It's over. The most interesting Tour in years has unfortunately been ruined by shortened stages and Egan Bernal has basically been handed the win. Remember that, as in life, everything always ends in disappointment. However, it has been a great three weeks, the real fun was in the journey and the /comfyposting/ along the way. Maybe next year we can all go camping!!! Let's hope there is a completely reliable non-murdering person out there who can provide accomodations. Not gonna post anything about today's clown stage because who cares, bring back a Paris TT plz.
Not even mad that Bernal wins the tour. He was clearly the strongest GC rider, maybe excluding pre accident >pinot, and would've won even if they had been able to ride the original route. Also the tour was exiting and had multiple guys fighting for the win up until the 19th stage, something we haven't really had in years. Rating this tour at a solid 8/10.
Daniel Mitchell
Agreed, it was good. Ineos was not that dominant which helped a lot, Kwiatkowski and Moscon were a joke
Xavier Brown
Bernal would win even if not riding for iMEOS (exception is Movistar because of their >strategists)
Blake Jones
it's been a good one, one of the best for a while enjoyed posting and here's to a great vuelta
Isaiah Roberts
The best rider won senpai, he wans't handed anything.
Adam Turner
Would it be more fair in the future if the stage winners would get a bigger time bonus? It would make/force GC riders to attack more in the future.
Bentley Robinson
They would only sprint in the final meters. Something like a % of their gap as a bonus would make them move their ass but it would be too convoluted.
Andrew Harris
This will remain the most French tour in a long time, mostly due to Allaphillipe.
On of the few men showing panache, one of the few who dares to attack, even if it might cost him.
Ineos, Buchmann and Kruijswijk were riding to keep position, not to advance.
TJV probably the most visible team in the TdF this year.
I think all of them have been in the spotlight at some point.
Kruijswijk as main GC guy, de Plus and Bennett as superdoms. Teunissen and Groenewegen with stage wins and yellow jersey. Tony with his beasting at the head of the peloton alongside his DQ with Rowe. WvA with his sprint win and his unfortunate crash.
The only one who has been less visible is Jansen.
Juan Nelson
Crashweak shall be relegated to doméstique status since Poomoulin has joined into Joembo. Same with Roglic.
Juan Stewart
Jumbo deserves a better leader, if Roglic was there he would have at least tried to attack like he did last year.
Tyler Edwards
Next year's TdF will probably be a Thomas/Bernal situation with Dumoulin/Roglic or Dumoulin/Kruijswijk.
I wish we could could just see every single top rider in the world all focusing on the tdf. Must be the only sport in the world where guys skip the biggest event. Imagine a golfer skipping the Masters or a tenniser skipping Wimbledon.
They could easily fix the calendar to make it happen. Vuelta first. 4 week break. Tour. 4 week break. Giro. The top guys need to stop travelling around the world to shit tier races. Leave that to the scrubs. Notice how Froome, Thomas and Bernal don't race much.
That wouldn't solve anything, riders would simple target Vuelta -> Giro double or Tour.
What they should do is to move the Giro earlier so there are 6/7 weeks to recover so riders would be more likely to do both, and actually that's a thing that ASO has asked RCS to do but for some reason they refused, which is fucking retarded since it would simply benefit them.
Nicholas Long
I switched the Giro and vuelta because of snow. Teams need to force their riders into riding all the big races. It is possible if the calendar is right
Christopher King
>Giro in april >all the mountains covered by snow >only flat and hilly stages avaliable
bring back the boomer era this lad, pantani, armstrong, jalabert, cipollini, big franck vandenbroucke great bunch of lads desu
Easton Jenkins
>Armstrong
Fuck him, not worth mentioning
Charles Morales
Nah it was ugly.
Luis Miller
I hate that faggot so much. The asshole almost killed my favorite sport en he still tries to be relevant in cycling. He is so full of himself without any shame. RAAAGE
Jaxson Lopez
he doesn't deserve podium
Adrian Brooks
You can still see the psychopath in him in that podcast. Feel bad for Hincapie who seems like a nice guy.
Who are they gonna send to la Vuelta? I feel like a strong team like that without a sprinter and all of them riding for Roidglitch could be really effective.
Cooper Foster
based
Lincoln Young
too mountainous for him me think
Ethan Brooks
Bro if anything you skip the French Open for Wimbledon.
Wimbledon is the biggest tennis event of the year.
Christopher Long
today is Kristoffs day, and he will throw his bike
Asher Bennett
I watched one episode (pls buy this great product) After all he did, the motherfucker still has a opinion about cycling. He should just move on. Every word he say is damaging cycling. I will never forget this picture when he was exposed as a junky and mafia boss and still denied it. This motherfucker is a next level psychopath
.. KRUIJSWIJK Steven .. VAN DER HOORN Taco .. BENNETT George .. HOFSTEDE Lennard .. KUSS Sepp .. POWLESS Neilson .. ROOSEN Timo .. GESINK Robert .. ROGLIČ Primož .. MARTIN Tony .. GROENEWEGEN Dylan
PCS has this for the Vuelta, preselection so 3 get dropped from the list later
Matthew Reyes
Will Superman join the top 10 next year or will he ride for Fuglsang?
Brandon Phillips
Unitedstatian cycling needs a new trailblazer like LeMond
Juan Anderson
>everybody was shitting on him >all the french people ignored him jumping on the Allah/Pinot bandwagon >in the end he is the only one in the podium in paris
Do what we do and ignore him. The number of non-cycling fans in this country who even remember Lance is close to zero now.
I haven't seen a single yellow bracelet in years, which is sort of a shame because the Livestrong foundation divorced itself from Lance and continued to provide valued services for cancer patients and survivors but its finances have been dwindling lately.
Eli Turner
>Froome, Dumoulin, Roglic, Lopez all back next year Did I forget someone
Justin Moore
>Poels' contract ends this year >has his worst performance in the tour
Oh no no will he be fine? Same for Moscon, after all the trouble he has cause I wonder if they wanna keep him around.
Kwiatkowski is fine though, his contract lasts until next year, he has time to redeem himself.
This. Mention Lance Armstrong and the response is >I thought his name was Neil. Or are you thinking of Lance "Buzz" Aldrin?
Kevin Ross
Yes, the winner of it all. Evenepoel of course
Joshua Gomez
Oh and Carapaz
Jack Myers
No doubt he’s a good guy, but he’s so anticlimatic it makes me want to scream at him, he annoys me very very much
John Flores
I also blame him for what he did for the Livestrong movement. Everything he did was so fucked up. I feel bad for the generation after him that picked up the pieces. They are the heroes, they saved cycling.
Liam Stewart
...
Aaron Reed
I understand, it sucks he has no acceleration or punch at all, he is just a diesel that never dies and that's not very exciting to look at
William Carter
carapaz is a one year meme. prove me wrong
Carson Ward
Why is stage 21 so late this year? I'm gonna be tucked up all warm and snug in bed dreaming about lasagne
Liam Johnson
The heatwave would be my guess.
Brandon Taylor
>implying Ineos isn't gonna turn him in a perpetual giro/vuelta winner
Hudson Jenkins
Allah could be awarded the prix de la combativité though, sort of a podium.
Jaxson Torres
His name isn't even Lance Armstrong but Lance Edward Gunderson. This is how far this psychopath goes. Taking the name of a real American hero.
Brody Jones
It’s for the show, they think it’s better to have them arriving in the evening
Brody Morales
hes gonna be a perennial domestique for skelly/thomas/elf boy
Lucas Baker
after yesterday boasting about his own height, today the host who constantly calls caleb "the little man", on social media belittled his colleague for having no hair and indulgently showed off his own hair
Jordan Wright
Alaphilippe will almost certainly win supercombative.
Christopher Martinez
Lord Chris and Sir Geraint are boomers now, they won't last long
David Ward
Jumbo shouldnt be allowed to wear yellow
Camden Fisher
The start of the stage has been this late for a few years now. It's just because the Champs-Élysées looks nice in the dusk.
A question for my dutch and belgian friends: is there a list of all the post tour crits somewhere?
Dominic Richardson
Nah they will be at the tour.
Hunter Roberts
Based
Robert Nguyen
>Froome >coming back
Gavin Johnson
After the stage wins and dropping Allaflip i think they do.
Pinot should won this /TdF/ desu
Liam Cooper
why the fuck it's so late today? is it because of stupid laser show again? btw, MTB European championship will start in an hour on Eurosport player. MVDP is on start list.
Just wanted to say that I have enjoyed shitposting with you lads during this tdf and I hope you all enjoy yourselves until the next time. Please join me for one final important message, ahem:
This guy was such a meme, we laughed at him like we do at guys like Porte and Tejay now. And then he turned it all around, became World Champion and won the Tour, pretty based
Matthew Nelson
25 years is huge in terms of mechanical and training progress. Not saying they don't dope though.
I checked on Pantani...how did he not even once win a mountain jersey?
Jackson Ortiz
oh, of course, must have been mods, my bad
Xavier Phillips
topkek, imagine the chutes.
Liam Cooper
the 1994 stage also wasn't shortened to less than half of what was planned
idiot
Nathan Green
When the TDF first launched in 1903, it was first organised as a publicity stunt to increase sales for an auto magazine, edited by a guy named Henri Desgrange. A prominent cyclist and owner of a Parisian velodrome, Desrange was pretty obsessed with making the race as tough as possible. He once said that in his ideal race, the winner would be the only one who finished. He was also of the opinion that variable gears on a bicycle were something better left to the weak. “Isn’t it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur?”, he told reporters. “We are getting soft… As for me, give me a fixed gear!” >using gears
He would have been disgusted by the last stages shortened. >a landslide ? MUH DICK
Dominic Jenkins
I saw that video. The tour was so hard back in the day. I love those stories.
Matthew Reyes
petition to rename Val Thorens to Val Torain or something like that Thorens sounds too scandinavian
Logan Wilson
The acceptance of drug-taking in the Tour de France was so complete by 1930 that the rule book distributed by Henri Desgrange himself, reminded riders that they would have to buy their own drugs as they would not be provided by the organisers. Alcohol consumption to dull the pain and fatigue was standard during the first five decades of the Tour. Before the mountain stages, competing cyclists would also smoke cigarettes to “open up the lungs”, increase blood pressure and heart rate.
From the very beginning, the sport was based around substance abuse, so if you think about it – maybe Lance was just keeping up a proud Tour de France tradition?! >using oxygen
It's not the doping, mate. He's a legit psychopath.
Thomas Ortiz
I don’t understand how this doping machine of Valverde is still allowed to compete
Lucas Cox
He`s spinning in his grave. We need to bring back the real TDF.
Parker Bailey
>reminded riders that they would have to buy their own drugs as they would not be provided by the organisers.
My sides are in orbits.
Luke Wood
Nice one, mate.
Jose Rivera
Nitroglicerin pills smashed and mixed with clay were a thing for old riders too
Henry Bell
Is he Cipollini?
Xavier Roberts
>Alcohol consumption to dull the pain and fatigue was standard during the first five decades of the Tour. Before the mountain stages, competing cyclists would also smoke cigarettes to “open up the lungs”, increase blood pressure and heart rate. >mfw i could have competed
>they would have to buy their own drugs as they would not be provided shit race
Luke Cooper
Yes, that's Cipo.
Anthony Evans
When cyclists passed through towns, the residents wanted to help their local rider, so they’d show up with bats, chains and buckets of piss when the riders came by, and only let their favourite pass through the blockage. Mining towns were particularly fanatical and spectators often retaliated against cyclists who had been accused of cheating. Groups of hoodlums waited in hiding for the racers, planned on beating, bottling or even knifing cyclists in the lead to help their local favourite. Many riders threw in the towel because of the fans. >french fans not helping ALAPHILIPPE and PINOT
Nearly everyone's still doping, but I also believe the sport is more honest than it's ever been because the drugs themselves are so ineffective in comparison to the old EPO/HGH/Blood doping/Cortisone combination.
The blood tampering drugs could turn a man into a cycling monster, whereas today's drugs will help you shed fat and turn you into a skellington but don't do much to actually make you faster.
Plus, since they're expensive and don't do all that much, it's possible for a truly clean rider to compete (not win, mind you, but compete).
Michael Wright
Imagine the absolute state of Froome if he rode in those days.
Brandon Wilson
And I thought the fuckers in the mountains were annoying
What's your point? Do you believe autologous blood transfusions to be new technology?
Eli Peterson
Proves that Froome shouldn't win about a little piss
Hunter Harris
EPO made comeback this year, but mostly with third-rate Colombians
Justin Martinez
1977 TdF, a.k.a. Tour de Doping
>Every day, five cyclists were tested for doping: the leader in the general classification, the winner of the stage, the runner-up of the stage, and two randomly selected cyclists, for a total of 110 tests.[14] Six cyclists tested positive for Pemoline: Joop Zoetemelk (15th stage), Sebastien Pozo (16th stage), Antonio Menendez (17th and 18th stage), Joaquim Agostinho (18th stage), Fernando Mendes (18th stage) and Luis Ocaña (18th stage).[15][16][17] Pozo was unable to provide urine within two hours for the doping control after the prologue, which is treated as a positive result.[14] All were fined with 1000 Swiss Francs, received one month of provisional suspension, were set back to the last place in the stage and penalised with 10 minutes in the general classification.[16]
Directly after the Tour, there were rumours about Thévenet and Kuiper having used doping. The Tour officials came together, and made a statement that Thévenet was officially the winner of the Tour. Some months later, when Thévenet was in hospital, he admitted having used cortisone. His popularity plunged after that, and Thévenet was never again able to compete for the general classification.[12] Though he was able to stay near the second tier general classification riders approaching the end of his career as he finished in the top 20 of both the 1980 Tour de France and Vuelta.
Owen Torres
Froome and Bernal would literally be dead.
Tyler Reed
It's not old we literally had some huge cases like 2 months ago, they are using still using all those stuffs.
Christian Perez
Holy crap, don`t want.
Mason Garcia
Thank god, this year's tour showed us how much more exciting is the race is less TT kms, something that everyone and their dogs were clamoring for years.
Samuel King
In the Tour de France, the rider who finishes last is accorded the distinction of lanterne rouge – in reference to the red lanterns traditionally hung from the caboose of a train so dispatchers can see in the dark if the last car of the train is still there as it goes by. Last place finishers in the Tour de France are given a red lantern in honor of their failure and their courage for not dropping out along the way.
> not awarding the lanterne rouge This needs to be brought back.
Pic related - Fellow riders knotted inner-tubes together to haul him up in 1951.
Sadly we can't do that anymore, you would be fiché S and GIGN'd. They even investigate when someone pours spikes on the road ffs. Fuck Macron.
Nathan Torres
>Good that they stopped that. No, bring it back. They still have to make the time cut. Be a great battle to come last.
Luis Roberts
They got rid of it because guys at the back started sandbagging instead of racing. The guy who finishes last gets all sorts of pity-fame but the guy who finishes one place ahead of him gets nothing.
The Italians had the Maglia Nera in the Giro (same thing). Pinarello was legendarily founded using the prize money gained from "winning" the Maglia Nera.
Christian Murphy
LOOOOOOOL
Kevin Price
>complains about derailleurs but chooses to walk through the mud. a real winner would have rode it
Lucas Campbell
Wim van Est became famous because of that fall, he was wearing the yellow jersey at that time as well. It's one of those eternal stories about the Tour that you always hear.
>At home, Van Est's fame grew even more when Pontiac, which had supplied watches to the Dutch team in the Tour de France, started an advertising campaign "Seventy meters deep I dropped, my heart stood still but my Pontiac never stopped"
Cooper Butler
>GIGN'd Those guys would fit right in with a US police department (in terms of eagerness to shoot, not in terms of fitness. They'd need to gain 25-50kg.)
I'll say this about the French (the Army, at least, in my experience): once they start shooting, they go fucking nuts.
Kevin Moore
But I want to win that damn lantern, look good in my room with a lit candle in it.
Austin Stewart
These are dark days for friendly banter indeed.
Cameron Lee
>A second incident involving a dog occurred on Stage 18. Sandy Casar and Frederik Willems were in a four-man break when Casar collided with a dog running across the road, causing both him and Willems to fall. Casar was able to rejoin the break with the help of Axel Merckx despite receiving road rash on his right buttock, while Willems returned to the peloton. Casar went on to win the stage.[16][17][18]
Mere coincidence!
Jayden Bailey
This is not how a race works, maybe it its a thing in America where everyone gets a medal for participating. Fuck off with this shit.
Levi Sanders
This. That guy was a pussy. I hope he got knifed by the fans.
Jonathan Morgan
Interesting story, thanks, did not know that.
David Campbell
>maybe it its a thing in America where everyone gets a medal for participating. This is a myth.
It's just children's (like age 5) soccer leagues in rich white that used to give "participation trophies" back in the mid 90's. Then they realized that was not healthy for the children's sense of accomplishment and stopped.
Xavier Sanders
Did you watch the Sporza bit about Offredo? First thing he did when he finished yesterday was cheering that he got rid of the Lanterne Rouge. Now that is something I respect.
John Scott
Damn it, I want that red lantern. I have a thing for lanterns. Boats, trains, I fucking love them.
Jack Rodriguez
I didn't knew that haha. The Lanterne Rouge means you are shit, why celebrate it? It takes time away from the winner. I'm sorry for that post, i used it as an example. Can someone check on Australia?
Jordan Jenkins
to be honest, it can sometimes be a monument to the power of will of some guys (eg Lawson Craddock at last year's Tour)
Cameron Ward
>The Lanterne Rouge means you are shit, why celebrate it? Perserverance in the face of failure. You have no chance of winning, you have no chance of even beating anyone. Any reasonable person would get off the bike and go home but you stuck it out and made it to the end.
Jeremiah Martinez
totally this
Jackson Clark
What time does the stage start today lads?
William Garcia
Agreed. The interview was very good btw, it's always interesting how every cyclist in the Tour has their own story.
In the 1904 tour, 12 out 27 finishing riders were disqualified for taking the train instead of racing. Back then, the traffic wasn’t stopped on the roads, you had checkpoints once in a while, but very few people were actually watching, so taking the train probably wasn’t too difficult to get away with. Stories spread of riders spreading tacks on the road to delay rivals with punctures, of riders poisoning each other. One French racer Lucien Petit-Breton complained to an official that he had seen a rival hanging on to a motorcycle, only to have the cheating rider pull out a revolver on him.
>american journalist it's closer to their swat unit than the seal
Jaxon James
Thanks for this. Heerljk
Tyler Bell
>the other was critically injured from a fall down a flight of stairs Kek, that polite way of saying they beat the fuck out of him within an inch of his life while the other guy was bleeding out in a puddle of his own piss
Evan Hall
Also >le gendarmerie
Grayson Baker
>mfw we will never have this kind of kino again
Now those were chads willing to do anything to win, I hate these pussies nowadays
>Is this not scraping the bottom? Why give attention to it? I think it's a vestige of its origins as an Audax. (Time-limited endurance events where all finishers receive equal recognition regardless of time.)
I agree, though, the red lantern really doesn't serve any purpose anymore. The last-place finisher finishes because he's getting paid to ride, not just some sense of personal perseverance.
Leo Perez
i'd watch a 1905 tdf mad max like movie directed by guy richie and with jean dujardin as main character
Bentley Hill
Is he winning?
Ryder White
>Perseverance in the face of failure. Yes Yes, this American gets it.
Jonathan Lopez
>directed by guy richie That would ruin it, though. Look at his filmography. He hasn't done anything good since "Snatch".
Bentley Young
i liked his sherlock holmes movie desu and i liked his pre ww1 london
Chase Edwards
Imagine Nibbles pulling a gun on you after you point out a sticky bottle fucking kek, legends
Jeremiah Torres
Yeah he's booming them. He has like a 20 second gap even after a crashing on the first lap (didn't see, I assume it wasn't too bad). Race is about halfway.
Sebastian Brooks
Imagine the colombians weaponed and riding in grupettos
Levi Perry
Holy shit, this is a fantastic idea. Needs to be directed by Tarantino though.
Daniel Thomas
>The last-place finisher finishes because he's getting paid to ride, not just some sense of personal perseverance. They would be paid no matter what. They really do it to be proud to finish the TdF, being DNF is the real shame.
Easton Young
Luc Besson would be better. Imagine the riders with Le Parkour skills
Benjamin Diaz
Another story, about 1924 and 1925 Tour winner Ottavio Bottecchia
>On 3 June 1927, a farmer outside the village of Peonis, near Bottecchia's home, found him on the roadside. His skull was cracked, one collarbone and other bones broken. His bike lay some distance away on the verge and wasn't damaged. There were no skid marks to suggest a car had forced him off the road and no marks to the pedals or handlebar tape to suggest he'd lost control. Bottecchia was carried to an inn and laid on a table. A priest gave him the last rites. From there he was taken by cart to hospital in Gemona. He died there on June 14, twelve days later, without regaining consciousness.
> Theories abound about the circumstances of his death. Bernard Chambaz of L'Humanité said: Accident or assassination? The accident theory, favoured by justice, on the accounts of witnesses and a medical examination which also referred to several fractures, was based on an assumption of an illness, sunstroke and a fall. In fact, the inquiry was quickly closed. The theory suited everybody: the Mussolini régime, the presumed killer and even – it's sad to say – the family, now sure of a large insurance payout.
>Don Dantė Nigris, the priest who gave him the last rites, is said to have attributed the death to Fascists unhappy about Bottecchia's more liberal leanings. But an Italian dying from stab wounds on a New York waterfront claimed he had been employed as a hit man. He named a supposed godfather, although nobody of the name was ever found.
>Much later, the farmer who had found him said on his deathbed: "I saw a man eating my grapes. He'd pushed through the vines and damaged them. I threw a rock to scare him, but it hit him. I ran to him and realised who it was. I panicked and dragged him to the roadside and left him. God forgive me!"
Normally, this just isn't something you're supposed to do on the last day. But if a French rider were to be very close to victory, I'm sure the public would understand if he decided to go full meme.
I almost feel like the worst thing about Lance was the disappointment.
Those first couple of wins were such a great story, overcoming cancer and all that. It was really inspirational stuff. (Even the French liked him back then.)
Then, of course, we realized he was a colossal fraud and an asshole to boot. He cucked us all.
Hunter Edwards
Cyclists jump over a level crossing during a TDF stage during the race.
Damn yo, Egan looks like a character from a Wes Anderson film. I think that's aesthetic af desu.
Michael Young
It's probably one of, if not, the craziest sports story ever. Everything was life and death after cancer: cycling, critics/accusers. I wish everything happened differently or the circumstances that they raced in were different. A psychopath to the end.
Dylan Watson
Yeah he looks good, he deserves better than goblina.
Kayden James
Were those fixed-gear bikes back then or did they have single-speed freewheels?
John Turner
Oh man, I really wanted to believe and I did in the beginning. Phil Liggett even believed Lance was`t a doper when he was commentating with Sherwin on SBS tv here. So disappointed when he spilled the beans on Oprah. Infact, I still believe he should keep those jerseys but with a black mark against his name.
Brody Phillips
>Even the French liked him back then unfortunately for him it was during the poor relation between our two nations (the freedom fry gate)
Nathan Baker
By 1935 at least, they could coast, so they had freewheels. Single speed, still. If you wanted to go to a different ratio you actually had to stop, and change your gearing.
Robert Smith
I have no idea myself about that.
Brandon Kelly
But french fries were invented by the belgians.
Benjamin Nelson
1999 and 2000, you guys cheered him like everyone else. After that, yeah, his winning was starting to look increasingly bullshitty.
Sorry if i made some threads uncomfy. That wasnt my intention. This was my first tour i followed on Yea Forums and it was decent comfy posting from day 1. it was a quite interesting tour, if not the most interesting in the last years, but unfortunately it got castrated in the last two stages. You are all damn fine lads, even some bongs, and i thoroughly enjoyed shitposting with you. My first post that started the actual rapey german camper thingbwas indeed honest and well intended and i only realized how rapey it came across when anons pointed that out. Being an old Yea Forumstard i couldnt let go such an opportunity and i started to live the role of the german cannibal. I would still welcome a /cyc/ camping trip but i guess that ship has sailed. I hope you got at least some small keks out of it. Can't wait for Vuelta...
Why hasn't someone hired a comedian to run like a spectator next to the yellow jersey wearing INEOS rider on a brutal mountain stage and shoot off a bunch of one liners to break the riders concentration. No way can you ride if you are laughing your ass off.
Camden Green
Get the fuck out of here.
Jayden Bennett
How many bikes do you own Yea Forums? Why is /n/ so much better of a board ?
Camden Robinson
Sarkozy supported him until the very end even when it was clear to everyone that he was a cheater. Liars get along very well I guess. (fun fact sarkozy wasn't reelected)
>No way can you ride if you are laughing your ass off. pretty sure it happened to riders next to Scarponi
RIP
Jason Brooks
An old mtb, an old steel road bike and a newer carbon bike. Mostly only use the latter.
Brody Roberts
>I would still welcome a /cyc/ camping trip but i guess that ship has sailed. Not only has it sailed, it's laying in the deep dark depths of the Atlantic ocean. >using drugs
Zachary Morales
I was at the tour 2013, dressed up as a doctor and wanted to run next to Contador offering him a steak on a plate. Cuck police stopped me and threatened me with jail for public disturbance or some shit... Feels bad man. French cops are anti lulz
Jaxon Stewart
6, a MTB, a CX/hybrid bike, a road bike that I use for commuting to work, a road bike that I use for riding around for fun. Then a beater and an old city bike I got from grandad
Kayden Thomas
Why happened here guys? does anyone know? such a mistery
>using drugs >posting in a /cyc/ thread. Where do you think we are?
Hudson Watson
Different angle: WHAT FUCKING OPTION HE HAD?
We all know that everyone was roided at that era. Many people were either caught or came clean. But unless those who came out, he had too much to lose, he couldnt do it. So he had to stay in the closet. And then he had to pursue the defamers (>) and so on. And then the inevitable debacle happened
Is almost a textbook description of how to write a Greek tragedy, im serious here
Evan King
this is the first time I see the Tour, what can we expect?
Egan drinking champagne in the middle of the race because he's one tier above the others.
Thomas Clark
>How many bikes do you own Yea Forums? Two carbon racebikes. An alu beater. A steel restored racebike form 1991 (all-period correct parts.) A piece of shit fixie for getting to work. A tandem for when the wife and I go touring.
James Brooks
Why did Riis, who also admitted to winning the overall while doping, get to keep his win?
David James
OH NO NO NO
Robert Green
They could have givent the wins tonthe runner up but everybody was on something so they just didnt bother. Lance almost killed this sport. I hope he loses his other ball as well
Carter Flores
3 - ht xc MTB, endurance road bike and carbon race road bike
Easton Hall
2, my current meme city bike and my first bike, the one with wich I learned to ride. My parents wanted to trash it countless times to make room but I insisted so much that they kept it. No from time to time I look at it with teary eyes, remembering when life was nice in a decent world.
Sebastian Powell
He did nothing wrong, if everyone was doping then it's WADA's fault for being a bunch of corrupt motherfuckers.
Jordan Sanders
>dressed up as a doctor and wanted to run next to Contador offering him a steak on a plate. I don't get it. What`s the context here?
>"Did you get all that abuse?" Thomas asked Poels, who responded: "There was one guy with a baby on his back, who was doing the middle finger. That's not cool."
Why are french fans so based and redpilled?
Julian Barnes
>This is the last /tdf/ of the year
James Nguyen
> not using degenerate mind altering drugs for fun
Bentley Cruz
How bad was the injury?
Aaron Davis
He got to keep that one because it was retroactive the tour he won that he was caught they gave to Jan. It was a little more lenient back then and not as damaging to the sport that it comes out a year later he was a cheat unlike Lance dominating everything and denying everything until it was literally impossible to hide it anymore. Ullrich cheated that year for second too and Pantani cheated for his win. Just a different sport at the time; the 80s-00s everyone kind of put a blind eye to the cheating unless you get caught without any evidence to the contrary, now it is guilty until innocent.
Jaxon Morris
Contador claimed his positive doping test came from beef contaminated with clenbuterol. 2nd most ridiculous excuse for doping evr heard
Jordan Cooper
Deep cut in his right thigh/ass from crashing into picrelated
Thanks. I remember the accident, wasn't sure how bad it was.
Bentley Ortiz
walloons gallo-roman lmao Ethnically they have the same amounts of germanic admixture as the flemish (although with a more frankish slant then the more saxon leaning flemish). This entire post is larping lmao. Truth be told there isnt anything like a french etnicity anymore so how can a people living outside france be considered french???
Ethan Edwards
t-thank
Isaiah Perry
>Women's Under 19 even their family dont give a fuck about that
Joshua Hughes
>kiwis using degenerate mind altering drugs for fun
Lucas Turner
Don't care f.am I'm only interested in the fries part
They're a specialty of Belgium nowadays but nothing says they were invented there
Aiden Kelly
This is France's most successful tour in years though. For some bizarro reason, French riders don't focus on the tour these days. >inb4 >pinot
Cameron Watson
you do know the french in french fries comes from "to french" which means to cut in its length??
retard nationalistic french, your race is literally already dead lmao
Yes I know, I have no idea why you get so upset over the fact nothing says fries were invented in Belgium but ok spastic you do you
Ethan Harris
Jeez, I don't remember that. That would have been funny like the fake doctors chasing Froome with the inhaler at the Giro. You should have positioned yourself further away from the police. That shit makes me laugh hard. I wonder if the riders themselves get a laugh out of that.
Benjamin Sullivan
1994 is when they came to my city (stage 5 started and ended in Portsmouth, UK). Best year.
>Bro if anything you skip the French Open for Wimbledon.
Since the 2000 ATP revamp to make the tennis tour more consistent you can't, technically, skip Grand Slams. Some players can because they fit cetain citeria e.g. being old and having won enough matches. Before that players skipped GS's all the time and only really played Wimbledon and the US. Aside from Claycourters like Muster, who holds the distinction of being the only #1 ranked player to never win a match at Wimbledon.
>be the greatest competition in a specific sport >nothing can change in the last day >might as well not run yeah, I don't think this semen slurping sport is for me, lads.
Is that Sagan. Did he get in trouble for that? Wouldn't that be considered sexual assault? Did he apologise to her? Titties are where it's at. Asses are good too.
Brandon Ortiz
>Is that Sagan. Yup >Did he get in trouble for that? Wouldn't that be considered sexual assault? Did he apologise to her? Sorta. Yes, today, it would be a scandal, but he was young and it was a different time. He apologized and that was that. >Titties are where it's at. Asses are good too. Titties are for little boys with Oedipus complexes. Grown men prefer asses.
Blake Hall
>black men prefer asses
fixed
Andrew Ward
The first Tour didn't have any cheating scandals I believe. It was only in the second Tour that some riders tried to cheat by taking trains.
>maybe Lance was just keeping up a proud Tour de France tradition No. The drugs were banned and he knew it. He's a cunt and deserves to be dragged through the dirt.
>Nearly everyone's still doping Go on post your evidence then.
Jason James
>Titties are where it's at. Asses are good too. >Titties are for little boys with Oedipus complexes. Grown men prefer asses. Real (white) men like pussies you freak.
Colton Torres
>bike weight >nutrition, team strategy, training, aerodynamics, other technologies on the bike like power meters, etc Fucking idiot.
Dylan Garcia
Well, time to tune in as they reach the end of the most disgraceful, drama-filled, dirty sporting event the world has ever seen. May the Tour never change. Caleb will win the sprint, oi oi oi.
>the most disgraceful, dirty sporting event >may it never change What the fuck is wrong with you you stupid cunt
Kayden Lewis
>with a loser jersey on Good for him!
Julian Williams
Ha, was going to post exactly that.
Landon Thompson
Fucking Evilos robots. I wish Bernal wasn't so likeable.
Brody Campbell
>Titties are for little boys with Oedipus complexes. Grown men prefer asses. I don`t care, breasts are best.
Jace Cruz
>this scene would cause a shitstorm today Fuck this gay world.
Jeremiah Morales
Vive le Tour
Owen Moore
c'est parti
Jeremiah Carter
>muh training Keep seething britautist, that post was made exactly to bait you, I knew I didn't even had to include Ineos in the post, you would get baited anyway! You know very well inside your heart they cheat that's why you want to convince everyone and yourself they don't. Even going as far as replying a 5 hours old post lmao.
I'd get the yellow jersey drunk on champagne and beers and then go in the attack
Wyatt Williams
The only attack on the champs, other than the greatest ITT ever, was from vinokourov on levi's 5th place a while back because vinokourov
Christopher Hall
>*dabs on britcucks*
BASED
Jonathan Allen
>sagan can't help but try to get some attention
What an autist.
Lincoln Cox
Bernal is too ugly to market well
prove me wrong
Henry Davis
Not really an un-written rule. It's just not practical.
On a short, flat stage, the pace will be very high as the sprinters' teams all try for the win. Since it's a circuit, there's not likely to be any wind to cause a split in the peloton. There's no real way to gain any appreciable time short of the stage win bonus and that's going to a sprinter not a GCer.
Hudson Lee
What happens if Bernal were to fall and break something and can`t ride.
Eli Cook
I didn't say anything about the girl in the swimsuit you fucking idiot.
>says a country that is literally also ruled by the queen >the difference being that it's OUR queen HAHAHAHAHAHA
Anyway being serious for a second. Some people have cheated in the Tour throughout its history, and the Tour has always punished them (in the second edition, Henri Cornet was originally the 5th placed finisher, but he was awarded the win a couple months later after the top 4 were banned for cheating).
So to say "there has been cheating so therefore the TdF should just remain as a cheaters event" (which seems to be what you're saying) seems absurd to me.
But also it's odd that you're using words like "disgraceful" and "dirty" as if you hate it, but then you're saying it shouldn't change.
Carter Anderson
MFW they have 21 stages and ATLEAST 4 each tour are pure filler:
Paris "etappe charmeur" AKA shit category, boring tradition.
Time trials of both kinds, atleast make them special with bumps or something.
Completely flat stages in areas where there's no chance of wind or cobbles etc, transport stages to showcase some nice chateus or horses running, which is cool.
Why
Luis Harris
Look
Ian Hill
>*wins another tour for a Britgod team*
Based.
Luis Hughes
>tfw no Vuelta a Colombia with cocaine lines offered to overall winner in last stage at Bogotá
Lucas Butler
>French TV pointing out INEOS didn't win a single stage this year but are going to win 1st and 2nd place Boring desu
Jonathan Howard
>evilos Take the proxy off Hans. And then seethe more.
Asher Martin
>water polo but with bike and no ball
i have an idea for next tdf i'm calling igor asap
Christopher Hill
Depends if it is on the neutralized part or not.
Matthew Scott
He loses. You have to cross the finish line on your bike.
Christian Moore
You'd like to think they'd wait for him out of sportsmanship. But who knows, there might be some cunt rider who would try and take advantage of it.
Michael Smith
Rapinoe is uglier and yet...
Ryder Moore
Bernal would have won the neutralized stage though.
Kevin Hernandez
yes? he is ugly
Matthew Anderson
There is no neutralized part, per se, after the départ réel. Just because no one ever tries anything until they reach Paris doesn't mean they couldn't theoretically try.
Blake Gomez
They neutralized like 60kms last year.
Aiden Fisher
>*british team dabs on the rest of the peloton yet again* Based.
>by cucking the britcuck they were desperately trying to make win until 2 days before the end
AGREE BASED
David Young
Charles is seething. You got 5 minutes or you`ll get a well deserved birching. NOW GET TO IT.
Landon Long
Fucking Aussies. Cunts ruin everything
Benjamin Foster
Egan is drunk is time to ATTACK.
Henry Perez
Sastre has a polka dot jersey too
Angel Ortiz
>Why so angry seething britshit. He (for some reason) takes the performance of a cycling team which contains riders from 13 different countries as a justification for his patriotism.
Thus, to imply that the team (which is owned by a guy who lives in Monaco to avoid paying taxes in his home country) may not necessarily be on the up-and-up is effectively calling Britanon's very patriotism into question.
Ryder Baker
Australian shitposting reaching a whole new level
Austin Sanders
lmao the french tv is telling my little anecdote
Jose Jones
Absolutely based. Seething continentals will never recover.
Isaiah Thomas
Uh no you have shit taste.
Anthony Wilson
Add bigger time bonuses at the top and promote GC to attack. inb5 le great french hope is a GC man
Nicholas Bell
>Lads how do we fix the polka dot jersey ?? Pick the ten hardest, most significant climbs in the route. The rider that gets up all of them with the lowest aggregated base-to-summit times gets the jersey.
Daniel Cox
Not racing on the last stage is lame. I want to see guys going for breakaways and flying down the champs elysees to try and make up a time gap
Henry Cooper
>riders celebrating having finished the "toughest cycle race in the world" >but wait >its 21 short stages, several rest days and castrated climbs >"can't belive we made it!"
mfw
Landon Cook
>Sagan's bike isn't green lmao that broken team
Nathaniel Johnson
Why not do a time trial on champs elysses again? Its such a kino ending, and surely it would do better ratings than this shitshow
Ryder Butler
bruh all these blacks in the crowds
Easton Sullivan
Bernal better be careful, there's gonna be a lot of seething Euros and Yellow Vest protestors in Paris today
Brody Walker
just leave
Tyler Stewart
They wait for a french GC contender who has good TT. When it happens, a last stage as ITT shall be put by ASO.
Samuel Thompson
this doesn't sound bad
Brody Smith
I agree, they should be getting booed while being showered with urine in the finest of French traditions.
Adrian Powell
Anyone seen a white person yet?
Matthew Ortiz
Well we get closer to Paris. It's good for France, they need Ngubus to bring home the Yellow Jersey
Wyatt Kelly
Alaphillipe is good at it though
Jack Jackson
So you're incapable of responding to what I said?
Matthew Thomas
>You'd like to think they'd wait for him out of sportsmanship. How long will they wait, until his broken bone heals?
>100-130 miles most days is "short" >only 2 (two) rest days in amongst 21 (twenty one) days of cycling If you think it's so easy then go do it yourself you fucking faggot
Carson Parker
Yeah, but they didn't know it yet. His performance was quite unexpected.
William Clark
French capital could be changed from Paris to Alpe d'HUEz by one day a year to last TdF stage happens there
Dominic Cruz
Will Bernal stay with Ineos or will he leave ? Next year who will be the main rider for Ineos ? Froome orBernal ?
Cooper Watson
>They wait for a french GC contender who has good TT. When it happens, a last stage as ITT shall be put by ASO. the 89 ITT was cool and all, but that was 30 years ago and the Champs Elysees sprint is a very fun tradition. They wouldn't change that regardless of a French champion.
If the ASO really want to rig things for the French, they would have cancelled the stage 19 results entirely and stuck with the truncated stage 20.
Elijah Reyes
What do I do until the giro next year? I don't want to watching the >vuelta
>Will Bernal stay with Ineos or will he leave ? He will leave eventually. He's got a taste of victory now. He's not going to go back to being a bottle-caddy.
>Next year who will be the main rider for Ineos? Froome, of course. The team is built entirely around him.
Tyler Foster
Paris.... home....
Nathan Long
will the skeleton king even ride again
Luis Powell
you'd puke your lungs after 30km on cycle why are you meming ?
In 10 years the tour will be 5 stages including paris and a fake depart in a random european host town
Christopher Ward
111 Km to go 10pm?
Matthew Perry
t.retard.
Noah Powell
Every time i watch France tv she is not there. Not fair! I cannot understand French.
Angel Nguyen
Tenga sexo
Angel Hernandez
Colombian supporters, from what I've seen, are much more European and civilized than I thought they were. Respecting France and the French, it changes from Africans. I'm glad they won.
Robert Ross
normie
Blake Young
They really are going slow as fuck wtf.
Daniel Bailey
This ""stage"" always get the poorest scores in audience. Sooner or later they will be forced by the sponsors to change the format.
Even less than the random sprints on the first week? Doubt.jpg
Carter Long
I think he meant in general, as in their team clothing shouldn't be yellow and I agree. Often confusing to find the yellow jersey wearing in a sea of riders. Pretty sure Jumbo will drop out if they have to change colors though.
Lucas Bennett
The rich ones (rural aristocracy, narcos, army officials, government members, right-wing militias) who have money to travel to Europe
Grayson Jones
Because Ineos will win over and over again. If the last stage is a TT, climbers won't give their all in mountains to not crash and burn in the TT. They should just stop with Paris and end the TdF in the mountains.
Jaxon Young
Nice, but a bit tiny.
Elijah Sullivan
Jfl if big baby doesnt win today, he'll be seething his entire train is dead after riding for shitty Kruijswijk
Carter Reyes
Doesn't she do commentary on France tv?
Mason Barnes
Charles is now in a very very bad mood and seething like hell. Camilla not happy either. Your birching is on its way.
Samuel Phillips
Its only kino when literal who's stand to win it like with dumoulin in 15 or Horner or Froome in 11
Carter Fisher
They are going slower than my Sunday rides, zzz.
Lucas Flores
basado y rogepilado
Leo Rivera
we have access to French channels here
Jose Brown
Oh, op die manier hihi
Isaiah Cook
>Thomas seething that he lost to Bernal
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH
Anthony Flores
Good for you. Doesn't she do commentary on France tv?
Surely they'll just do the same strategy as they did this year. Get the whole team up the mountain then see which rider has the best legs to get to the top.
Landon Davis
yes on France 2
Colton Allen
>doesn't have any argument whatsoever to counter what i said about cheating and banning in the tour de france Pathetic
the only Colombians I saw in Brussels are MtF transexuals prostitutes. What is your problem (with Brazil) with your prostitutes shemales here in west Europe ?
>What is your problem (with Brazil) with your prostitutes shemales here in west Europe ? simple, eurofaggots pay a lot for those whores
Joseph Kelly
>I live close by to here, this is where I train Interesting, Marion, very interesting.
Eli Butler
Lefevre said it to "L'Equipe": they already have signed their players for 2020 and it's too late to bring climbers (to win GT) but they'll do it for 2021. So if he wants to try next year he has to change team, otherwise they'll back him for 2021.
Noah Jackson
>German Eurosport commentators passing the time with "funny" "banter"
He should do everything he can to get onto a proper GC team, he's clearly shown a lot of talent this year. He'll have to change his training to be geared around GC though. He needs to be skinny as fuck like all the other GC guys.
If you have sprinters in your team you clearly have no intention to win the tour.
Hudson Johnson
/tdf/ 2020 meetup venue confirmed.
No murderous Germans allowed.
Blake Miller
*note le nom dans mon calepin noir*
Brayden Richardson
Colombians in Spain can go to France easily.
There must be like 50k Colombians in France. Most Colombians in these countries (Germany, France, Netherlands etc) are stupid lefties.
Jayden Rodriguez
looks walloon
Jace Smith
Wait is that an attack? Oh never mind just getting the pois points.
Juan Wright
Wonder if she might have been one of these cocksucking riders I run into all the fucking time in the dix-sept tournants, since she mentioned them. I wonder how many of these idiots get killed each year
Lucas Nelson
>cocksucking riders Damn there are cock sucking female riders in france? Tell me more.
Belgium has the biggest number of Castle by square meter in the world
Oliver Ortiz
My neighbours are columbians and every time it goes above 20c they sit in their back garden and blast reggaeton really loud it gets pretty annoying after a while
Jacob King
That's either San Marino or the Vatican, lad. Sorry.
Robert Robinson
looks flemish
Julian Sanchez
kek
David Foster
they didn't expect Alaphilippe to have such a great TdF. Now it's too late for next season to bring more climbers to help him win GT, so he'll have to wait for 2021
>The riders are eager to party >And how right they are Marion is a slut.
Elijah Evans
Gent and Royal Antwerpen hooligans joining forces on air
David Edwards
British Eurosport Chateau Man just admitted to not knowing anything after messing up his notes. Very professional production.
Daniel Hall
They didn't watch the tour 2018 ? He was best cimber, and in a good manner this time, it should have tell them something. But well, they're more focused on classiques anyway.
Anthony Jackson
why do you know those shit clubs lol
Ayden Anderson
It was 36 a few days ago it was fucking hell
Hudson Richardson
>Versailles Fuck, this place is really incredible, isn't it.
Levi Rivera
brugs boerke detected
Connor Hall
Can the stage end at night?
Ethan Johnson
By FIFA games
Charles Ortiz
It is honestly
Isaiah Young
the worst part of this tour was when they drove past the concentration camp and the commentators went in to full "never let it happen again" mode
Cameron Taylor
cirkel
Ryder Morgan
I feel bad for you, you've hit the coast plague, they're even hated in colombia. They have a reputation for being lazy, very noisy and thieves, and the most famous; fuck donkeys
There are only 4 Colombians in the peloton? With how much you hear talking about them you would think half of the peloton is Colombian. And they are all 4 pretty good riders too.
Ayden Johnson
You fucked up the Grand Palais man, you had one job.
Nicholas Foster
Just anglos putting nonwhites in the spotlight like they are programmed to do
Camden Bell
LA BASCULE
John Cooper
Suburban paris looks comfy and shit at the same time
I'm actually wondering where this picture was taken, because I've never seen any place even remotely like this in Paris suburbs, this looks nothing like what you'd typically see.
ITV brainlets confusing Westminster Palace and Abbey
Grayson White
Paris is still stunning, yeah. I don't know how much longer until all the gold on top of the Invalides gets stolen by packs of niggers, but at least the place can still be enjoyed for now.
Henry Sanders
Through Louvre.
K I N O
Xavier Mitchell
Flemishesque Church
Austin Scott
He did a great job at Sky until last year, with shit captains like Aru and Martin I doubt he had any times to shine.
Le Grand Palais is the only building I could fap to.
Christian Gutierrez
ILLUMINATI SYMBOLISM
Alexander Thompson
I don't think it's a masterpiece, but it's decent imo.
Aiden Wright
Doesn’t look good at all for being world class famous
Daniel Carter
People tend to forget the pyramid was built in order to light up the sublevel of the Louvre and allow for a single, main entry into the museum, and a glass pyramid probably was the best way to do that while maintaining some, albeit debatable, aesthetics.
Congratulations France on winning the UEFA Women's Under 19 Championship. Sure it would have been nice to have won the TdF (which looked highly likely a few days ago) but the UEFA Women's Under 19 Championship is still very good. Well done :)
> On the final stage [of the 1979 Tour de France] towards the Champs-Élysées in Paris, traditionally a ceremonious affair without attacks, Zoetemelk and Hinault broke away, with both gapping the field and Hinault taking another stage victory.
Based.
Jeremiah Reyes
>which looked highly likely a few days ago What ?
Camden Gray
Fuck fuck accidentally put money on ivan garcia cortina, wtf, my app screwed up
It's a great city, I've been there a few times. Then again even smaller French cities are very cool. Tours is cool, and I think Rennes is one of my favourite French places I've been to. And Caen is pretty cool too.
Anthony Moore
BBC
Tyler Ross
>It not really near the champs elysée, would be a bad circuit. Oh no poor cyclists, they would have to ride more kilometers. >Just blocks all Paris for the TdF
Logan Young
Ashgabat is one of the most beautiful cities in the world but it has awful city planning
Connor Diaz
Amd you have to climb the Louvre.
Nathaniel Phillips
Wasn't that back in the days of way longer stages too? God I wish I was alive
Luke Ortiz
They should just do a TT on the final stage again.
>be Egyption pharaoh >built the fuckhuge temple of Luxor >ensure its entrance is flanked by two gorgeous obelisks >thousands of years later some barbarian gives it away to some other barbarian >end up on some city square overlooking faggots on tiny chariots without horses >mfw
Kayden Thompson
am i missing anything by not watching
Connor Smith
I read how Paris has allowed cyclists to run red lights in some circumstances, where it's safe to do so.
Fucking based. Every country should do this. There are some circumstances where it is perfectly safe for cyclists to skip red lights, as long as they give way to pedestrians, and they (or should I say we) should definitely be allowed to do so.
Lies spread by retard contrarians. There his a lot of archeological stuff found at Alise-Sainte-Reine (money, weapons, remains of fortification, ...). They tried to dismiss the logical location by a literal interpretation of La Guerre des Gaulles and some anachronistic archeological stuff.
In fact there is a consensus (french and international) about the location of Alesia.
Ryan Wilson
That hieroglyph says "Despite being 13 %...", can't read the rest.
Lucas Wright
Wtf - he can sprint?
Josiah Thomas
It was a gift tho Nobody has ground to complain thanksfully
Andrew Moore
Not the winners though.
Asher Rodriguez
"I see a french rider win Le Tour", translated from old egyptian
"Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise ?"
Joseph Adams
cortwinslol
Dominic Carter
NOT Fulgsang time
Gabriel Lewis
Not like the romans who straight up stole a bunch of gigantic stone sculptures. Absolutely insane idea. How do you even start to consider that, with technology from 2000 years ago.
Hudson Hernandez
personnaly i am one of those asshole cyclist who ignores all road rules
Also with hours long gaps, good luck controlling someone else lmao.
Nolan Mitchell
fakin yellow vests where???
Lucas Hernandez
>Hinault >following the rules >on a bike
Why would you even ride a bike if you had to follow rules ?
Connor Perry
LA BASCULE
Luke Ortiz
Yeah so do I. Some old guy in a car was furiously waving his fist at me the other day because I went through a red light (wasn't dangerous at all, I was going through the bus lane and for some reason the bus lane had a red light, but there were no cars or pedestrians crossing in front so I just went through). I think cagers just get jealous that we can break the rules while they have to sit there and seethe, lmao.
Kek, reminds me of that cop who once told me no one ever bothers investigating dead cyclists on roads, they're so universally hated they're basically considered roadkill
Christian Richardson
based brit. When caging i SEETHE so much because of traffic jams as well very bad for your health
Robert Diaz
I assume you're saying that jokingly? Implying that everyone does it anyway? (People do here as well). Because the article says the Parisian mayor did this, so I'm guessing it's specific to the city.
I lived in London for a few years, I like big cities.
Actually I had already seen this picture before you posted it heehee!
Robert Nelson
Not going to happen. He'll come 2nd at best like always.
Carter Jackson
Either he ran away with Austria or Austria killed him. Either way, Austria had a hand in his disappearance.
Joshua Bailey
Life must be suffering huh ?
Jayden Brown
I assumed he was joking. But yeah, honestly though, cyclists often take ridiculous risks, and tons of them are dying every year.
James Watson
Bruh, they trained harder when they were in Sky.
Robert Miller
Why have todays gazillionaires such bad taste, bill gates his house looks like its from ikia catalogue etc. They don't care for beauty or grandeur anymore, why?
A russian made a better version when I lamented about my shitty image editing skills (tho I still prefer my own just cuz it's mine, but I appreciated it)
We get cyclist deaths in London. I think most of them are from HGVs (trucks) killing cyclists though, especially when you get a truck turning left (for you the equivalent would be turning right of course) and squishing a cyclist into the metal barriers that London has on the pavements. Or just knocking them off or running them over.
based one of the best posters here Though I think I told you that during the Giro too
Jaxon Rodriguez
CHAMOIX
Aaron Jones
I made it right after he was cucked by jury
Luis Perez
G V A V A
Jack Stewart
Wow, Van Avermaet is going to solo to victory. Impressive!
Zachary Foster
>GVA Haj joenge toch
Gabriel Bailey
NO NEW THREAD
Austin Brown
>Tissot >not even a French bell What the actual fuck
Jaxon Cox
Daily reminder that GVA will never win anything of relevance ever again.
Hunter Young
That shit is actually epic
Dominic Harris
>ring bell to end life
Michael Perry
thanks man, there wasn't a lot of us during classics season and lesser races, but I like these threads so I tried to make them if there was interesting enough race
Noah Moore
Threadly reminder that GVA will not win anything relevant in 2019.
Everyone makes fun of Viviani but it was that scrub of Groenewegen that got exposed, biggest favourite pre race and only won a single stage, what a weakling!
Camden Williams
Turbomanlet is so fucking strong
Julian Green
Thank you everyone tour de france threads are the comfiest
Joshua King
Nah, he’s half korean half aussie.
Jace Sullivan
Ask the german user.
Andrew Baker
:(
Kevin Edwards
>implying he won't be at Grand Depart Copenhagen 2021 Cam on lad
Incoming races, don't miss the threads! >Clásica de San Sebastián 2019 Saturday 3 August >2019 European Road Cycling Championships Sunday 11 August >Vuelta a España 2019 Saturday 25 August
In fairness, if I turned up to one, I'd ramble on about nothing for the first twenty minutes, go into complete silence then blurt out QUINTANA ATTACKS every half hour or so because my silence makes me self conscious. Presumably, I wouldn't be the only one like this either.
Nathan Butler
based papy >mfw somebody was a lowcarb autismo near me
Egan Bernal Jakob Fuglsang Julian Alaphilippe Enric Mas Remco Evenepoel Adam Yates Simon Yates Mikel Nieve Iván Sosa Ilnur Zakarin Daniel Martin Rui Costa George Bennett
Jordan Howard
>trying to cause another forest fire
Caleb Scott
>implying I won't go to see the Tour with sticks to slide in their wheels
i want edward norton to play philippe for Tour 2019 the movie
Jonathan Turner
Based Flip.
Nathaniel Richardson
They better be if they don't want to get shot when they go back home. Remember Andrés Escobar.
Colton Wilson
>For once super combatif is not a meme reward
Jaxon Carter
It's like it's the first time the red really matters, Allah's feats were outstanding.
Jose Allen
PRAISE ALLAHPHILLIPE
Carson Kelly
is this tdf always going to be tainted because of what happened with stage 19?
Samuel Nguyen
Pretty sure she would join us if she knew this hellhole of a site existed.
Adam Gutierrez
Based Allah. Nearly fucking crying here lads.
Hunter Roberts
Nah, the best rider won anyway, best TdF in years.
John Torres
Based Julian
Austin Martinez
>Sagan awarded some cabbage and a vase
Easton Ramirez
BARDET!
Logan Gonzalez
Post Sagan machinegun webm pls
Ryder Murphy
brexit means brexit
Jayden Barnes
>bardet has the exact same build as Froome >yet he can't TT for shit Why doesn't he just fucking ONCE visit a wind tunnel and get a proper TT bike & getup? Explain this??
He didn't feel like riding. That's the actual story.
Jace Gutierrez
Escobar was shot because soccer mafia bet trillions on Colombia wining the WC in 1994 and he made an own goal that made us lose
Wyatt Mitchell
Please don't make fun of the mentally ill
Liam Brooks
Doper vs normal human climber.
Parker Ortiz
>Jello >Not polka Pls
Lucas Morgan
Do sprints even matter in a post Cavendish world?
Nicholas Williams
At least it is Bernal who has won.
Lol, and how comes there are so many Colombians in France?
Gavin Peterson
washed up team hates him
Nathan Sullivan
I thought the maillot blanc should be given to anyone but the winner ?
Jacob Cook
>Thinking about the feminist kebab who had to cry because of "the podiums girls are sexist patriarchy" and who got exposed touching a man stripper's ass
He has ridden for Italian and British teams which is why he knows those languages.
Colton Johnson
Oh, I'm still BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOing INEOS (also FUCK BRAILSFORD), but Bernal is a nice lad who just happens to ride for the bad guys
Angel Cox
Bernal will win the vuelta next
Isaac Bailey
He rided for androni giocattoli
Ethan Rodriguez
I always wanted to watch the other tours but they're only aired on paying channels.
Ryder Foster
I think Porte is just glad to not be DNF again
Eli Lee
For every stage yes.
Josiah Rivera
nice
Lucas Rivera
It is so kanker beautiful.
Connor Young
tiz-cycling m8
Aaron Stewart
I'm not supporting them though, Ineos up to 2 days before the end were trying their best to make Thomas win but Bernal with his legs forced them to support him and cucked them. He is based.
Chase Harris
>Vomistar
Alexander Johnson
Just watch it on tiz like us.
Jace Howard
>remind yourself that Quintana would have win without Movistar backstab
Lincoln Sanchez
>IT'S OVER >It's August soon, only 4 months an a bit left until 2020
yeah i saw his apologies he's too nice to be bullied he even got accused of joining Ineos next year i hope he really does join them to make everyone seethe
Ayden Davis
Thanks to all the webm/screencap bros who made these threads alive.
Christopher Nelson
Time to watch some /147/ Riga Masters.
Lincoln Lewis
What will you do now that the Tour is over, especially speaking to the fellow NEETs?
Rugby world cup, depression, drugs and before you know it it's the Giro, Rolland Garros the Olympics and the other good stuff.
Andrew Hernandez
Vuelta soon lads, see you then
Get a job you lazy NEET, also nice digits
Josiah Mitchell
not a neet so, go back to work (ruining the Vuelta)
Ethan Morales
I was already feeling post tour depression yesterday, I will probably just end up laying in bed all day listening to Japanese ASMR videos.
Luis Russell
Thanks to all posters from everywhere who made the threads comfy.
Aiden Morris
True. It is all over when you see Paris. I enjoyed this Tour and thus France. With his waterfalls. Are these real or CGI?
Ethan Ortiz
To cuck them from the inside, and he already did it this year the absolute madman!
Christian Rogers
This IS France, the real France. Unlike the shitty neighborhoods full of 8balls and kebabs you will see on other TV shows.
Jacob Myers
Sagan with the Green shows how much of a joke that jersey is, Caleb was the best Sprinter.
Elijah Watson
>full of 8balls please develop
Anthony Harris
Caleb cannot into climbing
Bentley Lopez
As if I had to say more
Liam Cruz
>Are these real or CGI? It shows roughly the France where i live but don't be fooled, the France where 75% of people live is made of grey suburbs. >captcha : vélos
yeah because i don't know if you're referring to cocaine, pool, or black peeps
Cooper Bennett
He's obviously a billard hater.
Gavin Watson
it's what i thought too what a loser
Owen Taylor
Yes, such is life as a NEET (or a deadend wageslave), it feels like time watching a video on 2x speed. Next time you blink another year has passed again.
It has been raining heavily lately, so I cannot even go outsides and ride my bike.
Do you plan to ride some longer distances any time soon?
Xavier Bennett
>such is life as a NEET it's pretty comfy when you're not worrying about your loved ones dying in a blink
Luis Lopez
The green jersey is about consistently picking up points mate. Caleb didn't.
