Le Tour 2018

[catcitrus]

ROFL!!! Soooo true. I was wondering on the best camera and support motor bikes for that stretch nowadays? Paris-Roubaix used to see a lot of Transalps

Well the gendarmes were on WR250's , not their usual BMW's

perfect bike for that--but I'm biased !---looks like Sky are creeping back into the GR reckoning.

[RandG]

Real dilemma for Sky now with Thomas being strong, though to be fair, he's been in this position before and blown up as he isn't as good a climber as Froome, what todays stage has done, barring disasters, give Sky another Tour victory cause the others teams can watch one man, they can't watch two.

[minkyhead]

sorry chaps bike seems to be a lottery rather than a race best chemist wins

its tarnished beyond belief .... staggeringly its worse than i thought .....

i checked and was amazed ..

wikipedia says .....

14 of the 25 most recent winners (56%) have either failed tests or have confessed to have used doping. Together with those who failed tests but never sanctioned, 68% of the winners evidently used doping as detailed in the table below.

if ever a sport if you could call it that is in disgrace and does not deserve any support at all .....the sponsers and advertisers amaze me as its so dirty it beggers belief they want to be assosiated withit ...i aint no saint but cheats is all they are and the worlds bad ass enough without contaminaing kids with these jokers

i knew it was real bad just from the press but the real figures are shocking by any standards
a 68 percent hit rate for drug use by trhe winners ? ....aint no example to anyone imho ..they should ride em off beachy head and take their cheaty drugs with em

i like me pushbike and i like cycling ...but the sport is fecked beyond the point of return ..it i think will always be a pub joke to the non lycra boys like the bearded soviat women used to be
no offence to any one or the thread ..i am a total anti drug person ..any any drug recreational or performance is wrong in my view and the cycling is surpassing the easten block athletes of the 70s ....i wish it wernt so but it is ..it must be a very sad sport to be involved with .for the few genuine riders but the mire is so deep now its hard to say who they may be

[Earwig]

........... no offence to any one or the thread ..i am a total anti drug person ..any any drug recreational or performance is wrong in my view and the cycling is surpassing the easten block athletes of the 70s ....i wish it wernt so but it is ..it must be a very sad sport to be involved with .for the few genuine riders but the mire is so deep now its hard to say who they may be

No offence taken. ... still a good watch on the box though

[RandG]

sorry chaps bike seems to be a lottery rather than a race best chemist wins

its tarnished beyond belief .... staggeringly its worse than i thought .....

i checked and was amazed ..

wikipedia says .....

14 of the 25 most recent winners (56%) have either failed tests or have confessed to have used doping. Together with those who failed tests but never sanctioned, 68% of the winners evidently used doping as detailed in the table below.

if ever a sport if you could call it that is in disgrace and does not deserve any support at all .....the sponsers and advertisers amaze me as its so dirty it beggers belief they want to be assosiated withit ...i aint no saint but cheats is all they are and the worlds bad ass enough without contaminaing kids with these jokers

i knew it was real bad just from the press but the real figures are shocking by any standards
a 68 percent hit rate for drug use by trhe winners ? ....aint no example to anyone imho ..they should ride em off beachy head and take their cheaty drugs with em

i like me pushbike and i like cycling ...but the sport is fecked beyond the point of return ..it i think will always be a pub joke to the non lycra boys like the bearded soviat women used to be
no offence to any one or the thread ..i am a total anti drug person ..any any drug recreational or performance is wrong in my view and the cycling is surpassing the easten block athletes of the 70s ....i wish it wernt so but it is ..it must be a very sad sport to be involved with .for the few genuine riders but the mire is so deep now its hard to say who they may be

Do you like tennis/boxing/athletics/weightlifting???

[minkyhead]

]Do you like tennis/boxing/athletics/weightlifting???
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no particularly athletics for the same reasons ..the olympic drug fest .. some spectacular cheats allowed to claim gold medels ..there no doubt other sports have had problems to a degree ...but cycling is numero uno i think ..im rugby/football guy

it aint all bad ..these guys need skill and courage ...drugs dont help when gravity is your method of propulsion

[RandG]

So you think those beefed up rugby players are clean do you ? Ah bless....

[minkyhead]

So you think those beefed up rugby players are clean do you ? Ah bless....

rugby tutus.jpg.gallery by minkyhead56, on Flickr

[hampsterracing]

ROFL!!! Soooo true. I was wondering on the best camera and support motor bikes for that stretch nowadays? Paris-Roubaix used to see a lot of Transalps

Well the gendarmes were on WR250's , not their usual BMW's

That is a very recent upgrade.they did have a fleet of ttr250's

[RandG]

Fantastic stage up D'Huez with G winning in a sprint with Froome closed out in 3rd. Sky really do have a huge dilemma on their hands.