Tour de France Stage 4: Amiens – Rouen (174.2k)

[Moose McKnuckles]

This stage so far is ...

 

[dgodave]

Never had a chance to visit but Niagara Falls are just gorgeous! (Very nicely captured on film in Niagara, the movie with Marilyn Monroe.)

I hope this doesnt offend anyone here..... but the area around Niagra Falls seemed kind if dumpy when I was there. A mix of tourist cheese and post industrial decay.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Yeah the first crash was the main one on the gravel stage, aka the one that set everything in motion on the disaster scale. And that one was unfortunate because he entered the gravel section on Van Aert's wheel in a great position but he had no teammates with him. Then on that first gravel sector Lucas Hamilton decked it and sent a few of them down on the front of the small bunch, including Rog.

As for this Tour, I think I'm fine seeing him risk losing time by sitting too far back tbh. I'd rather that than see another crash. And listening to Denk's podcast last night pretty much confirmed they're taking a very conservative approach with Rog right now in order to mitigate the risk of accidents.

The front is safer. That's why a certain Pogi and Jonas hang out there.

 

[RobertCrawley]

I hope this doesnt offend anyone here..... but the area around Niagra Falls seemed kind if dumpy when I was there. A mix of tourist cheese and post industrial decay.

It's been a while, but I remember the Canadian side being a little better.

 

[veganrob]

Things are kind of flat in western New York, but Niagara Falls is still a pretty waterfall.

I used to live in the city in the 80's. Would go up to Saratoga and Finger Lakes. Very pretty

 

[Tricycle Rider]

I hope this doesnt offend anyone here..... but the area around Niagra Falls seemed kind if dumpy when I was there. A mix of tourist cheese and post industrial decay.

I was kinda wondering if things had gone downhill since the 1953 Niagara movie, many things unfortunately do over time.

 

[dgodave]

Look a those fields. Is this where they grow the bread?

 

[veganrob]

It's been a while, but I remember the Canadian side being a little better.

Canada is just better.

 

[Potomac]

I hope this doesnt offend anyone here..... but the area around Niagra Falls seemed kind if dumpy when I was there. A mix of tourist cheese and post industrial decay.

A fair assessment of the town.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Look a those fields. Is this where they grow the bread?

They grow the bread in Paris on Baguettetrees. You cannot grow them outside of Paris, if not it's just white bread, which can be grown by feeding magic mushrooms to domestic pigs. Totally different story.

 

[Potomac]

This stage so far is ...

I'm an @$$ man, but that is grotesque.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

I felt it adequately described this stage so far.

 

[Sciatic]

I hope this doesnt offend anyone here..... but the area around Niagra Falls seemed kind if dumpy when I was there. A mix of tourist cheese and post industrial decay.

the tourist "cheesy-ness" and and commercial activity at Niagara Falls in the 1870s was one of the arguments raised in Congress when they were debating the creation of Yellowstone National Park. They wanted it protected so it wouldn't become "another Niagara Falls."

 

[topcat]

This stage so far is ...

So the stage is a world class ass so far. Near the end, it will turn badass

 

[Tricycle Rider]

the tourist "cheesy-ness" and and commercial activity at Niagara Falls in the 1870s was one of the arguments raised in Congress when they were debating the creation of Yellowstone National Park. They wanted it protected so it wouldn't become "another Niagara Falls."

The things you learn on this forum when a stage is boring, I love it!

 

[benzwire]

Look a those fields. Is this where they grow the bread?

Yes, those are baguette fields.

Here is where they grow the sourdough loafs:

 

[Tricycle Rider]

I'm an @$$ man, but that is grotesque.

Agreed, this is a little too much! Some plastic surgery trends should just never have become trends...

 

[scribers]

This stage so far is ...

What channel you tuned to??

 

[RobertCrawley]

I used to live in the city in the 80's. Would go up to Saratoga and Finger Lakes. Very pretty

Love the Finger Lakes area. Beautiful waterfalls.

 

[noob]

Agreed, this is a little too much! Some plastic surgery trends should just never have become trends...

No plastic surgery trends if I have my pick

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

How much did the person who designed that pipe in the middle of the road of the climb have to drink before coming to work? I mean, WTF...

 

[Rob5091]

Looks like Pogi in spotty or yellow jersey tomorrow then for the ITT. This break looks over very shortly.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Looks like Pogi in spotty or yellow jersey tomorrow then for the ITT. This break looks over very shortly.

NBC commentators made the good point that teams want their leaders to wear their own highly developed aero kits in the ITT rather than Tour jerseys.

 

[noob]

NBC commentators made the good point that teams want their leaders to wear their own highly developed aero kits in the ITT rather than Tour jerseys.

I hate that the sport is not about sports but about money money and some more money

 

[Izzyeviel]

I cannot believe Jeanniere has started today. After seeing that crash I honestly thought he was either dead or seriously injured with many, many broken bones. Chapeau ( I think)