Tour de France Stage 9 - Cobbles - Roubaix - SPOILERS

[denapista]

Originally Posted by GonaSovereign

Exactly. You crash, your chain comes off. You spin the cranks to put it back on, and with the wheel off the ground it spins up fast.

Welcome to the world of social media, where a narrative is created without any context... You can create a 2 second loop, versus the entire 3min loop that shows the facts... Damn we're losing as a society as a whole...

[tctyres]

Originally Posted by Hellgate

An epic stage with crashes, drama and broken steer tubes. Classic.

Yeah, that broken frame in the Groenewagen crash was something!

[Clean39T]

Bernal crashing into the back of the BMC team car..

https://giant.gfycat.com/IdleHandsomeKilldeer.webm

[Clean39T]

Kwiatko after the race:

[Clean39T]

Cav congratulates Dege after the race..

https://streamable.com/thx7p

[Hellgate]

Originally Posted by Clean39T

Bernal crashing into the back of the BMC team car..

https://giant.gfycat.com/IdleHandsomeKilldeer.webm

That's how Marcel Wust lost an eye.

[msl819]

Originally Posted by Clean39T

Cav congratulates Dege after the race..

https://streamable.com/thx7p

That’s awesome. Certainly gives you the impression that it means something to him beyond just a feather in his cap or more money in his pocket. It is rare these days, but every once in a while we get a reminder that at least some are grown up kids, i mean that in the best way possible, who are living out their wildest childhood dreams.

[msl819]

Originally Posted by Climb01742

Anyone else hear the Taylor Phinney pre-race interview about having to ‘babysit’ Uran all day? Maybe I’m wrong but he didn’t sound pleased. Then his post-race interview didn’t sound overly pleased at having to TTT Uran the last 25km. I’m a big fan of Taylor and it’s not always easy to read him...what’s straight and what’s messing with people. But his interviews today seemed, well, kinda striking. Anyone else have a take?

If you haven’t seen the Outskirts video he did with the Morton bros where they rode Co to Moab, he actually speaks about his frustration with always having to give canned answer to the press. He comes across to me as one who has an opinion and wants it heard, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It is more entertaining that’s for sure.

[ultraman6970]

TO me he sounded mad about doing his job aswell... Im with climb-dude...

[weisan]

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[fignon's barber]

It would be interesting to compare the speeds on the pave sectors used in both Stage 9 and this year's Paris-Roubaix.

[kramnnim]

Originally Posted by Jaybee

Did he crash 2 minutes after you posted this? No shade on him though, this looks like roller derby.

Something like that, yes. Surprised he didn't lose more time than he did.

[jlwdm]

Originally Posted by fignon's barber

It would be interesting to compare the speeds on the pave sectors used in both Stage 9 and this year's Paris-Roubaix.

I would guess they would be slower in the Tour. In Paris Roubaix riders are trying to win or supporting a team mate trying to win. In the TDF only a limited number of riders are trying to win the stage. Most are just trying to keep a team leader safe and not going as fast as they could.

In Paris Roubaix the riders are pretty much all classic/cobbles riders not a bunch of climbers.

Jeff

[rst72]

Originally Posted by sailorboy

Or maybe we didn't see him re-mounting a chain that had become dislodged and then turning the cranks by hand or something. that's just way too obvious

I think i watched it 20 times...to me, it seems way too obvious that this was not a case of remounting the chain and turning the cranks.

he's pushing the bike and then picks up the rear. no sign of turning the cranks.

unless he was holding the rear up the whole time...grass may be too tall to tell.

carry on...

[KarlC]

Originally Posted by rst72

I think i watched it 20 times...to me, it seems way too obvious that this was not a case of remounting the chain and turning the cranks.

he's pushing the bike and then picks up the rear. no sign of turning the cranks.

unless he was holding the rear up the whole time...grass may be too tall to tell.

carry on...

Check out @gorman_colin’s Tweet:

https://twitter.com/gorman_colin/sta...026458625?s=09

He Bends over and fixes his chain and spins the crank.

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