Tour De France 2013

[Shands]

. Both sports are like a physical game of chess.

Now come on Rasc, its your mussette and your bidon ;-)

I also love Chess :)

The terminology sometimes gets me but im learning. I take it Chapeau is sort of a French version of Bravo

I know grouppo compacto :))

Here's a good one for you Rascal that you don't tend to hear anymore 'lacher' (I think that's how it's spelt!) It means to 'let go' i.e to be dropped/crack.

Illustrated here. I'll never forget this for a shock/excitement moment

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnKhhfX5tEQ[/youtube]<br /><br />-- Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:21 pm --<br /><br />

. Both sports are like a physical game of chess.

Now come on Rasc, its your mussette and your bidon ;-)

I also love Chess :)

The terminology sometimes gets me but im learning. I take it Chapeau is sort of a French version of Bravo

I know grouppo compacto :))

Sort of bravo, chapeau, i doff my hat - its from a longer French saying, that i cant remember.

Mussette is the food bag they take, it has things other than energy gels which can get a bit boring, so they have a cheese roll or some cake, Carlton Kirby usually says whats in his mussette each day, usually followed by asking Kelly what he used to like. Bidon is the water bottles. So when you are watching, your mussette is your snacks/lunch and your Bidon is your beer/wine ;-)

LOL they do have that conversation all the time!

Kirby: 'So what would you have Sean?'
Kelly: 'Well you know, usually just a rice cake or the like, if we we're on a real good day we might get an apple'
Kirby: 'Hehehe fantastic, rice cakes, marvelous, Chapeau the rice cake'
Kelly: 'Yes'

 

[Paul Lake's Left Knee]

. Both sports are like a physical game of chess.

Now come on Rasc, its your mussette and your bidon ;-)

I also love Chess :)

The terminology sometimes gets me but im learning. I take it Chapeau is sort of a French version of Bravo

I know grouppo compacto :))

Here's a good one for you Rascal that you don't tend to hear anymore 'lacher' (I think that's how it's spelt!) It means to 'let go' i.e to be dropped/crack.

Illustrated here. I'll never forget this for a shock/excitement moment

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnKhhfX5tEQ[/youtube]

-- Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:21 pm --

I also love Chess :)

The terminology sometimes gets me but im learning. I take it Chapeau is sort of a French version of Bravo

I know grouppo compacto :))

Sort of bravo, chapeau, i doff my hat - its from a longer French saying, that i cant remember.

Mussette is the food bag they take, it has things other than energy gels which can get a bit boring, so they have a cheese roll or some cake, Carlton Kirby usually says whats in his mussette each day, usually followed by asking Kelly what he used to like. Bidon is the water bottles. So when you are watching, your mussette is your snacks/lunch and your Bidon is your beer/wine ;-)

LOL they do have that conversation all the time!

Kirby: 'So what would you have Sean?'
Kelly: 'Well you know, usually just a rice cake or the like, if we we're on a real good day we might get an apple'
Kirby: 'Hehehe fantastic, rice cakes, marvelous, Chapeau the rice cake'
Kelly: 'Yes'

Lol, Rice cake thats the one!!

you made up for putting up Big Mig cracking :-( Was a big shock, i was only really watching/following it for him at the time... i was gutted. Big Mig was a freak of nature, has a huge heart, which meant he had a stupidly low heart beat and pumped twice the oxygen of the average person and a lot more than all of his rivals. He was a big man to get over those mountains. Biggest complement i can pay Wiggo is that his tour win was very like Big Mig's wins

 

[Rascal]

Lacheur perhaps lol but im no expert in French

Great vid btw Shands loved it.<br /><br />-- Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:39 pm --<br /><br />

Big Mig was a freak of nature, has a huge heart, which meant he had a stupidly low heart beat and pumped twice the oxygen of the average person and a lot more than all of his rivals.

Bjorn Borg was similar. He had something ridiculous like his heartbeat was 45 a minute in a Wimbledon final when his rivals were at least double that.

I know what a Gillet is if the spelling is right :)

 

[Paul Lake's Left Knee]

Lacheur perhaps lol but im no expert in French

Great vid btw Shands loved it.

-- Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:39 pm --

Big Mig was a freak of nature, has a huge heart, which meant he had a stupidly low heart beat and pumped twice the oxygen of the average person and a lot more than all of his rivals.

Bjorn Borg was similar. He had something ridiculous like his heartbeat was 45 a minute in a Wimbledon final when his rivals were at least double that.

I know what a Gillet is if the spelling is right :)

Rain jackets, another one from the Kirby/Kelly team is Kirby talking about how they used to stuff news paper up their jersey for a decent and Kelly says how its hard if your Gilet is on and its raining and cold.

 

[Fat Chance]

Lacheur perhaps lol but im no expert in French

Great vid btw Shands loved it.

-- Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:39 pm --

Big Mig was a freak of nature, has a huge heart, which meant he had a stupidly low heart beat and pumped twice the oxygen of the average person and a lot more than all of his rivals.

Bjorn Borg was similar. He had something ridiculous like his heartbeat was 45 a minute in a Wimbledon final when his rivals were at least double that.

Might be mistaken but i seem to recall Colin The King had a mean average of 44bpm at rest, Wiggo's was 33bpm last year, train with a kid who got down to 28 but that was only the once.

 

[Carstairs]

I have a theory that those who like Cycling (over here at least) also tend be lovers of test cricket. The two sports have a lot of similarities for the viewer.

guilty as charged.

 

[Paul Lake's Left Knee]

Lacheur perhaps lol but im no expert in French

Great vid btw Shands loved it.

-- Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:39 pm --

Big Mig was a freak of nature, has a huge heart, which meant he had a stupidly low heart beat and pumped twice the oxygen of the average person and a lot more than all of his rivals.

Bjorn Borg was similar. He had something ridiculous like his heartbeat was 45 a minute in a Wimbledon final when his rivals were at least double that.

Might be mistaken but i seem to recall Colin The King had a mean average of 44bpm at rest, Wiggo's was 33bpm last year, train with a kid who got down to 28 but that was only the once.

It is the amount of oxygen that the heart can move around the body, and Indurain's was so much more than his rivals. The numbers escape me but it was something like 15% more oxygen than his rivals and twice that of the average person, it wasnt just a low bpm that made him such a freak.

 

[Rascal]

Might be mistaken but i seem to recall Colin The King had a mean average of 44bpm at rest, Wiggo's was 33bpm last year, train with a kid who got down to 28 but that was only the once.

Yeah the Kings was ridiculous. Wasnt that measured in Superstars on the TV?

I have mine checked regularly due to hozzy stuff and im chuffed if im below 100 ;)



Top piccy gallery on the Team Sky site from todays stage

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[Paul Lake's Left Knee]

Might be mistaken but i seem to recall Colin The King had a mean average of 44bpm at rest, Wiggo's was 33bpm last year, train with a kid who got down to 28 but that was only the once.

Yeah the Kings was ridiculous. Wasnt that measured in Superstars on the TV?

I have mine checked regularly due to hozzy stuff and im chuffed if im below 100 ;)



Top piccy gallery on the Team Sky site from todays stage

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.teamsky.com/gallery/0,27401,29112_8802411,00.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.teamsky.com/gallery/0,27401, ... 11,00.html</a>

One for you maybe Rasc, 11.30 tonight - Eurosport 2 - Time trial - the race of truth. It goes through what makes it unique and its demands, suffering and qualities.

 

[Carstairs]

I always remember Miguel Indurain as an expressionless automan, just pumping his legs as his rivals blew up around him on the big climbs.

When he cracked on the video Indurain was spotted grimacing (by Phill Liggett??) just before Leblanc attacked. It was as if the cycling world stood still for a moment.