Didn't realise your were a Tour fan
I love it - no particular favourites but I love the tactics and the selflessness.

Was it Voght who was setting the pace the other day - 40 years old, 23 years a professional, never won anything but rides to set the pace for the team? What other sport do you get that in?
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sat 16 Jul 2011, 16:31, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Yup, hard as nails those fuckers.
Have you seen the work david millar puts in?
Tremendous stuff.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 16 Jul 2011, 16:34, Reply)

When you're watching UK highlights
You tend to get edited to Cavendish's lead-out men on the flatter sections but there's - what - 170 men left of whom maybe 20 will get up front.

The rest are lead-outs, domestiques etc., and the domestiques are up and down the peleton all day.

You're right. Hard bastards.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sat 16 Jul 2011, 16:44, Reply)

Any other pointless and boring sports, I'd imagine.
Like F1.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Sat 16 Jul 2011, 17:14, Reply)

Oh, behave.
These are guys who actually do the work themselves, not relying on an engine.
Day after day, pushing themselves to (and often beyond) the limit.
I'd like to see a premiership footballer pick himself out of a barbed wire fence and carry on after being cannoned off the road by a car.
Boring? Okay, cycling ain't your thing but road racing is a quantum leap above f1.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 16 Jul 2011, 20:37, Reply)