What are your BOLD predictions in Tour de France?

[Supimilian]

Non-bold part:
- Quintana, Contador and Pinot to lose time before the mountains.
- Contador attacking like crazy on the early mountain stages.
- Froome cracks
- Astana to be very impressive and gain time before the mountains like last year

Bold prediction:
- Fuglsang will hold yellow for multiple stages and end in the top 3 after following a Contador move.
- Nibali and Quintana to set sub 38m times on Alpe d'Huez

 

[Brullnux]

Froome to go a whole MTF without looking at stem.

Edit: And Pinot to attack on a descent.

 

[ray j willings]

Cav and Nib's will have a fierce battle in the mountains. Cav eventually getting the Better of Nibs who pulls up after 150 yrds

Bertie and Froome will come out and start dating.

Valverde will wear a cape and top hat.

Ryder attacks his own team in the TTT

Ricco will make his comeback riding for Sky. DB quote " I don't see what all the fuss is about"

The whole of Astana are seen injecting huge amounts of EPO at the start of each stage. Vino " what the fu%% are you going to do about it"
Cookson lets them off with a warning.

Ricco joins Astana .

Purito heads into the last day of racing leading by 35 minutes. Quintana attacks while Purito is drinking Champagne on the ride into Paris and wins by 1 second.

 

[Sciocco]

Majka and Contador finish 1-2 on a stage in the Alps sealing Contador's double and motivating Majka to go win the Vuelta, which he ends up doing.

Not even that bold...

 

[jilbiker]

Out of the 4 major contenders, two will play tag team and out distanced the others. My suspicion is AC and Quintana, AC not much of team help and Quitana also seems to have a disconnect with his team, too many people with different agendas. Froome, no one seems to bond with him while racing and Nibs well, not sure anyone can trust Astana.

So it will come down to AC or Quitana, it will be interesting. I see the championship won or lost on two stages, the TTT and the cobbles. If AC and Quintana both fail there then certain they will work together, if not, Quitana will still work with AC banking on flooring him in the 3rd week mountains.

 

[42x16ss]

Froome to get airborne attacking on the Tourmalet trying to get time back after the cobble stage, Brailsford blames a freak tailwind
Cancellara and Sagan to both break collarbones trying to barge each other off the cobbles
Greipel to go all "Tom Steels" on the Champs Elysee in frustration after being cut off by Cavendish but accidentally takes out the yellow jersey instead
Nibali to drop the camera bikes on a descent, crash, then have the camera bike go past without realising. Confusion ensues.
Voeckler to get his tongue caught in his spokes
Martin to get a gap no one can close in the TTT, doesn't notice and finishes 45 seconds ahead. Lefevre gets a lawyer when the commissaires won't take Martin's time
Gerrans to pull another Abdoujaparov style move in a sprint, only to collide with Greipel and bounce into the barrier. Greipel doesn't even feel it and has to have it shown to him on replay
Team Sky soigneurs busted using Froome's camper to cruise for hookers and blow

and finally:

Lotto NL-Jumbo to win 3 stages, Teams Classification and KOM

 

[peloton]

Sagan wins the Tour, in all colors possible

 

[Electress]

Froome attacks solo on a descent in the rain with over 30 km remaining.

Valverde does not shaft Quintana at any point.

Basso is the last man with Alberto on Alpe d’Huez.

The final stage is actually the final stage, with yellow being decided in Paris by one of the narrowest ever Tour margins. (Obviously, Bertie wins it)

Only one of the big four podiums do to some combination of:

• Nibali crashes out on the cobbles or a technical descent
  Froome loses more than three minutes due to echelons and never recovers
  Quintana cracks on at least one MTF
  Someone is mysteriously pulled, pulls up, or “falls ill” in strange circumstances
  Someone does ‘an Aru’, i.e. pulls off the best resurrection since Jesus.

Purito or Valverde podiums. Fugelsang in top 5

Cav does not crash or cause a crash and wins 4 or 5 stages.

Betancur wins KoM

Alberto wins the double, announces he will race the Vuelta then retire.

Outside of the race:

Fans are arrested for one of:

• 1. Attempting to break in the FroomeWagon
  2. Serenading Froome all night.
  3. Trying to tow the FroomeWagon.

Brailsford exhibits any one of:

• unrestrained joy
  genuine humility
  paternal affection.

Oleg restrains himself. In any way.

Phil and Paul / Kirby commentate in a non-partisan manner.

No-one either on the forum or in the commentary box or the UK or French media mentions clenbuterol or steak whilst Alberto is wearing yellow, particularly when winning in Paris.

A French rider (Voeckler?) is popped during or after the race.

Astana lose their licence.

Lance does not do an interview to garner some publicity for his victimhood.

Not a single book is published by a British rider or embedded reporter for Christmas 2015.

Cound announces she is carrying Bertie’s lovechild.

 

[Sasquatch]

Oleg will behave himself.

 

[Jspear]

Re:

Froome attacks solo on a descent in the rain with over 30 km remaining.

Valverde does not shaft Quintana at any point.

Basso is the last man with Alberto on Alpe d’Huez.

The final stage is actually the final stage, with yellow being decided in Paris by one of the narrowest ever Tour margins. (Obviously, Bertie wins it)

Only one of the big four podiums do to some combination of:

• Nibali crashes out on the cobbles or a technical descent
  Froome loses more than three minutes due to echelons and never recovers
  Quintana cracks on at least one MTF
  Someone is mysteriously pulled, pulls up, or “falls ill” in strange circumstances
  Someone does ‘an Aru’, i.e. pulls off the best resurrection since Jesus.

Purito or Valverde podiums. Fugelsang in top 5

Cav does not crash or cause a crash and wins 4 or 5 stages.

Betancur wins KoM

Alberto wins the double, announces he will race the Vuelta then retire.

Outside of the race:

Fans are arrested for one of:

• 1. Attempting to break in the FroomeWagon
  2. Serenading Froome all night.
  3. Trying to tow the FroomeWagon.

Brailsford exhibits any one of:

• unrestrained joy
  genuine humility
  paternal affection.

Oleg restrains himself. In any way.

Phil and Paul / Kirby commentate in a non-partisan manner.

No-one either on the forum or in the commentary box or the UK or French media mentions clenbuterol or steak whilst Alberto is wearing yellow, particularly when winning in Paris.

A French rider (Voeckler?) is popped during or after the race.

Astana lose their licence.

Lance does not do an interview to garner some publicity for his victimhood.

Not a single book is published by a British rider or embedded reporter for Christmas 2015.

Cound announces she is carrying Bertie’s lovechild.

Everything here is well thought out and very good.

 

[observer]

Gerrans or Matthews to win on Mur. Forum to be upset about it.

 

[Jancouver]

EBH will win a stage
Porte will drop Froome, just to crack the next day (all first week)
Sagan to win on Alpe (from a break)
JV to announce end of Garmin / Cannondale
Tinkov will paint his head yellow
Eastern European to get busted for injecting Nutella (announced AFTER the tour)
Shimano support car to be involved in at least 25 accidents
Phil & Paul to announce retirement after realizing Lance is not coming back
Cav to crash out and take down half the peloton on stage 2
Astana to put 3 riders on the podium
Apple will announce yellow iBike
Google will find an engine in Cancellara's yellow iBike

 

[42x16ss]

Re:

Gerrans or Matthews to win on Mur. Forum to be upset about it.

Gerrans, yes. Matthews? I think it would be a popular win. Too bad it won't happen though.

 

[Bushman]

Lotto Jumbo team to not f*ck up big time anywhere.

 

[Tank Engine]

During the first week, the wind and rain are of biblical proportions. Jan van Stejnaert gets in a break which pulls out a huge margin on the peloton to take the yellow yersey. The weather continues and all passes above 1000m are cancelled from the race. On the "princess" stage, Jan gets paced by G and Vroome to the greatest victory of his career.

 

[meat puppet]

No tailwinds on any of the key climbs

 

[roosink]

- Steven Kruijswijk finishes in top 5 GC
- Froome and Contador drop out in the first week just like last year due to falls and poor form
- Big time losses for key GC contenders in stage 2 due to echelons - and do I hope that that prediction will come true because it means a great stage to watch. The wind along the Zeeland coastline can be horrendous
- Astana will beat Sky hands down as the strongest team overall

 

[SeriousSam]

Re:

No tailwinds on any of the key climbs

lol

 

[del1962]

Peraud will lead a small group of GC contenders including Bardet, Froome, Nibali and Quintana on three consecutive MTF with Contador loosing3 minutes on each.

Antoine Vayer does some VAM figures and estimates 4 w/kg

Someone sets up a poll to say who will win the TDF, despite being 9 minutes down Contador wins the poll

 

[Irondan]

Oleg will behave himself.

Now that's a bold prediction....

 

[Irondan]

Poor little Richie Porte will set up a tent behind the motorhome, so the Dawg don't get lonely....

 

[Jancouver]

Forgot ...

Fabian to swap his yellow iBike at least 8 times during the Mur stage

 

[BigMac]

Totally legit predictions Jan.

 

[Velolover2]

Froome to get second on the Mur stage. I honestly could see that happen. He could even win it.
But he will get beaten by Sagan who now is able to climb on much steeper gradients.
One of the Yates brothers (most likely Simon) to take the lowest spot on podium or come very close.
Team Astana to not do any damages to Quintana, Froome and Contador on the cobbled stage.
Simon Gerrans to win the cobbled stage.
Froome to get beaten by a younger guy who is not one of the big 4 in at least 2 stages.
Majka to get 2nd. In front of Yates, but behind Froome.
Contador DNF.
Zubeldia to be stronger than Mollema just like Ten Dam was it in the last years' Tour.
No one to get busted for doping.

 

[Andro]

Fuglsang being forced to wait for Nibali in the mountains despite being stronger.