Tour de France Tour de France 2025, Stage 1: Lille – Lille (184.9k)

[noob]

The whole of the peleton from above looks gorgeous!

 

[Boehmand]

Heating up now, when they exit the town someone will drop the hammer

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Opening road stage of the tour got to be one of the worst races to watch each year. Everyone riding like they're possessed by Jonas rickeart

 

[postmanhat]

Bissegger out

Won't help the chances of Gall making it through the first week.

 

[Boehmand]

Won't help the chances of Gall making it through the first week.

I was thinking the same thing, but then I remembered Bissegger is always horrible at positioning and always crashing - he's actually rather pointless on a GT GC team, unless he is there for stage wins from breaks

 

[Boehmand]

They just rode through a zone for supplies, and nobody took anything

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Not looking like crosswinds at all. Tempo high but peleton spread wide.

 

[noob]

Good warning signals

 

[Boehmand]

This may end up in a bunch sprint, after being one of the harder days for the riders, because everyone is in top shape and everyone is giving everything to stay in front.

The peloton may simply be too good at this stage of a GT to actually split.

 

[11-34]

Campenearts with his black nose strip looks like an ugly pig. He should not be allowed to pull for the sake of the TV audience. (It would look even worse with a POrC helmet I suppose)

Edit: I don't have a black nose strip, so no picture of me.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Those are uniquely ugly glasses that UAE are wearing

 

[Boehmand]

Campenearts with his black nose strip looks like an ugly pig. He should not be allowed to pull for the sake of the TV audience. (It would look even worse with a POrC helmet I suppose)

People shouldn't be allowed to comment on the looks of others, unless they post a recent picture of themselves at the same time

 

[Sciatic]

People shouldn't be allowed to comment on the looks of others, unless they post a recent picture of themselves at the same time

There's not that much else to comment about . . .

 

[Tim Cahill]

Martinez bad day reminds me of the hours the cameras used to spend lingering on Pinot 5 minutes behind as the race was going on ahead.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Martinez is probably better off calling it quits and switching focus to the Vuelta. Difficult to recover from being ill if you are riding at your limit all day.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

People shouldn't be allowed to comment on the looks of others, unless they post a recent picture of themselves at the same time

Those are uniquely ugly glasses that UAE are wearing

Do you need a photo of my glasses?

 

[noob]

How many km is the 3 km rule today?

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Rouleur Vingegaard trying to split the peleton himself.

 

[Unchained]

Campenearts with his black nose strip looks like an ugly pig. He should not be allowed to pull for the sake of the TV audience. (It would look even worse with a POrC helmet I suppose)

I find Victor, strong, short and handsome.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Movistar moving up at a crucial time, looking to gain some shock time for Enric!!!

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

For any Americans in civil engineering, PLEASE NOTE THE LACK OF STOPLIGHTS. Traffic circles work wonders.
Anyway, back to your originally scheduled commercial programming, briefly interrupted by occasional cycling coverage.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Pogacar keeping the annual tradition up of deciding his team is crap and he'll rather just move to the front on his own.

 

[Unchained]

How many km is the 3 km rule today?

20k out.. With luck of the Roglic, he should drop back behind the cars..going to be carnage

 

[Boehmand]

Do you need a photo of my glasses?

No, I'm fine with people debating fashion - do you like my shades?

 

[Cycling111]

Simon Yates sick?