My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Tue Apr 09, 2013 8:40 pm
No sign of your derailleur yet btw.
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby singlespeedscott » Tue Apr 09, 2013 8:57 pm
I would be the same. It takes me forever to dribble a couple of drops out for screening at work. Yet as soon as I walk out of the screening clinic I go to a public toilet a piss like a fountaintoolonglegs wrote: I did spend a lot of time outside the Anti-dopage caravan though waiting for riders to pee . Sometimes that took up to 75 minutes .
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:10 pm
One of our guys must have pee'd 6 times during the final stage, much like the TDF they cruised until the finishing circuits were reached. Probably why he had nothing left! . Unlike peeing anywhere you like in France, in Muslim countries they were quite strict with were you could go... there were a few fines handed out!.singlespeedscott wrote:I would be the same. It takes me forever to dribble a couple of drops out for screening at work. Yet as soon as I walk out of the screening clinic I go to a public toilet a piss like a fountaintoolonglegs wrote: I did spend a lot of time outside the Anti-dopage caravan though waiting for riders to pee . Sometimes that took up to 75 minutes .
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby Strawburger » Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:12 pm
Good to read you are still living the dream, even if it involves a little bit of hard work in return!toolonglegs wrote:Pretty funny... soigneur for 10 days on a little team at the Tour de Maroc ( who did rather well I must say ) and I get a off the cuff job offer from a certain danish team who was there as well... be funny having the Chicken as a boss .
Bloody hard work this soigneur gig though... 10 eighteen hour days in a row .
Love the photos too.
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:15 pm
Hopefully he will do another couple as there was some fun footage from the other stages too.
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby ft_critical » Wed Apr 17, 2013 4:40 pm
Quite an escape, but a pretty solid parcours on that rider. His legs looked fried at the end.toolonglegs wrote:Here's a video for you FT ...
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:32 pm
Yeah I don't think many knew it was going to be such a hard stage, there was hardly any flat ground anywhere. But Mathieu is a pretty solid ex-pro... after 4 Giros it can't be that bad .ft_critical wrote:Quite an escape, but a pretty solid parcours on that rider. His legs looked fried at the end.toolonglegs wrote:Here's a video for you FT ...
What is a grit scooter?
Grit Scooter... no idea, one of those stunt Razor type things... must be a sponsor.
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toppity » Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:54 am
Living the dream TLL
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:51 pm
It meant that for the next eight days we only really had to mark less than 10 riders... The rest we could give 20 minutes to in a breakaway!...So in the end 2nd and 3rd place started protecting their places... Which was lucky as by the end the rest of the boys were destroyed from protecting the yellow.
Certainly made for an exciting 10 days
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Mon May 27, 2013 10:39 pm
The lead motos "force" the cars to park up well ahead of us... isn't that how it works in Oz?mikesbytes wrote:Using both sides of the road, that's so cool
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