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Boom! Riders, we’re back. Super early Sunday
morning. Let’s get it. Okay, guys. They’re just doing the lead out now, the neutralized start. Uh,
stage 2 2025 tour to France. Greatest time of the year, folks. Better than Christmas. I’m saying it
right now. Uh, looks like it could be. This might be worse than yesterday, I think. I don’t know
if the crosswinds will be as strong, but it’s uh soaking wet on the ground. There’s it’s a
delayed start. Quinn Simmon is just going by right now. God, that guy’s a character. Total character.
I just I looked at the rankings. Uh I’ll show them here to you right away. Oh, sorry guys. I’m
on the wrong place where I want to be here. Um apologize for that. I looked at the rankings.
I studied them a lot last night, yesterday, and yesterday feels like today still. I’ve
barely slept. I knew I had to be up early and uh I just kind of kept waking up all
night long. Uh so I got out of bed at 3:54. 3:54 this morning. Um just getting some
messages here. That’s how we Yes. Although I actually Yeah. So, great stage
yesterday. Crosswinds galore. I’m just going to check everything’s up and
running, guys, one last time here. Okay, that’s running. I need to do this over here.
So, yeah, it’s a delayed start today, guys. Let me get into my email so I can open up my live
feed here. Guys, what did you think of yesterday’s stage? How was the coverage? You guys like it?
let me know. Oh yeah, I’m in the inside cycling world jersey today. This is my one of a kind
jersey. So, we’re going to get this going here. Probably going to have to have an extra coffee
break right away. Let’s get the volume off here. See, we’ve already got some people in. Thanks for
watching, guys. Thanks for watching. Hey guys, let’s get me through those 100 likes
again real quick today. Yesterday, you know what? We hit 144 likes.
144 likes, guys. I’ve never had uh a video or a live stream do that good before.
Uh so that’s all on you guys. You guys did that. Just uh guys, I’m a lot more tired than I was
yesterday morning. And uh my brain is just kind of going, okay, remember I’ve got three I’ve got
three keyboards here. Three separate keyboards, three separate monitors. Uh I put a poll up.
Will this be two stages in a row for Alison? That was my question, thinking is this in my uh
Matu Vanderpole stage? That’s my guess. Uh so we could have first for Yasper Filison yesterday,
second for MBDP today. Um looks like most people are saying no. 65% of the people out there
are saying no. Just going to look at the poll here. 35%. No. So, I wonder what everyone’s
thinking then. What is everyone thinking? Let me get into the chat. I wonder if I can
just Yeah, I can just chat here, can’t I? Uh, guesses. Okay, so I’m going to just put
this here. Guesses for today’s winner. Live, guys. We are live. Um, okay guys, first
thing I want to do today, and I I’m really bad at doing this. So, Inside Cycling World has been
around for over two years now. Wow. We’ve been around two and a half years, guys. They’re all
decked out in their rain gear right now, heading out onto the stage. Um, we will do our little
prepare for the stage thing here, but what I want to do is I want to do this real quick. Let’s just
show you the stage quickly. Oh, I can see my mouse is doing the funny thing, isn’t it? does that
sometimes. Um, this stage. Okay, let’s just try to butcher these names. Lowen Plunk to belong guys.
I’ve ridden part of the stage on a virtual cycling platform. Uh, it’s called Ruby. I’ll probably
be able to show you some video from that to show you what it looks like. This is going to be
a brutal stage. Longest stage of this year’s tour. 209 km. Guys, let’s just talk about the past. 209
kilometers is pretty short compared to the past. Um, if you were to jump back to the 90s, they’d be
riding like 270, 280, even 300 kilometers would be the longest stage of the tour. And also to add on
top of that is the fact that they might do six or seven that are like 240, 250, 260 in one single
tour. This would be kind of considered a short stage from the past. This would be just a mediocre
normal stage. However, this one, you know, we’re way up in the northern corner of France there, uh,
the northern coast there, close to Belgium again, and it is super lumpy, super punchy. Let’s get
to the map. Loading up the map now for you guys. Uh, are we going to see the course profile?
I think it’s still loading now. Yep, still loading up. So, yeah, we can
see it here. on that final podium. I’ve got some good wind info uh from Reuben. So,
today you can see it here uh on the screen. We’re going to be starting here. You can see it right
here. Loen Plunk. We’re going to head out head do west northwest kind of going through here. I
think we’re going to be getting some headwinds there. We’re going to take a turn north.
You can see here at this category 4 climb uh possibly crosswinds there sprint point.
We end up finishing right on the coast here. What’s really interesting about this too,
we’re still 6.3 km to go to the actual start, folks. And in the chat right now, who do we
got here? Um, okay, we got this guy here, Siaban Saber, guessing for Ghana. Well, dude,
Ghana’s gone. He withdrew yesterday during the stage. Guys, I need to fix something
up here for you. Uh, you guys don’t see me this big, do you? Let me know if you do.
Personal. Just DM me on the side low. Uh, okay. So, there we go. That’s better. We’ll keep it on
that for now. Uh, yeah. So, another interesting fact about the stage is that there’s only four
categorized climbs. But if we go back here, guys, I’m just getting warmed up now. Just getting
warmed up. We’re going to get more excitement here pretty quick. Go back to the route here for
a second. Probably could have done it this way. When you look at that prof profile, two cat 3es,
two cat four climbs. So, these are all going to be in that 1 kilometer to 2 kmter range. That’s what
you kind you’re going to kind of get to learn what these uh what makes a cat 4 climb, what makes
a cat 3 climb. It’s a combination of distance, gradient, and actually another one is where it
is located along the stage. So, in the past, if you see a category 1 early in the race, say
it’s a mountain stage, it’ll be a category 1. Take that exact same climb, put it at the very end, uh,
with a hilltop finish. They might call it an HC. At this point, the guys have ridden like 200 km.
They’re tired. It makes it harder. But, generally, you’re going to figure it out. It’s length, its
steepness. Um, this category 3 here at 9.4% 4% average. You can be riding HC’s the highest level
or category. So it starts at 4321 HC which just means above category or category. Uh this looks
like Yep. Victor Campart’s on screen right now. Just going to have a little look here. Um, so you can get an you can get an
orus category that might be way less gradient like four or 5% but it might be 30 40
km long. So it’s a combination of both. Again, the cool thing about this is that there’s only
four clims categorized. There’s a ton of climbing before that. There’s so many lumps and bumps that
aren’t categorized. The tour organizers are the ones that decide these are where the points
are going to be. Much like the sprint point, the sprint point is just a point picked on the
map and they just go for it from there. Uh, out of those four clims, three of them are within the
last 30 km. And what’s even more exciting about that is two of them are within the last 10 km.
So those last 10 km are going to be insane. It’s I think it’s going to be a strong man win today.
Strong man. someone like Matthew Vanderpole. Uh more people still hoping for Bingham
today. Bingham has a chance. It It’s going to be a very fast run into the
finish. Uh as long as he can handle those hills. I’ll say that right now.
Just let me get more comfortable here. Yeah, today we got Tatty and Primos going for
the uh the win. That’s got some good potential today. Uh, lot of winners yesterday and
a lot of losers yesterday, too. Guys, it just had like a tough day out there. Um,
let’s take a look at that right now. Okay, guys. I’m going to do this real quick and
I’m not going to talk about anymore. So, uh, Inside Cycling World, I have something and I don’t
talk about this much. Uh, Reuben knows this. I’m not very good at promoting myself. Still 5 km to
go, guys. I’m going to just pop over here for a second. Hopefully, you can see this. I’m going
to just do a double check here. Yes, you can. It’s this one that you’re looking at. So,
anyways, guys, this is Inside Cycling World. This is me. Couple pictures of me, me chatting.
Uh, I got to give a special shout out today to this dude right here. He jumped into
the YouTube chat, I think yesterday, left me a comment. Uh, Chef Markx here bought
you an energy gel. What this does is helps you support the channel. That’s about as simple as I
can say it. Uh and Mark, thank you so much. His comment to me, this just motivates me so much.
It helps get me a nice coffee every morning. A talented cycling cyclist broadcaster. So, love
it, Mark. I love that support. It really pumps me up that other cycling fans, other cyclists kind
of enjoy what I’m doing. Um, you know, you guys could waste your time doing something else, but
you’re here spending it with me. Uh, guys, let’s get the likes going. Uh, if everyone can like like
they did yesterday, it’s really going to help the channel out. Also going to thank these guys here,
too. Um, I know these people. Duke Norton, he’s a guy I ride with inside virtually. He’s a really
strong rider. Love your videos. Keep them coming, Duke Norton. Uh this person here it says someone
if you look at the team name over on the right side GRC cycling that he’s the G in GRC that’s
Jills. Uh again thank you for the support Jills and the most recent one I think too Sam Shepens
here. Uh this is a very very strong cyclist. This is a Belgian cyclist. Uh I think Ruben um yeah
Sam is Belgian and uh I’ve done race commentary over on Zift another virtual cycling platform.
So anyways guys, that’s me. If you like what I’m doing, you want to help out, you want to buy
me a coffee, that’s great. If not, I still like everyone to be here with me. Just jump on in, pile
on in. Uh everything’s open to everyone here. I’m closing this now. Let’s uh Okay, let’s just get
back over here. And I’m closing that. We don’t need to even look at that anymore. That’s the last
I’m going to talk about. It’s rankings after stage one. Jasper uh yellow jersey and green jersey. Uh
I think the green jersey is on Anthony Churches’s back which I think is fantastic. Still 4 km to
go. Very slow getting out of town here guys. Very slow getting out of town. Uh let’s see here
what we got going on. Okay, Dawn’s back. Hey Don, good to see you. Uh we’ve got Air Train support.
So many supporters for Binyan Germay uh and the Air Train country. Steven Cycles is here. Oh,
Stephen, great info here. Stephen’s telling me that 1909 tour winner Francois Fabbear was killed
in the battle of Artois in World War I. The race is in the air today. So, guys, yeah, and Stephen,
thank you for that. Um, FOD Walker’s back, too. Great to see you guys. Like, we are like rioting
through the uh the battlefields of World War I and some of World War II as well. There’s so many
like fascinating monuments here to World War I. It’s incredible. Some of the stuff like uh I think
it’s the Vimemy Ridge monument for World War I, you know, that’s where like all the countries
went up like basically the Germans are dug in. Uh I don’t know what the order was, but the all the
Allied countries went up to take it out. Couldn’t take it out. Couldn’t take it out. Couldn’t take
it out. Finally, the Canadians got their turn. They went in and they took it out. They wiped it
out. There’s a huge monument there at Vimemy Ridge and I think they’ve designated the land like when
you step on this land you’re on Canadian soil. So cool. I love it. What a great story. Um 3.3 km
to go here, guys. Race is just leading out now, dude. This guy’s asking the question
here. Uh E Boushini Boasini. Uh yeah, race. I guess it’s technically started, but
we’re just in the neutralized start right now. Of course, I’m slightly delayed, I believe. So,
what we’ll do right now, let’s just go look at the standings as they’re heading out. Going to look at
the standings here. So, there’s Yasper Philipsson, guys. And I went through this a lot last night.
Just clo I’m just closing a couple things here. Try to make my setup here easier for me. Let
me get back into it. Here’s Bing. Bing second overall right now. Uh guys, there were bonus
seconds and there are bonus seconds today, too. So, at the finish line, there’s 10, six, and
four bonus seconds. By Germai, Aerat Train Rider, Intermar, Wanty, second place. So, we had a
group of sprinters at the front. Here’s the Uno X rider. Like, they’ve still never won a
stage. Getting closer. Anthony Turis here. Uh, fourth place. I love this guy. He’s so cool.
Matteo Trenton in fifth place. You can see we got a bunch of riders here all in the same time.
Russo Penhot. Uh Matteo Jorgensson, Visma Rider, uh Mayor Hoffer, Watson. I just want
to show you, take a look at the times, though. They’re all at uh 3 hours 53 minutes
and 11 seconds. That’s kind of like our first group. I think there’s 30 of them that take that
time. all same time. Uh 32 of them like at the same time. 33 of them like at the same time. Then
there’s a 13-second gap back to Abrahamson. And you’re going to start seeing the big names
here. Jonathan Milan’s in there. Actually, it bumps back even more. We got a 13-second
group. Three riders came in 13 seconds back. Uh Phil Bow House, Stannard, Tim Merier is right
there. Phil Bow House, they’re 39 seconds back as well. Big group came in there. Vout Van Art
came in there 39 seconds back. Danny Van Pppel, Neilson Powas, we should be seeing Yonas
and Tatty here right away. They’re I know they’re in this group. Big group. Ya’s
there. Dylan Grovagen. Kind of a weird spot for him. You think he’d be right
at the front. Magnus Court Nielsen. So, quite a big group came in at that 39 second
gap. Again, I went through all of this yesterday. Uh, here it is. Now, at a minute and 6 seconds
back, we’re getting more riders. So, Remco, Rajick, they’re all in this 39 second back
group. So, they’ve already lost some time, but the majority of them did, too. The scary thing
is, oh, great to see Warren Bar here. You know, this guy is more uh kind of on the back end
of his career. Still riding hard though. Uh placed well. Here’s one of the weird ones. Take
a look at the bottom here. Lenny Marti Martinez 9 minutes behind solo riding. He was almost three
three minutes behind the last place rider ahead of him. Asky for group FDJ Tibon 6 minutes back.
There’s a ton of good riders back here that finished more than 6 minutes behind on day one.
Like they’ve dug themselves a hole that they got to get up. Virture, that’s the guy that crashed
yesterday. Uh let’s keep going through this. I just want to show you all the riders that are in
the six-minute group back there. Julian Ala Phipe, they said he wasn’t feeling good. Let’s look for
the big news. There’s that Plop guy. He’s one of the ones that had a crash yesterday, too. Mike
Woods for Israel primer. GC guy for uh well, I think it’s pretty much known that Israel Premate
is more of like stage hunting, but if you were to pick their GC guy, it’s probably Mike Woods. Uh
he’s 6 and a half minutes behind Day one. Simon Yates is back here. Look at that for Vizma. 6 and
a half minutes back. Durbo Deridge, Luke Derridge, 6 and a half minutes back. So, these guys all had
a really tough day. Ben O Conor had a tough day as well. Over five minutes back. He did crash though
as well. So, let’s have a quick look at the route, guys. We’ll get to those race videos I can show
you. Oh. Oh, it wants me to log in. I thought I was logged in. Maybe I’m not. Uh, I should got
the live feed here. Yeah, here we go. We’re okay. I am going to try to find this here. Okay.
Uh, log in with Google. I’ve already done this, guys. France club. This is where we’re at.
This is how I’m doing this, folks. Yeah. Turn to France site. 1.5 km still to go. They’re
just rolling out easy here, guys. Roads are still damp. I don’t think it’s H. I do see the
windshield wipers going. So, it is still raining. See if I can do it here from this
part. Yeah, zoom in on the stage. So, let’s just take a quick look at the video
here. Uh, we’ll be heading west northwest generally for the stage. We’re going
to finish right on the coast today, guys. I need the coffee. I’m only halfway through
this first coffee. Again, thank you, Chef Markx. It super lumpy stage. This is going to be
a hard one. We do cross a little bridge at the very end. Guys, I was zoomed
in hard on the map last night. We car uh cross a little tiny bridge at the end where
we’re going out of that little river that’s heading out into the uh the Atlantic there
right across the water. That’s the UK there. So finishing at Bologn same close that guy down
we can take a look at some of the mountain passes. So these are the only the four categorized
one. 1.1 km. Still 1 km to the start, guys, at 6%. 1.2 km at 9.4. This one will be starting
to get important because this is only 30 km from the finish. It Okay, it’s back to raining.
Now, here’s the second one of the three at the end. This is 10 km from the finish.
Less than 10. Category 3. 1 kilometer at 9.5. This one’s a wall. This is going to
be a wall. Uh on screen right now we got uh Ben Tomas in the polka dot jersey. 0.8 km
long uh 8.8%. This is 6 km from the finish. Let’s get back to the live feed here and I’ll
be catching up right away here guys. Here’s our live feed. Maybe we’ve got some stuff coming
in. I’m just going to see the videos here. Yeah, these are just kind of the things I’ve
shown you already. Best climber, Ben. So, Ben Tomas has two points. This could easily be
gone today, but I would expect to see him up at the front trying to fight for that jersey.
Remember, the category 4s are only one points, and I’m going to have to check the point structure
for a category 3 climb. Uh, reading this here, we’ve got uh uh Ratcher here, Yammani, Benny for
the win. Samuel’s asking how much time waste to the start. Uh, dude, they actually spend a lot of
time on these neutralized starts. They’re trying to get him out of the starts downtown. It’s 500
meters to the start right now. What I’m going to do is I’m going to turn some volume back on here
shorts today as well as the helmet. So now you’ll see we’re getting out of the town and we’re
getting onto the flatter road exposed. And then they’ll see kilome zero in front of them. And
then this race should start to fire and we’ll see who’s keen to be in the breakaway. Tom Scorings on
the right hand side. Mark always at the front when the race starts. Here comes Christian Prudon.
He’s about to start stage two of the tour. Let’s go folks. Ring a ding dong. Dandy. Battle
times are on, folks. The battle is on now. Guys, it’s so wet on the ground. Everyone’s
in rain jackets. The fans are in rain jackets. 209.1 km. 2500 meters of climbing. The the race
is officially on. The breakaway is off already and we already have a break. The rain. These guys
are going to be soaked within seconds here from this spray. Uh, this one’s going to be a little
bit tough for me to call out all the riders. Uh, I’m going to be really relying on
what I’m seeing here on my screen. Uh, you guys are seeing the same thing. You
guys can follow along from home, too. They’re all in the rain jackets. So, a lot of them
are just wearing black rain jackets right now. Okay, check this dude out here.
Cocane. Hi from Saudi Arabia. Okay, so Cole Kane here, he says, uh, “Hi
from KK in Saudi Arabia. Nice to follow your channel when I’m at work in the office.”
Hey, dude. Nice to meet you. Glad you got something to listen to. Uh, something to
look at as you’re kind of like doing your job. What do you do for work?
Let me know what you’re doing. 182.
I’m just checking voice. I noticed I screwed up my uh audio early yesterday. Again, guys, this
is my cycling jersey for Inside Cycling World. Not only am I a cycling fan, but I ride
my bike all the time. So, after yesterday, uh 4 hour and 40 minute long stream that most
of you are at, uh took a little bit of a break, then I had to jump on my bike. I think I banged
out a 45minute ride, 50-minute ride. It just inside again inside Cycling World.
That’s why I called it that. Looks like we have one rider off the front right
now. Who’s this going to be? Oh yeah. This guys, I hate to say it. There will be some excitement
crashes, but we lost two riders that day that way yesterday. We lost Bissinger yesterday
and we lost Ghana. We saw that happen live. Okay, let me just uh check some
stuff out here. Van Moore So, we got a lot of rider from UnoX rider, Dathlon.
Uh, Amarel is back up front again. This is one of the guys that was in that fiveman breakaway
yesterday. This guy right here, Bruno Amarel. Yeah, this is one of the taller riders on the
very first climb of the day. He attacked early on, finished 132nd here. This is good to see.
Overall, he’s 132nd in the GC right now. Uh, they did get caught. He was one of
the ones that first attacked and then uh fell out the back as it got steeper. Yeah, they’re flying right now, guys. And it’s absolutely It looks like it’s absolutely
pouring on them. What a brutal day. Now, for some riders, they’re going to love this.
Some riders love this kind of weather. So, yeah, Van Moore, let’s take a look at
everyone here up front. Brent Van Moore, Belgian. He probably he’s probably fine with this
weather. 101st overall. Uh Andreas Lechensson 128th from Norway. We’ve seen Ammeral. And then
we’ve got Evani Fedov from Kazakhstan. 171st overall. So he would have finished way back in
that group that was uh 6 minutes behind yesterday. Yeah, it’s just pouring standing
water on the roads. were out in the countryside. This is horrendous. Just horrendous. Uh, how was I going to
try to do this? I think I was going to Oh, I don’t want didn’t want to do that. Trying to figure how to open up another window
uh and work on it. Okay, guys. Let me read the chat. Sip some coffee again. Guys, uh I kept
waking up. So, I think I went to bed pretty early last night cuz I was so exhausted uh from
waking up so early yesterday, the bike ride, doing stuff around the house. Uh it’s only
16° outside, race conditions, and uh yeah, it’s soaking wet, too. Four riders off the front
here. Decathlon, Aana, Lotto, and who is the other rider there? Let me just check. Oh, you know
X. Okay, we got it. Let’s get into the chat. Okay, so yeah, Cole Kanees from Saudi. Ruben
saying, “Get ready for all day madness.” Reuben, you’re probably very used to this weather.
Yesterday will look tame after today. Yeah, I dude I agree. This looks just tragic.
Um Reuben’s feeding me some weather information since he’s from the area and
we will have more crosswind potential. I’m seeing Oh, yeah. It’s pretty neat seeing
all the riders profiles. Some are so tall. Oh, yeah. Check out that landy there
on the side of the road. Beautiful. Beautiful. Guys, I’m going to go
into the commentary here. Let’s get in the live commentary. See what
they’re saying. Yep. So, basically, they’re just talking about the
same stuff I’m talking about. Let me turn this down. This should be this is the
lead out. Yeah, this is them starting today, guys. So, the weather uh looked like the rain stopped
in this video here, but later on it it gets worse now. It is worse now. They’ve got a 500 meter gap
over the Pelaton. So, you see the roads are damp there, but you’re not seeing how bad the weather
really is right now. Yeah, this rain is brutal. Yeah. Two cat four, two cat three climbs. Here
they are at the start right here, folks. Jasper, there’s Anthony in the green jersey like, “Oh,
awesome.” Bingham’s on the far side there of the screen. All the leaders jerseys line up. We got
Ben Tomas beside him. He’s just It looks like he’s looking at the head unit on his bike. Uh the
fourth rider here that’s closest to the camera. I can’t tell who this is right now. Soaking wet
weather. Garant Thomas sitting on the back right now. Looks like he’s waiting for the team car.
What’s going on with Grarant here? Yeah. Uh race directors gone by. Team cars are going by him
now. I think he’s probably going to pick up some equipment. Actually, the nature breaks are already
happening here. There’s a bunch of riders pulled over on the side of the road. They’re sitting in
that Staro so long. They’re nervous. They’ve been fueling. Yeah, Grant’s just at the back getting
his uh G. We’ll just call him G. I butcher his name every time. He’s just getting an extra rain
jacket it looks like. I think he’s got like he’s going triple layers right now. So, this looks
like it’s going to be a tough day for him. Uh ah cocaine work work hours oil and gas off work
road cycling on the flat here in my area. Dude, I’m oil and gas as well. I’m actually, if you
guys don’t know, Inside Cycling World in my real career, although this will be my new career,
guys, with all the support you’re giving me, this will be my new career. Um, I’m an exploration
geologist. So, I did that for 21 years. So, I have my bachelor’s of science in geology.
Uh, I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Again, I always hate saying that, but some people go,
“Calgary? Where’s that?” Calgary’s I always tell people that don’t know oil and gas like say if
they’re from the states I tell them Calgary is like the Dallas or the Houston of Texas it’s
the same thing it’s all energy it’s all all oil and gas four riders still front best place
rider at the front is the Belgian he’s only 49 seconds out of the GC technically right now
he’s the virtual jersey on the virtual yellow jersey the other riders are like 5 6 minutes
behind after that brutal day yesterday. Oh, it’s so cool. We got the Belgians, well, the
French people here. They’re out on the roads partying it up in the rain. Pouring rain coming
down on them. Okay, guys, let me get back here. Sorry, I had it on the wrong screen there for a
second. 48 hours. You can see here, uh, I’ll put this guy here just so you can see it. Here’s our
group of four at the front on this little map. I’ll shrink myself down even more. See if I can do this without
ruining my entire stream. So, yeah, we’ve got a group of four up front right
below me on the camera here. Group of four ahead. And then a minute 32 back to the pelon. All
of the leaders here are going to be very nervous. Uh well, Ben O Connor is hurting. And
actually, I just read on the commentary, guys. I love seeing this stuff. I like getting
verification that I actually know what I’m talking about. Sometimes if you look at the screen
right now, you can see here this race feed. Van Moore already leads to virtual standings.
You just got to look at his time gap and uh figure out where he is, where they are ahead.
So, he’s going to be working hard today, folks. I mean, it’s the kind of day that a lot of riders
are going to really suffer on. It may not have the huge climbs. It may not be a brutal time trail,
but it’s the weather. It’s the weather and the lumpiness of the road. I bet you half the field
is just praying for this day to be over right now. Uh the other half are insane. They’re probably
from northern France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark. Always windy, always rainy. Uh Ben
Oconor is at the uh doctor’s car right now. I guess he they they’re saying he’s okay. Uh but
yeah, tough start for Ben yesterday. Uh losing over five minutes on day one to the other GC
uh leaders. Intere is pulling up the front. Yeah, very difficult. Some guys are even
wearing short sleeves today. Uh yeah, you know, it’s not cold. 16° that’s kind
of a good day here in the summer for me. Uh but you’re soaking wet the whole time.
Road spray. Intermar, Germay, Paige, Rex, Rooch. Rooch was in the front a lot yesterday,
too. Zimmerman, Braate, Barry. I think there’s a lot of Belgians on this team. Let’s see.
They’re talking about them right now. Let’s uh let’s have a little look at them.
Enter Mar. Everyone can see Bignyan. Yeah. So, what do we have? H we’ve only got
two Belgian team. We got Van. We got VR here. Elrex. Uh Roo is German. We got a Dutchman here.
Another German Frenchman. Two Frenchmen. And then the Aatran. Guys, let me check the chat again. And
again, very similar to yesterday. Uh, okay. Let’s see here, guys. Just catching up. So, we we talked
about Cole Kane here. Hey guys, just so you know, you might see it in uh the chat itself. YouTube
does this. It’s there’s kind of like a they make it like a little fun competition. You’ll see
numbers beside your names. Like right now, Reuben is number one with a little star helmet.
It’s kind of saying who’s the most active in the chat. So, thanks for being active, guys. It
gives you a little ranking. It resets every stream. I wish I had a prize to give you, but
I don’t. Uh, Steven Kelly’s back watching from uh Cork. Thanks for your efforts, dude.
Thank you. It’s noon there. Yeah, dude. It is so early for me. So, okay. What’s going
on here? Just some race radio from Red Bull. Guys, I got to remember to keep
getting you on the right screen. get back to live. I think this is the best way to
keep it as I watch the race here and try to read the chat. Yeah. Again, guys,
still 16 km out there. 16 degrees CC out there. Just listening along here. So, our first
categorized climb is about halfway through the race. I think it’s atund I think it’s about 105 km
into the race. It’s going to be a long day, guys. Long day. going to be a very long day for me. Um,
so basically what So someone here is asking, okay, so we’ve got some more air train support.
Good to see you with the air train flag. Uh, looks like Caleb Gory, do we know how Ghana is?
Hello from New Zealand. Hey dude, nice to see you. Uh, Caleb Ghana’s out. He’s out. He withdrew
during the race yesterday. So he had a big crash. I saw it all go down live. Uh he crashed with
another rider. Oh, he crashed with Shawn Flynn, the Scottish rider. And uh Sean Flynn was up
very quick. Ghana, he was on the ground for a long time. He did get back on his bike.
He crashed around kilometer 50. There’s a rider. There’s an Estana rider rider right now
riding along with his rain jacket in his mouth. So this is the time when guys struggle to
get their jackets back on. Just imagine trying to get your rain jacket
on as you’re riding your bike, soaking wet on the ground. Your
tires could slip out at any minute. Interar is keeping uh Germai safe at
the front. They’re right on the front right now. Germ in the white jersey. Best
young rider. So weird now. Like I mean, should they change the young rider jersey?
I mean, cycling has changed so much. In the past, it used to be you would
join a cycling team definitely older than what they are now when they join.
It’s a totally different sport now, and they would develop the rider.
Like you would come into a new team as the young guy, the noob, if you
want to call it that, the rookie, and there would be mentors there to mentor
you. Uh now guys are winning the tour to France like when they’re 20. So, um relaxed.
It’s kind of It’s It’s a weird jersey now to me still. It’s still cool that they do it.
Yeah. So, Ghana’s out. Ruben Singh is out. Yeah. Caleb. So, he hit when he hit you could see
all the abrasion on his back and he was ab he was holding his upper back like maybe I I actually
saw him holding like rubbing his shoulder blade a lot like trying to reach around to get to
it. So, maybe he’s cracked something there, but that’s about all I know right now.
Uh Tyler’s asking Tyler Phillips here is asking when the race starts. Dude,
it’s on right now. It’s on right now. Uh Jay Taylor saying
my feed has been going offline at times. Yeah, dude. I could I could see
that happening. YouTube, right? You know, one thing I do, I will warn you guys.
So, I use Starlink here. I live up way out in the country. I’m like, so if you said, “Hey, man,
you don’t have any milk in the house. I want some uh Froot Loops for breakfast. Froot Loop
cereal or Captain Crunch.” I’d be like, “Dude, we got no milk.” Okay, let’s jump
in the car. We got a 25-minute drive. I mean, we’re not talking through traffic. We’re
talking 25-minute drive down the highways, down the back roads to get to a town to get the milk
as fast as you do it. Round trip is about an hour. So, if you’re just going to drive there and turn
around, maybe 50 minutes if you’re moving. So, I have Starlink out here. And I do got to
say whatever time it is right now. Where’s my phone? Yeah, 510. This is about the time. If
if you guys follow along with me this entire uh tour to France, cuz guys, I’m doing all of it.
Uh my Starlink, if it will do a reset, it’s right around 5:00 in the morning. So that possibly may
have happened. It might have just been YouTube could have been either one of our ends. But I have
had times where Starlink will drop and it takes about a 5minute reset. So I’m hoping that doesn’t
happen, but couple weeks back it happened every day like three days running. Uh Stephen’s saying
his has been okay. Ruben is okay. So guys, yeah, if you guys see anything, just let me know.
Let me know in in the feed in the live chat here. Remember, get involved
in the live chat, guys. Uh it’s supposed to be like I’ve I’ve called this a watch puh party
commentary. Alison on the front again. So, I did notice yesterday too Quinn Simmons
all that time on the front yesterday. Uh overall he finished 144th yesterday.
Everyone’s in full rain gear here. Full ring gear. I messed up yesterday. Some guys
are short sleeve. There’s Quinn right now. 2 minutes 24 second gap
up to the from the group to the Pelon. Yeah, guys are struggling with their rain
jackets. They’re having to go back to their cars to get help from the DS’s in the cars. How
uncomfortable. If you’re from this part of the world, you’re okay with this. There’s riders here
that probably never see this kind of weather. I mean, we all know they do they
do high altitude training. Uh do they do rain training in certain countries?
Probably not. Yellow jersey Yasper looking good here. Really good sprint yesterday. Lots of
good names up front. Uh Binium’s right there. I’m sure he’s going to win a stage this year.
Uh Yasper though with that lead out from Machu made it look pretty easy. I thought he had a
couple of bike length lead over second place. Uh we’ve got a rider here. Uh guys,
sorry if I say riders. It’s because I’m used to saying riders all the time. Uh
Rhonda. Rhonda with a extra D in it. Uh, no problems for their reception either. Okay,
guys. I got to catch up with you here. Uh, JT Taylor saying, “Who are the leaders at the
moment?” Dude, leaders at the moment. We got four riders up front. Thanks for asking. The four
riders up front. Sorry, not these guys. That’s the four riders up front. We’ve got Brent Van Moore,
Belgian rider, lotto. Uh, Andreas Leinson, you know, Bruno Amarel. I remember this guy
from yesterday. Decathlon rider. Kathlon, you need to win a stage. Come on, win a stage.
Uh, and Federov, Evani Federov from Kazakhstan. XDSana team. Four riders up front. Two and a half
minute lead already. Uh, who did I say it was? One of those riders has the
virtual yellow jersey already. I should know who it is. I just talked
about it. Uh get back to guys. Here is what it looks like. Let’s watch some
of these uh rain attacks here. You guys can see this. It’s playing right now. This
was the This is the race start right here. The race starts, they’re gone. They’re
attacking. So, the four rider break set up real quick today. Within the first
500 meters, we had our fourman break. Uh, then let’s take a look at this. Want to get
you guys in a good spot here to watch this. You can And in the top right hand corner,
you can see you can still see the lead, sort of the the riders groups. Van Moore. Yes.
So, is Brent Brent van Moore is in the virtual yellow jersey right now. And you can see here the
rain the rain conditions have changed since the start. The rain has picked up. Let’s do that one
more time for you. Ah, that was the very start. Okay, they changed that up on me now. I’ll
have to go back to it. That was the first start. Is this it here? Now, that’s the
very very start of the race. I did see something in the commentary. They think they were
talking about Alpison, which I’ve already seen. Ah, so Silven Dillier, that was
the guy on the front for Alpas. Oh, okay. Yeah, here it is. Here.
They’re saying Yonas Rooch. I remember the name from yesterday. He
was in the fiveman break yesterday. He’s on the front today, you know, driving for
uh Binium today. So, this guy’s been really active in the the tour so far. Four riders
still at the front. 2 minutes 25 second gap, guys. I really want to stay on. Uh so, yeah,
Jay Taylor. Uh we’ve got four riders up front. Crosswinds sound bad. All riders rain jackets.
Dude, they’re all in full rain jackets right now. Full rain gear. Uh they’re kind of
constantly changing it all there. There is a few dudes just in short sleeve shirts.
There’s a few, but the spray coming off the road is just brutal. Like they’re standing puddles
on the road. These guys are absolutely drenched. Uh and thanks, dude. Uh yeah, I’m glad you like
the feed. Um hey guys, remember we got to 144 likes yesterday. That is the number one way to
get my channel out to the rest of the world. If you guys can give me a thumbs up on the video, I’d
really appreciate it. I hate to bug you about it, but I was like just stunned with the response to
the video yesterday. So, that’s you guys. It’s not me, it’s you guys watching and participating. Uh,
more Aerot Train support here. Oh, it’s so much a train. He’s probably the most supported rider out
there. Uh, oh, let’s see what this guy’s saying. Uh, looks like Luen Luen Mahari saying
Benny is the winner for sure today. Dude, it’s possible possible. I think it might be more
of Matthew maybe about Venart. Guys that are like more used to riding in this weather. Uh, Jay
Taylor yesterday, she’s changed the young rider rules. The Air Train is a world-class rider and
a mentor. Um, yeah. Like I mean I’m glad Benium has the white jersey, but to me the white jersey
is kind of outdated now. You know, there’s young guys that are identified so early. I mean, they’re
identified as like 13 and 14 year olds and like this guy’s good. They hit the tour at 1920, they
can win. So, it kind of defeats the purpose. The way jersey, I think it’s just such a tradition,
they just leave it in there. Uh, okay. Thanks, Reuben. I’ll get to that in a second. More air
transport here uh from Jonathan and another guy, Sier Benny. Dude, nice call. Nice call. Uh Jay
Taylor here says, “You sound Canadian. Western uh he says, “You’re doing a good job. May
have been a YouTube glitch.” Yeah, possibly, dude. Like that’s the thing. Like I’m streaming
from the 10 x 10 cube of agony and suffering. Uh I did a little bit of that yesterday on my
bike afterwards. 2 minutes 32 seconds gap, guys. I keep forgetting what you’re looking at.
Uh let’s keep it on the profile here. Looks like we got a rider back in the teams. It’s a UAE
rider. Oh, it’s Oliveivera. Olive is back in the cars at the moment. It’s for UAE. Actually,
no, that is not Olive Vera because that’s a Canyon bike he’s riding. Uh, the UAE bikes are
Konagos. Okay. Just trying to figure out which team he’s on at the moment as I try to read this
as well. Yeah, dude. I’m definitely Canadian. I’m definitely from the west side. Jay, where are
you from? Uh, more people saying Benny’s going to win today. As long as Benny can handle
the rain and the weather, it’s possible. Uh, rain is not necessarily that bad. This is from
Jay Taylor again. But if there’s a wisp of gas or oil mixed in. Oh, dude. Totally. Depends how long
this rain’s been around. Will it wash the oil away? Uh, okay. We’re looking at Ben Oconor here
right now. He has been back. His knee is fully uh bandaged up. Man, he needs a better rain
jacket. His rain jacket looks like it’s just catching wind. Looks like it should be a
tighter rain jacket. Or maybe that’s just the way he likes to wear his jacket. So, JCO
Alula rides the Giant uh bike brand. You can tell Ben O Conor is quite tall. Just look at that
frame set on his bike. Working his way up through the team cars now. He’ll be fine. Uh someone says
make full screen. What are you asking for here? Just trying to figure out what people are asking
for. Uh we’ll go back to the commentary here. 20 km in guys. Uh we are at 2 minutes 30
second gap. So how far are they going to let these guys go? Remember this is
up and down all day long. I want to show you this again here. Uh we’ll come
back here. Here’s our profile. So we got four categorized climbs. We’ve got our
sprint point. We finish in Balon Samir. Here’s our clims. So we’ve got a category
4 here. Kota Cavalon St. Martin. You can see the little bump on the on the profile
here. And what about all the bumps before? There’s a bump right before it. Not classified.
There’s a bump before that. Not classified. Not classified. Not classified. It’s an uphill
drag the whole first part of the race. The first 40 km they’re climbing pretty much
all the way. Just ever so slight. We’re probably talking like 1% gradient, but
they are false flat climbing all the way. Okay, we’re going to come back here. The caravan’s
up ahead. You can actually see the location of the caravan, too. It’s about a It’s almost at the
halfway point. So, that’s the caravan, you know, where they’re playing music and throwing
stuff out to the crowds. I’ll give you a little bit of race background noise here.
And there was riders who are specialist literally going on the back of the boat.
Uh, and I’m going to try to catch up the chat here. It’s really busy
again. It’s like on the motorway if you see a police car and there’s always
uh Yep. So I am Canadian rain not that bad. Colin Coats here received a gift membership
by Cole Kane. Outlaw Heights. So dude Cole Kane dude Imag. Wow. Cole Kane here. Wow.
Guys let’s give a special shout out to Cole Kane here. He’s working in Saudi Arabia
right now. He’s on in oil and gas. Hey Cole, you didn’t tell me what you do in oil
and gas. Are you an engineer? Are you a geologist? Geo physicist? Uh are you are more
on the production side of things? But guys, Cole Kane just donated 10 inside
world inside Cycling World gift memberships. Thank you very much, dude. Uh so,
let me just get back to my live chat here. Oh, wow. Let’s take a look at this, guys.
I’m sorry I’m getting distracted. Wow, dude. Cocaine, you’re the man today. You are
the absolute man. Uh, thank you so much. I’m sure everyone else appreciates those gift memberships.
Fantastic. Uh, getting back to the live chat here. Uh, just trying to catch up. Yeah. So, guys,
when someone donates a gift membership, and you know what I got to say? That’s the first
time anyone’s ever donated a gift membership to the channel. So, thank you so much, dude.
I’m glad you guys like the channel. We’ll see if we got any more videos here we can show
you. Videos. Okay, so we’re just on that. Uh, so I’m assuming that a bunch of you guys would
have gotten gift memberships. I’m seeing it in my feed here. I’m not sure what you see.
Uh, someone here is asking, “Hey, Boasini, can we see the race?” Dude, what I’m able to do is
show you all the highlights, the videos, the route profiles, maps, and add the commentary as I see
it. Remember, all the stuff is copyrighted. Um, I get this through flow bikes. That’s the only
way I can watch it in Canada. Front of the Pelaton seems like it’s chilled out a little bit right
now. Uh, we’re 2 minutes 30 seconds 36 seconds behind the group of four at the front. I know.
Uh, I’ve got some information. I looked at Yeah. So, 10 riders would have 10 viewers, sorry
guys, would have gotten a gift membership. Uh, I have to say I don’t mind
the the colors of the giant. Reuben’s saying no copyright.
Yeah, they look good. The videos in full screen.
What does that mean, Reuben? Are you talking about the videos that
I show? Like when I show one of these videos? I don’t know if I go with
one of these ones. So, these are the highlight videos I’m getting from
the tour itself. Still playing the same song. You can see how wet it is here. This
is way earlier on on the race, guys. Um, okay. I got to back out of that one there.
See where we are on the course. Okay. It looks a little bit drier here on the course.
Again, guys, still trying to play catchup. Uh, Savage Pro, greetings
from the Caribbean again. This guy was here yesterday. Uh, hey Hil
Benny is the best at the tour of France. Oh, dude. FOD Walker saying, “Looking forward
to stage four in person.” Stage four. That’s the Dunkirk stage. That will be Mark Cavendish.
He’s at there. He’s there today, folks. I bet you he still could have won a stage. He’s here.
He said he could. Uh, he’s been very busy. Okay, just guys, guys, still catching up. I
want to communicate with everyone here. So, Fod Walker, who was here yesterday, he’s going
to be at stage four. That’s the Dunkerk stage. That is going to be straight out Blitzfest
sprint finish. There’s one tiny bump on the stage. We’re getting a little bit of a
headwind right now, guys. It’s not strong, but the winds are coming from the front.
So, time to start being careful here. be considered a global superstar.
Uh so FOD saying didn’t want to take focus off the stage, but I’m in the
dark about attending stage 4. Dude, just enjoy. Uh I’m not sure
where you’re going to be on it. I know they finish in Dunkerk,
famous site, World War II, right? VIP events.
Uh JT Taylor saying, “Can you show the near live clips from the
official tour of to France channel?” Yeah, dude. That’s what I’ve been showing. I think uh
if we go to videos. So yeah, these are the near live ones right
here. So what I have for near live right now, I just have two of them right now. That’s a teaser for stage two. Stage
one on board. So they just kind of throw uh things in here. I’ll check out the highlights. Yep. We still got our four riders in the lead
right now. Guys, I think what I’ll probably do too is I’m going to see what I can kind
of what I’m kind of allowed to do. This is kind of a big experiment for me. What can I show?
What are you allowed to hear in the background? Uh, right. So, Ruben saying here, uh, yes,
the viewers wanted them in full screen. Okay, guys. Yes, sorry, that’s my mistake. When I show
the videos and any highlights, I’ll make sure I pop them in uh full screen next time. Um, guys, I
wish I had a camera. So, my camera’s right here. You’re looking at me right now. I’m pointing
at you. Thank you, viewers. Um, it may well be. I’ll grab it. I do have a second camera. I don’t
think the lead is long enough on it. I’ll show you what my setup is. So, I’m looking at a screen
here. That’s how I’m controlling what you see, right? So, I can go to the commentary
here. I can click on this map here. This is how I control what you see. Actually, this
is a good map to look at. You can see here we’re in the bottom right hand corner. Group of four
out front pelon together. All the jerseys are there. We’re heading westerly west northwest at
times. And the winds are supposed to change today, too. Looks like about a minute delay on my
YouTube stream, which is normal. Uh it is all lumpy through here. All lumpy through here. And
then um I wonder how I’m going to do that. Okay, I think I can figure this out. If I do this
here, there’s something I want to do. I want to do a new window there. Uh I want to make
sure that we stay on this window though. I’m trying to trying to open a new window here and I
don’t have enough sources set up yet. I do have enough sources set up. Okay, good guys. is like
this is all going through OBS and uh I’m trying to watch my YouTube stream here so I know what
you’re seeing as well and I already have extra sources set up from all the other videos I’ve done
in the past. Uh okay. So like Ruben’s saying here, Ruben, I got to get back to the Discord here right
away. Yes, the viewers wanted them in full screen and you can’t show them live because of copyright.
Yeah. So guys, this is all copyrighted. I have to pay to watch Flow Sports. Uh, I think it’s $17 a
month, but it’s so much cycling coverage. It’s all of the tour to France. It’s all of the women’s
tour to France. I’m covering that, too. Uh, that starts at the end of this month. It actually
overlaps with uh the tour to France. It starts on the second last day of the tour. I’ll do double
that day. Uh, then we’ve got the Valta in August, and there’s a ton of other races. So, if you guys
like it, I’m going to cover it, but just you need to let me know you like it. Uh, the thumbs ups
are good. I can’t even tell how many likes we have right now. Great number of man, guys. Like,
incredible. We have 226 people watching this right now. I think yesterday I hit 264. Again, my
best stream ever. Thank you for the support. Um, so more support for Benny. Corin is saying,
“Show us live, dude. I’ll show you what I can live when I’m allowed to. I will get
back here right now. We’re going to come back here and we’re going to come to this one
to the live section. So again, 2 minutes 39 second gap right now. It’s warming up a little
bit. Oh, this is kind of funky here. Looks like we take like a little loop through town here.
Take a look at this. I just saw this. Ah, look at this. I love maps, guys. I I’m fascinated by
maps. This looks like they’re going to be on more of a major road here. You can see how they take
this loop around as they’re going to be probably getting onto a main highway, I would say, right
there. Thought that was interesting. Oh, Aras. Okay. Aras first appeared on the tour map in
1991 for the start of a stage to LAV. that day. Terry Maria, I remember that guy, Frenchman,
was definitely looking forward to seeing his Normandy again. The prologue winner escaped on
the 25th. So, Terry Marie obviously must have been a time travelist. Won the prologue, then
he escaped on the 25th kilometer. Yeah, guys, here you go. This is great info right here. So
in 1991, the stage in this area that’s that was in Aras, that’s the town we’re going to be going
to, was 259 km long, 50 km longer than this one. And that happened all the time, multiple times in
a single tour to France. Uh he stayed on his own for 234 km, longer than today’s 209 km stage. He
went solo and he won in La Hav with a one minute 54 second lead over the Pelaton. What a stud. He
took the yellow jersey from Greg Lamont. So I’m guessing this guy won the prologue that year. I
just looked at that tour, too. And uh Greg must have had it. Greg would have been coming back
from his comeback. Uh I think Greg finished his career just after this. So I think he was done in
’92 or ’93. Oh, this is really good. So this is fascinating. So Terry Marie completed the second
longest solo stage in the history of the tour. Uh way back in 1947, someone went 253 km solo
between Carcasson and Luchon. That is insane. Wow. Great stuff. I see some questions here too in the commentary
area. Uh people asking they have an ask your experts part how the jerseys get determined
like if you hold multiple jerseys. Well, Yasper won the sprint yesterday. He got the
time bonus. So, he’s in the yellow and the green jersey. What they do is they then hand
the green jersey down to the second best placed uh in that competition. Uh yeah, Savage
Pro stage two is the longest of the tour. Uh we’ve got someone here. Uh looks like Oh, I
like his name here. He’s got Germia as his last name. Uh he figures that Benny Benny will finish
in the top six today. Someone’s saying, “Please just show the race.” Dude, I’ll show you what
I can see if we got any more videos coming yet. We’ll watch along,
guys. I’ll show you that little clip earlier uh from the rain conditions.
This was the original break again if you guys are looking for some stuff here. Uh these four are
still up the road. Still with the brakes came down actually. Sorry, that was earlier today. The
brake is still sitting around that 230. Actually, it might be extending slightly. It’s
out to 2 minutes 40 seconds right now. We can see that right here. Here’s our
leading group. 2 minutes 36. Sorry, that’s the Pelaton. It’s this one here. Brent
Brent Van Moore, this guy right here, he is leading finished 101st yesterday, but with this
gap right now on the Pelaton, he’s technically in the virtual yellow jersey. That’s what they say
when you’ve got a big enough gap on that day. If you were to maintain it, if the race was to finish
right now with his 49 second uh GC gap with the lead he has today of 237 over the Pelaton, they
would give him the yellow jersey. Obviously, the race is not going to stop right now. So, it’s
just a virtual yellow jersey. I’m sure that’s all going to come back together. Uh still waiting for
some of the regulars from yesterday to come in. Uh, Swoosh Kid’s back again. Yeah, dude.
Swoosh Kid. I remember guys, the Jirro Don is on as well right now. The women’s Jirro.
Uh, I’ll be following that later today, too. Yeah, Vinnie is in the white jersey
though. So, at the beginning of the stage, they did show them all uh in their jerseys.
Benny is definitely in the white jersey. Uh FOD saying when he’s at stage four, he’ll
be on his phone. He’ll jump into the chat, give you guys my perspective what’s going on. FOD,
that’d be awesome if you can do that. Johannes is here saying hello. I’m going to end up refreshing
my YouTube stream here. I think Mike says, “Looks like Rodick crashing weather.” Dude, you
never know, right? Uh he’s kind of got a habit of doing that, but uh I really like him. I think
he’s a really cool rider, guys. Imagine riding in the wet, soaking wet cobblestones through these
towns. Like this is crash central here. Uh I’ll try to post it later today. Maybe I’ll try to do
it during this the stage. There’s a guy I ride with virtually. He’s in the UK. I’m in Canada.
I’ve ridden bikes with him. Uh let me just have a peek here, guys. These are the handlebars of my
bike right here. That’s my bike right there. So, I do all my cycling inside and I do my commentary.
Uh, there’s a guy named Darren Haw. He rides with us all the time. And that wicked crash
there on that Cat 4 climb, Virture and Tomas, he was standing right on the side of the road and
he got a picture of it with the crash happening. It was funny is that morning from the Discord, I
was thinking about getting the Discord stream up, he said, “Hey guys, sorry I can’t ride
with you today. I’m heading off to this small little town in the middle of
nowhere to watch the tour today, the Grand Depart.” Uh, he just happened
to be at the best part to be at yesterday. Binny Benny Binny. Just going to refresh my
YouTube stream here and have a sip of coffee. 2 minutes 42 seconds now, guys. Lots
of riders sitting on the back. I again, I think this is all just clothing changes. They must be so uncomfortable there. We’re
watching a tutor rider right now. Oh, that is a cold coffee. Help me. That is
terrible. But I’m going to drink it anyways. Um, I’m going to probably race upstairs here.
53 likes, guys. Thank you very much. Let’s push for that 100. 100’s my goal every
day. I figure we can do 100 every day during the tour to France. And wow. Holy crap, guys.
283 people watching. Keep pushing. Let’s go, riders. Let’s go. Incredible stuff, guys. Again,
you guys are making these my best dreams ever. So, I got to thank you guys as much as
I possibly can. Going to jump to the Discord here. Here I got some
info coming in from Ruben. Whoa. Uh yeah, crosswinds here. Ruben’s mentioning
the crossroad crosswinds details on the leaders. Let’s just talk about these uh riders for a
little bit here. Oo, I need a better screen for this. Uh so let’s look at Brian Van Moore
because this guy virtual jersey born in 1998. uh professional road racing cyclist from Belgium
currently riding for lotto. His best results so far are winning a stage at the criterium daffhane
and a second place in in a stage at Toronto Adriatico. Those are races well adriatico is quite
early in the year. I think it’s more like uh it’s probably like in March April I would believe and
we just had the criterium DFNA here. the DNA in uh June kind of a leadup race to the tour to France.
The criterium daffhane and the the tour to Swiss are both like kind of like the tuneup races to
the tour. Whoever looks good there generally is on form for the tour to France. Four riders
still up front. 2 minutes and 48 second gap. We can take a look at this map here again. Oh, is
it not going to highlight for me? Here we go. You can see where we are. This is the point here. I
think we’re going to start seeing getting more of a crosswind. So, the winds are coming from the
west side here. Uh crosswinds could be forming. I’m going to back up here. I think I can see the
weather in places. Yeah, if you look here quickly, but they’re very light right now. There’s a little
bicycle with the wind on the side. is showing you it’s blowing from their side right now. It is a
crosswind, but it’s very very light. I’m going to let uh Remco is doing some talking here now.
So, let’s uh let’s hear what he’s got to say. Was a very good first participation for
for me and and for the team as well. We said towards the outside we go for top five
because that was a more safe uh ambition to to speak out but I knew uh inside of my my head and
my my heart that I really wanted to go for the for the podium. We really saw that my shape was
really stable during the whole uh 3 weeks but that I never had a day where I could really go over
the limit. So I think that’s where we saw that I always lost some time towards Tai and Yulas.
And Renco is struggling but now is he pacing himself.
That’s the point that we wanted to improve the most to make sure
that I can just push a little bit more on the final climbs to to make sure that the gap
is smaller or uh that there is no gap anymore. You win the tour in the mountains and
not necessarily on the on the TT stages. So um I think we focused a little bit more
on climbing than on down trailing. Yeah, actually normal train ride 4 hours planned.
It was slightly raining a road that I take almost every day. I passed some parked
cars and the last car was a postal car. I went yeah actually straight on the on
the corner of the door. So really on the the sharp iron and I took the hits completely
on the shoulder and uh everything inside was uh pretty damaged. I mean, I saw my season,
let’s say, passing by and just finger click. Winning the tour is something different than just
uh winning a oneweek race. You need a full team behind you. You need uh luck.
Remco needs a full team. I’m actually in a pretty good shape
now. I feel like I’m close to my my shape of the tour last year. It would be
very nice to really close the gap. So, I can really feel that I’m I’m capable
of being one day on the on the first volume step. I believe that I I can have a
bigger chance this year than than last year. Really interesting stuff there from Remco. He was
talking about a crash that he had just a while back. Uh wasn’t even aware of that one. Okay,
so at the front right now, we’ve got our four riders. One rider’s just pulled back a little
bit. Uh, it’s the Lotto Rider. Talking to the team car getting some energy gels right now and a
new bottle. Three riders up front. Still wet. Uh, looks like a lot of them have taken off their
heaviest outer ring gear, but they’re still all in long sleeves. Uh, some good questions here. Chris
Bang is saying, “Watching while doing my 25% of the stage on the Pelon.” So, it sounds like Chris
is watching the stage, listening to the stream, uh, whilst riding his inside bike, which I’m
assuming is a Pelaton, doing 25% of the stage. Dude, that’s great. Great stuff. Uh, Tony
C saying, “Good morning. More support for Benny.” Uh, Benny could win today, but he’s going
to have to really be able to hang on in those last 10 kilometers. Uh, there’s two short climbs.
In fact, if you look at the profile properly, uh there’s two climbs, categorized climbs,
and then last 10 km. And there’s actually a little kick right to the finish line. Uh again,
kind of like a strong man. Brian Kakard just off the bike there for a second. Brian Kakard’s
placed really well. He’s did he did a great job yesterday. He’s only 49 seconds off, so he didn’t
get back in some of those huge groups that lost huge amounts of time. Always really like this guy.
He’s always right there. I’d love to see him get a stage win. Uh Stephen saying that the race passes
today through Montreal Sur later today. Sorry, Stephen. Uh one of the key settings of the
novel, Liz Miserab. Okay, that’s good to know. Uh NBY is here. Let’s go. Good to see
you again, man. I saw you yesterday a lot. Uh Tony C here saying mid pelaton during
rain equals worst water part of me. Dude, totally. It’s the spray. Even if it’s not
raining anymore, those guys are just getting showered. They’re getting like hosed down the
whole time. Alpasin and Intermar doing a lot of work on the front right now. And they must be
tackling a bit of a wind here. I can see them spread across the road diagonally. Uh, one beside
each other trying to avoid that crosswind. Uh, what’s going on here? Looks like Tatty’s
back at the team car being paced up by another rider. Still in his rain jacket. He’s
sitting quite upright on his white colago. Getting more arrow now. There’s three riders
sitting back here behind a team car. I’m just trying to see who the team car is. Uh, okay.
It is the UAE car, so they got to be careful here what they’re doing. He seems to be pretty
far back. Again, this could just be uh you know, he went back for a jacket change and was
struggling a little bit. It is warming up out there. It’s getting close to 18° C right
now. Mark Cavendish following along in a one of the team cars. He’s in one of the Scod Tour to
France cars. He’s at the very front right now. Um, so someone here GR is saying, “Where can I watch
live in SEAR? Is that Southeast Asia?” Maybe. Uh, dude, I’m not sure. You have to find a
local provider. You know what you can do is if you go to the tour of France website,
the website that you’re looking at right now, let’s see if we got any more videos, guys. Yeah.
Okay. So, this is making sense. Uh, the attackers are taking off the rain jacket. So, the rain is
dying off, but it’s still soaking wet out there. Oh, check this dude out. There’s a town.
We passed it at kilometer 38.7. Uh, so we must have just passed it or right now. Uh,
Estelle, which is kind of like a little statue, I think, pays homage to Francois. Okay, this
is the one that Steven was talking about, I think. Oh, wow. That is so good, guys. Just
reading this, I’m just mesmerized by this. Wow. So, the winner of the 1909 tour
to France, we’ll go through this again, who died for France in the village in 1915.
Enlisted in the in the the foreign legion, it says, I love these names back then. Enlisted
in the foreign legion, the giant of Coloms, a a Luxembourg national, disappeared on
the 9th of May 1915 and his body was never found. He was officially declar declared
dead three years after his disappearance. Wow. Octavio Octave Laure the year after Faber
also died during the war in 1917. Wow. World War I. What a nightmare. What a nightmare,
guys. The gap now 2 minutes 49 seconds. Uh, a little bit of another nature break going
on on the side of the road. Riders just pull off. What a strange sport tour of France
is or cycling in general. Uh, you know, the only sport where you’re allowed
to pee as you’re in the event. So, some guys are stopping, some are just doing the
old pull the shorts down and go as you can. Uh, yeah. So now we’re actually able to start
seeing some of the jerseys again. Oh, and so this is cool to note. So the guys in the
front, the fourman breakaway, uh we’ve got Fedov up there. He’s the Kazakhstan National Champion.
Couldn’t tell that earlier because he’s got his uh rain jacket on. And Lechnes is the Norway
national champion. So two hitters at the front right there, folks. Two hitters. Uh yeah, so much
Benny Sport, guys. We’re at 65 likes now. Love it. Alpason’s sitting on the front right now, guys.
I’m going for my second coffee. I need three to function. Yesterday, I only got my two. Wow, was
I ever wiped out yesterday. I was so wiped out. I want to show you guys what I can, what I’m
allowed to show you. Remember that. Uh I have to pay to watch this. Uh I guess it would be the
same as rebroadcasting music. You can’t really do that if you want to stay in the good books. Last
thing I want is any strikes against the channel. Uh 66 likes. Thank you very much, dudes. And
again, Cole Kane, dude, you’re the man. Cole, when you get a break from work there, I think you
need to take more breaks from work, dude. You need a longer coffee break. Uh let me know what you
do in oil and gas. I’m interested. Uh just drop a comment here. I’ll be right back, guys. I’m
going to turn the volume up so you can listen along to the uh the official stream. There’s a
moment where when you struggle to bring up power, the only way you can progress is by bringing
out weight to a certain point. There’s not much weight left on on Vindigard. But there’s also
a moment where by dropping that much weight, you do also tend to drop the power. So, you
have to find a sweet balance where you’re dropping weight but making sure that you’re
still sustaining that that power. And that could take a couple of years to find. And even if
you find it, it’s also sometimes just hard to get. Yeah. And for bigger riders the weight again they
bigger climbers I want to say you you need to work on that weight. You have to find the right balance
between the extra weight and not but at the weight of Vinegard and and how small he is. He actually
had and he’s realizing now that maybe that extra kilo of muscle on the flat is going to save him
so much more energy that he might hit the climbs and pressure and compensate that that one extra
kilo or whatever the weight he he has put on um in in the high mountains. 255 for our four
riders in the breakaway. We just caught a glimpse of the remains of Monsant Eloy Abbey
which was built in the 11th century. Look at the gray clouds in the background and still the
the cloud hanging over this race. That Abby is a historical monument listed in 1921. Even although
riders are stopping at the side of the road and having nature breaks, there’s still a pretty
fast average speed of 43.8 kilometers an hour. And back in the bell on very busy riders
uh with rain capes unzipped. Just going to go back to the team car. Get
rid of those. Hand them back in. Make sure that they are ready for the next part of
today’s stage which is as we’ve mentioned playing out the last 65k at this stage. So in 100 km time
are going to be pretty full on. So we’ll find out how this race unfolds as we head to Bologna there.
So it’s Amarai Lechnes, Van Moore, and Fedoroff. Fedorov, the new Kazak Champion on the front
of this group of riders. Fedorov is a pretty strong bike rider. Let’s hear now from a rider who
crashed yesterday. Let’s hear from Ben O Connor. What happened yesterday?
Pretty chaotic day. Uh, in the end I was pretty stoked to make the front echelon, but
yeah, obviously I had a bit of a rough time with uh what 4Ks to go. Completely out of my hands
and just I just wanted to sit back and watch the sprint. Happy I made a front split. So, yeah,
pretty uh yeah, stage one is always so rough. How are you this morning?
Uh, sore, but I’m here. Uh, I got no broken bones, just a fair bit of muscle injury from my little
Superman flip. So hopefully you can get through today. Not the best day again, but fingers
crossed to come out on the other side. Okay, and we’re back, folks. We are back.
There’s a weird landing going over my hands, but it definitely could have been worse
cuz in the end we probably fell the water. Hearing Ben O Connor talk here.
45. So I’m actually lucky to get away. Okay, guys. Sorry about that. Uh oh, I left you
on a bad screen, too, didn’t I? I got to get my act together here. Okay, videos. See if we got
Yeah, still the same videos, guys. I got nothing else to show you here right now. But what’s cool,
too, is that the gap from the front of the race to the Pelton hits a max of 3 minutes and 5 seconds.
Ooh, and okay, I mentioned before the leaders at the front, two of them went down. So, in the time
I’ve been away, two of the riders went down. Uh, Fedorov, the Kazakhstan rider, Afghani, Fedorov,
and Leensund. Yeah, here it is, folks. Take a look at the map here. We can see it here right now.
Let’s look at the map quickly. We’re going to zoom in. Uh, yeah, right here. So, I just mentioned
before that two of the riders had taken off their jerseys and we could see the Kazakhstan National
Champion and the Norwegian National Champions jerseys. Uh they’re split off the back right
now at kilometer 44. They went down. They must have both been together just touched wheels. So
we’ve got two up front now. Uh Brent Van Moore, Bruno Amarel from yesterday. They’re showing the
replay now on screen. As soon as I get the video, I’m going to show it to you guys. They were
actually in a group of four and the front two made it through. Looks like they’re all
scrambling, like barely making the corner. Uh this is going to be super sketchville for the
Pelaton coming through. in about 3 minutes, uh, we may see another crash here. So, let’s
hope not. And you know what’s crazy, too, is that those four riders at the front, they’re
now split by 33 seconds. So, Van Moore made it through and Amarel made it through. Now, this
Amarel guy yesterday, he is an aggressive rider. He was at the front for a good chunk of
the day. Uh, looking at actually just noticed uh is it Milan who’s on this really cool looking
track bike? He’s got a really cool paint scheme to it. Hopefully they show you that later, too. Okay,
good to see this. The Kazakhstan champ Fedorov and the Norwegian champ Lchinson. Kaz the Kazakhstan
rider was actually waiting for him. Like, let’s work together now. Uh, these two are going to try
to catch up. And the front two should be thinking, “Hey, man. Should we dial it down just a twitch to
let those two get back on? Uh, they need those two riders behind them. They’re national champions of
their countries. They’re obviously great riders. I think if I was the two at the front, I’d want
those two from behind to get back on with us. How far down do you dial it, though? It’s down
to 21 seconds now. So, I think these guys might have just backed off a little bit at the front.
Guys, I’m going to see if I can get your feet on this here now. So, what I’m talking about is these
guys here, this group one and two right here. Uh, let’s back to here. And I’m sure we’re going to
have a video feed of that real quick. Not yet. Yeah, sorry for the delay there before I went
upstairs. My coffee maker, just using a a drip coffee maker today. Not using any of the fancy
machines. That’s too much work for me. Uh, the hot plate thing on the bottom, I decided to
turn off. I think I need a new coffee maker. So, the coffee was basically cold already. Back to the
chat. Uh, again, guys, thanks for the coffee. Uh, Mark Mark Xavier and he’s Chef Mark as well.
Uh, went through the buy me a coffee route, so he’s funding this coffee today. Uh, Tim earlier is
down with he’s got a mechanical here doing a front wheel change right now, guys. The second I get
videos, you’re going to see them full screen, too. Yeah. So, that’s the second cup of the day,
guys. Yeah, Jay got the coffee. We’re going. Uh, okay. So much Benny Sport. I’ve never
seen so much support for one rider. So, that’s great to see. Tony C saying, “Caffeine
is one of the basic food groups.” Yeah, totally. Have you ever tried to cut down on your coffee
drinking? That’s a question for everyone right now. I tried to cut down. I I don’t know why it’s
Okay, guess what? I guess technically caffeine is a drug. That’s what they say. Uh it’s my drug of
choice. It’s my only drug of choice. Uh of course, you know, once in a while I think a nice pint or
two, but caffeine’s my thing. If I don’t have it, I can’t really function. Like I’m just like in
a brain fog. Go one day, wake up in the morning, don’t have your coffee. Let me know how
you feel about four hours later. You’re like just in a brain fog. Uh it really does
help you out. Tesa here supporting Benny. Yeah, Tony C saying here, Pelaton is tiptoeing
through the wet corners of the town. Yeah, exactly. Uh they should be coming through
that point now where the other riders crashed, I would believe. Tim Meria is trying to get
back in right now. Uh he is on actually he’s using the Trek team car to get back in. So,
here’s a Sudal rider using the track car uh to work his way back up on
the front. Is that our front two? Yep, that’s Amarel and No. Oh, they’re
coming back together now, folks. Coming back together now. This is interesting. Like
the Kazakhstan rider is already at the front with the Dathlon rider. The Norwegian rider
was with Brent Van Moore further back. So, it looks like something happened. I’m going
to expect uh maybe someone had a little slip because it was Van Moore and the Dathlon rider
at the front waiting on the two chasing. When the camera cuts back, they’re totally mixed
up and there’s a huge gap back together now. They still have a 3minut lead over the Pelaton.
161 km to go, folks. First climb coming uh just over 100 km into the race. The Norwegian rider is
calling for a team car to come up. Again, guys, they’re you can see on screen here. This is lumpy.
They’re climbing all the time. They’re climbing all the time here. I wonder if I can zoom in on
that a little bit. Ah, you can right here. So, if you look at the profile right now, I’ve
just kind of like zoomed in here on the screen. You can see it’s just a gradual climb.
And remember too, guys, vertical exaggeration. Uh this looks like very very low vertical
exaggeration. The bumps may not show up very well. They’ve got it stretched out so far.
Uh whereas when you look at the route profiles, I’ll try to explain this the best way I can to
you. When you look at the route profile here, obviously the bumps aren’t this big. See what I’m
saying? Like if you look at that profile, this hill is not that big. It’s a bump. It’s how much
you’re exaggerating this when you’re stretching it out over 200 km because you’re you’re trying
to show a bump that might be 50 or 100 m, but the the yaxis, sorry, the x-axis is 209 kilometers.
So that little 50 m bump would have a very hard time showing up. So they vertically exaggerated.
This is from my geology days, folks. Uh I actually did learn something. So let’s get back here.
waiting. I’m actually waiting for them to send me some uh video feeds here. So, we’re back to
the normal look here. The bumps are showing up a little bit better here, actually. But you can see
they’re just repeated like where that category 4 is. There’s another one right after that. Looks
like another category 4 and another category 4. Let’s keep an eye out for uh Ben Tomas today. He
is the current leader of the polka dot jersey. Oh, check this out. Oh, this is so cool. I love
this guy. Great question here. You guys can read it yourselves, too. Okay, so at 161K, they are
back together. Oh, Tim. Yeah, Tim earlier had the puncture the front wheel. Most completions of the
tour to France or I guess most uh participations. Uh the record belongs to Frenchman Sylvan
Shaveanel. I watched this guy all throughout uh you know late I guess well it says 2001 and
2018. I would have said late ‘9s was my guess at first. He participated 18 times at the tour
to France and I think he won at least a couple stages. I mean this guy was a really really good
cyclist. Uh he finished 18th in 2009. So yeah, he was he was up there in in this year’s tour.
It’s G Grant Thomas. He has participated in 14. And of course, he won the tour to France way back
in 2018. Folks, uh, when Team Sky still ruled the roost. No new videos to show. They’re being
very slow on showing any videos today. Guys, just so you know, for me, it’s only 6:02 in
the morning. It’s going to be a long day. It is going to be a long day. Uh, this is expected
to be a fivehour stage. 79 likes at the moment, guys. Thank you very much. Uh, love the chat,
guys. I think the chat is my favorite part of doing this. Oh, they’re actually showing Bento
right now. Why are they showing him? He’s way behind in the team car. The team cars are just
flying by him as he goes up a small hill. Uh, no rain jacket on. He’s showing his jersey off. It
is long sleeved, though. He’s waiting for a team car. I believe he’s looking back. He is 3 minutes
25 seconds behind the front group of four. Love his bike. Rides a look bike. I love them. Front
four working well together. These frenemies up front. I love seeing this guys that are willing
to work together uh for the benefit of all. I really like seeing that. No one’s not taking a
poll here. Everyone’s working their way through. So cool. You know, again, seeing Dathlon
up here, that’s awesome. Uno X up here, that’s even better. Lotto, yeah, they need some
victories. Uh be really good to see them do well. Uh Brent Van Moore, he is on the front driving
hard. He realized, you know, there’s a chance here something could happen today. Uh to try to pull
back this gap right now if the weather changes, it may not even be possible. It may be too
dangerous. Van Moore pulling over to the side. We’ve got our front three, the the Norwegian
champion at the front right now for Uno X. Let’s let them keep rolling. Two and a half minute
lead still, guys. Let’s stay on this screen here. Stay on that screen right there.
Yep. Uh back into the chat. You guys are busy in here. Evan’s asking which team is
controlling the Pelaton. Now, Intermar has been up there
a lot. Alpason’s up there, too. Um, they’re they’re actually mostly
focusing on this breakaway group right now. Got a Moistar rider back in the team cars here
as well. It looks like the rain stopped and the roads look like they’re just starting to dry
out, which may be even more dangerous when you get those wet and dry patches. you feel safe.
And for any of you that do ride outside, um, why is that showing that there? Yeah, we some
riders are really struggling today. 2 minutes 34 back to the Pelaton. a further 34 seconds back
to Ben Toma, Polka Dot jersey winner wearer, and then a further seven seconds back to
Elaria, who we saw in action yesterday. So, yeah, when it starts drying out, it’s not
going to dry consistently. There’s going to be dry patches where you feel safe, you
feel comfortable, and there’s going to be wet patches. That wet patch that you’re used to
riding in all of a sudden feels like a patch of ice. Uh you kind of let your guard down and
next thing you know you you’re on the pavement. Uh J Taylor, people normally get calfd if they
give it up even for a day. Headache and brain fog. Certainly. Yeah, dude. Who do I support? Uh okay,
so TH is asking who do you support? Oh, dude. I love all the riders. Really? Um what I don’t want
to see I don’t want to see a Tatty blowout. I don’t want to see that this year. I don’t want to
see UAE blow everyone out. The intermareteer rider Louie Bare is coming back now. Oh man, that is so
sketchy. He’s chasing a team car, riding through dry patches, hitting wet patches. I would be so
nervous about putting down any power here. One slip and your tour could be over. Or, you know,
one slip, you just lost another 45 seconds and another 45 seconds. Uh, yeah. So, I want to see
if it’s going to be a Yonas Tatty battle only, I want to see it like head-to-head duel all the
way. Um, I’d like to see Remco do really good on the time trials. Remember, we got two time trials
this year. Stage five time trial, pan flats, stage 13, mountain time trial. I think Remco
could blow them all out of the water. Remco has shown just very recently in June here that he is
far and away a better time trial than those two. Tatty lost 40 seconds on a 17 kmter time trial
to Remco. Uh not a hard time trial either. Uh the first time trial is 33 km long. Uh Tatty
could lose a minute and a half right there. Uh depending how he feels later. And I’m not saying
I want Tatty to lose. I just want it to be a close battle all the way. So we’re not like by stage 12
going, “Oh, well we know who won.” Like if Tatty has a 15-minute lead by stage 12, of course I’m
still going to watch the tour. Uh it just won’t be as exciting to me. Uh th who do you sport?
Okay, looks like Prem was asking a question. Yeah, the race has begun. 159 km to go. We got less
than that. Tobias Foss looks like he’s making a bike change right now. Putting his foot down
now. He was ready in the team car. Let’s see. Ooh, we’ve got another I think this rider might have
crashed. We’ve got a Belgian. Looks like a rider in the Belgian flag here is down as well. He’s
holding himself. He looks hurt. Uh on a coago, so he’s must be a UAE rider. Who is this? Let’s
have a quick look, folks. Uh I need to figure out who this is. UAE rider. I’m just guessing
from the bike. Who’s the Belgian on that team? Uh Tim Wellins, maybe Tim Wellins is the only
Belgian I see. Yeah. And he is wearing that jersey. So Tim must be the Belgian national
champion right now. Reuben must know this. I think that’s who that is, guys. I I’ll have to
double check that. The jersey looks very looks very similar. Oh, the speed bumps are brutal.
The cars are like absolutely just banging over the speed bumps on the front right now. Alpason’s
got a lot of they probably got five or six riders up there. Uh Intermar, those are the two teams
dominating. I can see Bennium on the far left. Riders are still riding a bit diagonal to cross
the road. That’s telling me there’s a bit of a crosswind going on. So that’s Tim Wellins
there. Back to the route. Go to the live stuff. See if we’ve got any videos to show you
guys. Still, they’re not giving me any videos, guys. This is all we got the same as
earlier. Uh over to the commentary. Okay. So we know that this is the longest
stage. Okay. So they are giving us a bit of more history here about the stage. 209 km uh
lowend to balance today’s is the longest stage of the tour. In fact only two stages in this
edition exceed 200 km today’s and stage six. Next Thursday between Bayou and Vier Normandi is
the second longest stage over 200 km. Now listen to this. I I did a lot of research on this. In
the 21st century, only the 2020 tour has had fewer stages of 200 km or more. One the 12 stage between
Chauvini and Saran covering 218 km. One by Mark Hershey. Remember when Mark Hershey was on fire?
That was Oh, that was during the CO area too. So I think that year the tour was later. I
think they kind of cancelled it and ran it later. Uh at the other end of the table we have
three editions with eight marathon stages. 2006, 2017, 2019. Uh the longest stage. Oh, that was
a fantastic stage one by Mattie Mahoric. 249 km. Again though, guys, if you were to go back, and
I didn’t go back until like the 60s and the 50s when it was crazy distances, but in the 90s,
it was common to have multiple stages in one single tour that were 250 km plus. Uh even in the
early 90s, there were stages that were 280, 290, 300 km long. And then there would be another
uh five or six stages that were like 240, 250. They’ve just changed the stages up. Bar and
Victoria is telling the boys to eat and drink. You know, you don’t want to forget that. And
bonk out there. Uh, okay. So, we watched that for a little bit. Let’s get back here. Let’s see
if I can give you uh just so you guys know where we’re going again today. I want to show you that
video. Um, yeah, this one here. Just for anyone that’s just jumping in now, this is where we’re
going today, folks. We’re going right out to the coast. Let me have a sip of coffee. Thanks
for the coffee again, Chris. Sorry, Chef Mark. One of the riders here is washing himself down.
Oh, from the crash. This must be the Kazakhstan rider, I believe. Uh, he’s using Yeah, it
is the Estana rider. He’s using his water bottle to rinse all the mud and dirt off him.
Yeah. Like what a sport. What a sport. So yeah, you can see here we’re traveling in a
westn northwest direction out to the coast. Uh currently 2 minutes to the gap is
just holding solid. Holding solid, folks. Actually on a bit of a downhill right
now. You can see the boys are accelerating. So, it’s just showing me two groups on the road.
Our fourman breakaway and our Chasing Pelon. So, everyone at the backs must be back together.
Sounds like the riders that were off the back were just doing like uh clothing
changes. Uh back into the chat here, folks. Uh Chris is asking, Chris Bang, do
you think that Vingo versus Tatty is still the main battle and conversation to have?
Dude, I hope we got more people to talk about. EF rider doing a bike change
right now. Looks like a rear wheel. Wonder if they like, you know, the changes
are slower, but you got better brakes. I I I think I’d have better brakes. Yeah, it
looks like This is Vincenzo Albani for EF Education. Easy Post. 49 seconds overall.
So, he finished in a good position yesterday. Uh yeah, like what’s going to happen this year?
Like Rem, I think with the two time trials, Remco getting better, uh more experience at
the tour. Uh I think Remco, we’re going to talk about him a lot more. But I think, yeah,
I think most people would say it’s Yonas. Tatty. Tatty’s still odds on favorite to win.
I think a lot of people are really underrating Yonas. All they remember is the 2024 tour to
France. That’s all people remember. Uh yeah, the guy finished second at the tour to France
in 2024 after a horrendous injury. Uh it was the tour of the Bass Country where I did some
more reading on it. Basically both he had two collapsed lungs. Uh it wasn’t just one. I thought
it was just one. Like he was in that was a life and death situation for him and he came back
from all of it. Obviously you’re not going to do that in a short period of time. Uh it’s taken
Bernal 3 years to get any bit of his form back uh from when he was used to be winning the
tour to France. Crashed in 2022 and just showing signs of former glory uh 3 years later
in 2025. So it takes a long time to get back. Uh hang on. Lots of chatting you guys.
Love it. Jay Taylor, I like Fedorov. thought he looked strong. We’ll see. Riders
maybe using him for a win break. Yeah, Federov. That’s So that’s Evan Federov in the
front. Let’s take a look at that. Jay’s bringing up some good points here. Here he is right here.
Fedorov. Evani Fedorov born in 2000 Kazakhstan. He’s a Kazakhstan champion right now. So, he’s
obviously a good rider. He is 171st overall. So, he lost a lot of time yesterday. uh 41st
in the young riders jersey cuz he’s a young dude. I think that’s going to change today. I
think he’s be moving up in the positions. Uh yeah, he I think this guy wants to win a stage.
I’m going to say he wants to win the stage. I mean, the conditions are favorable to the
breakaway. I think uh they’re not doing the chasing. They’re just riding their pace.
It’s the guys behind that need to pick it up and kind of ride that razor’s edge a little
more. So, oh, Tibo Nice. I think it’s TB Nice, isn’t it? Uh, he’s got his right leg bandaged
from yesterday. I know he crashed yesterday. Uh, Tony C is commenting. Okay, Jay Taylor. Bingo
and Pogy. Can’t count them out. And the Airtra is another great choice, but come on. We’re dying
for more stories. Yeah, dude. I’d love to see more stories. I’d love to see Remco. Like I would to
me, let’s let this the tour just play out. Stage five, Remco walk in and just obliterate both of
them, you know? I I guess I got to say I’m kind of pulling for Yonas to beat Tatty this year. Uh
just because I’m always that guy. I never want to see one team win over and over and over and over
in any sport. Uh, like right now the Panthers, Florida Panthers have won the Stanley Cup two
years running. I’m sick of it. Someone else needs to win now. Uh, I think there was a Carolina
Hurricanes fan on here yesterday. Yeah, they could win. Yeah, they’re a great team, too. Uh, the
Oilers could win. I’d like to see that. Uh, but does that mean I’m a huge Jonas fan? Absolutely
not. I’d love to see Remco just obliterate the two of them and put some fear into them. They’ll
be like, “Oh, right. Uh, I was going on about it yesterday. I think they’ve the time trial
specialists don’t get to really excel at their sport as much as the climbers do. If that makes
sense, basically. Okay, guys. Sorry. I forgot I had this open the whole time. Uh, let’s see if
we got any videos. See if the tour is sending us anything, guys. They’re not sending us anything
right now. They’ve got nothing to show us. Just got the chase on. 2 minutes 31 seconds. Okay,
right here. Uh oh. Yeah, sketchy through here. So, we’re coming in and out of the rainy weather. Lots
of rain on the cameras. Uh the comment here saying a day for Vanderpole or Philipsson. It could be
either one of them. I’m thinking today it could be Vanderpool. This suits him perfectly.
He’s used to riding in crappy weather. uh probably you know himself van art any of
the cyclacross guys have got to be the best bike handlers out here I’d say you know if
you come from like a cyclacross background or a mountain bike background you’re probably
better in these conditions than just a pure roadie. Uh so with the setup of those two
climbs within 10 km to the finish. Oh yeah, they’re riding through town here, guys.
Like babying the corners under. They’re doing like 25k an hour through the corners.
And again, it’s soaking wet again. So yeah, let’s get some more stories here. Uh Wade, hey
Wade, good to see you, man. From South Africa, 2 p.m. his side. Wade currently, just so
you know, uh 6:18 in the morning for me. Alpa may uh may be a strong team, but are
they controlling the pelon? What team is? Uh Alpason’s on the front right now and Intermar
is there all the time. So yesterday it was uh Trek and Alpison like they control the front
for the majority of the race. Today it’s Alpison and Intermar. Focusing on Bruno Amarel here,
this Dathlon rider. Love to see Dathlon get a win here. If you watch the Netflix Unchained
special and now guys, if you’ve watched it, tell me what you think. Uh, if you haven’t watched
it, obviously continue watching my stream. Go watch it afterwards somehow. Guys, we’re at
94 likes already. 281 people watching this, guys. Thank you so much. I love it. Yeah,
Alpas’s got at least uh I can see at least four or five riders in Alpison jerseys right
now. Remember, some of them are still got rain jackets on. Intermar riders there, too. Oh,
Yas. Yep, Yasper’s at the front, too. Yasper is sitting about seventh or eighth from the
front. I’m looking for Binium right now. It’s pretty strung out here. I think we’re going up a
little bit of a hill here. Vizma’s right there, too. I think the big hitters are staying at
the front, trying to stay out of trouble. Uh, see the crashes coming. If you’re in that mid pack
area, someone goes down, you’re all going down. Yeah, Bennium’s doing just fine. I think he’s
maybe 20th. He’s probably in position 20 to 30 back. I’m seeing glimpses of Intermar riders back
there, and he was riding with them earlier. Savage Pros back from St. Lucia. Dude, I’d love to go
there, man. It looks like such a beautiful place. Uh great uh geology there, too. I think all those
islands are. I think Lucia probably say Lucia or Lucia. Luchia. Uh I think that’s a big volcano,
isn’t it? Uh everyone spice up the chat. Say where you’re from and where you are right now. Yeah,
guys, let me know where you’re from, what you do for a living. How long you’ve been covering
cycling, guys? So, for me, I started watching cycling in high school. Here’s here’s the call on
backstory. So, I was in high school. I graduated in 1987. That’s how old this guy is, uh from
high school. Uh, so high school for me was 1984, 1987. A lot of rider just putting his foot down
here. Think he’s going to get a bike change. Uh, I don’t know why, but all of a sudden I started
following cycling. I don’t know why. Uh, was I bike racing? No. At the time there was a magazine
called Winning. A lot of you guys in the UK will know it. The magazine was cycling, pro cycling
related. It had a yellow banner all around it. It was called winning. I would go to I don’t know if
it was I think it was a I think it was a bookstore called Whmith. I don’t even know if they’re still
in Canada anymore. I would go there once a month and search for that magazine and just stare at
the pictures. Uh then sometime during high school, I got myself a road bike. Was it a racing bike?
No, it was like a touring bike that actually had a triple gear set on it. Uh, but one of the first
things I did with it one summer between I think it was grade 11 and grade 12, I just told my mom,
I said, “Hey, me and Justin, my best friend at the time, we’re going like on a 700 km bike ride
through the mountains out to the coast.” Well, on the way to the coast. Well, you can get I’m I’m
shocked my parents let me do that cuz that was a nightmare road. And wow, the sun has came out a
little bit. That’s the first time I’ve seen the sun today on today’s stage. So I used to read that
magazine and back then I think it was ABC’s Wide World of Sports would have like a 15 20 minute
clip every Sunday of the tour. So basically three or four times throughout the tour you get this
little bit of video footage. That’s all we had. And so I would follow through books uh through
magazines. That’s how I got started. And then I started riding outside myself. Uh then I started
doing like I’d get up on a Saturday morning and I was just there recently too. We stayed at
a hotel there. Uh I lived in Calgary. There’s a town called Strathmore. I think it’s 42 km
away. I would just get up on a Saturday morning, ride out there, ride home. I did it all the time.
Uh I don’t even ride that much now. Yeah. So the race is very stable right now. This 2 and a half
minute gap is just holding. Uh looks like we’re out of some of the worst weather again. Four
riders still strong at the front. Virtual jersey is right here. So, give me your background on how
you guys got started. Tony sees some crosswinds and add a little rain. Breakaway will have a
great chance. That’s what I’m thinking, Tony. That’s what I’m thinking. Breakaway group is uh I
should know this. It’s Fedorov. It’s Amarel. It’s uh Norwegian Rider from Uno X. And okay, I’ll have
to check. Let’s have a look. We’re just going to close a few pages down here. We got too much stuff
open now. Breakaway group. We got someone off the back, too. So, let’s have a look at that. Uh,
here’s our leading group. Oh, Brent Van Moore from Lotto. This guy has the virtual jersey right
now. Uh, with a 2 and a half minute gap, he’s only 49 seconds down on GC. So, he’s leading Amarel,
who was in the fiveman break yesterday for the majority of the day. Lechneson, Norwegian champion
from UNOX and Federov, Evani Federov from Estana, Kazakhstan rider. Uh those three riders are all
more than five minutes behind after yesterday. Van Moore was placed quite nicely here. Lot
of riders are ditching their gear now, folks. Streets are really packed with ride with uh
fans here. Lots of police here holding the fans back. They’re just everywhere. People love
cycling here. Um, okay guys, got to catch up. Yeah. Uh, so Tensa saying he his comment
is the African guy intermaring ger dude or as Savage Pro calls him, Ginium for
the green jersey. Let’s see if we’ve got any video footage to show you guys.
Again guys, this is out of my control this stuff. They’re they’re not posting
any more videos yet. We’ll just go to the highlights here. What I got saying? Okay,
just the same stuff. Back to the commentary. Oh, check this out. Uh here’s a little
comment here. Says Brent Van Moore deceos air. So basically they’re calling uh okay so
this is a while back now 2021 Brandt Van Moore was on a breakaway 23 years old secured his only
professional victory stage one of the Dolphin. Uh and Thomas Dant said we’ve seen the new Dant.
Thomas Dant Belgian rider superstar famous for going on breakaways uh and staying away too.
I love it. Oh, this is cool to know, too. Uh, he’s known for going on breakaways. In
2021, he was on the longest stage. We just talked about that, too. That
249.1 km stage. Brent Van Moore, the guy that’s in the Virgil jersey right
now today, accompanied Matty Mahoric’s uh victorious move. He must have been
swamped right at the very finish. He finished ninth in that stage. I remember that
stage really well. That is such a cool stage. Uh yeah, good stories here. Let me get back to
the chat, guys. Uh 101 likes. Thank you so much, guys. 238 riders watching. So, people are coming
and going, guys. People are starting their day. My days are really delayed right now doing this.
Uh basically, I’m blocking out every day. It was funny. Uh Joey Jojo, that’s my wife, said, “Well,
how long do you have to do this for?” I said, “This is 3 weeks, lady.” She was 3 weeks. I’m
like, “Yeah, it’s 3 weeks long.” Uh she knows I love cycling. She knows it’s the only thing I
think about really. Uh I don’t think she really knew the commitment. Her birthday’s on the 16th.
We’re going out on the 19th. And I’m like on July, I’m like, “We’re gonna have to figure out how
I’m going to get home.” Uh okay. Okay, they’re showing Benium right now just surrounded by his
teammates. Benium’s doing perfect here, guys, in the white jersey still. Uh, he’s wearing his
long sleeve white jersey. I would be too. And the gap is just sitting solid. 2 minutes 35 seconds.
Intermar directly ahead of the Vizma boys. Here’s a shot of Quinn Simmons sitting
on the back of the Pelon today. So most guys have taken off their
really really heavy over over jackets um and just in the long sleeves. Now a few are
actually doing short sleeves and the roads look quite dry here. Let’s see where we are. Uh
I’d like to get to that map feature so you can see not much distance between them.
Probably a couple of kilometers at most. Here’s our riders GC group. Some of these turns are going to be interesting
here. Like this turn here coming up. You can see just ahead of us. We’re going to take like a right
now we’re heading like west southwest uh in this direction here. All of a sudden they’re going to
be heading like a northnorthwest direction. Uh and depending on winds this could change. When they
do these abrupt changes things can really change. Alpison sitting on the front right now and you
can see the wind on their jackets. I’m looking for some flags on the side of the road. There’s
dudes on the side of the road that don’t even have their shirts on like insanity. The sun’s
just br This must be French summer. Northern France summer right here, folks. Uh I’m just
going to let that play for a little bit right there. Like that. And I’m going to try to
catch up on the chat here because this is what it’s all about. Steven Cycles is in London
at the moment. Roads are getting dried up now. Yeah, dude. Uh, okay. So, this guy here, great
point. And this is exactly what I think Nat uh looks like Natu Brahani. What do you think
about uh Bingham’s performance yesterday? He fought the whole game by himself. Yasper had
full support of his team. I think Bingham is super talented and way better than Yasper. Dude,
I I agree with you. Bingham is super talented. He’s already won the green jersey before. His
team is not designed the way Yasper’s team is. Yasper has the best lead out man in the world on
his team. And the thing about Matthew Vanderpole, too, is that he could almost win the sprints
by himself. Uh, and he’s such a tough rider that he can do it day after day after day. Four
riders still at the front taking on a little grade right now. again. It just keeps rolling
all day long. Uh, gonna try to do something in the background here for you guys. Keep the
mic on me. I got to open my new tab here. Uh, oh yeah, and I’m using the
wrong keyboard. I’m going to try to get you guys some video of the route. No, I want the portal. Sorry guys, just thinking
to myself here. I will catch up. Riders portal. You guys should be still just looking at
that stream. I’m trying. It’s kind of hard to coordinate what you guys are seeing and what I’m
working on. Uh the Grand Depart. I’m going to come here. So, what I’m doing right now, I’m actually
in the background. Uh I’m pulling up a virtual cycling platform that I use. Hey, Ruby. talking
to you. Here’s your free advertising for Colin. Uh I don’t say that with any tone in my voice, do
I? Uh so if we come here, guys, let’s just take a quick break from the race. I want to show you
something different if I can. I’m going to have to turn on guys. Just bear with me here. I need
a sip of coffee to get my brain going again. Let me see if I can do this. I now have to go into
OBS. Uh, I now need to turn this on window. No, it’s not a window capture device. That’s a video
capture device. Oo, how am I going to do this? Window capture. This one here. Okay, so we’re
going to turn on window capture 3. Okay, guys, on screen right now, you’re seeing something
totally different that you don’t even know what you’re looking at now. In fact, what I need
to do is What are you guys actually seeing? I don’t even know what you’re seeing right now.
So, I’m looking at that window capture there on trying to find my window capture 3. Okay,
it’s on the very top of the screen. Okay, I know what’s going on now, guys. Let me
just get my bearings here. There I am. on screen. Now, guys, here’s my free advertising
for Ruby. Uh, Ruby, you need to you need to do some more stuff with me. I’m going to actually
make myself look bigger for this because Yeah, let’s do it, folks. I’m waiting for the YouTube
stream to catch up here. Here we go. So guys, what I’m trying to show you here, this stage,
this is a virtual cycling platform. This is what I do mostly. Uh, I do ride a bike all the
time. And you can see that this is called Baloner Ser. This is where we finish today. Okay,
this is on an inside cycling platform. Oh, guys, I better go do this quickly. Here, let’s
turn that off. We’re back to the race here, folks. Uh, looks like they’re tackling the
first climb here right now. So, I want to stay on that. We’ll come back to that in a second.
We’re going to come back to that in a second. Let’s get this all figured out. Seth
Cous is in the team cars adjusting his helmet. He looks fine. So, we got
any more video feeds yet? See guys, I have no more videos here yet from the tour of
France itself. We’ll come back to the commentary and you can see here the where we are. So,
this is where we change direction here. 2 minutes 23 seconds. This is the first time
that it’s actually came down today. I wonder if that’s because the group up front is maybe
battling a bit more of the winds right now by themselves. Flags not doing too much on the side
of the road. All four riders still together. Okay, let’s get back to the chat. Then I’ll
go back in. What I was trying to do there with that Ruvie application was show you some actual
profile of the course. Uh the last 30 kilometers of the course is actually in that Ruby uh
cycling simulator. It’s the exact course. It’s full video of the course. Uh so I’ll get
back to that in a little bit. I didn’t know if I could try to do that at the same time. But
yeah, so going back to uh Natu here. Uh yeah, Benium is doing a lot of that work by himself. He
doesn’t have the same kind of lead out rider that uh Yasper does. So I agree with you 100% dude.
Alpas basically it’s the two riders. It’s the sprint and it’s the green and then Matthew for
stage wins as well. Uh this would be more of a Matthew type day. I don’t know if Yasper is
going to even be able to hang on those little climbs. It’s perfectly a Matthew Vanderpole type
stage. So I’m putting my money on him today. Uh, guys, 106 likes. Thank you so much. 253 people
watching this little stream right here. Guys, you guys are incredible. I love it.
Thank you for all your support. Uh, Wade saying, “You’re too.” Yeah, Primos
could do really well. How am I going to say that? Primos could do very well at this
tour as well. I think he’s right there. All he needs is a few slip ups from Tatty and
Yonas. Uh Primos is a very strong time trial. I think he’ll do really well on the first time
trial. Uh the mountain one that remains to be seen. His last kind of semi- mountain time trial
was a disaster for him where he lost the tour in 2020 to one tatty. Uh Jay Taylor saying he wanted
to hear more about Remco. They say his dislike. Is that true? I think a lot of people do dislike
him and I don’t know why either. Uh it’s it’s very strange to me. I think the the Netflix Unchained
special put a better light on him. Uh and again, if you haven’t seen it, just go watch it. Go
watch it. I highly recommend it. I was thinking about doing a a live stream uh chat about about
that entire uh series. I’ve watched all of it. I’m not the kind of person to watch
eight episodes in 16 hours, but I did uh I think it came out on the second and I had
it all done by the Friday. So, really good stuff, really good stories. Uh to be honest, they made
Remco look better in that series and they I they kind of put like a little bit of a villain spin
on Tatty. Like that’s what I thought right away. just some of his quotes and that uh very
different. I remember a lot of it’s editing so you never really know what he’s saying. Okay,
back to the chat. Thanks for the comments, guys. Uh lots of comments. Reuben
saying someone was peeing. Yep, Alpison on the front again. Thanks, Wade. Uh Yonas. Well, Alpasoon was up the front with
Intermar and Vizma was right there. So, Yonas is going to be right there. Uh Cole Kane, dude, thank
you again for your support earlier. Uh the channel really loves it. Uh Cole Kane saying Vanderpole
today. I I’m saying it’s Vanderpole today. So, I I would love to see it. I love that guy. I
mean, when I first started watching Vanderpole, uh, Cyclacross, I got into Cyclacross on Flow
Bikes. This is how I watch it. I started watching Cyclacross races. He hadn’t gone to road yet.
He wasn’t on a World Tour team yet. Uh, in fact, I don’t even know what team he rode for back
then. Yeah. On the front right now. 2 minutes 21 seconds. Alpas sitting on the front. Uh, and
it looks like there’s an Interar rider in second place with him. Uh, can I see any other jerseys
here? I can see Jasper. The Asper’s sixth or seventh back. Yellow jersey is easy to spot right
now. The sun is out, folks. Uh, I’m seeing flags on the side of the road, but people are waving
them around. So hard to tell if it’s windy or not here. Cruising along. So easy for these
guys. 53 54k an hour. Like that is so fast. Yeah, Tony here is reacting to
my comment about 300 km. Yeah, like it was insane how far like there’d be stages
back then would have three stages over 240, two at 250 and one at 270. Like that was just
the way it was and the longer time trials. They would have individual time trials that were 60 km
long. Let’s get back to the race here, guys. Uh, they’re not providing us much video feeds
right now. We’ll go to the comments here, see what we can see. Great question here. Uh,
sorry, great comment. Alfie says, “It can’t be worse than yesterday.” Dude, I think it could.
But yeah, he had a horrendous day yesterday. Uh, oh, it says the Frenchman’s struggling with
illness. He announced that he was t he was targeting stage two of the tour to France today,
but he’s sick right now. He finished 6 minutes 41 seconds behind yesterday. So now it’s just,
you know what, you could look at that though, too. The leaders are going to be like, “Oh,
it’s Alfie going up the road. Just let him go. He’s he’s almost 7 minutes behind.” When
these guys have catastrophic days like that, it can later lead to a chance to go up
the road. People will let you go away. Uh, so Alfa Phipe saying he thinks he’s got something
in his lungs. Oldest rider at the tour. Gee, Grant Thomas, 39 years old. There’s a
couple of guys that I think are right up at 38 39. They’re showing the workload in the
breakaway here. You can see it on screen. Uh, Federov doing 33% of the work, Brent Van Moore
doing 32, and Bruno Amarell 20%. That would mean that the Norwegian rider is doing not as much, but
I thought they all looked really well together. Oh, check this out. Uh, they are getting
close to a town. St. Paul Dinoisa, Brian Kakard won a stage there in
the four days of Dunkirk in 2016. Stick with that for now, guys. Okay. Uh first
climb of the day, first categorized climb is coming up. Someone could easily take
this jersey away today from uh Bentoma. Okay. Uh let’s go again. Vanderpole. Yeah, we’re there. Yeah, huge
stages. Uh Premdas Yasudan, we are following the tour from India. Hey dude, great to have
you here. Yeah, everyone just drop a comment where you’re from. I’ll remember this stuff.
May take me a while to bring it all in, but uh just let me know. Tensa is saying here, “Yeah,
bro. Bingium needs a better team.” You know, like that’s the hard part is setting up your
teams. Like Bingum, they need a better leadout train for Bingum. I can also say too that Remco
and I and it’s no disrespect to any of the riders. They just don’t have the salary uh the budget in
place to get all the key riders into support. Um, Remco needs more help in the mountains. He
had Michael Landa, Michael Landa. Uh, oh, they’re showing Lenny Martinez right now.
Finished absolutely dead last yesterday. 9 minutes 21 seconds back for the Frenchman. Just
very unfortunate for him. And I’m not sure if he’s sick. I haven’t seen anything about him. He just
looked like he had no energy yesterday. It looked like he was pedaling just absolutely bonked. Like
it didn’t seem like he was putting any effort into the pedals. So maybe just poor fueling. Uh thought
he was ready and just absolutely not. So yeah, it’s all about setting up that team right. And uh
Bingham could need some help on his workout train, his leadout train. But again guys, he won the
green jersey. He’s smart. Uh I don’t think he’s the fastest sprinter or developing the most
wattage, but he’s uh smart and he knows where to be at the right times. And that’s part of
being a great sprinter. You need to be in the right location at the right time. Front four
are climbing right now up another one of these punchy climbs out in the farm fields. 2 minutes
and 24 seconds. So it’s still sitting really uh stable here. their lead. Let’s get to the
chat again. Uh Colin Wittington asking, “What has happened to the Colombian riders? Bernal’s not
here.” I mean, that was the big thing. I thought Bernal was here. Let’s just go have a look at
that. Uh take a look at the teams in Grenaders. Why is Bernell not here? So, he
must be setting up for the VA. Uh, someone else asked me yesterday where how’s Del Toro doing? He’s not here
either. Strong team here though. Okay, Jonathan. Uh, yeah, it is
Jonathan. I want to check that. Narvec Ecuadorian. Richard Carropas.
He’s Ecuadorian as well. He’s not here. Uh other sorry guys, let’s get to live. Uh what was his name? Angel. I think he’s pretty
much out of pro racing for now. Uh used to be on Team Sky way back in the day. Oh, someone give
me his name, please. I think he got busted for doping for something and now I think he only rides
in Colombia. He’s an incredible Colombian climber, but uh Canana, where is he these days? If you know
the answer, let me know. David Fischer, hey David, uh Yonas is definitely being underpriced for
this tour. This is the first time he and Tatty have both gone in full power for the last two
years. I don’t think anyone can predict this one early. Dude, I agree 100%. Uh, after watching
Netflix and just some of my own thoughts, Yonas last year was not anywhere near peak form.
And just remember, he still got second place. Uh, Yonas has put on more muscle weight this year.
He’s stronger now. He was so frail and fragile for the last tour, 2024. He didn’t have any
explosive power. I’ve seen videos where he’s been working on his explosive attacks to counter
Tatty. Uh remember, Tatty’s never suffered an accident like that. He’s never gone through that
in his career yet. Uh whereas Yonas suffered a life-threatening crash, double collapsed lungs,
laying in a gutter, a cement gutter on the side of the road. There was like four or five riders in
this weird little cement gutter just piled up. Uh, and he said he could he didn’t think he could
breathe. He thought he he said he thought he was going to die there. Uh, and then people
expect him to win the tour that year. So, they’re actually showing some 2012 footage. The
last time I finished here belong and it looks like Oh, it’s Peter Sagar and he’s doing the run,
folks. This is when Peter’s doing this for leaky gas. Love it. Uh, yeah. So, David, you’re
100% right. This is going to be a different tour this year. I think Yonas will be back in
full form now. At least I believe he is. Uh, and I think a lot of people last year kind of
poo pooed him just because he lost a tour. Again, people like to say all the time, Tatty’s never
finished less than second place at the tour. And I and I’m I’ve did the research. Neither
has Yonas. Both those two have finished first or second at the Tour to France for the past five
years. That’s how it’s been. Yonas beat Tatty two years running. I think we have short-term memories
and we know Tatty’s the ultimate. Okay. Yeah, he’s having an incredible year, but I think
Yonas is more focused on I just want to win the tour to France. That’s all I care about.
Maybe that’s his style. We’ve covered 757 m of the 2522 we have to climb today. 2523 maybe.
I think the originally it said 2550 overall. See if I can get you guys any more updates
here. Yeah, still the same stuff. Social, let’s see what the data gives us.
What is this going to give us here? Oh, it’s just showing the breakaway social. Yep. Same stuff. Race is just riding very
stable right now. Uh you can see the windmills in the background. The big uh windmills,
wind turbines in the background. They’re blowing. There is some wind and the flags
on the side of the road are blowing here, folks. As we climb up this hill, where are
we on course? So this is the main pelaton here and they are facing some winds right now.
Inter Mare on the front. Alpasin again. Winds aren’t very strong though. It’s It says
on screen right now 6 kilometers an hour. Uh from it is a headwind though. So if these
winds pick up we might see something happen. Uh yeah. We sir Vanderpole psychos mountain biking.
He’s champion. Yeah. Incredible bike handling skills. So, in the wet, I would put my money on
him any day. The mud, the dirt. Uh, he’s just a beast. He’s so strong. Guys, we’re going up the
Myrr de Britannia again this year. It’s the same finish as when Matchu won it last time. One of the
greatest finishes ever in cycling. That’s when he uh attacked up the Murder Bratana. He got caught
over the top before the second ascent up the Mr. uh which I think is only a two kilometer climb,
but it’s steep. Uh he attacked again, got away, won the stage, so it’s not very often you’re going
to see that happen. They had him and they and he got away again. He’s so strong. Just those short,
steep, punchy climbs. You’re never going to see Vanderpole win the Aldoz or the Gibier or the
Hodokcom. He’s not winning any of those. These short ones though, he will blow Yonas out of the
water. Uh, Tatty is Tatty could hang. Tatty could hang, I think. Uh, having said that, Yonas has
been doing some different training this year. Okay. Uh, let me just read here. Tedros, go
Africa. Go Benny. Yes, dude. Savage Pro. Uh, ah, St. Lucer. Is that how you guys say it?
Lucer, is it really how you say it? Lucer. Uh, oh, Collins, uh, watching from Hong Kong. Good to
have you here, Colin. Any Colins’s a good Colin, right? We’ve got three Colins in this chat. We
got myself, Colin Whittington, and Colin Coats was here yesterday. I’m sure he’ll be here soon. 111
likes I’m seeing on screen. I know that’s a bit outdated. 200 riders watching right now, folks.
Uh, Wade saying, “Kounds like a dream cycle to me.” Wade, it was so fun. Like, basically me and a
friend, I was in grade 11 going into grade 12. He just graduated. We’re like, what are we going to
do this summer? Okay, guys. I’m seeing something at the front here I want to take a look at. I’m
seeing a bit of a break here. We’ve got a split at the front. It hasn’t shown up on race commentary
yet. Uh why are these riders showing split? Lechnes’s out the back. Is that what’s going on?
Okay, this is really strange. They got four riders in this group and then they’ve got Lchneson behind
them. Very strange. I don’t think that’s correct. Uh there’s some weird data going on there,
folks. Cuz that’s actually showing a break. Uh I wonder if he was a bit separated and now
he’s came back or ah he’s got a mechanical. He’s having a mechanical right now. So my stream
on TV about 1 minute behind. Someone patted him on the back and looks like he’s calling for
the team car now. He put his hand up and he was bouncing on his bike a little bit. Let’s keep an
eye on that one, too. Let’s just jump back here. Yeah, they’re not they’re really not giving us a
lot of videos, are they? Maybe that’ll be later. Uh going to be hitting a flat section coming up.
Actually, it is showing now the lead group. Yeah, they’re just not showing it well. They’ve got a
lead group of four. Uh he’s doing his bike change now. Uh he’s there is a gap back to him. So,
he was calling for the team car. The road is so narrow here. Uh, this is going to be some sketchy
racing later. It’s basically 1.5 cars wide, the road, the entire road. So, when he stopped,
no one could get going by him. Race director car coming to the front now, right behind him.
So, he’s just lost 30 seconds. Hopefully, he gets back on. I again, if I was those
guys up front, I’d be like, “Okay, guys, dial it down 10%. Let’s let him get back
on. We need this guy. We need the firepower. Uh yeah. So, wait. It was a It was a 700 km
camping trip. We had no idea what we were doing. I had a triple cassette. It was It was called a
Miata touring bike. I think it was called a Miata 610, I believe. Ugly. It was brown, but it was
a great touring bike. I had racks on the front and the back. We had our tents. We just started
riding. So, we rode from Calgary to BA. Day one, day two, I don’t even know where we got
to, but yeah, it was so much fun. Uh, we had no money. Uh, lot of fun. People, we’d be
at campgrounds, people would bring us food. Again, those mountains through the Rockies here, the
sketchiest roads you’ve ever seen. I look back at some of the places we rode years after,
I’m like, how did we ride our bikes here? So dangerous. We put our lives on the line. Uh, and
I kind of think the cars would have a hard time avoiding us. Basically, if we got hit, it would
probably be our fault. There’s nowhere for the cars to go either. It’s so narrow. Uh, it’s all
been fixed now. Is beautiful through there now. Maybe I should think about doing it again. Uh,
okay. Here’s a good comment. Lori Bose. Hey, Lori. I worked at a park where Steve Bower
started his bike tours, taking tours to see local wineries. That might be where I got hooked
on the yellow jerseys. Yeah, Steve Bower. What a Canadian champion. Uh part of the I think Steve
Yeah, Steve was part of the Lavy Claire team in uh 86. Steve’s worn the yellow jersey, superstar
champion. Uh I would say, okay, Derek G might be taking the crown eventually, but Steve Bower has
been the most successful Canadian cyclist to date at World Tour level. Uh there is a lot of good
Canadian cyclists. Not really our sport here. it’s not promoted like here in Canada when you’re
four years old, you’re given a hockey stick and you learn to skate and uh minor league start stuff
starts early early. Little kids playing hockey. That’s why Canada is so popular, so powerful
at hockey. It’s not cycling. Uh interar on the front still up there. Roads are dry now, folks.
The sun is out. 56 km an hour. Let’s go, boys. Lechnesend is slowly working his way back. He’s
got the gap down to under 20 seconds. Wish they show a video of that. Uh let’s see if I can do a
refresh of this and maybe get it to show. Average speed after 2 hours is 43.2k an hour. Uh brutal.
Yeah, this is right here. Le Andreas Lechnesend is making his way back to the front three. He did
have a puncture. So, he had a slow puncture and I saw one of the other riders, I think it was
Van Moore, uh, patting him on the back like saying something to him like, “Okay, man, call
your car. We’ll hold up and get you back in.” Yeah, he’s pulling. Remember, this
is the Norwegian champion. This is a great fourman breakaway here. Really
cool seeing this. See the break here. Here’s our riders. Lechnison will be back on.
I’m not sure why it’s showing them back on. Uh, at least they’ve gotten rid of
that second one. Oh, guys. Oh, we got something going on here.
Vanderpole is out the back. Okay. I’ve heard nothing from race. The race
feed is not showing anything here. Okay. So, it looks like there’s a big cluster
of riders. Tunisan, Russo, Vanderpole, Rickart, uh Ed I think it’s Eduardo Afini,
uh Brian Kard, Linhardt, Dylan Toys, uh Van Djk, Eddie Dunar, Romeo Abad. There’s a
bunch of riders who look like they’re dangling in the cars at the back. Uh so probably all
just going back. Let’s take a look at that map. See if we can see that. So here’s our
leaders. They’re not even showing it. So, they’re all so close. I’m sure it’s just
Vanderpole going back getting a drink. Actually, they’re showing Brian Kard right now. Uh, I
don’t see any torn jerseys. No one looks hurt. Okay, they’re working their way back now. I’m
looking to see if there’s going to be a split on TV here. Yeah, there’s a string of like 10
to 12 riders doing a lot of chasing. Something happened and it wasn’t shown. Soon as I find out,
I’ll let you guys know. So, yep, there’s Yeah, a good 12 riders here all strung out chasing one
car. So, it looks like right now they’re Wow, they’re like 30 seconds behind uh the main
Pelaton. So, I’m not sure why that’s not showing it right here. Let’s have a little look.
Okay, so Lechnesend is now back at the front. Yeah, Lchnes is now back with the main group.
Four riders strong up front. I’m sure for a little while here. Yeah, Lchnes sitting on the
back. What they do at this point here, folks, is uh the front three riders know Lchnesend has just
been driving himself into the ground to get back on. Uh they’ll probably give him a little bit
of a break. Maybe let him skip a turn or two. Tim Merier is uh chasing the race director’s
car here. know if he’s had another mechanical actually looks like he’s got bottles stuffed down
his jersey. So maybe he just went back for drinks. Uh and it’s still showing a 30 second gap to that
Vanderpole group. How is Vanderpole back there? Uh if there’s anyone that’s going to get back on,
it’s going to be Machu Vanderpole. Let’s just wait to see what the commentary says here. It’s not
showing up on screen, but they are back there. Okay, what we’ll do is we’ll catch up
in the chat here quickly. More coffee Disneyland mug we got a few years back
2018 we went to Disneyland. Uh yeah, so Lori here talking about Steve Bower. Yeah,
that guy was so good. That’s what I grew up with cycling. That is how I grew up with cycling. Uh
that Lavi Clair team, Steve Bower, Bernardi No, Greg Lamont, Andy Hamston. That’s just the start.
All superstars. Uh Don Don uh he teaches and is a librarian at a middle school in Pennsylvania.
That’s cool. Don uh just started riding to compliment my swimming as I do as I do both
swimming and biking. So Don lifelong cycling fan or just getting into cycling now because
I thought about this yesterday after I did the live stream. So in my brain everyone does what I
do for some reason. I’m gonna talk to the camera. I always think that you guys do exactly what I do.
In my mind, you guys all have bikes inside like I do and you’re all doing inside cycle. I’m like,
“Wait a second. Wait a second. That’s probably the smallest group of people that are watching
because uh basically I so I graduated in ’87, did some crappy jobs for 5 years, went back to
school, got a BSE in geology, started working 97. In 97, I quit riding bikes. I remember I was
I was that guy that would ride a bike all the time. Dead of winter, minus 30 degrees Celsius.
Uh started riding my bike to work. I had a real job now. I was a geologist and there was a week
where I had so many flats. I was late to work, late getting home. It was a nightmare. I parked
my bike and said, “I don’t want to ride it anymore because I was stressed out about being late for
work.” Uh, probably should just fix my bike, right? Started my career, family stuff, kids, all
that jazz. This is a common story. Then you get to your late 40s and you go, “Huh, I’m out of shape.
I want” and you start riding your bike again. I’ve heard that story so many times. I’m that story.
Uh, I only got back on the bike in 2017 and I love it. I’m hardcore on it. I rode outside a lot.
uh did big bike rides outside. Winters came. What do I do now? Well, they have inside cycling.
Zift, Ruby, my whoosh is a new one. Bike Terra is a new one. Uh Training Peaks Virtual, all cycling
simulators inside the safety comfort of your home. It’s efficient. It’s safe. Uh that’s how I started
my channel. But I realized during that time I didn’t ride bikes. I still watch the tour every
stage. Uh way back when when Outdoor Life Network had it and the Discovery Channel had it during
the Lance era uh the US Postal Area if we can call it that. I watched every stage. So, a lot of
you guys are just cycling fans and that’s great. I think the majority of you are. So, uh looks like
Dawn’s just getting into biking now. Don, what kind of bike you riding? Um do you plan to do any
inside training? I mean, the winter Pennsylvania gets kind of cold in the winter. Check out the
commentary here and these splits. Finish line still 120k away, guys. First climb of the day is
coming up. Uh we are looking at Santiago Braago. He looks like he’s got a bit of a mechanical
mechanic leaning out right now. It’s derailure. Probably had a little bump of something. Maybe
it’s not getting into all the gears he wants. Yeah, he’s absolutely fine. Just having
a quick adjustment. Not pedaling at all either. I guess he doesn’t have to right
now. Right behind the tour director’s car. Still moving at nice speed. Uh so yeah, Don,
let me know what you’re riding. So inside I ride a Cyclacross bike. I also have a Serell
S3. That’s kind of like my fast aerobike. uh all Altegra Di2, so electronic shifting. And
uh I also have a look TT bike, which is probably my favorite bike because it’s the coolest.
Uh and if you guys remember way back when uh the team credi, Thor Hooch, however
you say his name, the Norwegian stud, uh Crey Agricol used the exact same bike that
I have now. Uh, and the guy I got it from, he has it tricked out. Like, it’s full
Jura Ace on it. It is only mechanical, but it’s good enough. Big gears on it, too. And
TT bike, right? Super slick, super arrow. Um, the first time I rode it, it’s way faster than
my new Survello S3. It’s just the position on the bike. Uh, okay. So, Don’s Yeah, Don’s
in Pennsylvania. He’s a librarian. just read a great Stephen King story about uh No, it was
actually Joe Hill story about about a librarian. Uh listen to a lot of audio books, guys. I’m
on a huge I’ve listened I’m listening to all the horror stuff that’s out there. Okay.
Uh let’s get back to it. Uh Wade saying, “Hey, when down in South Africa, you
should do the Cape Argus cycle tour, which is 109 kilometers.”
Oo, I don’t know that one. Okay. Uh oh, I just lost that. I gotta get back
up there. Oh, you guys. Uh, Savage Pro high school. A few classmates urged me to go on for
a long Sunday morning ride. Slept all day during classes next day. Yeah, I hear it, man. Got bike
bitten for life. He has a flat handlebar bike. So, I think just straight handlebar kind of more of
an upright. Probably like more like a hybrid, I would say. Uh, yeah, dude. You don’t really
even some of my training rides I do inside. There’s certain ones I do where I’m like, “Oh,
I realize I’m like, it’s nap time. I have to lay down. I don’t really sleep a lot. Uh,
I need to just lay down, close my eyes, watch some YouTube, watch great uh cycling videos.
I’m always on YouTube. It’s the only place I’m at, guys. Still great. Uh, loving the likes. Got 114
likes right now. 200 people still watching this baby. Uh, love it. Thank you so much, Savage Pro.
Great story. So, went on one long bike ride and then was just destroyed the next day at school. At
least you had a good reason. Uh David Fischer uh from Manchester, UK fell in love with cycling for
fun in 2010. Wasn’t really into watching and then randomly spent uh half a day watching World Champs
when Ella Philippe won and something clicked. Yeah, dude. That’s all that happens, right? It’s
amazing once you kind of learn what cycling’s all about because I have people too like, “Well, I
don’t know what’s going on.” I’m like, “Well, you just got to watch it and learn the story.”
It’s kind of a story that unfolds before you, like a 3-week uh stage race. You watch it and you
start learning who the cyclists are. You learn why so and so is doing this. Why is that guy going
back to get a bottle? Why does he have to haul the bottles for people? Cuz he has to. That’s
his job. Uh they’re focusing on Pogy right now. He’s looking good. completely surrounded by the
entire UAE team. Yao Almeida sitting right behind him. That dude Yao Almeida, he needs his own team.
Yonas and Vizma are riding directly ahead of UAE. I think I could just see this year right now. Uh
Yonas looks more confident. Did notice here too, Yonas is wearing a different helmet from the
rest of the team. It is red and white. Is that for Denmark? Alpason is the team sitting on
the front though with a smattering of Interar riders. So Inter Mar still feels comfortable that
they can do something today and obviously Alpison does too. Uh I think we have Matthew on the front
right now. I think let’s see if that gap now I’m not seeing any gaps anymore. Uh what I’ll do is go
to the live tracking here. So there was a 30-cond gap. I think it’s all been shut down now. So, it
could have been just a narrowing of the roads. Uh people getting all their gear at the exact same
time and they’re working their way back together. Let’s jump out of that. So, 2 minutes
22 seconds, guys. It’s been that for 100 kilometers now. We’re just getting to the
halfway point of the race. First hill points are coming up for the day. Only one point. 60%
of the work right now has been done by Alpasin, 40% by Inter Mare. The only two teams that
have been on the front today. Like literally, there’s been no one else up there. So, this is
very similar to yesterday. Two teams doing all the work. Uh it’ll start changing soon. I think
we’re at the point of the race now where it’s going to start getting a little bit more serious.
Uh yeah. Uh David, great story. So something like so he’s been he’s been a cycling fan now for 15
years. Uh we got [ __ ] here cheering on Benny. Uh okay. So uh looks like Cot. Okay. I’m not sure
how you say this. Kot Brin Cot Brin. Uh and I like this. I appreciate your efforts to pronounce the
name. Shows a lot of respect. Thank you. I’m Euro dude. I try my best to say their names right. Uh
sometimes I just, you know, I’m looking at them and I’m looking at something else. And again,
guys, just so you remember, if you’re new here, I’ve got three monitors going at once here. So,
I’m looking at a stream right now, one of the riders is passing back a small mini Coke, one
of the bar rain riders, back to the team car. Actually, it might have been the You know what it
was? He just passed his mini Coke. You know those tiny little Cokes you can get? I would never drink
one of those cuz I need about five of them. Uh he just passed it to the cameraman on the motorbike.
He passed it back to him and gave him a thumbs up. Look here. Thanks for taking my garbage.
They’re a lot stricter now as to where you can dump your garbage, which is great. Uh in the old
days, guys were just throwing stuff everywhere. Like just everywhere. And you got to think they’re
throwing stuff out that’s in people’s front yards. uh you know out in the countryside where there’s
animals. So, I’m glad they have like designated dump spots now, but if not, you’ll see a lot
uh they’ll hand it off to a cam car. I’ve even seen them hand garbage off to the race director’s
car and they’ll take it. Okay, looks like we got a flat here. Is this Brian Kard? This might be.
If it is, he said uh Alexis Radard off his bike. Wow. There’s something strange, like a long wire
hanging off his handlebars. Hopefully, we get back to that. They’re showing a replay right now. Oh,
he crashed hard into the side of the road. Looks like a touch of wheels, roads narrow, and he
just got bumped out, guys. Uh, he’s working his way on now. There was something weird hanging
off his handlebars. It’s gone now. Must have just been some road debris. Uh, that might get a video
eventually. Trying to refresh this because I don’t like they’re giving us very few videos today.
See what the commentary says. Uh yeah, just yeah, just right here, guys. I’m seeing it before they
are uh 100 km into the stage at and it’s posted at 1509 and here we are at 710. 1 minute difference.
Alexis Renard confides just went down. Quickly gets back up. The writers are about to face
the Kot de Cavon St. Martan. Gap is still 220 with our fourman breakaway group at the front.
Armarel, Fedorov, Van Moore, and Lechnesand. It looks like the winds are
picking up a little bit here, riders. I think the winds are starting to pick
up now. That’s what I’m seeing. Uh yeah. So, the winds before were like four, five, 6k an
hour. Now, we’re getting some 20 km an hour gusts. Oo, this is going to get interesting. This
is going to get really interesting. They’re coming from the west here. So, right now, it’s a
straight-on headwind. If you look at my map here, I’ll try to zoom in a little bit. Here’s Cavon
St. Martan. So, the climb is actually up the road here. It’s named after this town. Uh, group one,
that’s our fourman breakaway. Right now, they’re basically heading. It’s a headwind in. So, harder
riding, but not scary. Once they start turning this way, there will start being some crosswind
effect. These four are fine together. It’s the Pelaton that’s going to struggle on these narrow
roads. There may not be enough shelter to hide behind riders and then Echelon starts. Uh, okay
guys. So, let’s just jump back here. I thought we might have a video of that crash. I mean, do we
need to see everyone crash? Yeah, kind of. Yeah, I want to see it. I just want to see what happened.
Do I hope they’re going to crash? Absolutely not. Uh, okay. There’s Van Art saying something here,
guys. I’m going to try to show you this. Uh, no volume here, so I’m not sure how I’m
going to do that. Boat’s talking about the last 10 kilometers, how hard it’s going to be. And this is from the Church of France site. Oh, we can go full screen here. So,
this is before the beginning of the stage. You can see there’s riders in the
background getting interview as well. Like, this is such an operation. The tour
to France. It’s the biggest thing. Uh, I’ve seen incredible numbers for looks like there
was an arc, a B&B rider there beside Vout. And this guy’s a super cool dude. Nice hair. He’s got
very nice hair. I got to say that myself. Yeah, we’re going to just jump out of that, guys. I want
to watch the race. Looks like we’ve got another rider having a mechanical here. Oh, it’s Alex
Renard again. Looks like he’s having a problem with his shoe. I want to stick around now and
watch the coat here. Coat Caval St. Martan. So, he’s actually behind his team car right now
working his way back up. I think they’ll be like, “Fine, just get back in, dude. get back in.
They’ll let you get away with doing a little bit of team car drafting if you’ve had like a bad
mechanical or a bad crash. Uh it’s kind of like, “Okay, man. You’re not just tired. You’re not
just abusing the system. Get your way back in.” Uh, okay. Let’s go here. Yeah. So, Cot
Cot, I’m going to say Cot Brnee. Uh, dude, thank you for watching. Hey, where are you from?
Swoosh kid back. Uh, yo, Danny Martinez. Yeah, not here either. Bora hands grow. Yeah, Laca Colombia
is this year. Uh, Tony C saying there’s a wheel change. Yep, stave 2 is live now, guys. It is live
now. Okay. Uh, lots more comments here. Thanks, guys. Um, Wade Sings, watch the Lance Armstrong
movie and documentary. So many so much good stuff about Lance. Say what you want to say about
Lance, he was a good champion at the time. Uh, very cocky. He was really good and the battles
with him and Yan Olri back then and Pontani, the Pontani book is really good, too. The Yan Olri
book’s really good. I just did that one, I think last summer. Uh, there’s a ton of really good
cycling documentaries out there. Uh, okay. So FOD Walker, yes, I love which uh so I think FOD saying
just cycling fan loves watching it. Going to the tour of Francis here. He’s going to be attending
stage four, the Dunkerk stage. That’s going to be a brutally fast stage. Uh Jeff here, Jeff, I’m
going to say Leil or maybe it’s Lyles. He’s saying mechanical is better. Dude, I don’t disagree with
you. Uh I love my uh Di2, but mechanical works just as good. Uh, you just got to maintain it a
little bit more. Like once you get DI2 dialed in, perfection. Uh, mechanical shifts just as well.
Shifts just as fast. Uh, maybe needs a little bit more care. Not much though. I mean, Yonick didn’t
have Di2. Lance Armstrong didn’t have Di2. They purely mechanical. Uh, and they’re just a little
bit better than we are. Let’s just case closed. Uh Emma saying Argus is the best cycle.
Insanely beautiful. I’ll have to look them up. Fod saying bikes are a money pit. Do you agree?
Yeah, dude. I do agree. Like uh my Cello S3. Uh it came with some really nice Envy wheels on
it and I got like it’s it’s a bike I bought from a local shop, a really really nice shop. Uh
they have so many good brands at the shop. It’s local. It’s half an hour from me. The best bike
shop I know that I know of maybe in Alberta. Uh it’s the only I believe it’s the only Panorello
dealer in Alberta. Uh Felt. What else do they have there? I don’t know if they carry Look,
they have everything. Like the Specializ is low-end frame there. Uh but yeah, the wheel set
alone on my bike was like three grand just for the carbon wheels. And then I think the bike was
6 a half thousand. Uh and I I don’t even ride it. I I I ride this psycho bike all the time. They
are money pits, but I love it. I love the tech. Uh okay. So that was FOD. So trale is is the stage
stream live that you can watch. Dude, I’m watching this the stage right now. So I have it set up on
a screen over here. They’re climbing right now. The four dudes are climbing. Uh the lotto rider is
on the front. Is that Van Moore? Yeah, that’s Fan Moore is on the front. Van Moore is pushing up the
front here. This rider is in the yellow jersey. We could see a new yellow jersey today for one of
what I would say is the smaller teams now. The lotto rider. Decathlon rider, Bruno Armarel going
to the front doing his turn. These guys are all working so well together here. Go up the live
tracking. You’re going to see where they are. Okay, so that’s the climb that they’re on right
now. Remember, my feed is slightly delayed here. Uh, and right now it’s a 2 minutes and 32 second
gap. I think it’s going to go to two. Actually, it’s going up to 240. 8% gradient here. Four
riders all sticking together. I I don’t think anyone in this group of four wants to lose any
of the other riders yet. There’s a ch. So, So, you’re saying there’s a chance? You’re saying
there’s a chance? Uh there’s a chance these guys could stay away. I think this is fantastic.
Uh okay, so it’s about 240 back to the Pelaton. Back of the Pelaton. We got some action back here.
Eddie Dunar off the back again. Again, this could be just uh him going back to a team car. It does
say he’s about 30 seconds back. So that sounds like a team car visit. There is a sprint going
over the top. Oh, Broom uh Brent Van Moore. Oh, the Norwegian champion coming over his shoulder
now. I think Lechnes will get the point. So, a nice little battle there between the Norwegian
champion and the Belgian rider. I think Lechnes got it. Uh, condolences to Brett Van Moore, but
he does have the virtual yellow jersey. Guys, three more climbing points on the stage today.
That means Brent Andreas Lechnesend will get one point. riding a nice Ridley bike here.
Gold and black frame sets. Brent had it, but that Uno X rider just came over the top
here on the lefth hand side. Lots of people out watching the race here, folks. Caught him just
before the finish. Uh, a lot better than the crash that we saw yesterday. Guys, thank you for all
the likes and thank you for everyone watching here. They’re all regrouping now at the front.
Four riders back together. Handshakes all around. The Pelaton is on the same climb now
behind them. Let’s see what the gap is. I really wish they show us more videos here. Okay,
I do see that break here now. So, here you can see uh this should be Eddie Dunar right here. So, for
some reason some reason off the back I’m going to guess Oh, is this him right here? Yeah, Eddie
Dunar. He did have a bike change at the base of the climb. That’s why that 30 seconds grew so
quick. Ah, okay. That’s what’s going on here. So, Jacco Alula here. Team JCO Alula out of Australia.
Eddie Dunar, the Irish rider off the back by himself. Uh, kind of unfortunate to have it happen
right there. So, he’s completely solo taking on that small climb. Let’s head on back here. First
100 km, they did it at 43k an hour average. And we do have confir confirmation here.
Lechnes takes the K point. Remember, there’s only one point here. Uh, category
3. I’m not sure how they break them out. I think there might be 321. Is that right?
Maybe it’s only two in one. We’re going to find out real quick. Bruno opened up the
sprint, which he did yesterday, too. Uh, Brent Fmore pass him. Andreas Lensson
came around within the last 15 20 meters. Fedorov was pushing hard up the stretch there.
Uh let’s take a look, guys. Here’s a video I can show you guys. Uh this is good to see here. As
they’re saying here, they’re never that far from each other. Here’s Pogy. I saw this earlier
with Yo Ala right behind him. Just up a few riders. There’s Yonas. And that’s where I saw
his different colored helmets. I thought red and white Denmark maybe. Uh maybe it’s something
like that. They’re very very close together. Uh, okay. This here that you’re seeing on
screen right now, this is an image. And I just mentioned his bike, too. He’s got a really
nice looking bike. This is Andreas Lechnesend, uh, who just got the the KM points over the top
there on that Ridley bike. It’s kind of a goldy black color. Really nice. Norwegian champion
right here, folks. Back to the commentary. So, I’m going to show you where we are again.
And so, guys, they’ve done the climb. I jump back to my live stream. They’re still climbing
because there’s climb after climb here. So, they’ve gone over the official uh point of
the day for the the first point of the day, even though they’ve been climbing all day
long. Uh, and now they’re on another one. I’ll try to get that video ready for you here. If
you look at where the caravan is on screen right now, uh you can see it here on the map. That
route I was telling you about on the virtual cycling platform starts right around there.
That’s around 30 km to the finish. Uh so I’ll try to get that on. I I don’t want to mess
the stream up. Again, I understand not the majority of you are that really that interested
in it. I just It’s hardcore cycling fans here, folks. Hardcore cycling fans. Says 120 likes right
now. Thank you very much. We hit 144 yesterday, guys. 145 is the goal. Let’s just do one
better. One better. Uh, I want to get caught up with the chat. Wade saying, “Bikes
are really expensive now.” And it is. Yeah, you could spend a lot of money on a bike. Uh, I
love these look bikes, these 795s. Honestly, you can get yourself a really good used bike. When I
got back into cycling in 2017, worked in downtown Calgary when I was still an employed geologist.
Uh I bought a villier from a dude uh an Isuard. It was the full speed ahead one. So all the brakes
were painted and the cranks were painted. It was really pretty. Uh I picked that up I think
for 1,100 bucks. All altegra used. The story, this is a story you hear a lot. Yeah. Me and
my wife got matching bikes and thought we’d get into cycling, but it was too hard. Those are the
guys you want to buy your bikes from. those guys, they have it sitting around. Six, seven years
later, they sell it for nothing. I mean, 1,100 bucks for that bike. All Altegra mechanical. Uh,
didn’t have the best rims on it, but that’s who cares. You’re not going to be that much faster.
Uh, great bike. Great bike. Buying new bikes, unless you got a lot of money just burning a
hole in your pocket, it’s kind of dumb. Okay. So, okay. So, Wade’s saying here his Fuji. Ah,
that’s right. He rides a Fuji. A triple cassette 27 speed 3×9. Uh, cost him Oh, I don’t know.
I’m trying to figure this out. Is that Wait, you’re going to have to explain it to me. You got
uh US dollars here and you’ve got uh is it the rand? Do you guys use the rand there? Is that
what they call it? 4,500 rand. Is that right? It looks like it’s $255. Is that right? If so,
that’s a great deal. Oh, we’ve got a crash, folks. There’s a crash on one of the later
climbs. I’m seeing two Total Energies riders here. Bing victorious Kofides rider. They
crashed kind of going on a slightly uphill, maybe just a 3% uphill there. Uh, let’s see if
the race commentary has caught that before me. Oo, there are some drop riders. It’s happening
again, folks. So, yeah, they haven’t even posted it yet. So, there is a crash coming up. We’re
going to find out about. I’ll give you details on who that is right away. Uh, what I am seeing here,
though, is the front four. They’re climbing right now. They’re on a 7% climb right now, even though
it’s not showing up as a again, they’re climbing, but no points for these climbs. 2 minutes 31
seconds to the Pelaton. Hasn’t changed all day. Uh, okay. Here’s the total energy riders. It’s not
Turjis because he is in the green jersey today. It’s rider 186 and rider 188. Remember, these guys
are going to be merging with Inos next year. Uh, then we’ve got another JCO Alula rider here.
Is this Eddie Dunar? And he’s kind of caught up and is with them now. Rider 122. Can’t
tell. Uh, bike change back here for the Bahrain. Victorious rider, Fred Wright. Okay,
so we’re going to get to know Fred. Uh, so yeah, 2:30 back to the Pelaton. A further 22 seconds
back, we have uh Total Energy Rider, Jagat, Eddie Dunar, and Ver Oh, it’s Vir. These are
the three I’m watching right now. There was two Total Energy Riders and a JC Alulu rider. That’s
Eddie Dunar. I just saw them on screen together. Uh but further back we’ve got Fred Wright all by
himself for team B victorious. Looks like it took a while for him to get going. He’s a further two
minutes behind those guys. 4 minutes 50 seconds behind overall. Come on, Fred. Get with get in
there, dude. Let’s just go, buddy. You can bring it back again. Perfect. Here, too. It’s showing
me the stats on screen. We are on a 3% grade. I could see it was a grade, not much, but it wasn’t
flat. Dude, get back in there. He’s talking to the camera right now. Love to know what he’s saying.
He wants to get a little bit of time behind some cars to get himself back into the race if he can.
You’re spending too much time with me. I am.
Okay. So, I’m just getting from the commentators for Flow Bikes. Uh, that rider there, Fred Wright,
looks like a cool dude and I hope he gets back in. I’m really rooting for him. I love seeing
these guys make it back. Alison on the front. He was telling the um Oh, do we have more riders
back there? Yeah, we do. There’s more riders back there. We’ve got uh Elvin Eatfeld, Jay Drizzers,
and I think this is Eduardo Sepda from Argentina. Uh but Fred Wright there was telling the camera
bike, “Uh, you’re spending too much time on me.” And the commentator said that’s cuz he wants to
get in the team cars and get a little bit of a draft back to the front. And that’s okay with me.
It’s fair is fair. Everyone does it. We are seeing three. Is this Kofides or Arca? It’s red jerseys
all riding together here behind the race officials car. Uh guys, I’m going to go to the live tracking
here. There’s some splits happening here. You can see it now. So, this is the main pelaton group
three. This is the two total energies riders and Eddie Dunar. Then we got group four which is only
showing as uh the three lotto riders. So yeah. So the lot of sud not Sudal just lotto. They used
to be the same team way back when on their oro bikes here trying to work together to get back
on. So they must have I’m guessing that these three were riding together. Touch of wheels. They
kind of took each other down. Uh Arnold De’s team. Okay. I know earlier today DeLe said this is my
kind of day. I love this weather. Uh Fred Wright, we’re going to be watching to see where he is
cuz I think he’s back here somewhere with them riding solo. So I hope he gets back with them
real quick. Let’s just back out of there again. See if we got anything. Show your videos. Same
videos before, guys. Let’s get a little feed from uh Total Energies here. Uh was just a voice
one here. That’s okay. And I’ll show you the uh first climb of the day again. You see it taking
off here. Uh Van Moore had a really nice lead, but uh Andreas Lechneson just comes over the
left side and takes him out here. Again, all that for one point. They did regroup right after
that. They’re currently riding together right now. Uh let’s get back to this map here. I’m going
to do a little bit of a zoom in. See if we can see some more action here. So again, you can see
it that category 4 behind us. The leaders at the front, they’re taking on another climb right now.
Uh, in fact, it’s a 9% gradient just back down to 5%. Guys, you can see all that data just like I
can. So, if you want to follow along right here, this is why it’s called a watch party, right?
We’re all watching the same thing. Uh, we still haven’t even covered half of the elevation gain
yet today. Now, this is the first time I’m seeing the gap coming down a little bit. We’re under
220 right now. So, starting to bring them back. I see the three uh lotto riders together. I think
there’s a fourth lot rider just ahead of them. So, I think Lotto here is making sure that they get
one of these riders back to the front. One rider has lost his number off his jersey. Uh, I’m sure
that might be it just came off when they were taking their rain jackets off. Actually, I think
his rain his number is stuffed in the back of his pocket here. Okay, this is cool to see. So, here’s
Fred Wright. He wasn’t showing up. He’s now on screen with those three uh lotto riders. So, he’s
going to get some help here from them. Another touch of wheels up front for another barrain
rider, Robert Stannard. Bahrain victorious here. Uh, Australian rider. Yeah, guys, I can
count the stars now. Six for Australia, four for New Zealand. New Zealand’s a reds. Uh,
no problem for Standard. He’s right back in. Okay, let’s jump to the chat,
guys. Jump into the chat. Uh, Tony C saying, “Yeah, less videos
today. Maybe helic.” Yeah, good idea, Tony. That’s a good idea. Uh Tony saying maybe
there’s less video feeds from the turtle. So I can only show you what they’re showing me, guys.
Uh helicopters might have been grounded due to the weather. And if you ever really watch the
tour, it’s incredible to see it when they’ll be going through some farmland and you’ll
see on the side of the road in a farmer’s field like 10 helicopters parked there.
Like all the coverage they’re providing, the guests, the celebrities that are
coming out. It is massive endeavor. Okay, riders making their way
back on under 100K, guys. Um, oh, this is great. David Fisher, you sound
just like me. Currently watching the race, this watch party and doing a short swift session.
I might have a cycling problem. No, no, no, dude. You got the best addiction going. The first
step is admitting it. Yeah, dude. Just admit it, dude. Think what else you could be doing. You
know, like cycling is one of those things where it’s uh I’d say when you’re into it, you’re really
into it. And I’ve always been a true believer of doing everything like 150%. And I always hate
when people say that you can only do it 100, but I just dive into everything I do deep.
So, for those of you that don’t know me, uh my previous passion was sled dogs. I used to
run a full sled dog team. I used to race. Uh, and when I say I had a full team when I decided to get
out of dogs in 2018, I think I told you earlier, uh, I got back into cycling in 2017. So, I think
that was kind of like my the cycling took over and I realized I wasn’t doing enough with the dogs.
So, within Oh, wow. Within eight months, I was out of dogs. Cycling just reignited my passion. I’d
done sled dogs for 20 years. uh from actually from 97. I started that when I finished university
right to 2018 uh did a ton of racing across Western Canada. So much training of the dogs every
day training them, taking care of them. But when I got out of dogs in 2018, I had 52 dogs in my
backyard. Obviously, I don’t live in town. I live way out in the country. Uh but again, I could have
had six or eight dogs, but no, I go in full boore. Uh so yeah, David, no problems. I fully
understand. Really cool to hear you’re riding Zift. I ride Zift, too. So yesterday I did
the uh route of the week. Love that for getting some bonus XP. The day before that I did the M de
Britannia. Uh so guys, if you don’t know what Zift is, it’s a cycling platform. I love it. Uh and
they have a climbing portal on there, which means you can climb uh certain clims from the tour. And
this year we got the Murder Bratannia which is coming up in a few stages I believe. And uh the
other one is it’s a long name. It’s the call to something to something uh St. St. Roberts. They’re
they probably say St. Robert. Uh oh. Someone on Tudor they they nickname him Lulu. I wonder who
that is. Okay. The cameraman on the motorbike here almost hit the back of the twodoor race team car.
Uh, so yeah, dude. Uh, I’m probably going to Zift today. So I I ride Ruby and Zift. I usually do my
Ruby rides early in the week, Zift rides later. Uh, and David, just so you know, if you’re in the
Zift mix, I think I’m on a 35 week streak right now. Uh, I’m not super high level on Zift because
I split time between Zift, Ruby, and I’ve been riding by Terra. I was riding my whoosh. Uh, so
I’m kind of leveling up just slow in all of them. So I’m I think I’m just hitting level 50 on Zift
right now. Uh, but yeah, it’s a great addiction to have. 124 likes, guys. Thank you very much. Tony
C says he’s talking to David here. He said, “The second step is ignoring the problem and just keep
doing it.” That’s right, bro. Just keep doing it. There’s a lot worse things you could be doing. Uh,
and Wade’s saying, “Sounds like an awesome problem to have.” Great. I love seeing the interaction
between you guys and my uh, live chat here. Yeah, all the writers are back together now
from Tony. Uh, okay. Here’s a new guy. Uh, James Delara. Hey, James. Nice to see you
here. Watching from Corsica on France, too, but listen to you. Hey, thanks, dude. Thanks,
Corsa. What a cool place. Uh, I love geography, guys. Even though I’m a geologist, I love
geography. Uh I always remember in school too there was the people taking geography and then
the people taking the science, the ge the geology cuz geography is more of a social science I would
say. Sorry, more of a soft science. Uh but still love it. But Corsica and Sardinia there right off
the coast of like Italy and France. Uh like such cool places. How do you get there? I live like
in the prairies here. I’d love to get to Europe. Just watching Lipon Lipoitz right now for Bora
Hanss grow. Oh, his jacket’s going to fall out of the back of his jersey. He’s struggling with
it. It just popped up and it’s going to fall out. Uh I love watching stuff like this. Let’s see if
we can get some more videos here for you guys. Okay, here’s a good question. Who in the Pelaton
has won the most Tour to France stages in the Pelon? Tatty 17 victories. That’s good to
know. Uh, and now they’re talking about tire pressure. Ah, they’re talking in bar. That
throws me off. I think that’s UK talk. Uh, five to six bar in the rain. I have no idea what
that is in PSI. Remember the good old days, guys, when I was riding way back when? So, it would have
been probably like 89 90. I did some track racing. I did that for two seasons. It was more just part
of a track club, but we did have race nights. We’d have our tires like at 120, 130 p PSI, and we’re
talking 18 mil wide tires. That’s the way it was. Now it’s completely different, guys, on the front
right now. Now, we’re really starting to see this is just like yesterday. Trek’s up here now. Arca
is up there. Alpasin is still doing the majority of the work. I can see Machu way over on the
far left. Mark Solair sitting dead center in the middle of the screen. I’m seeing that looks
like Oh, Total Energies is up there again. Wow. Really liking this team. This French team, Total
Energies. Yeah. Where’s Anthony Turgis? Quinn Simmons on the front, guys. It’s windy here.
It is windy here. You can see it right now. We’re going to have to keep a close eye on the
map now uh to see what’s happening with these brakes. This looks like crosswind danger here to
me. Four riders still in the front, guys. Still 2 minutes and 11 seconds to the Pelaton. 90ks to go.
They could easily bring this back when they want. Uh let’s hit this live tracker again here.
So, we do have some riders at the back. Group one is our fourman breakaway. Group
two is the main pelaton. Group three should be those lotto riders. It is. Take a look
here. I knew I saw before. There was a group of three and just up the road when Fred Wright
caught them, he actually caught up with them. Uh I saw a fourth red rider up the road and I
thought, is that another lot rider? Actually, Fred Wright and Doost here and Drizzers.
Oh, let’s throw Van El uh Eatfelt in there, too. They’re only 49 seconds behind. They actually
all finished really well yesterday. The majority of the riders finished with a time gap like that.
It’s only Edward Seepovado who finished further back. He’s 5 minutes behind overall right now. 5
and a half minutes. It’s our current standings. Uh on a side note, FYI, uh if any of
you watched the full stream yesterday, you probably saw me show a little uh orange cat.
She was jumping up here. She was she was being all loveydvey with me. Great to see that James Delare
is from Corsica watching on France too. And dude, you’re listening to me. Incredible. So, James, why
are you listening to me? Uh, versus France, too. You just want to hear the English feed or I’m I’m
assuming you know French. Just let me know. Tony C saying is Dumbar crash at the back. So, that
might have been earlier. I’m not sure about that. Uh, we’ve got Khaled here cheering. Uh, Ken
saying Pogy will win 2025. Well, he is the odds on favorite to win. I’m hoping we see something
different. I’m hoping we see like a battle down. I would like to see this year that we’re actually
fighting for the GC overall on stage 21 because it’s it’s all different this year, guys. Uh,
Tony C here. Okay. Uh, who’s this guy here? Okay. I don’t know the name. says just says, “Hey,
I Oh, he’s actually saying I’m his name is okay. His avatar has okay in it. He says, “Hey, I
am okay. Save all animals. Go vegan.” Dude, I agree in saving the animals. Um, Tony C,
bike maintenance slightly less than dog team maintenance. Just saying. Dude, you’re right about
that. uh I’m a way better cyclist than I was dog sled racer because on my bike it’s just me. It’s
just me. Even if I’m riding with other people, it’s just me. It’s me. It’s my bike. It’s my
training. When you’re racing dogs, let’s say you have 12 dogs hooked up. There’ll be six pairs of
two. You don’t know what those dogs are thinking. You don’t know if those dogs ate well the night
before. How did they digest their food? Do they have rumbly guts? Uh which dogs are going into
heat? Which males want to breed those females? It is an absolute gong show. Uh racing sled dogs. And
what you got to remember, you’re not doing this stuff in nice conditions. So, Western Canada, it’s
kind of different. We’re close to the mountains here, so it can be quite warm in the winter.
You might be racing at only maybe -3 -4 Celsius. You also might be racing at -45 Celsius, which
I’ve done. Uh, and to even make it even worse, you might be racing in the dark. So, that race
where I raced, I slept outside at -45 Celsius in a sleeping bag with my dog team. Uh, my lead dog
at the time was a a little female named Foxy. Uh, what a smart little dog. Uh, they just hunker
down in the snow. You put some straw down for them. You feed them. You crawl into your sled bag
and you just shiver all night long. Uh unless you felt minus 45. And again, it’s dark. It’s spooky.
This is way up in northern Saskatchewan and Canada here. Like there’s no people up there in places.
Uh you’ll go 50, 60 miles without seeing anything. So I’ve got a I actually have a really a ton
of cool stories from that stuff. Uh, okay. So, let’s get back to this though. David Fischer,
thanks everyone. Nice to know I’m with my tribe, dude. You are. You are. So, again, I was saying
earlier, uh, okay, the Uno X cars back here. Oh, it’s the lotto riders using the Lo uh the Lotto
X the Uno X car to get back to the front. So, we got four of them here. Frank Wright is still
with them. So, we got a five rider group here. Uh, let me get through. So, guys, we’re just over
total uh 50% of the climbing. We still have half the climbing still to do here at the end. Any more
videos to show you? Okay, we’re still just on that climb video again. They’re not sending there’s
way more videos yesterday. So, who is the team leader for Lotto? I’m not actually sure myself.
Maybe someone can drop that into the chat if they know. Okay, here we go, guys. Here we go. Uh, Van
Eatvelt is back in the bunch. It says affected by a crash at kilometer 106. Okay, so these guys,
yeah, I can see them right now on screen. They’re just getting back in. So, the four lotto riders
worked with Fred Wright. They’re back in. Uh Fred Wright’s just sitting slightly behind them. He’s
with the race doctor. I don’t think there’s much wrong with them. Obviously, something’s bothering
him, but uh I think he’s going to be okay. Gap’s coming down now. First time we’re under two
minutes gap. Uh, and you can see the pelaton stretching out. I think these riders dangling, the
lotto guys are dangling off the back and they’re really working hard to get back on. They’re
chasing at 55k an hour and they’re not closing the gap. Sitting back here with an EF education guy.
Fred Wright further back at the doctor still. See if I can see what he’s got done to me. I don’t see
any scratches or bangs on actually. Okay. Yeah, I was going to say his back looks marked
up, but that’s probably the rain spray. Looks like he’s just having a nice chat with the
doctor. Hand on the car holding on. Good move, dude. Get a little bit of rest. Uh,
okay guys, let’s go back here. Actually, here’s a cool memory here. Love this dude here.
Uh, so way back when 1949 was a stage town for Bologn Samir. Same stage town we’re going to today
on the coast. Check this guy’s name out. Uh, his name was Jacques Marinelli. Sounds like an Italian
to me. He claimed the overall lead in 1949. Uh, they started in Bologn. Uh, his nickname
was La Peric, which is the parakeet. So, he must have been a tiny little guy who flew up
the climbs. That’s what I’m thinking. He kept the yellow jersey for six stages. Uh, and it said
the French crowds absolutely loved him. Oh my god, this is so good. This is Okay, guys. I don’t make
that sounded weird. This is not good, but it’s a good fact to know about. This dude, Marinelli,
who led the tour to France for six stages in 1949, just passed away on Thursday at 99 years old.
What a great life this guy had. How awesome is that? So, another legend of the tour right
there, man. I just ordered a couple of books off audiobooks. Uh, the history of the tour. I got
the first I got the second one, actually. Uh, I’ll get Joey Jojo to send me the other one.
She doesn’t use her audiobook credits. Uh, and it covers all of the old stuff, the
tour. So, I’d love to read more about this guy right here. Uh, rest in peace,
Jacques Marinelli, 99 years old. Okay. Uh, okay. Let me go here. Okay. James Delara, I
moved to Corsair from Seattle. Dude, what a life, man. James, how did you decide to move to Corsica
from Seattle? Uh, James, just so you know, I was in Seattle last August, late August,
uh, for the Metallica concert in Seattle. I think it was August 29th and 31st of last year.
What a great concert. We were down at the, uh, I think it’s the football stadium there. I forget
the name of it right now. So, obviously, we’re in that SeaTac area. We did stay right downtown right
by Pikes Market. What a cool little spot. Julian Alfip here. There’s focusing on him for a bit.
Down to a 1 minute 42 second lead right now. Man, I’m just looking at the story here, guys. Get
in here and read some of the stuff. Ah, man. He just passed away at 99, but what a glorious life.
Jacqu Marinelli, 1949. And the French crowds loved him. He had the yellow jersey for six stages.
Wow, that’s great. So, we have any more videos here? Yeah, James, please answer that question.
I’d love to know how you relocated from Seattle. What took you to Corsica? Let me guess. I’ve got
this fantasy story in my mind. You bought one of those little abandoned places where they’re trying
to encourage people to move to and now you’re living in the heart of Corsa. Looks like we got a
rider down here. Okay. It’s just the barriers. Oh, there was a rider down. Uh, another lot rider.
Who is this? Hopefully not one of the guys from before. The road narrowed. There’s a barricade on
the road and the whole road, it was Arnold Dele. This is kind of the star of this team, I believe.
Uh, the whole road narrowed down. I think the riders just ran out of road. And of course, it
was on a hill, too. So, Arnold Dele is chasing after them now. I think he just put his foot down.
Don’t think he fell over or anything. Uh, Sprint Point coming up in a while, guys. Uh, so let’s I’m
hoping to hear James story pretty quick here. Uh, okay. Um, okay. Let me catch up where I
am here. Got a 100 likes, guys. Remember, our goal today is 145. We hit 144 yesterday.
We’re only 15 away. Got a UnoX rider out the back here. Who is this? It’s not our front
group. It’s uh Sarin Wkin Gold Verskin Gold maybe. You know X mobility rider. Oh, this
guy finished third yesterday. He’s third overall tour right now. Uh was right in that
sprint group yesterday. So maybe the Hills are starting to wear him out a little bit today.
Obviously more of a sprinter finishing third yesterday behind Yasper Phillips and and
Binium Germi. Alpasen Phoenix. Alpas and Phoenix. Why did I say that? Alison to Coin
back on the front now, folks. I can see UAE right there. Trex there being led by Quinn
Semon. That guy is a juggernaut on the bike. What a work beast. Alison’s calling up the other
teams to help. Alpison’s waving them up now. Get up here guys. Do some work. I think they’re all
sitting back saying, “You guys do it yourselves.” Yasper’s talking back to the UAE riders right
now. I don’t think Alpison is that impressed with the rest of the group. Okay, there’s another
Uno X rider pulled over on the side of the road. I wonder if that’s uh the third place rider. Kind
of seems like a coincidence that he’s over there now. So, he was probably falling off the back due
to a mechanical maybe a slow leak. Uh Tony saying, “I need to put time stamps on your shaft so
you can see how old the comments are.” Yeah, dude. I do. I have no idea how to do that. Uh
okay. We’ve got Emort. Dude, I hope I say your name right. He says, “I am Eort from Bise.” His
name is Eort Peneda. Uh he so he’s down in Bise, Central America. Uh am enjoying listening
to you. Keep bringing it live. Love it, dude. Thank you so much for spending your valuable
time watching what I’m doing and listening. Uh really appreciate your support. Okay, Tony. Great
comment here from Tony. He’s saying lotto they have three leaders here DeLe Van Eatvelt that’s
why they were hanging back for that Vanville guy and Burkos I think they were waiting Van Eat
was back in that group that they were trying to drag back earlier. Uh we’ve got Yordano Solomon
here asking how Benny’s doing. Benny’s doing just fine hanging out at the front end of the group uh
protected by the entire Intermarant group team. The Decathlon rider at the front, Bruno
Amarill, having a nice little stretch on his bike. Downhill here now, guys. Yeah,
you can see it on the profile. On the profile here, you can see they’re heading
downhill. Uh, but more climbs coming. Uh, Wade, uh, really impressed with Albison.
Yeah, they are doing a ton of work here at the front. And again, just before they were signaling
up other teams to get up here and do some work. on the radios, too. I can see two riders in the
very front. Both uh reaching for their headsets, obviously getting communications from the
director. Not sure if they’ve been given orders or uh just looking for some feedback from the team
car. 81 km to go, guys. 1 minute 39 second lead. So, it looks like they’re just going to drag
gradually and just drag this one back down. Uh, I always cheer for the breakaway. I’m
hoping for some hurricane force winds to cross some uh echelons right now and let those
guys escape. I would love to see it. Uh, uh, James is saying here, easier to listen
in English. Okay, got you, dude. Gap down to 130. Yep. Chain breaker. This is Tudin. I’m
pretty sure this is Tuden. I don’t know anyone else called Chain Breaker. Tudin is another super
strong cyclist that I watch over on uh Ruby. So, he does a lot of racing. Uh Tudin, are you Danish
or Norwegian? I forget. You’re one of those two. I think he’s I think he’s Danish. I think Tudin
is Danish. Uh he’s saying Egan Bernell is his favorite for today. Well, I I think he might be
in a different race because he’s not here at the Tour of France today. So, if this is the same
Tuden, yeah, Egan Bernell is not in here. Uh, Tony C, if you have the three dot menu at the top
of your screen, click it and show timestamps. Uh, so if I click on one of those, okay, I can pin
messages. Yeah, I may have to go way to the top. Uh, three dots at the top. Oh jeez, dude.
I don’t I wouldn’t even know where to find that right now. There’s a lot of comments here.
You guys are keeping me very very busy. Okay, right there time stamps. Let’s see
what happens if I do this. Okay, guys, there we can see time
stamps. Thank you very much. Let’s do this. Yeah, chain breaker. That’s
too saying oops, my bad. That’s okay, dude. I actually thought Egan was here, too.
Yesterday, I’m looking at Inos. I’m like, hey, where’s Egan Bernell? He’s not even in the race.
Uh so I would guess that Egan is maybe going to tune up uh for the Valta, do well. And remember
too, Egan Bernell had that brutal crash in 2022 where it looked like he was half dead. Uh it’s
taken him three years to recover. Finally got I think I saw he got a seventh at either
the Criterium Daffhane or maybe it was the Tur Swiss. Finally a return to form. So maybe
they’re thinking uh or did he race the Jurro too? Maybe that’s what I’m thinking. Maybe they’re
thinking let him get really back on form for the Valta. Build his confidence back up back to the
tour for next year. I can see that happening. Uh okay, Tudin’s asking me what what do I
think is the fastest bike in the Pelaton? The one that Matthew Vanderpole is riding. that
one. Dude, they’re probably all pretty quick. Uh, most of the bikes are pretty arrow now. Like, you
know, that’s the distinction. You have like your climbing bike, you have your arrow bike, and all
the manufacturers now make a dedicated arrow bike. Front four riders are climbing again right now.
And again, it’s just like this all the way. All the way. Uh, I wonder if I can see where we are
on the map right now. Maybe I can give you guys a feel. Okay, so that’s where we are. Sprint point
coming up ahead. You can see them here. Our front four, guys. I may be time for another coffee
break for me. So, what I’m going to do is I’m going to turn up the volume here and uh you guys
keep chatting. Uh maybe someone can let me know uh what race Bernal finished good at this year. I’ll
be right back. Fenmore kicking through. There’s the average speed. 42.91 kilometers an hour for
these riders at the front today. They’ve really done a great job. They’ve managed to hold off this
palaton for a long, long time. Coming up to 130 km in the lead now. In fact, they’ve just ticked
over that 131.2 km in the lead of today’s stage. The longest stage of this year’s tour to France.
209.1 km of racing on day number two. All designed to just tire the legs out a little bit more.
Yes. But if you look historically, it’s actually a short longer stage.
Yeah. And I remember some first weeks of the tour
of France where you’d have multiple 200 km stages back to back. But again because uh
the tendency is to shorten those stages, try and make the the racing a little bit more
aggressive in already much more aggressive bunch than in in that much more unexpected racing as
well. Riders are not afraid to attack from far. It’s much more exciting to watch cycling nor days
than it was in my decade if it were decades where it was all about being conservative. Now it’s all
about just going all out and see if it works and doesn’t work. Smash it all day. See what happens.
Jas Wengerard’s 400th career race day today. So over a year of racing all in one block
onto this road. Everybody looking to just put themselves into the slipstream into
this headwind. apart from the workers who have to do their jobs on the front
and they’ll start working for position because in a while in about uh 7 km
they’ll take a left turn and it’ll go into the tailwind moves right to the front
of the race now in that rainbow jersey and it looks like there’s a bit of a surge going
on looks across ABS and Darning don’t want to forfeit the lead and the team of Sudal
Quickstep moving up on the right hand side the far side as they take this turn this
All important turn you were pointing out little narrow roads got to be in a good
position through there and coming out in the lead the team of Albison and Kernik and
Saurin Varon Gold has another problem seems to be with the stem stem. Yeah, it’s a system.
He’s very relaxed about it. Although, I think as a rider, you know, when it’s not your
day, you just have to accept it and just go, “Okay, luck’s not on my side right now.”
There’s also not much you can do. No, he just stood there. Now he gets going again. We are not far from the intermediate
sprint. 22 km until we reach Enoch where the intermediate sprint will take
place. That’s for the green jersey. Before we get there, let’s just think about
a few more teams. Groupama FDJ United have got Gon Martan, Lewis Asi, Sirillbart,
Roman Gregoire, Valentine Madawas, Conet, Paul Penn, and Clement Russo. Group
Palmer, FDJ United. Interesting team, but hard to work out what they
might be here for. Indeed. And I was looking about it.
All right, riders back again. Going from the pro commentators to your
amateur commentator here, but it is what it is, isn’t it? Uh, third coffee. Yes, let’s rock.
Uh, all sort little doggies outside and it’s miserable outside. It looks kind of like
what we’re seeing on screen here today. I’m thinking later on after this today I’m going
to have to get myself out of the house today. Uh getting a little bit housebound. I think I
want to see what I can do for you guys here for videos. Wow. Lame with the videos today.
Tour to France. Lame with the videos. Okay, let’s get situated again here. I’m seeing
a 1 minute 36 second lead. Still 75K to go. Uh, roads are dry now. Looking a little bit windy.
I’m going to just jump back here for a second, too. See what Reuben’s got going on for me.
I have so much communication going on here. Okay, I’m looking at my other cycling
stuff. This is insane. Uh, okay guys, sorry. kind of get in the zone,
then I get out of the zone. Um, yeah, Wade’s saying here, “The cyclist
make 10% gradients look flat.” Yeah, they do, man. They just power up
them. Uh, Jeff Le again. Pogy. Obviously, Jeff, I love your comments.
Uh, we’re not really sure if he is or not, but Jeff says, “Pogi’s dope is so good
that he can stay in front all day.” Uh, and he also says to the fastest bike in
the Phil is the one with the best charge on the battery. So, speaking of that, Jeff, what do
you think? Okay, guys, here’s a question for you. Kind of a little bit of a conspiracy question.
Do you think there’s any mechanical doping going on? And if the answer is no, do you think there
was a mechanical doping in the past? Because I sure do think there was. I don’t know if there is
any more uh but I believe there was in the past. Okay. Um James is saying the commercial breaks are
really long. I’m not sure if that’s the YouTube commercials or the uh French TV ones. Uh Tony C.
Egan Bernell is not participating in the tour of the France this year due to a comment of factors
including his recent injury and team strategic focus on other riders. I hope Bernell can come
back. I mean, God, he won the tour to France in 2019. Colombian superstar. Uh, Wayade is saying
yes. Tons of mechanical doping in the past. Hey guys, if you’re interested, uh, so I’m like Mr.
Podcast. Uh, I probably don’t listen to as many as I used to because now I think audiobooks have
taken over. I used to always hate audio books. Uh, Alpison driving the front right now, guys.
Looks like five riders strong at the front, maybe six. String stringing the field out. Going
through the wheat fields now. This is looking a lot like home to me. Uh seeing all these farm
fields around. Actually, we have our canola coming out now. Uh canola is like an oil and uh in the
past it was called rape if you believe rape seed. Uh they changed that name. They don’t call it rape
anymore. Now it’s just called canola. Uh it’s just a word. And the fields are a beautiful bright
yellow here now. Uh really cool to see. But yeah, so regarding podcasts, uh there’s a really good
podcast made by a British cycling journalist. I barely know the guy, but it’s a really good
podcast. It’s called Ghost in the Machine. So if you’re not a podcaster, just find any podcasting.
You don’t got to pay for them. Uh, you don’t need to pay for your podcast player or your podcast.
You can, some will have like a little bit of extra perks you can pay for. It’s called Ghost in the
Machine. I think there’s seven or eight episodes. They talk about the doping. They talk about cases
that they think were doping in the past. They talk to a guy that makes motors. Uh, do I believe it?
Do I believe there’s motor doping now? Not really. But the fact that he spoke with people from the
UCI who said they were developing a bunch of new uh ways to catch people motor doping, mechanical
doping. That makes me think, well, if they’re not doing it, then why do we need new ways? Uh kind
of like they’re almost admitting they know what’s going on, so they’re trying to figure out ways
how to catch them. It’s really fascinating. Uh remember they use those iPads. That was their big
way to test. They have like one I think they have one X-ray machine that they don’t haul around
to all the races. The UCI says it tests at all the races. This journalist went and asked a bunch
of races, hey, can you show me the data? They’re like, we don’t have any or they never did the
testing. Uh, another team said that those iPad testers where they’re looking for the motor,
they said basically certain carbon buildups, the way they do it, mask that magnetic uh
thing totally. Then someone else mentioned that using brushless motors, which is kind of like
a better technology of a motor, an electric motor, doesn’t produce that response that they’re looking
for. So, who knows? I’d like to think they’re not, but who knows? Uh, okay. So, yeah. Wade saying
tons of doping in the past. I believe that. Uh, Tony C saying just his comments here. Hey, Tony,
you’re the number one commenter right now. Can you I’m not sure if you can see that beside your
name. There’s a number one beside your name. Number two is Wade. Come on, guys. We’re in a
war here. Uh Tony saying that was the comments from the team about Bernal. I would have thought
they’d be pushing Bernal still, but uh maybe he’s coming for the VA swoosh kid. Yeah, exactly.
Fabian Canelr was always rumored. That video of him and Tom Boon at that spring classic race
up that epic hill climb. I think it’s somewhere in Belgium. It looks so shady. It looks so suspect
the way he just rides away. He doesn’t get out of the saddle and he just basically destroys Tom
Bonan who’s doing everything in his power. It wasn’t like Tom Bowden was like a broken climber
on a hill where he just fades away. Tom Bowden was attacking like a madman. Uh putting everything
into the pedals and Celar just rode away. It just looked it looked funny. Just looked funny to
me. Uh, to me that’s probably the best evidence out there and just what this journalist has been
investigating. Uh, I hope he does more episodes. Okay, I’m going to try to do this now for
you guys. Uh, you guys should still be on that one. What I’m going to do is I’m going to
pull the media up here for this guy right here. And so guys, this is going to be Okay, so we still
got our four riders at the front racing through the countryside. Wow, they’re already bailing
here. We haven’t started bailing yet. Uh bailing is when they’ve harvested the crop, then they go
through and they bail up the stocks of that crop uh into hay. Well, it would be straw uh
into those big round rolls. Those big round bales could weigh anywhere from a,000
to like 1,600 lb depending on the crop type. Uh, Savage Pro seeing the same thing
here too. Okay, hang on. Uh, yeah, they and that’s true too. Wade’s got a good point.
They suspect open because the Pelaton gets faster every year. They’re beating old records when guys
were known to be on the stuff, right? Um, so yeah, but why the UCI is coming out developing new
ways to detect mechanical doping? If it was gone, why would they need to do that? So, UAE uh riders
at the front right now. Trek riders there. Alpison riders there as well. Ooh, there’s Anthony Turgis
in the green jersey. He’s wearing it today because uh uh Yasper’s in the yellow. He’s got his
team right with him, looking really sharp. Savage Process here. I’ve seen this one, too. Once
a tour rider fell off his bike and the cranks were still grinding, moving the bike in circles on the
ground. this happen. Dude, I’ve seen those videos, too. Sometimes I’m like, well, is it just physics?
Is it just But I know what you’re saying. I know exactly which videos you’re talking about. Uh
Tony seeing talking to Savage Ro. I’ve seen the same thing myself. Very obvious. Yep. And Wade’s
got it here. So, this lady you’re talking about, she was in that Ghost in the Machine podcast. Uh,
cyclacross cyclist fem got caught motor doping. Oh, and James was talking about the French
television for the long breaks. Yeah. So, that journalist was actually able to talk to
her. He went and talked to her. Uh, and so, okay, so the front four, they are working extra
hard right now. They are trying to hold them off. Like really with 70 km to go, do you think
these guys are thinking that they have a chance? There’s always chance. Uh let’s talk about Bruno
Amarel who is in the break today. An outstanding roulette who has just won his second national time
trial trial. That’s good to know. Amarel’s here. He’s a time trial champion. Second time. Uh he can
put his head down, butt up, and he can work hard. regular contender in the breakaways. His first
tour was in 2021 and he’s from the Pyrenees. Oh, he attacked on the stage uh that was won
by Sepus ahead of Alejandro Valveri. Man, I love that guy. That guy is so cool. Uh wonder if it’s saying where he’s going to win. There’s some creepy noises
coming from upstairs there. Okay, just doing a little bit of reading
here, guys. But yeah, the fourman group at the front is not giving up at all. They just
know what you know if it gets windy anywhere or a downpour comes, they might stay away to
team car coming up right now. Fueling Amarel, giving them a bottle, probably a gel stuck right
to it. Uh, so let’s get back to this here, guys. Uh Jeff saying, “Team mechanic should be fine.” Colin Coats is back. Hey Colin, glad you could
jump in again. Was talking about you earlier. Uh yeah, Jo, we’re not going to see a lot. Like
Wade’s got a good comment here. Pogy and Yonas very quiet. The main dudes, we’re not going to
barely see them at all for the first week. They’re going to hide in the Pelaton. Their only goal is
to stay safe right now, man. They’re hammering right now. Alpison at the front. That looks like
Matthew won on the front to me. Quinn Simmons leading the trek train. Balling victorious dead
center of the screen. UAE’s there as well. Guys, I think it’s time to get serious here. So
guys, okay. Now, what I’m going to do here is uh I’m going to try to do something a little
bit different just so you guys can see what I’m talking about because on screen right now on
the live tracking, as I said before, right here, uh what’s the town called? Nhatel Hardo. It looks
like where this uh other climates, the last of the sorry, it’s a category 3. It’s about kilometer
30 from the finish. I rode this stage on an inside cycling platform. It’s called Ruby. Ruby,
here’s your free advertising. You can send me a membership. Thank you. Uh guys, I’ve done a lot
of videos for Ruby and always hope to do work with them, but it’s never panned out yet. So, what I’m
going to do here, guys, I hope this works. Now, I’ve got this as a window capture 3. So, I’m going
to turn this on. Boom. It’s here, folks. We’re just going to go away from the racing for a little
bit. I don’t want to stress you guys out thinking I’m going to spend all day here. Uh, but there
are people here that are riding this stuff. So, I just want to show you uh, okay, I don’t have
it downloaded. This is streaming. This is HD video. You’re going to see these images. This
is the exact road we’ll be taking in the last 30 kilometers of today’s stage. So what this
platform does uh they’ve recorded the video uh generally they record it like on a car they
got to keep the car moving kind of slower so it simulates the cycling speed because the video
playback is determined by your speed. So if the car was doing 60 m hour through here which
they would kill themselves if they were uh the video as a cyclist moving at 20 miles an hour
would be quite choppy. it would slow down. Uh, if they film it very slow at say 10 miles an hour
and you’re driving at 20, riding your bike at 20, 30, uh, for you guys that are really good on your
bikes, then they have to speed the camera up. So, you can have it look like this. You can also
have it that you have an avatar on screen. Uh, so you will see yourself as a cyclist on screen.
And believe it or not, uh there’s a lot of pros that ride these platforms. A lot of people think,
“Oh, Inside Cycling, it’s just it’s not the same.” Uh he’s on screen right now on TV. W Van Art led a
gigantic group ride on Ruby in the spring. I think they got like 5,000 riders show up. Just gigantic
the interest in this stuff. Uh what I can do is kind of skip ahead. You get a general flavor for
the area. open fields. You can see here we’re just slightly climbing in this video. I’m just going
to bounce through this quick. Open fields. And as we get closer to town, you’ll see the buildups
of the small small towns and villages. And so this video today doesn’t go exactly to the end.
It stops short about 5 kilometers short of the actual finish today. So it is really cool uh
to be able to ride something. So, so on Ruby, this is stage two. Uh, I think the big race
on Ruby today is here. So, again, Ruby, Colin, you know me. You know me. Uh, again, here, look at
in the distance. You can see the hill climbs. So, what you’re doing is you’re using this platform.
You’ve got it on a big screen. You can you could send this to an 80in TV if you want. You’re
using the software. You’re seeing yourself on screen. It’s telling your trainer on the back end
of your bike what to do. It’s telling to increase resistance because you’re now going up this little
climb. To me, this looks like about a two three% climb, maybe 4%. Uh false flatty as you say. Uh
so, it’s going to increase resistance on the back, making it harder. Specifically right here, you
can see it kind of starts kicking here a little bit. Uh you will feel these clims. It does a
very good job of simulating outside conditions when you can’t get outside. So, it’s designed
as a tool to make you a better outside cyclist. And a lot of people say that because I find
when you’re inside riding, you can really put your head down and just hammer. You don’t have to
worry about the outside distractions. Hopefully, you can take that inside fitness to the outside.
So, I ride this one and I ride uh Zift a lot as well. Oo, some nice rough roads here. I just want
to have a quick look through this cuz I want to see what I’m going to recognize later. Nice
downhill here. Take a look at that big bridge there. There’s a huge bridge there. We’re going
to have a peek for that later. Okay, we got So, this is being filmed. So, the guy here has to stop
and slow down. This is where kind of like funny little things would happen with the video because
it’s moving so slow at that point. Uh, but it’s a really good experience. Ooh, this is interesting,
too. Look how narrow this road is here. We’re going to have the entire Pelaton coming down,
which looks like a bike path to me. How are they all getting down here before we’re going to town
at this point here? We’re less than 10 km to the finish. This is going to be a nightmare coming
through here. Absolute nightmare. There will be such a battle for that section. Front four riders
are on another climb right now. A cobbled climb. Uh let me just finish. I just want to see
how far we can see into this final thing. Wonder if we’re going to see these things. Okay
guys, that’s enough of that. I just wanted to show it to you quickly. I apologize to anyone
that doesn’t want to see that stuff. We’re turning that off. Boom. Back to the race, folks.
Uh, hope you enjoyed it. If you’re interested, just ask me some questions. I’ve done so much
stuff inside. My channel first started. Here’s the channel, Inside Cycling World. Joey
Jojo came up with the name. She goes, “Well, you do all this inside cycling,
but you also know a lot about cycling.” She thinks I know a lot about cycling. Uh, so why
not? It’s kind of got two meanings to it. Okay, back at it, guys. Back at it. I want to get into
that one and we’re going to go back to the race here. See if we got any video highlights. To
France, where’s the cameraman today? Back to the commentary. So guys, let me know what you
thought of that video I showed you there. Uh, okay. Good questions here, guys. I’m
I’m glad you’re look liking this. Uh, I do want to get back to the mechanical doping,
too. Hey, Colin again. Uh, Tony C saying Pelaton’s starting to look angry. Yeah, they’re starting to
move now, man. They’re showing some great footage here on TV. Great footage. All the castles and
the towns. Uh, yeah, it’s coming down quick now, guys. these poor dudes up fronts. Great effort
out front. We’re down to 40 seconds though. Um Wade saying he’s hoping to see Yonas and Daddy
breakaway of Matthew Vanderfall. Could you imagine? Uh Tony says, “Do you need to add
some simulated fans on the roadside?” Dude, there is. So, what I was showing you was the
media file. What I probably should have done, uh and I’m going to go close it cuz I don’t want
it streaming in the background. Uh killing things off here. Um, I was going to jump online, sign
into Ruby, and show you people riding live. I can do that later if you want. If someone says
they want to see that, I’ll show you later. Uh, you will, there’ll be a ton of people on that
course today. Uh, Colin’s got a good question here. What’s the user base compared to Zift?
You know, Colin, I know Zift says it’s about a million. Uh, the Ruby president says they
have 250,000. I don’t think it’s that high. I don’t think it’s high. I think the 250,000
might include trial users. Uh people that ride like one day a month. Uh the community is so
massive on Zift. What Ruby’s strong point and 100% the strong point is there’s climbs that
you you get to see the real climb. Uh okay, we’ve got an Israel Premier Techch rider pulling
over. It looks like he’s going for a bike change. Pascal Acriman here folks who did go early on
the sprint yesterday. So yeah uh Zift has okay big climbs on Zift. What do we got? We got the
Alpa Zift which is the Altoz guys. It’s a full simulation of the 21 climbs of the Alps and it
feels the same. Uh we got Mau 2 on Zift. Those are the two big climbs that everyone knows. Ruvy has
tons. You can do the Anglaroo on Ruvie. You can do the Monty’s Anon. You can do the Mortarolo. Um,
just climb after climb after climb. That’s not to say they’re all on Ruby. I did find out yesterday
that the Murder Bratana, which we will be climb which the riders will be taking on next week or
within a few days actually. Uh, it’s on Zift now, but it’s not on Ruby. I guess people like Ruby
for the video effect. I think Zift is just more smooth. I thought about it yesterday. Think about
two applications. Uh, one’s designed for Apple, Mac, and one’s designed for Android. Zift reminds
me of like a Mac app. It’s perfect. Just runs really good. Everything’s smooth. Everything’s
been integrated. All that kind of good stuff. And I think Ruby is more of like the Android.
It’s Sometimes it’s a bit clunky, but in the end, it’s all cycling. Uh, I ride both. Definitely way
more people on Zift though. And the racing level on Zift is a couple of steps higher, I would say.
So, yes, there is fans there. Uh, James is saying, yes, James, you’re right about that. I remember
when I saw that there. So, James is saying, “You’re a Canadian rider.” Well, it’s funny how
he says it here. The Canadian rider, his name is Ryder Heidal. So, he caught me out there. Canadian
rider. uh was a rider with a suspected motor bike. I think that was at the Jirro the year he won
it. That’s where his bike gets put down on the ground. The wheel looks like it stops and then
it starts spinning again. It’s like what is there any chance? I don’t It looks so shady. Um David
Fischer, uh Ruby is realism. Yeah. Yeah. If I want realism, I go and write. I agree. Part of the
appeal of Zift for me is the gamification. Indoor with indoor was so boring when all you could do
was just watch videos. Exactly. So, I will say that what you saw there doesn’t show the avatar.
So, you will see the other riders. Uh I think Zift does a way better job of it. Zift seems very flowy
to me. Like the packs move really well together. Uh and there’s two camps. Some people love the
gamification. I do. I love the gamification. I love the leveling up. Uh, I love the fun things,
the fun little things you can wear, costumes that don’t affect your aerodynamics, things like
that. Guys, they are pushing hard right now. Quinn Simmons on the far right hand side of the road.
Alpas and uh the Coinix strung out across the road going through all these dangerous curves in
town here. I’m going to try to keep an eye more on this. Now, we’re down to a 30se second 36-second
gap. Inter Mare coming over the radio that Benny is now in good position with Rex. Okay, so Benny’s
in good location now guys. They’re going to slowly start moving to front. Can he handle on with
those? Remember there’s three climbs in the last 30ks, but it’s specifically the last two clims.
Uh the Kot Desant Etien Oont and the Kotu otro. They are within 10 kilometers of the finish and
they’re only probably separated by a couple of kilometers themselves. So I think the Pelaton is
going to be smashed apart there. Full obliteration and annihilation. Uh okay. So yeah, David, I agree
with you. Some people and there’s people on Ruby, they’ll say like I can’t stand the the gaminess
look of Zift. And I’m kind of I always think to myself, I’m like, what are your eyes bleeding?
Like why is it so hard to just watch a video game? Uh cuz it has like video game graphics. It’s
just like watching a cartoon with your kids. Do your eyes bleed? No, you just watch it. It’s just
different. Uh in the end, it’s still cycling. Ooh, some bad barriers. They’re almost riding
through chicanees here on the roads, guys. They got barriers up and they’re swerving from
side to side through them. Quick drink here, guys. Uh, I think Colin’s got a nice comment here
for me. Uh, yeah, Pelon’s under a minute back. Sprinters are starting to fire. Oh, totally. The
real legit sprinters think they have a chance to tackle these climbs. Let’s see what happens.
Uh, I still think it’s more of a strong man last couple kilometers attack. That’s what I think. I
think a lot of those sprinters are going to be in for a shock on those two little climbs. So, we’re
we’re going to find out real quick, aren’t we? Uh, calling codes here. At the end of the day, I use
my trainer when I can’t go outside to put miles in. I do like the gamification of Zift, like
David said. Yeah, I love both of them. I like the videos. So, yeah, I pay for a subscription
to Zift. I pay for a subscription to Ruby. Uh, if there’s climbs that Zift doesn’t have, they
don’t have the majority of the climbs. Ruby does. So, I ride Ruby. Uh, and they have some
fun challenges. I find it to be janky though, you know, like sometimes the avatars are doing
weird things because it’s a film video. You know, every time you hit a speed bump going in and
out of these towns where the car goes doink, the Ruby avatars do the exact same thing. They
need to smooth it out. I’ve been riding Ruby for three and a half years. I think I got a pretty
good feel of it. Zift, because it’s graphics, everything’s smooth. It’s it’s crisp. the
menus, it just has a very Mac feel to me. Uh, and guys, I’m not even a Mac fan, but I know the
difference. Uh, you know, if you’re working on Mac versus like an Android system, uh, they’re
different. 33 seconds here now, guys. Actually, we’re down to 18 seconds. What am I looking
at? I’m looking at the delayed feed here. Uh, so let me catch up again here. So, yeah, Colin,
great comments. Uh, Savage Pro Linux user here. I know nothing about that. I don’t even know.
I just know it’s a different operating system. I don’t know what it does. But we’re giving a
shout out to Savage Pro using the Linux, guys. 136 likes. We are nine away from getting to my
new world record. Still got 174 riders watching. Really appreciate everyone being here. I hope
everyone’s uh well, I’m hoping for most of you, you’re on your your first afternoon beer on a
Sunday. Oh, Amarel pushing to the front now. Amarel pushing the front. Time trial champion.
Two-time time. The twotime. The twotime. I don’t want my coffee to get cold. I hate
cold coffee. Um. Oh. Okay. So, shout out to Savage Pro. Colin Coat. All right. Just got off
a 48 hour shift and off to bed. Colin, are you a firefighter? Is that what you are? If you’re on a
48 hour shift, maybe you’re a police officer. Uh, I’m thinking firefighter though. That’d be
cool to know. Um, so Colin saying to me, have a good one, Colin. And, uh, great
chat. Yeah, Colin super strong. Okay, guys. They’re going for a little sprint finish
here now. Uh, the front four riders just wiped out all the sprint points of the day at the SCOD
banner. Looks like the sprint’s still on behind, though, too. There still must be points left.
Looks like that might be Person or Milan, I believe. Let’s see who got fifth place there.
Give me a second here guys. I’ll be checking right away. Binium was right there. And he is mad. The
trek rider is so mad at Benium right now. Like fist pumping. Oh my. Okay. Yasper’s there.
Anthony Churches is there. Bennium’s there. I’m trying to see who that uh Trek rider is.
Guys, I want to get some uh audio here for you. Now we got a different race getting towards
someone was very mad there. We were looking at this intermediate sprint.
So that’s where team like little Trek got interested and once again coming into the
the real final and oh there you see the bunch is coming very quickly behind them.
Yeah, the bunch is coming real quick right now. So it says uh the little quote here from
the tour feed is Federov and Milan dominate the intermediate sprint. So, I think Federov took it
out of the first four. Evani Federov is in that breakaway. We’re going to get a replay of this
guys. So, I I’ll have something to show you. Uh, and then it looks like Milan won kind of the
Pelaton group sprint. So, like the the last points that were left unhappy.
Jonathan Milan’s really mad in that photo. So, it must have happened
before. I reckon he came in on the inside because he said uh seemed to say you’re
crazy by the way. was hitting his head. Brian Cockar also having a
go, the rider from group. There’s a lot of upset riders here. They
are really ticked off. So Milan is freaking out at poor uh poor Germay who looks like
he’s Hey dude, I did nothing wrong there. Uh Milan is fist pumping. Yasper’s
right there. Germaya was right there. Really cool to see uh Anthony Turgis there
as well. I love this guy. And apparently Brian Kakard was screaming at someone
too. Hotheads today, folks. Hotheads. Um yeah, Savage Bro, he’s the Linux guy. Benny’s
doing really well, dude. So Amir, dude, I’m going to try to get your name. Amir Palatia Marino
uh is asking how Benny’s doing, dude. Really well there. So for those points there, Federov got
first. Uh so the four breakaway riders got the all the points fronts points up front. Milan got fifth
place. Merier was right there too. Here okay guys, we got it now. It’s on the screen now. Fedorov. So
we got some good points here now. So Milan got 11 points. Merier was there for for sixth. Germay for
seventh. Phyisim for eighth. Uh Turis for ninth. Kard for 10th. lots of the regular names. Danny
Van Ppples up there as well. What I did notice though, I think that uh maybe Yasper didn’t time
his sprint very well because when I watched it after the sprint point, he was well ahead of them.
So, I think he had like probably the highest top speed and he was coming through them really fast.
He just didn’t time it right. So, that was neat to see. Tobias Johansson just had to stop there
quickly. I’m not sure if that was a chain. Uh, looks like he just pulled over for a second there
on the side of the road. Uh, let’s get back to the live tracking here, guys. Just take a look
at the map here. So, you can see now we’re one big group. So, I’m going to be really watching
closely here when we get to the next uh climb, category three here climb uh because I’ve I’ve
just ridden this route in the last couple days. So, for those of you that don’t know, uh just
talking virtual cycling here. Back to the live here. Okay. Uh we do have a couple. This must be
Johansson here. I believe it’s going to be Oh, what? Oh, wow. What is going on here? So,
Van Moore, who’s led all day, who is in the lead all day yesterday, too, for the majority
of the day, is now out the back of the race. This guy here who was our virtual yellow jersey
holder for half the day today is now out the back. I hope this guy gets back on. Hopefully he’s just
back at the team car and he gets back on. Uh he’s only 49 seconds behind overall GC Gap. So I hope
he’s just back at the team car getting something. Yeah, nice sprint here. Really nice sprint.
I’m sure the sprint teams wanted to catch them before the sprint point to get the big points.
Fedorov gets 20 points right there. We will have more points at the finish. Also, time bonuses at
the finish today, folks. We’ll be checking all that out. Uh let’s get back to my awesome chat,
guys. You guys are the best. We at 137 likes. I think we’re going to be close. I don’t think we’ll
make it today, though. Uh I was thinking though, too. Uh guys, I’m gonna do this every day and
I’m just telling myself, okay, calling. Remember, I’m calling. Uh sharp turns here. One rider almost
runs right off the road heading into town. So, where are we here? Yeah, we do have a rider at
the back. Oh, man. I hope this guy gets back on. Come on, dude. Don’t lose any time. And we’re
climbing here, folks. We’re climbing all the time. You think it’s flat. It is not flat. Let’s take
a look where they’re at. You can see here on the map. I’m going to zoom in a little bit. Can
we see this little bit of a bump? Yeah, there’s bumps through here. You can just see it going
uphill. Uh it says 1% there for Oh, that’s for uh Van Moore at the back. The leaders are taking
on 7 8 9%. So, it’s just punchy after punchy after punchy. And I know myself when I do all my inside
cycling uh I would rather do a 15 20 kilometer continuous climb all the way than do say 40 km of
this that it’s exhausting. It just breaks you. Uh okay. I’m getting back to the chat here. Yeah,
Vinnie was placed just well there. Uh all coming back together. Yep. Yep. Calling. I called it,
didn’t I? Firefighter. I I thought you’re probably the only people that work a 48 hour shift. Dude,
here I I’m not sure if Colin’s gone yet or not. Maybe he’ll catch us later. Do you have your bike
trainer set up at the fireh hall? You must for all the training that you’re doing. Uh so I’m guessing
and if you do, that’s so awesome, dude. I love it. I’m so glad they let you do that. Uh Tony C, angry
looking pelon heading for the tight roads. Dude, there’s some insanely narrow roads coming
up. Like half the size of a normal road. Uh, you would have seen them in that Ruby video I
just played. Okay, dude. We got another dude here. Chris Coleman. Welcome aboard. Hey, what’s
your thoughts on my whoosh? Quite big upgrades to the platform lately. Um, okay. So, he’s saying
he went away from Zift due to the price hike. My whoosh seems like a good alternative, but
would be good to get your thoughts. Dude, I’ve ridden a lot of it. Uh, not tons. Maybe I have I
don’t know, maybe I have a,000 kilometers on it, maybe. Not even sure. I started riding it last
November. I did a ton of race videos on it. So, if you dig back into the channel, there’s probably
a category called my whoosh. And uh I did a lot of race commentary on for them. In fact, did you
guys know uh was it back in February I did the uh the esports championships over on my whoosh?
That’s where they did the esports championships for the US. So, I did the age categories. Super
strong riders. Like when you think age category, you might think, “Oh, old guys.” Nah, it’s all
the age categories that aren’t elite status. Super strong riders. Uh I did all the commentary for
that. And then I did all of the Canadian esports championships commentary. I did the Masters
and I did the Elite Racers. Uh incredible racing. Not huge crowds for the Canadians. Um
I think a lot of people and I think in general, uh the esports turnouts. Ooh, people are putting
feet down here on these narrow roads. No crashing here, but the whole Pelaton just kind of took a
stop there. Oh, this is tough. They’re climbing up little hills. The roads are narrow. One foot
goes down, 50 riders got to stop. Uh, so Zift has been doing most of the esports stuff. My whoosh
took over with all the almighty dollars that they have. And uh, so I think a lot of people are like,
well, they’re just not used to it. Uh, but yeah, my whoosh is really good. Uh, I’ll tell you one
thing, you need a pretty powerful PC to run it if you want the good graphics. Some guys run it on
their phone. To be honest, it looks terrible to me. I I ran it on my PC and I had comments, “Hey,
how come mine doesn’t look as good as yours?” Cuz I’m using a gaming PC. That’s why. Uh, you could
easily run it on a phone and then use an HDMI adapter or stream it uh to a big screen. That’s
I would never ride any of these platforms on a phone. Uh get it on a big screen. Be immersive.
Uh what else can I tell you about my whoosh? Very competit competitive Sunday Race Club. Like ultra
competitive. Uh not a lot of riders though. Like when you’re riding in the real world, it’s mostly
bots. You’ll learn that right away. 90% of the people that are riding are bots. They’re not real
people. Uh that’s one thing I don’t like about it. Uh, I would show you some my whoosh. Right
now though, they did some update just recently and it says I don’t have internet connection,
although I do. So, I’m probably at the point of uninstalling it and going for a fresh install. Uh,
so hopefully I get around that issue. I hope. Uh, because I met a lot of great people on there,
like really good racers, uh, and I haven’t done race coverage for them for a long time. But yeah,
free is great. Graphics are incredible. Uh lot, you know, a good amount of events going on. It’s
nowhere near as though they do not have the same amount of events as Zift. I think my whoosh has
gotten into a lot of uh they do I think what they’re focusing on is the my coaching ride. So
they have live coaches on camera and you’ll ride with that coach. So, they’re basically all
about that Sunday race club, which is maybe two or 300 riders and their coaching sessions.
Oh, showing crashes from earlier when the two uh riders of the breakaway went down. Wonder
if we’re going to get some replays of that. Okay. Uh let’s see what we
got here on the near live. Oh, it’s just the camera. It’s the camera,
guys. These guys do a lot of work out there. just ahead of the pelon here. You can see the
helicopter floating around in the background, too. This is obviously earlier in the stage, guys. Guys, we’re flying now. We are flying now. 45
kilometers remaining. It’s just showing replays right now of the sprints. And man, Milan and
Kard were both really ticked off at other riders. Kakard was really ticked off at one of
the premier tech riders. Okay, so okay, this is the cash from earlier. All back together, folks. Looks like we’re getting a tailwind
now. Going to jump into the commentary. See what we can pick up here. Yeah, breakaway
ended at 50 km. I just watched that as well. Okay, here we go. Head to head. Wow,
dudes. Look at this on screen right now. Jonathan Milan hits a top speed of 80.5 km an
hour. What? That’s like me if I’m riding downhill, holding on for dear life. Tim Merlier, 77.7. Uh
I’m not sure if that’s where they’re crossing the line. I think Yasper was moving really
fast. And remember here too, uh Binium must have been right there as well because he finished
probably like six inches behind Jonathan Milan. really strong sprinter this guy. No sign of Matchu
in that sprint. I think he’s saving up for the end. Yeah, that’s crazy. I don’t I’ve never seen
80k an hour in a sprint. Is that Is that real? Uh oh, wow. Cool. We got another South African
here. Uh Sean North Coat, greetings from a wet and cold Cape Town, South Africa. Thanks for
commenting. Hey, dude. Thank you for being here, man. I really appreciate it, guys. I’m only I’m
seeing 137 likes. I think it’s a little bit old. I’m going to see I’m just I really want to get
above 145. So, if you’re here, Dude, it just went to 138. Whoever that was, you’re the best.
Uh remember, I don’t know how Sean found Sean, how did you find the video? How did you find
the video? So, guys, you guys know YouTube, you’re on here. The more likes my videos get,
the more likely the YouTube overlords say, “Hey, there’s some guys watching cycling videos
over here.” Maybe they might like Colin’s video and they’ll send it to you. Like, you know,
when you go online, they’ll say, “Up next for you,” or recommended videos. That’s the only way
people that don’t know me get to see my videos, uh, is by these likes. So, two days running, I’ve
had my two best videos ever, and it’s all because of you guys. Can’t thank you enough. You know,
I’m an unemployed geologist. I keep whining on it, but I’d love to be a geologist again, guy. I
love geology. I love oil and gas exploration. Uh I love paleontology, but there’s no you can’t
really make a living doing that. Uh Adam Yates. Adam had to stop for a new bike and he had to
wait quite a while. So, I think Adam Yates is going to fall even f further behind. And I
think Adam finished like 6 minutes back the day before. Uh yeah, he’s having a really rough
tour. Flying down hills here again, folks. Again, flying. They’re going downhill at 70k an hour.
Jonathan Milan was just sprinting faster than that on the flat. Like I wonder what kind of
power that guy could put out. What are you guys thinking? Maybe 2,000 watts, something like that
in a short sprint. I could see it. He’s a big guy. Okay, so Sean North Coast here from South Africa.
Good to see you, Sean. Sean, if you’re not aware, I spent a short amount of time in South Africa
uh as a child. Don’t remember much about it, but uh I was there. Chris Coleman, awesome.
Thanks for your thoughts. Seems like e-racing is spread across quite a few platforms.
I really like Swift. I run my whoosh on Apple TV and it’s superb. Great, dude. Awesome.
Uh, you know, at first I was really, really, really into my whoosh and there used to be events
on there called the otr virtual events. They were the best events on my whoosh. Uh, yeah. Sean Adam
Yates here now uh for UAE. Um, I did all of the My Whoosh events for otr. I met a guy named James
Ogulvie and if you’re in the inside cycling world, you guys might know him. He’s done a lot
of stuff over in RGT, stuff like that. I was on vacation and he said, “Hey man, will you
do some commentary for my racing stuff?” Cuz I say in my videos, “If you want me to do commentary,
just reach out to me. Just ask me. I’ll do it.” He reached out to me, started doing his events.
We took his events from like 12, 14, 15 people to over 50 people. Uh I got a little bit kind of
mad. That’s not even a word for me. Uh I just felt like my whoosh wasn’t behind the community events.
They didn’t put any support into it. Uh James was working hard putting the events on. I was doing
all the commentary just for fun, guys. I do it for fun. Uh I don’t get paid to do it. Uh people
loved it. The community guys loved it. I met so many good guys on there. Uh one of the guys, Johan
Moreno, he’s he’s from Colombia. Talking about Colombians earlier. Uh he spent time in Europe
racing, probably at like a continental level, but he was there. You can find him on Pro Cycling
Stats. I just I felt my whoosh was just focusing on Sunday Race Club, Sunday Race Club, because
that is a pretty highlevel event. But all those highlevel Sunday Race Club riders, they vanish
after Sunday. You won’t find them on my whoosh. Uh the majority of them go back to Zift. That’s
just reality, folks. Uh, that probably kills my whoosh to hear that, but that’s the way it is.
Uh, and the coaching events, uh, I don’t want to do coaching events every day of the week. I
want to ride solo. I want to do a hill climb. So, that’s kind of why I went away for Anyway, Chris,
I hope you enjoy it and I’m glad it works really well for you. I will be back on it soon. Uh,
Wayne’s saying here, he says, “Oh, looks like the rain is clearing up.” I think I think Wade wanted
it to rain all the way. The front end is kind of moving a bit slower now. They’re really spread
out across the road. All major teams represented up front. We’re now seeing the coastline, too.
Let’s see where we are. Uh we’ll go back to the live tracking, guys. Uh the coat hot pole
coming up. That’s about 30k from the finish. So, yeah, the ride I was talking about, the the
video I showed you earlier started right around where the climb is. I think it started right after
the climb. I remember the video being about 30k long. Uh the uh stage five, the time trial, I’ve
ridden that as well. I’ve ridden the entire stage and it’s in the town of Kain. Uh Con or is it
Con? You know what movie I’m talking about, guys. Drop a comment down below if you know it.
You guys should all know that movie. Uh yeah. So, the time trial, the entire 32.9 kilometer time
trial is on Ruby, so I’ve rode that as well. It’s flat. Uh, I don’t know what I’m going to ride
today. Dave Fisher’s taking off. Thanks, Colin. Got to go. Jumping off, dude. Thanks for seeing
you. Uh, Tony C, thanks for commenting there. Uh, Adam, it’s Spike Change. Yeah, hopefully gets back
on. We’re at 147 likes, dudes. Thank you so much, guys. New record for my little channel. Uh,
I’m the little guy against the big guys. I just do it my way, my way or the highway. Just saw
those guys in concert with Metallica and they were really good. Really good. Um, Wade saying he
likes to mountain bike in the rain. Yes, Tony C, you saw it, dude. Thanks for seeing that. 147
likes. Booyah. Let’s go. So, guys, obviously I just want to incre marginal gains, boys.
Marginal gains. Let’s talk Team Sky back in the day. If we can just grow by one every day, it’s
progress. We’re moving forward, moving onwards and upwards. 40 kilometers to go. Simon Yates
is approximately 30 seconds back. Sorry guys, I keep getting stuck on those screens. I think
I need someone here that tells me, “Hey, Colin, get off that screen.” And if you guys want to do
that, just do it. Uh I’m okay with that. Trust me. So, if I’m hanging out somewhere too long, let
me know. I’m hoping we see some sprint videos. None yet, guys. As soon as I let see them, I’ll
let you know. See them. Yeah, Adam did do that bike change. Looks like it’s kind of mellowed
out a little bit on the change here. Although, they are riding 40k an hour and it does
look like it’s a false flat uphill here. So, I think they’re still pushing pretty hard showing
that Adam Yates at this point. I think he’s back on now. I think he’s worked his way through the
team cars. Uh, Sudal on the front. UAE right up there too. Sudal protecting Remco. Vizma’s right
there. Where is Okay, I can see about Venard. I can see Yonas on the very far left hand side of
the screen uh in his red and white helmet, which again I think is the Denmark helmet. And then we
got the Alpson boys. There’s Matchu way over on the far left hand side waving at the fans. There’s
a rider there waving at fans to get off the road. Yeah, it is. It It’s still quite overcast here.
We could see more rain. Wade, your dreams may come true. We may see more rain. Uh yeah, again guys,
thank you for the likes. And also guys, we still have like 140 people watching right now. Again, my
best dreams ever. So, it’s all up to it’s all on you guys for doing this. Okay, so this next climb
here, we’re going to be taking on uh we’re coming to it soon. Uh, it’s 1.1 kilometers at 9.4%.
That’s why it gets a CAT 3 rating. Adam Yates is back on now, folks. He’s back for UAE. This
guy is crucial in the UAE effort this year uh for Tatty. Tatty will be relying on Adam Yates and uh
Yao Almeida uh when the climb start. Those are his go-to guys right there. So, yeah, this is getting
a cat 3 rating due to the steepness of it. It’s 9.4%. A little bit of a wall and I’m sure it’s one
of those walls where you hit it and it just climbs immediately up. Um was going to look at the chat
again here. Mike Ellis, welcome aboard Mike. Good to see you on holiday in Valencia from Sydney.
Man, great place to be. Enjoying your commentary in English as TV and hotel is only in English. So,
dude, I hope you’re watching it and listening to my commentary at the same time and it’s kind of
sinking up. I really hope it is. Dude, enjoy your holiday. Um, so funny. Just a few days ago, I was
thinking about taking a vacation to Australia. Um, it’s just such a long trip, man. Such a long
trip. I’d love to go there. Uh, Sean Northcoat, come back to South Africa and do your geology
thing here. That’s his question mark to me. Dude, I’d love to. I’d love to. Once in a while, I don’t
know about you guys, I think you get to a certain point in your life like sometimes you wish you
could just like, and this is not in a negative way. This is kind of like my fantasy adventure I
have. And I think a lot of people think this. Just imagine one day vanishing from your current life
and say waking up on the island of Corsica and a new life. You don’t know anyone. You get a job
at a little local restaurant. Why? Because you can talk to the English- speakaking tourists.
I don’t know. Something like that. That sounds like just kind of like a little fantasy to me
right now. Uh just kind of vanish. Start over. Uh, obviously I wouldn’t do that. I’m just, you
know, just talking aloud. Corska, here I come. Uh, great great cycling community here too for a
side gig. Home of Haltherly and Menar. Dude, what is Haltherly and Menar? Sean North.
Can you let me know what that is? Uh, Wade’s agreeing. He’s in South Africa, too. Are
you guys close to each other? I think you’re both are you guys both in Cape Town? So guys, I
think when I was there, I think there’s a place in South Africa called is it O’Keefe or O’Keefe? We
lived in two towns. I think we were in Cape Town short-term. And then we went to the other place
again. My dad uh was an electrician in a mine. Uh I don’t know if it was a diamond mine. Probably
diamonds, maybe gold. Oh, that’d be fun. Uh James commenting Yates made it
back. Yeah, he’s back on now. Okay. Uh Sean talking to Wade here.
Hey buddy. Absolutely. Those routes are cycling meccas. Pity about the
weather. So it sounds like they’re getting a lot of rain. But you guys are
in your winter, right? You guys are in your winter season now. Uh we’ve just hit 4
hours of elapse racing. 36 km to go. So guys, we’re maybe with these hitters maybe 45 minutes
to go. And I’m loving it. I’m loving it. Guys, I have a lot of people say to me, Colin,
how do you keep it going for like an hour, two hours straight? I’m like, guys, try four. Try
five. I can do it. Long as I get my coffee breaks. I’m good. Uh, okay guys, trying to catch up here again.
Oh, is it Cat 4? I thought it was cat 3. Someone may have corrected me here. If so, it’s a cat 3
climb. Uh, Kota Pisho, Cat 4 climb, 9.4% gradient. And I’m going to zoom in here. See where we are.
We’re getting to it. It’s coming up soon, guys. Uh it it’s hard to tell really why they pick certain
clims. It’s probably just a geographical location. Easy to get like a time marker there. Uh they’re
climbing right now and they’re not at the climb. And it’s five, six, seven% gradient. Oh, and the
flags are whipping here, folks. It is a tailwind currently. actually tail crosswind. There could
be some crosswind damage coming. I want to look at the map and see how the course. Yes, right here.
So, right now I think the winds are still from the west. They’re going to get a strong tailwind when
they head back straight north here. There might be some crosswind damage right here. If so, I love
it. I love the crosswinds, guys. I love seeing the scramble, the panic of the riders trying to get
back on. I love it. Absolutely fascinating. Okay, Chaka, you guys are killing it in the chat
today. 150 likes, guys. Absolutely awesome. Uh, okay. Here’s a new dude. Looks like Captain Coro.
Hi, I’m I’m Captain Coro from Croatia. Listen to you on my phone watching German live stream on TV.
Dude, awesome to be here. I’d love to know. Dude, you know what I need? Okay, guys. I might do this.
I’m going to be that guy. I’m gonna try to find a map around the house today and I’m going to put
the thumbtacks on the wall. Would that be cool? And I actually might change the background
up. I thought about doing this, too. So, uh, it’s green screen back here. You guys
can tell, right? Green screen back here. Uh, I thought about just making it more natural and
showing you some stuff that I’m into. Uh, dude, it could be anything. It could be like some rocks
I’ve found, some fossils I found, some fossils I’ve actually excavated myself when I was a
university student. I went on this awesome field. I wouldn’t call it a field trip. I was working for
a guy for nothing. Uh he was doing his post-doate uh education. I guess his post-docctorate thesis
in by valves. Um but we were way up on the Smoky River in northern Alberta. Uh, the only way to
access the outcrop, it was like a shelf along a river along the Smoky River was by jetboat. So, we
had this crazy dude that we hired out of the blue to take us on a jetboat trip. We were skimming
through water that’s 6 in deep in places flying across the rocks. We got dumped out on this ledge
and and basically there was like about a 4 or 500 foot cliff. I wouldn’t say cliff cuz it wasn’t
rock. It was more of just like an 85% gradient hill. That was our only way out of there or by
jetboat. The amount of fossils we found there was insane. Uh looks like we’ve got a I’m not sure if
that’s Israeli Premier Tech rider there. No, it’s not. Uh quick mechanical side of the road. He’s
raiding his team right now. Who is this? Yeah, we can see a split right now. This rider here.
Ah, I love this guy’s name. Cleo Shan Busan Aana FDJ. Uh yeah, the the Astana team throws me off
now because they’ve got all this extra color on their jersey. I would have known that. Uh Champus,
great last name, dude. Love it. Do my best to get the names pronounced right. I do my best. Uh
okay, guys. Uh just trying to get So yeah, awesome. Captain Coro, great you’re on board
from Croatia, man. I’d love to visit there, too. That looks like such a great spot in the
world. the summertime’s there, the cycling. Uh, James is saying what he did after retirement,
so I wonder what he’s referring to. I’ll figure that out later. Uh, Mike Ellis, Sean and Wade,
I love the Cape Town Cycle Tour. Done it five times. Colin, you will love it. Okay, guys. I got
to get back over there, I think. Oh, okay. Sorry, guys. Okay, this is stuff I need to know. Uh
Sean’s telling me Allan Hatherly is the current world mountain bike champion and Craig Manar was
multiple world downhill champ. Okay, good to know. The only thing I’ve really followed for cycling
in uh Africa would be like the Cape Epic. I love that. Haven’t even seen it this year. I I love the
format. Uh looks like a brutal race. I think EF just did a version of it. I think Lachlan Morton
was there uh with the American dude. You guys know who I’m talking about. That blonde American
dude who is like a juggernaut on the bike. 56 kilometers now. An hour now, guys. Sean
Busan says he’s 28 seconds off the back, but I think he’ll get back on. He’ll use the
team cars. Oh, climbing now, folks. We are climbing now. It says 12% gradient right now.
I’m looking at the stream here as well. Uh, it’s just a little bit behind, but I can see
the climb. Wow. Ouchies. Commentary here, folks. Ah, yes. I love it. Okay, guys. Uh, great. D,
uh, Vout Vanart accelerates at the bottom of the climb, leading out the Vizma team. Maybe Vout
wants to do something today. He’s a strong man. So, Vout is another rider I would not consider
a pure sprinter. He’s like Matu Vanderpole. They’re strong men. very very fast but not
that final kick of like a burn a binium or uh Jonathan Milan. Oh yeah, Vizma is grinding
the front. They’re going hard. There’s a sharp righthander before we start the climb. So they’re
on the climb now in the video. That’s why that was going on positioning. They’re going into
the corner fast at the front. Everyone else is grinding to a halt trying to get around
the corner. Yeah, though. Red Bull helmet on the front here, folks. This looks like a nasty
little climb here. Very nasty little climb. Guys, here’s a really cool point here, too.
Uh Danny Fan Paul’s father, Jean Paul, won in Bologn in 1994. That is really cool. Really
cool. I love all the the relatives that have raced uh together here. Obviously, Matchu uh
is part of a very famous cycling family. Yeah, looks like a nasty little climb. Everyone’s
sticking together though about leading the way. Everyone’s like, “Ooh, yeah.”
Okay. We don’t need crashes, folks. We don’t crash. I’m going to
get some details on that right away. Uh yeah, Tony says it right here. There’s 180
riders. I think there’s 182 right now uh with two withdrawals during yesterday’s stage, unless we’ve
lost someone else. I can see Pogy right there with team. He’s riding in the Vizma ranks right now.
Yasper’s doing a good job. He’s just three or four riders behind Pogy. Uh it’s Vizma setting the pace
of the front. Yonas is actually in third place right now at the front. The smoke is going off on
the sideline, folks. 11% gradient through here. Uh 550 m to go. I’m thinking I’m seeing Pogy moving
up on the left hand side here. Right behind Yonas. Jorgensson’s right there, too. Jorgensson, he’s
that Okay. I don’t want to say he’s underrated, but he’s underrated. Uh and there’s a crash.
There’s a crash on the climb. I see an Inos rider here. I see a trek rider there. Nothing
big for a crash. More like a bump of shoulders. Someone topples over. Three or four riders go
down about just drilling it on the front, folks. 8% gradient. Some psycho guy that looks like he
needs to ride his bike more. Uh running alongside the riders. Get away from them, dude. Get away
from them. Visma train driving. Pogy right there, though. Pogy is right there sitting third place at
the moment. Looks like he is right behind Yonas. Yasper doing great here. Looks like
Vanderpole’s in about seventh place. Yasper sitting in eighth place at the moment.
He knows if he can survive these hills. We’re going to lose some sprinters. Uh we’ll have a
quick look here as to who falls out the back. 30 to 40 riders over the top. I want to get
some live tracking going here for you folks. Okay, so this stuff to me starting to look
familiar. These country fields. Again, I’m looking at a different angle, but I’ve ridden
this stuff in the last couple days off the front here. Philipsson, there’s a group behind us
here. Uh the second group, 25 riders here. Uh they’ve fallen back a considerable amount of
ways uh coming up that climb. a lot of riders back here. We’re going to see how it all comes
back together, but we got like a one minute 40 second group. Uh 1 minute 40 second gap back
to the second group which includes Anthony Turgis currently wearing the green jersey.
Joe Blackmore’s back there. Casper Ascrin. Big group of 20 fighters. I can see them in
the distance now. So on the course right now, looks like we almost have one blob on the front,
a second blob, and then a long train who are just desperately trying to get back into that
second group. Very twisty and turny. And this is a place coming up ahead here. I was
saying before, I think if the winds hold up, uh, we could see some echelons forming up
in the distance here. Uh it’s a north south road with the and it looks like it’s north south
for probably oh let me guess probably at least a few kilometers. I’m going to say four or five
kilometers just based on what we got left in the race. Uh in the wide open sections we’re
going through farm fields here. If that wind comes out of the west we could see some stuff.
And the flags are blowing hard. So there is a wind blowing kicking up here. Back to the chat
folks. Uh, let me get you back here. So exciting, guys. I love this stuff. I absolutely love
this. Uh, yeah, it’s 143 back to the Merier Group. That also includes Anthony Turgis
says there’s 22 riders back there. Guys, we still have 400 m of climbing to go. Uh, and it’s
basically all smashed into those little climbs. I think Yasper did a really good. I’m just
going to have a quick look here. Now they’re saying it’s 10 seconds back to that group to the
green jersey. So ah I think there’s a group in between too. Think we got a group in between. Man,
these castles here fantastic. I could probably take a year off my life and just tour Europe
looking at castles following bike races. Uh okay. Sean’s saying he’s talking to Mike Ellis.
Absolutely a bucket list race. Did myself two years ago when it was called the Argosy. Someone
mentioned the Argus cycle tour earlier as well. Captain Coro saying, “Thanks. Keep it up.” I think
he’s cheering me on. Or maybe he’s cheering the cyclist on. Uh James lives in Calvie Corsa.
Yes, I’ve heard of that name. I swear the Tur was there a few years ago, wasn’t it? Uh yeah,
Tony Yasper’s doing a really good job here. So guys, my poll question today, uh, can Alison
go two stages straight? It looks like it’s at 59% yes now. So maybe a lot of the people never
got their vote in, but I’m leaning more towards that now. And I think at this point it could be
Matthew today. Maybe they want Yasper to get it. That’s the problem with that team. They’ve got
two guys that could compete for the green jersey. So they don’t want to split the points too much.
That’s something to consider for them. There might be days where it’s like, Matthew, you can’t
win today. We need we need Yasper to win. So, we get a stage win and we get the green jersey.
On the front right now, Total Energies really liking the smaller team’s performance here. Like,
great stuff. Help us in on the front. Yizma Vizma on the right hand side. Roads are starting to
narrow up here, folks. Roads are getting narrow. Ah, here it is. Okay, that’s the front
group. Here’s our 10-second gap. Uh, it says 36 seconds here, but I think it’s a lot
less than that now. And then off the back here, we’ve got 22 riders back here. Wow, these guys
are hurting now. They’re almost 2 minutes behind. Not the place you want to be, especially
like look at this here. Uh Garcia Gortina, he’s only 10 seconds behind on the GC. He’s
12th overall. Finds himself 2 minutes behind today. Same with Holler here for Tudor. Uh
22nd overall and now he’s 2 minutes behind. Some of the other riders back here, it’s just
the way they’re riding right now. They’ve got big time gaps as is. They’ll be stage hunting
later, domestic work. But these guys here with only 10 seconds behind the Uno X rider, he’s
only 10 seconds behind, man. Dude, they got to do something to get back on. Get back on, boys.
Here’s that turn I was talking about. This may have something develop here in this north south
section here I’m showing you. Think everyone’s going to be on high alert through here. Again, I
don’t know. Maybe we can back up a bit here and see what the winds are like right now. Yeah, you
can see here the winds are crosswind right now, but they’re very light. So, the wind gusts
from earlier, it looks like they’ve died down back into our awesome chat. Uh Wade saying Cape Epic is on his bucket list. Tony saying his live feed on TV just glitched
like the Matrix. Maybe we were all bots. Possibly. There’s a better chance that we’re living
in a simulation than not. That’s horrifying, isn’t it? There’s a better chance we’re living
in a simulation than not. Why am I doing this? I’m initiating the bots. Uh, hey Jay Taylor.
Hey, do we still have the same forest? No, dude. They’re gone now. They got caught with
50K to go. How big is the first group? Um first group right now it’s looking pretty big.
I’m thinking maybe I’m seeing it’s a good size group. The front right now it’s got to be 80 90
100 riders right now minimum. We’ve got Well, I can find out. We’ve got the front pelon. We’ve
got 17 riders riding solo behind them. Another group of eight and another group of 22. So that’s
47 riders right there. So we’re still like 130 140 riders in that front group right now. It’s kind of
all came back together. Those four breakaway guys, what an effort. Wonder who’s going to get the most
combative award today. Everything’s kind of just stabilizing at the front right now. 24 km to go. I
bet you they’re taking a lot of communication from their DS’s. Uh what’s the strategy, guys? Lots
of right-hand bends here. We’re taking a hard 90 right now. Luckily, the road goes from very narrow
to very wide. Looks like we’re almost three lanes wide here. Lots of fans at all these corners.
That’s probably the place to view them. Uh, see if I can Okay, finally we get the intermediate
sprint. Okay, guys. Going up on screen right now is going to be the intermediate sprint. This is
where Jonathan Milan gets so mad at Germia. And watch Kakard behind. He’s fist pumping at someone,
too. Watch how mad Milan is here. If they show it, he’s really mad at him. And Kakard’s mad
at some Israel primary tech guy. Oh no, sorry. It’s a groupama FGJ guy here.
I want to show you that again. Uh, can I do that? Let’s have another look at it.
They said here that Milan was going 80.5 km an hour. Yasper was right there. Germ was right
there. Kakard, Anthony Turgis. Uh, who is Oh, that’s Merlier over on the left hand side.
That’s who that was. Okay, guys. Back at it. Going down some nice long descent here.
70k an hour plus. See where we are on course. So, they’re just uh this looks like a big
down here. So, I don’t think the crosses will have much effect here. I didn’t
know it was downhill through here. So, traveling downhill here. Uh they’re going to
string out. Well, actually having said that, I can see some gaps forming. Gaps are forming. Such high speed here. Lot most guys aren’t even
pedaling here. Doing 75k an hour. Let’s get back to this. Looks like a trailing group behind
to me. Pelaton all grouped together. I just got sight of Germia right there. Uh he’s tucked
over on the left hand side right behind the total energies team. Alpas kind of dead center with E EF
Education and the UA team on the far right snugged in beside Israel Premier Techch. Yesterday Israel
Premier had two uh guys that stood out to me with Pascal Arian and Joe Blackmore. Okay, so there’s
a good chunk of riders. There’s like 20 riders in a group behind these guys. It says 35 seconds is
the gap right now. So, we’ve got a group up front. We’ve got the main Pelaton, 135 riders. We’ve
got a group that’s just dangling. 17 riders. Matty Mahoric chasing. Uh, it says 40 seconds.
Is that really 40 seconds? I don’t think so. You know what? I’d love to have a satellite view
of this. I would love satellite maps. Group three, eight riders. Sean Flynn’s in this group.
And then group four, 22 riders back here. There’s three riders here. Even Ballerini here,
he’s only 30 seconds down on the GC. It’d be a shame to lose, you know, 2 minutes today.
So hopefully they can get back up there. Four groups here, folks. Remember 10K is
where it is going to absolutely light up, folks. Will absolutely light up. Lots of
road traffic here. people standing on the roads with their cameras out. They don’t even
realize that the the riders are coming at them and the riders the Israel premotech guy
waving these fans off the road. Yeah, that’s one of my biggest pet peeves. Uh when I
get back here, guys, love the chat still. We’re at 153 likes. We have more people watching
now than earlier. I I swear guys, it’s your likes that are getting more people to watch my
videos. Thank you. Uh yeah. Okay, perfect. Uh James says here, “Three stages in Corsa 2013.
Saw all of them.” Wow. Awesome. Uh Sean’s back in. Yeah, I Yeah, I would say so too. Guys were
close, but Philipsson won that one easy yesterday. Uh Jay uh Jay Taylor saying he’s on his
he’s using his phone. Can’t really see the data that well guys. Uh Jay, all of the
hitters are at the front right now. All the sprinters are there. Uh the big teams
are there. There is a scattering. We’ve got five groups now. I’m just going to have a
look. It we’ve got a group of five. The group, the Merlier group is out the back. Two and
a half minutes back. That includes Is this Merier? Phil Bow House is back there. Oh wow. One
of our breakaway guys, Evani Fedorov, is in the last group on the road right now. Two and a half
minutes back. Group four, eight riders. Uh Stoers in that group. Sean Flynn is in that group. Alexis
Renard, who we saw earlier, is in that group. Group three, these there’s two groups
that are together. Looks like group two was not allowed to bridge back. Wow,
that’s insane. So, the front group. Okay, where are they? The main pelon 135 riders. All
of the big names are up there. The sprinters that you would expect. 54 seconds back, we got
two solo riders, Higguittita and Mayor Hoffer. I’m just reading uh some comments here from Team
Picnic Post NL. Now is the time the directors got to motivate their riders. Uh 15 riders in
group three. That’s the Matty Mahoric group. We bounce back another minutes. We
got eight riders riding solo there in a little small group. How funny. Someone’s
got And they did it, too. This is so good. There’s a dude standing on the side of the road
decked out in his cycle gear. What’s he wearing? Looks like he’s wearing a donic or something on
him and he’s got a big circular thing up in the air. It’s all painted with a net on it and it
says beatons here and someone threw a beat on a bottle right into the net. I think this is just
a fan who wants to collect bottles and the riders are like this is perfect. I can ditch my bottle
now and not be fined for littering. So awesome. Camera’s on Felix G right now. 49 seconds
behind uh GC Gap, 77th overall. This guy, once we get to the mountains, we’re going to see
a lot more of him. Had a really good year so far. Um, okay guys, let me get back here. Okay, someone’s talking about the cyclist being
mad. I wonder if that was from the sprint. Uh the main pelatons at the front and they
have right now it looks like 1 minute 13 second gap to the second group. We’re split
across five groups on the road here. 17 km to go. Actually 15.3 km to go. It’s all going
to take off at 10. I’ll try to start doing my coverage here based on the tour feed because
that’s where the climbs start and that’s where it will light up. Um I would expect to see
some longer range attack starting. Actually, I just noticed an Alpison rider move to the
front and having a good look around at all the other riders. The riders are 10 deep across
the road. If you wanted to get through that, there’s no way getting through unless you’re on
the front. That’s the only way you’re getting away right now. The entire EF team is spread out,
straight as a line. Uh, Sudal’s over on the far side. Alpasin’s more to the left side of the road.
Yeah, all the teams are setting up for something big here, folks. Stage two, Tour to France.
Doesn’t get any bigger than this, folks. Uh, someone’s asking about Binium again.
He’s absolutely fine. He’s in this front group right now. Yeah, Steven Cycles, you’re
right. Steven says it’s an uphill finish. So, even though we’ve we’ve got two climbs left, guys, I’m going to try to zoom out here so you can see
them. Uh, here they are. It is an uphill finish. It’s not much, but it’s enough that it’s going to
hurt the legs. Again, look, the guys right now are climbing again. Uh, and it says right now they’re
climbing. Okay, so that’s that is a little bit old what I’m looking at. So, that’s okay. It’s up and
down all day. These are brutal stages. Absolutely brutal stages. This is just wear your legs out.
So, the closest group is a minute 25 back. So, tons of riders are going to lose so much time.
the GC is going to be flipped around again. Uh for those riders that were all like mid pack, it’s
just going to be flipping everywhere. There’s guys right now that are only 10 seconds behind on the
GC. They’re losing three minutes today. The guys in that Merlier group, I’ll take a look at them
right now. Uh there’s three riders there, Garcia, Cortina, Holler, and Edvartson Fryheim. They’re
10 seconds behind on the road. They’re three and a half. They’re three minutes 15 seconds behind
now. So all that work they did yesterday kind of Magnus Court Nielsen’s back there too.
Uh Bow House Danny Van Pppel’s back there. Oh, is that him? One of the Silvan Dillier.
He was doing a ton of work earlier today for Alpas. He’s off the back. Evani
Federov, who’s been in the break, uh was he in the break yesterday? Well,
was in the break today for 150 kilometers. 160 kilometers. He is three minutes behind
now. And I think that’s only going to grow. Insanity here, folks. Try to show you where we
are again. Now, here they’re all spread out. It’s saying there’s five groups. I just don’t
think the fifth bubble’s showing up. Uh when I come to map mode, they’re together. Second
and third group are probably going to merge together. Hopefully, maybe they can reduce some
of the damage they’re going to experience here. Look at this corner coming up here. Obviously,
you know, this is diverting off a roundabout. Uh that could be a dangerous corner. This looks
more like we’re going to start climbing here real quick. A little bit of a switch back
here. Uh straight up this side of this hill. And what I will show you guys here, uh
this here, they cross the water here. So, this is the water flowing out to the ocean
there. Uh, a hard 90 here. A little tiny bit of a roundabout to go through. Another hard 90.
Then a run down to the finish. A final, but we’re climbing uphill just at the very end. The last
few hundred meters. I I believe we climb uphill. Uh, camera right now is showing Maximillion
Shackman out the back. That looks like the main Pelaton right there. So, they’re falling
out of the main group. Yeah, I can see two riders in the distance right now. Shackman was
one of them. Didn’t catch the other riders’s name. The heat’s on, folks. The heat is on. Uh
I think all we still have is our sprint video, guys. Here’s a video for us. Let’s check
this out. This was the climb. This is the start of the climb at 30 kilometers here. Oh,
that was over the top. That was over the top of the climb at 30 km. Everyone, it was a
pretty good group that went through there. And I want to get to the
commentary. We’re probably going to get some more feed now coming in, folks. Yeah, it’s fast, man. It is fast. EF leading it
out right now. Going through a big traffic circle. They’re splitting up. The right side was the right
side to be on. The left side, you’re going to lose spots right there, folks. The right side guys are
already done. The other guys are just coming out of the circle now. They just lost 50 spots EF
there. That was a kind of a big screw- up by EF there. Now they’re all having to do extra work
to get back to the front. The Sidal guys, they call that one right. You know, how you go into
these roundabouts and which side you come out is very crucial. 10 kilometers in Groupama FDJ come
to the front right now guys. There’s a probably four or five of them up front and two doors there
as well. Okay, EF is slowly making its way back up. the five or six of them. Looks like there’s
only three of them now. Remco right at the front, folks. Going through another roundabout. Going to
keep uh looking at this map here really closely. Want to stay on this map right here. Long drag
now uphill. So, where are we on the map? Oh, we’re on our climb now, folks. This is the
start of this climb. This category three. Um, what did we say about this one
earlier? Riders get are getting stuck on either sides of the traffic.
Uh, furniture, the road furniture, Ramco right at the front. I see Vizma
riders up there, too. Total Energies. Okay, good stuff. Yep. Final 10K. This is where we start
climbing. We have two climbs to do here. probably within it’s two hard little
climbs within a few kilometers of each other. Then we start bombing downhill and
I think the road gets kind of technical with that bridge crossing those 90 degree
corners. We’re on the coat descent aten. Yeah, I did see the Vizma guys are
up there too. So it’s Groupama FDJ driving the front right now with Vizma
Lisa Bike. Those are the two teams that are the most dominant in the front right now.
Groupama has got something up their sleeve, folks. Uh Roma Gregoire, yeah,
that guy’s been on fire this year, too. Won a stage just recently. Groupama FDJ
is at the front. Uh chat’s getting crazier. Uh Sean, thanks for the great commentary and
chat. I’ve subscribed. So, look forward to seeing everyone again. Got to fly, catch some See you
later, Sean. Take it easy, bro. Thanks for hanging out with us, guys. 165 likes. shattered the old
record of Inside Cycling World. Shattered. Still got 216 people watching, guys. Love the numbers.
As those likes go up, there’s some other dude sitting out there at home right now. Could be a
dude, could be a lady watching TV. Loves cycling. Oh, Group Pal is pushing hard. And I think
Inos is coming up too on the lefth hand side. Man, they are pushing hard right now. Bonut’s at
the front. All the hitters there. Vanderpole’s there. Podakar’s there. Patchar, however you want
to say his name. That’s why I just say Tatty all the time or Pogy. No one knows how to say his last
name properly. Taking a hard 180°ree corner here. I want to see this now. Let’s get back
here. We’re going to zoom in quickly. Yeah, guys. It’s like a 12% gradient coming
up through here. This is a tough little climb. Backing down to 7%. 8.9 km to go
at this moment. Groupama FTJ still working super hard up there. Total Energy’s in the
mix. Right behind them is lurking Alpas. Yeah. So, it’s saying here 1 kilometer at 10.6%
is this actual climb. Max gradient is 15. I think we’re in it right now. I think we are in the
max gradient now. I think this is going to be really interesting. It could be a groupama rider,
maybe a Vizma rider. We’ve got 650 m to go unless someone from Alpasan jumps out of that group.
Here comes Yonas up the right hand side right now. Looking strong. It’s so good. He’s wearing
that distinctive helmet. Now we got a Vizma rider going to the front. Got a one bike length lead
over an Alperson rider. I see Pogy in third place. Yonas fourth place. The road is about six feet
wide here. Fans on either side. The Jean Darmms in the area. I think this is T Bonoot on the
front right now. And who is that? I got to think that’s Matthew Vanderpole right there. I think
it’s Matthew in second place. It is Matthew in second place. On the front is Tonut from Belgium.
Uh Pogy’s right there. Yonas just sitting right on Pogy’s wheel. Tenise, sorry. Bonoot just shut
down. He went from like 80 RPMs to like three. He just pulled right over. Uh, Matthews there. Pogy’s
there. Pogy’s looking back all the time for Yonas. I think we got another Visma rider attacking
here. This looks like it might be Jorgensson here. I see a taller, lankier rider. Again, I said it
earlier. I don’t want to say he’s underrated, but he’s underrated for sure. Uh, 13 14% through the
stuff here, guys. This is insane here. Absolutely insane. I need to go to the commentary, guys. This
This looks like Yonas Poggy. Who knows who’s going to get over the top here. Flying up this one,
guys. Uh, thanks for subscribing, Sean. We’ll see you tomorrow. Oo, wow. A billion comments
just came in at once here. Uh, I’m trying to catch up. Mike is saying Germia has a chance at it
is an uphill finish, guys. Uh, we’re getting we’re getting close. 6.8 kilometers to go according to
the tour site. And there’s nine riders in that front group. Check out this group. Yonas, Tatty,
Matteo, Jorgensson. Yes, Kevin Vakalon. I love this guy for Arca B&B. Matthew Vanderpole,
Remco is there, too. Uh Jonathan Navias, Roma Greg, Roma Gregoire, and a Laurance for Inos
Grenaders. I don’t know who this guy is. Okay, dude. Nice job, Axel. Axel Laurance. Love that
name. Uh with that name, you’d think he’d be f I was going to say Belgium, but he’s French. So, is
it really only nine? I think that nine’s going to grow really quick. Guys are going to start bombing
down the other side. There’s there’s separation between them. There is definitely separation.
Looks like we got about five, six seconds between the front end. Oh, Matchu’s sitting on the front
right now, folks. Let me see if I can check out all these riders here, guys. We got another
climb to do. We still have the coatro to do. Velasco is in that front group as well. So,
riders are merging back. Someone is trying to go off the front, folks, right now. Someone’s
going off the front. Let’s see who this is. Yeah. So, they’re saying there’s 25 riders on the
front of the group now. So, it’s it’s all kind of merging back together. There was like just a few
seconds in between them. They’re bombing downhill, catching on with the front, and now
they’re all grouping back up. Uh, okay. Okay, so Tony’s talking about Bob Roll
here. Called a fan schmey and a bad fan, a drunk, a Schlug. Sometimes he
was caught being even more rude, unfortunately. I love it. Bob roll team
7-Eleven days. Absolutely fantastic. Uh J Taylor, awesome. Thanks for watch party.
What teams are controlling the P? Dude, it’s on right now. Everyone, all the
hitters teams are up there right now. I mean, right now, this is hard. So, right now,
in this very front group, it’s Yonas, it’s Tatty, it’s Matthew. Uh, the sprinters are gone. The
the the hardcore 100% sprinters. So, like, uh, I don’t see Yasper at this point. He might
be in the second group. Bennium’s gone. Uh, all of the big sprinters are gone. Tatty gets
credit for that one first there. First over the coat descent at the end 21.3 km. Yonas was right
on his heels. Uh looks like Matthew’s leading now. Okay guys, this is getting really good. This
is getting really good. I think I need to go to live tracker here. See where they are on the
course. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. So, they’ve crossed this the they’re over the top of the last climb of
the day. Starting to bomb downhill. Yonas, Tatty, I don’t know who got over that one first. I’ll
be able to tell you soon. Vanderpole, Jorgensson, Kevin Vakolone. This guy’s incredible. Remco is
there too guys. Narve Rajick’s there. Rajick’s there. Lipoitz. A lot of big names here, guys.
A lot of big names. Thomas is up there too. Garon Thomas is over there. Neielson Palace.
Yes. Mark Hershey. Florian Lipwitz. So nice group at the front. The group might get bigger
here as I watch this. Watch the live tracking here. Yellow jersey. Okay. So, Philipsson is in
the second group. Big group behind him there. Okay. Let’s keep watching this closely. So I’m I think I might stick on this one here
just so you can see their locations on screen right now. So this is directly from tour of
France. This is the live this is as live as I can get guys. So you can see where they cross
the water. Um there’s going to be a bridge. I’m not sure what that bridge approach is like.
It looks like a hard left coming out of it. And then they do go through I checked this out
yesterday. A couple of roundabouts. I had to use a different mapping package to see what it
really looked like. Really impressed by Kevin Kevin Bakalon. Really impressed by him. This guy.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That’s the second last the last climb of the day. It’s him leading the way over
the top. I wonder if he gets the points for it. Looks like Kevin Valon gets the points on the
uh for Arca B&B for the last climb of the day. Wow. People are out in force here. Fireworks
going off or flares. Kevin Valong really good. Oh my. Oh my. Benium uh had a mechanical.
He wasn’t in the front group. Yonas is in on the attack now. Guys, I got
We’re going to get some tour video. I’m going to jump back here because I know my
feed’s a bit behind. Yeah, this is a bit older. So, this is saying 4.8 kilometers to finish. Uh,
on here I’ve got 2.6 kilometers to the finish. Yeah, Valon. Oh, he’s attacked
once. He’s attacked again. Let’s take a look at the map. We’re
going to have to hang out on this map, guys. This is the best way I could show it to
you right now. They’re approaching the bridge now. Crossing the bridge. this front group.
Four riders. Four riders left in this group, guys. Uh, okay. It’s just highly It’s back
to 15 riders now. I thought we lost Jonas for a second. Kevin Bakalon, Matteo Jorgensson,
Matthew Vanderpole. It is an uphill finish. My money’s on Matchu. Uh, Tatty’s there too.
You know, Tatty’s very explosive as well. This is going to show us a lot of
stuff. Who’s in what kind of condition? They’re running alongside the riverbank now.
It’s more of like a canal. And so I’m watching this and trying to watch the live stream at
the exact same time. Yeah. Super. Kevin Valon, here comes a top 10 finish at the Tour to
France. You keep this kind of performance up. There’s lots of comments, guys. 173
likes, 234 riders, viewers watching. I keep saying riders. We are in the final
straightaway now, guys. Final straightaway. Florian Lipoitz. It says Florian Lipitz is
off the front. Is that true? Is that true, guys? I got to go back to this one here
now. Uh, we’re going to zoom in here. Group one.
Florian Liquitz. Is he really by himself there? Is there
really a 3se secondond gap back to Podakar? One rider up front. One rider up
front right now with 800 meters to go. It looks like they’re catching him now.
3 seconds. It looks like the second group, which is all the hitters, uh, is right on him. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.
Wow. I need this refreshed way more than this. Lip just gets caught. Almeida is now pulling for
Pogy. So, Lipwood’s made a heroic attack on the front there to get away, folks. 600 meters to
go. Matthew’s probably got the biggest sprint left. Matthew’s got the biggest sprint left,
folks. Let’s have a look. Uh, I’m trying to get on here as quick as I can. Take a look at this,
folks. Here is the finish line coming up right away. The chat is in this corner. I can see you
guys talking. I can’t even look at it right now. Can’t even look at it right now. Come around
this final bends. Hopefully you guys are able to see this, too. I’m going to have to rely on
the commentary here, I believe. Uh, guys, well, that’s behind a little bit, so we don’t want to
listen to that right now. Watching the finish. 200 meters to go to the finish. Leading group.
What I’m going to do is I’m going to jump away, I think. Uh, Here guys, let’s get the race
through. Matchu Vanderpole for the win. Folks, what we’ll do right now is I’m going to turn
the commentary on. We’re still 1 km out. You can hear all the details right here. 1200 m to
go on the longest day and Lipitz is about to be caught just as they make their way onto the
first little bit of this rise. So the rise goes to about 5 mm to go. Then it take a sharp right
and it starts to slowly go down for 100 meters and kicks up the last 300 meters. Big effort
there by Lipage. He’s not looking back. He’s going for it. Amida stringing to close the gap.
Yes, he is closing that slowly but on the wheel. Anna Phippe moves up to get ready looking good
as well. Anna Phipe looks good on this finish. Big move on the outside. Felix Gal comes up. He’s
already won a stage of the tour. is there. Lenco still there. Vaner in the middle. We’ve got
670 m to go. Henrik on the right hand side. This is how it all went down guys.
Going to be an allout sprint for the top of this big big move of Julian Alfip.
Julian Alfip really looks around sees Machu Vanderpool decides not to go moves up on the
wheel of Taga looking for his win in his career. Alfu this kind of finish he’s unbeatable I think
a long way to the finish line big move on the left hand side of the road looks for
clan goes again to try and win the stage Vanderpool now starts to open it up it
is such an elite group of riders moving up right on wheelard moves up on the left hand
side there goes Matthew Vanderpool Vanderpool starts the acceleration he sees the gantry
in front It’s going to be all out between right. What a finish. What a finish.
What a finish, guys. So, that’s I think that’s the way we’re going to do it. So, I’ll do my best.
Then I’ll throw those guys on the pros. Uh because there is a slight delay. Matthew Vanderpole let
out Pogy all the way. Uh Pogy used him as his leado man. Matthew just too strong. Pulled him
at the line. But Yonas was right there. Yonas is right there still. That was awesome. Awesome
stuff. Uh, wow. Wow. Wow. Okay, guys. My poll today. I think I had a good poll question today.
Matthews off his bike laying on the ground. What a sprint. Uh, two for two for Alpas right now.
Like, unbelievable. Um, that’s kind of what I was thinking today. this stage was kind of built for
him. Those uphill finishes, strong man finishes. Obviously, Tatty’s great. Yonas is great. Uh I
don’t think anyone would have thought that if I would have said to the beginning, Tatty’s going
to finish in the top three, you’d be like, “Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He he could.” If I would
have said that about Yonas, you’d probably go, “Nah, this is not Jonas isn’t that strong.”
He’s top three today. He finished third. same time. Uh, but Kevin Valon, he went early.
That guy’s really good. Really, really good. Tatty just squ squeezed through. Vakalon
slowly fades away. Yonas comes around. Uh, the tudor rider, which is Alfalipe,
jumps right on Pogy’s wheel. Think. Yeah, Pogy still more explosive than than uh Yonas. Matchu pumps the air, slams on the brakes, avoids
hitting the fans. Yonas made a good attack to jump all the way around Alfalipe to get close
to Tatty. Tatty just broke away a little bit, but he was also being towed away uh by Matthew
Vanderpole. So, what can you take from that? Well, you can take that Matthew’s the best at those
kinds of finishes. Uh, and that we’re going to have a huge battle this year between Pogy
and Yonas, guys. 176 likes. I love it. Uh, yeah. Hey, Wade. Thanks for hanging
out here the whole time with me. It’s guys like you that really help the channel
out, like watching this entire uh, video. Savage Pro Alpas and Shampoo. Wash your
opponents out. Yeah, you got it, man. top three dude. MVDP for the win. Uh
Tatty second place, Yonas third place, all on same time. There might have been a quarter
second or half second separating them. Uh again, I think most people would say, “Yeah, Tatty
finishing top three today.” Sure. Yonas, people would say, “No, he just finished third
place. He’s on the podium for today. He’s way stronger than what you thought from last year.
Let’s just hype up the tour, folks. Hype it up. Yeah, great effort by Lipwoods. I love attacks
like that. I absolutely love it. James Delara from Corska, thanks. You did a great job. Hey,
dude. Thank you for watching. Uh, my dogs are going nuts up stairs. Jay Taylor, Alpison looks
to be the best team so far. Yeah, Jay Taylor. All these early stages are just like kind of
perfect for Alpas with uh Matthew Vanderpole and Yasper Phillips. And if it’s a a pure sprint,
Yasper. If it’s uh an uphill hardman finish, it’s going to be Matthew Vanderpole every time. Uh and
he showed it again. So, here we are. Crosswinds weren’t as impactful as I thought they might
be today. They did a lot more damage yesterday. But I think this is a pretty miserable day
for the dudes out there. Uh, while we’re here, let’s take a look at this. What’s tomorrow?
Is tomorrow the Dunkirk stage? No, that’s stage four. That’s stage four. Tomorrow. Oh, it is
Dunkirk tomorrow. So guys, tomorrow you want flat, it’s going to be flat. Uh, let’s Oh, it’s not. Oh,
sorry, guys. server died out there quickly. So, okay, it doesn’t like that one. I don’t know
why. Route of stage two. We can use this one back here. I’m trying to get back to live
tracking. And okay, I’ve lost it, guys. Uh yeah, stage five is the time trial. That’s where
you’re going to see Yasper lose time. Impressive. guys. Okay, I’ve got it right here for
you. Got it here. Let’s watch this. Here they are coming up the hill. It’s an uphill
finish. Matthew Vanderpole leading. Tatty was maybe half a bike length behind him. You can
see Yonas coming through right there as well. There was really nothing between them. Germay
finishes more than five minutes behind them. Uh so tough day for GM out there. He finishing with
a teammate. Uh, I think he’s finishing with Adam Yates there, too. Oh, maybe that’s Simon. Never
know the difference. Uh, let’s just jump out of that, guys. Again, thanks everyone for being here.
So, overall, that was Matthew, Tatty, Yonas, Kevin Balon, and Matteo Jorgensson. Awesome stuff. stage
winner, Matthew Vanderpole. Yeah, he’s a savage on a bike. Absolute savage on a bike. Kind of been
there, done that, done it all. The race. That’s our wins, folks. Okay, guys. Uh, what time we
looking at now? How long have I been online for? Wow, guys. I’ve been online since 4:15. We’ve been
online for 5 and a half hours. That is insane. Um, Cole Kane, dude, thanks for your support earlier
today. Really appreciate you jumping out and doing that for the channel. Uh, Jason, yeah,
probably not steep enough for Tatty. You’re right. Highspeed finish, too. Brutal day. Lumpies,
I’m just going to go through the final chat here. Fod Walker, thank you. Colin, dude, thank you. You
guys are what makes this happen. I can’t do this unless you guys show up. Uh, you know what’s
crazy, guys? There’s still guys out there on course. Like the damage being done right now. I’m
looking at 9 minutes since the finish. There’s still 92 riders out there with a 33 minute time
cut off. Okay. A bunch just finished. It just dropped to 64. Uh, okay. Check this dude out here.
Love it. Uh, Robert Hayer says, “Thanks. We are in Paris watching live but needed some English
commentary. You did great.” Thanks, dude. Thank you very much. Thanks for uh watching the channel,
supporting if you can. Uh likes, guys. 181 likes today. That’s the support I’m looking for right
there, guys. That’s the support I’m looking for. So, those likes, there’s going to be someone
sitting around later today on a Sunday, bored to death, turns on YouTube, they might see my video.
I’m just a local independent dude doing this. I got no one backing me. Uh I’m not part of any
company. It’s just me. me in the 10 x10 cube. A victory and glorious action today folks. Uh stage
three Valencians to Dunkirk. So yeah, that will be a flat finish one. 170. Thank you, Tony. 178
km rated as flat. There is 800 meters of climbing though. Uh is that tomorrow? Monday? Is tomorrow
July 8th? It can’t be. Tomorrow is July 7th, isn’t it? Yeah, tomorrow’s July 7th. Um, uh, we
got someone else jumping here. Sasso Casablanca, Vingo looks really strong. Pogy didn’t
look invincible today. Dude, you’re right. I actually noticed earlier on one of the previous
climbs. People always say this, Tatty never looks back. He was looking over his shoulder the whole
way because he knew Yonas is right there. Guys, I’m not really a huge fan of either one of
them. I like guys like Matchu better. Uh, but I want to see a close battle. I don’t want to
see one of these. If Yonas was to blow Tatty out of the water, I would hate it. I don’t want
to see Tatty do the same thing either. Uh, I want to see a close battle all the
way to the finish. Keep it exciting. Um, so that was Sasso Casablanca. Good comment.
Dawn will here. Superb job. I’ll be back, dude. Don, thank you very much for watching
today. Uh, we’ve got another dude here, the other fool. Well done, sir. Thank you, dude.
Thank you to you, sir. Tip of the hat, sir. Uh, I find there’s people that watch and they don’t
comment till the very end. And usually I jump off and they’re probably still commenting.
Uh, so guys, if I don’t respond to you, it’s not that I didn’t want to. I love talking
cycling. Whether you’re just a cycling fan, you’re getting into cycling, uh, maybe you just
like the scenery, guys. Half the reason I watch is the scenery. I’m just being honest with you. I
love the scenery. I love the buildings. Uh yeah, Tony’s. Yeah. Okay. Thanks, Tony. Yeah. July
7th is the Dunkerk route. Uh Sasen again. Love I love the cycling fans. Yonas looks different than
Dolphin. He looks really easy on the bike. Dude, that’s what I’m thinking. He looks confident on
the bike. Uh when you watch last year’s tour, he looks nervous. He looks frail. He looks
fragile. He doesn’t look that way anymore. Yeah, he’s a little guy. He can probably blow over.
He’ll probably get blown over in a strong wind, but he looks more resilient this year. Uh, okay.
So, we’ve got Holly here. Hey, Holly. She says, I’m assuming it’s a she with the name Holly. That
was awesome. So glad I found your channel. Holly, thank you for finding the channel. I love it,
guys. 185 likes. I’m going to be asking for more tomorrow. If we can keep growing this puppy, I’m
all set. You know what, guys? I’m an unemployed geologist. If if a geology company called me right
now, I’d be back working for free tomorrow. Uh I’ll work three days a week for free. You can
pay me for two. That’s how much I miss being a geologist. It’s been too long. The industry’s
changed. I’m too old, guys. I’m too old. I’m too old. Everyone’s crossed the finish line now. Uh,
so my goals in life are to be either a semi-pro amateur cycling commentator or I’m going to have
to go sell life insurance. It’s up to you guys to uh determine my destiny. I want number one. I
want to be a commentator. Uh, we will be doing the women’s tour at the end of July and I will be
doing the Valta and I’m going to squeeze anything else in there that I can. There’s so much coverage
to do and I don’t think it’s covered enough. Okay, last few comments here, guys. So, Holly, thank
you. James Delar, you will be the go-to guy for the tour. Gee, dude, I hope so. Uh, James, great
to meet you today from Corsica. Dawn, again, building a nice community following. And, uh, we
got another guy here, Joe 512, where’s everyone watching from? Joe’s from Southern California.
Joe Colin, the commentator here is uh whatever you want to call me. Colin, your friend. You can
call me your friend. Uh I’m in Alberta, Canada. Uh Tony saying he will wait
to judge Poggy until stage 12, the hilly stage and the time trial. Me
too. Me too, dude. Me too. Savage pro. Nice comment here. Geologist. Well, look at
it. You’re always down to earth, dude. I am. I am down to earth. I’m humble. I appreciate
you guys being here. Uh, wow. What a great community to be part of. We’ve got um looks like
Gaggo, dude. Okay, I’m struggling. Gaggo Verusk, nice job. Salute from Slovenia. Yes, dude. Your
country is a cycling powerhouse. It’s kind of like certain countries just get on it and they
say, “Let’s develop our guys.” It’s kind of like Great Britain did with Team Sky and all this
stuff. All of a sudden, out of nowhere really, you got all these incredible uh cyclists from
the UK. Tour winners, uh, multiple tour winners, and it’s Slovenia now. So, yellow jersey is now
Matthew Vanderpole. Polka dot jersey is Tatty. Uh, Ma most combative is Bruno Amarill. Great
to see him get something here. Love it. Absolutely love it. Uh Kevin Vakalon is now in
the white jersey. Now Yasper gets his jersey, the the green jersey. What a great race, guys.
I’ll be checking the timing tomorrow. Um so here’s my day. I still need to ride my bike. I
still need to put about a good hour in on the bike. And I want to get Joey Jojo, that’s the
wife, out of the house today. We haven’t left the house this weekend. I think we need to
get out. Maybe go out for afternoon pizza. Uh, okay guys. And then we got I’m not sure
what the last Nivec de Jinski. I’m not sure what they’re saying here. Me for Sam. Don’t
know what that means. Uh, everyone. Guys, 187 likes. Can we do 200 tomorrow? Can we get to
200? Guys, I’m so glad I found the right group of people that want to hang out and do the same
kind of thing. I’ll try to improve it every day. Uh, and anyone that’s watching, if you want, reach
out to me. Uh, I’m not this guy that’s like, “Hey, man, it’s personal time now.” Uh, you know
where to find me. Uh, I’m also on Facebook, so you can Facebook message me. Uh, so, Inside
Cycling World, that’s me on this guy right here. Inside Cycling World right here, that’s my channel
over on Facebook. That’s the name of this YouTube channel. You can directly message me there. You
can private message me if you want. 189 likes, fellas. Let’s go. Wow. I’m going to be so pumped
to see how many views we got at the end. Guys, we all did a great job today. Thank you for
watching. Uh, this was pretty incredible. I’ll try to put up a new poll up for tomorrow,
guys. If you have any comments or suggestions, just send them to me. Help me out. Uh, and special
thanks to number one dude today was Tony C. Savage Pro was number three. I’m looking at the top
fans here right now. So, the podium with 350 XP today was Tony C. Number two was Wade with 300 XP.
Savage Pro number three at 250. Rubu Jeff Littles was there too. Swoosh Kid, guys. So, there’s like
a little thing that shows up every day uh on my YouTube channel. Not sure how to show you guys.
Uh, actually, you might get to see it right away. Here you will. I’ll just let the video stream.
Yeah, actually, it’s being recorded right now, so you’re going to see it. It’ll It’s going to appear
on the the right hand side of the screen. I want to give you viewers uh your podium positions for
the day. So, this will be appearing here on screen pretty quick, guys. I’m going to jump. I’ve been
streaming for 5 hours and 24 minutes right now. That was a bad finger snap. I got to get outside
and uh do my chores, feed the animals, and get my life going. Okay, guys. Thanks for watching.
See you tomorrow morning. Uh check your times. I don’t even know when we start. I’m going to figure
it out tonight. See you soon. Appreciate you all.
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First boom!, before MVDP!🤣😂🚲
Love the jersey ❤