Tour de France 2023 ** SPOILERS **

[Dogtrousers]

But does he have the legs for it?

We're losing a lot of viewers to Eurosport and GCN. We need to act fast. Gary - put these stilettos and ankle socks on. Yes, now! Shut up and do it, our future is at stake.

 

[Sunny Portrush]

Pog a char and Rogerlic, I love it when kirby waffles for ten mins and says dont you agree sean, cue a few seconds silence , and...... NO, just a one word answer

There was one point possibly in the penultimate stage were he was discussing Tadej and within two words, managed two different pronunciations of his surname.

I love the way he puts extra consonants into any name!

Imagine him with Djamolidine Abdoujaparov!

 

[matticus]

We're losing a lot of viewers to Eurosport and GCN. We need to act fast. Gary - put these stilettos and ankle socks on. Yes, now! Shut up and do it, our future is at stake.

And people will still say the coverage is boring.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

to be fair - no-one can compete with Orla's legs

Is there ever anyone else on screen when she is on - not sure I have noticed!

 

[geocycle]

But does he have the legs for it?

If he wore the sequinned aero jump suit she saved for the final stage we would soon find out!

 

[matticus]

The geology peeps are on Twitter!


View: https://twitter.com/geotdf/status/1682794168270168064?t=XjFwx93UdCtiz2Z6bkhx2w&s=19

 

[Domus]

I like Brian Smith's insights, he thinks before speaking and reads the race very well. I remember he once said that the rider on his own up the road with about a 4 minute lead would not have more than a 2 minute advantage at the start of the next climb. As he turned onto the climb after a few Kms of flat valley road the clock read 1.59. Genius

 

[Dogtrousers]

I rather liked this short video. Some unusual camera angles

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/UJLaJK7wtPw?feature=share3

 

[Beebo]

UCI confirmed it undertook 997 mechanical doping tests on bikes during the race. They used physical checks, magnetic tests and X-rays.
None failed.
So each rider has their bike tested or checked at least 5 times. Which seems high to me.

 

[mjr]

UCI confirmed it undertook 997 mechanical doping tests on bikes during the race. They used physical checks, magnetic tests and X-rays.
None failed.
So each rider has their bike tested or checked at least 5 times. Which seems high to me.

On average 5 times. They probably test some more than others.

 

[Jameshow]

Out riding last night, my rough estimate was that pros bikes are 40% better than ours peleton another 40% leaving 20% difference between them and us?🤣🤣🤣

Another thought what percentage of UK pros will ride the tdf? 10%???

 

[mjr]

Out riding last night, my rough estimate was that pros bikes are 40% better than ours peleton another 40% leaving 20% difference between them and us?🤣🤣🤣

Another thought what percentage of UK pros will ride the tdf? 10%???

Assuming you mean the pro men, https://www.procyclingstats.com/ran...equal&team=&offset=0&teamlevel=&filter=Filter shows 81 pro riders. I think 8 or 9 ride the Tour each year. Some of them will ride multiple Tours, so it'll be more than 10%. I'd guess 25% which seems pretty high but probably reflects how the Tour is better known here than almost any cycle race except the Olympics.

 

[Jameshow]

Assuming you mean the pro men, https://www.procyclingstats.com/ran...equal&team=&offset=0&teamlevel=&filter=Filter shows 81 pro riders. I think 8 or 9 ride the Tour each year. Some of them will ride multiple Tours, so it'll be more than 10%. I'd guess 25% which seems pretty high but probably reflects how the Tour is better known here than almost any cycle race except the Olympics.

Does than not mean fewer if GT Cav Adam and Simon ride 40 tours between them?

 

[mjr]

Does than not mean fewer if GT Cav Adam and Simon ride 40 tours between them?

Yes, it'll be fewer than (8 or 9 per year) * ( average career length) / ( average number of GB pros) which I think would be over 80%.

 

[T4tomo]

75 British riders have ridden the tour to date since inception

source: https://procyclinguk.com/every-british-rider-tour-de-france/
plus pidcock, shaw, turner

different answer/ question to what @Jameshow is asking but i think @mjr stating 80% of british pro will ride the tour at some point in their careers is bollox, it will be a lot lot less.

clearly more brits are getting into top teams than ever before, but still reckon it will only about 10-20% that will ever get to start the tour.