Tour de France Tour de France 2025, Stage 2: Lauwin-Planque – Boulogne-sur-Mer (209.1k)

[RobertCrawley]

Van Eetvelt's dossard all crumpled up on the back of his jersey is sad.

 

[T-Nielsen]

Slim Charles in the house. You feel me?

That aint no straight thing

 

[Sciatic]

I would give time penalties for Lotto continuing to draft cars as a team even when the peloton was right in front of them. In fact I think that's why one of them rode past his teammates to not be so obvious.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Alaphilippe thumbs up, twitching around a bit, going to the team car!!!

 

[proffate]

I'm beginning to think de lie doesn't know how to shift a bike

 

[awavey]

might get some aerial views soon, I think the helicopters are on the way

 

[QueenStagiaire]

German commentators keep talking about Milan and Waerenskjold, is there a commentary option with people who‘ve watched a bike race before?

 

[dgodave]

Hedge walls!

 

[Sciatic]

might get some aerial views soon, I think the helicopters are on the way

Cue "Ride of the Valkyries" for the arriving helis (Apocalypse Now)

 

[awavey]

Cue "Ride of the Valkyries" for the arriving helis (Apocalypse Now)

I love the smell of coffee in the morning

 

[Sciatic]

German commentators keep talking about Milan and Waerenskjold, is there a commentary option with people who‘ve watched a bike race before?

Maybe they were clairvoyant and were anticipating Waerendsskjoipoijnd's long mechanical?

 

[RobertCrawley]

Maybe they were clairvoyant and were anticipating Waerendsskjoipoijnd's long mechanical?

W is not having a happy day.

 

[RobertCrawley]

I love the smell of coffee in the morning

It smells like victory.

 

[Sciatic]

I love the smell of coffee in the morning

It is time for a 2nd cup!

 

[Tricycle Rider]

W is not having a happy day.

Lotto in general seems to not have much luck today. (Crashes, mechanicals )

 

[slim charles]

It is time for a 2nd cup!

amateur, some of us are at number 4 for the day

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Little-know Tour trivia, Quinn Simmons' water bottles are filled with a bespoke mixture of Natty Bo and Busch Light.

 

[noob]

Little-know Tour trivia, Quinn Simmons' water bottles are filled with a bespoke mixture of Natty Bo and Busch Light.

is his perfume musk?

 

[awavey]

It is time for a 2nd cup!

already on my 4th

 

[MagliaNera]

My updated forecast predicts a short flat cross-tailwind section with about 57km to go (edit: some km before the intermediate sprint), followed by a longer cross-headwind section. Not sure if it will be open terrain but it's flat on the profile, so someone might try to do something.

After that it seems that the winds will be leveling off a bit, except on the descents. The two last downhill sections should have a strong cross-tail wind but probably the slopes are too steep for something to happen,

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Little-know Tour trivia, Quinn Simmons' water bottles are filled with a bespoke mixture of Natty Bo and Busch Light.

When I see his hair flopping around I'm thinking of the movie Easy Rider.

 

[Sciatic]

amateur, some of us are at number 4 for the day

The day is still young

 

[awavey]

The day is still young

Ill likely be on the vino before the stage finishes (a classic British bbq in the rain)

 

[Samamba]

I still can't get over how ugly the Ineos jersey is

 

[Sciatic]

Great turnout in that ville