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The 100th running of the Tour begins Saturday, June 29.

The first three stages will be held in Corsica, the first time the Tour has visited there. After that, it's onto Nice.

Looking forward to the TDF and the beautiful French countryside.

We are assured of a new champion as Bradley Wiggins is not running due to injuries.
 
Worth watching just for the scenery will a drug free rider win...............{eek3}
Cadel Evans is a true champion hope he wins again.
 
I read that the riders were having problems this year because they aren't use to riding with normal size testicles :)
 
Looking forward to this Brad having really got into it over the last few years , lets hope it can rebuild its image after all the recent drug upheavals . Shame about Wiggo though.

Rob
 
Being a serious Road Cyclist for the last 15+ years I will, as usual, watch this years tour....I used to be really into the TDF...from 1989 Greg Lemond, The Indurain years- to the Armstong years.....The scenery of France and Belgium and the helicopter views are amazing.... as are the sprints, climbs and time trials....that said However the sport has lost something for me:(...Too many doping scandals:(...I still ride 3x per week and enjoy putting in the miles on my Colnago.....but......I'm less competitive and slower on the hills....maybe I need some chemistry:rolleyes2:....Above all I hope this sport gets clean.
 
I haven't been a serious cyclist in 15-years, since my first child was born. Back in the Greg Lemond days, CBS would air the tour (recap) maybe four times. Now you get 2-hours of coverage everyday! I maybe watch 5-stages now, especially the early sprinting stages. They have great coverage of the last 5-miles and with the aerial views, you can watch the teams setup their sprinters. What's amazing is that they're riding hard for 100+ miles and still have that incredible sprinting speed. Frank, good to know a fellow cyclist. Colnago... you got one nice ride. I know Mitch is a cyclist. Any others on the Forum?
 
NBC Sports Network provides great coverage. On Direct TV, it's Channel 220.
 
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I haven't been a serious cyclist in 15-years, since my first child was born. Back in the Greg Lemond days, CBS would air the tour (recap) maybe four times. Now you get 2-hours of coverage everyday! I maybe watch 5-stages now, especially the early sprinting stages. They have great coverage of the last 5-miles and with the aerial views, you can watch the teams setup their sprinters. What's amazing is that they're riding hard for 100+ miles and still have that incredible sprinting speed. Frank, good to know a fellow cyclist. Colnago... you got one nice ride. I know Mitch is a cyclist. Any others on the Forum?
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I really enjoy riding...My Colnago masterlite (Steel frame) is set up with 9 speed dura-ace and weighs in at 18 lbs without water bottles....About 11 years ago we use to have a good regular group of guys 15-18 Tour De France wanabes get together weekly....I miss the competitive pace line, drafting and the strategy...we use to really push each other...I was OK on the flats but better on the hills.....These days the older I get... the faster I was.....Its a great sport if they can just get rid of all the doping.....I saw an interesting TV special on the "100 yrs of the Tour" last week. Amphetamines were used as far back as the 1930's I did not know that.... The death of Tommy Simpson in the sixties brought it out in the open....I don't know if even the great Eddy Merckx was clean?? .... Now Its EPO, Steriods, Blood doping...Hope it stops...Its ruining the sport.
 
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I'm dating myself by saying I have an 8-speed Dura Ace cluster, as they now have 10-speed clusters. What I hate about today's world is that everything is so specialized. Cyclist only race for the Tour. In the old days, a cyclist would race the Tour of Spain, the Giro & the Tour De France, not to mention all the one day races. Now that's a true champion who wins all three big tours.
 
Go for Broke said:
I'm dating myself by saying I have an 8-speed Dura Ace cluster, as they now have 10-speed clusters. What I hate about today's world is that everything is so specialized. Cyclist only race for the Tour. In the old days, a cyclist would race the Tour of Spain, the Giro & the Tour De France, not to mention all the one day races. Now that's a true champion who wins all three big tours.
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I agree completely........My other road bike is a Waterford Steel Frame with 8 speed campy record....A really nice set up........Nice stuff before everything went carbon fiber....I refuse to do any more $ up-grades like carbon fiber fork etc or or 10 speed....What I need is "legs" and you can't buy that....The simplicity of the sport is disappearing. I believe the last rider to win the Giro and the TDF in the same year was Indurain (who knows what he was taking??:rolleyes2:)...I believe that riders also should not be allowed to wear head phones for communication with the team car....These days they know exactly how many minutes a breakaway has on them and when its time to reel them back in.......Its all "too calculated" today....Still its all very entertaining especially with the voice of the Tour Phil Ligget calling the action.
 
Phil Leggett and Paul Sherwin are just fantastic. The Tour wouldn't be the same without them.
 
Stage 1 (Live) ...15 miles left....the early breakaway has been caught......My money is on Cavendish in a wild pack finish and the 1st yellow jersey of this years TDF.
 
UPDATE Stage 1: "Total Chaos"....A bus stuck under the finish line?????....Crashes....Cavendish and Sagan......Roads too tight.....CRAZY {sm4}
 
The last 20 km of Stage 1 of the 100th Tour de France was packed with chaos and confusion with a series of crashes and a changing finishing line. It was precipitated by a team bus that got wedged under the overhead gantry of the finish line.

With the peloton picking up speed under 10 km away, race officials hastily announced that the stage would end at the "3 km to go" banner. With the riders only 2 km from the new finish line, it was back to the original finish line when the bus was extricated.

To add to the confusion, the late crashes took out many of the star sprinters including Cavendish, Sagan and Greipel among others. At the eleventh hour, the Dutch team Argos-Shimano ceased their opportunity with Marcus Kittel of Germany propelling himself to win the stage and the first rider to wear the maillot jaune this year.

What an eventful start to the 100th edition of Le Tour.....

Raymond.:)
 
TDF Stage5 :"The Missle", Mark Cavendish gets the win today.:salute::
 
Well done Cav! Finished like a rocket. Nasty crash at end though.

Rob
 
Great few last days for the Tour as a South African rider, Darryl Impe, for an Australian team have taken the Yellow jersey nd Peter Sagan of the Cannondale team, after many near misses, finally won a Stage.

Today is a climb through the Pyrenees and it's looking tough for Impe as well as everyone else, particularly the sprinters.
 
jazzeum said:
Great few last days for the Tour as a South African rider, Darryl Impe, for an Australian team have taken the Yellow jersey nd Peter Sagan of the Cannondale team, after many near misses, finally won a Stage.

Today is a climb through the Pyrenees and it's looking tough for Impe as well as everyone else, particularly the sprinters.
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Yes and with no disrespect to all the riding done so far, now the game is really afoot. Love the Tour, great to watch with superb scenery too.

Rob
 
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