Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift

[13 rider]

Great stage , watched it on GCN , hopefully the jumbo visma riders ok who came down into the Armco looked quite a nasty spill
The finish climb I rode it this morning on Zwift took me 15 mins I suspect the women will be quite a lot quicker

 

[Mike_P]

 

[13 rider]

Found the Strava segment for the col de trebiac , women's top 10 all set today ,fastest posted 8min 28sec by Mavi Garci

 

[Cathryn]

Much more exciting stage today, loved it! Delighted to see Lianne Lippert take the win (much as I like the SD Worx riders, it’s nice to see new faces winning). It looked tough though!!

 

[Cathryn]

The new Canyon Sram kit is gorgeous, I want it (and their bikes). Alas the jersey is €150!

 

[Dogtrousers]

Eva van Agt has a concussion, bruised lung and some stitches, apologizes for scaring everyone.

View: https://twitter.com/WestemeyerSusan/status/1683739452361920512

 

[Dogtrousers]

I don't quite know what to make of this route. I just did a quick (probably wrong) count and there are 15 cat 4 climbs, 7 cat 3, 2 cat 2 and one each of cat 1 and HC (both on stage 7). All the stages seem a bit samey except for 7 and 8 (the TT)

I wonder if this is because of the wide spread of ability. If you put a big selective climb in too early then Annemiek will just win and it will all be over and maybe some riders will be timed out.

 

[GuyBoden]

Presumably Zwift put up so much money and wanted their name in the race title, or the deal was off.

I remember that the Tour Of Britain was once known as the Milk Race. The riders were known as "The Milkmen".

 

[Dogtrousers]

I remember that the Tour Of Britain was once known as the Milk Race. The riders were known as "The Milkmen".

My first cycle race watching experience, I rode out with a mate and stood in the drizzle to see the milk race. I took some unrecognisably blurry photos. I was not hooked.

 

[Domus]

I remember the league cup had the milk marketing board as sponsor and the trophy was the milk cup. I so wanted the egg marketing board to take over so the trophy would be the Egg Cup.
Alas Coca-cola got the gig.

 

[13 rider]

Gutted for the breakaway

 

[13 rider]

Fenix made up for yesterday 😁 great effort . Don't think I've ever seen a breakaway given 10 minutes in a women's race

 

[andrew_s]

I remember that the Tour Of Britain was once known as the Milk Race. The riders were known as "The Milkmen".

They were separate races.

They both ran together from when the ToB (current version) started in 1987 until the Milk Race ended in 1993.
The Milk Race was about 11-12 stages, and was a top end amatuer race (incl Russian etc national teams plus some lower end Pro teams).
The ToB was initially 5 stages, growing to 8 currently, had a dodgy spell with only 2 races between 1994 & 2004, but has always been a proper Pro race with proper Pro teams.

The first race I went to watch was the Milk Race, going up Winnats in I think 1986. The back end of the race were pushing.

 

[Alex321]

They were separate races.

They both ran together from when the ToB (current version) started in 1987 until the Milk Race ended in 1993.
The Milk Race was about 11-12 stages, and was a top end amatuer race (incl Russian etc national teams plus some lower end Pro teams).
The ToB was initially 5 stages, growing to 8 currently, had a dodgy spell with only 2 races between 1994 & 2004, but has always been a proper Pro race with proper Pro teams.

The first race I went to watch was the Milk Race, going up Winnats in I think 1986. The back end of the race were pushing.

The only live cycle race I have ever seen was a stage of the milk race, more or less by accident when I was visiting my parents-in-law in Tregaron - the stage finished in Aberystwyth that day.
I think it must have been the 1992 edition

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-qCNTlFTGM

 

[13 rider]

At 59km to go in today's stage I thought Vollering was going to crash into her team car ,dangerous drafting . Driver got a telling off by an official I wonder if it's enough for a time penalty?