2022 Tour de France

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Edited Date/Time 9/3/2022 11:52am
The first 2 stages have been fun to watch. Lampaert being the surprise winner of the wet Time Trial in Copenhagen was good to see. And then him leading out the sprint for his teammate Jakobsen while wearing the yellow jersey…that was special.
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BMSOBx2 7/2/2022 10:23am
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Stuck watching the highlights show since I don't have peacock. Kind of like MX on MAV tv.
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Joey_Bridges 7/2/2022 10:43am
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Great ride by the yellow jersey.
Coming back from a crash, getting dropped, pulling back to the group, then leading out his sprinter to the victory.
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Nighttrain 7/2/2022 12:13pm
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BMSOBx2 wrote:
Stuck watching the highlights show since I don't have peacock. Kind of like MX on MAV tv.
I signed up for Peacock a few months ago when we cut the cable tv chord. There are a lot of sports broadcasts on Peacock.

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Joey_Bridges 7/3/2022 7:51am
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Those griping about commercials in moto, have obviously never watched the TDF.
Though honestly, the sprint stages in the early days are pretty boring up until the last few KM's.
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Joey_Bridges 7/3/2022 9:55am
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Great, bike throw, sprint finish !!!
Wout lost it by a YCH.

I like Sagan.
But he has nothing to bitch about.
Wout left him plenty of room.
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Nighttrain 7/3/2022 12:37pm
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It’s surprising to see van Aert nipped on a sprint finish. Age is catching up to Sagan. He doesn’t have the blistering sprint speed of his younger years. I think he’ll still find a way to win a stage or 2.
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Joey_Bridges wrote:
Those griping about commercials in moto, have obviously never watched the TDF. Though honestly, the sprint stages in the early days are pretty boring up until...
Those griping about commercials in moto, have obviously never watched the TDF.
Though honestly, the sprint stages in the early days are pretty boring up until the last few KM's.
I’ve been watching the non-USA coverage on peacock and it has hardly any commercials. I know I’m missing out on Phil, but I only started watching last year on peacock and switched over because the US coverage was an insane amount of commercials.

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Joey_Bridges wrote:
Those griping about commercials in moto, have obviously never watched the TDF. Though honestly, the sprint stages in the early days are pretty boring up until...
Those griping about commercials in moto, have obviously never watched the TDF.
Though honestly, the sprint stages in the early days are pretty boring up until the last few KM's.
Commercials on USA network have no relation to commercial on a streaming service I pay extra for. MavTv. That’s the gripe.

Also, I do not remember a rest day so early in the TDF before.

I also miss SCOTTIE, in TDF threads and F1 threads.
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Joey_Bridges wrote:
Those griping about commercials in moto, have obviously never watched the TDF. Though honestly, the sprint stages in the early days are pretty boring up until...
Those griping about commercials in moto, have obviously never watched the TDF.
Though honestly, the sprint stages in the early days are pretty boring up until the last few KM's.
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Commercials on USA network have no relation to commercial on a streaming service I pay extra for. MavTv. That’s the gripe. Also, I do not remember...
Commercials on USA network have no relation to commercial on a streaming service I pay extra for. MavTv. That’s the gripe.

Also, I do not remember a rest day so early in the TDF before.

I also miss SCOTTIE, in TDF threads and F1 threads.
Isn’t it really a travel day to go back to France? (I think they are going to France…eventually Grinning )
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Joey_Bridges 7/4/2022 10:35am
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TeamGreen wrote:
Isn’t it really a travel day to go back to France? (I think they are going to France…eventually Grinning )
Yep, huge logistal day.
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Nighttrain wrote:
It’s surprising to see van Aert nipped on a sprint finish. Age is catching up to Sagan. He doesn’t have the blistering sprint speed of his...
It’s surprising to see van Aert nipped on a sprint finish. Age is catching up to Sagan. He doesn’t have the blistering sprint speed of his younger years. I think he’ll still find a way to win a stage or 2.
What about cavendish? I can't believe nobody picked him up. He's only got one or two more wins to break the record I believe. Like Sagan I think he still had a couple wins left in him.
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1911 7/4/2022 5:09pm
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When does the climbing start?
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1911 wrote:
When does the climbing start?
The first real climbing stage (with a summit finish) is Stage 7 on Friday. Its got a gravel section with a 24% ramp.
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Joey_Bridges 7/5/2022 8:54am
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Wout !!!
Holy shit !!!!

And long time mt biker's, notice he and his team's stem/bar set up.
Anyone oldschool enough to have ridden with bullmoose bars ?
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Joey_Bridges 7/5/2022 9:08am
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Phillipsen thinking he had won sprint for the stage win.
🤣😂🤣
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Nighttrain 7/5/2022 10:36am
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Joey_Bridges wrote:
Phillipsen thinking he had won sprint for the stage win.
🤣😂🤣
Yea, that’s a badge of shame he’ll wear until the next guy does the same. Great stage today. I love the Tour.
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LoudLove 7/5/2022 10:48am
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Wout won a time trial, mountain stage, and sprint last year. Simply a freak of nature.
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Nighttrain 7/5/2022 12:26pm
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Joey_Bridges wrote:
Phillipsen thinking he had won sprint for the stage win.
🤣😂🤣
Nighttrain wrote:
Yea, that’s a badge of shame he’ll wear until the next guy does the same. Great stage today. I love the Tour.
Joey_Bridges wrote:
https://www.velonews.com/events/tour-de-france/jasper-philipsen-on-tour…
The ones that get me are the victory salutes done too early that cause a sure winner to finish 2nd across the line.
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1911 7/5/2022 3:43pm
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1911 wrote:
When does the climbing start?
Elliot wrote:
The first real climbing stage (with a summit finish) is Stage 7 on Friday. Its got a gravel section with a 24% ramp.
I started my Mountain Stage today, I am now read for a rest day, or rest week! SillySilly


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1911 wrote:
I started my Mountain Stage today, I am now read for a rest day, or rest week! :silly: :silly: [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2022/07/05/558173/s1200_827AF2D6_FB89_4624_BE10_ECAEA7A7FE7C.jpg[/img] [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2022/07/05/558174/s1200_4AE30822_7ECC_4A3B_B344_0335F0DEB677.jpg[/img]
I started my Mountain Stage today, I am now read for a rest day, or rest week! SillySilly


Around here pretty much every mt bike ride starts like this....
Unload your bike and start climbing.
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LoudLove 7/5/2022 4:53pm
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Joey_Bridges wrote:
Phillipsen thinking he had won sprint for the stage win.
🤣😂🤣
Nighttrain wrote:
Yea, that’s a badge of shame he’ll wear until the next guy does the same. Great stage today. I love the Tour.
Joey_Bridges wrote:
https://www.velonews.com/events/tour-de-france/jasper-philipsen-on-tour…
At least he owned it. And his team should have kept him informed. Wout created chaos, and Phillipsen was collateral damage.
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Joey_Bridges 7/5/2022 5:01pm
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Created chaos indeed.
He attacked when the teams were unable to get their leadout guys together for their sprinters.
Thus leaving all of the GC guys at the front.
They weren't going to stop him.
Then his team shut the front of the field down.

I laughed my ass off at his snarky post race comment about, " not wanting to take any risks"
Then winking.
Referring to yesterday's finish with Sagan.

One of the better early flat tour stages in a long time.

Been watching him since his cyclocross days.
He's a beast.
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1911 wrote:
I started my Mountain Stage today, I am now read for a rest day, or rest week! :silly: :silly: [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2022/07/05/558173/s1200_827AF2D6_FB89_4624_BE10_ECAEA7A7FE7C.jpg[/img] [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2022/07/05/558174/s1200_4AE30822_7ECC_4A3B_B344_0335F0DEB677.jpg[/img]
I started my Mountain Stage today, I am now read for a rest day, or rest week! SillySilly


Joey_Bridges wrote:
Around here pretty much every mt bike ride starts like this....
Unload your bike and start climbing.
I was just in Murfreesboro last week for a regional soccer tournament for my daughter. Of course I brought my mountain bike. Being a flatlander from North Texas I was hoping for a little more elevation, is it hillier over by Knoxville?
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Joey_Bridges 7/6/2022 4:17am
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GrapeApe wrote:
I was just in Murfreesboro last week for a regional soccer tournament for my daughter. Of course I brought my mountain bike. Being a flatlander from...
I was just in Murfreesboro last week for a regional soccer tournament for my daughter. Of course I brought my mountain bike. Being a flatlander from North Texas I was hoping for a little more elevation, is it hillier over by Knoxville?
I live about an hour west of the knox area.
The so knox urban wilderness trail system is a huge area of hand built singletrack of varying skill ranges.
My long time favorites are, the north boundary/black oak ridge area just west of oak ridge.
A 70/30 mix of gravel and singletrack
None of it flat.
Norris watershed north of Knoxville, 50/50 gravel and singletrack, again all climbing and descending.

Haw ridge, and loyston are two places with mostly rolling singletrack with haw having some serious climbing.

The Knoxville area is a mt bike mecca that few outsiders are aware of.

https://www.mtbproject.com/
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Joey_Bridges 7/6/2022 4:21am
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Check out the Chattanooga area on that website.
Raccoon mt will hand you all of the climbing and descending you want.

Awesome trails.
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LoudLove 7/6/2022 4:14pm
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Crazy cobble stage today. Shook up the field a bit. Really cool to watch, but I can understand the racers’ concerns. Although I don’t believe the GC contenders suffered any tour-changing mechanical failures. And the only serious crash resulted from a hay bale! RC probably had flashbacks to Glen Helen.
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