Le Tour and Comments

On Wednesday, July 10, 2019 at 1:58:16 AM UTC-7, incredulous wrote:
‘One sneeze and you lose more time that a 15 lb bike would save you on a 16 lb bike. ‘

Yeah, ask Froome about the cost of clearing his nose, anticipating and obviating a sneeze.

“"It sounds like he was at the foot of the descent," Brailsford told Cycling News. "It's obviously very gusty today and he took his hands off the bars to blow his nose and the wind has taken his front wheel. He's hit a wall at 60km/h or something like that."�

In the Tour preview yesterday it showed Bob Roll pre-riding a section of the next stage. There was a very narrow extremely high speed descent. It seemed clear to me that if a man could get away as Julian Alaphilippe did that the peloton would get in their own way and that a solo breakaway would have a clear shot at a solo win. And that is what happened.

The rider in the peloton with that helmet cam sure showed how damned scary that descent was as they were hitting 60 mph. Good thing there were no falls there.