The first Tour de France stage kicks off in less than an hour. Look's like a sprinting stage.
But who will win this first stage and take yellow jersey?
My guess: Marcel Kittel.
Kittel is the only option
YAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
YOU FUCKING DANCER!
/TDF/ IS BACK.
BEST THREADS ON 4CHIN.
I got 30 pounds on the little Columbian.......NOT THAT POUNDS ARE WORTH MUCH ANYMORE HAHAGAHA.
Are we going to get some wind split madness today?
>using pedals
Te arrival is in my hometown tomorrow and the finish is pretty fucking sick
Expect some shit happening
Who /watchingforthescenery/ here?
kittelwinslol
>It's been a year already
>>69149305
Hopefully. It's close to the coast and the wind is right, but it still depends on how open the terrain is.
>>69149326
Also when the commentators discuss the local cuisine and wine.......bit of local history is always nice..... mainly I'm watching to see how many times lighter gets people's names wrong....Also "he's dancing on the pedals" "he's wearing the mask of pain".... "he's stretching the elastic THE ELASTIC HAS SNAPPED"
how to watch in America
I am impressed. This is the first TDF in which NBC Sports did NOT start it off sucking Cav's dick and worshipping him.
>>69149326
>tfw we will never go back to the best scenery
>>69149300
FAKKIN CUMMON LAD!
YEAR OF THE 58 YEAR OLD GOAT HERDER!
/COMFY/ FAKKIN YEEEEEEEE
http://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/60641678/#q60646961
LOOK AT HOW SAD WE WERE 49 WEEKS AGO!
>Failed the turnaround
>>69149384
http://www.francetvsport.fr/tour-de-france/direct
you will need a vpn I think ?
Lol da fuck
Is cyclinghub ded?
>>69149432
>that thread
Good times
I sense a crash incoming
5 bucks cavendish will create a fat crash 1km from the finish
>>69149384
STREAM
http://wiz1.net/channel12
fuck im SO fucking hype for this, it's finally here
3 weeks of ultra comfy
the void when the tour is over is almost too much to bear
>>69149464
£1million (€0.34), Cav will get confused because no Bouhanni to fight with, and just punch a fan
>>69149481
>tfw i work almost everyday of july
JUST
>>69149491
Do thou work with tourism?
get some more people with scissors in there lmao, 3 is not enough
>>69149225
FFS didn't you make it a general like this >>69149429
>>69149396
corsica?
>>69149503
yea kinda
>>69149529
Rent boy confirmed
>you will never live in a lord of the rings castle out in the ocean
why live
>>69149490
There'll be a traffic speedbump which will send him 30 minutes off the back
>>69149225
Le Gorilla wins
Quintana looks scared
>tfw no Laura gf
Get the predictions in lads
Yellow - Quintana
Green - Saganwinslol
Polka - Quintana
White - Barguil
>>69149554
>"O fug, did I shut the gate on the goat field?"
AL HAIL THE SKELETON KING
>>69149545
Not a castle. It's a Christian monastery, otherwise known by European standards as a future mosque
My memes are ready!
Who are we rooting for lads?
Contador here.
>>69149556
>2ndgan
>Not coming secound
>>69149545
still no swedish person attending so I will cheer for Denmark
>Utah Beach
Hooah, 'Merica
>>69149556
This, though hopefully Pinot in polkas and allaphillipe for the sake of my fantasy team.
THANKS JUAN
>>69149571
Froome :^)
>>69149569
Are there any sweepstakes or good cycling gear giveaways going on right now? I am coveting some carbon wheels
>>69149569
>Le tour de Meme.
is he in this tour?
>>69149432
>reading that, immediately recognising and laughing at my own posts
>>69149577
Chris Anker, Jakob Fuglsang and Matti Breschel are the 3 possible stage winners out of the 7 danes.
>>69149605
Based Bob? No, he did the giro.
>>69149568
>Be american
>Not have all your monasteries fortified b/c centuries of wars
>why live?
Seriously, my 1100 year old village church has battlements and at least 6 different priest holes
>meme pedal
>>69149604
About 2 minutes m8
>>69149571
Bardet
>>69149632
why not both
Now that NBC has started the Cav content..
>Cav wins
>Cav causes a 40 rider pileup in the last K
>Cav gets caught out in the crosswinds and finishes 6 minutes back
Which is more likely to happen?
Is alpecin still the biggest meme team?
>>69149651
Too young. He'll do the vuelta instead
>>69149615
>65 year old Romanian woman.jpg
Worth to pay 8 euro so I can watch the whole tour in HD? but swedish commentators which sucks desu
/2minutes/ to first le bird man!
https://youtu.be/Lr73zhU0JB8
Voeckler is ready to start the first breakaway
>the biggest bike race in the world will never cycle past your small French cottage
>>69149657
40 rider pileup
my body is ready
Who /elite/ here?
summer has officially begun
COME ON YOU CUNT. LET'S 'AVE IT M8
>>69149659
Tinkoff is also powered by meme's.
>>69149705
/n/ get out reeeeeeeeee
got a cheeky tenner on Cav lads
>>69149713
And now it begins.
>>69149705
gregor clegane pls go
big pyrenees stages this year.
Did I miss the prologue?
>>69149736
No, nawittenz.
I would be soooo scared of collision if I were in the big peloton
>>69149758
so hyped for mon vontwo lads
>tfw national team fucked up right in time for the TdF
Well here's hoping the Norman countryside will soothe my pain.
Will this be the year Quintana kills the skeleton man?
What happens to all of the used bikes the teams burn through? Is there anyway a plen like me could buy one for pennies on the dollar?
>euro cup
>tdf
>fucking olympics
i cant handle all this
>>69149758
If I crashed on decline would I die?
>>69149705
Medic here, it's hard to distinguish exercise-induced cardiomegaly from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, that genetic disorder is found in roughly 1 out of 500 Americans.
Have it checked out before you fall dead from your bike, just in case, slim chance but it's there.
>>69149788
best summer since 2012
>>69149787
Most of them give them back to their sponsors at the end of the season
>>69149788
>Not including Wimbledon.
>>69149787
'no'
The bike sponsors get them back and sell them, or the DS and mechanics steal them
>>69149797
2012 was the pinnacle of sp for me.went down hill after that.
>Tfw have a job now so can't watch sports all day
>>69149800
These bloated old corporate people don't even use them presumably, do they just sit in a warehouse thereafter then?
>>69149791
it would be extremely painful
>>69149825
why would you want a used bike anyway
just because a pro was on it ?
>>69149833
That's a big pole.
First crash. Astana #27 is down and up again.
>>69149821
i still have this thing saved from the winter olympics opening from 2014
it caught on as a meme for a short while
>>69149837
Considering how many bikes these teams burn through, it is entirely likely that they have amyriad of untouched or surplus bicycles in full race trim
>>69149843
Based bear.
>>69149821
>tfw /sp/ was good once
Which boards are you faggots from?
/pol/ here
>>69149857
/pol/ also
>>69149857
/int/
>Time bonuses are back
disgusting
>>69149821
>tfw got made redundant just in time for le tour
>>69149843
>tfw I had a NEET moment in my studies and made 80% of the generals of those olympics.
Comfy times. Good olympics.
>>69149838
(For you)
>>69149758
>Not finishing on the tourmalet
Just fuck my mountain stage up
Where are those good TDF free shit giveaways that they have every year?
>>69149837
>doesn't know how collectibles markets work
It's worth more BECAUSE it's a pro-used TDF-used bike, especially if it's of a famous rider
most of you actually bike, right?
>>69149885
>finishing on the tourmalet
You never finish on the hardest mountain.
Who /potato chase/ here?
>>69149898
if i had the money to throw away i'd buy a racer and proper gear
Usain Bolt has torn his hamstring at the Jamaican trials. Can PEDs fix him in time?
>>69149917
No doping talk.
>>69149898
yes, I did a 200 mile route in two days a month ago
>>69149898
Of course m8
I have three bikes
>>69149896
what's the point anyway?
>>69149898
Just cycle touring now for me. Club racing and time trials is too time consuming and painful.
>>69149857
>anything else than /sp/
>>69149889
>good
m8, they are packets of crisps and plastic gonk heads at best
>>69149927
And here you are still bragging about it
>>69149898
Rode to the polling booth today m8
Which was less than 3km all up. Fuck winter.
>>69149940
>packets of crisps
>not good
so when do we post half time slags
>>69149926
>No doping talk.
YA BLEW IT
>>69149930
You must like being poor.
The pro-used sport gear collector's market is a billion-dollar market.
>>69149898
Of course. I own 8 bikes.
>>69149898
I used to cycle 50 miles every day when I was NEET. Now I have a job and money to buy nice bike stuff but no time to cycle : (
>>69149926
What about mechanical doping
>>69149898
in theory, but this year I've done absolutely nothing except ride two miles to town and back
>>69149899
there have been stage finishes at la mongie for sure.
>>69149932
>not browsing /lit/
>>69149957
so? Why aren't you rich then?
>it's a Jorgen Leth episode
>>69149977
I don't have any pro-used bikes to sell
>>69149898
/fixie/ wanker here.
>be poor
>choose good frame, no gears over shit frame shit gears
Though im currently replacing my entire drivetrain for £45
>>69149977
Road cycling is the most /lit/ sport desu
>>69149954
on the first rest day
>>69149958
>8 bikes.
>>69150010
n+1
>>69149964
I'm no better tbf I only use my bike when it's warm and when the road is dry. otherwise I take the metro/bus to go most places, only using the bike for very short distances (when it's not worth it to take the bus for 5/6 stops or the metro for 2)
>>69150010
Because I need them for the different types:
>Aero bike
>Climbing bike
>Crit bike
>Winter training bike
>TT bike
>Fs MTB
>Hard tail
>Fatbike
>>69150041
pics or it didn't happen
>>69150041
all that maintenance though...
>>69150041
No-one needs a fatbike.
>>69150041
Are you a pro?
I had three until I developed a deep hatred for my dual sus mountain bike. It was like having a fucking tractor in the house, stupid complex bullshit, I sold it and so glad, fuck that thing.
>>69150071
>needs
Riding on sand is fun.
>>69150041
>fatbike
this is /n/ b8
>>69150041
>Crit bike
>>69149991
>it's a rolf coughing loudly into the mic episode
>it's a ritter making puns and/or rhyming episode
>it's a leth going full bob ross episode
HD stream anyone?
why are they airing the whole stage? ridiculous really. poor commentators.
>>69150093
Crits are dangerous. I don't want to use carbon.
>>69150097
kek
comfy as fuck 2bh
summer wouldn't be the same without it
>Miller commentating on iTV4
Where the fuck are Paul and Phil?
So how many of them have electric gears inside their saddle sticks?
Favorite cycling books thus far, Racing Through the Dark: The Fall and Rise of David Millar (really worth reading even if you're not a millar fan), the death of Marco Pantani, in search of Robert millar.
Wiggins' biography was trash. The Real-life Ups and Downs of a Tour Pro by Charly Wegelius was ok.
Any more I should read?
>>69149857
/a/ !!!
>>69149225
>Tricher de France
no thanks
>>69150131
Hunger by King Kelly
>>69150131
di luca?
>>69150146
>losing to keknaldo
TSUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
how is that a sport
take that shit to /asp/
>>69150128
hopefully they are both dead
>>69149898
Yes, to work.
>>69150131
Slaying The Badger by Richard Moore is pretty good - it's about Hinault and LeMond's rivalry and the '86 TdF
>Those cheeky lads mooning the breakaway
>>69150181
I have those goat-tier mid price wheels. Three years and still going strong.
>>69150181
>using pedals
>cheatpedal
SAGE
>>69150227
They are nice, the entire bike is great, but I want a new bike.
My Caad10 is getting bike shamed by expensive dainty Italians in the hospitals bike rack.
Who here is shitting themselves that quintana loses it in week 1 again?
>>69150296
why dont you got one of those indestructible dutch granny bikes
everyone used those when i was in holland last time
>tfw installed new wheelset and went for a fast spin only to be back right for the tdf start
It's a great feel
Why the fuck are nbcsp commercials longer than the coverage?
>>69150162
>Denmark
>Real country
literally germanized swedes
english people should get out of this thread
>>69150332
>new wheelset
Make and model?
>>69150321
Really good bikes for short city work but the hospital is 30km's away.
>>69150340
>having ads in your TdF coverage
MURRICA FUCK YEAH
>>69150340
>america
>>69150243
>SAGE
>doesn't sage
>ligget isn't commentating.
Did they finally sack him?
Is ned boulting and David Millar doing the commentary for all of itv's coverage........ hope they are.
>>69150354
>having ads in your TdF coverage
You don't?
>>69150111
https://www.firstonetv.eu/en/stream/uk/24 its good one
>>69150353
>30km
dont you get sweaty as fuck
>>69150368
I get TdF-Coverage with multicams for literally free
>>69150320
Me desu. I got money on him.
What's his TT form like this year?
>>69150368
None
>>69150354
>Not watching Eurosport for strange pan-European ads of high-end luxury items that manage to buy ad-space and have a cycling team.
>>69150375
surely hospitals have showers.
>>69149932
top lad
h-here we gooo
>>69150348
U mad toothpaste?
>>69150402
No, I watch based GEZ-TV
>>69150388
moto cams are not really interesting t b h
>>69150402
A revolution for every kitchen
>>69150396
Dont know specifically, but the TTs are hilly af, so i presume that plays into his hands
>>69150375
We have showers.
And bedrooms, the medical life is a good life.
post your dank cycling items lads
>>69150366
carlton kirby is all I need m8
>>69150366
Ligget binge-watched all the Lance films of the last five years and killed himself
>>69150413
nice marginal gain imho desu senpai
>>69150351
Chink carbon from Farsports. 50 mm deep, 25 mm wide tubulars. DT 240s straight pull hubs and cx rays. Veloflex Roubaix tubs glued on.
Based on the short ride I had time for they're great. Came in straight without need to adjust spoke tension.
>>69150366
I'm hoping not. Paul Sherwen is pretty based
They are probably commentating in pairs in shifts
>it's an Etixx rides in front and controls the entire way just to childishly fuck it up in the last km stage
>it's a comfy French countyside makes you realise in how much of a shithole you live stage
>>69150332
>mfw LBS has brand new deep-dish Reynolds carbon wheelsets at 50% off but they're still $900
>mfw sale ends soon
>>69150460
nothing wrong with that bod
>>69150446
Nice. Tubulars are the goat.
>>69150460
>>69150495
>>69150495
he looks like raw defrosted chicken
maybe thats where the name came from
>>69150449
> Presenter Gary Imlach is joined by cycling legend Chris Boardman, commentators Ned Boulting and David Millar, and reporter Daniel Friebe for the 21-stage race which visits Andorra and Switzerland before ending at its traditional home, the Champs-Elysees in Paris, on Sunday July 24.
Ligget is kill.
Ligget and Sherwin heave moved to nbc.
This pleases me
>>69150517
>>69150522
>Super Mario is 50 and has a better body than you
I deserve this feel
wtf? Yotto Yumbo wearing yellow jerseys
how is that even allowed?
>>69150522
>$5,000 wheels
>meme bike make
What the hell is this cyclinghub registration bullshit?
>>69150588
Aso would strike it for copy right like they did during Paris Roubaix. It's now only available for people that donate.
ITS TIME FOR MOTHERFUCKING TOUR GET COMFY LADS
>>69150460
>TFW you will never be as dry as froome.
post your steeds lads
>>69150388
I wish I had that.
My options are shitfuckingstan ESPN broadcast with a colombian host that shouts NAIROOOOOOOOOOO! every time NAIROOOOOOOOOOOOOO! is on screen or TV5 french broadcast, I don't speak french.
Foreigners watching the Tour. God bless you
>>69150522
>extremely rare Cipollini
Wow a Cipollini bike that doesn't look like tacky trash
Fug i cant watch and i'm hyped for it
>>69150680
Viva la france.
May the force be with voekler.
>>69150626
>donate
>>69149857
/pol/ jidf here
>>69150388
>tdf starts in Germany next year
>Bora joins the world tour
>Sagan goes to Bora
Is Germany going to take over cycling?
>>69150675
Try one of these senpai
https://www.procyclinglive.com/livestream/
>>69149587
That's a tall bus
>>69149857
>>69149865
>pol
>>69150727
>red tie
>>69150675
I find it weird that ESPN covers it for you at all, here you're lucky to get a 10 second comment on sportscenter about the tour per day, if that.
>>69150685
saved to trigger /n/
>>69150730
>Sagan goes to Bora
is that decided yet?
>>69150719
Thanks, but don’t mix spanish with french please. Vive la France! And vive le Brexit!
>>69150719
based Voeckler
>You're in the club and this guy slaps your girlfriend's ass - what do?
>>69150766
No. Astana is also a possibility.
>>69150776
spike his drink with e.p.o.
>>69150549
He does rides with a helmet, what a safety cuck.
>>69149857
/v/, /pol/, /int/
>>69150766
Not confirmed
>Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad is reporting that on August 1 when the WorldTour transfer window opens, the winner of four consecutive green jerseys at the Tour de France will make it known that he has signed with pro-continental team Bora-Hansgrohe which currently rides under the name Bora-Argon 18.
>Along with Sagan, his brother Juraj, Polish champion Raphal Majka, Slovakians Michael Kolar and Erik Baska, and some of his personal staff are set to move to the German registered pro-continental team which will very likely now seek a birth to ride in the WorldTour in 2017. At te beginning of the season speculation was that Sagan would ride with either Etixx-Quickstep or Astana because of the Specialized connection to those two WorldTour teams.
>>69150767
>brexit
