Hey Riders…..Stage 6……After the efforts of the Time Trial we see another vicious day in the rolling hills of Normandy. Starting at Bayeux, only a few miles from the D-Day landing sites, the riders take on a 201 km route with 3500m of climbing. Super punchy with 6 categorized climbs spread through out the stage. This one is going thermonuclear right from the rip. I am expecting the attacks to start at Km0 and be pushed by the smaller teams working together to form a breakaway.
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**Stage 6 • OVERVIEW
July 10 — Bayeux → Vire Normandie • 201.5 km (hilly)**
– Six climbs, ~3550 m total ascent from roller hills of Normandy
– Key previews: Côte du Mont Pinçon & Côte de Vaudry before launching final 700 m @ avg 10% uphill
– Expect puncheurs or strong breakaway riders to shine — a tactical and explosive finale awaits!
– Watch for GC teams closing gaps and riders chasing time bonuses to climb the standings.
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🚴 Stage 6 Recap – Tour de France 2025
📍 *Bayeux → Vire Normandie* (201 km) | 📅 *July 10, 2025*
Terrain: Hilly with 6 categorized climbs (~3,550 m elevation) and a brutal 700 m finish ramp at ~10% gradient.
🥇 **Stage Winner – Ben Healy (EF Education–EasyPost)**
Healy launched a daring solo attack with **42 km to go**, breaking away from the front group and holding off the chasers to take his **first-ever Tour de France stage win**!
⏱️ Margin of victory: **+2′44″** over Simmons, **+2′51″** over Storer.
### 🟡 **Yellow Jersey Drama**
**Mathieu Van der Poel** clawed back the **yellow jersey** from Tadej Pogačar by just **1 second** after being part of the long-range breakaway.
GC is now tighter than ever with mountain stages looming!
🏁 **Stage 6 Top 3**
| Rank | Rider | Time Gap |
| —- | ————– | ——– |
| 🥇 | Ben Healy | — |
| 🥈 | Quinn Simmons | +2′44″ |
| 🥉 | Michael Storer | +2′51″ |
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### 🔢 **Top 5 GC After Stage 6**
1. **Mathieu Van der Poel** – 🟡
2. **Tadej Pogačar** – +1″
3. **Remco Evenepoel** – +43″
4. **Kévin Vauquelin** – +1′00″
5. **Jonas Vingegaard** – +1′14″
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### 🔥 **Why This Stage Mattered**
* **Ben Healy’s bold solo:** One of the most aggressive and successful breakaways so far.
* **GC shake-up:** Less than a second separates the top riders!
* **Van der Poel’s comeback:** A rare moment for a classics rider back in yellow.
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Going live. Three, two, one. Boom.
Boom. Time, folks. Let’s go. Riders, welcome aboard. I know some of you were already
here in the chat live with me right now. Uh, we’ve got guys up doing their things already. Uh, Don’s been out for a walk before work
this morning, but he works from home. So, it’s awesome. Don, I’m kind of working from home
these days, too, cuz I got no option. Uh, guys, short neutralized start today. I think it’s only a
5k neutralized start. Uh heading out. I see Yonas is in the polka dot jersey today by default. Uh
best of team stage five. Uh UAE team Emirates. Got a little look at Van Art here. Hey guys, good
morning. Uh let’s have a little look here for you. What are we at? So if that’ll zoom in quickly.
I know it’s just to wait for a while. It’s 4:40 in the morning for me. Uh, I did get up at 3:45.
Still in the witching hour, guys. I still got some oatmeal here. I haven’t finished yet. You know
what? Authentic. O Natural. I’m starving. There we go. I actually have a small fan on beside me right
now, too, because uh whatever I’m working my way through right now, I woke up just soaked in bed,
sweating to death. Uh, I am so hot right now. Now, I’m in an ultra lightweight LCLE jersey,
folks. Licole, Lico Cole, Licole. Uh, yes, they don’t sponsor me. Uh, this is the 8848 meter
jersey. Uh, it was a collaboration between Licole and Straa. They do it every year. So, if you
can climb 8848, do an Everesting in uh Oh, guys, I bet you on the wrong stuff. I’m sorry. Okay,
this is where we’re supposed to be, guys. Uh yeah, this is what happens when you start early. So
yeah, we’ve been looking at the wrong stuff there. That’s okay, though. Um let me just get back here.
We’re looking good. Yeah, everything’s on. Videos are playing. We’re good. Got some extra stuff.
And guys, I got to apologize, too. I saw that uh just waiting for this to refresh here, too,
so I can get my stream up over here. Should be popping now. I found out that there’s some
pictures from that Dawn sent me a few days ago that I haven’t even posted yet. So, they’re all
ready to go right now. Let me just delete this guy right here. We’re going to get rid of that.
Uh, okay. There’s my YouTube live now. So, I pull that up on the other one. The spotlight that Joey
Joe doesn’t like. I don’t know what I’m going to do about it. Just the way the room’s like, it’s a
dark room and um there’s just light sources coming from every direction. which I need to spread
out, guys. Brutal stage today. 201 km with I think it’s 3,550 m of climbing. We start out in
Bayou Bayou. Uh we’re probably only 3 four miles from the beaches of Normandy. Uh the home of Kevin
Vakalon. Uh so he’s probably going to know a lot of these climbs. Nothing too brutal today. We got
a bunch of cat three, cat fours and cat 3es today, guys. you know, the initial part just setting up
right now. Uh, this looks like a killer today. Looks like an absolute killer. Uh, and it’s
funny how they arranged this one right after the time trial. Let’s check out the route
here by you to Normandy D. It’s live. We’re in the neutralized start. Let’s see the chat.
Chat’s still loading. Uh, yeah. So, today guys, we have five cat 3s. one calf or climb, you
know, lumpy, bumpy, super punchy, bing bang, ring a ding-dong dandy. Um, similar to stage
four, but different at the same time because uh it is more climbing and all of the categorized
climbs are c are across the entire stage. It’s going to be more ramy right from the get-go,
right from the rip, as I usually say. Okay, so here’s the chat, guys. Let’s get it. Let’s
get it. Sorry, guys. I’ve been missing some people here. Uh, okay. Let’s catch up.
So, everyone’s getting busy. Colin Coats, uh, my zifting buddy, he is already off zifting.
Heading out to another 48 hour shift at work. Uh, 2.5 km to the start. We got a
two-door rider waving at us here, guys. Uh, just a quick story here. So, we’re
going from Bayou to Vier Normandy. Six climbs to do today. I’ve got the climbs uh loaded
on a secondary source here. Uh I’ll show you Dawn’s pictures in a bit. He had a bunch
of uh pics of the riders too from stage 4 that I just didn’t see. Remember, the last
two days have been kind of really hazy for me. Uh I am very good in the morning, but not
when I’m not feeling great. I do have a tiny little fan blowing beside me here. I’m going
to see what it’s picking up right now. Okay, I just went really quiet there. That’s not very
often you hear a dead silence from me. I just wanted to see what the mic was picking up. This
mic is pretty sensitive. We look pretty good. So, this is stage four here. Going to show
you a map of where we are in France. So, here’s our starting point. 2.1 km start,
guys. You can see here we start way up at the top of the map there. You can actually see where
the time trial was yesterday. We can probably roll in a bit here. Here’s con, as we call it. uh
all these areas here. If if you followed any history uh World War II, maybe you learned it in
American history. Uh we learned a lot about this, too. I’m sure most people did. There’s a lot of
names here you’re going to recognize. Uh what’s the one I saw today? It’s on the stage. It’s
called uh I think it’s called Viller’s Bage. Huge fighting in World War II or uh just after
D-Day landings. St. Malo is in the area. Uh, this was a pretty hotly contested part of
the world. I just imagine way back when, just really staggering to think about it,
there’s dudes loading up on planes here, uh, probably right after midnight, something like
that, traveling across the channel and jumping out and landing back in here somewhere behind
the enemy lines, in the enemy lines. Uh, here’s St. Low, another huge place. I know there was a
huge armored battle here dropping troops in. Uh the first guys in were called the Pathfinders. I
believe they went in before the paratroopers. They were down on the ground like setting up some kind
of signals. Maybe they were small flares like, “Hey, this is where you guys need to land. You can
land here. It’s safe. Uh it’s not swampy. You’re not going to drown when you hit the ground.”
Uh 1.4 km to go to the start here. Actually, the start’s actually going to be quicker than
that. Actually, the first sprint point of the day is at Viller’s Bakage. I wonder if we can find
that on the map here. Yeah, here it is right here. So, this was a pretty hotly contested area. So,
we’re going to get the sprint point out of the way early today. Let’s take a look at the overall
standings. I’ll catch up with the chat in a bit. I’m probably going to swill this coffee. So,
yeah, stage ranking from yesterday, we saw Remco uh put a beat down on he is a really good time
trellis. Was that his best performance? I’ve seen him do better than that. Uh, was Tatty going
extra hard? I think Tatty super competitive and uh, he doesn’t want to be beaten by anyone.
He doesn’t want to be beaten by anyone. So, he was like doing his best to limit the damage
to uh, Remco. Uh, I think there stage, you know, stage 13 could be coming up. Uh, could be well, it
is coming up. could be the kind of one where Remco could take a minute, two minutes out of Tatty.
Those kinds of things that happened before to tatty. And guys, I just want to say too, you know,
when I got off my stream yesterday, uh the chores, you know, whatever else. I was feeling pretty
good yesterday and uh everything all over YouTube, including the bigger media outlets. Oh, Yonas’s
tour is over. Tour implosion. His Jonas’s effort at the tour has collapsed. It’s over formed.
Tatty’s already on the tour. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Yeah, I’m not a fan of
that, guys. I don’t want to be clickbaity. Um, it’s kind of cheesy to me, cringey. Yonas had one
bad day. Let’s see what he’s beh What he’s What is he at? Let’s have a look. General rankings
after stage. Uh Yonas is fourth place overall, one minute uh 13 seconds behind it looks like
from one kind of off day. Now, he was 1 minute 13 seconds behind. Guys, I’m not I don’t need to
say anyone’s names here, but let’s just scroll down through the uh leaderboard here. And this was
okay, that’s rankings yesterday. What we should probably do is look at the stage ranking. Let’s
just scroll down. Uh Eduardo Afini, he did awesome yesterday. Amarel did awesome. Remember he was in
one of the early breaks. I think he was in that four rider break I got pictures of now. Vocalon,
Lipawitz. Let’s keep scrolling down. Roger’s there. Tobias Foss. Uh Bingigo right here. 1
minute and 21 seconds behind. There’s Tobias Foss, Nelson Olivera, Neil Plet. So, Yonas finishes
13th overall. Bad number, but whatever if you’re uh superstitious like that. Getting ready for the
neutralized start to be over, folks. I think it’s already going to be hotly contested. Let’s take
a look, guys. We are off. Stage is officially on right now. Stage is officially on. 26° C. Guys are
already attacking off the front. The second they drop the yellow flag, the teams are going out.
Kind of think we’re going to see a coalition of uh smaller teams. I hate saying smaller
teams. I don’t want to uh no disrespect to Yeah. So 35 O. Yeah, it’s close to 3600 meters
of climbing today. Absolutely brutal out there, folks. Absolutely brutal. Enter Mare Wanty on the
front immediately. Uh two doors there. That looks like Archa. I don’t think we’re gonna see Alpasen
uh or UAE Vizma at the front today. I think they’re all going to play a game of cards, keep
their cards tight to the chest, up their sleeve, uh to see what the other team’s going to do. They
want to do as little work as possible today. This is going to be a brutal stage. There could be some
teams going out for points. There’s a way that, you know, if you scored enough points here
today, you could probably be in the KM jersey. I did find it yesterday. Yeah, right away here
they’re saying intermareteer wanty controls to start. Stage six is on. Uh started kilometer
zero at 12:47 local time. Let’s see where we’re at here. Yep. 4:51 in the morning for me. So
that was 4 minutes ago. Going to be a long day, folks. Got to get into the office today. Uh by
the office, I mean where Joey works, not me, guys. Uh having a quick look at Jonathan Milan
here. Let’s get into the chat here, guys. I want to be able to read this. No problem for you.
Um, let’s catch up with everyone. Don say when his friend tried to become a Zifter years ago but
wasn’t ready to ride become an indoor rider. Yeah, I agree. Some people just don’t like it. Some
people love it. Uh, some people, you know, some people ride inside and outside. No, Colin
rides outside, too. Here we are, guys. I’m going to go through all the highlights in a little bit
here. Just let me catch up, guys. Probably going to grab my second cup of coffee, guys. At the
front right now, smashing uh 53k an hour. Looks like the whole Intermar team is at the front right
now. They’re out to do something today. The days that the big teams don’t want to do the work are
too busy eyeballing each other, the smaller teams, uh they get a chance at the front. Great
riders on these teams. There’s Binyang Germay. Got some Trek riders up there, too. Um, Don
says he use rollers and wind trainers during the winter but picked up a spin bike during co.
Yeah. Do you guys remember the tur what it’s what’s funny too is and this is just a comment and
someone mentioned it a few days ago. Uh, so back in the day like in the 80s they were called turbo
trainers. They were called wind turbo trainers. Wheel on. So, you just drop your bike on a little
tiny roller with this thing that had two fans on it and they made like a noise like a jet engine
going off. I used to sit in my basement, too, and look at a concrete wall uh playing something
for music on probably some terrible sound system back in the day. Try to get you some videos from
yesterday here, guys. I’ll play something as I’m trying to catch up. Uh not sure if I showed
this yet. Let’s have a look at where we’re going. There it is. There’s an English channel
right there. Here’s uh Beu Farmlands Rolling Punchy down through valley systems here. Mont
Pong. I looked that one up last night. Actually, I looked at all Kella Ron Kanye. I’ve looked
them all up last night, guys. Trying to figure out how I can show them to you. I think I’ve
got the perfect site for it. I’m always kind of checking out different climb profile sites. If
you do a lot of cycling outside, Cotto Mortan, I think it’s actually called to Kotto Mortan 314.
I don’t know why. It must be on a certain road. Must be a couple of different ascents to it. Oh
yeah, signs on the side of the road right now. Al Kevin Kevin Valon third place overall at the
Tour to France right now. What a champ. I’m going to say right now, man. Future champion of the tour
to France. Not like that’s a big prediction. Woo! Colin, you did it right. Uh, okay. Um, yeah. So,
again, back to the turbo trainer. Stopped cycling, got back on. Now, you have these smart
trainers, which are deadly quiet. Sorry, guys. I hate when I do this to you. They have
these smart trainers now that are deadly quiet. They don’t make a peep. They’re controlled to
software. Let’s go back to the videos here. Uh, what do I want to see? Those
are pre-race interviews. This looks like Tatty riding yesterday, I
think. Yeah, just a quick blip here, guys. This looks like him heading out. He looks
super fresh here. Yeah, this is Tatty heading out. Polka dot jersey now. Holster jerseys,
man. Check out his beautiful bronze legs. Okay, just get back to the stage
here. We’ll go to the race here. Yeah, little TX also at the front. I’ve already
seen that. Uh, so we got Tre and Intermar. Uh, what they were saying there looks they said
Intermar is controlling for the sprint. We do have one Trek rider actually tucked in. They’re
in second place right now. Uh, so yeah, the turbo trainers now if you want to the smart trainers now
are controlled to software. You look at a screen. You could look at an 80in TV if you wanted. You
could look at a tiny phone if you wanted. You see yourself on screen as an avatar. You see terrain.
These smart trainers simulate the terrain. You’re going to feel the ups and the downs. What I
think is funny is that if you’re from the UK, you still call them a turbo trainer. They’re
not really a turbo. They’re a smart trainer now, but they still call them turbos. They just
say, “Yeah, I’m on my turbo.” And I think, are you on one of those old things? No,
they’re on like a smart trainer. Uh, so check out the smart trainers if you ever want
to ride inside. great workouts. Uh if some of you just love watching cycling, but maybe want to try
it out a little bit, some of these roads you’re seeing here right now, you can find on some of the
cycling simulators. Not all of them. It’s hard to get imagery of the entire world. Uh but there’s
a lot of cool softwares out there. Zift, Ruvie, uh Bike Terra that I’ll put my whoosh in
there, too. uh training peaks virtual. So, go check them out. Getting into the
chat here, guys. I’m really behind. Here we go. So, Colin Coat is saying you’re
an hour behind me. Uh so, Colin, you must be central time then. I’m Mountain Time. Oh, here we go. Someone’s having the la the Lavaza coffee
from the cure and oatmeal with raisins. Okay, so it’s almost the same. I’m having boring old uh
Tim Horton’s drip coffee. Uh the malfunction this morning was this coffee maker’s been acting funny.
It’s just a drip and I’ve got it on cold brew and it keeps plugging up the little, you know, when
you put the coffee in and the drip thing comes down, the water goes in and it opens up that tiny
little pin at the bottom. It keeps overflowing. The coffee gets in there and plugs it. Then it
stops working. So this morning I was starving. My food intake’s been really bad over these last
few days. Like not not enough. I’m starving to death. And uh I tripped the breaker. It there’s
this little tiny I shouldn’t say tiny. It’s kind of like a big hallway and we kind of made it
a coffee bar and so we just added some power ports on and he goes, “Well, don’t plug a lot of
stuff in at once here.” That’s the first time it’s ever happened. Of course, today when I’m trying to
get ready for this, I had the coffee maker brewing and I plugged the kettle in for hot water for my
oatmeal and uh I tripped it. So, I was kind of in a panic fixing that, too. Uh but yeah, I’m just on
the standard drip coffee and instant oatmeal. Uh Quaker Oats, nothing special. Uh okay, so checking
everyone out here. 6:40 in the morning for Dawn. do. Oh, Colin’s almost done with the third
climbing portal and that I know is the hotcom uh guys. So, Colin Coats right now is riding
a climb that we’re going to see at the uh tour to France this year. I forget what stage that
is. Why don’t we find out right now as we’re just watching the start here. We’re going to
come back here. Let’s go to the route. Which day is hot? I wouldn’t be surprised that
it shows you that right here. Stage 12. I don’t know how you say that. Ouch. To 180.6
kilometers. Uh, this might be our first official mountain stage. I believe it is. We don’t have
a mountain stage until after the rest day. Uh, 3,800 meters of climbing. Take a look at the
profile on this puppy. Look at this guy. So, gently climbing all the way. Category 4,
nothing special. That’s a one-pointer. uh category one called a solor category two called
as bordeairs and then an HC which stands for ores categories above categorization that’s the
autocom hoticcom rot there uh so on zift there’s a challenge right now four stage challenge
call let me know if that’s what you meant uh and I think the hoticcom is the third third
one the call to malan is the fourth one you can kind of do them out of order if you want I’ve only
done two of them so car. Been off the bike for two days. Probably off again today. Just don’t feel
that great right now. So, that’s what’s coming up that day. Uh the day before it looks so different.
Like, take a look at Tuloose here. The Tuloose stage. Who do you think this is designed for? Look
at this finish here. Sprinter galore right there, folks. Sprint paradise. That’s usual going
into Tuloose. Let’s get to the live here. So guys, it’s all staying together. All
staying together. Teams are working at the front. Uh but no one’s putting
in massive attacks to try to break away. Trek is on the front right now.
They’ve taken over. Uh they’ve got big boy Jonathan Milan up there. Uh is Jonathan
Milan still in the green jersey? Actually, I think Tatty has it officially. Tatty has
the green jersey. Where can we see that? Uh, points jersey right now. I think Tatty has it in
the general ranking. Yeah, Tatty has the official green jersey. 99 points. I guess there was points
yesterday for the green jersey out on the stage. Or maybe he got it the day before. Jonathan Milan
here, 92 points. Bingham has to be up there. He’s at 87 points. Where’s all the Bingan supporters
today, folks? Where are the Benny supporters? Okay, we’re uh just checking out one of the lotto
riders here. Let’s just keep it on the live. Heading over towards village of Posage. Get
caught up with the chat here quickly, folks. Uh yeah, so Colin Coats, I’m going to catch
up with that soon, but yeah, I’m pretty sure he’s writing the hoticcom right now. Bashock’s
in the mix. Morning inside Cycling World and Friends Fanatics. Good luck on commentary.
Thank you, Bashock. Ruben’s here. Hello, ladies. Hey, Reuben. Yeah, Lipoitz looked really
good yesterday. He had a great time trial. I think he was I think he kind of blew himself away
actually. C uh EF Education coming up on the lefth hand side of the uh the road right now.
Lotto stacking up over there too. Confidence rider coming up. Maybe that’s Brian Kakard,
man. Still looking back at that video of him, you know, like everyone pointing fingers at him
and like he he did that on purpose. Come on, guys. Um, just let me catch up. Don saying it’s a
lumpy ride today with some twists and turns. Not sure how much uh road furniture there. Yeah,
I’m not sure either. Uh, but guys, I got a new uh I guess it’s I can display the hill profiles
better. Probably going to sign up today. Looks like one of the best ones out there.
Uh, Tatty has three jerseys. Sprint, Kon, yellow. Yeah, he’s too uh he’s
too old now for the white jersey. Brett’s just dropping in saying hi.
Hope is everyone having a great day. Okay, so Colin Coats, he’s got the D diddy the
devil kit and going to get ready for jury. So guys, in Zift right now, that challenge, if you
do all the challenges, they’re all climbs. You go into the climb portal. So, it’s probably what
some people uh like Zift is all these programmed worlds. It looks like video game graphics, an
older video game now. And the climb portal is a way they can quickly add on clims. Uh it doesn’t
show you all the pretty graphics and the houses and the tur and the terrain. It just like a road
that goes up. It’s kind of space age looking, but you get to do the whole climb. They could pump
any of these climbs that we see in there so quick. if they wanted to. Uh there’s some climbs on
Zift right now that you can’t find anywhere else. Uh probably maybe outside of Bike
Terra. Bike Terra has got pretty much everything because all you need on Bike Terra
is a GPX file. So if someone’s ridden it, uh how do you get a GPX file? Go to Strava. You
go to Strava and you can get someone’s GPX file. It doesn’t matter who it is. Just find their
activity and download it. You actually what you do is you go to the Strava segments. the Strava
segment leaderboard. Snag the GPX file. Pump it into Bike Terra. There you go. You got the climb.
You can do it. I did this on Ruby way back when when we could intermar back on the front right
now. The entire team is up there. Maybe one track rider in there. Uh tip of the spear right now.
Nine 10 riders in a row and then the big blob of the tour getting ready for the first sprint
of the day. Uh we there will probably be points at the end too at Ver Normandy. Uh I did find
out a way yesterday how to see all the points. I need to get back to that. But let’s finish the
chat up here. Uh Jeff LS is saying Greg Lamond won a gold medal yesterday. Which gold medal
did he win yesterday? What’s that all about? Uh Doug Sanders here. Morning from Russian
River in Northern California. Okay, we’re from the Russian River, guys. slowly picking up
today. Slowly picking up. It’s pretty cool to see the numbers pick up. Um, you know, we’re under 100
right now. It slowly picks up. Within a few hours, we’ll be rocking over 200 viewers. Uh, we are,
uh, just over 9 km to Villers Bage. And there it is again. They’re showing it now. All of
Intermar, Bingham included, and one truck rider at the front. One truck rider up there with them.
Just keeping an eye on them for Jonathan Milan. Yeah, pace is super high. No one can go right now.
You’re right about that. Intermar is keeping the pace super high. Uh so no one can try to jump off
the front. And the other teams know, too, they’re not in contention for uh the sprint jersey. So
they’re kind of I think they’re okay to say, “Yeah, you guys can fight over it. We’re going to
take off after the sprint.” Why get into a battle with the big sprint teams early on when you’re not
in contention for that jersey? Uh, I can see a few Alpison riders lurking over on the side here.
They’re going to want to have a go at this too with Kaden Groves perhaps Matthew Vanderpole.
There is the green jersey now. Okay. Uh, yeah, there were sprint points yesterday. I didn’t I
wasn’t even aware of that. Doug Sanders saying, “Oatmeal breakfast champions. Uh, you do
well for being so early.” 100%. Thanks, Doug. Okay, guys. Let me get back to this here. We’re
a little ways away from the sprint. What I want to show you guys right now is, and I apologize for
this. Uh, one of the dudes that’s been hanging out here, we didn’t see him at all yesterday. So, I
did send him a message. Thank him for his videos, uh, his pictures. Let’s do this.
Okay. So, two days ago, Dawn, he’s also known Don Wutes. Don Wutes, he’s also
known as FOD Walker here. He just visits France, so I think he might have headed home. Uh he told
me he has he has a place there. And uh these are the rest of his pictures that I never got to show
you. So this was day four. Remember that stage where it had a bunch of climbing early on and then
uh at the end it had those five categorized climb that absolutely massacred the field. They were
short climbs. They were all cat fours, one cat three and people were finishing 10, 15 minutes
behind. That’s going to happen again today. But let’s go through his pictures here. He sent
them to me. I want to show them off. This is the fourman breakaway, I believe. Yeah. Four riders
come by here. What’s really cool is Dawn’s on one side of the road. His wife, I think her
name is Michelle. She’s on the other side of the road. She’s got some pictures here, too. So,
this is the breakaway. The Pelaton coming through later on. Uh Dawn’s like down in the ditch trying
to get at road level with the riders. Just got some great shots here of riders going through.
This is how close he is to the tour to France, guys. He’s right there. Check out that nice
villier bike right there. The bluish bike right here. Rider with the white shoes.
Uh the group FDJ. Is that what they ride? I didn’t know that. Uh Interar driving at the
front right now, guys. I’ll get through this. Check out these sexy envy wheels on this bike.
I love it. Cole Nago. That’s a UAE rider there. That’s their frame set. Uh yellow this day.
This would have been Matthew Vanderpole. Uh Alpison Deco Coin rider tucked in behind right
behind another Alpison rider getting we’re at uh over kilometer 14 now. So again, these are
all from Dawn, one of the guys that’s hanging out in the chat with us every day. Uh hope to
see him back here real soon. Alpison here leading uh with uh Matchu. So obviously I posted these
pictures just I’ve just uploaded them this morning guys. And so this would be this is a picture from
his wife. So Dawn’s on the other side of the road, the right side of the road. Michelle’s on
the left side of the road. She’s a little bit higher up. She got this picture of the four
rider breaker right here. So anyways guys, I thought that was pretty cool. Um yesterday
we had a guy in the chat, uh Sage, was it Sage Gaston I believe it was? And let’s just do this
quickly. Where are we guys? This is how close we are getting to village because right now it’s
going to get hot and heavy real quick here guys. Bage is kind of like these little builtup wooded
areas. Um they line the edges of the fields and in the war they were I think the bage is quite
similar to the hedros. Uh very effective at stopping tank movement. uh limited movement uh
the mobility of the armored units quite a bit village. So yeah, it’s going to be on the
straightaway here at the very edge of town. Now guys, let’s talk. Okay, I wonder if we
should get to this really quick here. Get back to the race. See what the commentary is
going. So we’re less than 5 km to go to the intermediate sprint. Tatty’s in the yellow.
Tatty’s in the green. It’s worn by Jonathan Milan today. Uh Tatty will be out of the green
immediately. Uh because I think Jonathan Milan’s probably going to go for the sprint points. Uh and
I think he’s only five, six points behind. Guys, let’s check this out here. Just a quick little
shot. Everyone cheering on Kevin Vocalon here. Look at the crowds cheering him on. Every
sign says Kevin’s name on it. He’s even on a freaking balloon here, folks. The fan club
of Kevin Vocalon. He’s got his own balloon. Go to France. riding Kevin Bakalon’s balloon. I
think it’s awesome. Love a French champion. Uh, okay. So, yeah, it’s Edward Twain is at
the front with the entire intermar. So, I’ve got the name of that rider that’s up
there now. Getting close, folks. Getting close. Let’s get it. It’s going to get hot out there
today. Remember, as we move further south into France, and guys, this basically happens every
year in France. Um when we get down to uh the Provence uh the central massif area and we
go further down to like the French Riviera, it’s common to see weather down there in
the high30s. It’s been like that the entire time they’ve been watching the tour to France.
Taking a quick look at a Sudal right here. Oh, it’s Remco. Just having a little look at him.
Now, my question here is did he go all out yesterday? He’s 42 seconds behind in the GC.
Uh, at this point I still think Yonas has a better chance than Remco does, even though
I love Remco. Let’s just It is what it is, right? Remco is a TT stud. That’s what he
is. Getting close to the sprint here, guys. I’m going to try to do a little bit of uh chat
catch up here. Yeah, they’re already starting to position for the sprint now. We’re getting close.
Uh it’s a kind of a curvy swervy run in. There’s a few little like chicanees and curves in the road.
They hang a hard right and then the sprint point is right ahead of them. Intermar kind of uh more
like an arrow point now at the front. But they’re all there. They got to be careful. I can see
them bumping themselves. There’s three interar riders uh a breast and one of them was just
almost accidentally bumping his own teammates. That’s how tough the sprints are, guys. Like
just being a sprinter is inherently dangerous. Uh, okay. From Little Trek, they’re
saying Johnny wants to do exactly what they did on stage four. Okay. Well, I hope
something like doesn’t doesn’t happen because uh the the green jersey crashed out on
stage four at the intermediate sprint and basically Jonathan Milan just cruised over
the intermediate sprint. We’ve got him through the curbs in the road right now. Uh going to read
this here. Yeah, Doug, you’re right. It I guess they’re getting the sprint out of the way early.
I think this stage was designed so well. Put it right after the TT. It kind of makes the time
trialist think twice about what they’re going to do with the time trial. Like, man, do I completely
implode myself at this TT on stage five? Cuz I got to survive stage six. This is a stage of attrition
right here. No huge mountain climbs, but it’s up and down all day long. You’re working hard,
you’re coming down. You’re working hard, you’re coming down. We are turning into that corner right
now, folks. Uh, one more little bend in the road and then a hard right and then we are down the
straightaway. Going to try to get back here to the chat. Uh, the commentary for the race. Not getting
much from them right now. Uh, this is a place where in I’ll catch up with this in a bit. Uh,
Lauron Fon pulled out here uh, a few years back. Once we get closer to the sprint, we’re
going to see what the the winner is. Then what I’ll do is I’ll turn the volume up.
You can kind of hear how it went down. Let’s get this map going again. Yeah.
So, I’m watching them go through the curves right now. They’re already going
to be well into the sprint right now, guys. They are well into the sprint now. Uh my
map is stuck coming to the sprint point now. We’re going to get some classifications here right
away. They’re coming through the sprint right now. winds coming from the left hand side. Turning this
up for you guys. You’ll hear how it goes down. Very true. So, where we’re at here, we’re
about 45 seconds behind or whether it’s going to be kind of a dual fight
to see if Alerson can take it. So now the moves start to happen. So this is a
little bit of a replay of what happened guys. They’re smashing at 65 to 70k an hour. Lead out
train 63 km an hour. Vinnie Demi is up there on the wheels of his riders. Jonathan Milan
is getting ready on the wheel. Very fast leftander now as we get ready to fire. We’re not
far from this sprint finish. We’re about just over a kome. I was going to say we’re actually about
a kome until the green jersey sprint which is it’s actually really nice that it’s so early on
today’s stage. Well, this guy thinks it’s nice cuz it’s early move up towards the front. Milan
is there. Simony console we heard from the team radio. He wants to do what he did a few days ago.
Whatever that plan was, we don’t know what it was, but he’s now going to put himself in position.
Inter Mar at the front. So guys, we’re living in the past right now. We came through the sprint
points. Interperson’s there, too. Exactly. Matu Vanderpole is still in contention
for the green jersey. Alison’s up there battling Interar right now. We’re one
kilometer to the sprint jersey. Again, guys, we’re a little bit in the past. This is
how I have to do this. Inter cranking hard at the front. Bingham in third place right now. 20
points for first place across here. Basically, whoever gets first uh place today will be in
the green jersey. Tatty will not be involved in the sprint. It’s going to be a Binan Jonathan
Milan, Matthew Vanderpole, maybe Kaden Groves. Riders are barely hanging on here
in the sprint. Bumping and grinding, folks. Bumping and grinding.
Sprinting is dangerous. Trek rider right on the front. Jonathan Milan
second place in his wheel. The Alpison train comes up on the right hand side. Intermar comes
up. That looks like Bingham way on the far right. Bill’s sprint folks. Yeah, Bingham’s
way on the far right. Jonathan way on the far left of the road. Looks like
Milan is powering past right now. He’s too powerful. He’s too powerful. Sorry.
So there uh we’re living in the pasture. I just want to see how it happened. How I would have
called it. I already know who’s got it. Let’s take a look here the race. Uh we’ve got a little
bit of a gap now after that. So you can see here uh Milan gets 20 points. Vanderpole second. Germ
probably went too early. I think his lead out man took him too early on the right hand side. And
coming through, it’s good old Quinn Simmons at the front. He’s flicking the EF Education Rider
uh to come work through with them. So guys, this is what I said. There’s not going to be any
breakaways early on. They’re going to let them contest the sprint, then the breakaways are going.
Uh it’s Tre and EF. I thought it would have been, you know, maybe Arca and Total Energies, Dathlon.
We’re going to see them up here pretty quick. They need to be at the front. Get into the action.
Really cool to see Trek and EF lighting it up. Uh definitely not what I would call the smaller
teams. Going to get back to the chat here, guys. Uh yeah, that will hurt the riders later.
Doug saying he’s been watching since Lance can’t recall sprint so early. Yeah, you’re right. You’re
right, Doug. Uh Thomas Bridge, another day in another great jersey by Colin. Yeah, I love this
jersey. It’s an awesome jersey. Licole bros, come on, man. Help a brother out. Uh, I’ve got two LCL
jerseys. So, guys, story on this one is Lico Cole has a deal with Strava. They do it every year. I
think it’s been running five or six years. If you can ride the height of Everest, uh, see, it says
Strava here. It’s a Strava. This uh, where does it say 8848? I don’t even know. Uh oh. Right here
on the arm right here. It says 8848. 8848. I’ll try to show you guys. 8848. Maybe it shows on the
back. I don’t know. Uh anyways, if you ride the height of Everest in the month of June, I think
it was. Uh they make it really easy. I mean, 8,848 m of climbing, that’s like What is that, guys?
Oh, that’s 29,02 feet. The height of Everest. I should know that number like that. I was trying to
calculate it quickly in my head. It’s Everest. So, you got to climb 29,000 ft. 8848 m. Yeah. So, that
this breakaway was set up by Quinn Simmons and it looks like Ben Healey. Yeah. He’s got the Irish
armbands on. Ben Healey going on a break today. Uh Interar riders that were doing all that work early
on are now riding back in the cars. Just shelled out the back. One rider’s way out the back. We
got another one hiding behind the doctor’s car, holding on for dear life. Uh so during the
month, you climb that distance, that height, however you want inside, even out uh outside and
even inside. Now, that’s how I did it. Uh I got a really good discount on the jersey. Now, hang on
one second, though. Hang on one second, though. If you do it all in one ride, which you can do,
uh, for those of you that don’t ride bikes a lot, you’re just cycling fans, junkies, um, it’s
called an Everesting. That’s where in one ride you ride the height of Everest in one ride, and
you have to do the same hill over and over. It’s very difficult. So, you find a hill nearby your
house, you ride up it, you get to the top, you turn around, you come right back down. You ride
up it, you turn around, you come right back down. uh they’ll just mail you the jersey. So that’s
how I got this jersey. Love Cole. I also have another Lico Cole jersey uh I got through Steven
Cycles who hopefully will be in the chat soon. Uh supported the channel from way back when.
Actually does a lot for the channels. Helped me make videos. Uh done inside rides with me so
we can capture video content for them. Helped me with my flight sim videos. So awesome
stuff. Um okay, let’s get back over here. Yeah, the green jersey today is just collateral
result from Tatty’s effort yesterday. Still cool to have all three jerseys for a day. Yeah,
definitely. Evans cheering on Milan. Yeah, Milan actually when you watch the sprint,
he took it so easy. So easy. Uh yeah, he’s probably working hard. He was he was traveling
at 74.7 km an hour. Uh the intermediate sprint a couple of days ago, he was doing 80.5 km
an hour. Maybe it was a little bit downhill. Be cool to kind of go back and look and see what
sprinters were doing in the older days, you know, the the early 2000s. Like, how fast would that
have compared to a Peter Sagon? What do you guys think? Would Peter be able to hang with these
guys? I think so. Watching the replay now. So, they’re giving me a full replay here. Bingham
goes early on the right side. Matthew Vanderpole goes on his wheel. Jonathan Milan is gone so
fast on the left side. the stream they were giving me before. Yeah, Matu goes right over
the shoulder of Bingham. Bingham gives up. Bing soft pedaling. Milan is probably 10 bike lengths
ahead. Uh the first camera angle I had was right at them. Fourhortened the camera. I couldn’t
see the gap that Milan had. He was well ahead of them. Uh definitely the best sprinter at
the tour this year. Little Trek radio boys, really good work. So guys, pay attention.
Quinn for the breakaway. Yeah, it’s good to go. Yeah. So, they’re calling it right there. They had
that planned Quinn for the breakaway immediately after Jonathan Milan had finished that sprint
there. Uh, we got a slow start today, folks. We’ve got 67 riders watching now, but awesome
for everyone to be here. Really appreciate it, guys. It’s going to start growing more and
more. Uh, I think the weekend’s going to be really exciting. Uh, it’s kind of crazy.
I think I did one or two stages. I’m like, “Oh my, I’ve got to do this for 21 days straight,
plus the the rest days.” I’m like, “Here we are, day day six already, folks. Day six.” Uh, haven’t
seen the camera once yet on uh Yonas or Tatty in the race. Anyways, got a nice look at Eduardo
Afini here. Man, that guy’s a good time trialist uh for Vizma. Really cool to see the name Rabo
Bank back on the uh the jerseys here of Vizma. Rabo Bank involved in quite the doping controversy
back in the day. Uh when would that have been what year do you guys remember? Uh what was his name?
Michael Rasmmanson. He kind of looked like even a he looked like a shorter version of Chris Froom to
me. The one of the skinniest people alive. I think his nickname might have even been Do you guys
remember his nickname? He was a climber for Rabo Bank and he was leading the tour to France. uh
you know just a little doping issue and uh he was withdrawn from the tour to France. I’m thinking
that’s got to be like 2008 or nine or something. I should look that up. Okay, cool. I love seeing this guys. Love
your comments. Swoosh kid, dude. Thank you for commenting. Sagon would have been able to
hang. I think so too, man. I think so, too. uh you know it’s it’s hard comparing eras to eras
but you can really look at some of the stuff like when you see uh some of the time trials from the
past how fast they’re traveling like when I look back and see David Miller’s time trials from 2002
2003 long time trials so his time trials he was doing were like 45 to 50k along an hour and he’s
averaging 53k an hour the whole way uh probably not on full carbon everything. Probably not on
carbon wheels. Uh not on the best equipment. Uh because remember that’s what they keep saying
right now. The constant speed improvements we’re seeing at the tour right now is due to all
this the small improvements in tech and this and nutrition and training and that. That guy was
just flying. Fred right on the front now. Okay, so it looks like Fred Wright’s actually trying to
I’m not sure if he’s trying to bridge across here. Let’s take a look. Uh sorry guys. We’re going to
have a quick look here. There is a breakaway. I’m not sure if more guys have joined it. Let me catch
you up here. Yeah, I’m seeing multiple splits now. So, group one, this should be Quinn Simmons. Yeah,
Quinn Simmons and Ben Ben Healey. Like I thought, so they went immediately after the sprint.
And I just got to think here we, you know, why why is Ben Healey at the front there? Why
would Ben Healey a a tiny lightweight climber? Let’s Ben Healey. Let’s take a look at him. Oh,
we can’t look at him here. I thought we could. Uh Quinn Simmons, you know, the rock star, the guy
that drives a Harley in real life, maybe. Uh why is Ben Healey hanging out right at at the sprint
finish? He was right up there because soon as they crossed, they were gone. I got to think maybe
these two had a little discussion beforehand. Uh what do you guys think? I’m sure that happens.
Hey, dude. if you want. Yeah, let’s do it. I mean, yeah, it’s the tour to France. Let’s go for it,
bro. Uh they’ve already climbed 500 meters of elevation here. Uh super punchy today, folks.
There they are saying there’s a second group here. There is a second group of 13 riders chasing
right now. Uh huge pressure on the front of the Pelaton today, folks. Second group. Look at
this Tatty’s. Okay, that’s the Pelon. Okay, so the second and third group, the second
group and the pelaton are kind of like growing, falling apart, growing, falling apart. We do have
guys that are trying to jump across here. So, these standings are changing on the fly as I’m
looking at them. Take a look at this. There was a group, a second group before the Pelaton.
It’s gone now. Uh, we have a rider at the back, Edward Twins. I was going to guess it was an
Interar rider from what I was seeing earlier. They’re trying to get this to form, guys. They’re
trying. They know is now now is the time to do it. Uh, do want to show you this. Let’s look at the
route again. So, where are we in? Okay. Well, oh, sorry guys. Let me log back in. I try to get the
setup every day first thing in the morning and it didn’t even ask me to set up today. So, take a
look at the profile today. So, we’re in this area now. We passed the sprint point. the green marker
here on our way to the coat deol pink hall. What I’m going to do next here, we’re going to go to
live again. Going to try to show you this one now. Hopefully I don’t massacre this too much,
guys, because I’m not very good at doing this one. Turn this guy on. Boom. It works. So, guys,
we’re on ClimbFinder here. This is the one I’m going to subscribe to. I like PJM. Uh I use my
Kohl’s a lot. uh for all my other stuff. Again, this is all like real world cycling. But what
I want to show you here, uh if I can do this on the fly as we’re doing this. So, which one are we
doing? Uh is it coat ring? I think it’s coat ring. Coat dinkcon. I believe that’s what it is. Oh, I’m
typing on the wrong keyboard. Code. I think it’s duh rinkcon. Is that right? See what it gives
me. Boom. We got something here. Not even close to the right place, guys. Let me get the spelling
on it right away. Here. Breakaway is still trying to form. I need to go look at this. Uh, Kimalt
R. Oh, Kimalt Pink Hall. Okay. I’m sorry. And I want to find it before we get over there. K.
Wrong keyboard. Mo pen con. That should do it. Yeah. And it’s from Unur Odon. I had to
check this out on the maps last night, guys. Check out this mapping feature. I love this.
Look at the detail. So, I was looking at this last night and I was going to put a post on here uh you
know, actually in my in my Discord group. Here’s the profile of the climb. It’s kind of like a
double kicker climb. uh mostly 6% but it is a uh let me see if I get the details on it here 6.3
kilometer climb and total length I guess you could break it up into two clims 4% gradient uh total
ascent of 252 m if we come back to the tour to France website just quickly we can see here uh
the route no that’s not what I want the route and we go to this stage today. Let’s just
see if that’s what it’s roughly is. Remember, you got to be careful when you look at
these things here. This one’s saying it’s 5.6 km at 3.7%. Actually, you guys
are on the old one, aren’t you? So, yeah, I’m at the website right now.
Tour to France says 5.6 km at 3.7 and Climbinder says 6.3 at 4. That’s the
same climb. Uh what you got to remember is uh take for example Mvon 2. There’s more
than one way up it. If you go up it, generally you come down the other side. This one
here, you can see the start location on the map. But check this out. This blows my mind. This is
the free version, guys. I messed around with it upstairs last night. Uh this is one of Colin’s
side distractions. I promise I’ll get back to the bike racing. This is bike related content,
though. I’ll try not to get so distracted. Uh, I know not everyone loves all my
wacky stories and my distractions. Let’s zoom in, though. Take a look. When we zoom
in, this is the free version. Look at all the little roads. Every little road is showing up. And
then every stinking building is showing up. So, we cross a little river. We’re going to cross
a bridge. Uh, we’re going to be getting to this very soon. We might be there, actually.
I hope I’m not screwing this up. And this is the actual climb here. Uh, I’ll be able to get.
So, of course, I went here because I love maps. Satellite view once I become a premium member.
Looks like a really good deal. I’m getting it. Look at the detail on the buildings. This is some
crappy little shed that’s falling down in this bad guys field. It’s here. I love it. Thank you so
much, Climbinder, for the win. This is probably the best looking one that I saw. Uh, going to
turn that off now. Boom. We’re back here, folks. and I’ll get you back into the race. Come on. Here we go. Back
into the race, folks. Yeah, we’re we’re already on the climb. We’re already
on the climb. Going over the top now. Actually, riders are getting close up. There’s a rider
getting to the top. This will probably be Ben Healey up here. Actually, they’re saying,
see here, it’s just changed. Actually, that’s the Pelaton up there. So, they’re all
together right now. Let’s do those points. go to the race. What is commentary saying? Yeah,
let’s catch up here. Uh, Viller’s Bage. Uh, looks like they changed his sprint speed here. So,
Jonathan Milan does have the green jersey back and I kind of said that earlier. Whoever takes this
sprint point here will get the green jersey back. Yeah, they’re all back together. That’s what I’m
seeing going over the top. I just don’t know who got the points right now for that. We’re still
waiting from tour com. This is the feed from tour commentary from Lour Race Center right here.
So, we’re just waiting to find out. Uh yeah, there was three groups there for a while. Let’s
bring it all back together. Get get caught up in the chat. Then we’re going to see uh uh results
coming in here. We don’t have any results yet. Back to live tracking. You can see there’s a climb
coming up again right away here. This is the Kota Lauron Conier. Uh category three, 2.2 km at 7.8%.
Uh two points for first, one point for second place. This first climb here, um what would it
have been? Let’s see. Was that a cat three? Yeah, that was a cat three. Two points for first, one
point for second. This second climb looks a bit tougher to me. The race. Okay, they did give it to
Yeah, Quinn Simmons gets first place for Trek. Uh Mark Hershey gets second place. So, nice to see
Mark Hershey getting back out there. I think I mentioned his name a couple days ago that I just
haven’t seen him forever. Uh he was active last year. Uh actually, which race was it? He won last
year? I can’t remember. But guys, I was staring at Flow Bikes yesterday afternoon looking at the
schedule. There’s so many races on flow bikes. Uh we’ve got this uh there’s other races on the tour
to Zift is on. The Giriro Dawn is on right now. Uh tour to Zift for sorry the tour to France AX
Zift which is the women’s version of the tour to France is the end of July. The tour of Wonia is on
the tour of Poland. Deutseland Denmark. The Arctic trail race of Norway is on there. Uh limousine
I think is what it’s called. uh the Renewi or Benelux races on there and they’re all races that
the big hitters come out for. I did see in one of them that Mark Hershey won uh one of those events
last year against the other world tour guys. So, he’s just kind of got quiet for a while. Okay.
Okay. Lost my uh lost my power cord here. Okay. Just catching up with you guys. Uh yeah, Sagon
would have won. Guys, it’s been a while for Yeah, Jonathan Milan won the middle uh the intermediate
sprint. That was Daniel here. Daniel Gabre. Uh Milan won that easily. Doug Sanders is commenting
that Milan won it. Uh Clifton Dawn. Yeah, actually I saw someone talking about that yesterday,
too. Like Sagon was like the prototype for like say Machu Vanderpole. Back in the day, if you
rode cyclic lacrosse or you rode mountain bike, you didn’t do any of the other ones. Like if you
were a mountain biker, you didn’t ride road. If you were a cyclcross guy, well, way back when you
rode cycle, you rode road bikes in the summer, then you rode cyclacross in the winter. Then
it all changed. It was a dedicated sport. Uh but now mount Peter Sagan comes along, mountain
biker, and jumps onto the road. Super flamboyant. uh all his crazy things he did. Uh he was
quite the character. And then you know, Machu Vanderpol has done the same thing coming
from a psychoacross background. Vote Vanard’s done it. Uh let’s check this out here, guys.
I want you to see this. This is Kevin Vocalon. Third place overall at the Tour to France. Arca
BNB, folks. Let’s get it. Really like this guy. Just having a little chat here.
Let’s go back to the race. Oh, we don’t want to be there. Do we have
any more data here? Yeah. So, Simmons first, Hershey second. I’ll try to get prepped here for
the next climb. I did look this one up last night, too. Check out the live tracking. We’re
going to see attacks all day long here, I think. So, we got the main group
here. We got the group at the back. Second group on the road has the green jersey
in it. 32 riders. Caden Groves. Samuel Watson. Germay’s back there. Jonathan Milan. This is where
the sprinters are going to be hanging out today, folks. Dylan Grovagan’s back there. Yeah, we got
some big sprinters here. Uh sprinters and tired riders. Fedorov’s back here. I think he’s going to
have a tough day today. Uh started uh last place at the time trial yesterday. Currently riding way
at the back. So, let’s just keep an eye on this for now. I’ll get caught up with the chat again
here. Um, okay. Let me I got to turn that up one. Looks like uh Anslo, why do I know the name Ansel?
Ansow, do I know you? Anslo 74 riders in right now, guys. Should be picking up in the next couple
hours. I know these are long streams. Trust me, I know they’re long streams. I feel it. Uh, but
I love it. Very easy to do this for me. I’m so uh I’m just really into it. I mean, I have tour
fever like crazy this year. Uh, Don saying he’s really bad at French. I took one day of French in
college before dropping that class. Uh, in Canada, since it’s our official second language, actually,
it’s it’s an official language, so I shouldn’t say second. Canada is supposed to be bilingual. You
learn French. I think it’s mandatory up to grade nine and then it’s optional. Out here in Western
Canada, there’s no one that speaks French. You do not need it. When you start heading east,
Montreal, you might need it, but people there are going to say, let’s say you go into a corner
store, uh, the guy’s going to say, “Bonjour,” and you’re going to go, “Hello.” And he’s going to go,
“Hey, sir, how you doing?” Montreal is no problem. If you go to Quebec City or if you go even further
east than that in the eastern townships in Quebec, they’re going to look at you and go, “Huh?” That
that’s their primary language. They barely know English. Or they just don’t want to speak to
you in English. It could be some of that. Uh, now I’m not going to get political, but because
I got in trouble for that yesterday. Oh, I love seeing this. Vote Vanart at the front today, guys.
Remember how he had a bad day yesterday? Someone in this chat here, you can put your hand up when
I say this. Uh, someone in the chat yesterday said that Vault was sandbagging. Uh, I think I was
reading that he actually had like a bit of an illness. Uh, but maybe he was sandbagging because
he he didn’t look that great yesterday. He’s with Castrio Zapeder, uh, the movie star rider who
finished uh, well up in the time trial yesterday. Yeah, the brakes are going to be on all day
today, folks. They’re trying to establish a breakaway group. What will the leaders of the
Turder France allow them to do? It’s kind of all decided by them. Uh people that don’t really know
the sport well like what mean it’s decided like how the big teams are watching deciding looking
at who’s going down the road and going, “Oh, that guy’s 45 minutes behind overall in the GC, the
general classification. Yeah, he can go because we know we’re he’s only going to finish five minutes
ahead of us overall. we’re gonna we’re gonna pull him back. That guy that is ahead of you on the
road, he’s actually 45 minutes behind you in time. The only way for him to get even on the road with
you is to finish 45 minutes ahead of you on that day or a combination of stages. So, they will
allow riders to go well up the road like, “Oh, he’s two hours behind us.” Later in the stage,
there’ll be people that are two and three hours behind. They’ll say, “Yeah, go ahead. You can
finish an hour ahead of us today. We don’t care. Uh you can go destroy yourself on your day
of glory. Uh but Vanart and Castrio Zaped are working there. Great person for uh these are great
frenemies today folks. Great frenemies today. Awesome stuff here. Back to the chat. Great. Yeah, great weather today. Um, Doug saying that French is the most difficult
language to learn. You know, coming from Canada where I was taught French a little bit. Uh, all
I can say about French is it’s very similar to Spanish. So, if you can pick up Spanish or if
you know Spanish, if you travel, I go to Mexico all the time. I love it there. It’s kind of like
my winter getaway. Uh, there’s so many things the way they speak. It’s very much like French, very
common languages. I mean, the foundation of those languages are two countries that are side by side,
Spain and France. So, kind of makes sense. Uh Ian Holmes, uh Ian Holmes is in the Philippines.
He says, “Informative on Zift. Can you get the similar claims you use on Ruby?” Uh, Zift is more
Zift has pre-built worlds, pre-built courses with what I would call, and don’t take this the wrong
way. What I would say I’m going to talk to the camera for a while. Uh, don’t take this wrong,
with fake roads. It’s roads that they’ve designed to simulate what I would say are really cool
bike courses. And they have some of their own clims. Now, having said that, they do have the
Alpift, which is the Alp in real life. It’s a full simulation of the 21 switchbacks of the Aldoz
which you usually see at the tour of to France but you won’t this year. Uh they also have the Mong
2 built into the French world of Zift. So that’s all there. Uh it’s kind of like a built-in world.
However, they do have the climb portal as well. So what that means is it’s a way of them quickly
inputting cool clims into the Zift world without doing all that coding and development work in
the background. So basically when they build the worlds they have to just I’m watching the screen
here too folks. We got three groups right now. Uh front group is the two riders up front. Two rider
breakaway. That’s all they’re allowing right now folks. And the entire pelaton is stretched out
uh hundreds of meters long right now. Flying at 70k an hour across the countryside. Cows in the
background. The trees. The helicopter’s way up high so you can see the the scenery moving
super fast in the background. What a cool effect that is. I love that camera shot. Uh,
so they have a climb portal on Swift. You say, “I want to ride the climb portal.” You start out
in the normal Swift world. You ride a couple of kilometers and there’ll be like an archway with
like a swirly teleportation thing. It teleports you into the climb portal and then it’s kind
of like a three, it’s a fully 3D world. You’re riding up a road. It’ll show you all the hairpins,
all the turns, all that kind of good stuff. you’ll feel all the gradients up and down of that climb
and they have really good detail stats where they break the climbs up into segments. So this year
they they added on a couple of clims that I can’t find on Ruby. Uh the M the M de Britanna we’ll be
right we’ll be seeing that in a couple days and another one it’s called the something to something
St. Roberts not on Ruby. Ruby’s platform is all video. I did show that in one of my earlier
live streams what it looks like. So I rode the entire con time trial on Ruby. It’s all video
though. Uh and so you’ll have the video. It’s so it all depends how the video shot. It needs to
be shot at the right quality, the right speed, the right road conditions. Was there a lot
of traffic out that day? Was there too little traffic that day? Was there a ton of people on the
side of the road? Uh, you need perfect conditions to do. Was it cloudy? Too sunny, rainy. It’s hard
to get the right conditions, but very easy to get the video so they that’s why they can develop
their routes what I would say is quicker. And then they overlay augmented reality on top of it,
which which is like an avatar of your of yourself working in your basement on the road ahead of
you. And you’ll see all the other riders, too. Uh, I would say with Ruby, like it looks like an
overlay, if you get my drift. It’s kind of like, uh, that doesn’t look perfect to me. But I I’ve
been riding Ruby for three and a half years. I’m not knocking it. I’m giving you my honest opinion,
what I think. Uh, I will continue to ride Ruby forever. I love it. It’s got a lot of really cool
climbs that I can’t find anywhere else. Uh, I ride Ruby and Zift. Enough of that, folks. Moving on.
Uh so yeah to just to answer Ian quickly uh on Zift can you get the similar kinds you can use on
Ruby? Uh you can get a lot of them. So actually just to continue that one more time I mentioned
Colin Coats this morning was doing a pro I thought he was riding the hoticcom which is I think I said
stage 12 of the Tour to Francis here. Uh it’s on Zift and it’s on Ruby. You can ride either one.
I’ll be riding both. Uh, okay. So, informative Jeff’s saying they the break is massive. Let’s
see. Well, it’s two riders right now. Then we’ve got the entire pelaton, 145 riders. Uh,
followed up with our groupetto of sprint riders. These guys may not get back on today,
guys. They may be sitting out there for a long time today. Going to jump back to the race here.
We’ve already climbed 800 meters of climbing, guys. That’s 2500 feet of climbing already.
27° C. Uh, I’ll try to do quick. I’m going to guess that’s probably like very very low 80s
Fahrenheit. Dead calm winds. So, it’s just that heat that hangs on you. There’s not even a breeze
right now to cool you down. This is our breakaway right here, guys, from Twitter here, murder to
France website. Uh, vote fan art and his Red Bull uh head uh helmet. And this is Castrio Zap Zapeder
who was a big gun yesterday at the uh time trial. Yep. Movie star rider and about they had a
10-second lead. I think they’re bigger than that now. Let’s see what we got. Looks like actually
they’re saying it’s only 7 seconds. Is that what it is? 7 seconds really. So they’re just kind of
dangling out front right now. What I’ll do next, guys? Okay, let’s do this quick. We got to get
through this. Uh, yeah, Dawn saying here Clifton Dawn 1974 Tom Pitcock is like that road and Mike.
Yeah, he’s another guy just transitioned across. Uh, Jeff Littles is saying, “You look
like a James or a Phil. What is your name, dude? Who you talking to? You talking to me?” If
you’re talking to me, my name is Colin. C O L I N. I am the president CEO of Inside Cycling World.
A James or a Phil. You know what’s hilarious, dude? If you make me laugh right now, we’re
at the concert, Metallica in Denver, and Joey, she gets fruity, nutty, loopy. Uh she’s talking
to everyone. She told this one guy that he looked like an evil uh villain from a Marvel
movie or something. He was a super nice guy. Uh he just kind of laughed along with her and he
told her that uh she looked like a Lindsay cuz she was like, “Guess my name because her name is Joey
and no one’s ever going to guess it.” And he says, “You look like a Lindsay.” And she kind of
laughed. And he goes, “And your husband’s name is He looks like he’s a Phillip.” So kind of
funny that you said that if you’re talking about me. Uh Doug saying is not cycling is not possible.
Scotty Mack, bro, you’re back. W I knew it. Yes, dude. Scotty, was it you that thought W
was sandbagging? Someone said it yesterday. Uh, okay. Don saying W maybe 100% now. He was recovering
from a stomach illness along with Campon Arts and Primos. Yeah, you know, that’s what we need to
see. You know, I know there’s all this, oh, Yonas is done. The tour is over. Uh, someone mentioned
yesterday like, is the tour over now? I’m like, what is the tour? No, the chore is not over now.
There’s so many things that can happen, guys. Uh, one bad day, oneoff day, and and realistically,
how off was Yonas? One 1.5 2% off. Uh, I think that guy’s under incredible stress and
pressure. Just the pressure of trying to win the tour to France. Uh, and let’s also just
say, I watched an interview uh about all the the hubbhub in the background, like the domestic
stress he’s under, too. uh the stress that his uh his wife is causing uh Bisma Lisa bike. Uh
he has to live with all that. Um pro cycling is tough. You’re away from home all the time. If you
don’t want to be away from home, you’re not going to win any bike races. That’s it. So eight, it
looks like about 7 8 second gap still. Actually, it’s coming back, guys. 3 seconds. They’re not
ready to let them get away yet. Not with vowed up there. They’re not ready to let them get away.
Uh, and I think I did see that yesterday too. They were talking about later and he was talking
about his stomach. So, good point there. Uh, yeah, there’s no altozes here. Not
on the course. Hey, Don’s here, right? I think they call them the romantic lang
languages, but French, Spanish, Italian are all romance languages. He says it right here.
Nice, Don. He called it out. French is Oh, French is different. Uh, French is different.
I took Spanish all throughout middle school and high school and thought it would be okay. So,
Don saying he thought it was hard to do Spanish French. You know, I can’t speak Spanish.
Well, I can’t speak French. Well, to me, they just seem similar. Uh Jeff is saying Eltoz
is a huge party. I cannot imagine down. If so, I apologize. We are streaming. No, we’re
up. I think we’re up here, guys. Uh yeah, someone’s saying Jeff is saying massive.
Do I can see it here. I’m going to have to refresh this all together. What I’m going to
do is just refresh my YouTube alto together. I’m going to close this right now, guys. Try
to refresh it. Apologize for that. It’s it’s the internet. And we’ll keep moving on
here. So, next climb of the day. Kot de la rockier. What I’m going to do now is I’m
going to just blip over here for a second. and see what I can get going on the route of
stage six here. Here is the race tracking. Let’s see what they got to say. Second climb
of the day. Kot de la reconir 2.2 km at 7.9%. There’s going to be attacks going over the top of
this one too, folks. Uh stream should be okay now. And you know, I think I’ve been pretty fortunate
so far. We’re on stage six and I haven’t had the stream die once. What I’m going to do next
though is I’m going to kind of jump back to climbinder again. Co wrong keyboard. Co racy
I typed that right. I’m kind of typing blind. Got it, folks. Got it. What I’m going to do is
I’m going to blast this out to you guys right now. We’re going to turn window capture 3 back on.
Boom. We’re back over on Climefinder. I will be subscribing to this today for a premium account.
Did it actually give me the right one. You guys are seeing what I’m seeing now. Kotu. Yeah, this
must be it right here. Oh, yeah. This is natty, isn’t it? Check this out here, guys. Kot de la
Rier. It’s a category 3. Take a look at the middle here. There’s a little kicker. Uh that looks
pretty nasty. Uh they’re saying 3.6 km at 6.4%. 4%. Here’s the gradient. Starts out pretty
mellow. Uh, and we’ve got some looks like that looks like 15% there. Just over a
100 meters. It’s a very small segment, but this is what’s coming at them all day
long today. All day long. Okay guys, yeah, we’re back. So, something must have dropped out
there and I will get to live chat here. So guys, this is the climb we’re on right now.
Let me get right back to the race itself. Tron and Healey. Guys, guys are going to be going
after these points all day long today here. I want to see the live tracking here. Now getting up
this climb as we speak. Uh we’ve got one group, our friend, Lutenko and Muleberger, Movie Star
Rider and Israel Premier Tech. Second group is our main Pelaton. This is the Tatty Remco area.
Remco is going to have to be so alert. He has to follow every move that Tatty makes. Uh, yeah. So,
here they’re saying 2.2 km at 7.9%. I want to make sure that’s what you’re saying. Oh, guys, sorry.
I’m on the wrong one. I need to turn you guys on to this. We turn that one off. So, basically, I
just got to turn one on and turn one off. I think my internet’s struggling right now, guys. I’m
on Starlink. Uh, is generally fantastic. Uh, if you’re in a situation where your internet’s very
poor, uh, consider Starlink. I know it’s Elon, whatever. I’m not getting political. Not doing
that. Uh, I got in trouble for that yesterday. Did I get in trouble? Not really. I mean, if you don’t
want to listen, you don’t got to listen, right? Um, okay. Let me get back through the chat here,
guys, as we watch this. Keep a close eye on this. I’m just trying to get focused here, folks. When
I have a little technical issues, it’s very hard. Looks like the front group’s been caught. Tatty’s
not letting them get away, folks. He’s not letting them get away. So, I am getting data feed from
uh Tour to France. I’m not getting any data from uh Flow Bikes right now. It’s stalled out on me.
I may have to close and reopen it. Probably going to do that right now. Uh, looks like I’ve lost
connection here. No, I’ve got connection, but Flow Bikes is struggling. Uh, doing this on the
third computer. We’ll call that up and I’ll catch up here. Jeff’s saying, “The finish in Paris is
messed up this year. Instead of the flats of the Shanzil, they made a hill climb.” Yeah, totally,
dude. Some people love it, some people hate it. Uh so you can see here uh 51 seconds we got a
second Pelaton of 21 riders 49 seconds back and then the green jersey including all Binyans back
there 3 minutes back from them from the front. Over the top first and take a look at this. Vout
and Hershey are dropped out of that front group right now. We’re almost at the top folks. We are
over the top. Still waiting on results. You can see it right now if we go back to live tracking.
We’re actually over the top now. So, our first two categorized climbs, I’m waiting to see. I’ve got
nothing from the tour yet as to who won that one. Just give it a second. I’ll catch up on the chat.
I’ll look over there and we’ll get it figured out. Yeah, it’s going to be a crazy finish this year.
They’ve kind of taken away a bit of the parade aspect of the tour to France from yesterdayester
years. Uh they’ve made three tough one kilometer allout sprint climbs. I don’t know why they would
do that. Uh I think maybe they’re just trying to take away from that whole kind of just parade of
riders going by. Okay, looks like uh flow is back working. I hope it is. Uh we’ll deal with the
chat for now. Uh yeah, Jeff saying nobody wants to win the tour on the final. Yeah. So guys,
we’ll see how the tour works out this year, but yeah, the tour could be decided on the final
stages here. I mean, the way they’ve set it up. So, it’s a really nice group going over the top.
I’m seeing quite delayed response coming in from uh Tour to France here itself. very very late
because guys I’m getting messages from the tour of to France like the feed itself that you’re
seeing on screen at 13:59 that’s 5:59 my time. Uh I just want to show you guys that. So I’m on
the same time as them. Very very delayed stuff coming from them. Oh, and I just missed the
the over the top there. I can see the yellow jersey there. Uh probably fifth or sixth
across the line. Good group of about 30 40 riders going across together. 10 meter break.
Then a big chunk of the Pelaton coming next. Then it looks like we got uh quite a goodsized
group behind them here. Looks like someone’s trying to attack over the top. Ben Healey.
Ben Healey is trying to go for it here, guys. So you can see here on the profile, category
3, category 3, we did the M Pink Con and Reconire. uh this whole section in the middle
here. There’s no categorization, but there’s climbs all the way. Climbs all the
way through here. They’re going to play those uh to their advantage. Category 3, the Mortine
Coat 314. I looked that guy up last night. The Juven Tree. I’m going to have to find that. So, we
got three category 3es in a row. Uh finishing up with a coat Devadri right before the finish. That
might have some impact on the finish right there. Uh, hey Braden. Yeah, looks like you’re new here
in the house. Uh, he’s saying hi. How are you, dude? I’m doing great. Hope you’re
well today. Thanks for joining us. Uh, Jeff was saying massive lag in the stream.
Yeah, you’re totally right, dude. Uh, yeah. Okay, so Don saying he watched the the Yonas
video. He jumps from altitude camp to race back to altitude camp. No time to recharge home these
last few months. Even Tatty went home for a couple days. Yeah, I guess they’re saying they’re keeping
him up at altitude. He’s basically lives at 2,300 meters altitude all the time. Uh, and his wife
hates it. He probably hates it, too. Uh, yeah, Dawn here. Spinning wheel of death technology.
Yeah. And so, yeah, the stream must have obviously dropped for a while there. Uh, Don saying, “We’re
back.” Ian, thank you very much. He’s saying, “Great chat.” And I can see where I come back
on here. Uh, it’s the live chat there. Hey guys, check this out. Hey guys, I want to give a little
shout out to these guys. The latest chat that’s in the stream, if you’re interested in being
involved in cycling inside, uh, there’s kind of two camps. Maybe there’s three camps. I used to
only ride bikes outside only. And I do my turbo trainer boring training inside and I hated it.
Uh, technologies came such a long way. Although it doesn’t seem like it today with my internet
dropping here. Uh oh, Michael Woods got some points. Nice. Thank you, Swoosh Kid. Uh the inside
cycling platforms are so good right now. And it’s so freaking awesome to me that if you look at this
name here, guys, I really want you to look at this name here. Uh it’s wedged in between two of Wade’s
comments here. Uh Wade, thank you for commenting. The name of the of the commenter is Bike Terra.
Now, Bike Terra is a virtual cycling platform. I’ve met these guys. Uh I’ve covered racing on all
of the platforms. Okay, maybe not Training Peaks Virtual, but I’ve done review videos of it. I’ve
ridden it myself. Uh Bike Terra is one. It’s I’m going I’ll just call it what I think. It’s the
smallest team uh of uh developers out there. I think it’s a twoman company. I’m sure they have
people that help them. Um, you take a GPX file, guys. A GPX file, what is it? It’s basically XY
coordinates and Zcoordinates. You could make a GPX file of this road. If you were to get Quinn
Simmons Strava, a lot of these guys post a straa. You could download his GPX file and you could ride
this exact ride. I had a friend Steven Cycles. You guys have seen him in the chat. He’s my Scottish
friend, uh, who I said earlier helps me out all the time. Uh, he sent me a 42 kmter ride that he
did in Scotland on the west side of the Kernorms. He sent it to me. I said, “Okay, I’ll give it
a shot, man.” Uploaded it to Bike Terra and within 2 minutes, I had a fully created road of
what it looks like. What they do is uh it’s very simple graphics. It’s browserbased, so you don’t
have to download any big plat uh program to your computer. It’s all done on a browser. They take
that GPX file. They take a mapping package. So, when there’s a big body of water beside you,
you’re going to see a big body of water. When there’s a mountain over here, you’re going to see
a mountain over here. When there’s trees, you’re going to see the trees. Uh they’ve just recently
increased the draw distance for subscribers. Uh, you can use it for free, but for a mere, for
me, I’ll talk my prices, Canadian dollars. For a mere six bucks a month for one barely overpriced,
sorry, for one overpriced small cup of coffee at Starbucks, uh, I can ride bike. It’s a fantastic
platform. I love those guys. And you know what, guys? I’ve done so many videos. They’re the only
two dudes out there that have ever reached out to me. So, man, I love them. Uh, like I the Zift
guys have never reached out to me. Ruby’s barely reached out to me. Uh, I kind of feel like I’ve
been flogging my head against the wall for two and a half years trying to get this channel off the
ground. Uh, so you guys are doing it for me now. It’s I feel like this is like redemption for Colin
over at Inside Cycling World. So, Bike Terra, they’re saying here, “So far so good, Colin.
Keep up the great work.” Yeah, dudes. I love you guys. Uh, so I think one guy I think one guy
is uh let me just guess. I think he’s in Northern Europe somewhere. Probably. He might be Belgian
or Dutchy. Maybe he’s Danish. He’s I think he’s that part of the world. And then the other guy,
I think his name is Matt. He’s an American. Let’s take a look what’s going on here, guys. We got
five riders in the leading group. What’s going on? Oh my. Matu Vanderpole on the front with Ben
Healey, Quinn Simmons, Harold Tahada, and William William Barta, the American. Got two Americans in
this front group, folks. Strong front group here. We got a climber. We’ve got one of the strongest
men in the world, Matu Vanderpole. Second group will probably be Oh, no, guys. They’re letting
things go now. Gay Martan. He’s quite the climber for Group Palmer FDJ. Uh he’s 25 seconds
back. He needs to get into that front group. 12 seconds behind him, we have the main pelaton of
141 riders. Ooh, take a look at this. Some riders are finishing a long way down today. uh the green
jersey group which is all the sprinters. This is the group headed today guys. Kaden Groves uh
Bingan Jonathan Germay sorry Bingham Germay Jonathan Milan. I was looking at their names side
by side there. Uh who else? Dylan Gonovan there. Tim Merll who won stage three. They’re all back
here hanging out. They’re the group headedro today guys. They’re uh almost 5 minutes behind already.
And uh what are we 40 km into the stage? Uh yeah, that’s insane. Yeah, I guess we’re 60 km into the
stage now. 5 minutes behind. 60 km into the stage. Uh I’ll get queued up on the next climb coming up
in the distance here. We can just look at the live tracking quick. You’ll see where we are on the
map. Seems like it’s dead calm today. So here’s our gaps, folks. This is our front group of five.
Okay. So, I don’t see Okay, Martan must have gone back to that front group or else he’s right here.
Yeah, he’s just out in front of the pelon right now. And three, here’s the main pelon. We’ll
just keep it here for now as I go back. Yeah, again. So, Bike Terror, thanks for dropping by,
dudes. Uh, I’ve been trying to tell my guys that I do racing for over on the platforms because I do
a lot of race coverage there. Probably not going to do so much over the next three weeks here
because I’m so busy doing this, guys. This is like I got up at 3:45 to do this at 4:35 and this
will keep me busy till almost 10:00 this morning. I got to get I got to feed my animals, Joey’s
pets, let’s call it that. And uh I got to race into town. She runs a dental office there. I guess
the lawn is out of control. I’m their yard’s I’m their caretaker, I guess. and uh I’ve been sick
so I haven’t made it.” She goes, “Oh yeah, it’s bad.” When when Joey says it’s bad, it’s probably
a train wreck. So I got to get in and do that, get back home, start getting teed up for tomorrow.
So busy busy folks. Uh okay. So again, thank you, Bike Terra. So guys, check out Bike Terra. Free to
try. Uh maybe you’re just going to start cycling, guys. You just need a bike. Get a bike and a
little a cheap smart trainer. Uh just so you know, you got wheel on trainers, wheel off trainers.
What’s a wheel on trainer? You just take your bike, plon the whole thing onto this little
tiny roller, and there’s like a little thing on the side and it talks to your device. You got
to look into to see which ones are compatible, though. Don’t go get one that’s not smart. If
it’s not a smart one, you’re not getting the full effect. you’re not really even riding that
hill. The non-smart trainers uh don’t do automatic resistance changes. That’s what you want. Uh a
wheel off trainers where you take your back wheel off. The wheel off trainers are more expensive.
They can simulate better gradients. They can simulate better resistance. Uh you can get a
wheel on trainer for 300 bucks. You can spend uh 123 $1,400 for a wheel off trainer, the higherend
trainer. That’s what I I run the tax neo. It’s an expensive trainer. The good thing is trainers have
came down a lot in price recently. Uh try out the free software, see which one you like. Zift gives
you a free trial. Bike Terra is wide open. They provide six routes that they choose that you can
ride any given day. I’m a free subscriber to Bike Terra. I haven’t subscribed yet. Uh, probably only
because I’m already paying for two other ones. I like all of them. They’re all They’re different.
They’re different, but they’re all cycling. Okay, getting through the chat. Going to grab a coffee.
So, yeah. Uh, swoosh kid, thank you. Michael Woods got some points there. Let’s just see what they
said over the top there in the comments area. We should have some reports now. Yeah. So, Mart
Gileiam Martine got talk caught. Tim Wellins. Tim Wellins is going for the polka dot jersey again.
I love it. Uh remember he wore it uh stage four I believe. Aha. Right here. Tim Wellins got two
points. Michael Woods got one point. Good stuff. Uh Jeff Le. Nobody wants to win this more than
Yonas, but Pog is one of those versatile talents. He doesn’t need to be focused every day. Yeah,
Poggy’s just a beast. Um he doesn’t have the same pressures, I don’t think, that Yonas does. Jonas
is desperate to win. Pogy’s won everything pretty much. Uh Pogy’s life at home is different than
Yonas’s. Uh can you imagine the outside stress that Yonas is under? Like I mean not to not to
beat on his life partner, but it that’s causing him a lot of stress. Um just imagine your wife’s
at home saying, “I hate your job. It’s killing you. You need to be home more.” blah blah blah
blah blah blah and all you’re focused on is beating your main rival at the Tur of France when
your main rival is just like, “Yeah, I’m winning everything, man. You know, I get to do whatever
I want.” Uh, it seems like it’s easy for him. I’m sure it’s not, but it’s just huge pressure to
be under. Uh, okay. Awesome stuff here, man. Uh, okay. So, Mike here from the Hand Grenade
Division. Mike, we need some uh history of the Normandy area here right now. Uh again,
guys, if you don’t know Hand Grenade Division, that’s a YouTube channel. Go check it out. Mike
has a really good channel. It’s all World War II history. Uh he said Z coordinates Z. He doesn’t
like it because I’m Canadian. I’m supposed to say zed. Uh Mike, I flip-flopped them. Uh
Tus Colin surely means zed. Okay. Yep. So, Quinn Simmons here, USA national champion.
Let’s go. Yeah, Quinn’s a beast, guys. Honestly, go check out Mike’s channel, Hang Grenade
Division. It’s really informative. I Yeah, he’s got some great videos. Uh Jeff Lis, I just ordered
a Sarah Trainer. Saras went up in quality and down in price. Very good. Yeah, you’re right, dude.
Saras is a good company. Awesome stuff. So, Jeff, what are you going to be riding? Uh, have you
done much inside cycling? Do you Which platforms do you ride? Let me know in the comments. Uh Don
saying the rollers are very dangerous and take a lot of balance and concentration. The wind trainer
attaches to the back wheel to the trainer much. Exactly, Dawn. So yeah, a smart uh rollers. A lot
of track riders use those cuz they simulate the track really well. But yeah, if you just want to
zone out and get some like a 2, three hour ride in or even an hour ride, you just get on your smart
trainer and you just pedal. You put some TV on in the background. you have some Priest or Metallica
playing at the same time. Uh you watch one of my videos, maybe you watch one of Mike’s videos and
uh you just put the hours in, you put the time in, it’s safe, it’s controlled, you don’t got to
worry about people screaming at you outside, dogs running across the road. The first time I
went out on my Look TT bike, that was the fastest ever time I did on a certain route I ride here all
the time. I had a dog come racing out of a farm, crossed the entire road, and just stopped like a
foot short of me on my brand new TT bike. Almost had a heart attack, screamed at the dog. Uh,
just not fun, you know? Weather, punctures, all that stuff. I mean, outside cycling
is great. When I go places, I want to ride my bike. I don’t want to ride my bike around
here anymore. I just It’s easier inside. Um, Jeff Lis, my favorite trainer would be one where
I could where he could motor to just take a map and hit the power of the remote control. Dude,
you just need an ebike. You just put an ebike on your smart trainer. Guess what? Guys do it all
the time. We can see them in our races where we’re like, “Yeah, you’re just riding an ebike.” So,
basically, you take an ebike and put it on your smart trainer and hit the battery. uh their
power is the same consistency all the way and they forget that we can see their cadence. Um so
some of the it just depends how the ebike works. Is it a crank ebike or is it a rear hub ebike? Uh
and when the guy’s also like 78 years old and he’s putting out 500 watts, dude, you’re on an ebike.
We know it. Uh I’ve had to talk about this a lot during racing. I’ve had to watch it go down during
racing and I don’t like to be critical of people uh as I’m calling my bike races because you
never know, right? Uh there’s people on there that are just they’re just ignorant to the fact
that they’re cheating. They don’t even know. And I don’t mean ignorant in a bad way. I just
mean they are absolutely they have no idea that they’re cheating. They input their weight wrong.
They weigh 100 kilos, 220 lbs, and they put in 50 kilos. They don’t do the conversion rate. all of a
sudden, uh, they weigh half their weight. They’re putting out max power. So, you got to be careful
with all that stuff. Uh, so yeah, Jeff, you can’t do that. Jesse, I think if Yonas falls apart this
year, he will retire after this contract. Really? Yeah. I think the pressure he’s under compared
to Tatty, like it’s not even comparable. Not even comparable. So, Mike, we are in uh where are
we right now, guys? On the map. Let’s have a look at the map. Oh, we’re near Filets. The only
thing I know about Filelets, probably from some uh a game that me and Mike played in the past,
advanced squad leader, uh the Filelets Gap. Yeah, maybe a scenario we played there. Me and
Mike used to play some insanely complicated uh board games back in the day. Like the kind
of game where you spend three hours setting it up only to have one of your friends flip
the boards upside down. That did happen. Uh yes, Scott McMillan here. Uh Scott, are you new?
I just see Scott McMillan. I see I know there’s a Scotty Mack. There’s a Scott Mcool but Scott
McMillan here saying Vak Vakalant Inos. They are merging those teams. So, does he come across? And
I just saw someone talking about yesterday. Who was it? Oh, it was David Miller, Ned Bolting. Love
David Miller. Uh, basically, Inos doesn’t have the talent right now. They don’t have any of the nextG
talent. They need to The sad thing over is Inos, they need to probably clear the slate. It’s
like, who do we need here? Who needs to go? We just need to hit the reset button and start
over. like juggernaut team aka old team sky and they’re just kind of nowhere now it seems. Uh
hoping to see E gambber not come back. He better ride the VA. If he’s not at the VA then they
don’t even know what they’re doing. Uh guys, don’t forget to the tour of Austria is on right
now. I did watch stage one yesterday. Well, I tried to watch stage one. I almost punctured
my eardrums uh with my remote. Uh it was Yeah, I could barely watch it. I think I could have
provided some support uh and not I I shouldn’t even say that just I I struggled with it. Let’s
just leave it at that. And there were real deal teams there. The world tour teams were there.
It’s a real race. Uh I think it’s about 800 kilometers. I’ll be catching up with the
Girrodon again today. Uh Jeff is saying you haven’t done indoor trainers since about
20 years ago. So I could use a recommendation or not. Either way, I will start it simple. Okay.
Jeff, did you order the Saras? Uh, okay. So, Jeff does have the Saras. Okay, so he’s asking
which software should Dude, you can get free bike terra is free to use. Okay, I see Eddie Dunar
doing something here, but I can’t tell where he is actually on the course right now. Just let me get
back to the race here, guys. Uh, we need to zoom in a little bit here on this group. Group one.
Okay, we got six riders up here. Barta, Tahada, Simmons, Eddie Dunar, uh, is in that group. I love
that. Uh, group two is the main Pelaton. Not a big gap, folks. Uh, Tatty, the big guns, Visma, you
know, all them. They’re not letting this group get away today. This is going to be a devastating
day if you’re way back here. Uh, this group here almost six minutes behind now to the front. Tough
day out there, folks. Tough day. Uh, okay. So, Scott retracted his message there. That’s okay.
I’m not sure what he was saying. I forget now. Yeah. So, Jeff, you can ride Ziff for free. I
think they offer 25 free kilometers per month. Ruby offers, I believe, 20 kilometers free per
month. It’s not a lot, but and Bike Terra, they offer uh six routes that they select per day that
you can ride. They’re the cheapest of the three by far. If I just just to ballpark it, I think Zift
is around 20 22 bucks a month. Ruby’s about the same and for me by Terara six. You’re going to
see different levels though. Ruby’s all video. Zift is decent graphics. Uh Ber has gone more of
an artistic route. Very simplified graphics, but it does show up very good. Uh, so it all depends
what you want to do. Are you more interested in riding your local roads inside? Are you interested
in preparing for an event? You can do that. Let’s say there’s an event you’re going to. You can snag
the GPX file from someone. And that may seem hard, like, oh, a GPX file. Oo, that’s scary, Colin.
It’s so easy. Like, I did it so quick. Uh, standard uh, X, Y, and Zed as Mike likes. Uh,
okay. Doug’s off to work. See you later, dude. Just under 100 people watching right
now, guy. 27 likes. Appreciate that. Uh Don, he went for a ride with on his bike and
him on his ebike. We were good until the first hill. I went down to 70 mph and he maintained
20 miles per hour. Left me in the dust. Yeah, dude. Ebikes are incredible. Yeah, Tony C. saying
with uh 130 kilometers to go, everyone here feels like Superman today and wants to get in the break.
Yeah, totally. and it says, “Good morning, by the way. Good to have you here.” Yeah, dude. So, Jeff,
honestly, just go try them all out. Uh you could if you have a bike and you have your trainer
when it gets there, you’ll be on bike terra in seconds. It’s so easy to hook up to it. Uh and
I know for a fact it’s constant improvements. So, Inside Cycling World has a Discord, you know, it’s
like a chat group and I have a little bike terror chat. I’ve asked questions uh on videos I’ve made
for them. These guys don’t know me. They’ve came into my YouTube channel and answered my questions
in the YouTube comments and I’m like, “Holy crap, dudes. These guys are paying attention. I like
these guys.” The other platforms, they don’t do that. They’re too big. They have no time for me.
Uh 22 second gap now. They’re actually letting them get away a little bit now. And we have eight
riders in the front group now, folks. Constantly battling at the front here trying to get away.
Let’s take a look and see who’s up there. Matthew Vanderpole, Ben Healey, Eddie Dunar, Simon Yates.
Yes, get up there, Simon. You need to uh get get racing this tour. Quinn Simmons, Harold Tada,
Michael Store, uh I think it was Michael yesterday who had a pretty poor time trial, I believe, and
William Barta. Love having Machu Vanderpole up here pulling for these guys. I’m going to keep an
eye and see where Matchu is in that front group. down back down to 18 seconds now. Okay, let’s
just uh this is our live tracking here, folks. What I’ll probably do is I’m probably going to
step away here pretty quick. You can see there’s lots of groups out on the on the road. Look at
these guys back here. Probably just single riders. Actually, 30 riders in this group back here
behind the main pelon and four might is another 26 riders. Vanart’s back there. Hershey’s back there.
So, Vanart obviously is not feeling good yet. Uh, and then the green jersey group. Uh, this will
probably be a very important day at the Tour to France right here, folks. Uh, I know in the past,
you guys can all go back and look at it when Yonas won his tour to France’s, his two victories,
2022, 2023. Let’s not forget that he did win and he did beat Tatty Pagachar. Uh, love them
both, although I’d like to see a new winner. Uh, Vizma was on fire back then. It was vote van art,
peak vote ban. Uh, peak sepus. The team was very, very strong back then. Uh, they seem a little
bit fragile right now. Uh, without not being anywhere near the front. Uh, what’s going on
here? So, we’ve got brakes going on up here as well. Eight riders here. Looks like we got someone
else trying to come on right now. Who’s this brave warrior coming up? Valentine Maduas. Dude, get on,
brother. Get on, guys. Let this guy into the mix. This guy is just working his butt off trying to
get back up there. Get into the race here. He’s chasing. He’s 10 seconds behind. Solo bridging up
to the front. Matchu, just ease off a little bit. Get this guy in there. He’s going to reduce
your workload by 10 11%. Let’s go, man. Guys, if you can get your breakaway bigger, every new
D guy that comes in reduces your workload. You’re going to be frenemies in your little group for you
become best friends for a while. Uh and eventually you try to slit each other’s throats trying
to get away. Uh we’re going to chat look here, guys. It’s busy busy busy busy guys.
Numbers are getting up there now. I’m liking that. I am looking up. Calcane’s
back, dude. Cocaine is back in the mix. Uh Doug Brown, other Doug off to work. New Doug
joint. I love it. I love it, guys. So funny. Uh Cole Kane here from uh working in Saudi Arabia.
I use my indoor bike when the weather here in Saudi is so hot or too much dust. Yeah, exactly
guys. A lot of people use uh virtual training, inside training uh for weather conditions. Here
in Canada, I’m not riding from could be early September till May. It’s too cold. Uh it’s too
snowy, it’s too icy. Other parts of the world, it’s too wet. Uh I never really thought about that
it being too dusty. Uh if you’re living in places like Vegas, Saudi Arabia, you’re not riding after
work. You’re not going outside for a ride at 4:00 in the afternoon when it’s 100 Fahrenheit, 40° C.
If you are, you’re insane. uh good chance of dying in that kind of conditions. Uh you ride inside,
you keep the temperature under control. It’s super efficient. I could be on my bike right here right
now. If you guys said, “Okay, go. If you wanted to time me, I could probably be on that bike in about
3 minutes.” I got my jerseys over here. I got my bibs over here. Cycling socks. My shoes are on the
floor. Uh yeah, I wouldn’t be looking at my screen because it’s going the wrong way right now, but my
computer’s already on. You just connect and you’re gone. That’s it. I’d have to run upstairs, get a
water bottle. They’re actually showing the replay now of Madawas going off the front by himself,
attacking on an uphill section. More bottle collectors out there with big This guy’s got a
big garbage can. He’s holding a big garbage can up uh hoping to collect water bottles. They’re
talking about it right here now. Mosas in pursuit on screen as the riders reach St. Honorin
Le Chardonnay Chardonnas is 10 seconds behind the leaders. Check it out. With such a hard battle,
there are only some 60 riders left in the main pelaton. Yates and store have made it up there.
You know, some of the riders that have poor days, they got to redeem themselves. And yeah, Simon
Yates wins the Jiro. Uh, and then has he’s had a horrendous start to the Tur of France. Uh, it
is Simon Yates, right? I always get Simon and Adam’s UAE. Simon is Vizma. I got to confirm that
Simon is VMA. He won the Jurro and he’s having a hor horrible tour to France. 69th overall. Uh
the kind of rider though that can make up a lot of time in the mountains. So if I say dramatic
words, you know, if I say horrible, terrible, it’s just exaggerating a little bit. Uh okay. So
yeah, Cole uses his bike when it’s too hot and too dusty, too windy at times. Uh, who wants to go
outside and have your skin sand blasted off? Cole, good to see you, man. Thanks for supporting the
channel. Uh, Don said, “It used to be a weekend warrior cycling, but now he works the weekends
as well.” Leandro Baros, good to see you, bro. Where you from? Spanish, maybe. Uh, Mexico.
Leandro. Leandro Baros. uh asking if Vanderpole can win today. Vanderpole could win today. There
is a little bit of of a climb right at the very end. To me, this is a stage design for Vanderpole.
Uh he has been working very hard. Uh his time trial yesterday wasn’t that bad. Uh it’s not like
he finished five minutes behind like a lot of riders did. And again, going back to Yonas under a
lot of pressure, I don’t think his time trial was that devastating yesterday. Uh, I was going to try
to find the clip of Tatty, uh, I think it was from 2023 where he looks like he’s dying riding his
bike as Yonas flits up the road and he actually, you can hear him on the team radio saying,
“I’m dead. I’m dead.” It happens to anyone, guys. Uh, and again, I don’t really like either
one of those riders better than the other. So, I just want to keep it kind of neutral. Uh yeah,
I think Matchu could win today. I think it’s going to be hotly contested though. It’s constant
smashing at the front here. Constant smashing. Uh who’s going off N? I’m seeing another group go
off the front. Looks like four or five riders. Garcia Pier here for Arca and uh Holler for Tudor
chasing now. They’re all trying to get up to this front group. They’re hoping the Pelaton just lets
off. There’s a huge string of riders trying to get away from the Pelaton. Looks like there’s about
another 15 or 20 riders trying to get up the road if the Pelaton lets them go. They’ve got a
9-second gap now uh ahead of the Pelaton and then a further 12 seconds to jump up to that
eight rider breakaway group. Looks like Campon Arts is trying to get up there now too. Is that
Camp? Yeah, Campon Arts is trying to get into the mix too. Give a little bit of firepower for
Vizma at the front. This is insane today, folks. Absolutely insane out here. Uh let’s see if we
can get some details from the tour itself. There’s the live tracking just so you can see where we
are. Coming into the city here of flares, flurs. See the climbs coming later than race. So, we kind
of do a roundabout. Could see uh if there’s winds. Okay, just uh reading the comments
there. Uh what am I looking for here? Let’s see what the commentators are
saying. Who are the riders who ride the most in the breakaway? Ben Healey,
William Barta, and Quinn Simmons. Guys, that’s just for today. Quinn Simmons by far
has probably been on the front uh the most in this entire race. Uh I’ve watched him every
day. He has sat on the front for so long. It’s saying here Matawas was caught.
Laurance counterattacks. Let’s see where he is then. Uh is Matawas up the
road? Here’s our A rider group still sitting solid. Then we’ve got this chasing
group here. Hala and Gar Garcia Peria. Camponarts is riding with Inkhorn from Sudal and
a rider here who I haven’t mentioned yet at this tour. Unoex mobility rider. So Matas got pulled
back into the group into the main pelaton. Let’s see the damage being done to the green jersey
group. This is the groupto back here, guys. They’re 7 and a half minutes behind the leaders.
Uh like they’re not even in sight right now. Uh Tony Se Tony C here is asking cocaine have to
ask what is too hot in Saudi. Yeah. Like does it ever get cold in Saudi? Like yeah cold. How cold
can it be in Saudi? Like a 15° C something like that. Jeff saying here the Cirrus H3. Yep. S Dude
I know all about Saras. The Cirrus H3 is a super quiet trainer. Also made in the USA. Such high
demand that it’s backorded. Dude, I think I heard about that, too. I think they Yeah, I didn’t know
they were made in the States. Uh, I know a lot of guys that ride them. Big brands would be Tax.
They’re spelled T A CX. That’s what I ride. Uh, Wahoo. Huge brand. Tax, huge, huge brand. Then
you would probably jump down to like an Elite. That’s another big brand. Saras is right there
as well. Uh if you’re thinking about getting into doing some cycling inside, guys, uh riding
some of the same roads that you’re seeing at the Tour to France while you watch the Tour to France,
uh consider getting looking into those trainers. And the beauty of it is, guys, you don’t need a
special bike. You do not need a special bike. Uh my special bike is in another room. Uh to replace
it right now, we’re probably about 12 grand. I’m riding a $1,200 Cyclacross bike here. All aluminum
Cyclacross bike. Uh it doesn’t matter what it weighs. You’re not you’re not worried about
aerodynamics. That’s all factored into the smart trainer program. Uh you could ride an old mountain
bike. You could ride a flat handlebars bike. It’s inside cycling is all about how much power you
can develop. It’s not about bike handling skills. It’s not about aerodynamics. It’s not about pack
positioning. Well, it kind of is uh because there is drafting in the game, but it’s assuming that
you’re a perfect drafter. You know, you can get an inch from someone’s wheel. Uh you can chase after
other people. It’s really fun. Trust me. If you ever get a chance to see a demonstration of it,
go check it out. Zift does a lot of them. Uh okay, guys. Just trying to catch up here again. Tatty’s
in the main pel. This is Jimboy D. Great. He is in the main pelaton. Uh the main pelaton right
now, guys, they’re working hard. It looks like we There’s only a 14-second gap between the
breakaway of eight and actually it’s 23 seconds, I think, was what I’m seeing here. The It’s
changing on the fly. We’ve got an 11sec gap back to two riders here. Four riders here.
Kevin Valon. Ah, that’s why Tatty’s responding. Vakalon pushing to the front. Uh making Tatty
show his cards. That’s what’s going on here, folks. Uh this is an insane day here. Absolutely
insane day. So I would say right now it looks like the Tatty group is maybe uh 15 seconds behind the
leading group. So the main Pelaton, if you can believe this guys, out of the 184 that started,
the main pelaton right now is only 79 riders. Everything is smashed across the stage.
Uh, so Jim, uh, where was he? Jim Jim boy, good question. Thanks, dude. Jeff is saying the
road is super dangerous for a big group to try to stay together all day. Extreme extremely fragment.
Yeah, a lot of people. We’re going to see I think we’re going to see the GC get bounced around again
today. Uh, I don’t think maybe the very front. Uh, I I have no idea where Remco is right now. I’m
sure he’s right beside Tatty. love these French roads. I would love to be there. Joey says we’re
going next year. Uh I don’t know how she’s paying for that. Uh yeah, Taddyy Tatty’s in the second
group right now. There’s a second group. We’ll call it second. There is a third group in the
middle there right now. So Tatty’s technically in the third, but they’re only a couple seconds
apart. Same group, really. Uh Doug saying, “If you want a pronunciation tip, Vanderpool is pronounced
like English Vanderpool.” Oh, I didn’t know that. Vanderpool. So, it is pool. I did
not know that. Vanderpool. Okay. Uh Jim Boy here. Yeah, you’re right, dude.
He’s saying the last stages of the tour are brutal mountains on the finish. Yeah,
like we don’t see any real mountain stages, high alpine passes till after the first break. And
what’s crazy, this year we do 10 full days before the first rest day. Usually we would start
on a Saturday, race to the following Sunday, take a rest day on the Monday. Rest days are
always on Mondays. They changed that up this year, too. Uh, and they make stage 10 really,
really hard. I think it’s 4600 m of climbing, so harder than today. Uh, climbing all day
long. We do have some deadly flat stages before that. There are some sprint stages
coming, so we’re going to have some shorter super fast races. Uh guys, we’re only 115 km
to the finish here. Uh let’s keep going here. Yeah, I thought someone would say that. Jess,
who says Chardonnay? I’m thirsty now. Yeah, I probably pronounced that wrong. It looked like
Chardonnay to me. Uh Don’s back. Okay, Don’s back. Hey, Don. Uh I showed I I messed up. So, I showed
your pictures twice yesterday. I never showed the riders in the breakaway and all that stuff.
So I just showed them this morning. So maybe later on jump back or I’ll show them back again
in the video later for everyone else. Uh so Don, good great to have you back guys. Remember
Dawn was out on course for stage 4. He saw the four rider breakaway. Him and his wife were
out there mingling with the locals, the tourists, uh the Pelaton going by. So great to have
Dawn back. He says, “Hello everyone. I’m back. Needed to recover from stage four. I love
it.” Uh, Leandro Baros is from Portugal. Dude, I’d love to visit Portugal. Uh, looks like such a
fantastic country. I need some port. Uh, Jim Boys here in Grigio. We got a lot of wine talk going on
here. I like the strong wine, guys. I love me some port. Strong and sweet. Uh, cocaine. Good good
comment here. here in Saudi Arabia, summertime, I’m outside between uh 4 and 7 a.m. only and
then it’s too hot. 36 Celsius onwards after 7:00 a.m. in the morning. So guys, 36 Celsius is
getting upwards of like 95 Fahrenheit and that’s first thing in the morning. So I imagine like
Saudi Arabia, uh it’s probably like 45 Celsius throughout the day and hotter 45 upwards
of 50 Celsius. So 115 maybe 120 Fahrenheit. Uh yep Tony here saying got it. Thanks
cocaine. Southeast USA 32C which is 90 Fahrenheit. I have a key few points that I
remember. Southeast USA though probably is quite humid. So 90 Fahrenheit and
humidity would be traumatizing. Uh oh awesome. Thanks Cole. In the winter time
here in the eastern area, it’s down to 9 to 13 Celsius with gusty winds. I use two layers or a
vest. Okay, 9 to 13. Uh that’s most of the year here in the spring and the summer. Guys, I’m going
to give you a little weather check. We had a nice day uh yesterday. Actually, weather check. So, in
Dbury right now, so this is my local little town nearby, Dbury, Alberta, Canada. It’s 10 degrees
C. So peak of the summer here in Canada, July 9th, we are getting your winter weather coal. It will
get to about 70 75 Fahrenheit. So like 20 to 22 degrees C today. Uh we are at altitude here. This
whole part of the world, Calgary, is around 1,000 meters in altitude. 3280 ft of elevation. Uh
it’s not the mile high city, that’s Denver. Very similar climates though. Uh it was just in Denver
and it totally reminded me of Calgary. Okay guys, off the front right now. Total distraction from
the race. Still got our eight riders. 24 second gap now. Back to the Pelon. They’re letting them
slowly drift away. Uh I’m assuming Vocalon is back. Yeah, Vocalon is back in the group. So
the Pelaton now consists of 83 riders. Those four riders that were trying to bridge are
now back in the main Pelaton. Pogy’s there. Remcoenol second place overall. Kevin Vocalon,
third place overall at the tour. Jonas Vingo, fourth place overall. They’re all there. Matteo
Jorgensson’s there as well. Uh I think Matteo Jorgensson’s going to be uh Yonas’s main man
this tour. Give you a bit of live tracking here. So that’s our gap. I mean, they’re seeing
them sometimes on the road. I feel bad for these guys way back here, though. Take a look
at this. 32 riders way off the back. 8 minutes and 13 seconds down right now and it’s not
going to get any easier for them. Uh this is the kind of stage where that gap is just going
to grow all day long. They’re not going to be able to pull it back. Uh group four, that’s 26
riders there. These are big groups of riders struggling. Group three, another 30 riders.
Some of these guys are going to get back on. Group five. They’re never coming back.
They’re gone. Uh 83 riders here. And then we’ve got our front group of eight. Go
back to the race here and see what we got. Uh yeah, so that group of four was pushing. They said
uh Valon Vakalon was pushing hard. Uh they’re back with the main Pelaton now though, folks. And it
says right here, Tim Wellins and Mark Solair, UAE guys sitting on the front. They’re trying
to stop the counterattacks. They’re trying to prevent it for Tatty. Uh remember guys, Tatty’s
a great rider. Um he’s not super human though. I I keep and I like my my dumb joke is one
bad burrito. You know, you eat one bad thing, your tour could be over. You wake up one morning
and your stomachs are uh rumbly. You may not have a good day out there. Just think about that stress
every day. How controlled their diets are. No, no, no, you can’t eat that. Yeah, but I want to
have I want to put a little hot sauce on my No, you’re not doing that. You know, that’s that’s
probably how much they’re supervised. Uh watching the feed right now, the groups can see each other.
Uh it’s a long downhill for the main pelaton and the eight rider breakaway is on a rise above them
right now. Sitting at around 25 seconds 110 km remaining in the stage. Quinn Simmons work beast
on the front as usual with Machu Vander Pool. Uh just coming back here. Anna from Anna from Alaska. Anna AK uh she says,
“I don’t think Jiannis will retire even if bad results this year, but I think maybe his wife
is right. They pushed him too hard before he was fully healed, including mentally. I can see him
leave Vizma to be honest.” Yeah. I don’t know. Like, it’s possible. I mean, the relationship he
has with they I guess there’s two sides to the story, right? I’m always the master of the benefit
of doubt. He came back from something that almost killed him. uh they want him back as soon as
possible. They’ve invested millions of dollars into him. Uh his wife wants him at home. Uh he’s
got a daughter at home. He’s a young dude. He’s not an old he’s not like he’s still a young guy.
I I said that in probably my first commentary. How old is Yonas, by the way? Can someone tell me how
old Yonas is? Uh let’s take a look here at Yonas. Uh just so I can figure that out. Oh, do I not
have that? Yeah. Teams. Let’s take a look at Yonas teams. Yonas 1996. So what is is Jonas really turning 29? Really?
Okay. So he’s a little bit older than I thought. Uh but he’s kind of a young, fragile, quiet guy.
Seep Cous here. Wow. Se is turning 31. Holy. Simon Yates. Campon Arts. The brace. Going to zoom in a little
bit. So up down the road here. We got uh up down. It’s up down all day,
folks. Kota de Martan, coat 314, the K de Juven Tartar. Uh just having a little
replay here on the front. Looks like they’re uh kind of trying to block up the road
a little bit. Things are slowing down a bit. UAE riders trying to ride the front right
now. I think they’re trying to slow it down. 29 second gap. It’s starting to push out there, isn’t it, boys? Starting to push
out there. It’s warming up today. Yeah, it’s hard to say what’ll
happen. I mean, I guess, yeah, it’s a struggle for Yonas. I think
he’s got that pressure from home. He’s got the pressure from the team. He’s got the
pressure of coming back from the injury. Uh, got Yeah. Just everything.
And Tatty doesn’t have that. Uh, okay. Dom was saying he rode 10K the other day and
it was 94 Fahrenheit in New Jersey. Probably pretty humid there, too. That would be very hot.
Don saying it’s gorgeous here in France. Uh, northeast France. So, I I think Don’s back
to his uh his hangout there in France. Okay, guys. Hang on. Rick’s back as well. Rick
Holtzlander, 88% humidity in Florida today. Yeah, brutal. That makes 90 feel like 120, doesn’t it?
Uh, that humidity, you can’t even sweat. You can’t cool your body down. Uh, just let the AC rock all
day long, folks. AC Max. Yeah, Tony here saying, “Tour to France coverage and the new weather
channel. Best YouTube channel ever.” Thanks, Tony. Uh, plus some virtual cycling talk, whatever
else we can get do. We can do some sled dog talk if you want again. Uh yeah, 94 Fahrenheit. That’s
34 C. Yeah. So my ones I remember uh 90 Fahrenheit is 32. Everyone knows everyone in the States
would say, “Yeah, 90 is getting hot.” And everyone here in Canada say, “Yeah, 32 is hot.” Uh for
cold, 0 is 32 Fahrenheit. Okay. So if I say 32, it’s just getting cold. Water’s going to freeze,
right? uh zero Fahrenheit, that’s where I would say it’s starting to get cold. That’s -8 Celsius.
That’s a normal winter for us. Uh like January, February, that’s every day. It’s not Siberia cold,
but it’s cold. Overnight, you could get minus 40. Uh Jim Boyd, great saying, “I can’t find any live
videos of the tour here in the Philippines.” Uh Mike Tess, new name here. Can you update us
about the intermediate sprint results? Dude, Jonathan Milan banged that one out earlier. Um,
he easily took that one early today. What I’ll do is I’m going to scroll back down here,
guys. Let’s take take a look here. Current situation at the front. Eight rider breakaway.
Uh, we’re out to about 30 seconds gap. I will go back to the intermediate sprint here. I’m
just going to roll down. This is the tour feed itself. We’re going to have to go back a little
bit here. Uh, see if I miss missed anything. Okay, that was the climb. Quinn Simmons over the
top first. Uh Mark Hershey, that was uh that was the first climb, I believe. Yeah. So, right here,
Jonathan Milan, average speed at Villa Bage. That was the sprint. Uh he took it. He does have the
virtual green jersey now. And you can see here, Milan is back in the lead of the point standings.
Jonathan Milan for Leel Trek 112. Bingan Germay at 102, Matu Vanderpole Pool at 97. Tatty at 97
just by default. Uh Tim Merier who won stage three at 72. Going to fly to the top. 21 seconds. Now
we’ve got someone else trying to jump across. Now Machu Burgo uh from Total Energy is trying to get
into the mix up front here. If we can get one and two riders just sneaking up the front, uh, the
Pelaton will allow one to go. If 10 or 20 try to jump across, they’re not going to allow it. They
will not allow that. But it’s funny how the small breakaway can just slowly turn into a big group
up front. It’s one and two at a time and all of a sudden you got 20 riders up front. Then that’s
something to be worried about. Uh now the eight riders up front now have 24 seconds to Machu Burgo
who’s a further 15 seconds ahead of the Pelon. So it’s 39 seconds now back to the Pelaton. So
Tatty’s UAE doesn’t want to chase anymore. Uh we’ve also got Tobias Foss going up the road.
So Tobias Foss is trying to go up the road. Guys, I’m going to turn the live tracker on. I find it’s
a bit easier to see these guys what they’re doing. There’s going to be groups everywhere today. Front
group. This is Burgido right here by himself. Said Foss is there as well. I think Foss might be
back here with the Pelaton. Now group four, only 30 riders back here. Group five, another
26 riders. And the groupto at the back swapping jokes, hanging on for dear life today. Uh
32 riders. A lot of the sprinters are back here. 8 minutes and 45 seconds behind right now.
Would you want to be back there with them? Uh, next climb of the day coming up.
We have the Kota de Mortan. Guys, let me try to do this for you quickly.
I’m getting better at this. Uh, I think it works. I think right now you’re seeing
what I have here. So, I’m going to do it right here. I think I finally figured out how to do
this. Uh, use the right keyboard colon D more. Wrong keyboard in the dark. So, coorten 314. I’ve got it. Uh, okay. It wants me to sign up. Okay.
I’m just signing up to ClimbFinder. Uh, I’ll have a freebie account and then
I’ll get a premium account later. Oh, they want me to type it in
again. Okay, I can do that. Hey, Kleinfinder, I love your application here,
bro. Love it. Code de Mortan, I I I really like the mapping feature. I like the fact that I can
have satellite views. Uh, here we go. Here we go, folks. I’m going to show you guys this one.
Kotto Morten. Oh, this one has got a lot of red, a lot of deep red colors, folks. Let’s have
a look at this guy over here. Yeah, good. I’m finally learning how to do this. So, we’re
not stuck, guys. We’re flipping over now. This is the next category 3 PL climb. Two points for
first place, one point for second place. That’s all that’s available. As we get up to higher
categorizations, uh those points will get higher and they’ll desend. They’ll be uh more points
paid out. Uh, so this is the Kote de Morten uh 314. That’s exactly what it’s called at the stage
uh of the tour of the Francis here. I want to get back in so I can see it here. And again, look at
the details here. Every little house, every little puddle showing up. Man, these look like holding
ponds or something. Totally round. Love this. I love the contour lines. Uh contouring, guys, if
you’re a geologist, that’s the name of the game. All we do is contour maps. Contouring thicknesses
of sand packages. Contouring thicknesses of sand packages that have a permeability sorry like
a parocity of 9% and a per permeability of uh I don’t know 20 mil or something like that.
Millarces is a uh talks about permeability. Uh a rock can be very porous, got lots of holes
in it, but the holes aren’t interconnected. Uh if the holes aren’t interconnected, there’s
not permeability for said fluids to move through the rocks. You want to find porous rocks that
are also permeable. Geology talk for the day, folks. Uh this guy says here it’s 1.7 km long
at 9.8% gradient. Take a look at the profile here. There is a flat section just under halfway
through and then it kicks up again. Uh looks like a lot of 10 12% going up through there. Just
another brutal little climb. Oh yeah, Primo, here I come. Look at the detail here. I love
this climb finder, you’re my new best friend here. And we can zoom right out. Uh it shows
you all the other climbs right nearby. Guys, I only discovered this last night. I I have heard
of it. I just never and I’ve probably been on the website. I’ve never dug into it. Uh these kinds of
platforms are great just for like planning trips, planning bike rides. Uh it’s got some nice terrain
features on here. I can see already I can see like ridges. Take a look at this right here. I mean
you can see that plain as day that that’s the crest line of that. And it’s falling away in that
direction and falling away in that direction. And this is just me barely knowing how to use this.
Uh we zoom back in again. There we go, guys. Okay, I’m going to jump off that. I’ve got comments that
I’m too distracted doing other things. That’s how it is. Here we go. Boom. Probably going to just
flip out here for a second. Uh, okay. Let’s take a look at these groups here. The race, uh, front
group of eight. They’ve swallowed up that group that was trying to jump across back to 1 minute
12. So, groups are trying to go off the front. The pelon says, “No, they’re too dangerous. We
got to get back after them.” pulls them back every time. UAE sitting on the front. Uh, looks
like at least four or five members of UA on the front. Sudal is up there as well. Vizma just
over on the left side. I can see Victor Campon Arts. That little mustache he likes to rock. Yonas
coming up right now on the very lefthand side of the road. Yonas is right there in the mix, folks.
Uh, okay. Weather talk. I love it. I actually love Weather Talk. Uh, okay. So, a lot of humidity
there. Yeah, Weather Channel. Okay, got it. Jeff’s asking, “Don’t you have a severe fire?”
Yeah, we’ve had some bad fires this year. Uh, we have them every year though, like May, June,
July is fire problems out here. Out west here. Yeah. BC coast. Tons of moisture. Uh once you
cross cross the Rockies, you get into the rain shadow of the Rockies. All that moisture that
crosses the Rockies gets dropped up there at elevation. The temperatures gets colder as you
climb up the mountains. Uh cold air can’t hold moisture the way warm air can. So all that cold
uh all that moisture that’s up there falls in the mountains as rains. When you come out of
the mountains, the air warms up. It’s fine. Uh it doesn’t want to rain. It’s already all been
dropped out. That’s why there’s always that’s where all the snow falls there. It’s always
green and lush there in the forest. And you come out here and it’s pretty brown looking in
places. Uh wildfires break out and they are out of control. Uh I think a lot of parts of the
world right now are having wildfire issues. I don’t know. It’s just the way it is. We’ve had
lots of severe ones here too. Kind of like the California ones where strong winds in areas that
are almost like desert aid environments. that for us here in British Columbia would be the uh
Okonogan Valley. Technically a desert doesn’t look like it. Uh a desert is defined Antarctica is a
desert, guys. It’s technically a desert. It’s just how much precipitation do you get in a year? I
think it’s 10 in. You only if you get less than 10 inches of precipitation a year, it’s technically
a desert. So, the Okonogan Valley, if they have fires break out there and the winds are gusting
the right way and the grounds are bone dry, uh, all the people build their nice fancy houses
up on the sides of the hills while the winds are just pushing the winds and the fire up those
hills. And to get to those houses up there, it’s long, snaky roads. Uh, fire equipment
can’t get up there quick. Those houses are gone before you even know it. We’ve had those
fires over and over and over. It’s just like the Santa Ana winds in California. Once those
winds gusts and those fires are going, how are you going to stop them? Like, it’s it’s not even
possible. It happens. It’s a tragedy. Uh yeah, the gap in is increasing. They’re letting them
move away a little bit. They’re just not I think right now the Pelaton just doesn’t want any more
people to go. They’re a little bit nervous uh that people get across and that breakaway group forms.
Matchu is not going to stop driving the front end right now. Quinn’s up there, too. They’re going
to be going hard. UAE has got the Pelaton strung out right now. They know they got a chase. They
know they got a chase. Who is the biggest danger in the front right now? Let’s take a look at
that. Take a look at the front right now. The biggest danger right now is Machu Vanderpole.
Matchu is currently sixth overall at the Tour to France. Is Matchu Vanderpole pool poll? Uh,
is he a contender for the tour to France? Uh, I love him. He’s not a GC contender realistically,
but I guess if he rides strong, uh, well, you know what? He’s going to lose time in the
mountains. He’s He’s a GC contender for part of the tour. Let’s leave it that. uh he could easily
win the stage. Remember to win a stage at the Tur of France guy that can that can make your career.
So Ben Healey is a bit of a danger there. He’s in 33rd place overall and he is a climber. Ben
Healey, this is not even a perfect stage for him. This these climbs aren’t hard enough. Different
types of climbers. Uh some climbers like Yonas, they like the 20 25 km uh 12 to 15 mile long
climbs that just go on forever. Uh some guys like the punchy shorter climbs like today really
short climbs. Uh there’s others who like something right in the middle. Uh Yonas has always done
well against Tatty on well worry has done well not always has been the long climbs. That’s where
we’ve seen Tatty falter. Uh and Yonas do well. Uh so yeah, that’s probably what they’re trying
to cover there. Uh keeping an eye on Matchu. uh Ben Healey and basically the stage victory.
UAE wants to win everything they can. Remember, they have a huge budget. Uh they’re here
to win. Uh getting back to the chat, guys. I’m probably way behind now. We got 133
riders right now. This might be the slowest day of the week. I thought it would have been
yesterday. Uh but that’s perfect, guys. Uh okay, let me get back here. Yeah, Don’s got it
right here. Uh, Yonas is a shy, introverted man. His only way to mentally recharge is spend time
at home. Mrs. Vingugo is looking out for her husband’s wellbeing. Yeah, like I mean that’s I
mean from a sporting point I’m like I want to see Yonas doing everything he can to win. But that’s
his wife. She knows what he’s all about. Uh she they have a family together. They have a daughter
together. Uh and for what I’m what I’m hearing from even from some of you guys, Tatty’s flying
home. He’s recharging and Yonas is kind of like sequestered away in a hut way up on the side of a
mountain breathing thin air all the time. I mean, maybe Vizma’s being too hard on him. I’d love
to get the full inside story. We’ll probably never know what it is until uh Yonas leaves
Vizma. Uh Rick saying here only Vingo knows how much is left in the tank. That’s true. Jimboy
saying Yonis is no longer a threat for this tour. Uh yeah, I saw a lot of that yesterday. I think
Yonas can still do it. Uh remember stage six, we got 21 stages in total. We’ve got
rest days. People get sick on rest days. Uh do you want to win because your
competitor got sick? No. But if it happens, it happens. Uh Taddyy could crash out today for
all we know. It’s happened before. Uh in the past, Eddie Mks got punched in the gut. And did
he have to retire? Did he retire? Uh yeah, the when Eddie dominated everything. Remember
guys, before Tatty, there was a guy named Eddie Mks. He won everything. Uh Eddie Mks was Tatty
way before Tatty. He won the tour to France. He won the Valta. He won the Jirro. He won every
stage uh classic out there. He won everything. And uh after a while they hated him. The French fans,
other fans, uh people were throwing things at him. Uh, one guy punched him in the gut and I think he
almost retired from the tour. I just started my history book on the tour to France last night. Uh,
so I’ll probably be learning all about that soon. Uh, someone here. Okay. I’m not sure what
Dawn’s saying. I don’t know if he’s saying Idid. Ididarod is tough. Are we talking about
the Adid here? Oh, I think we are talking about the Adid. Maybe because Anna’s here and
she’s from Alaska. Uh I think she is Anna AK. Interesting if Dathlon with the new money might
try to snatch Yonas if he’s unhappy with Vizma. Could also see him with EF. Yeah, I think a
lot of it too. It all depends. I think it’s kind of like in European soccer. I love saying
that just to annoy European fan people, which I shouldn’t do. Sorry about that. Uh football.
I think they pay out their contracts. So, if he has a contract that’s going for like the next
five years, you kind of got to pay it out. Uh, they get their money. So, they could just
break a contract, but you got to pay it out to get him across. Yeah, that would be
really cool to see him go to EF. Okay. Uh, Dawn is skied at minus 25. My tears froze.
Yeah, minus 25 is getting cold, Don. That’s getting cold. I can say that uh more weather tips
for you here guys where the scales meet. Remember zero sorry 0 Celsius 32 Fahrenheit water freezes
-8 Celsius is 0 Fahrenheit. Here’s the funny part. -40 Celsius is -40 Fahrenheit. It’s just the way
the scales work. Either way -40 is brutal in both scales. Minus 255 is getting nasty Fahrenheit. Uh
but yeah, if you’re skiing at those temperatures, dawn, it’s brutal. Yeah, you get to the point
minus 40. I’ve uh been outside in that weather, uh running sled dogs, your eyelashes start
freezing together. You got to blink them out. Uh Reuben’s back in the mix. Good to see Reuben
here. 48 km an hour average after 100 km and 1500 meters of climbing. Yeah, let’s go in here
and see if we can see that in the live track uh the race. I want to see that. I’m getting
that funny little tracer thing happening. Yeah, the gap is slowly they’re slowly letting them
get away right now. Those guys at the front are just flying. So, the breakaway speed
47.7 km an hour uh average speed. Uh the Pelaton’s at 46.5. That’s why we’re getting
that gap forming. UAE still sitting on the front working controlling the front. They don’t
want anyone else going up uh to that front group. I see someone asking here. Uh you guys can
see here a question is does Taddyy get to decide which one he wants to wear? Now he he’s
going to wear the yellow. He’s never going to wear the other one. The other ones go to the
next rider in standing. So today Tatty also has the polka dot jersey, but it’s being worn
by Yonasfingo. And actually you can see it on screen here right now. Take a look here. Tatty
has the yellow. He also has the green. Uh this has happened before. I think it said it was
2011, Philippe Jill Bear, the Belgian great, uh, he rode he wore three jerseys at once at
the tour. But since Tatty can’t wear the green jersey over top of his yellow jersey, it goes
to Jonathan Milan. But actually, right now, Jonathan Milan has the green jersey
back. Uh, with those sprint points, he virtually owns it again. The polka dot jersey,
Tatty has that as well. It’s being ran by Yonas right now because he’s second place overall in
the Polka Dot jersey. That’s how they do it. Going to take a look here. See if we can see
any gaps forming. Yeah, sitting at 122 right now. Looks like it’s kind of came back a little
bit. So, we got a little bit of a gap coming up. Going to jump back here again, guys. I’m going
to turn this on again just so I can show you this. This is what we got coming up down the road
here. Uh the Cot Mortan code 314. You can see the climb right here. We’re to climb up the side
of this little valley uh little village here. And there it is right there. I can
see the name right there. Coat 314. It’s bit of the road at the top there. Let
me I’m just trying to figure this all out. Ah, that must be another climb. Oh, that’s
probably the climb. Oh, I see what’s going on there. There’s actually another climb here. I’m
like trying to This climb here is the other climb. This green line is a very easy climb up the flank
of the hill. And if you look closely out of here, this is why it’s tough. Oh, I’ve lost my There
it is. Basically, you’re you’re hitting those contours. You can see the the light contour
lines here. You’re basically walk going straight up there. The way to avoid that is to
go along the contour lines and make switchbacks. It’s a short little climb. No need for
switchbacks. Short, but tough. Let’s turn that off. Getting better at this every day,
folks. We’ll jump here. 128 in the group now, folks. 41 likes. Thank you so much, dudes. Uh
John Chady in the mix. Hey, John. Good to see you, dude. Ruben, saying hi to John. We all know
each other from the virtual world of Ruby. Uh, John’s just getting into work, getting
ready to bang out some vehicles today. John, let’s put a goal today. We got to sell at least
five F-150s. I know nothing about what you guys are looking at to sell. Uh, but I’m just going to
say five today. Load it up to. We don’t want none of those base ones. There’s so many different
models. Uh, so John’s just listening to me. I find a lot of people just listen to me in the
background. Uh, they just kind of want to hear little details of what’s going on. It’s hard to
put all the time. Oo, Tatty’s bike looks nice today. All white frame. He’s got the uh world
champion uh rainbow jersey stripes on it. Ben Healey’s got the ice bag already down the back
of his neck. So, Ben Healey is in that front group. Minute and 19 seconds right now. Here’s our
front group again. Let’s take a look at Ben Healey here. Irishman. Young guy. Young guy. This guy’s
got a lot of career left. 33rd place overall, ninth uh in the white jersey, and Matchu
sixth overall, fourth in the green jersey. Someone asked me last night, how old is
Vanderpool’s dad? Uh his dad, when I first got into cycling, his dad was like a superstar.
He rode through the 80s and the 90s. Audrey Vanderpole. Uh Audrey married into the Pulidor
family. He’s the son-in-law of Raymond Pulidor, aka Poo Poo, the uh the guy that finished second
so many times at the Tur of France and never won it. Uh another rider who had to face Eddie
Mks all the time. Uh and even though he was like a phenomenal rider, you’re racing Eddie Mks
every day. Slowly warming up. It’s not brutally hot here. 26.5 degrees C. Uh we’re probably like
mid80s right now. They’ve already climbed 2,000 mters, 1956 meters climbing. UAE on the front. Uh,
looks like the second team that wants to work here is Sudal. Sudal. And then I think we got Arca BNB.
Vizma sitting behind them. Think we got Victor over on the far left of the road just having a
little look by himself. And I don’t see where Yonas is right now, but I’m sure he’s tucked right
in there. I think Tatty’s riding a bit further back. It’s three. Yeah, that’s right. is three UAE
riders on the front. Uh Sudal and then Tatty’s a bit further back. I think he’s riding with Kevin
Valon right now. Yeah, there he is. Okay. Uh Vingo’s Visma contract runs through 2020.
Also not sure what team would be willing to buy his contract out and then fund what Vingo
wants for a new contract with new team. Yeah, I guess the only thing I could see there
is what’s the payout of his contract? uh and would you know maybe he works like
a life balance contract like hey guys I’m going to race for you. I could win the tour to
France for you if you build the right team for me. I’ll take a bit less cash uh if you let
me go home more than three days per year. I don’t know. How about something like that? Uh
maybe you can fly my wife up to the the little uh hut on the side of the mountain with no power
once in a while. Uh yeah. Like I even saw Mark Cavish talking about it. Oh, I need a coffee. Uh
he said like he was getting home like less than he could count on his hand on his two hands. That’s
how many times he got home per year. So yeah, they’re never home. They’re always at
a training camp somewhere. Uh okay. Good point here, Rick. This bad TT has opened up
a lot of premature speculation. In my opinion, I agree with you, dude. Uh, I jumped
online afterwards and all it was was like, “The tour’s over. Tatty’s won. Uh, Yonas should
quit. Uh, that’s the worst performance I’ve seen.” It was just, it was horrible really
to me. Uh, his tour to France is over. It’s one It’s a minute and 20 seconds. That’s it. One
minute and 20 again. Tatty Pagachar riding at the tour to France calling out on team. I’m dead. Just
falling behind Yonas all the way. It’s the tour to France. One bad burrito. Anything can happen. Good
douche. It is far from over, folks. Far from over. Yeah, Jim Boy is saying though. I think he’s
saying that Pogy already made a statement against Bingo. You’re right, dude. I think Tatty
might have went as hard as he possibly could at the TT because I expected more out of Remco
yesterday. Actually, I thought the gap would have been bigger. That was just my my thoughts.
Uh so either Remco held back a bit or Tatty did everything he could to win. And Tatty really wants
to win. Uh cuz he’s even trying to sprint against Matthew Vanderpole. Sometimes he wins, sometimes
he loses. Big group of uh Groupama FDJ guys riding at the back of the Pelon here. Let’s have a little
look back here now at the live tracking again. That next category 3 is coming up at Mortaine. Oh,
I wonder which way we’re actually riding it from. Okay, good. It is the right direction. That’s what
you got to be careful when you’re using the climb finder. It It’s a climb from the west to the east.
Uh so we’ll be climbing up here. And what I can do quickly, I’m going to just do this one more time,
guys, if you don’t mind. I’m going to just flip that back on real quick. uh head back here. Yeah,
I can see the curve in the road right there. So, this little point in the road here, this climb.
Just remember that little I’ll zoom out a little bit. There’s a big curve in the road here and then
a hard curve there. What we’re going to do is just quickly jump back before we forget. Turn that
guy off. Here’s that big curve over in the road here. We kind of come along that curve. So, we are
going that right direction. Sometimes you’ll have a hill from one side and the other side, three or
four sides. Sometimes uh von 2 has three ways up it. It’s not just one road that goes up there.
You got the better assault, the mollisene side, and the side that comes up from Sue, which is
generally regarded as the easiest way to take it. Uh let me get back here and I will go to the race again. So 1 minute
29 seconds back from our group of eight to the pelaton. From there it’s 3 minutes 43
seconds back to the vanard group. Uh this is 26 riders here. A lot of big names. Toys Card
Vanard, Hershey, Bentomas. Yeah, this big names here guys. 26 of them sitting back here. From
there, it’s a further 5 minutes and 21 seconds back to the groupto the green jersey group.
Kaden Groves, he won’t be sprinting for a win today. Bingham Germay will not see a sprint win
today. Neither will Jonathan Milan, Tim Merier, Dylan Groonen. Uh they will not be sprinting for
win today. They are hanging on for dear life. Uh, it looks like, let me
get this figured out here. They’re a long ways back. Just trying
to figure out the total time. Oh, wow, guys. Here it is right here. Uh, that green
jersey group who I said earlier will not be bringing the time back. It’s going to grow all
day long. They’re currently 10 minutes and 25 seconds behind the the front end of the group. So,
it’s just going to keep growing. They’re probably going to be What do you guys think? What’s our
guess? I’m I’m gonna say they’re gonna be half an hour behind at the end of the day. 30 minutes
back of the winners. Uh, okay. Catching up again, guys. Julia Caesar’s back. Great commentary.
And not one. We’ll wait and see. Dude, yeah, explain that to me. What is will What is What?
We’ll wait and see. I think you made that comment yesterday and I didn’t understand what you
meant at the time. Can you explain that to me, please? And I love having you here, man. Uh,
a lot of people must be busy today. A lot of people must be working. We’ve got 123 riders uh
watching right now. Cycling fans are here. Uh, I know everyone can’t be here every day, but I
love the people that are here. It’s really great. Uh, John is saying three a day is good. Okay,
that’s a good number then. So, John, like is that what what’s the the monthly total you’re looking
for? So, I know at the car dealerships, you guys work six days a week, right? So, are you guys
looking for like 90 vehicles a month, but they can do five? Let’s get five today. John, we want some
high-end uh Okay, John works at a Ford dealership. So, what’s the highest end of Ford like the King
Ranch? Is it Do you guys use King Ranch down or is that a Canadian thing? In fact, I think there’s
a level above King Ranch, too. Oh, platinum. Oh, King Ranch is kind of like the leather country
look, which is fantastic, but I forget how it goes. There’s a limited and there’s a platinum.
Is limited higher than the platinum? It always threw me off. Uh, anyways guys, uh, sidetracked
again. Sorry fans. Don’t get mad at me. Uh, uh, okay, here’s a good question. I don’t know who
this guy is. Uh, Ortig Ortigaras. Yahoo. Sorry, dude. I butchered that. What can you say about
four UAE riders finishing at the top five in Tour of Austria? Dude, I can’t say a lot right now
because I just started watching it yesterday. Uh, so spoiler alert, we didn’t say what position
they finished in. I’m going to finish watching it today. Uh, guys, there’s so many good races
out there that you never hear about. Uh, that one popped up on my Flow Bikes channel yesterday
and if I had more time in my day, I would be covering that one too cuz I saw the coverage and
I’m actually no it wasn’t on Flow Bikes. It was on a different channel. It had commentators but I
was like I can’t even listen to this really. Uh, I thought about how can I get that feed and use
it and just do it my way. My way or the highway. Yeah, I heard that in concert recently. Uh, dude,
I don’t really know a lot about that right now. I’m going to catch up with later today. Here’s a
better question. What do you think about it? Uh, that’s what you got to remember, guys. UAE’s
here, Alpason Dinix’s here. All the teams are here. They’ve got teams racing at the exact same
time in other parts of the world, mostly Europe right now. Uh, some of these teams are they’ve
got a a full team of 30 riders and women’s teams. The ladies are really, really good guys.
We’ll be covering the Tour of France. Avoclap. Those days are going to kill me. Uh,
it overlaps with the tour to France. Yeah, that’s good to know. Well, Del Toro must
be very high. I I got to assume with four UAE riders or Del Toro. So, Isaac Del Toro, the
guy that looked like he was going to win the Jirro and basically gifted it to Simon Yates.
Uh, he is at the Tour of Austria right now. It’s an 800 k I think it’s 719 km long stage
race. Uh it’s Austria. It’s got to be quite hilly. So Wade’s asking here uh or oh so del Toro
only got fifth yesterday. I still will watch that stage. Uh so I guess UAE is looking very very
strong at the Tour of Austria right now. Uh that team is just stacked with talent and developing
young talent. Yep. The cat 3 climbs coming up. I showed that one before. The Kot Morten. Uh,
is that the one you’re talking about? Wait, or are we talking about a different climb?
Uh, cuz there’s lumps all the way here. Ooh, here we go. 80 a month is a goal at the
dealership. So, yeah, you got to be running about three a day. Maybe you get four on a Saturday uh
on average to get you that 80. Lariat King Ranch Platinum. Yeah, I love them. Rick is saying
he just saw Limp Biscuit in concert at the beginning of this month. Okay, dude. Beginning
of this month of July. I’m thinking you’re going to you’re thinking June. Rick, let’s figure this
out. Rick just saw Limp Biscuit at the beginning of this month. Uh Limp Biscuit has been touring
with Metallica. Rick, did you go to a Metallica concert? If so, dude, uh you’re going to get a
special star beside your name. Actually, I don’t even know how to do this. Uh, I just saw Limp
Biscuit with Metallica in Denver. Before that, they played Santa Clara on the 25th and the
20 actually the week before. Before that week, I think they were I think they were in
Florida or something. June. Yeah. So, Rick, where did you see them? And what And were they
with Metallica? If you’ve never seen Metallica, go see Metallica, everyone. Yeah. So, I know
I just assumed Limp Biscuit was touring with Metallica for that concert you’re talking about.
And I know Metallica is not touring anymore in North America. That was their last date. They
then took off from there and went to Aussy’s last show over in uh the UK. I think that was
at Wembley Stadium, guys. Still over 100 riders uh people watching right now. I love it, guys.
Love it. Love it. Love it. Let’s get it. We got uh let’s see if we can hear Tatty quickly. I don’t
know if we’re going to hear much here from him. Too much energy and see how the stage develops
and then we go day by day and we see. Are you expecting a sense of revenge from Yonas and from
Valis bike? Yeah, could be also. I mean uh yeah, we saw that he’s Yonas is super good on this punch
finals. So it it would be good for him as well to try maybe and uh yeah, we have to be prepared
for that also. Hear that? Jonas is saying, sorry, Tatty’s saying it it would be good for
Yonas to try. So maybe he’s giving Yonas a bit of advice there. Uh we’ll see what happens. Yonas,
it looks like Yonas is riding with Septoose right now. Is number 16, Septoose. It sure looks like
him. That looks like a Septoose Cous body type. Two minutes now from the front group of eights.
It’s growing, guys. It is growing. It’s happening. 2 minutes is not that far though on the road. This
is where we take our big turn at this town here, this village, Bington. It’s probably Brenton.
Brenton. Uh we start heading northwesterly at that point. We’ve been heading southwesterly all
day long. Uh a few little detours along the way. Uh the group four, the grouped almost 11 minutes
back now. Will it be half an hour at the end? Ah, it won’t be that much, I don’t think.
Although these climbs coming up, those the gaps are going to explode on every
climb. And we’re going to do three of them, four of them. So, these guys are
in for a rough day out there. Uh oh, dude. Rick, you the man. You the man. So,
yeah, I heard about the Tampa concert. Went to both shows in Tampa. So, guys, when Metallica does
a concert, they have so much content. Uh they do a twoight concert. Uh, and you know what they So,
imagine this too. We’re doing rock talk here, folks. Where’s Selena from uh a few days ago? She
loves her metal. Metallica goes to a show. They just don’t rent the stadium out one night. They
do two shows. Oh, and guess what also? They have a night off in between. Nothing happens at that
stadium that night. It just sits empty. I don’t even know what it would cost to have that Tampa
Stadium just sitting empty for that night. What do you guys think? Do you think it’s five bucks
or do you think it’s more like 20 or 30 grand? Yeah, we’ll just keep it for the night. And they
got a setup before and after. Their setup is like nothing ever. They have these eight gigantic
towers. Each tower weighs 14 tons. Uh light sound speakers are up there. The snake pit.
It’s incredible. And the coolest part here is Rick says, “Went to both shows in Tampa. Was on
the front rail next to Headfield. Uh Joey Jojo uh would have absolutely died. We’ve been to a ton
of Metallica concerts. Vegas the first time. She went to the Helping Hands charity uh concert in
uh Los Angeles. We went to see him at the Power Trip Festival. Still got my entry band on from
two years ago. Never taken it off. Uh we saw them there. We saw them in Seattle last year and we
just saw them in Denver. And she’s always trying to figure out how the band will come out so she
can get close to James Heffield. snake pit for us or front row would be cool. I just don’t know if I
could stand for five hours because if you move you lose your position. Uh but really awesome Rick.
I’m gonna have to tell her that story. Uh Rick, how close were you to Heftfield? Were you like
right there where he has a cigar and warms up to the ecstasy of gold? Okay. Uh next question here.
Uh Julius Caesar here. Before I discovered your channel, I’ve been watching the cycling dane. The
guy keeps saying, “We’ll wait and see. Content is bad and hard to understand and have an idea or
feeling of the Okay, I see what you’re saying, dude. So, he must just say, “We’ll wait
and see a lot, dude. Let’s wait and see.” Okay, I won’t say that ever again. I promise.
Uh, I probably say a lot of dumb things to you guys. Uh, it’s just how people talk. Uh,
I do know who the Cycling Dane guy is. Got some cool uh farm furniture artwork here. The
the things that these people do to put this stuff on for the tour to France is absolutely amazing to
me, guys. Just insanity. I wish I could show you more. Copyright is strong at the tour to France,
guys. I see people comment, “Hey, how do I watch the feed? Show me the feed.” I’m like, “Guys, if I
show you the feed once, they turn this thing off.” Uh just so you guys know, uh I must have played
a little jingle yesterday. So, you know when it goes I don’t even want to do it cuz I think I’ll
get copyright struck. It’s like a little thing that goes I’m terrible with music. Uh that was
like a little jingle, a 10-second wave file that played somewhere in the back of one of the videos
I showed. Uh I got copyright struck for that. So, uh wasn’t for showing video. Uh the race audio
they’re fine with, but I like to play by the rules. I had no intention of doing that. I was
able to fix it and the view the the video is back up now. So, if you show the video, it’s coming
down, guys. Uh, enough of that. 2 minutes 16 seconds up to Matchu Vanderpool uh to the and
back to the Pelaton. Pelaton currently still at 113 riders. So, it’s gotten bigger in size.
Some of the riders are scrambling back on. Uh, a further three minutes back, five minutes 20
overall back to vote Venard. So, he’s not having a great day again. And again, guys, they’re not
they’re not robots. They’re humans. They get up, they feel good, they get out there, and they’re
like, “Yeah, I should have probably got into the bathroom before I got on the bike.” That’s how
I think about it. It’s like, “No, no, no, no, no. This is not going to work right now. I need to
dial it back. 28° C now. Heating up all the way, guys. Let’s get to the live tracking. Let’s
see what uh got some commentary here.” Yeah, right here. As we said earlier guys in the
breakaway, Matthew Vanderpole is the best placed in the GC sixth overall and currently he is the
c the currently the virtual yellow jersey. What is the virtual yellow jersey for new cycling
fans? Uh you’re behind by a minute but during I’m making numbers up. You’re behind by a minute
overall to the leader but you’re 3 minutes ahead on the road. That means you are now currently
2 minutes ahead overall in the virtual jersey. So technically, if the race ended, then the one
minute gap disappears. You have a three minute. So it’s a two-minute differential now. Uh the
yellow jersey be on your back. That is not Well, let’s just see what happens, folks. Stick around.
You’ll see what happens. And even the words right here, after a brutal first half of the stage,
and guys, it doesn’t get any easier. This race is going to be hard. Here’s Yonas right here.
Let’s see what he’s doing. Is he blowing a kiss at the at the screen? I wish I could see
it. Can’t really tell what he’s doing. Uh, I think he might have just blown a kiss at the
camera. I always like to joke Yonas always blows a kiss at the camera. I actually said it in one
of my videos. Coming back to the live tracking here. Getting ready for the assault up
the coat. De Mortan. Uh, okay. So, uh Oh, Rick, are you kidding me? I’m going to have
to get Joey to watch this back. Guys, if you ever want to watch this back, uh, or let’s say you miss
a video one day and you want to watch the whole thing and be involved, like read the chat, cuz I
realize some people are out there going, “Why is this guy this guy talking about some of the stuff
he’s talking about? Who is he talking to?” The live chat replay is on, but by default on whatever
device you’re you’re on, it’s generally turned off. You can go back and watch all of the live
chats. The live chat is always available. You’ll see it all right now. You guys can see it all. Uh
when the video is live, when the stream is live, once the video goes offline, it becomes, I guess,
a video. It takes a while for YouTube to put it on there and you have to enable it. And I think most
TVs, you can’t even see the live chat. On a phone, you can. It’s a little funky. You got to hit the
comments and then swipe to the left or the right or something like that. I did it one time to
try to figure it out. Uh, it’s easily doable on a PC. So, Rick, I got to go find that later.
He’s got some great comments here. Uh, so yeah, Julius Caesar, thank you for the comments. We’ll
wait and see. Uh, John Chase, he says, “Well, wait and see doesn’t elicit conversation. Colin
keeps people engaged or they leave for political reasons.” Yeah, John, I guess you heard that, eh?
I don’t think I was being that political. I’ll try not to be. I’ll try to keep it on the racing.
Clear shop on screen right now first. right now, folks. 97th overall. Uh John knows. Uh I get a lot
of good feedback from John. Private Discord chats. Colin, you’re doing a great job. Blah, blah, blah.
Love it. John, uh I think I comment to John. John, you know how I do it, guys. This is how I
always do my videos. It’s always fun. I like to be engaged. I like to talk about the writers.
I like to talk about the people that are in the chats. Uh this is the way I’ve always done it. And
I’m going to keep doing this with this way. And I do get distracted. And I do talk about donkeys
outside and pigs and loose animals and snowstorms. That’s just how it is. Uh yeah, so we’ll wait and
see. Uh oh, check this out from Rick Holtzlander here. Lars Olrich handed me a drumstick set list
from the uh Telica show first night. Beach ball around a dozen picks. Dude, you got a beach ball.
Pantara set list from the second night. Uh, Met Club members since Oh, Metallica Club member since
2011. Dude, you are hardcore. Uh, hardcore, dude. I’ve never seen Limp Biscuit before and I didn’t
really care to listen to the music. I wouldn’t even have known one song outside of My Way or the
Highway that thing because I remember it being a song at the time. Dude, they’re really good. He’s
a good performer. Uh, really good performer. And I love the uh Wes Borland aka Wes Hetfield.
Uh, the guy that wore the mask all night. actually look that guy up. He’s famous for wearing
masks on stage for Limp Biscuit. Limp Biscuit is a rap slash hard rock group. Uh the coolest part
of the Denver Night is when they pulled that young girl up on stage and she sang with uh Fred Durst.
So awesome to see. My wife will be so jealous. Uh so Rick has a drumstick. So Rick, you were right
there. She’s going to keep asking me how close you got to James. Uh okay. So, great comments, uh,
Rick. So, they dropped these big beach balls. They’re gigantic. They’re probably six feet. Uh,
they’re probably six feet tall. Rick said he got a beach ball. I wonder if he’s talking about one
of those ones. Uh, okay. So, dude, I’m struggling with Ortig. Ortigeras. Ortigaras. Ortigaras.
Uh, I’m actually new to your channel. I’m just going to pick my prediction. Tatty will retain
yellow, but won’t win the stage, but probably going to gain more seconds to his rivals. Dude,
you’re right. That’s what I think, too. I don’t think Tatty’s going to win today. Tatty’s fine
with letting someone else win today. Uh, let’s get back to the race here so we can see these
time gaps. 2 minutes 31 seconds. He’s letting the race go down the road. Uh, if Matchu stays
away though, he will be the yellow jersey. And I think Tatty would be fine with that, too. Uh, as
much as Matthew Vanderpole is my favorite cyclist, he doesn’t really stand a chance in the mountains.
These are just the hills, folks. It’s going to get way harder than this. The green jersey holding
the gap now. They’re just under 11 minutes back. Just under 11 minutes back. Really nothing new
here from uh Pro Race commentary at the moment. They’re seeing what I’m seeing. Uh the coat de
Mortan coat 314 is coming up imminently, folks. Uh okay, new guy. Yahoo. I’m glad you’re here, man.
I’m glad you’re here. Stick around. I’m doing every stage of the tour to France. Uh, I guess
the Oh, I guess this is the 50th year of the white jersey showing all the riders who’ve had it. They
just showed Conidor on screen. Andy Schlleck for Saxo Bank. Oh, back in the day. Andy Schlleck. Ah,
here they’re showing Tatty now. Yeah, Tatty came up out of nowhere. It seems like he’s been around
forever. some of these older pictures of him. He was a lot skinnier when he was sprinting. I think
on stage four, when he when he put his arms up in the air, he looked a lot more muscular up through
here. Uh, that’s just what I thought. Okay. Uh, swoosh saying Del Toro won stage Oh, okay.
Okay. I got to watch it now. Spoiler alerts. Uh, but that’s okay. Del Toro won stage two of the
tour of Austria. There is a stream on YouTube somewhere. or I forget who it was. Uh that’s
where I found it yesterday and they must just have it out there. It doesn’t seem like it’s a hijack
stream or anything like that. Uh like I said guys, I like to play fair by the rules. I pay for this
stuff, but I can’t show it to you. Uh I can just do my best to explain what’s going on. Uh here’s
Remco. Looks like he’s behind one of his Oh, he’s behind a UAE rider here. I think that’s
Mark Solair. He’s riding right with him. Uh, yep. Riding right there with a few Sudal
riders. Sudall’s coming to the front now with just one UAE rider off the front. Uh, a
lot of barrain victorious guys just hovering in the background. Vizma sandwiched in between.
Oh Jesus. Here Rick again. Absolutely directly next to Papa Hats. That’s what we call James
Headful. Headfield. We call him Papa Hets. Uh, setup. Chatted with his guitar tech Chad. Uh,
photos with Chad. Zack the base techch, Jose Mansion. Pretty much the dream experience without
winning a meet and greet. Dude, that is awesome. That is awesome. Uh we’re thinking about doing a
Europe trip next year. I know they’re playing in uh Scotland up at Glasgow. I think they’re
in Cardiff and I think they’re in Ireland, too. Uh my first pick would probably be Scotland.
Do some cycling up there in the Kring. Uh ride with Steven Cycles. Uh, see a fantastic guys. I
only became a Metallica fan in 2023. Joey’s been a lifelong Metallica fan. I actually, you know
what? Joey only started with the Black Album. That’s when she got into Metallica. Uh, I grew up
with like YouTube and stuff like that. I knew all that music. I just Metallica is very complicated,
deep, good music. Uh, actually it was John Chady who posted a picture. I think it was one of his
co-workers posted a picture of her and her son. I think he was 10 years old or something. Uh, and
he said she echoed the exact same things you said about Metallica. Like, best concert ever.
Incredible. They sound perfect live. Can’t say that about a lot of bands these days. Yeah,
awesome stuff, Rick. Uh, yeah. Wade, Yonas is in the polka dot because Tatty can’t wear the polka
dot today since he’s in the yellow. So, it always bumps down to the next place rider. Uh, and that’s
why also, um, the green jersey, which was Tatty’s, someone else is wearing it today. It’s back
in the hands of Jonathan Milan now, though, even though he’s currently 11 minutes and 10
seconds behind the leaders of the tour today. Got a Movar Rider pulled over here. Oh, that’s going
to be Enrich Mass. I saw that pop up on screen and now it’s showing up on the TV screen here.
Enrich Mass jumps in. Currently 13th overall. Pretty good start for Enrich Masses here. Never
been right at the very top. I don’t know if he’s ever been on the podium. Maybe one of the uh Movar
fans could tell me. Has Enrich Mass ever. I don’t think he’s ever been on the podium. He’s been very
close. I think he’s been like a fifth six type rider in the past. Very skinny that dude. Like
I don’t know how some of these guys hold up. Uh, Julius Caesar cycling Dane has been doing
the channel for years and he just babbles, dude. I know, but I think I kind of just babble,
too. So, like I I just have to talk and tell you what I see. Uh, again, I’ve been doing my channel
two and a half years. Different than this, me doing this this year. So, I have covered, yeah,
I’ve covered a lot of live cycling, but it’s all been virtual. It’s all been on cycling platforms.
I’ve covered some at higher levels, like I’ve covered the US Esports National Championships,
uh, in the age categories. I covered every bit of the Canadian Esports National Championships for
esports. Uh, there’s people there that are riding inside, winning money. Uh, so I got to do the age
categories one day and I did all the elite racers the next day and it was awesome. Those were some
of my best streams from the past. Uh, but guys, you guys are killing it. And uh, these are the
best streams I’ve ever had. So obviously everyone loves the tour to France. Uh, Julia Caesar here.
Dude, thank you. He says, “Keep doing exactly what you’re doing.” So yeah, dude. I’m just
having a combo with you and everyone here and if you guys like it, awesome. Uh, let’s just see
here. UAE saying, “Guys, for the moment, Neils, go with your pace.” And for us, it’s okay. Just
like this, we don’t need to push too much. So, UAE here is not wanting to do much work today.
I think they’re okay if Masheu stays away and takes the yellow jersey. In their minds,
they’re probably thinking, “We’re going to get it back. The gap’s growing.” It’s out to
three minutes now. We’re out to three minutes, guys. I’m doing this again because I I love the
fact that I can do this now. Here’s our climb. Climb is on screen guys. We are coming from
this side over here uh through this little town of Romani. The climb starts here. Kot de
Morten code 314 winds through town. Takes a left hand here. Probably the steepest section. Yeah,
that will be in this section up here. Actually, there’s some steeper parts right here in the
middle. Uh and a slightly flat section right through town here where we’re going to be in the
flatter parts right through the middle streets here. I think these streets are going to be very,
very narrow through here. Not sure if they’re cobbled or not as soon as I get my paid membership
climbinder, and I’ll be doing that today. Uh, this is worth it to me. I was browsing around last
night thinking, which one do I buy? I was going to post a question. Hey guys, which one does everyone
else use? I don’t need to ask anyone now. Uh, if you know of one that’s better, just let me
know. Uh, back here. One cup of coffee in. I could use another cup of coffee. Actually, I
think there’s a pill I got to take, too. Today, uh, let’s have a little look here. I shouldn’t
go away before the coat. They’re getting real close to it now. I I’ve looked at this so much
now, guys. This road, this image of this road is burned into my head right now. So, this group up
front here of eight riders slamming it right now, folks. Guys, I think we have time. I’m going
to grab a quick coffee. I’ll be right back. Okay, riders coming back. Sorry, longer than I
thought there. Longer than I thought. Spilling coffee coming down the stairs. Uh oh, we’re
good here. We are good here, folks. I didn’t mess that up too bad. Coming into town here now.
The the first group of eight riders is in town. Can they hang all the way? Eight riders here.
Got the coffee. Got the meds. Climbing the cat three. Cot Mortan. Two minutes 51 seconds
back. Matthew Vanderpole could be in yellow at the end of the day. Lot of work on
the front by Quinn Simmons. That guy is a work beast. Cassim Matcher right
now standing. He’s out of the saddle. Yeah. So, yeah, got the coffee. Uh, found
my meds. Uh, I do have a bit of a kidney infection right now. It’s brutal. And, uh,
running down the stairs. Spilled oh, just a few slops of coffee all down the stairs. So,
that’s just something else I got to do today. Now, uh, climbing the coat right now. Again, these
are just small climbs. Category 3s. Only three points available. Two for first, one
for second. Uh, hit the chat again. Okay, so back to Julius. He’s just talking
about uh Julius uh sorry, he’s talking about cycling down here. Hey, Julius uh Caesar, thanks
for joining us and I hope you can make it back every day. Keep doing exact, dude. I’ll keep
doing this. This is the only thing I know. Uh Rick saying Westborne most underrated guitars.
He’s really good, man. And the fact he had like the the m he had like a skull mask on with like a
James Hetfield uh blonde wig on. It was so cool. I loved it. Jay Taylor, how’s it going, dude?
Uh, hope there have been no crashes, dude. I haven’t seen a crash today. They haven’t shown
one crash today yet, guys. Climbing here. This looks like the front eight. Uh, they’re in a 9%
segment right now. Yes, generally 9%. There is a segment where it kicks to like about 12%. Uh, tons
of fans out here today. Quinn Simmons looks like he’s going out the back. Struggling at the back
a little bit. Matchuaxi sitting at the back, too. Yeah, this is tough stuff here. Currently moving
16 kilometers an hour. That’s 10 miles an hour for the pros. Viv Lour, baby. Viv Lour getting to
the top there. I’m sure Ben Healey is going to be looking for these points, folks. Ben Healey will
be looking for these points. I’m sure he’s going to try to explode away. And I’m kind of thinking
Match is going to say, “Yeah, go for it, bro. Go for it.” Uh, you want to keep your frenemies that
you’re with happy. Uh, you can’t get everything in the break. You gota give and take. Oh, Simon
Yates is there though, too. Simon Yates there. So, I would say this is going to be a Simon Yates or
Ben Healey kick. I don’t think Matchu is going to kick here. Let’s see what we got going on. Uh,
they they have actually passed the top here now, folks. We’re waiting for stats to come
through here. Uh, we have nothing yet. Here we go. Dunar and Healey. Oh, Eddie Dunar.
Dunar got two points. Uh, Ben Healey got one point for that climb there. So, Eddie Dunar
is interested in that jersey as well. Good to see that. Right now, the Pelaton is 2 minutes
and 45 seconds back. The green jersey group, Bignyan Germay, Dylan Grovagen, uh, Jonathan
Milan, they’re 11 minutes and 45 seconds behind. That gap is I love looking at this kind of stuff.
They’re 11:45 right now behind. They haven’t even hit the hill yet. How far will they be behind
after the hill? Let’s say 13 minutes. Let’s see if that happens. I’ll have to keep track of
where they’re on screen here. Uh yeah, Rick, I agree with that. West Borland is phenomenal and
good to see you back. Jay Taylor. Uh Rick, what a great channel to chat. Cycling and heavy metal
talk. Good stuff. You have going to dude. Yeah, I love metal and I’ve only been to me metal
was like Judas Priest and uh I’d say that’s the band I probably listen I’ve listened to Judas
Priest for years years and years and years. I’ve I listen to them every bike ride. I just never
really listen to Metallica. And then Joey Jojo said to me one day way back in February way back I
think it was 20 it might have been I think it was 2023. She said, “Oh yeah, we’re going to Vegas.”
I’m like, “What for this time?” She goes, “Oh, there’s a Metallica concert.” And I’m like,
“Okay.” I I thought Metallica played great, like perfect. But the band that impressed me
the most was Greta Van Vleet. Those guys blew me out of the water. Uh then we went to another
Metallica. We went to the Power Trip in Indo, which was guys, some of you heard, I got to say
it again. It was Iron Maiden, Guns and Roses, night one. Night two was uh Judas Priest, AC/DC.
Night three was Tulle and Metallica. After that concert, I jumped on Audible and I’ve listened to
every Metallica audio book. You can listen to the history that’s behind them. Uh, I’ve I’ve read
the same stories over and over. I got into Duff McCagan for Guns and Roses. That guy is so cool.
Uh, guys, check this out. Here’s a good story for you, a little side one. So, I read Duff’s book.
He would drink like a gallon of vodka per day, uh, and do a lot of cocaine. And so those two things
counteract each other. And Axel Rose was known for delaying concerts for like two to three hours
every night. So Duff would be kind of flying along and he’d do too much Coke. He’d have to bring it
down. So he’d drink a ton of booze. Then he’d get too down. Then he’d have to have more something
to bring him up. That was part of the problem. They’re just showing here. Eddie Dunar going
across the top. Super easy. Ben Hilly second. Quinn Simmons was third there. So Quinn can
actually do the climb. He was just hanging back earlier. Uh then something happened to I think
Duff in ’92 right around right after the that huge app. No, sorry. Uh use your illusion one and
two tour. Like awesome albums, man. Uh I think he went to his doctor. I think he was rushed to the
hospital and they said he’s like, “One more drink, dude. You’re dying. That’s it.” Uh I think it was
some internal organ that like bust open inside. He quit drinking, but he was like a wreck. He sat
at home and he said his shakes were so bad that he couldn’t drive a car. So, what did he do? He
found an old bike out back. Check this story out, man. It just it gives me shivers. He was so messed
up he could not drive. So, he rode a bike and next thing you knew he was riding his bike seven,
eight hours a day as Duff McKagen, basis for Guns and Roses. Big tall blonde dude out of Seattle.
And uh then he went and do he went and did some race somewhere like just a local fun race and he
met some ex-pro USA national champion mountain biker. He recognized Duff. They became best buds.
That guy was recovering some horrendous from some horrendous injury. I think his career might have
been done at that point. He befriended Duff. Next thing you know Duff’s riding all over the place
with like highlevel mountain bikers like totally on a new path in life. Let’s go. Okay, that’s the
Duff Kagan story. Uh, yeah, I love those concerts. Uh, Guns and Roses first album, Appetite for
Destruction. The best ever debut album. Just remember what I said, best ever debut album. Like
every song. Like, I mean, I like Metallica better as a band, but Metallica’s first album compared to
G&R’s first album to me, just my opinion, I think, GNR is way better. Uh, that first album after
that, it was never the same. Different style of music, too. Okay. Uh, guys, I’ll get back to the
cycling here. Uh, how is Matthew Vanderpole? Uh, how is the French guy Kevin Vocalon is in
the Pelaton? Matthew Vanderpole is at the front right now. Currently in the yellow jersey,
virtual yellow jersey, guys. Remember that. Uh they’re currently 3 minutes ahead of the Pelaton.
He’s one minute behind overall in sixth place. That gives them a two-minute lead right now over
Tatty Pogatar. Uh at the front before, dude, uh Jay Taylor’s asking which team was controlling the
Pelon. It was UAE doing most of the work up front. Uh they were not wanting the the breakaway to get
any bigger. any attack that went off the front. Uh, they were pulling back. In fact, third place
overall, Kevin Vocalon went on attack. Got about 15 seconds up the road. Tatty sent the boys up.
They brought him back. I think Tatty knows what a threat, what a talent Kevin Balon is. Uh, he’s
going to have to keep a big eye on him this year. Uh, Jay Taylor’s asking, “Oh, how is Benny falling
behind a little?” Uh, the writer Almeida is good. Can’t spell his name. How is he? Uh Jawa Almeida
is riding. That’s a UAT uh team rider uh teammate of Tatty Pagashar. He is in the Pelaton with
Tatty right now. The groupto uh that’s the green jersey group. Bignyang Germay is back here.
There’s 32 riders here. Let’s just see. I want to see something too. There’s no one here that was
anywhere near the front. Uh Kaden Groves is the highest placed rider here in this back group.
They are currently 12 minutes behind. My guess earlier was that at the top of the climb they will
be 13 minutes behind overall. I think I could be spot on on that one. Uh just trying to see my
flow bikes is stalling out there for a second. Uh okay. So yeah, Bingham’s doing fine. I mean
that’s what we would expect from him. All the sprinters are back there with them. We got some
of the uh military guys out doing their uh stuff on the side of the road there. Julia Caesar,
good question. How is a major network does not cover the tour? Dude, I think they all used
to cover it and now they’re all just asking so much money. I think a lot of people are saying no
more. I can’t do it. I I think in the UK someone was telling me I think it’s 31 pounds per month.
That’s probably like I think in Canadian I think that’s like $45 per month for cycling coverage.
Um, maybe they’ve gotten too big, too bloated, too many commentators. Guys, it’s amazing that I
do this solo, isn’t it? Uh, they have two, three, and four commentators. Uh, the production crew,
they’re this, they’re that. Uh, I don’t know. I don’t really know, dude. I don’t have an answer
for you. Uh, got Joe 512’s back. Good morning, all cycle fans. Hey, Joe. Good to see
you, man. Thanks for coming back again. Yeah, Rick. Okay, so Rick does know Gretle.
They’re amazing. Uh, so Joey saw them at the Las Vegas show. The only problem with the Las
Vegas show, if you ever see a concert there, guys, is getting out of that stadium after the
concert because you’re going to have to walk over Oh, what’s that road beside uh the Las Vegas
Boulevard? I think it’s called Is it Sammy Davis or is maybe they call it International? It’s kind
of like the the service road. You cross a walkway across there and everyone that was at the concert,
I don’t know, 70 80,000 people is walking across there to the Delano, which is now called the W,
uh, I think it’s owned by the Weston now, and the Mandandalay Bay. Everyone from that concert is
leaving and looking for Ubers. I think it took us two hours to get out of there. It was horrendous.
Uh, great concert though. Scotty Max saying, “Dude, great story. Thanks for sharing.” and G&R
rules. Yeah, dude. That story about Duff. He’s Dude, I love a comeback story. He was like, you
see him in some of his old videos. He’s bloated. There’s a video of him in Tokyo. He’s so bloated.
It’s in the morning. He’s already absolutely out of his mind. He had a real bad vodka problem. And
it was mostly because, well, it’s his own fault, but it was just Axel went on stage when Axel
wanted to go on stage. Axel Rose in his heyday in that moment was probably the greatest singer of
all time. Uh they say he was a six octave singer. Your standard singer these days is two to three
octaves. He went from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows every night and he never let off.
He basically destroyed his own voice for the fans. Uh yeah, he’s aged, but what so I was expecting
nothing out of Guns and Roses when I went cuz I was never a G&R fan when I was younger. Uh, again,
I was more of a YouTube guy. Uh, I’ve seen you two at the Sphere. They were great as well, but
they’re not as good as these guys. Uh, we went to G&R at that first night of the power trip. There’s
the band, folks. It’s never coming off. And, uh, I was blown out of the water. Blown out of the
water. Got home. Appetite for Destruction. Read Duff’s book. Uh, read Steven Adler’s book, too.
The the original drummer. The original drummer of G&R. I mean, I like the second drummer a lot,
too. Uh, Matt, the guy from the cult. Just saw the cult recently, too. Uh, I love seeing these bands.
Yeah, Scotty Mack. I’m glad you like the stories. Uh, who’s in the breakaway from uh Villora
Brendri? Villora in the breakaway. Let’s go through that, guys. We got eight riders out front.
55 kilometers remaining. Matthew Vanderpole, Ben Healey, Eddie Dunar, who just took the climb
at the Court de Mortan, Simon Yates, uh, looking for a little redemption in this race now. I think
he just won the Jirro back in May. Quinn Simmons, the guy that’s been on the front the most this
year. Uh, I think his name is Harold. Yeah, Harold Tada. And Michael Store, William Barta.
Eight strong riders at the front here. All working well together. Uh, they’re destined to
stay away today, folks. They’re working as hard as they can. We’re at 3 minutes and 21 seconds.
Will we see Matthew back in the yellow jersey? And this is how the tour to France and a lot of
stage racing unfolds. If you’re just maybe you’re a casual fan on the outside, maybe you’re Joey
Jojo’s dad. He’s watching my videos now. Uh cuz he doesn’t ride a bike. He’s 84. Uh he’s never
ridden a bike, but he likes the tour to France. And he’s been telling me he goes, “Oh, I like I
like how you explain it.” And stuff like that. He would think right now that Tatty’s gonna be
in the lead all the way. No, it’s not how it works. It’s not how it works. Uh sometimes they
don’t want to have the yellow jersey. Let’s give it to another team. Then they got to defend
it. We got some fast stages coming up. We got some super punchy sta stages coming up. UAE does
not want to defend it all the way. Uh remember, I keep saying Tatty is not invincible. one bad
day in the mountains, one bad burrito, maybe one bad curry, one bad whatever you want to call
it. Uh, he could lose the tour. That’s why that’s the beauty of it. You got to survive for 21 days,
throw in the two rest days, anything can happen. Can they catch up with the breakaway? I think
this break can make it today. I think the break can make it today. I’m going to look at the map
here for you, Villora. Uh we still have I think we have three more climbs and at the pace they’re
going. The gap just keeps growing all the time. Uh the the Pelaton is expecting UAE to work. No one
here in the Pelaton really wants to help UAE right now. It’s like that’s kind of how it works. The
leader, the guy with the yellow jersey is expected to do all the work. Uh Machu would love to be in
the yellow jersey. He would love to win the stage. This stage is perfect for Machu Vanderpole. Uh the
finish line. We’ve got a climb right before the finish. Oh yeah, I did see this this morning, too.
The road virt I had to zoom in on this yesterday. Look how close the roads get here. Uh you can
probably throw a rock and hit someone over here. That’s how close the roads are together. There
they go out into the countryside a bit. Come back in, swoop back through town at the same road
points. Uh it does kick up right at the very end here. Perfect for Matthew Vanderpole to launch.
Let’s see if we can see that here. You might see it on the profile. Yeah, take a look at it right
here. There’s a little bit. Here’s our last climb, the Cotiv. I’m going to look that one up
for you guys. We drop down and there’s a little tiny wall at the end. We’re probably
talking this is like a few hundred meters, but that’s for the big boys right there.
That’s a big boy launch. Uh, you know, drop 13,400 watts. Let’s go big dudes. Let’s rock.
Uh, we’ll check with the commentary here. So, they’re showing, yeah, Eddie Dumbar did get that
climb. The Irishman here. Uh, 18.3 km an hour. So, the climbs are getting harder. Earlier on,
those category 4 climbs, they’re climbing those more at 27 km an hour. Uh, that one was
a category 3, a lot shorter and a lot steeper. Okay. So, yeah, Dunar and Healey, we’ve
seen all that stuff. Oh, I should check uh Yeah, check this out, guys. I predicted 13
minutes gap. They’re currently at 13 minutes and 54 seconds back. They’re going to just keep
losing time. They’ve just It looks like they’ve just crested the climb. Uh the groupto, you can
see here the group has just passed the climb. I said they’d be 13 minutes back. I thought I was
being really uh pessimistic. They’re 1354 back right now. They’re going to just lose time all
day. And that and that’s normal. These are the big sprinters back here. Sprinters, people that
are tired, people that are probably hiding an injury that no one knows about. Okay, guys. Back
to the chat. Love the chat. Okay, so uh Ortiggeras is saying they will probably catch the breakaway
or cut the time they’re giving them now. Yeah, they’re going to try to bring some of the time
back. Uh UAE definitely doesn’t want to hand uh Matthew Vanderpole like here you go dude here’s
the yellow jersey you win the stage and here’s five minutes they don’t want that happening uh
watching the front right now and it’s really fascinating too because after a while so this the
stages will start out no one wants to help the team that has the yellow jersey after a while
though they’re like okay okay we got to start doing something uh I can see right now Arca air
uh sorry Arca B&B it is still UEI on the front, but Sudal’s up there for Remco and Arca’s up
there for Kevin Vocalon. So, the other teams are realizing, hey, man, our second and third
places, they’re kind of gone right now. Uh so, we got to start doing some work. We got to
collaborate with uh UAE and give them assistance. Uh they got to work together. If all these teams
work together, they will bring it back down. But we got climbs. We got
Matthew. We’re 50 km out. Okay. The code de Juven. This is a category 3. 2.2 km long. Average 7.3% gradient. Let’s see how that one’s going to play out. Uh, let me sip the coffee. I’ve been bringing
the coffees down and not even drinking them. Looks like Simon Yates has got his hand up
waiting for something from one of the team cars. Uh Jennifer Robinson. Jennifer Robinson. Special
shout out to Jennifer here. I know Jennifer from the My Whoosh days. Her husband uh Hutch Robinson
from New Brunswick, Canada. Guys, I got this stuff locked in. Locked in. There’s no production
assistance here. There’s no one helping me. It’s all here, folks. Uh Jennifer just yeah just give
just say yeah he does know his stuff. Uh so I met Hutch racing on uh my whoosh. It’s another virtual
cycling platform. Uh Jeff Le try that one out too. Uh it’s a bit more graphics intensive. If you go
the my whoosh HD uh it’s a big download. Uh but it’s worth it for the graphics. You need a PC. You
probably need like a mid-level gaming PC to run it. The graphics are phenomenal. And just so you
guys know, uh, my whoosh is owned by UAE. That’s their virtual platform. Uh, if you look closely
at their jersey, I haven’t even pointed out this year. My whoosh is somewhere on their jersey. They
have, uh, a platform that allows you to ride their worlds. They do have a couple of real clims on
there because it is the UAT, uh, the UAE, sorry. There’s two climbs there. There’s the Gel Hafit
and there’s the Gel I forget. I’ve I’ve covered both of them. I did a flight simulator video on
one of them, too, with uh through with the help of Steven Cycles. Uh but guys, that one’s absolutely
free to use. There’s no cost to use that. So, Jeff, if you’re getting into inside C cycling,
go try that one out. Uh yeah, so I met uh Hutch Racing over there and I did a lot of commentary on
my whoosh. Uh good to see Jennifer here. She knows I’ve done a lot of commentary. Uh she’s saying,
“Hey Colin, good morning. How’s it going?” So, she’s from New Brunswick in Canada. I think she
lives in Monton, Canada. Uh, yeah, Scotty M. Good, good call here. Dude, you know what? I don’t know
enough about Lane Staley. I know. Unfortunate, tragic end to his life. Uh, said he was one of
the best singers ever. Allison Chains in their primac. Okay. Yeah, he was Allison Chains. Gotcha.
Okay, dude. I agree, dude. I just believe what you say because I I see so much about that guy uh that
during his heyday. You know what I think’s funny? One of my funniest things, uh, I I I always say to
my daughters, I go, “These singers sound like crap live.” Well, that’s cuz they’re running around and
dancing. I’m like, “You ever seen Axel Rose? That guy was throwing the mic around, running around
back and forth across the stage in uh, white silk shorts. Uh, maybe they were velvet. They were
probably velvet. I need a pair.” And uh, yeah, imagine that. That guy rocked it. And he was able
to hit the highest of notes running around on the stage. Uh yeah, and I know a lot of people now,
oh, Ax, dude, I look at the time, his moment in his moment. Uh I will check out Lane Staley. Uh so
Scotty Mack, good to see you, dude. Scotty Mack, guys, again became a member on my Buy Me a Coffee
page yesterday. Again, I just got to say again, thanks Scotty. Uh really appreciate it. And
I’ll just drop it there, guys. Uh, I don’t like to promote too much there. Vanderpole is virtual
leader in the field. That’s right. He now has a 3 minutes 42 second gap. He started 1 minute behind.
He’s now 2 minutes and 41 seconds into the yellow jersey. Uh, he’s impacting all of the other riders
out there. I see one Joey Jojo’s awake. Oh yeah, Joey caught it. The my whoosh is on the bum
of the shorts, I believe. I saw it. Yeah. Why were you looking there? Why were you looking at
the bums? Yeah, the Velvet Shorts. Axel Rose. Uh Julia Caesar saying, “Shout out from the Free
Republic of Alberta.” Uh Joey Jojo’s in the mix. If you guys don’t know, Joey Jojo is my wife.
She’s upstairs somewhere. Joey, are you going to work today? Uh I got to go mow the lawn in
her office. Uh just so to make really Jojo Joey Jojo really jealous. There’s a guy here, Joey,
named Rick Hotlander. Holtzlander. Uh he just saw Metallica in Tampa. Uh oh, what is my computer
doing? Okay, Flow Bikes is doing something weird, folks. Not really sure what it’s doing there.
It’s back. Uh, so the story is Rick sat right at the pop ahead setup area. Uh, got to enjoy
right there. Talked to the guitar techs. He got a drumstick from Lars. He got a set list.
Uh, he got a set list from Pantara the second night. About a dozen picks. We got nothing, Rick.
We got nothing. You don’t get uh picks when you’re sitting in section 111. Joey, we talked about
it. We wouldn’t survive down there. Uh I have to go to the bathroom too much. Joey gets a little
bit too uh crazy and falls down a lot. So, there’s that. So, we got a lot of metal fans here. A lot
of metal fans. Lot of grunge fans. I love it. Scotty Mack, I’ll put some
Allison chains on today for you. Yeah, bad stream coming from Flow Bikes right
now. Again, everything’s been shot all around the world, folks. Uh, I’ll go back into the
live tracking here. Good to see there’s 108 people watching right now. Halfway to my goal of
getting 100 likes. We may not make it today, co folks. It’s okay. You can’t be on top every day.
Guys are going. Oh, we’re missing the next climb. This is the uh the Juveny Kot Juveny. They’re
almost there. I think you know Eddie Dumbar is out to get something today but Ben Healey’s in the
mix two going to watch close here the race. What are they saying here? Head-to-head the breakaway
is doing 46.1 km average. Pelaton 44. Matchu is just coasting away folks. Coasting away. Let’s
see how quickly they can get some stats to us. 3 minutes and 51 second gap. I guess they’ve said
let yellow Matthew have it. Uh, they’re staying away, folks. The breakaway is staying away yet to
see who will win it. Live tracking. They will be through the coat now. They’ve just passed through
it. Let’s see how quickly we can get results. I would expect them right now. Like to me, I want
them right now. Let’s go. Let’s go. Turf France. My feed I’m watching from Flo
is probably a minute behind. Oh, dude. Yeah. Creeping death. Rick here. Yeah.
So, Joey, the dude right above you right now, he’s number three in the chat today. Rick Holtzlander
here. Saw them in Tampa. Uh, he’s been a Metallica club member. Oh, Matt. Uh, Michael Straw scores
two points. Eddie Dumbar gets the one point over the top. Only those two positions pay points. Uh,
he’s been a member of the Metallica fan club since 2011. Just did the twoight concert in Tampa.
Got a drumstick, got guitar picks, got setless, like incredible. Got to hang out right with Papa
Het. So Joey’s very jealous. She missed the G&R story. Uh I’m not sure how you knew about the
G&R story, but we were talking about Duff, my man crush. Uh Joe 512 is saying, “I just hit the
like button for you.” Yes, dude. You did. Someone did. Uh we’re now currently at 58 likes for the
day, guys. Thank you so much. Where’s everyone watching from? Joe’s asking, “What is your bike?”
Uh, Joe’s from SoCal. Specialized tarmac. Oh yeah, love me a good tarmac. Dude, it’s not that old.
2017, that’s a great bike. That’s a great bike, dude. I don’t think they’ve gotten that
much better in the last few years. Like, that’s If you got a bike that’s say 20, God, even
like 2010 on, uh, you’ve got a pretty modern bike. Like all the cables should be hidden away. Uh
you’ve most likely got disc brakes if it’s a little bit newer. Uh my 2018 has disc brakes. My
Cello. Uh I’ve got Di2 on it. All my cables are hidden away. It’s super arrow. It’s super fast. Uh
I went and bought a look TT bike. All mechanical, all jur old school. And uh it’s way faster than my
new bike. Just position on the bike. Uh, so yeah, Rick here, you got to experience Creeping Death,
etc. Nothing else matters after that. Uh, yeah, too. Nothing else matters when they open. Best
opening in the world. It’s a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll. The Ecstasy of Gold
and then Creeping Death. That’s the best way to do it. Rick, I have a video of me singing along
to Creeping Death. I’m singing the lyrics at the Denver concert. You can hear Joey scream and this
young uh dude from San Antonio behind us chanting die in the background. She’s just chanting die,
die as I sing the main lyrics. I thought it was pretty cool. Oh, she saw it in the chat. Why
didn’t Oh, someone commented about the G&R story. Okay, gotcha. Uh, new guy here, uh, Evard
Otwway. Evard Otwe from Toronto. Evard’s coming from T.O.D.O. from the big to0 in Canada out in
Ontario. Nice to have you here, dude. Oh, yeah. Important point here, folks. FYI, folks. Joey Jojo
alert here. Did you tell him that my she had a dog when she was in grade 12 and Axel Rose? Axel
disappeared one day. Never saw again. We don’t know what happened to him. Okay, guys. Let’s get
back to racing here. Incredible stuff here. Eight riders in open front. 3 minutes and 48 seconds.
This is how the tour plays out. We’ve got the best riders in the world falling behind. They’re
letting them get away. Uh, you got to realize too, Matthew Vanderpole is pretty much unstoppable.
This is what you would call like a classics type stage. This is similar to what they would ride
early in the year where the classic guys win, not the Tour to France guys. Tatty has won a
few of them though. We all know that, right? Uh, so it’s almost four minutes back to the Pelaton.
Let’s take a look at the Pelaton here. We got first place. We got second place in Aventipole.
We got Kevin Val on there. Yonas is right there, guys. His tour hasn’t blown up. He’s currently 1
minute and 13 seconds behind uh Tatty overall the tour after five stages. The tour is not over. Uh
he’s right there. If he was suffering that bad, it was only yesterday. He’s able to hang
with Tatty today. You got to remember Matteo Jorgensson’s there. Jaw made is there. Amig
Mass, my favorite name, Perry Ponch. Uh Oscar only. This guy’s killing it. Santiago Braago,
Ben O Connor. These are all GC guys right here, folks. Valentine Madawas, this is the rider that
tried to jump off earlier. Tatty’s team said, “No, he’s a danger man. Bring him back.” Uh,
it may not have been just him. It’s the fact of him going up there and adding firepower to the
eight rider break. They were probably thinking, “Hey guys, we can bring these eight riders
back.” I think with Matthew on the front, Quinn Simmons on the front up there. I’m gonna do
a lot more hand talking, folks. Uh all Chris her. Uh love that guy, by the way. Love his channel.
Love how he talks. So, it’s 4 minutes back to the Pelaton. Uh 4 and a half minutes back to the Van
Art Group. So, Vout is not having a great tour, which is probably going to hurt Yonas. He needs
Vout. He’s one of the best wingmen out there. Uh, you need you build a team around your leader.
And check this out. Green Jersey. This is all the sprinters. Jonathan Milan’s here. Bingham’s
here. Dylan Gonovan. Kaden Gross. They are now 14 and a half minutes behind uh the Matthew
Vanderpole Group. Take a look at the map, folks. We still have two climbs back uh left and a kicker
at the end. Uh, I’m going to try to take a look at this one. I’m thinking when I try to type this in,
I’m going to butcher it and it won’t pop up. But I’ll give it a shot here pretty quick. Going
to catch up in the chat again. Here we are, folks. Actually, what we’ll do, we’ll go and see
if we’re getting anything from Race Radio. Oo, they’re saying uh that Hely’s has attacked 42 km
ago. That just came up at 6 uh 416. That’s right now. So, uh he’s immediately put a 5-second gap
in. Matthew’s chasing him. I don’t think you’re getting away from Matthew right now. I do not see
it. Uh my favorite cyclist probably will always be just cool. So yeah, we’re seeing here. So they
do have Ben Healey off the front. Uh this doesn’t make a lot of sense to me right now. It’s only
showing one rider up here. Ben Healey’s here by himself, apparently. That’s not true. Then they’re
showing uh a second group here. So what they’re showing here is that Okay. Either the timing is
all wrong right now or we just need a reset here. Let me take a look here. Yeah, so they’ve
got Okay, that doesn’t make any sense here. They got one rider off the front, Ben
Healey. Okay, one rider off the front, Ben Healey. He is attacking. 12 seconds
back, we got our riders a seven. They’re showing group two being with the pelon there
for some reason on the map. Uh then it’s still So yeah, we got seven chasing the one. So
Ben Healey is trying to get away and I think they’re going to let him go. Maybe uh Matthew is
trying to preserve a little bit of energy here, conserve a little energy here. Still uh 3 minutes
37 seconds back to the Pelon. So let’s see what Ben Healey can pull off here. There are some
points ahead. Two points at the top of the Kote de St. Michelle demon Monttoa. uh and just
a one-pointer at the Cot Vuadri most importantly would be a stage win. Uh without Richard
Carropats here, uh my darkhorse favorite for uh the tour of France yellow jersey GC overall
was Richard Kerraps. I thought, you know what, Yonas and Tatty are going to be looking
at at each other. Maybe Carropaths can do something this year and get away. Uh Ben Healey
is probably their best chance for a stage win. So, let’s cheer on Ben Healey, the Irishman.
Okay, I’m getting back into this here. Ooh, getting busy. So, Ivar from Toronto has
a 2001 Trelli Express full campy Daytona and a nice colago Jirro pink. I like that, dude. I like
that a lot. Uh, really like that a lot. Joey’s got her tattoo. Nothing else matters. Yeah, we saw
them. Uh, we got the tattoo in Vegas last year. Actually, that was this year, I think. Uh, oh,
Rick’s got the tattoo as well. Master puppets, crosses, and piano keys tattoo around the forearm
with ninja star on the elbow. I love it, dude. Love it. Uh, Ivard saying Pogy wants to be pushed
or he gets bored. He always just looks so steady. Very few times you’ll see Pogy crack. Uh I have
seen it though. We’ve all seen it on camera. Just remember that folks. I want you to remember that
the tour to France is a long race. Uh no one’s invincible. If you haven’t seen all the videos,
people will say Pogy’s never finished the lower than second. Well, neither has Yonas. Those
guys have dominated the tour to France since 2020. They’ve flip-flopped. Tatty took two 2020
and 21. Jonas took 2022. Yonas took 2023. Tatty took 2024. What’s going to happen 2025? Maybe
we’ll have someone new show up. I would be happy with that. Uh yeah, Rick is a die hard. He’s
metal head all the way. Uh Doug Days back to the watch party. Okay, so Rick Singer stepping
well may be hanging back for stage 10. Yeah, stage 10 looks like an absolute banger here,
guys. Let’s take a look at stage 10. This is a good point. This is right before the rest
day. They do call it a mountain stage. So, technically, yeah, I was wrong. Uh, it is
technically a mountain stage by Tur France, but no massive climbs. There’s nothing here
that would make this a mountain stage. It’s just the sheer number of climbs. I think there’s
seven cat twos uh and one cat 3 climb. 165 km, guys. That’s right at 100 miles. And what do
they climb? Where does it show that? Okay, guys. Sorry. This is what happens when you don’t
have a full support team. Uh you climb 4,450 m. That’s probably about 14,000 ft 15,000 ft in
elevation in 100 miles. Uh so pure insanity. Joey, can you keep the dogs quiet down up there? Guys,
it’s a fully professional operation over here. Uh, let’s get back to it here, guys. Yeah, stage
10 looks insane. Rick’s saying maybe that they’re holding back a bit to keep this one rested up.
Rested up for this one. They’re really going to have to work hard on this one. Back to stage.
Yeah, the dogs are upstairs. How long guys? Uh, we only have 36 km to go, guys. This is absolutely
flying along today. Flying. This is way faster than I thought. I guess it was the early start
time. Uh, cuz I’m trying to arrange my day. Like I said, I got to go mow the grass at Joey’s
office. Getting ready to go up the next uh climb here. And we do have Ben Healey up front. Number
31 for EF Educa EF Education. He’s 33rd overall, 7 minutes behind. He’s going to gain a good chunk
of time back today. I think uh he’s got an 11sec gap. It’s only 11 seconds being chased by seven
strong riders. Hard men here, folks. Matthew, Quinn Simmons. I’m looking on screen now. Michael
Store actually scored points in one of the last climbs. He’s quite a ways back. He’s for Twodoor
Pro Cycling. 36 minutes back, 173rd overall. Uh to me, that doesn’t show you anywhere near the
talent that he really is. He’s an actual really good cyclist. Just had a bad start to the tour.
Let’s listen to this guys. There’s something good here. 1997. Ah, the flow bikes is bad right now.
Big Matt. Team Big Matt. I remember this team. eventually though caught as it came down here in
the department of Yeah, sorry guys. Flow stream is really bad right now. Anyway, there’s a
solo breakaway in 1997. Uh Tierry Gveno is caught right at the very finished pass. It looks
like he gets passed and beaten by the phenomenal Chipo Mario Chipellini. Yeah, Mario throws his
arms in the air. He was wearing the yellow jersey uh racing for Seiko, Seyo, however you say it. Uh
yeah, that guy was just insane. Uh usually when I talk about a hard effort, I call it going full
chipo. Uh that’s from uh my club days over on uh Inside Cycling World with Team GRC. Going
full chipo. How you going to race this one, dude? I’m going full chipo. That means I’m
gonna come dressed up like an ATOGA with a wreath around my head being carried in by a bunch
of dudes. Uh or I’m gonna wear a leopard print uh team time trial suit to the race. That guy was
insane. Uh okay, sorry guys. I’m going to get back to the cycling as crazy heads here. Nostalgic shot
for the Calgary kids. Holy crap. Doug Day. Uh, Doug, are are you the guy Are you in Ontario?
Who’s the Czech who’s the guy that went to the Czech Republic? Is that you, Doug? Sorry,
guys. And I hate to say that if I’m asking, but I have so many names in my head right now. And
Joey Jojo gets to hear all these fun stories. Uh, I hope it keeps her entertained, too.
But yeah, check this out, guys. He said, “This is for the Calgary kids.
He worked at Lucifers.” Dude, I remember that name for eight years. Doug, are
you the geologist, too? Or who was that? Yeah, Doug, that’s got to be you. Please answer me. Uh
Rick saying Poggy and Vingo will be top two. Vingo had his wake up call already and it’s on Pogy
now to hold on. Julius saying Poggy is motorizing with a rest day after I suspected it will be
an allout assault by Vizma. Yeah, like I think that’s where Vizma will be going for it. Sept Cous
Vout Matteo Jorgensson after that first rest day after 10 stages that’s when the race is really
going to heat up. Uh, think about that. Stage, what is stage 11? I think stage 12 is hotcom. And
again, they did it really weird. They did this on purpose. They’re staggering a really hard stage
before after with a time trial. Uh, remember we have a mountain time trial coming up, too. I’ll
have to watch this back later today, too, because the stream from Flow Bikes is just not cutting it
right now. Flow Bikes, what am I paying for? What am I paying for, man? Let’s just see that the tour
is still streaming good too and that I’m still live. Yeah, I’m still live. Back to the race here.
41 seconds now. Very nice. Ben Healey. Uh the train is favoring Ben. Lightweight climber. Uh if
you watch any of my old race videos, I call these lightweight climbers a pesky lightweight climber.
Uh so skinny, so light. Uh he’s just I just saw the first sighting of DDA the devil out on course.
He is out on course. Ben Healey is passing him. So, Diddy the Devil is out on course. Oh, that
might have been an impostor. Unless Diddy’s lost a lot of weight. I think Diddy’s on OMIC now,
folks. Uh, Regoi, anyone? Uh, looks like he shed a lot of weight and he But there is Diddy the
devil out on course. You guys know, you know. Uh, yeah, Joey knows. Mike was at Lucifers every
night of the week. Not a place I ever went to, Doug. Uh oh, yeah, I know. I sent Joey Jojo
a little uh I shared a link that there’s some Metallica stuff. Uh it was James Delara from
Corsica who actually messaged me on Inside Cycling World on Facebook. Guys, there is an
Inside Cycling World Facebook channel. Send me a friend request, send me some messages, send me
some jokes. Uh whatever you want to do on there, I’ll respond to you. I’m trying to get better at
looking at it. This is not my main page, but I got to get better at that stuff. Uh, so yeah. Yeah,
that’s what I thought about it, too. I was like, “Let’s order these jerseys. They look awesome,
and I can still ride in them, too.” Uh, will they get here in time, though? Yeah, whatever.
New Jerseys. New Jerseys are always great. Uh, Julie is saying, “Oh, YouTube video on the
history of cheating in Tur France. Amazing.” Yeah, right. It’s always been like that.
Uh I actually so I’m starting to listen into that book uh the history of the tur of to
France. One of the original doping things they used to use they use strick nine strick nine uh
like rat poison. And all I can think is I think it’s a painkiller. Uh it reduces the painness.
It causes some numbness. Remember when these guys were first doing the tour to France? They
had stages that were like 4 and 500 km long. I think it was the original tour to France in
1903. I It was around around this length, this around the current length of a current
uh tour to France. They had nine stages, nine stages versus 21. Uh they had one gear
on their bikes. Uh they used to drink wine as they rode their bikes. If they had
a flat or their bike snapped in half, they had to fix their own bike. There was no
replacement bikes. Uh just different. They did different things. But yeah, strick nine, that’s
that was how they doped in the beginning. Uh, Vento is going to be insane. Full gas, then
boom. Vento. Okay. Why don’t I know Vento? Who’s Vento? Vento. Vento. Vento. Evardway
from to0. Who you talking about there, dude? I’m missing that name. It’s a Yeah, that’s
Dude, that’s Rick. That’s what I was thinking, man. When you see diddy diddy out there,
then you know the tour is really on that. I I think he’s been at every tour
since I started watching in ‘ 86. Oh, yeah. Frankie and Johnny’s. That’s another
one. I’m sure Doug knows which one that is. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So, Mike was at Frank and Johnny.
That’s Joey’s older brother. Uh but Doug saying, “Yeah, there was also a strip bar
in the basement. He was trying to get away with stuff.” Yeah. Notes. No team
support background. That’s right of art. Oh yeah, we’re having a lot of olden day talk
in Calgary here. Doug, are you out in Ontario now? I think you were born there, spent most of
your life out here in Calgary and then went back. Uh, Mount Verito vonu. Are we talking
Vonu? Maybe Vonu. That’s what I’m thinking. And I think when you got
the V there, maybe you’re being vonu. Okay. Uh guys, let me get back to the race. You’re
here. You’re just caught up in the comments. Uh let’s see where we are on course right now. Thanks
for everyone being here right now. Trying to get the likes up. Let’s get the likes up so people
see this folks. Position one. This is Ben Healey out on road right now. Uh this is quite a little
climb here. It’s kind of a long draggy one. Uh 3.7 km longer than the other ones earlier. It’s not as
steep. Uh he will be getting the two points up the road though. Let’s see where the chasers are. So
again, it’s not showing the chasers properly here. I think I’m going to give this Okay, the dots
are moving. So you can see that the Vanderpool pool group is not being shown correctly right
now. Here uh because we know this is the tatty group. This is the pelon jawas. They’re all
there, folks. Group number two, this is not these guys. Something’s not being shown right
there. If we come back to the race grouping here, they’re 52 seconds behind Ben Healey on the
road. We’re 30 kilometers from the finish, folks. Uh, wow. The gap’s growing at the front.
It looks like the Pelatons’s kind of shut it down. Uh Ben is currently 5 minutes and 11 seconds
ahead of Tatty, Yonas, and Remco. Uh even the Matthew Vanderpole group is 4 minutes ahead
of the Pelaton. So their gap is still growing as they chase after Ben. We’ll go back to the
Groupetto. And here they are, folks. This is the sprint guys. Uh 16 and 12 minutes behind with
two bumps to go. Every bump just slows them down even more. Uh they’re 16 and a half right now.
What are we gonna give them? Let’s give them I’m gonna say 18 and a half 19 back by the time we get
to the top of the coat to St. Michelle de Monta. God, that was terrible. Uh Vontu, I think you’re
saying. Yeah. He says yes. Can’t spell dude. That’s fine. Understand. Uh, I’m using three
different keyboards here. And it’s so difficult because I reach over, they’re differentiz
keyboards. I got a tiny one, a normal size keyboard, like a normal keyboard, and I have
another laptop. They’re all different sizes, so my fingers don’t fit on them now. And it’s
very hard for me to type anything in here. Uh, you’ll notice I’m not in the chat very much
because it’s almost impossible for me. Uh, Joey, I need a new keyboard. Uh, oh,
Doug was in charge of the bounce. Yeah, Doug kept a good eye on that place. He knows all
the degenerates of Calgary. He probably knew Mike, your brother. Yeah, Mom Vonu. Uh, can I chat
something here? This keyboard on the bottom is driving me nuts right now. I’ll spell it for you,
dude. If I can do Oh, yeah. This is horrible. One, two. Fontu. Yeah, that’s going to be an epic
day. Uh we do the traditional climb up Mongu, the giant of Provence. We will be uh The thing
about these guys too is that I’ve done these climbs at home. I start at the base of the climb
virtually. Uh yeah, I feel all of the climb. I don’t feel the wind. I don’t feel the heat.
Uh I don’t feel any elev elevation. Uh I don’t feel the road surface. I start at the best place
possible. You got to realize that these riders, they might have been riding for 140, 150k
before they even get to the climb. Uh, and then it’s an allout war going up the climb. I
think the Von 2 is about 21 km long and it’s right around 1,400 meters in elevation. Uh, climbing.
When you get to the top, there’s not a tree up there. There’s actually a weather station, I
think, up there. Maybe it’s an observatory, uh, like an astrophysical observatory. Uh, there’s no
trees left up there. I guess they chopped all the trees down back then. Von 2 means Wendy. Uh, and
you could see von 2 for hundreds of miles away. It just stands out by itself. So, they chopped the
trees way back when, uh, just harvesting lumber probably to keep themselves alive in the cold.
Uh, France get cold at times, especially at higher elevations. And all it was so windy up there that
all the dirt that was up there just blew away. They basically Yeah, it just they harvested the
lumber. There was nothing left and the wind blew all the soil away. That’s why it looks so weird
up there. It looks like a lunar landscape. Uh, okay. I think Jul is talking about the uh the
strick n stuff. I’m going to have to get into that today. Yeah, there’s there’s a big gap
right now. So, 53 seconds for Ben Healey at the front. He is going hammer time, folks. He
should be over the top very very soon. Okay, they’re actually showing it properly on the map
now. And the Chasing Group is breaking up too. This is Ben Healey, Irish Rider, EF Education,
Easy Post, first place uh being pursued by Quinn Simmons and Michael Store. And again, I said it
just before, Michael Store. Good to see him coming back today. He’s had a very, very rough start to
the tour to France. Uh 173rd at all. basically almost dead last. Uh time for him to shine today.
Quinn Simmons doing great here too. Third group, Matthew Vanderpole, Eddie Dumbar, Simon Yates,
Harold Aada, William Barta. Uh these are small gaps here, folks. Uh got to imagine that group
two and three will probably come back together over top of the climb here. Uh looks like Ben
will stay away. I’m sure EF is loving this. So, it’s a 50-second gap back to Quinn and Michael
store. 48 seconds, further 20 seconds back to uh the Vanderpool group. Then at that point, it’s 4
and a half minutes back to Pogy. So, whatever Pogy was planning today to keep it close. Uh sometimes
strategies uh change on the fly. You know what what’s the old saying? Uh, you got a great It’s
something like, yeah, everyone’s got a plan until they get punched in the face. And so maybe that’s
what Pogy’s going through now. It’s like, well, okay, well, we can’t catch them now, so let’s just
let him take it. Let’s give him the yellow. Uh, let’s let their their team do all the work over
the next few stages. We can hang back, get rested up for the brutal weeks that are coming up ahead.
Lots of teams do this. They’ll let another rider off another team take the yellow jersey. You
see it all the time. Uh Joey wants me wearing my headset I bought you. I don’t really like the
headset on. I find it to hurt my ears and it does ruin the hair, guys. My hair. Very nice. Uh see
John like John doesn’t want my hair wrecked even. Come on, Joey Jojo. She loves the spot. Everyone’s
got to see this, right? Yeah. I think the spotlight look is because I you need to have your
green screen back lit. Uh, I’ve got too many point light sources coming at me. It’s primarily the
screen here. I’m going to fix it right now. I’m turning this screen down and I’m going to even be
able to see here right away live. The spotlight’s dimmed on me now, hasn’t it? I’m going to turn
this back one back up. Yeah, it’s this one little laptop right here, folks. Right down here. This is
the the one I’m talking to you on because I’m old as the hills. Uh and my eyes suck. Uh I need to
have the light on pretty harsh. It’s my smallest uh laptop, too. So, it’s tiny. I’ll try to keep
it down. Uh maybe I got to try to get the chat somewhere else. I don’t know. We’ll figure it out.
Uh let’s get back to it, guys. I’m getting away from the race again. Getting distracted. Someone’s
going to give me trouble for this. Someone’s going to say not enough cycling coverage. Uh, how are
the leaders do the the groupto? 17 minutes and 22 seconds down. I was guessing they’re going to be
18 and 12 to 19 minutes behind at the top of the client. I think we’re right on track for that,
folks. They’re going to finish 20 plus minutes behind today. 20 minutes. Some of the fastest men
in the world will finish over 20 minutes behind today. That’s the tour to France. all levels of
cycling, climbers, which includes different types of climbers, hardmen, all out sprint beasts, uh
time trialists, they’re all here at the same race, all competing to uh you know, show for their
team, win stages. Uh some guys are here, if they win one stage, their entire career is made as a
cyclist to win one stage at the Tour to France. Uh ah yeah, Doug Day, he’s the
ex-geeologist. Calgary kid. Uh yeah, Doug Day spent 4 months on Elmir Islandus
45 in the winter. Insane. Spent an entire four months working as a geologist because
Elmir Island turned him off so much. Now in construction. Smartest move you ever made,
Doug. It’s not great to be a geologist around Calgary anymore. Uh I know everyone thinks
the oil patch is booming. It’s not really. Uh, we found everything. We found everything.
I did that for 21 years and now it’s all just kind of like harvesting the resource.
You just use engineers for that and young geologists. They don’t want guys like me with
nice hair around at the office. I guess uh that’s right, Evard. You got it, man. Tommy
Simpson, uh, British cyclist in the 60s who passed away climbing the Malvontu. You can
actually see them all. You guys, during the stage, uh, we’ll probably see some highlights, some
shots. The riders ride their bikes right past the Tommy Simpson. Get me back here. Memorial. So,
Healey first over that coat, Saint Michelle. Store there. Store on fire today, folks. I think he
scored points now on three of these climbs today. I’m assuming they’re going to come back. I
think Simmons and Store are going to be back together with Ben Healey soon. There is a gap
between them right now. How’s Ben feeling? Oh, Joey Jojo is uh looks like she’s doing giving
me a super sticker. Trying out something new here on the channel. Healey is chasing
Ireland’s 15 tour stage win. The first came from Sheamus Elliot. What a name that is.
Sheamus uh Enu in 1963. I hope I learn about him in that book I just got. And the last date
was Sam Bennett’s on the Shams in 2020. Dude, I was just talking about Sam Bennett a few
days ago. That guy I he’s a great sprinter. Great sprinter. Uh just having a tough go these
days. Let’s not forget Steven Ro. Uh 87. That was the year Steven Ro, wasn’t it? Guys, let me get
back to the chat here and get back to the race. Ben Healey all alone right now riding for glory.
Bit between the teeth, folks. Let’s go. Come on, Yonas. Come on. 54 second gap over Store and
Quinn Simmons. That gap hasn’t really changed. Ben might be solo today. He’s going to be bombing
downhill. It’s a little lumpy and punchy on the way. Kat Vadri, just a category 4 climb. Only
one point available there. couple of kilometers more downhill flat and a little punch uphill.
Uh I think Matthew Vanderpole is out of the mix right now. He’s probably okay with that. He’s got
a bunch of time. He doesn’t need to win today. Now he will be wearing the yellow jersey at the end
of the day unless something dramatic happens. Uh Tatty right now is four and a half minutes behind.
We’ve completely lost the flow bike stream. I don’t know why. So, Full Bikes is struggling
with their stream here. I’m going to just try to launch it again. Uh, that’s okay. I’ve still
got race data here. It’s loading back up. Uh, and I’m going to try to get back into the chat
here for everyone. Yeah, Doug, what a great story. Elmir Islandus 45. Uh, no phones. Probably had no
TV up there. There was no satellite communications then that you could access easy. Isolated. He
probably wrote letters home. They probably shipped them by dog sled. Uh, well, that’s maybe a bit
much, but Okay. Yep. So, Iard was talking about uh Tommy Simpson. 64 years old and old dog with
a bite. Yeah. Hanging out at Lucifer’s. Man, you’ve seen some rough stuff in your days. That’s
a bar I wouldn’t even go to. Never was there once. Uh John Chad’s uh saying here, “Always amazing
me how riders can get off the front of the Pelon.” Yeah, I know. It’s amazing. I think
Ben just attacked at They just know when to attack. Uh Ben Healey known as a climber and EF
has to do something. They’re kind of a smaller team. They’re always fighting. Uh they get some
really really good riders and then Carropatz gets a stomach flu or something and he’s out.
That was their hope for this year. Actually, while we’re out of here, guys, let’s have a
look at this. I want to do this. I kind of want to highlight a team at least a couple times
per stage. Charlie Regalius DS Tom Som. I know they’re both their voices in my head right now.
This is EF Education Easy Post. Uh Ben Healey, Alban AC, Casper Asgrren, Bodin, Michael
Valgrren, Vandenberg, Harry Sweeney, Neilson Palace. I would think he’d be higher on
the the stage. I think he’ll be working his way up in the few next uh couple weeks here. Ben Healey
is moving up today, folks. He’s going to bounce up the uh GC today. Get back to the live tracking
here. See where we’re at. Take a look at this. So, we’ve got Ben all by himself. We’ve got Quinn
Simmons, Michael Store chasing. Then we’ve got the remaining members. Should be five riders
in this group, which there is. Barta, Tahada, Yates, Dunar, and Matchu chasing. It’s a long
ways back to the Pelaton, folks. Uh the green jersey group hasn’t even hit that climb yet. If
we come over here, uh let’s take a look. Remember I said 18 and a half to 19 minutes behind.
They’re at They’re almost at 19 minutes now. They’re just going to lo They’re going to lose
another minute going up this climb, maybe more uh into the last 25 kilometers. Heel’s
just going all out now. Uh thought he would probably wait for those guys. He’s not. He’s
going for a solo victory right now. Come on, Ben Haley. Uh he’s got a almost a one
minute gap over Simmons and Store. He’s on his terrain. He does have the 31 on.
Not to say he is uh the leader of the team, but generally the guy that gets the one behind
the other number, whether it be 1, 11, 21, 31, it’s kind of the leader of the team. Uh I think
Neil Palos could be there too for this team. Ben Healey with the climbs. We’re going to
see him a lot over the next couple weeks. So, Healey’s going for it. Got images here now of
Simmons and Michael Store working together. Uh one minute gap. It’s downhill at the starts and then
it’s just kind of like rollers before we start our next climb. I think it’s going to be really
hard to pull this back on this downhill section. Can I zoom in a little bit here? Yes, we
can. This will show you now closer. We’ve kind of like zoomed in on that little chunk
of the map. This will show it to you here. He’s on a downhill section. Now we’re
going to go through some rollers. He’ll just try to keep his momentum up through
there. A flat section. One last climb. Two doors cheering on uh Michael Store right
now. You are super strong. Super strong. And he is. I’ve seen this guy race before. To see
him back in 173rd place kind of boggles my mind. Uh, so whatever was bothering him,
he’s got his tour legs under him, folks. It’s kind of like getting your sea legs.
Uh, Joey saying, “Turn the brightness down.” Joey, leave me alone. Uh, she loves the power
trip bracelet. Thank you for the sticker, the super sticker, whatever that is. And
everyone, please like the video if you can. Oh, okay. Uh guys, trying to
catch up with the chat here. Here’s someone new. Love to point out
the new people. Uh chicken smackers. I have no idea. It’s not that it’s all found. It’s
the stifling. Okay. I’m not really sure what we’re we’re reading there. Uh this guy here said, uh
what’s his name? Crown me. Crown me 1123. I have 600 on Ben. How likely is he to win? I’m new to
this sport. Dude, do you really are you really betting on this? Uh Ben Healey is most likely
going to win today’s stage. 600 what? Pennies, dollars, euros, pounds. Uh Doug saying in Berno,
Czech Republic now. That’s right. You are in Czech Republic. I forgot about that. Was back
in count for two months. Just flew back. Dude, Calgary Stampede is on in full effect right now.
Uh I don’t think we’re even getting down there this year though. I just you just go down there,
you swelter. Uh you know the Calgary Stampede, guys. If you don’t know, the Calgary Stampede
is the greatest outdoor show on earth. That’s their catch slingo, Slingo, whatever they
call it. Uh it’s a huge rodeo. So basically, cowboys come from all over North America. Some
even come from Australia to do all sorts of like cowboy stuff. Saddle bron bulls and chuck wagons.
That’s my favorite part is the chuck wagons. Uh probably because of my dog sled days. Uh, it’s a
huge event, tons of people, but realistically, the Calgary Stampede grounds have not grown since any
bigger in size since I was a kid. It’s downtown, like off the edge of downtown in Calgary.
Uh, the facilities have all been upgraded, new buildings, but it’s the same area,
yet more people come every year. Uh, just seems so crowded every year.
Who knows? Maybe we’ll make it. Um, Julius Caesar, I agree, dude. Tour needs a rider
other than Pogy and Vingo to win the GC. Yeah, I’m really pulling for Kevin Bakalon this
year. Uh, third place, you never know. Uh, being in third place, being a Frenchman, uh, tour
to France, it can light a fire under him, right? One bad day by another rider and
he’s going to move up even more. Okay guys, uh looks like Joey Jojo is sending
out some gift memberships. Uh so some of you guys at random are going to get a random gift
membership. Uh just helps to this the channel out a little bit. Thank you very much. Looks
like Jeff got one. Shep Zelf who has already supported me through buy me coffee. That
guy’s great. Leona got one. Ian Smith and uh this guy looks like he’s got a twist on the
Primos Roick name. I think he’s got Rip Logic. Uh Ed Carlo Burita’s back again. Good day,
dude. Good to see you. Okay, one guy keeps asking if Ben’s going to win. Ben’s going to win
today if you’re being serious here. Uh let me go to the live tracker again. Check out the map.
You can see how close they’re getting to the uh the final climb of the day. Ben’s on a bit of a
runaway right now. Uh I need to be on this section here. Ben still has he’s got a 1 minute 26 second
gap. You know why that was guys? Cuz he had a gap of 55 seconds. He was already over the top of
the climb descending as Quinn and Michael were still finishing the climb. So there’s a little
bit of an accordion effect there as Ben Healey is descending at 50 60k ank whatever the number
may be. Uh the other guys are still climbing on a you know a section where they may only be doing
20 25k an hour. So there’s going to be an instant gap open up. Uh as they start descending they
should be able to bring it back. Also Ben’s racing for the win here but I don’t think uh Quinn
and Michael store are letting him try to get away. So, it’s 25 second. Uh, it’s 1:30 back to this
group here, Quinn Simmons and Michael Store. So, this is going to be really good if
Store can get a nice finish today. Uh, then it’s a further 26 seconds back to Vanderpool
group. You can see they’re right here. And then you need to go back 4 minutes and 25 seconds uh
to hang out with uh the yellow jersey right now. Tatty Pagachar the the virtual jersey is up the
road Matthew Vanderpole. So at the end of today Matthew Vanderpole will be wearing the yellow
jersey. Uh they’re not bringing the gap down. Looks like my green jersey groupetto group is
still not at the top of the climb. Uh the W van art group here with 26 riders 14 minutes 14
seconds behind. The green jersey group right now 20 minutes 16 seconds behind. Some of the fastest
men in the world, 20 minutes behind trying to get to the climb of the coat to St. Michelle. Tough
day for these guys. They’re going to lose a little bit more time. Uh just take a look at the
profile here. Uh they’re running very rolly for Ben Healey here. I’m working just with the tour
to France feed right now as I can’t really see the flow bikes. Nice comments here. Let me just
see the time. Yeah, this is two minutes ago. Uh, Healey’s flying. He knows he’s going for a
win for EF Education. Uh, this might be their only win of the tour. So, you got to you these
teams are desperate to get their win early. Uh, and it says right here, it will be the 12th tour
stage win for his team. The latest to date being Richard Kerraps’s last year. That was a great
one. Uh, he had it looked like he had one the day before and Tatty just ripped it out of
his hands. Uh, and then Carropath went out the next day and got the stage win. Carropath
is not here this year. So, EF is probably like, if we don’t get a stage win. Uh, remember there’s
21 stages. There’s 23 teams. Tatty, Yonas, uh, sprint stages. That’s probably going to take
10, 12 of those stages away right away. Uh, that means you still have the other 20 teams. They’re
desperately vying for 20 teams. I’m saying that only because Tatty’s team, Yonas’s team, there’s
23 teams desperately vying to get a win. If they don’t get a stage win, it’s like a it’s a failure
for them. They’re here to win a stage. Okay. Uh good question here. Uh Vet Veta Sultania, why
is he not trying to bridge the gap? Uh I think they were trying to limit the gap earlier
on today. Uh they were keeping them close. UAE was marking every group that went up to try to
get into the breakaway group. This breakaway has been set up for quite a while. These same eight
riders. Groups were going one after another, three and four riders at a time. Even Kevin Valon,
third overall in the GC, made an effort to get up there. Tatty said no. Sent his team up, brought
them back. Um, but after a while, it’s probably just too much effort to expend uh chasing that
group the whole day. Uh, Tatty knows the tour is long and sometimes it’s better to have another
rider in yellow because that team is expected to do all the work. So, whichever team has the yellow
jersey, everyone else is fine. Go ahead. We’re all going to ride behind you. You’re doing all the
work today. So when Tatty, sorry, when Matthew Vanderpool’s Alpas and Decoin gets the yellow
jersey today, which they’ll be ecstatic about, um, he won’t win the stage unless Ben Healey
absolutely implodes. Uh, I can’t see that happening. Let’s have a look at that again. How
is Ben doing? Ben right now, yeah, Ben’s flying. He’s out to 1 minute 41 seconds over Quinn Simmons
and Michael Store. And then it’s still 32 seconds back to the Vanderpole group. Uh but this is the
big gap here. Uh it’s over four minutes. It’s four and a half minutes from Matthew Vanderpole to
Tatty. At the start of the stage, Matthew was one minute behind. So now he’s going to be three and a
half minutes ahead of Tatty. He can probably hold this jersey for a long way. Tatty’s like, “That’s
okay. You take it. You guys do all the work on the front. We’ll just watch you guys. We’ll just hang
out. will do a riding on the first big HC category climber. You’re gone. And that’s probably what’s
going to happen. That’s why he’s not pulling it back. Uh Jay Taylor, take that win. Don’t want
to see Pogy win everything. Boring. Spread the winners. Jay Taylor, I couldn’t agree more. I like
to see multiple teams win. It’s kind of like when I used to follow Formula 1. I always hated when
the same drivers would win every week over and over. the same team would win every year. They’re
winning because they have the most money on the team. Um, I’m one of those guys like Formula 1.
I’m sure if you took that driver and put him in the best car, he’d probably win. You know, when
Ferrari’s budget is 500 million and some of the lower teams like way back when would have a budget
of 50 million, there’s no way they can win. Take that driver, put in the best car, probably be
just as good. Uh, a lot of it comes down to money. So yeah, I’d love to see I would absolutely love
to see I know it’s the Tatiana show. Uh think Yona still has a very good chance of winning. I’d love
to see Valon step up or someone completely new in the rankings. What do we have right now? Uh
general rankings. It won’t show that stage five general rankings. Matteo Jorgensson is there.
Matchu will vault to first today. Jiao Mida had a spectacular last month of racing. Lipoitz is
here. Scalmos Raj Lick is still hanging on here. Uh guys, there’s going to be people moving, coming
and going uh for the next two and a half weeks. Uh yeah, I know my screen’s bright. I got to figure
something out about that. We’re going to work on that, guys. It’s just the way it is. Let me back
it up a little bit more. Maybe I can chill that out a little bit. Let’s turn that down. Uh you
know what that one is? So, my screen is so bright there because when I go to the rankings board,
so it’s not bad. I can see right now it’s not bad. Who cares about this? This is so dumb. Uh,
let’s get back to Ben Healey. Ben Healey will take the victory today. He’s a climber. He’s a pesky
lightweight climber. He’s got one climb left to do. He’s almost 2 minutes ahead. EF Education is
probably losing their minds. One of the coolest things you can probably see in any sport is when
the team car crosses the finish line and they find out that they win. the way the guys there’s
usually three dudes in the car. The driver who never says much. Then there’s the guy Then there’s
the guy in the car who’s always pulling the mic down. Come on, Yonas. Come on. It’s always on like
a retractable thing. They always have one of those going on. And there’s some random dude in the back
seat who’s probably a mechanic. Never says a word. Uh and they’re just cheering, screaming, crying.
They’re just flipping out. It’s one of the coolest things to see in any sport. I love it. Absolutely
love it. So yeah, part of that spotlight, too, is when I turn on the rankings, it’s all
white. So maybe I need to reduce that screen, too. It’s a combination of one, two,
three, four light sources. Sorry, Jojo. Uh, let’s catch up here. Oras again, UAE’s plan
is simple. Plain and simple. They’re going to surrender yellow because it’s too early for
them to protect and fight everyone. Dude, 100%. You know, you’re cycling. Thank you m
very much, sir. Sometimes it’s better to give the yellow jersey away to a team that’s
good, great riders, um, and let them have it. You just sit back and let them do all the
work. Spot on, dude. You know, you’re cycling. And then, yeah, just prevent anyone who’s a threat
from going up the road. So, they’re they’ll sit back, let the other team do all the road uh
the work. Uh, but they’ll watch every move. They’ll make sure they’ve got someone nearby.
It’s very It’s a long game. It’s a long game, folks. That’s why we can’t look at yesterday and
say, “Oh, you have the chore’s over.” Cannot do that. Yeah. Huge gap now. Uh, no. Jacob here.
Jacob Corley. Jacob Curley uh is brand new here, I think. Could G could Ben get yellow? No, Ben
can’t get yellow today. He’s too far behind overall. Uh, let me just show you guys if I can
here. This is the best way I can explain it. Okay, that’s not the right group. So, Ben Healey, 7.7
km to go to the finish. Uh, if you look here on the screen, I’m trying to circle it for you. Uh,
he’s 33rd overall right now in the brackets here, he’s 7 minutes and 37 seconds down. Okay. Uh,
he’s going to win the stage. He’s going to get all that glory. They’re going to flip their minds
out. He’s going to get some time bonus at the end, too. Um, but the thing is, he’s 7 minutes down
overall. Uh, Tatty right now is only how far back? Tatty’s actually seven minutes back. But
the thing about it is, so yeah, technically, dude, Ben could get it. The problem is though, Matthew
Vanderpole’s in the middle here. Oh, sorry, wrong guy. Matthew Vanderpole is Matthew Vanderpole is
about 2 and 1/2 minutes back and he’s way higher placed in the stage before today. Uh, Ben started
today 7 and 1/2 minutes down. Matthew started today one minute down. So Ben would have to put a
huge dent into what Matthew’s doing today to take it. Uh but Ben is going to vault up the standings
here today, folks. Be really cool to see where he gets to today. Uh considering most of the guys
are so far behind him here. What did the uh the green jersey get? 23 minutes 24 seconds. I thought
20 minutes was aggressive again. I think I said 20 or 21. Uh here is the yellow jersey. They’re
six minutes 52 back. So basically at this point, if you stop the race right now, Ben would be
in the top two or three riders because he’s basically eliminated his 7 and 12 minute deficit.
Plus, he’d get a time bonus. These guys get time bonuses for crossing the finish line first.
The race isn’t going to be stopped right now. And there’s someone else in between one. Uh, so
here’s Quinn and Michael, and it’s this guy here, Matthew Vanderpole. You can see here he’s one
minute 28 seconds back at the start of the day. And we’ve got uh Ben up the road a couple minutes.
So, Ben was too far down at the start of the day to fall the front because of Matthew Vanderpole.
Now, yeah, you know what? I think Tatty would have even let Ben have the yellow jersey today. Let’s
say these guys weren’t here. they would have said, “Yeah, take it. Take it. We don’t want it.” Uh,
it puts just too much pressure on your team. I’m gonna jump back to the map here, guys,
so you can see. They kind of do a big loop around. Here’s that funny road. Ben’s already been
through it. Here’s that road. I’m talking about where you they’re basically in this is a traffic
circle here. They go in one side. They can see where they’re coming back the other way. Uh, Ben
might see one of the later groups coming by. See, they head through town Europe. The client comes
through this little town here. Uh I think it’s called Vadri Kat Vadri just a category 4 one point
available on tap. Uh I may have to watch some of this back later here. Ben is just head down super
arrow right now. And you can just see the groups falling behind here like sprint jersey here 25
minutes today behind. I think Ben Healey going for it folks. 5.4 four kilometers to the finish
right now. Uh, let me get back to this here. So, yeah, dude. Or or Gizuas. Dude, I’m
sorry about your name. I can’t say that. Uh, I’m sorry I can’t pronounce it properly,
but yeah, you’re right on here. Um, so yeah, Ben could have gotten the yellow
if there was no one else right behind him that was in a higher placing than him.
Uh because right now the Pogy Group is 656 behind. Ben would have made
up 655 of his 737 deficit. So it would have been close. So I I think
I see what you’re saying there. Uh and yeah, no can’t get it. I believe he’s down
by double digit in minutes. Yeah, he was seven and a half minutes down. It’s the fact that
Matthew Vanderpole is so highly placed and he’s gonna finish well ahead of Pogy today. That’s the
reason why Matthew’s gonna get it. Uh, looks like someone’s got my uh, live chat here on slow mode.
Slow mode is on. So, I think I think this is being just slowed down. Clifton uh, Don Cliff saying,
“My screen is so bright, I go shades. I should start wearing sunglasses for this. Maybe I’ll
wear a different pair of sunglasses every day. Julius is saying he lost stream from SR4C. Yeah,
guys, I guess you can watch the stream S4C. Uh I think that’s a Welsh commentary stream. Uh so
it’s all in Welsh. So you can see the stream, you can listen to me. How about that?
I think Manon, who used to be on um what is it? GNC. I don’t even know. I can’t
I can’t believe I don’t remember that. GCN. GCN, guys. I screwed that up because my team name is
team GRC. So I’m thinking GRC. I’m mixing it up. Yeah, GCN. She used to be a member over there. She
was a former track cyclist over in the UK. I don’t even know why she left. I don’t know what happened
there. Uh, but she’s commentating for them there. Jay Taylor cheering on Ben here. I don’t like
slow mode. I want to see people’s comments. I think Joey might have changed that. Helps, but it
doesn’t help. Okay. Uh, heading in now. 4.5 km to the finish here, folks. Let’s have a little look
at the map again. You can see what’s going on. Ben Healey picks up another point.
He’s going to get it right now. He’s just about set to pass through the coat
of Audrey. Just did now being pursued by Quinn Simmons. Uh Michael Storeer here. You
can see that the Vanderpole group is coming back fast now. It looks like they picked
up a lot of time here. Is that correct? 230 back to these guys. It’s saying it’s 41
seconds back to them. Like maybe the way it’s just showing up on the map. I to me it looks
like they’re already merging together here on this climb. I’m not really sure how that’s
41 seconds. Maybe it’s just a lag in the transponder time. Uh but Ben Healey’s going
for it, folks. Absolutely going for it here. Go banan Wade’s back. Vanderpole
definitely going to be wearing the yellow jersey today. Extend the
gap. Yeah, he’s going to have a huge uh Vanderpole will be in yellow by three
and a half minutes something like that over Tatty today. So, he’s going to hold
this yellow jersey for a long way and that is pure vic victory for Alpas. Uh like great
exposure for them. That’s what sponsors want. Uh, Julius Caesar saying it was live video. Jacob
saying, “Yeah, yeah, Jacob, I know what you’re saying there, dude. When you when you asked her
first, I’m like there’s no way.” I’m like, then I looked at the time gap. I’m like, “No, dude.
You’re right. Jacob, you’re right. Ben could have almost gotten the yellow jersey from uh Tatty.
And I truly believe there’s no one in between. I think Tatty right now would say, “Yeah, take it.”
I They don’t want all the heat all the time. Uh it just takes some pressure off the team. He doesn’t
have to burn his teammates out. On screen here, it looks like Quinn’s trying to ditch uh Michael
Store. That’s a little bit delayed. Maybe he’s trying to go because I think the to me it looks
like uh the Matu Vanderpool group is coming up on them. It just doesn’t show up very well cuz to
hear here it looks like they’re right together and then I look at these time gaps here and
they’re saying ah they are back together. Here’s Ben Healey by himself. 2.5 clones of What
a victory for Ben Healey. EF education easy post riding in the pink. One of the coolest teams on
the planet. You guys know this dude too. Uh some of the most awesome cycling content you’re
going to find on YouTube. Uh Lachlan Morton, all the crazy stuff he does. Um yeah, insane.
So it does have Quinn and Michael 221 back. Then we got Eddie Dunar. I’m not seeing Matthew
right now. So, looks like things are breaking up here, but you can’t really tell. I’m not
really trusting all these data points here. Uh, we do have a 6 minute 50second gap from Ben Healey
back to uh Tatty. So, technically stop the race now. Tatty would still Okay, forget about the
middle guys. We’re just talking the Ben Tatty thing. Tatty would still be in yellow. he would
have about a 45 second lead over Ben. Uh yeah, so MVTP is up there. He’s just disappeared
for now. I’m trying to figure out where he is. Uh Rick saying Rock cycling jerseys are sick.
Just looked them up. Yeah, dude. I’m Yeah, I liked them. Really good priced. I don’t
know how great they are. Uh but I thought to wear for the tour, even to use at home, even
if they’re not the greatest, they’re just cool. Uh, do I expect Castelli brand level? No, not
at all. Ben Healey absolutely covered in uh salt stains all over his bibs. Number 31, EF Education,
easy post. Solo wins. I love it, guys. He’s 0.8 kilometers to the finish here. Uh, victory at the
Tur France for Ben Healey coming up, folks. Wow. He’s got a couple more turns to take. A little bit
of a bump. I think he’s actually heading downhill right now. If we look at the profile again,
actually, yeah, he’s on the flat section now. Uh, looks like Stoer and Quinn have just hit the
flats. Group three, Eddie Dunar, Simon Yates, uh, William Barta, and then it looks like
this group here, Matthew Vanderpole, uh, H Tahada. And I could see Matthew even here being
like, well, I’m not going to win the stage. These guys are all behind me. So all these guys that are
15 and 20 and 30 seconds ahead of me are actually six and seven minutes behind me in real terms.
Uh let them right away. I’m just going to get in there. I don’t need to blow myself up. I’ve got a
bid lead over Tatty. I’m going to be in the yellow jersey at end of the day. He’s cycling royalty,
folks. Uh Ben Healey coming to the finish now, folks. Says 400 meters to go. He’s coming in
hot now. And I’m sure he’s going to be savage all the way to the finish. He wants every
second he can squeeze out of this. Uh, okay. Okay. Just trying to catch up here, guys. Uh, yeah, totally. Patty will get the jersey back
later. the first big climb, the first HC climb, uh, Matthew will be gone. It’s just not his thing.
Matthew’s a classic style rider, super strong, super punchy. Throw some wins out there. You
want you want to be on Matthew’s wheel. Uh, bike handling skills, bar none. Uh, I think the
only guy that can handle a bike as good as maybe as good as it would be Vout. Uh, Peter Sagan back
in the day. I mean, he’s cyclcross king, right? Ben Healey takes the final bend. He’ll be
taking the final bend into the finish shoot now. Uh he’s crossed the finish line now, guys.
Ben Healey takes the win for EF. Right now, the EF education guys are losing their mind.
Charlie Walius, there’s probably people crying in that team car right now. This right, this is Quinn
Simmons and Store coming in together. Remember, there is time bonuses on some of these
flatter stages. Not like this is flat. Uh, the time bonuses are less when you get like
a hilltop mountain top finishes. There’s big time bonuses. Um, I know I found them here
before on the route. Let’s see if we can figure that out quickly and I’ll get back to it
here. Sporting stakes. Was that it before I saw there was one that had uh all the points and
stuff like that? I found it last night and then I couldn’t find it this morning.
Yeah. So, Ben Healey here. Here we go, folks. The winner. Sporting Stakes right here.
Yeah, this is something I was trying to find earlier. I just remember where it is now under
sporting stakes. These are the points layout. Here’s the green jersey points at Villa’s
Bage. And here’s the points. You can see they’re all the same. We did a bunch of cat 3es.
The cat 4 gets less. And here’s there’s a green journey jersey at the end again. So there’s an
intermediate sprint. There’s the final sprint. And there’s time bonuses. So Ben for winning
the stage gets the glory of winning the stage, gets a bunch of time back, and he gets
a 10-second time bonus. So everyone’s fighting for their time bonuses. Those bonuses
get even bigger uh in the mountains. Yeah. Again, I’m washing my screen. I’m completely washed out
here. Uh I’m going to have to turn that way down. And there’s my flow bike stream again. Oh, Flow
Bikes is not doing good today. And I’m sure that’s not them. I think that’s the tour feed.
Uh Jay’s screaming for Quinn Simmons for Trek Chicken Smackers. Yeah, dude. I think
the tour site wasn’t showing the correct timing there. I think the groups are
right. Uh like I can see right now, here’s Quinn and Michael coming in. Two riders.
Uh Eddie Dunar, Simon Yates, William Barta, Matchu should be in this group of three here. Group
of two. Uh Harold Tada and Matthew Vanderpole. I’m going to come back here
for a second. Actually, I want the live tracking. No, I don’t want that. I want this one.
Okay, it keeps forcing me back here. Pure Ben Healey style. He does love a nice
breakaway. Trying to get back to the race, guys. I want to see the profile and the
time splits. Uh, doesn’t want to give it to me right now. The route. Can I get
back in here? We’re gonna have to go live here. We’re going back to live here.
Yeah, it keeps doing this to me. So, now true to France is like kicking me out of
that. I can’t see the flat. We’re going to have to just go with this guys for now. Big gap back
here. 24 minutes back for the green jersey group. And the gap back to Tatty is still 639 back.
Is that correct? So that’s what it seems like. Uh Ivad Ivard saying again, I love all the
jerseys. Even had I’ve even had one from Primal. Okay. I do know the name of that group. Uh
Rick saying classic breakaway stage. Haven’t seen that in a while. Yeah, that was a great stage.
Great stage. Uh wow, great. I just noticed guys viewers have like just jumped right up. We’re
at 260 views, 73 likes. Thank you so much, guys. It’s the community that makes the channel. Uh
if you ever were to go back and watch any of my other races, uh don’t even worry about it.
Not a big deal. Uh I’ve always said it’s all about the community. It’s community,
community, community. It’s not just, you know, I like to involve everyone and all
the stuff I’m doing and give people shout outs, talk to people. I think it’s so much fun. Says,
“Thanks for the great content.” Hey, dude. Thank you for being here. Uh letting me know a little
bit about yourself. Uh, we’ll see you again, Mr. Toronto. He’s off to work now. Uh, Ian Smith,
hey, I’ve been listening. Thanks for the coverage. We got to get to work because everyone’s off to
work for today now, folks. Uh, guys, still close to 260 viewers right now. Uh, Cole McDonald,
click that mountain button on the right. Okay, he’s telling me how to do it. Dude, thank you.
Uh, where I did see that before. I think if I go back here. Boom. Thank you, dude. I did see
that. I’m kind of like, uh, do I hit that? So, yeah, the Pelaton’s coming in right now,
guys. 700 meters to the finish. Going up that little bit of a wall that’s in front of them. Just
a tiny group. Uh, Vout had a terrible day. Uh, they said he’s been nursing stomach, some kind
of stomach flu. Uh, just not feeling well. Visma needs their full team. Uh, I think without a full
team, I don’t see Yonas winning. He needs the support of that team. In the past, he’s won with
his team. Yeah. Again, Cole, thank you very much. Uh, Joe 512, thanks for your chat, Joe.
Thank you for being here. Rick’s been uh multitasking at work. Yeah, he’s probably got
me in a tiny little corner of his screen. Yeah, that’s nothing. Don’t worry about that. Don’t
you don’t need to worry about that. Uh, hey guys, I appreciate anyone watching from wherever you are
in the world. Uh, we’re doing this every day. Uh, me and Joe, we got some stuff coming up. We’re
going out for dinner one night. I’m like, how are we going to do this? Cuz usually when
we go for dinner, we stay in town. I said, I can’t miss the chore now. And like, we stay
in town. We we come home in the morning. And I just said, I can’t miss it. I can’t. And she
just said, I know we’re going to be home. So, somehow we’re dragging ourselves home that
night. It’s actually a late celebration of her birthday. We’re going out for uh
dinner with Kelly and Ronnie somewhere in we’re going out out to the Salt Lake
in Calgary, a steakhouse downtown Calgary uh right off the Steven Avenue Mall. Uh I think
it’s Doug. Where’s Doug again? I think he might have left. Uh Elmir Island. He’s very familiar
with Steven Avenue and the steakous down there. Uh, yellow VDP. Okay, let’s Yeah. So, let’s
just look at it here. Matthew Vanderpole is in fact back in yellow. Is it just 1
second? Was the timing out that bad? Yeah. So, the timing must Yeah, the
timing just seemed really goofy. Yeah, cuz now they have Tatty one second
behind Machu Vanderpole. So, the timing and I saw that as we were uh
watching it. I’m like, I don’t even see where some of the riders are. The groups
weren’t showing up properly on the map. Just watching a replay here of the
finish. So, yeah, there’s a quick yellow jersey for Tatty. Sorry, for Matthew
Vanderpole. Uh Tatty remains in second now. saying Jersey leaders Matthew Vanderpole. So I
wonder what was up with the timing then because uh Matthew Vanderpole started today I think
1 minute 30 second down on Tatty. So there was no way that gap was ever that big is
what I got to guess. Let’s take a look at the stage rankings. Ben Healey, Quinn
Simmons, uh Michael Store, Eddie Dunar, Simon Yates. Let’s just see where Vanderpole
finished. Vanderpole finished. Looks like uh is that three minutes back? I want
to see how far Tatty finished back here. No, we don’t. I can’t see them all, folks.
Sorry about that. I did that yesterday, too. So, that’s our general rankings right
now. Matthew Vanderpole gets to pull the yellow jersey back on again, folks. Tatty’s right
there. Ava pole’s right there. Kevin Vocalon uh is in fourth place. So Kevin Vocalon was in
third place. He’s the one rider that got bumped out a little bit uh because of Matthew’s big
day today. So yeah, crazy dime captioner. It was someone earlier who said the tour to France
had it totally messed up there. Uh and I kind of had a sense to that because I’m like this
doesn’t seem right. Uh for a while I couldn’t even see Matthew Vanderpole. So, I’m going
to take a look at all this later. One second. Don’s asking if we’re going for pineapple pizza.
Uh Joey Jojo will be going off to work today. So, let you hear. Uh no, sorry. Leona saying, “Thank
you to Joey Jojo.” Always believe. Okay. I think Always Believe has been here for four. I love
Calgary. Uh I used to skate there. The ice is so fast. Thank you again so much for the coverage.
Always believe. Um dude, you were here a few days ago. Are you a dude? Everyone’s a dude, folks.
Remember, uh I think you said you were a retired Olympian and you came back from a big injury in
the past. Dude, tell us who you are. Tell us who you are, please. I’d love to know about it. Yeah,
the Calgary Olympic Oval 1988 Winter Olympic Games were in Calgary. It was on so much back then. Like
your boss would say, “Hey guys, if you got tickets to go to the Olympic events, you’re free to leave
when you want.” The whole city was behind it. So, always believe. But I hope you come back. And I’m
looking at always believes avatar and I’m thinking lady uh sorry that always believe may be a dudet.
But again, everyone’s a dude to me. Julia Caesar’s taking off. I’m out. See you tomorrow. Keep your
ch uh keep your chariot out in front of you. Oh, I like that one, dude. I like it. Uh just under
200 runners watching. Always believe. I’d love to hear more about uh your Olympic history. probably
a long track speed skater, I imagine. That’s right. Dawn’s got it. We are all dudes. Everyone’s
a dude. It’s like when I called Joey a dude. The first time I did it, she goes, “What’d you call
me?” I’m like, “Dude, like it just comes out.” I think I called Addison and Avery dudes. I know
I have. I called my mom a dude a few days ago. I just get talking and then it just slips out, guys.
Uh anyways, riders, uh I know you guys got lots to do today. That’s the finish of stage six. Uh kind
of strange with the timing there. I thought Tatty was just like giving it to my uh Matchu today.
Obviously, the timing was really really off there. And again, if you watch the whole video,
you’ll see points where I’m like, I can’t even see certain groups. It’s showing the Machu group right
with Tatty. And I’m like, no, he’s right here. The time gaps aren’t showing up right. So, we’ll
have to keep a closer look at that next time. Yeah, dude. I don’t know what happened there.
Someone did say earlier that the chart of France timing was totally out today. Uh, so yeah, I
agree with you. Uh, Orte Guerrera’s I agree with you. Like I thought he was going
to be finish ahead by like 3 4 minutes and I thought that was their total strategy.
Just give it to him. Uh, but yeah, 1 second. See y’all tomorrow. Watch your top knots. Love
that one too, Rick. We’ll see you around, dude. Yeah, Cole saying, “Imagine if the sprinters
didn’t make it after the six stage.” Uh, have they finished? Dude, they haven’t even
finished yet. So, we’ve got a rider out. We got a group here, the the Van Art group.
26 riders still trying to finish. Um, 15, they’re 60 minutes back. The sprinters are
24 minutes back. I think if you look at the race here at the bottom, the cut off time is 40
minutes. So, you can find all that data here, there’s been 12 minutes and 45 seconds since the
finish. It’s 40 minutes. It’s pretty generous. Um, they’d have to stop and, you know, have lunch
for 28 minutes to not finish in time. So, they’ve got lots of time. Uh, I imagine they’ve only got
maybe 10 more minutes of racing out there today. Uh but yeah, it would be hilarious, wouldn’t
it? Uh Don’s taking off. See you around, Don. Hey, Don, you were the number one in
the chat today. Love seeing that. Uh so yeah, after this, what time we looking at? Uh 9:24 in
the morning, guys. I’ve been up since uh I think I rolled out of bed at 3:45. 3:45. Sacrificing
a lot. Wait, no, I’m not sacrificing nothing, man. I love this. Uh, but I am making sure I go
to bed early so I can get rested up. And again, I am still sick. Uh, so I need my rest
time. I’m going to get I’m going to do my chores quickly here. I’m going to get the
lawnmower loaded up, head into the office, do that stuff, come back home, probably just
chill for the day. Nothing else planned. Uh, was planning to get on the bike. I
might uh see how I feel this afternoon. And so guys, I think I might just end it right
here today. We’ve been have a nice long stream here. Uh I don’t even know how long we’re into
this. Let’s wait and see. That’s for that one dude. I think that was Was that Julius? Let’s wait
and see. Dude, I hope you catch that part of the video later. Anyway, guys, I’m going to jump off
now. Uh we’ve got two groups still coming out, trailing in late. We still have 81 riders to
finish. These guys are just going to ride across the group uh the finish line in groups together.
Um they’re just in survival mode now. Nothing left to prove today. This is normal. The sprinters
always finish way back behind. Yeah. So you can see the time says finish and the time the cut
off time is gradually decreasing there as well. So they have quite a bit to uh slow down by to get
back. I think I’ll work on my lighting setup a little bit today. See if I can figure this out. It
just seems really bright right now. Uh it’s this screen. uh this screen here. So, if I turn that
screen down, too. Oh, yeah. Look at that. Yeah, that’s what we’re doing tomorrow, folks.
That screen was giving me way too much. Okay, again, folks, oneman show, no makeup uh
assistant, uh no one brings me coffees, no one feeding me uh race data. You guys
are doing that. So again folks appre
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