Tour de France Tour de France 2024, Stage 10: Orléans > Saint-Amand-Montrond, 187.3km

[Danskebjerge]

We need to keep talking about the chance of crosswinds, otherwise it won’t be a real cycling fan thread.

 

[Peyroteo94]

We need to keep talking about the chance of crosswinds, otherwise it won’t be a real cycling fan thread.

How hard is the wind? Over 25 km/h?

 

[topcat]

Crosswinds/no crosswinds
Van Aert bringinging the pain/Vingo bringing the love
Pointless attacks/coffee ride
Snide remarks about Remco/having your tongue surgically removed from Rog.
Lots to talk about and a constant party on the cn forum.

 

[Berniece]

How hard is the wind? Over 25 km/h?

Depends on the model, but chances are looking slim. Here's a map of the wind. Route isn't on it, but it goes:

Orleans => Romorantin-Lanthenay => Vierzon => Issoudun => Saint-Amand-Montron

Professional weather forecast

50+ weather layers, weather radar and satellite

www.windy.com

 

[RobertCrawley]

Good morning, chaps!.

It's an Arnaud de Lie kind of day!

 

[Netserk]

Forecasts are constantly changing. Now it looks less likely.

I still think it's likely to split, but someone important will have to be caught behind for a team to keep drilling it.

 

[glassmoon]

nothing dramatic is gonna happen

 

[Lequack]

 

[RobertCrawley]

Meanwhile at Visma labs

https://twitter.com/x/status/1810364769427243488

View: https://twitter.com/vismaleaseabike/status/1810364769427243488

This ad makes me hungry.

 

[Gigs_98]

Forecasts are constantly changing. Now it looks less likely.

I still think it's likely to split, but someone important will have to be caught behind for a team to keep drilling it.

40kph crosswind or we riot!

 

[Lievro]

It's really bad for dutch speaking people

W-ow-t let the dog out
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Really bad.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Not a good ad for Specialized

I don't know. Any bike is doing to look like a mess after that terrible crash.

 

[Le Grand Doop]

furious start to the stage.

 

[Slavique Nuke]

I don't know. Any bike is doing to look like a mess after that terrible crash.

Vlasov's crash was nasty, but I don't think the frame should break in three places in a crash like that. It seems he was forced to delete the picture from instagram

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Abrahamsen cutting back on the polka dots: shots are red (or one very large dot)

 

[RobertCrawley]

Vlasov's crash was nasty, but I don't think the frame should break in three places in a crash like that. It seems he was forced to delete the picture from instagram

Yeah, I don't think any bike manufacturer wants its name displayed on a broken bike. But carbon breaks in hard crashes, as we all know.

 

[Mayomaniac]

furious start to the stage.

Somehow even the wildcard teams stopped caring about Sprint stage breakaways...

 

[Lequack]

Lets put in 9 pure flat sprint stages next year TDF.

They will, and probably more.

 

[Poursuivant]

Painful this

 

[Peyroteo94]

Another rest day on the menu. I was a fan of sprints and I don't know why, this is dreadful. Sprinters should no longer have 8 stages for them. 6 is good enough. I want more hilly stages!

 

[RobertCrawley]

Château de Chambord looks like a great place to visit.

 

[Danskebjerge]

All those people standing at the side of the roads watching nothing.

 

[Kangaridoo]

Anyone knows at which km départ fictif is over?

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Somehow even the wildcard teams stopped caring about Sprint stage breakaways...

Hardly surprising when they get given < 2 mins by the sprint teams. Great to see Total Energies (the one team without a sprinter) not wasting their Energies on pointless excursions in this race and get rewarded with a stage win on sunday

 

[Mayomaniac]

They will, and probably more.

reduce the number of sprint stages and start throwing riders out of the race for roadblocking.