Tour de France 2017 ***SPOILERS***

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Mystic Marmion is failing in his knowledge.
Just googled them, they never got to no 1, which is a shame. But they were a Stock Aitken Waterman group.

Are you disputing that they were the No.1 disc jockey band of the late 1980s/eary 1990s?

Top of their game so they were.

 

[MikeG]

It's conjecture and hypothetical so your guess is as valid (or more accurately, invalid) as anyone elses.

Yeah, but I can listen to my own opinions all day. I'm after the opinions, valid or invalid, of others. How much difference would a team as good as Sky make to the fortunes of lesser riders than Froome?

 

[Fight.The.Power]

I wonder how bardet will react to what has happened. He got mullered yesterday and that will send him one of two ways.

What I know is he will never win a GT currently with his appalling TT ability.

I think he will win a GT in due course but unlikely to win TDF on current form as you say. Indeed next year he may skip the TDF just to get a GT under his belt. Preferring of course the one with the least TT km.

On top of that is the emergence of my personal favourite GC rider which is Tom Dumoulin. I think baring injury he will be 100% all out for the TDF next year and he certainly has the pedigree to put 30 seconds into Froome in a TT.

Edit: Also an interesting afterthought is Quintana. What a disastrous year ! No chance of racing the Giro and will also be 100% focused on the Tour. With Porte utterly pissed off at his misfortune this year it could set the stage for the best TDF ever

 

[smutchin]

I'm after the opinions, valid or invalid, of others.

Discussions like this generally work on a quid pro quo basis.

 

[Slaav]

Hmmm, Bardet winning a pan-flat sprinters' stage by over two minutes...

I'm trying to imagine exactly what it is that you've been smoking.

Err..... apologies as I meant that the Sky team could possibly win the GC with(e.g.) Landa, Kwiat, Richie P, Uran, Barnet etc. Not with me though unfortunately!!

And I was more thinking of Landa sneaking a podium or even 2nd rather than Bardet grabbing yellow

I clearly have been smoking cr4p gear

 

[Fight.The.Power]

POLL: Rate the 2017 TDF

Might be deemed a little premature but what the hell, here it is anyway

http://www.strawpoll.me/13511424

 

[smutchin]

Err..... apologies as I meant that the Sky team could possibly win the GC with(e.g.) Landa, Kwiat, Richie P, Uran, Barnet etc. Not with me though unfortunately!!

Don't get me wrong, I liked the SAW analogy - although I suspect in the late 80s, Kylie Minogue could have got to number one with a recording of her reading the telephone directory.

And I was more thinking of Landa sneaking a podium or even 2nd rather than Bardet grabbing yellow

No reason why they shouldn't go for it, except that it wouldn't make Team Sky any more popular with the French public.

 

[MikeG]

Discussions like this generally work on a quid pro quo basis.

Well, my opinion, for what it's worth, is implied by the question. I think Sky could have towed almost anyone of the top 10 to victory.

 

[Crackle]

I think they couldn't and I think no other rider would have got back on after that wheel change.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Landa attacks!

Sky chase him down

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Who would win, the Red Arrows or the Patrouille de France ? Only one way to find out....

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Nyetimber beats champagne. Just saying.

 

[Shadow]

Nyetimber beats champagne

This makes no sense. It's like saying Pol Roger beats english sparkling wine.
I think we get your gist tho'.

 

[Bonus]

Froome has a mechanical!

 

[Bonus]

The Peloton takes a pee break to wait :-)