The Tour de France

Viva le Tour



Like the gold chain?

All the left-inspired negative connotations aside, I think it's pretty.

And fuck you anyway. It's artistically correct.

If someone owned a bike like that 40 years ago, it would have created a a trend, and nobody would have thought you a faggot. Myself, I credit my ex-wife with that garbage. She thought  so highly of herself, if someone didn't like her, that person was queer.

She had a very shallow psycho-social repertoire from which to draw.

I'd ride that bike ...

.. then I'd sell it and buy a few 70's Raleighs. Great, durable bikes. I'm old fashioned.

I've had bikes for about 50 years.

Had a VERY nice road racing bike - a Harry Quinn. English.
Beautiful to ride, responsive yet smooth.

Currently have a Canondale Quick (A commuter), with a basket and panniers and a lovely carbon fibre Canondale road bike.
The commuter I ride a few times a week, the carbon bike hardly ever !!

For me The Tour is the best tv spectacle every year.
By a long way.

I saw the stage years ago when an Aussie won the Tour.

A young Aussie is in the lead and I hope he goes on to win!

Oh, it was not a fluke he is oin the Tour

............ Rising Australian cycling star Jai Hindley could join Cadel Evans as the only Australian to have won the Tour de France.

In Hindley’s first appearance at the Tour, and after entering the major race as third favourite, ...........

Wow - quite a fav to win it !!!!!!!!!

OK, seems Jai is a good climber, 27 years old. There are 5 mountain stages coming up.
Stages 13, 14 and 15. All next weekend. Stages 17 and 20 are the week after and lead into Paris.
It's a 3 week race.

The profile of tonights stage (9). Bikes are really bad uphills.
A 10% slope is hard to walk up

I thought JAI HINDLEY (The young Aussie) was out of it. He was 8 minutes off the leader a few stages ago.

Now he is 3rd, 2mins 40 secs from the leader. I may have misread it. This weekend are 3 stages of mountains. Mountains are where LOTS of time is won or lost.