Tour de France Stage 6 – July 10th, Arras - Reims **Unmasked Spoilers**

Darkglasses

Flat enough, last climb plenty far back enough to re-group any riders that get dropped.

Overwhelmingly likely to be another Kittel win.

Can you tell I'm slightly less enthusiastic for this stage than yesterday's? :pac:

ZiabR

Haha yeah, it is kinda boring now for the sprints. If Kittel stays with the front group and gets a half decent lead out train, he is unlikely to be beaten in a sprint... Even if Cav was still in the TDF I am not really sure he could take it to Kittel, the man is immense.

MPFG

There is a strong possibility of cross winds ...so maybe not so boring

Looking at the Tour route....this is going to be one of the hardest Tours in many years

Going to be dramatic ....Tinkoff Saxo though do not have a strong team....

Carpenter

Saxo think they have problems I'm doing a Hub Service on my cosmics nightmare

seany15

Preview- a break will go early, maybe with a gc danger man. Astana will control and nit let the break get too much time, then lotto/giant will start to get the trains ready and catch after the last climb, then greipel will get boxed in and kittel will take an easy win.

retalivity

seany15 wrote: »

Preview- a break will go early, maybe with a gc danger man. Astana will control and nit let the break get too much time, then lotto/giant will start to get the trains ready and catch after the last climb, then greipel will get boxed in and kittel will take an easy win.

Also, Coquard and Sagan will contest the intermediate Sprint behind the break.
Carlton will lament how poor the tour is now froomedog and cav are gone
Sean Kelly will have an 'eeeehhhhhhhh' that goes for at least 4 seconds

seany15

retalivity wrote: »

Also, Coquard and Sagan will contest the intermediate Sprint behind the break

coquard will show up at the sprint, then Sagan will look at him with disdain and scare him off....

gordongekko

Kittel wins the Sprint /thread

pelevin

Any chance the terrain tough enough to tempt Sagan & Cannondale to try & snap the elastic in the peloton to distance Kittel?

seany15

The only person worse than lemond in this section is flecha.

Pudsy33

seany15 wrote: »

The only person worse than lemond in this section is flecha.

I think Flecha is good I have to say

MPFG

seany15 wrote: »

The only person worse than lemond in this section is flecha.

Love Fletcha .....the riders love him also

Pudsy33

Nico fell in a ditch yesterday and couldnt get out. Jaysus it was chaos.

MPFG

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Nico fell in a ditch yesterday and couldnt get out. Jaysus it was chaos.

Nico & Rodgers are going to be under massive pressure from now on
Tinkoff Saxo are getting loads of criticism on social media as a 'bad' team

gordongekko

MPFG wrote: »

Nico & Rodgers are going to be under massive pressure from now on
Tinkoff Saxo are getting loads of criticism on social media as a 'bad' team

Ah sure before the tour everyone was saying how strong the team was. People are fickle.

gordongekko

Glad to see giant been made to do some of the chasing. The last few sprinters days have been tactically poor by lotto canondale and opqs. They did all the chasing and giant just appear with 2km to go to sweep away with the stage.

me89

Pretty big crash but everyone seems ok

Edit: Second crash

me89

Zandio out. Bad couple of days for Sky

BQQ

Sagan down in one of those crashes.

godtabh

Lots of crashers. Saxo have a man down

Pudsy33

Anyone manage to see Roche?

gordongekko

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Anyone manage to see Roche?

Not near the front today . But it was Jesus that fell so he must be there somewhere

Darkglasses

6 TSTs on the front of the peloton right now, presume Nico is one of them. Astana and Giant Shimano also on the front closing the gap

Darkglasses

Jesus Hernandez has abandoned

MPFG

Darkglasses wrote: »

Jesus Hernandez has abandoned

Sounds like bad concusion

More work for Nico

Darkglasses

Wow, that's a collector's item. Tony Martin's not got the legs to do his turn for OPQS.

Demare being dropped, very high pace in the winds.

godtabh

MPFG wrote: »

Sounds like bad concusion

More work for Nico

Carlton just talking about that

Darkglasses

Majka and Roche also caught out in the split

BofaDeezNuhtz

Darkglasses wrote: »

Jesus Hernandez has abandoned

Language dude language :eek:

Darkglasses

Not seeing a lot of G-S riders at the front. Might not be a Kittel day

Darkglasses

Never mind, definitely not a Kittel day, he's had a mechanical and he's out the back.

godtabh

Griepel for the win. Nice boost for fantasy tour

Darkglasses

Greipel

Darkglasses

Nico's back on the McLaren today

gordongekko

Darkglasses wrote: »

Nico's back on the McLaren today

Lost another 90 secs today

simonrooneyzaga

any GC riders get caught out in the wind?

mirrormatrix

Any chance Kwiatowski is in with an outside shout of the GC? Seems to be very strong

godtabh

gordongekko wrote: »

Lost another 90 secs today

Its not about losing time for him. All about bertie

gordongekko

simonrooneyzaga wrote: »

any GC riders get caught out in the wind?

Doesn't look like there is any change to the gc

gordongekko

godtabh wrote: »

Its not about losing time for him. All about bertie

I'm blaming the bike for the time loss :-) . It looks like they are all cruising it as much as possible until they hit the mountains. Well I'm hoping that all it was today anyways.

simonrooneyzaga

RT @friebos: "Maté's a rat. He doesn't collaborate properly & he's going to pay me back over the next few days." - An ode to Luis Maté, by Jerome Pineau

Breakaway Problems :-)

Darkglasses

Shots fired by Pineau

MPFG

godtabh wrote: »

Its not about losing time for him. All about bertie

Probably taking is easy cos of his injuries from yesterday

He will be needed on Sat , Sun & esp Mon

couerdelion

After yesterdays stage that was a little underwhelming to say the least. Shame Kittel flatted and didn't get up for the sprint - still a long way to go though.

surripere

That was about as exciting as it was going to get on this stage. Good to see the Gorilla bag one, confidence booster.

dastardly00

mirrormatrix wrote: »

Any chance Kwiatowski is in with an outside shout of the GC? Seems to be very strong

He certainly has massive potential. And he has the whole team behind him now that Can is gone. There is a good chance that he'll stay near the top of the GC for the first few mountain stages. But he'll probably start to lose time as the tour enters the last week.

neris

the fecking ITV highlights show is just as bad for ads as the live show

ZiabR

Surprised, I thought once Kittel was ruled out that Sagan or Cancellara would be in with a shout.