You lot have all gone very quiet about the TdF

[Dr Headgear - Wannabe viking]

3 weeks too long for your attention spans?
Lack of British riders?

Good stage today, big shake up.

[devongunner]

Like the CL after AFC go out or the World Cup without England.

Amazing win today from the front. Looking forward to the Mountains

[Classic Jorge]

[Dr Headgear - Wannabe viking]

then most of TdF history is fairly empty.

Yates did brilliantly today, at 21 he's the youngest rider left in the race and him and his brother are future stars.

Meanwhile, Kennaugh is a single stage away from claiming the Tour of Austria and Emma Pooley just took a mountain stage in the Giro Rosa...

[Dr Headgear - Wannabe viking]

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

[Classic Jorge]

[Ashberto]

[Ashberto]

[Supermac1976]

That said have you seen this doc, Doc? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074qhx/a-sunday-in-he ll (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074qhx/a-sunday-in-hell)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074qhx/a-sunday-in-he ll (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074qhx/a-sunday-in-hell)

[devongunner]

Been a couple of times and its a fabulous spectacle

[Dr Headgear - Wannabe viking]

Very atmospheric. The guy that made it commentates the TdF here. He's both a filmmaker and cycling fan.

[Dr Headgear - Wannabe viking]

No other sport comes anywhere close to the amount of suffering they have to endure.

[Dr Headgear - Wannabe viking]

They're absolutely mad. Especially the spring classics - Flanders and Paris-Roubaix, mental racing.

[Classic Jorge]

[devongunner]

Was mad the other day

[devongunner]

[Dr Headgear - Wannabe viking]

The cricket Gooners are always banging on about weird technical details that nobody gives a f**k about or can appreciate.

Cycling is very simple, the bloke that can suffer the most is the bloke that's going to win. It's almost elemental. There are plenty of tactics, of course, but the basic thing of a bloke on a bike absolutely burying himself, in all sorts of seriously **** weather (rain, snow, hail, sleet, wind) to win a race is a fundamental concept that anyone can appreciate.

[Dr Headgear - Wannabe viking]

*not cobblers, Jorge*

But in a one day race it's contested by riders that specialise in it (Tom Boonen, Cancellara) instead of a load of riders picked because they'll be good in the mountains.

Check this out for a fantastic film about the race in the mid eighties:

http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/index.php?t=tree&goto=3912 810&rid=15&S=16f3a441662725488bda1a287570d3ed (http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/index.php?t=tree&goto=3912810&rid=15&S=16f3a441662725488bda1a287570d3ed)

[Classic Jorge]

Oooh, try it for a day. You'll like it, I promise.

Don't tell your parents! Can you tell what it is yet?

:awubberwubber:

[Dr Headgear - Wannabe viking]

I'm a leeetle beeet of an evangelist.

It doesn't mean I want to touch devongooner up though.