01:00:39
FEDRIGO Pierrick 142FDJ+01:03:43
IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI 34EUS+01:04:31
HINCAPIE George 5BMC+01:04:55
VALLS FERRI Rafael 128VCD+01:06:40
BOUET Maxime 72ALM+01:13:34
PAULINHO Sergio... 177STB+01:14:26
VOIGT Jens 18RNT+01:14:27
KESSIAKOFF Fredrik 187AST+01:14:49
MINARD Sébastien 77ALM+01:19:19
MARTIN Daniel 65GRS+01:20:39
TROFIMOV Yury 138KAT+01:21:40
KARPETS Vladimir 166MOV+01:22:23
HOOGERLAND Johnny 123VCD+01:28:16
POPOVYCH Yaroslav 17RNT+01:29:15
KIRYIENKA Vasili 167MOV+01:33:10
MARZANO Marco 46LAM+01:38:34
LEVARLET Guillaume 97SAU+01:38:38
HONDO Danilo 43LAM+01:41:23
AZANZA SOTO Jorge 33EUS+01:45:03
STORTONI Simone 48LAM+01:45:39
CUMMINGS Stephen 3BMC+01:46:57
LADAGNOUS Matthieu 144FDJ+01:47:33
ARASHIRO Yukiya 22EUC+01:47:36
DUMOULIN Samuel 83COF+01:54:55
FEILLU Brice 94SAU+02:10:46
SPRICK Matthieu 217ARG+02:14:28
MARINO Jean Marc 98SAU+02:20:02

 

[roundabout]

Did Gusev crash or something? He certainly was attacking before Aubisque.

 

[The Hitch]

[will attack, attack, and attack!

Evans ?

 

[auscyclefan94]

Feels like? Humidity factor? That'll give us the true temperature.

Off to get some sleep...not going to bother with this for another two hours.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Did Gusev crash or something? He certainly was attacking before Aubisque.

Yes, he crashed. Looked like a shoulder/collarbone injury.

 

[fluffkitten]

Did Gusev crash or something? He certainly was attacking before Aubisque.

And now out.

 

[roundabout]

Yes, he crashed. Looked like a shoulder/collarbone injury.

Oh. The race is too riveting for me to notice everything.

 

[Bala Verde]

38 in the break

5:26 gap

The break seems to have shattered in the descent.

Gusev abandoned; hit the deck in the descent.

Horner fell in a ravine going uphill. Must have been the Schleckshock, but he has returned.

 

[Frosty]

Feels like? Humidity factor? That'll give us the true temperature.

Strong sunshine, no wind. Humidity varying between 30 and 40%. I'd say its feeling pretty roasting out there

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Oh. The race is too riveting for me to notice everything.

Lolzzzz good one.

 

[will10]

I am sorry to be so negative, but this is depressing.

You are hilarious.

 

[Bala Verde]

ASO needs to rethink the mountain competition (again), because it seems that every year only 1-2 people are interested in the bloody jersey.

 

[oevkride]

So people just can't go up HC climbs. Thing is I would have said Bernie was one of them which is why the slow comment.

Who has been dropped? And how is that even possible? Is Farrar protecting his position?

 

[Gloin22]

ASO needs to rethink the mountain competition (again), because it seems that every year only 1-2 people are interested in the bloody jersey.

It's not ASO, but UCI and it's rubbish ranking.

If KoM was worth as much points as e.g. as much as 4th place at the Tour - then lots of riders would go for it instead of defending places from 4-10 in GC. Give KoM more UCI points and lot of riders will go for it.

Now, it's almost worthless in the ranking and the points it gives.

 

[Bala Verde]

There were attacks... 1 km to go... from Rodriguez...

I remember Hesjedal's attacks much better...

 

[Panda Claws]

Awesome, they are almost at the feeding zone. I wonder who can bring the most bottles at once... so exciting.

 

[Catwhoorg]

Sagan carrying bottles today, good team-work!

He doesn't need to contest any intermediates, heck any final sprints, just has to get over the finish line now.

He will roll into Paris in Green, nab a few points on the final sprint but really playing safe should be the plan.

 

[Bala Verde]

It's not ASO, but UCI and it's rubbish ranking.

If KoM was worth as much points as e.g. 4th place at the Tour then lots of riders would go for it instead of defending places from 4-10.

Even the prize money isn't worth the effort.

 

[the asian]

Off to get some sleep...not going to bother with this for another two hours.

Evans might attack & you will miss out on his performance of a lifetime.

 

[oevkride]

Evans might attack & you will miss out on his performance of a lifetime.

that will be five great seconds!