abrewer Posted July 1, 2007 Share #1 Posted July 1, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Anyone of our English colleagues going to chronicle the historic prologue and start of the first stage of Le Tour from London on Saturday? If I were there I wouldn't miss it!! Thanks. Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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robert_parker Posted July 1, 2007 Share #2 Posted July 1, 2007 Merde Had to miss it because of work !! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrewer Posted July 1, 2007 Author Share #3 Posted July 1, 2007 Non, Robert, non...le tour commencera Samedi, le septieme de Juillet!!! Next Saturday, 7 July, Robert! You've not missed it at all my friend! Merci! Alain (French spelling of Allan) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted July 1, 2007 Share #4 Posted July 1, 2007 Allan, I'm afraid that most true UK cyclists have lost interesting this bunch(!) of drug-taking cheats. Unfortunately money-making has ruined pro cycling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted July 1, 2007 Share #5 Posted July 1, 2007 Reputations of organisations like the Tour, built up over years, can be lost in 10 minutes. They take years to re-build. I'm with Pete - the drugs cheats have ruined the Tour for years. From a photo opportunity, though... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted July 1, 2007 Share #6 Posted July 1, 2007 Reputations of organisations like the Tour, built up over years, can be lost in 10 minutes. They take years to re-build. I'm with Pete - the drugs cheats have ruined the Tour for years. From a photo opportunity, though... I shot from the hip here, and spoke as a cyclist rather than a photographer. I'm sure that many great photos will come out of this Tour. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted July 1, 2007 Share #7 Posted July 1, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) To be honest I think it's very difficult to do something like Le Tour without 'substances', and I'm sure that was the case even in the 'good old days'. I travelled up from Dover to London today and there were signs on several of the roads in Kent that I travelled on saying that there would be disruption last weekend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_parker Posted July 2, 2007 Share #8 Posted July 2, 2007 Non, Robert, non...le tour commencera Samedi, le septieme de Juillet!!! Next Saturday, 7 July, Robert! You've not missed it at all my friend! Merci! Alain (French spelling of Allan) Le eeek !! je ne l'ai pas manque !! merci Allain Robert (that's the French spelling of ...Robert..!!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob_x2004 Posted July 2, 2007 Share #9 Posted July 2, 2007 Allan,I'm afraid that most true UK cyclists have lost interesting this bunch(!) of drug-taking cheats. Unfortunately money-making has ruined pro cycling. Cmon buddy Ive seen enough UK cyclists pissing through their nix two klicks out from the final so that they can say they havent got anything for the bottle when the testers get there. I dont have a problem with drug free contracts, banned substances lists, and harsh consequences for testing failures but spare me this moral high ground from public and journalists most of whom need a ciggie or a coffee to keep em going and a beer at a party to enjoy themselves. Wine or a malt at teh keyboard? Vegetarians who need a powder suppliment for this and pill for that, and just because it doesnt work and isnt on the banned list they arent relying on un natural substances? Asprin on the list? What about if you take asprin in IV solution because it does work? Im waiting for the fat arsed public to start complaining about the fuel they put into Hamiltons McLaren, on the basis that it is un natural, immoral and cheats them of the spectacle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted July 2, 2007 Share #10 Posted July 2, 2007 .............this bunch(!) of drug-taking cheats....... they are not cheats just druggies, I don't see them hiring ex-snipers from the war torn parts of the Balkans/Middle East to knock of the opposition in the French Pyrenees Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob_x2004 Posted July 2, 2007 Share #11 Posted July 2, 2007 I don't see them hiring ex-snipers from the war torn parts of the Balkans/Middle East to knock of the opposition in the French Pyrenees They are all afraid that in ten years time the puritanical LeQuippe might get hold of/invent the story that they all took something to help em stay awake on that last job late at night in the snow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrewer Posted July 2, 2007 Author Share #12 Posted July 2, 2007 Le eeek !! je ne l'ai pas manque !! merci Allain Robert (that's the French spelling of ...Robert..!!) ROTF LMAO!!! Good one Roh-bair!!! Thanks. Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrewer Posted July 2, 2007 Author Share #13 Posted July 2, 2007 So far no one's answered my question about whether they're traveling into the city to watch the prologue stage or going to park along the route of the first stage out to Canterbury.... It is the weekend, so most people have ample opportunity to take advantage. I would if I could! Thanks. Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted July 2, 2007 Share #14 Posted July 2, 2007 I saw the final circuits through central Paris in 2001 and 2002 - I was lucky enough to be living about 15 minutes walk from Place de la Concorde. One thing I learned in 2001 was not to confuse the time of the arrival of the caravan to that of the cyclists :-). Also if you actaully want to be able to see anything, the Champs Elysees in not the place to go, the crowds are so deep that unless you get there very early you'll see nothing but the back of people's heads. The best views were from the part of the circuit that runs along the Seine towards Concorde. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted July 2, 2007 Share #15 Posted July 2, 2007 ................ more to the point what are the frogs doing on pushies in the old dart? I thought they stuck to the continent Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyoung Posted July 2, 2007 Share #16 Posted July 2, 2007 Anyone of our English colleagues going to chronicle the historic prologue and start of the first stage of Le Tour from London on Saturday? If I were there I wouldn't miss it!! Thanks. Allan We are off down to Kent on Friday to see the Prologue (in London) and the first stage through to Canterbury, We ahve seen it a few times before in Holland or France when it has coincided with holiday trips, its quite a spectacle! Gerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyoung Posted July 2, 2007 Share #17 Posted July 2, 2007 Just to wet your appetites, here is a "snap" of a race we came across in the Mountains of Mourne when we were in Northern Ireland a couple of weeks ago. Gerry Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/27903-le-tour-est-arrivee/?do=findComment&comment=296240'>More sharing options...
Guest Bernd Banken Posted July 2, 2007 Share #18 Posted July 2, 2007 just to get the feeling: Tour de France 2005 Ivan Basso in the Prolog at Noirmoutier where Lance Armstrong absorbed Jan Ullrich after fifteen kilometer. Minolta 3MP with optical finder. I needed twenty driver to adjust the rotation of my body... Bernd Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/27903-le-tour-est-arrivee/?do=findComment&comment=296242'>More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted July 3, 2007 Share #19 Posted July 3, 2007 just to get the feeling: Tour de France 2005 Ivan Basso in the Prolog at Noirmoutier where Lance Armstrong absorbed Jan Ullrich after fifteen kilometer. Ivan Basso- Chucked off the Tour 2006, two-year suspension for blood doping until October 2008. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted July 3, 2007 Share #20 Posted July 3, 2007 Cmon buddy Ive seen enough UK cyclists pissing through their nix two klicks out from the final so that they can say they havent got anything for the bottle when the testers get there. I dont have a problem with drug free contracts, banned substances lists, and harsh consequences for testing failures but spare me this moral high ground from public and journalists most of whom need a ciggie or a coffee to keep em going and a beer at a party to enjoy themselves. Wine or a malt at teh keyboard? Vegetarians who need a powder suppliment for this and pill for that, and just because it doesnt work and isnt on the banned list they arent relying on un natural substances? Asprin on the list? What about if you take asprin in IV solution because it does work? Im waiting for the fat arsed public to start complaining about the fuel they put into Hamiltons McLaren, on the basis that it is un natural, immoral and cheats them of the spectacle. :D Apparently now the UCI allow riders to get a doctor's note permitting them to use "certain amounts" of internationally banned drugs. Riis, Ulrich, Pantani, Hamilton, Basso, Landis, all recent Tour "winners", all now disqualified... Virenque, Millar and every other member of the Cofidis team, Zabel, Vandenbroucke, the Festina team.......... on and on the list goes. Two of this year's favourite, Vinokourov's, team have already been chucked off for doping!!! As my old club-mate Chris Boardman said: "If someone's ride looks too good to be true; it most probably is too good to be true." I'll not be watching the Tour for the second year, I'll be out on my bike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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