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

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Looked like it. But he was more throwing it while screaming. Something probably was up before what we saw I guess. The little deviation from the line won't make a sprinter explode like that.

Milan also looked like he wanted to rip his bike apart lol
I didn't see much deviation from Binny's line. I guess something prior to the sprint? He's throwing a complete fit.
 
I didn't see much deviation from Binny's line. I guess something prior to the sprint? He's throwing a complete fit.

Yes there was only a little drift to the right by Bini, but nothing unusual what so ever. Only ever noticed it because I was looking for some explanation.
We will have to wait for the post stage interviews to find out though, there don't seem to be more enlightening pictures.
 
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,
Didn't happen, the section wasn't sufficiently open and the wind looked too weak (at least judging by the flags by the road). So I guess not much chance of crosswind action today.
 
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Brick is pretty risky where I live in the Rockies. High earthquake risk, and good luck getting that insured in this area. But I wish more construction in the US would be built for the long term rather than just wood frame with sheet rock stapled on to it.
Wood frame really ought to last a long time if cared for, And its quite earthquake resilient. They put such garbage siding (and other products) on it tho. I do wonder about the long long term durability of the engineered wood products tho.

Now back to the bike change....
 

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