2013 Tour de France, Stage 6: Aix-en-Provence→Montpellier (176.5 Km)

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Great photo from yesterday considering what follows. Evans misses the crash. Schaer and Van den Broeck crash.
 
Ferminal said:
Mate currently at a cracking 35.4km/h average. That means the bunch are doing something just over 30. I wonder what they are protesting today.

There is headwinds, it is not easy for a rider alone to go faster than than with the wind.

For a cicloturist sometimes in that conditions strugles to ride at 15 km/h.

Someone said about crosswinds in the descent of the climb, but it will be still headwind.

Of course as you said the bunch is taking easy, becouse 32 Km/h for a bunch even with headwind is not hard.
 
Today the intermediate sprint is going to be important for green with just one man in the break.

It could be a good day for Cav for that , if he do second and win the stage.

thay are close to that sprint, that is a little bit uphill.


The part with headwinds finished for Maté, and he is taking a little bit easy, but in the first part to do 35 is not to take easy
 
Ferminal said:
40km in and still no breakaway! They are really fighting to get in it!

(This sprint should be good)

Breakaway today is so incredibly futile that not single rider or team (Except Cofidis, but they had too) could be *rsed to try.

At some point a team will create echelons though, that's for sure.

Somehow I don't really like the GC shake up it will cause, but it will be real racing though.
 
The only breakaway that'll work today is a really BIG breakaway of like 30 riders or so - otherwise known as a peloton ;0 ... Only the wind and hard riding can do that today - as you say a 6 man or so breakaway is doomed to failure.
 
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Just tuned in, anything happened to Sagan today? looked very disinterested from the overhead? Greipel continues his dominance of the int. sprints :D