Tour De France 2021
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I’m surprised fans haven’t caused that much chaos more often. Some of them show no common sense and even less common courtesy once the riders appear.
@donsteppa said in Tour De France 2021:
I’m surprised fans haven’t caused that much chaos more often. Some of them show no common sense and even less common courtesy once the riders appear.
The same fucktards that ruined Group B.
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The organisers are going to sue her.
https://sports.inquirer.net/427084/spectator-to-be-sued-after-tour-de-france-crash
@crucial said in Tour De France 2021:
The organisers are going to sue her.
https://sports.inquirer.net/427084/spectator-to-be-sued-after-tour-de-france-crash
I hope they find her.
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The change of look on her face was brilliant though. Dumb cow thinking she was the bees knees waving her sign and smiling at the camera then boomfa!!!!!
@crucial said in Tour De France 2021:
The change of look on her face was brilliant though. Dumb cow thinking she was the bees knees waving her sign and smiling at the camera then boomfa!!!!!
She has a punchable face of Ed Sheehan/James Corden proportions.
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I know the legs are 200km, with 2 sides of the road making that 400km
But you wonder if it isn't time to invest in some rope.
Because this stuff is devastating.
@voodoo said in Tour De France 2021:
I know the legs are 200km, with 2 sides of the road making that 400km
But you wonder if it isn't time to invest in some rope.
Because this stuff is devastating.
Nah. For everyone else except the stupid people like her having no boundaries is what makes it worth standing in the middle of nowhere for hours. You just have to stay aware at all times. Bikes, cars, motorcycles all flying past inches away at speed.
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@voodoo said in Tour De France 2021:
I know the legs are 200km, with 2 sides of the road making that 400km
But you wonder if it isn't time to invest in some rope.
Because this stuff is devastating.
Nah. For everyone else except the stupid people like her having no boundaries is what makes it worth standing in the middle of nowhere for hours. You just have to stay aware at all times. Bikes, cars, motorcycles all flying past inches away at speed.
@crucial said in Tour De France 2021:
@voodoo said in Tour De France 2021:
I know the legs are 200km, with 2 sides of the road making that 400km
But you wonder if it isn't time to invest in some rope.
Because this stuff is devastating.
Nah. For everyone else except the stupid people like her having no boundaries is what makes it worth standing in the middle of nowhere for hours. You just have to stay aware at all times. Bikes, cars, motorcycles all flying past inches away at speed.
Look, I'm not really serious and I know it would never happen. But man would you be furious if something you trained so hard for was taken away from you like that. I can't think of another sport where it's so possible.
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@crucial said in Tour De France 2021:
@voodoo said in Tour De France 2021:
I know the legs are 200km, with 2 sides of the road making that 400km
But you wonder if it isn't time to invest in some rope.
Because this stuff is devastating.
Nah. For everyone else except the stupid people like her having no boundaries is what makes it worth standing in the middle of nowhere for hours. You just have to stay aware at all times. Bikes, cars, motorcycles all flying past inches away at speed.
Look, I'm not really serious and I know it would never happen. But man would you be furious if something you trained so hard for was taken away from you like that. I can't think of another sport where it's so possible.
@voodoo I reckon distance running events have had a fair few numpties messing things up. But nothing like this tsunami of a crash - let alone the speed it all happened at.
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This is what happens when you have idiots more interested in getting a photo for SM than what is actually happening live in front of them.
@bovidae said in Tour De France 2021:
This is what happens when you have idiots more interested in getting a photo for SM than what is actually happening live in front of them.
It's like those idiots who fall off cliffs trying to get the ultimate selfie. In this case she has caused many people great harm, and maybe ruined the chances of a few athletes who were trying to fulfill lifelong dreams of winning the tour
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@stargazer said in Tour De France 2021:
Tbh, I'm more worried about stray dogs crossing the road.
My most constant fear on the motorbike is random fucking animals.
Even after seeing motorists pull out in front of me, feeling the tyres slide on stupid-slippery concrete, feeling the bike go all "aquaplaning" at 100kph on shiny roads in fucking Uzbekistan, and just pure personal incompetence at taking corners.
Fucking animals.
And birds - if you're one of those straight-up-idiots who don't think birds are part of the animal kingdom. -
@stargazer said in Tour De France 2021:
Tbh, I'm more worried about stray dogs crossing the road.
I did a 3 day ride from London to Fontainebleau once, and got attacked my a random French farm dog about 50km South of Dieppe. Still the only time I've come off my road bike, but it left a fair few grazes at 30kph.
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Terrible sporting weekend for Wales continues as Geraint Thomas looses time to the main Tour contenders.
https://twitter.com/BBCSportWales/status/1409183358551199749?s=19
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Van der Poel the new man in Yellow. Pogacar and Roglic looking good.
@sparky Awesome to wake up to the news of Mathieu van der Poel winning stage 2. He's very good in several cycling disciplines and has excellent cycling pedigree as well. He's the grandson of the great Raymond Poulidor and his father Adri van der Poel was a good rider, too.
Edit: sorry, hadn't read the article and see now that it mentions his granddad.
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@stargazer said in Tour De France 2021:
Tbh, I'm more worried about stray dogs crossing the road.
My most constant fear on the motorbike is random fucking animals.
Even after seeing motorists pull out in front of me, feeling the tyres slide on stupid-slippery concrete, feeling the bike go all "aquaplaning" at 100kph on shiny roads in fucking Uzbekistan, and just pure personal incompetence at taking corners.
Fucking animals.
And birds - if you're one of those straight-up-idiots who don't think birds are part of the animal kingdom.@kruse said in Tour De France 2021:
@stargazer said in Tour De France 2021:
Tbh, I'm more worried about stray dogs crossing the road.
My most constant fear on the motorbike is random fucking animals.
Even after seeing motorists pull out in front of me, feeling the tyres slide on stupid-slippery concrete, feeling the bike go all "aquaplaning" at 100kph on shiny roads in fucking Uzbekistan, and just pure personal incompetence at taking corners.
Fucking animals.
And birds - if you're one of those straight-up-idiots who don't think birds are part of the animal kingdom.Twilight on country roads can be terrifying. Kangaroos coming out of nowhere. Bigger, faster and dumber than sheep.
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@kruse said in Tour De France 2021:
@stargazer said in Tour De France 2021:
Tbh, I'm more worried about stray dogs crossing the road.
My most constant fear on the motorbike is random fucking animals.
Even after seeing motorists pull out in front of me, feeling the tyres slide on stupid-slippery concrete, feeling the bike go all "aquaplaning" at 100kph on shiny roads in fucking Uzbekistan, and just pure personal incompetence at taking corners.
Fucking animals.
And birds - if you're one of those straight-up-idiots who don't think birds are part of the animal kingdom.Twilight on country roads can be terrifying. Kangaroos coming out of nowhere. Bigger, faster and dumber than sheep.
@antipodean said in Tour De France 2021:
@kruse said in Tour De France 2021:
@stargazer said in Tour De France 2021:
Tbh, I'm more worried about stray dogs crossing the road.
My most constant fear on the motorbike is random fucking animals.
Even after seeing motorists pull out in front of me, feeling the tyres slide on stupid-slippery concrete, feeling the bike go all "aquaplaning" at 100kph on shiny roads in fucking Uzbekistan, and just pure personal incompetence at taking corners.
Fucking animals.
And birds - if you're one of those straight-up-idiots who don't think birds are part of the animal kingdom.Twilight on country roads can be terrifying. Kangaroos coming out of nowhere. Bigger, faster and dumber than sheep.
Fucking birds. In my mind - I know that they're tiny, and couldn't do much damage - but I just shudder to think of one hitting me in the head, me flinching, and shit going wrong.
Then my brain says "nah - they'll never hit you, they're quick agile little fuckers, they'd never LET you hit them". And then I remember all the dead birds you see on the road. And then I remember that I DID hit 3 of the little shits on my London-Beijing ride. And then I remember hitting a bloody pheasant, or grouse, or whatever - whichever the biggest of the UK game birds is - on a country road in England. I was bloody lucky I hit it dead centre - body-mass smack in the chest, headbutt to the helmet. That muthafucka was big enough that if it had hit a handlebar, or maybe even an arm, I'd have been down.
Fucking birds. -
@antipodean said in Tour De France 2021:
@kruse said in Tour De France 2021:
@stargazer said in Tour De France 2021:
Tbh, I'm more worried about stray dogs crossing the road.
My most constant fear on the motorbike is random fucking animals.
Even after seeing motorists pull out in front of me, feeling the tyres slide on stupid-slippery concrete, feeling the bike go all "aquaplaning" at 100kph on shiny roads in fucking Uzbekistan, and just pure personal incompetence at taking corners.
Fucking animals.
And birds - if you're one of those straight-up-idiots who don't think birds are part of the animal kingdom.Twilight on country roads can be terrifying. Kangaroos coming out of nowhere. Bigger, faster and dumber than sheep.
Fucking birds. In my mind - I know that they're tiny, and couldn't do much damage - but I just shudder to think of one hitting me in the head, me flinching, and shit going wrong.
Then my brain says "nah - they'll never hit you, they're quick agile little fuckers, they'd never LET you hit them". And then I remember all the dead birds you see on the road. And then I remember that I DID hit 3 of the little shits on my London-Beijing ride. And then I remember hitting a bloody pheasant, or grouse, or whatever - whichever the biggest of the UK game birds is - on a country road in England. I was bloody lucky I hit it dead centre - body-mass smack in the chest, headbutt to the helmet. That muthafucka was big enough that if it had hit a handlebar, or maybe even an arm, I'd have been down.
Fucking birds.@kruse said in Tour De France 2021:
@antipodean said in Tour De France 2021:
@kruse said in Tour De France 2021:
@stargazer said in Tour De France 2021:
Tbh, I'm more worried about stray dogs crossing the road.
My most constant fear on the motorbike is random fucking animals.
Even after seeing motorists pull out in front of me, feeling the tyres slide on stupid-slippery concrete, feeling the bike go all "aquaplaning" at 100kph on shiny roads in fucking Uzbekistan, and just pure personal incompetence at taking corners.
Fucking animals.
And birds - if you're one of those straight-up-idiots who don't think birds are part of the animal kingdom.Twilight on country roads can be terrifying. Kangaroos coming out of nowhere. Bigger, faster and dumber than sheep.
Fucking birds. In my mind - I know that they're tiny, and couldn't do much damage - but I just shudder to think of one hitting me in the head, me flinching, and shit going wrong.
Then my brain says "nah - they'll never hit you, they're quick agile little fuckers, they'd never LET you hit them". And then I remember all the dead birds you see on the road. And then I remember that I DID hit 3 of the little shits on my London-Beijing ride. And then I remember hitting a bloody pheasant, or grouse, or whatever - whichever the biggest of the UK game birds is - on a country road in England. I was bloody lucky I hit it dead centre - body-mass smack in the chest, headbutt to the helmet. That muthafucka was big enough that if it had hit a handlebar, or maybe even an arm, I'd have been down.
Fucking birds.I'd like the bird's opinion on bike riders before making judgement here
