Tour de France 2020 TdF2020 - SPOILERS

[ERK55]

Can you blame him after yesterday’s experience?

[Hellgate]

Love me some Turbo Cotton.

[vqdriver]

Podium dudes...
I get the idea. But looks odd...

[Mark McM]

Originally Posted by GregL

Interesting tech tidbit from Alaphilippe’s victory: he won on tubed clinchers. Yup, a marquee TdF victory on the same type of wheels/tires us average Joes use

I am absolutely certain that this not the first time a Tour de France stage was won on clinchers with tubes. Riders have been using clinchers in time trails for years (since before tubeless became popular), and I'm pretty sure Tony Martin has won TdF TTs on clinchers.

Of course, thiis is now more than 25 years after Miguel Indurain used clinchers with tubes for certain stages on his way to winning the Tour de France (although he didn't use clinchers on the few stages he won).

Also of note, it is now 23 years since the toughest single day race, Paris-Roubaix, was on clinchers with tube (Fredric Guesdon, 1997).

[Bici-Sonora]

Originally Posted by Kyle h

Conspiracy theory! France shut down TdF early while JA in yellow to finally have French winner again.

I thought about that too. Any day could be the last. I hope it is not so because today’s stage was sure fun to watch. Those crazy switchbacks—new bucket list ride.


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[Kyle h]

Originally Posted by Bici-Sonora

I hope it is not so because today’s stage was sure fun to watch. Those crazy switchbacks—new bucket list ride.

I just caught up on the stage, absolutely awesome looking route today. Can’t wait to get back to the EU to ride.

[enr1co]

Pretty sure Alaphillpe used this to time his attack and sprint to win stage 2

[enr1co]

Originally Posted by enr1co

Pretty sure Alaphillpe used this to time his attack and sprint to win stage 2

Like clinchers, not the first Tdf stage win with one:

https://www.watchfinder.com/articles...mark-cavendish

...good news, you dont have to be a tier 1 cyclist, formula one driver or hollywood celeb. You can get this one which comes with a “free” Colnago C64

https://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/3619/...-cycling-watch

... bad news- not Garmin, Strada compatible

[charliedid]

Originally Posted by enr1co

Pretty sure Alaphillpe used this to time his attack and sprint to win stage 2

Is that supposed to be fancy or something? I can't even read what time it is...

[dbnm]

That watch costs about $250k

[prototoast]

That was an incredible sprint by Ewan today.

[dbnm]

Caleb Ewan is 5 foot 5 inches tall.

His thighs are enormous.

[paredown]

Originally Posted by prototoast

That was an incredible sprint by Ewan today.

I'll say==through the traffic like they were road furniture, lights it up, Bennett moves him off-line a little, and he still goes by and gets about 3/4 of a bike at the line!

(Glad the weather was better and the bunch is settling down so we don't have to talk about crashes!)

[bikinchris]

The winner of sprint stages like today should get a huge bonus for the green jersey. THAT'S A TRUE SPRINTER.

[charliedid]

Originally Posted by dbnm

That watch costs about $250k

LOL that's just silly.