Welcome to the weekend and Stage 8 of the Tour de France. After several brutal, rolling courses, it’s time for the Sprinters to shine. In flat out sprints these riders will hit speeds of 75-80km/h, definitely not for the faint of heart. Todays battles will be all about the Green Jersey, the GC contenders will be staying out of the way of the sprint trains. Potentially we could see teams go out on the breakaway, the Intermediate sprint point is halfway through the stage so a small group of riders may find themselves set free to try their hand at the great escape.
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Stage 8 RECAP
🏁 **Stage 8 Recap – Tour de France 2025**
**Route:** Saint‑Méen‑le‑Grand → Laval (171.4 km)
**Date:** July 12, 2025
🔥 **Race Summary**
* A two-man breakaway formed early: **Mathieu Burgaudeau** and **Matteo Vercher** (TotalEnergies).
* The peloton kept tight control, led by sprinter teams like Alpecin-Deceuninck and Lidl-Trek.
* **Minor incidents**: Jonas Rutsch crashed, Tim Merlier had mechanical issues — both rejoined.
* **Eddie Dunbar** (Jayco AlUla) **abandoned** due to crash injuries from Stage 7.
🏆 **Stage 8 Results (Top 3)**
1. **Jonathan Milan** (Lidl‑Trek) – sprint win
2. **Jasper Philipsen** (Alpecin‑Deceuninck)
3. **Arnaud De Lie** (Lotto-Dstny)
🟢 **Points Classification Update**
* **Jonathan Milan** extends lead in the **green jersey** competition.
* Pogacar sits second in points, but is focused on GC.
⏱️ **General Classification (Top 3 – unchanged)**
1. **Tadej Pogacar** 🇸🇮 – Yellow Jersey
2. **Remco Evenepoel** 🇧🇪 – +0:54
3. **Kevin Vauquelin** 🇫🇷 – +1:11
🌡️ **Conditions**
* Warm weather and a slight headwind into Laval.
* Perfect execution by Lidl‑Trek’s leadout train delivered Milan to victory.
⛰️ **Next Stage:**
**Stage 9** – Chinon to Châteauroux (~174 km)
Another flat profile with a likely sprint finish before the rest day and time trial in Stage 10.
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Good morning everyone. Guys, just let me
get my stream up and running here. Running late today. Um, let me get this figured
out. I just had this up and running here. Let’s get the screen on. We’re working as
quick as we can here to make this work. voice is a bit beat up today uh at the Calgary
Stampede last night and it was loud in my ear, folks. Let’s just get this going. Here we go,
folks. Stage 8 2025 Tur to France. Uh the greatest time of the year, folks. Got that brightness in
my face again. Uh need to move this a little bit. Yeah. So, guys, we got home super late last night.
Uh, I literally woke up at 5:15 when the stream was supposed to start. Jumped on my PC here and
uh, the stream wasn’t showing up on this one. I made it on my laptop. I don’t know what happened
there. So, just kind of getting things going here. Let’s make sure we’re up and running. Okay.
Uh, why is this not showing here? Why is this not showing? Sorry, guys. It’s doing something
really goofy here right now. What if I’m in the wrong screen capture? Uh, no. I’m on the right
screen capture. Let’s turn that on again. And we need to go here. It’s not that. Okay. Where is
this screen capture this one? Okay, guys. I’m just trying to find uh I just had it here. Give me one
second, guys. Just bear with me. Sorry about this, guys. Everyone Anyway, anyone? Very good morning
to everyone. This was just up on my screen here. I’m not really sure. I think you’re just seeing a
black screen right now. Let me just take a look. Um, okay. So, let’s just catch up with everyone
quick. Yeah, you are just seeing a black screen. This was just on screen. I just need to re-trigger
that window. So, what I’m going to do is turn it off and turn it on again and uh the stream will
be here, guys. Okay, I can see it showing up there what I’m working on. So, let’s get back into
here. Stage eight. I just need to see There we go, folks. Boom. We’re here, guys. Uh, stage eight.
Uh, and I’m going to have to run and get a coffee, guys. Half dying here. Stage is underway, guys.
You saw the neutralized start. I saw the whole thing. I did not technically miss all of the
stage. It is getting hot, folks. Uh, 29.4°. So, it’s probably like 88° F here. Uh, not the longest
stage today. 171.4 km. Uh, deemed as a flat stage. We said this yesterday. St. Mr. to Lavali Spas.
Uh, that’s where we’re heading today, folks. Come back here for a second. I’ll tell you all about
Why is it not showing up here? Are you guys seeing everything? I don’t think Okay, something’s
really weird here, guys. I’m sorry about this. What are you guys seeing? Um, why is that not
working? Okay, so here’s the stream. We need to shut this down. I wonder if that’s blocking me
out. remind me later. Back to the stream. So, I’m going to switch between that and that again.
And boom. It’s showing up here. Okay. Interesting. Very interesting. And we are streaming, guys. I
just got to confirm one last time because this is driving me insane right now. Streaming. We’re
streaming. You guys got nothing on? Nothing on. Uh, I see darkness. Yeah, that’s what
I’m seeing too. But I can see it says I’m live tour to French stay. Uh guys,
I wonder if this got something to do with um um hang on guys. Okay. So, I need to now live. Yeah. So, I’ve got it looks like
I had two notifications right here now, guys. I don’t know what’s happened. This has all
got to do with yesterday in that stream problem I was having. So, I have two notifications. Tur
to France stage 7 backup live. Tur to France, I don’t know which one I’m streaming right
now. And Tur to France stage eight. Obviously, we’re on stage eight, guys. It says I
have 28 concurrent viewers right now. So, I don’t know what you’re seeing unless it’s active
now. Okay, good. You guys got something now? So, I’m on screen now. Sorry, guys. Boom. Uh,
can someone let me know in the chat now? Uh, if we’re rocking and rolling, I’m going to go
to my stream now, guys. I literally woke up at 5:15. That’s how late we got home last night. So,
I’ve triggered my stream eight. I bet you Yeah. Something was going on with that weird backup
live one. And I’m guys, super neutralized start here. Tatty’s stopping for a pee right now on the
side of the road. Uh he’s actually drifting off the back here. Okay, once mine’s up and running,
I’ll know for sure what’s going on here. Yeah, here we go. Okay, we’re running here. I’m
up, guys. Let’s put this guy over here. And we’re going to rock, folks. We are going
to rock. How’s everyone doing today? Let’s get this puppy over here. I think today
it’s going to be an instant coffee, guys. Instant coffees for Colin. Uh let’s take a
look at the tour itself. Here we go, folks. Again, very flat today. Sprint point at about 85 86 km.
Uh that’s why we’re getting such a neutralized start. Uh tomorrow stage is slightly difference.
the sprint at the intermediate sprint point comes early in the race. Here’s something to think
about yesterday too guys. Um they didn’t have the protection protection zone in the very
final 3 km and there was 50 points at this finish. It was kind of strange because it was
an uphill finish. Generally you wouldn’t get 50 points for the green jersey at the end. Uh
seeing interar sitting on the front right now. Let me just browse through this, guys. Again, just
catching up here. Yeah, we’re going to have more than just the route map, dude. Don’t worry. Uh,
so here we are at the stage right now. I need to go to some of the settings here. Uh, I’m going
to just get myself situated. Yeah, guys. So, out super late last night. The tour started out really
mellow today. Um, after the last couple days and it’s a sprint day, I think the Pelaton is saying,
“Hey, let’s just go a bit chilled.” I can still see the flags of Baton in the background. Intermar
wants sitting on the front with one certain good old Quinn Simmons. Folks, Mr. Longair, Mr. uh
Chomp Mutton Chops. He is right at the front today, folks. Um let’s take a look at the rankings
here. So, we’re doing the rankings, guys. This is for the GC after stage 7. We have Tatty in the
front. Uh Yonas in second place. Is this really right? Is this how it went down, folks? Oscar
only. Take a look at this. Quite a surprising uh GC right now. In fact, that is the stage rankings.
I knew that soon as I saw Oscar only. Oscar only uh finished two seconds behind yesterday.
Got a 4 second time bonus. Uh Felix G was right in the mix. Guys, super slow start today.
Matteo Jorgensson was right there. Remco. Uh, I was really impressed to see Yonas right there
at the front. Uh, pretty unfortunate about that crash at the very beginning. Something I wanted
to hear, guys. Let’s just see how UAE’s team’s looking. Yawa Ma was involved in that crash. Uh,
less than 3 km to the finish. I think it was about 2.5 km out. Uh, okay. They want me to log in
again. And we’ll take a look at the teams here. Yeah, I was still there. He was pretty beat up.
He did sit on the side of the road for quite a while and I know they said he was going to have
x-rays done. Uh they asked Tatty afterwards. Let’s jump to the map, guys. We’re heading now in
a very easterly direction. We’re heading to more towards the center of France now. Uh I’m going to
catch up with the chat here. Give me a chance to uh get my bearings here, folks, and uh get this
coffee going. Okay, guys. Yeah. So, sorry for the start there. Uh yeah, Corissant to I agree
with that. Yeah, it was an age problem. Uh yeah, so something was worth there. I can see there’s
two streams that exist right now. Um I may have to get Joey Jojo to go try fix something on
another PC cuz if I have two streams going, everyone’s going to be split up. Uh maybe that’s
okay. Yeah, I was getting stuck on the black screen there. Sometimes it gets hung up on one
of your sources as to where you are. Uh, okay. Doug Day is following the mix. Uh, Doug’s here.
Well, Doug’s been here for a while. It’s just me that’s slow today. Okay, guys. Dawn Clifton’s
here as well. Yeah. Hey, Andrew. You uh Yeah, this is uh my audio commentary of what I’m seeing
happening on the race. I watch through uh a paid subscription uh and chat about the race and talk
with everyone here. So, guys, Sprint Point is halfway through the race today. Temperature’s
heating up. It’s going up as we’ve been here 5 minutes. 161 km to go. Uh 160.5 actually is
what I’m seeing on screen. Uh we’ve got a small category 4 Kotil Serve U which is about looking
from here it’s about 20 km to the finish. Um Doug saying uh 5:30 sounds party uh party time from
construction. Part-time from construction. Yeah, Doug worked construction all his life after his uh
uh long his other long career in geology up north. Yeah. So, we went to the Calgary Stampede last
night. Uh Doug knows what I’m talking about. We had to do the fireworks. Uh we had to walk out
through the masses of people. People are like, “What’s the Calgary Stampede?” Uh think of this
like a festival or a fair where you go and there’s a bunch of rides and there’s roller coasters and
games you play and food that’s so bad for you, but you eat it anyways. over the radio any
grenadier for your info. You’re going to have towns at kilometer 5 and again kilometers
railway crossings there. So they’re warning the riders right now about the railway crossings
and speed bumps all sorts of things like that. So I think the road furniture. Oh guys, this is
from Inos team radio and they’re saying guys this is where the brakes are going to try to
get away. 5 7 9 km. It seems like the riders try to make an attack right at the railway
crossings where other riders will kind of let off a little bit as they’re going across the
tracks uh just for safety. Uh Ian Holmes. Yeah, thanks dude. Keep up the good work. Yeah, law
Oscar only fans. Yeah, I think he’s going to have a lot of fans going forward. I mean, he is
right up there in uh the GC just flying high. Okay. So, did Jiao really get uh
Okay, Jiao did get broken ribs. Yeah, broken crap. Gribs all feel horrendous.
Flags of baton still flying. The flag of France waving proudly here over the tour to France.
The greatest time of the year, folks. So, yeah, we did the the whole chuck wagons and then they
have the um the bearback horse racing where guys race around the entire racetrack bearback, no
saddle, no steerups. They do a threelap race. That’s my favorite part of the night. Then there’s
like a band that plays. Yeah. Fireworks go off. You leave. You spend 45 minutes trying to walk
out. Um I think I ate McDonald’s last night after midnight. Uh we got home probably close. It was
late. It was late. I don’t know exactly what time we got. I stayed up. Um tweaked my YouTube stream
a little bit. Got up this morning. And you go into uh things you manage. Okay, Trek sitting
on the front here now. It’s Quinn Simmons deciding to do all the work with Intermar right
now. He’s doing all the work with Intermar. Uh, just still setting up, guys. Let’s get this going.
What am I wearing today? I don’t even know what jersey I’m wearing today. Let’s have a look here.
Today, we are wearing I’m surprised it’s showing up. It’s pretty fluorescent uh place down the
road, Cal Cycle. It’s kind of my local go-to uh repair everything shop. Um if I want a
brand new bike, I go into Calgary. If I want uh something quickly fixed on my bike, I race
there and they look at me and they throw my bike into the back. Uh there’s never been once that
they haven’t helped me out. So, the best little bike shop around. It’s way out in the countryside.
Uh built inside a building that’s probably about 200 feet long. Uh, it’s an old chicken barn that
they renovated way back when. Okay, guys. Um, just keep browsing here. Going to be a slow start
today. We got 49 riders watching. I wonder if there’s another string that exists somewhere
else. I wonder how I can find that out. You know what I’m going to do? I’m gonna actually
go to Oh, I don’t want to do this. Actually, I think I could open up another YouTube
channel here. And can I actually do this? I don’t know if this is possible. So
guys, very, very slow neutralized start, but things are starting to push a little bit at
the front of the Pelaton. Um, I’m just going to take a look and see that nothing’s going on
here. Go to my YouTube studio. Working on the side PC here. Face is going to be lit up by
the sun. and just take a look at the content. Yeah, I is this really happening? I I don’t
know if that is live. If so, no. Okay, good. We’ve only got one stream live at this
moment. I got notifications that two streams are going live. So, anyways, guys, let’s get
back to it. I don’t know why that happened. Wow, YouTube really threw me off yesterday. Uh
get into here. Uh yeah, Ruben’s got some crack Ruben now. He uh had an endo over his handlebars
way back in June uh beginning of June, guys. It’s just tickling along right now. The guys are just
tickling the pedals on the front of the bike. 40.1 km an hour. We’re at 157ks remaining. Jumping to
the live tracking here. You can see where we’re at. Any surprises for anyone yesterday? Any
shocks out on the uh racecourse? Like to know what everyone thinks. Matthew Vanderpole was he
was pretty much done for the day. Uh he was not involved at all in the final attacks. He was near
the front. Uh but he just given way too much the day before. Uh too much effort in that eightman
breakaway. And that was, you know, we could see that too when that huge time gap that he had kind
of all disappeared. uh when he only got the yellow jersey by one second, he was actually falling back
behind uh the Ben Healey group. Well, Ben Healey because he was riding solo and the group from
behind driven so hard by Vizma just devoured all that gap. So, he really only finished a minute
and a half ahead of Tatty, which was his lead. That’s why we got the 1 second lead. Um yeah, I’m
going to get to that here, too. 54 people in the mix right now, folks. Love it. Let’s rock today.
This is going to grow nicely. Uh today, folks, remember this is where we’re going to see the high
speeds. 75 80k an hour on the flats all out. James Delar is here from Corsa. Uh Don saying Clifton
Stampede sounds like a Texas rodeo essentially. Don, um the Calgary Stampede is the biggest rodeo
in the world. Uh we have people from all over the states come up here. Uh a lot of people from the
Southwest that ride horses. uh that ride bulls, stuff like that. The majority of the chuck wagon
riders, they’re they are from around here. So, what’s a chuck wagon? It looks like an old covered
wagon from the old west. Four horses on it, two out rididers. They start they start dead
stomp. They have to maneuver around a couple of uh barrels. They do like a figure eight round
and then they race around the track. It’s pretty exciting. Uh Sheila Near’s here. Sheila,
welcome back. I saw you here yesterday. Let’s get it going, folks. Let’s build this baby up. Keep
building this baby up. So, we’re just looking at the map here, and I’m going to go back to the
race guy and catch up with what’s going on on the course today. Heat and headwind today.
Uh temperatures will be over 30 C today. So, right around just under that 90° uh sorry, 90°
Fahrenheit mark. Things are uncomfortable for the cyclist. Winds are blowing out of the northeast.
it will be in their faces for practically the entire stage. An average speed of 15k an hour
slowing down the pelaton. Uh probably not going to be a crosswind days. It’s just like a nice
steady uh but it’s going to be constant wind in their face. So on their rest day on the big Okay,
I said this was a rest day. That’s almost insane, isn’t it? These guys are riding for uh eight
days straight now after all those climbs. uh all those hills, all that those punchy courses.
Uh this is kind of a rest day. Uh they get to avoid all those brutal climbs and the attacks,
but here they are riding in almost 90° Fahrenheit with a headwind all day and they still have to
perform. The sprinters will have to light it up. Um so yeah, hi to you Sheila. Ian said he wanted to keep in the front group uh
yesterday a lot longer. Uh yeah, he did really well though. You know what’s crazy? Uh G has a
podcast. He obviously has it with someone else that’s not riding in the Prop Pelaton. Um I forot
I forget which one I was talking to. I don’t know if it’s just the Grant Thomas Cycling Club or
something like that. He does a podcast every day after the stages. Uh every day. Yeah, I’m
pretty sure he had a new one yesterday. Uh, and he basically does the podcast laying down as he’s
having a massage. Uh, kind of insane. I’ve seen it a couple times. Like, I’ve just seen it. Uh,
here’s the true winner today prediction. Anyways, so let’s just keep scrolling back. So, got heat
and headwind qu everything I’ve already talked about. Sprint teams drive the bunch. Uh, and
the interar riders. And when I say sprint teams, it’s just Quinn Simmons right now, uh,
working for Jonathan Milan up there. But very very close. Uh slow today. Slow start.
No attacks in the first 5 km. Uh that will be the first time this year that we haven’t seen a uh an
immediate attack off the front. Interar sitting on the front right now. It’s not like they’re
tooodling along, guys. They are doing 42 km an hour right now. Let’s take a look at the course
profile. Guys, I think I’m just waking up now. I think I’ve now just decided. Yeah. Okay, you’re
awake. What we can do is let’s take a look at the uh we’ll take a quick look at the map
here. You can see where we’re going. So, kilometer zero. We’re basically westerly and actually we’re
due south of St. Mallow. That’s where we start today. We had a small transition overnight
uh heading east to the first sprint point of the day about halfway through the stage.
There will be one small cat 4 climb and we end in Laval. There’s also Laval in Canada.
It’s in uh Quebec. Lavel, Quebec, Canada. But yeah, so I saw Ian uh sorry Ian I saw
Gurant yesterday doing a uh a podcast after the stage. So really good to see him at the
front. These guys are super tough. Yeah. Like the mental toughness they have, the physical
toughness that they have is unbelievable. Uh we all we’ve all seen the soccer football stars
rolling around trying to draw penalties. It’s uh kind of crazy. Let’s get to uh some of
the videos we can actually show here today, guys. Show you we’re going from St. Mean
Lrand out into the countryside. Just take a quick look here. You’re not going to see any
big bumps popping before us. Mostly farmland here. We’re going to cross a little water
area for a bit. some kind of lake nearby. We’ll try going to try to keep a lookout
for that later in the tour in the stage. Again, 15 km headwind that’s supposed
to be persistent all day long. Okay, I think I saw where the little bump was there.
Laval Espas man. Okay, I got the dogs barking outside. Joey Jojo seems to be awake here. She
uh Joey Jojo was on fire last night, guys. She was absolutely on fire. Best team currently for
sta after stage seven team standings Vizma Lisa Bike. And what’s everyone thinking about Vizma’s
strategy for this tour? Uh they’ve done a lot of late stage attacking trying to put heat on Tatty
and Tatty seems kind of a little bit I don’t know he seems a little bit irritated by it. Um, and and
I’ve seen a lot of weird questions in the media just I think Vizma is starting to get irritated
with all the questions. Well, if you can So, are you going to wait till the long attacks
to beat him or are you going to try to beat him on the short attacks, but he keeps beating
you over and over? It must be stressful for them to hear the same questions every day. Uh, let’s
just keep moving on here, guys. As Dawn saying, yeah, it’s an active recovery day if the stage
is flat. Uh they’re they’re working hard still, but they’re actively recovering. They’re not
climbing. They’re not super punchy rolling through hill after hill after hill. New question here. Uh
new rider, I should say. Carlos Papalardo. Uh oh, from Argentina. I think that’s where he’s
saying from. Uh greetings from Argentina. And I’m having troubles uh understanding this. If
someone can translate for that meal on the fly, they’d be much appreciated if someone could drop
them into a Google translate. Exactly. Okay. So, Dawn’s saying here, I don’t agree or understand
Vismas taxes. That’s what a lot of the media is saying right now. Everyone’s like, what are you
guys doing? Every at the end of every stage, you just try to drive it into the ground. Oh,
interesting. Look here. Intermar on the front. Uh, and then it looks like we got Astana up there. I’m
going to have to quick have a quick peek at this, guys. Back to the route here. Uh, sorry. We’ll
hit the live. Feeling really clunky today, guys. Really clunky. Uh, yeah, this is
really good here. Keep an eye on only It’s funny here. Red Bull’s talking to them. Uh,
biggest re biggest region of France here. Lots of cows on the side of the road. Uh, looks like
they’re all having a good time here. Oscar only yesterday finished two seconds behind Tatty and
Yonas. He was third over third overall yesterday. Ah, good point here. I did hear them talking about
this yesterday, too. Oscar only is the second youngest British rider to finish in the top three
of a tour stage. Only Tom Simpson did it earlier, being third in Malo Leban in 1960, 22 years old,
6 months, 28 days. Uh, 20 km into the stage. Looking at it now. Quinn Simmons on the front
with Inter Mar about three or four. Okay, let’s look again here. Looks like three or four riders.
I’m thinking I’m seeing a UAE rider sneaking in there now. And I believe that is the Estana team
there. Let’s have a quick look at that teams. Looks like the Estana team to me at the front.
Actually, maybe the color is a little bit wrong. Okay. live tracking. Okay, what’s going on here?
Oh, we’re actually getting to see the broom wagon, guy. See this? This is the first time they showed
us the broom wagon on course. What is that? What is that telling us, folks? That is scary to me.
Why is the broom wagon so close to them right now? Uh, first time I’ve seen that in the website. Uh,
what did I hear yesterday, too? I think Jack Hey for um I think he’s bing victorious. He pulled out
yesterday on course. I do want to look at that as the rankings. Let’s take a look at the GC again.
Back to stage seven. Doing a little catch up here, guys. Uh I’m trying to catch up for everything
that I should have done first thing this morning. Oh, I heard this, too. Eddie Dunar is out.
Eddie Dunar, the Irishman, he’s out as well. So, I wonder what’s affecting him. Uh yeah, yesterday
on course. I do remember when we lost Kathine. Um lieutenant to Remco Aventipole. Uh Jack Hey also
pulled out yesterday on course. And it does say Eddie Dunar. It says withdrawal. So looks like he
pulled out on the stage and not before the stage because he’s not getting it not getting a uh DNS a
do not start. He’s getting withdrawal. So he must have started the stage and just does not feel well
at all. Okay, chat time, folks. Chat time. Um, Ian saying, “Ziff’s uh tour to France rides are
good.” Dude, I’ve missed all of them so far. Uh, so I was very lucky this week. This is Ian here
from the Philippines. Uh, I did manage to get one Zift ride in on Monday before I got sick.
So now I’ve been off four days straight off the bike. What did I do on Monday? Oh, there’s a
route of the week I did. I needed I needed extra XP and I heard they’re doing a ton of uh Turf
France rides on there. Don’s always got some good points here. Uh okay, first Jay Taylor, good
morning. Buenos Diaz Bondia, good morning to you, Jay. Guys, also yesterday too, uh I got to give an
extra special shout out to Cole Kane yesterday. Uh really appreciate he I think when he saw me having
a big struggle there with the streams and that uh just gave me a nice little super chat
and Scotty Mack did too. So, thanks a lot, guys. Uh, I didn’t have time to pull that up
this morning. Like I said, the stream was set to start at 5:15. I closed my eyes last night. They
opened at 5:15. No alarm clock. Uh, but at 5:15, I rolled to bed. I’m like, “Oh, I’m already late.
I should already be streaming.” Uh, 62 riders now, guys. I know it’s going to be a slow start.
Saturday morning, people rolling out of bed. Uh, Joey’s going to be up straight back to bed.
I wonder if she tried to drink some of that old coffee from yesterday. She might have done
that. Uh that’s a good question there. Okay. Uh Don’s got some good input here. Used to have an
alliance with Alpas, which is good news for them, bad news for the rest teams. Uh yeah, if there
was an you never know what’s going to happen, right? You never know uh what kind of agreements
uh special handshakes are given behind the scenes. UAE has a lot of support and resources behind
them, right? I’m just going to leave it right there. Support and resources. We’ll
hit the race here, guys. Yeah. So, it’s just a broom wagon chasing. At first, I
thought, what is that red bubble behind us here? I think it’s going to be quite slow until we get
to that middle sprint point. Get quite warm up here today, too. 147 km remaining. like le St.
Martan. I think there’s a lot of churches named after St. Martan. Uh what qualifications do you
need to drive the room wagon? Uh exactly. Just drive really slow and pick up guys that have
just had the worst day of their life, I guess. Ooh, more comments here. Who’s this? Uh yo,
it’s Doug. Uh UAE wants everyone to do as they do as they. That’s my opinion. Just let
the pace control and crown their leader. Yeah. Oh, great news here from Swoosh
Kid. Uh, did that happen yesterday? Oh, no. I’m reading this wrong here. Uh,
world champion Lahi Capeeki abandoned the Jirro de Italia ahead of stage six in order
to recover for the tour to France fam. Oh, okay. Um, yeah, that’s right. The Jirrodoni.
When you said Jirro, I’m like, which I’m like, yeah, Jirrodonni. That’s what they call
the women’s jurro. Uh, Jirro de Italia. Uh, I did see that. Yeah, I think I saw that
yesterday. Maybe they were talking about someone else. But yeah, tour to France fems
uh is coming up July 27th, guys. And yes, that is that is Astana. Aana’s at the front
two following Inter Mare. So maybe Astana’s got something up their sleeves today. Then
it’s two riders from Sadal, Vizma riders, and then UAE’s there. Looks like Adam on the
front. Is it Adam? I better confirm that. I always get that wrong. Adam S. I believe it’s Adam who’s
basically not really present in the tour right now. Just hiding away. He knows his jobs later
on in the stages. Anyways, Tim Wellen still in the polka dot jersey. At least I think he is. Uh
let’s do the rankings here. Climber. We will go stage seven general ranking. It’s Tatty. Is that
correct? Sorry. Tim Wellins. Okay, that makes sense now. Uh I thought he was uh I just wasn’t
sure if there was points there. They did get 50 sprint point yesterday for the uh finish up the
Murray De Bratana. If we go to that one, Tatty now has 156 points. Jonathan Milan 122. Bing Germay
111, Matthew Vanderpole in fourth, and Yonas Vingo in fifth. Uh Yonas would have got quite a few
points yesterday on that finish up the mirror. Uh yeah, so Lahi Capeeki will be preparing for
uh the tour to France at the end of the month. It’s really not that far away, is it? What are we
now? July 12th. It starts 2 weeks. July uh 27th starts two weeks today actually. Um I’ll have to
check the date again. Jay Taylor Carly Carus is saying good morning to us. He’s from a small town
in Argentina called uh Lul and a famous singer is also from that town. Okay, cool. Caros, uh Buenos
Diaz, great to have you here. Uh I’m glad you could join the stream today, guys. Slowly brewing.
It’s like the coffee that I desperately need in my system. Uh, desperately need in my system. I’m
probably going to race upstairs here. Pretty what I’m seeing right now is the guys are kind
of pushing hard on the front here. The entire Pelaton is absolutely strung out here on the flats
moving at 57 56 57 km an hour. I want to see a bit of a bit race here and see what they’re saying.
Okay, guys. Let’s do a little uh predictor here. Everyone drop a comment here. Uh I’ll try to
get a poll. Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking on, too. But for some reason, I think maybe it’s
the 26th. Uh if it’s the 27th, that’s a little bit better for me. If it’s the 26th, I’m going
to have a huge overlap in uh coverage of two different races. Uh predictions for today. Bing
Germay, Jonathan Milan, Tim Merier. What do you guys think? Could Kaden Groves uh step up and
be the next sprint guy for Alperson? Uh any other predictions out there? Okay, so it’s
great to have Caritos here JT Taylor. Oh. Uh yeah, Jay saying uh Oh, right. The ladies race is
happening. Yes. So, the ladies race right now for the Jirro de Italia, the Jira Dawn is happening
right now. Uh, and I think that’s the one that you’re talking about that Lahi pul Lahi pulled
out. Uh, and the women’s tour to France starts at the end of this month. Uh, so uh, Tur France, uh,
Vec Zift, I think is what it’s called. Feminine Azift. I was looking at it last night. It looks
like we got someone trying to break in here. Maybe the cat’s trying to come in. Oh my, I think
Joey brought me a coffee. Thank you so much. I think she realized I’m kind of shell shocked
right now, guys. Certain Joey Jojo just brought me a coffee. Thank you very much. Love it. Uh,
catching up here, guys. July 27th is two weeks from tomorrow. That’s what I was kind of thinking
in my head. So, but I’m positive they started on a Saturday. So, let’s pray that they start it
on the Sunday. Guys, I need that sip of coffee. Check this out. She brought me a huge
coffee down, guys. Uh Mickey Mouse coffee. Oh, that feels better. That feels better already,
guys. Uh yeah. So, any predictions? Just drop them in here now. We can all talk about them. Yeah. So,
I’ll figure that out. Um okay, looking good here. The Forgotten Japan. Is that your actual uh name
on the channel? It’s got the uh symbols that I can’t understand. It says the forgotten Japan.
How is Almea doing? Almeida is just in the Pelaton right now. Everyone is together. Uh I am noticing
that the Pelaton is very stretched out right now. Uh the Pelton’s at least a a few hundred
meters long. And I am seeing right now though, camera crews are close. Ya, dude, your question
is perfect. The perfect Japan. Whoever you are, thanks for the question. Uh, Jia Mida is
riding on the very back of the Pelaton right now. And there’s three motorbikes
right near him. They all look like camera motorbikes. This could be a huge blow for uh
team UAE. Let’s just keep a close eye on that. Okay. Uh Jay Taylor, personally, I don’t really
care for the UAE approach. It’s a big money. It’s big money. Don’t think it’s that great for
cycling. We prefer much more competition. Yeah, I can see it both ways. They’re just playing
safe. Uh they got the money. I guess, you know, maybe it’s kind of like Okay, hang on, guys. Just
looking back again here. Jiao Almeida is now 28th place overall, 12 minutes back overall. I mean,
he did sit on the road for quite a while. He did get back on his bike yesterday under his own power
and finished the stage, but he was beat up. He has bandages on his right elbow and primarily on his
right leg, but also on his left leg. And as Ruben pointed out earlier, broken ribs, could be cracked
ribs, we don’t know. Uh, even if they’re just bruised, just having bruised ribs and trying to do
anything is quite painful. Sitting on the front, Quinn Simmons again, the ultimate work beast of
the tour to France. It seems like uh he’s right up there. Four intermar riders. I think we might
have a UAE rider there, too. Just one of them. Uh, so awesome question there about uh Jiao right now.
Uh, I don’t think he’s doing very good right now. I think he’s in a lot of pain and he’s just
gonna it’s going to take him a while to uh get his bearings under him this morning,
get his footings under him. I mean, after hitting the ground at that speed yesterday,
his whole body is probably in absolute agony. Uh Ian’s cheering for Remco today and then he
laughs. He laughs about that. So I I think Ian saying that Remco is not going to win.
Uh Dawn’s rooting for Bingham today. Yeah, this is a stage. Yeah. So for all the Bingium
fans, uh for all of Eratraa that’s watching, this is a stage that Bingium can win today. So
this is one that should be setting up for that. Yeah, Joey Jojo definitely to the rescue, guys, cuz I’m like, okay, now and I’m going
to drink some more, guys. Uh you know, it’s like when you wake up and you don’t have
that first drink of whatever, coffee, water, orange juice. I’m sitting here trying to talk
to you guys and I’m like, I need a drink so bad. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. So, yeah, you know, fun and games in the
in the YouTube stream yesterday. Uh we had the the stream cut in two, but you know what?
To me, it’s all just a learning process. All just a learning process. Uh someone said that
looked like fair usage to me. I think I maybe I didn’t talk enough. So, basically what I did
afterwards was now that the stream’s in two parts, I had to go back and just edit that last I
just edited the whole thing out. And I’m like, you know, I didn’t give any explanation for it
in the video, but I’m like, it doesn’t matter. Whoever’s going to watch this today will
probably see there’s two parts and go, oh, something happened to a stream. Yeah, easy one.
I don’t have to go through the full rigome roll and explain it. Uh, active recovery day, yet
they are moving quite quickly. Recovery day, but they are moving quickly. Average speed right
now is 41.6 km an hour. So they’re not messing around. Simon and Roo uh for Intermar. Let’s
have a look at him. See the teams here. Interari. And we’ve seen Roo earlier in the stages, guys.
Can’t believe we’re at stage eight right now. Ah, okay. I know who I’m seeing at the front there.
I thought it was a UAE rider from a distance. Um, just because of the white jersey, G. Zimmerman
is also up there at the front. So, it’s it’s Trek Quinn Simmons and four riders from Inter Mare.
German, it looks like a German champion here riding on the front uphill right now. So, even
though it’s a flat day, I think there’s still a good chunk of climbing on this one. Let’s
go back to the road here. Uh yeah. So guys, this is a flat stage. It’s on screen right now
for you to see. 171.4 km. So we’re about 105 mi in length. Technically, they call it a flat
stage. 1,700 m of climbing. So right away, there’s over 5,000 ft. There’s probably like
5,500 feet of climbing in the stage. I don’t think that’s very flat. Uh yeah, it’s it’s spread out
over a long distance, but it’s still up and down. Uh moving back to the stage here right now.
Everything is just sitting the way it was, guys. Jumping to the live tracking here. Oh, I
can feel myself coming back to life right now. Um yeah, totally. She rescued me there. I’m kind
of like, okay, why is she coming in my room? She never comes in the broadcast. 10×10 cube of agony
and suffering. I think uh tomorrow I think I’m going to take the green screen down, guys, and
just show you the background of the room. Uh I’m thinking of trying to make some fun stuff in here,
especially for the rest day. Uh Scotty Mack, dude, thank you so much yesterday for uh your support
of the channel. Uh I think that all occurred when I was really struggling yesterday trying
to get things going again. Yeah, fresh coffee brought down. At first, I thought it was the cat
trying to break into my room. So yeah, after the stampede last night, the big rodeo, I said, “I got
to eat. I got to go to McDonald’s.” Pulled in, uh, wolf that down, got home. For some reason, we were
outside late last night checking out all the solar lights. Joey has this, her other hobby is, um, I
don’t want to say guys, folks. Does your spouse have an addiction to buying solar lights for the
garden? If so, you’re welcome here. just sit down and relax. It’s okay. It’s Amazon. It’s not that
expensive. Uh we have thousands of solar lights, I think, out there. So, I was out there late
at night looking at them actually early this morning because it was morning. Uh which solar
lights don’t work anymore. I said, “Yeah, replace all those.” She’s got piles of them and boxes
laying everywhere of her garden solar lights. Uh, yeah, that’s a great partner. Oh, Don saying he’s
getting a ton of ads. Okay, good to know. Not good to know, actually. Let’s just try to power
through right now, guys. I don’t know, maybe something’s gone with my settings. Uh, YouTube
kind of determines when the ads get served up. They determine where they’re going to be. Did you
know that you might be watching this stream right now? I only learned this yesterday, too. um you
might be getting an ad, someone else isn’t. So, it’s never at the same time. It’s as much as
some people are like kind of like, “Oh, YouTube, you know, they’re smart at what they do. Their
algorithms are so smart.” Um, look at how they can detect things really quick. But in their defense,
benefit of the doubt, uh, they let you fix things really easy. So, I got a copyright strike a
few days back for a little that little jingle I told you guys about. Guys, just so you know, uh,
five intermar riders on the front, one trek rider just leading the way, and then six riders from
Estana following them, two riders from Sadal, Vizma rider, and then two UAE riders. That’s the
front of the Pelon right now. They’re completely stretched out, so they are moving. Uh, but no
one’s really putting in big attacks right now. Um, Don saying they should tell Jouer to rum and his
wound. Man up and let’s go. That’s right. Walk it off, bro. Walk it off. He’s a pretty tough rider.
Very talented rider, too. Um, I can see him. Yeah, you never know. You never know. We have no idea
where Eddie Dumbar left. Uh I think it was Jack Hey left yesterday mid-stage but Jiao is sitting
on the back right now and you could see basically the vulture circling. Uh the camera bikes are
right there. They want their footage. Could be just Yeah, Jiao just stay at the back. Do zero
work today. And I did notice yesterday too in the interviews they asked Hattie what do you think?
Was that a perfect day for you? He goes it would be perfect if I knew Jiao was okay. If Jiao is not
okay, then it’s just okay. Uh, his first concern was his teammate because he knows he’s going
to need him. Uh, uh, Dawn just said Ian asked which day is Bastile Day. I think Bastile Day
is the 14th. I think Bastile Day is July 14th, isn’t it, guys? Is that why the rest day is I
think that’s why the rest day is on a Tuesday this year. That makes sense now. So, today is the
12th. No. Okay, I gotta figure that out. But I think they’re I think Bastile Day is July 14th.
I’m sure someone will put a response in here. Um Ian’s uh saying, “I would really like to see
Yonas just pass Pogy on the line.” Yeah. What in one of the sprint finishes? Yeah. Well,
I think we’ll see that in the mountains. I think Yonas is just I think Yonas is doing the
right thing right now. Just hang with Tatty. he had his one bad day. It’s it’s a really tough
game as to as to when do you put your neck on the line? Uh and even for UAE, you know, when do
they decide it’s time to go for the kill shot? Um what if it doesn’t work? Uh in that case,
they they’re damaging their own standings. Yeah. So I believe Bastilia is July 14th.
Don says he got an ad whilst I was talking about ads. Sorry, Don. Uh Sheila, yes, Sheila,
I knew it. Sheila Near would say is saying, “I love Solidlights, too, outside the best.” You know
what? I kind of joke about them. We have colored ones. They’re all in the trees. They’re all
throughout the garden. We are on an acorage. You know, some people would say, “Oh, that sounds like
a small farm.” Uh we have three horses outside. We have a mini donkey. We have three goats. two big
pigs, six baby piglets that are now 36 hours old. Uh we got some that are all black, some that are
black and white with just white legs, and then the ones that are white with the black spots. So,
really cool little litter. Uh there’s an outside dog, there’s four dogs in the house. Uh there’s a
kit, there’s a cat with kittens in the basement, uh who hangs out very close to the action center
down here, the 10 x10 cube of where Colin lives. Uh yeah. So when you do come home in the dark
and you’ve got the solar lights everywhere, it is nice. It’s nice. Uh but over the years,
some of them have died. I told her, I said, I think some of them are dead. Like when I wake
up super early, I take a look outside there. Guys, still moving quick on the front. Uh is that
Quinn still up there? Intermar and Estana doing the work today. How does this happen where they
decide they’re going to do all the work? I mean, it is a sprint day. Well, I guess that it is
today the two biggest sprinters right now who you would think would be in the green jersey.
Uh Jonathan Milan and uh Binyan Germay, however, one certain Tatty Pugacher wears the green jersey
right now. Sudal is in the mix a little bit. Uh I think I’m seeing this is a helicopter shot, so
I’m trying to see all the riders here. I’m just going to scroll down a bit, guys. Yep, same
thing. So, we’re not getting a lot of stuff from the tour of France website itself only
because there’s not a lot going on except two teams have got the entire Pelaton stretched out.
Active recovery riding into a headwind all day doesn’t sound like my idea of active recovery.
Uh yeah, so listen, nice comment. Uh I do have new solar lights that are just sitting there. I’m
like, okay, I’ll put I’ll replace all those ones, the round ones that shoot up at the sky. You
poke them into the ground. She’s got more boxes of them. So, we’ll get going on that. Um, so
Sheila was saying she loves lights. Scotty Mac, no ads here. I think it’s the difference between
just accessing YouTube and being a member. Oh, dude. Yeah, you’re right. Yes, you’re right,
dude. Scotty, good point. Uh, I know. Yeah, I think if you’re a member, guys, I don’t think
you even have to watch ads. I don’t honestly I don’t know. I don’t know that. I think Joey just
said that to me through the week. Um, and thank you to everyone that became a member. Uh, there
was two I think Joey Jojo gifted some memberships out and I’m Cole Kane. I think on day one here, he
gifted out 10 memberships. So, thank you again to Cole Kane. Very generous of your support, Cole.
He’s in Saudi Arabia. Uh, remember he was going on his endurance ride. Oh, I think his ride
was today, wasn’t it? Was it rid today? Guys, just under 70 people right now. Uh, I did some
really cool research yesterday. The ones the one of you that have been here the whole time, you
know, there’s been someone in the chat, her name’s Always Believe, and she’s dropped a few comments.
Um, we were talking about Yonas way back when. And uh, sorry, I was just seeing what was going
on there about how hard it is to come back from recovery as a normal person, as a normal person
or as an elite athlete. Not me. I’m just doing some gestures to the camera here. Uh, and the way
she just dropped comments and then we got talking about Calgary a little bit and she mentioned
something about how fast the ice is up here at the Calgary Olympic oval and I’m kind of like and
she talked about coming from experience. She knew how what it was like to come back. Maro Schmidt
hanging off the back here. Looks like just a quick mechanical radiating to the team. Actually,
he’s just adjusting his radio. Uh, looks no pressure. I’m looking to see Jiao Ala. You know
X guy looks like he’s eating a chocolate bar. Quinn Simmons still on the front. Intere driving.
Little uphill drag here. Fans everywhere, guys. It’s Saturday. It’s the tour to France.
Get out and watch it. I love it. Also, just quickly here, too, uh, the dude
that sent us all the pictures, Sage. Uh just want to quickly say thanks to him again
and his wife Rose. Uh they’re in France on a little bit of a vacation. He was at the stage
six uh stage six event and uh sent us those pictures. So yeah, maybe that’s why maybe some
people get ads, but Joey asked me, she goes, “If you’re a member to get ads.” So anyway,
guys, I’m just going to drop that there. Uh, swoosh kid here. Pavl Bitner, Tim Merilier over
Milan. Okay, interesting. So, you think t Okay, we’ll see. Uh, just I’m just catching up with the
chat here, guys. Uh, Bastil Day falls on a Monday this year. The only reason they pushed the rest
day to a Tuesday. That’s what I was thinking. I heard I think it was someone say earlier uh
because Bastile Day falls on that day they push the rest day back. Uh because generally guys
our rest day would be Monday. I can’t remember the last time uh it’s obviously just based on
the calendar every time it falls in that way uh that we’ve gone 10 stages deep before
uh the rest day and the rest day. Remember they probably still ride two to three hours. The
tour never stops guys. The tour never stops. Uh, Tatty will not let Yonas take him in a sprint
or stage finish. Yeah, Tatty’s very explosive. I mean, I was saying to Joey driving homeless,
she won’t even remember any of this cuz, you know, I tell her, you know, what I think
of the tour cuz it’s in my brain 24/7. Now, I definitely have tour fever. It’s
the greatest time of the year. Uh, I would like to see someone else win besides
Tatty or Yonas. Tatty and Yo, Tatty, no doubt right now is the number one cyclist in the world.
Uh, we’ve got the the number one we got the top two riders at the Tour to France who’ve either won
or come in second over the last 5 years competing against each other right now. You couldn’t
ask for anything better than that. No one’s out because of injury. Uh, no one’s sick. No one
didn’t they, you know, didn’t decide to compete at the tour this year. Uh, they’re both here, but
I’d love to see someone else win or at least have a couple of Darkh horses make them work extra
hard for it. That’s kind of what I’m hoping for. Uh, the forgotten Japan. Will Vizma put the hammer
down in this and next stage to Tarot Almeida, forcing him to retire and attack on stage 10
just before the rest date? Dude, that seems like a really cool strategy, but and I love it,
but I just don’t know if that’s possible. I think Vizma would just absolutely burn themselves out on
stage like today. I think what they’re going to do is just It’s probably a stage where they should
just see what UAE is doing. UAE should just watch what Yonas is doing. But you’re right, if this
was a hilly stage today, just with the timing of the the the schedule of the tour, we could see Yao
way out the back uh with the pain he’s suffering with right now. Just kind of I mean, I don’t want
to say he’s lucky that he crashed, but he’s lucky that he crashed the day before an active recovery
date. We’re going to stick with that instead of calling it a rest day. Active recovery would
just mean you’re still being you’re still moving, staying in motion. uh instead of me going and
working hard and trying to push 270 to 300 watts for half an hour uh in a race, I’ll just ride 45
minutes to an hour straight of low low power, 180, 200 watts. Uh you don’t you don’t really feel
like you’re getting that hard of a workout, but you’re staying in motion. You’re actively
recovering. team radio coming through here. Drink a lot today, guys. Okay, I know you’ll
adjust your fueling based on intensity. Yeah, they’re worried about the guys not drinking enough
here right now. Do not get dehydrated in these two hot days. It’s a key day coming Monday. We can’t
afford any mistakes. Okay. Yeah, you can imagine if you get behind these guys are probably drinking
six to eight bottles per day uh on average. uh on hot days is going to increase from that.
Average speed uh 41.6 km an hour right now. So, we’re not messing around at the front. Rolling
along nicely. Looks like Quinn. No, Quinn’s still there. Second place, guys. Unbelievable. Let’s
just roll down and see if the commentaryy’s got anything for us. We’re just rolling along, guys.
Uh they don’t really have a lot to tell us here. Uh interesting to know though they are
saying that at the age of 26 Tatty has 42 yellow jerseys and is only two be behind
the famous Bernardi Noah at the same age. The record at 26 remains in the hands of Eddie
Mks. Uh so check this out guys. If you think Tatty’s dominant, by the time Eddie Mks was 26,
he had a total of 63 yellow jerseys. Um, so for all those people out there, and I could be one
of them. I I just said a few minutes ago that I want to see a different winner. If if you ever get
tired of seeing a dominant rider win everything, uh, can you imagine the time of Eddie Merks?
And it’s it’s more I always say Merks, it’s Merricks. You got to put like a you
almost got to slide like a little bit of a a in there. So I when I think of Merks
now, I think of M A R CX. Merricks. That’s at least how I’m hearing it pronounced
in an audio book I’m listening to. Um, okay. Yep. Yeah. So, dude, it’s a good strategy
you got there. I just don’t know how they would pull it off because Yeah, you’re right.
These two stages will let Jiao recover. Uh, but think about that, guys. Okay, you just
broke some ribs, you’re beat up, whatever. Just go ride for four hours, dude. You’re going
to get better. Uh, it is a hard man sport. Uh, Ian’s wife likes the
solar lights as well. Yeah, I’m going to have to get out there
today and start replacing them all. Dawn thinks Quinn just likes being
on the front the camera. Yeah, he’s on he’s on a TV attack. Uh, yeah, he puts
in a lot of work on the front. A lot of work. Okay, Doug saying here he also played rugby.
17 years of rugby. Too many breaks to count. Uh oh, Don saying, “Okay, yeah, it’s
cool.” Don saying, “I don’t mind the ads. It just interrupts our our conversation.”
You know, guys, just to back up yesterday, too, when that stream got interrupted. So, they sent
me an email and I probably talked about it. Your stream will resume once the the copyright stuff’s
gone. Who would have thought there would have been copyright on stuff from 5 years ago? Uh, and as
someone mentioned, I was kind of doing a little bit of a voice overlay over top. So, I told Joey
Jojo, I’m going to do an experiment one day. I’m just going to find an old Tur of France video from
like the ’90s. Uh, and I’m going to play it. Maybe I’ll find a time trial and I’m going to do some
voice overlay, talk a lot, and I’m going to try to upload it to YouTube and they will tell me if
there’s copyright. That’s how you find out. Pretty hard to find out live though. Uh, sometimes you
find out after the fact. That one they knew right away. Uh, that’s what I’m telling you. YouTube
is smart. Uh they are the big overlords and I’m okay with it. Uh if there’s copyright, there’s
copyright. Uh I’m thinking I wasn’t talking enough, but I could do an experiment that way and
create just a standalone video. Uh I think I’m going to be busy up doing live streams uh you know
with this the tour to France running the tour to France uh FX whiff for the uh ladies running at
the end of the month. We’ve got the VA starting later in August and there’s a ton of other races
coming too. Uh big plans to do all of them, guys. I know everyone’s not going to be here for all
that stuff. Just take a look at the map quickly. Broom wagon. So funny that they’re
brewing. So I guess they decided to put a uh a transponder in the broom wagon.
I think that’s what they’re doing. Got an air live video here. So, what I’m doing
now, guys, here I’ll show you this here. These videos, you can share them to Facebook or
uh Twitter. It looks like Instagram. So, I think this is all stuff that we can use. Gio
Martan. I think that’s Gideon Martan there. Uh I think that’s who. Yeah. 91 for Group Palma
FDJ. Uh riding along with Kevin Vakalon. Having a nice little chat here, folks. Having a nice
little chat. Still traveling at 42 km an hour. Get back to the route. I’d love to be telling you
there’s some attacks going on, but there’s nothing going on, guys. Just
a nice steady pace at the front. Uh, high enough that the Pelaton is just staying
strung out the whole way into the chat. So yeah, uh Doug’s had a ton of breaks over
the years. That does lead me to trigger me to go talk to that thing I was bringing up before
about that one person that was hiding in the chat. Not hiding, always believe. Um her name’s
a good name she has. Don saying, “I predict that the team that is most intact by stage 10 will
have the advantage in the mountains.” Yeah, exactly. Uh which team was built the best? two
best teams on paper are UAE and uh Visma Lisa Bike. That’s probably reflected in the standings,
too. They just got the most depth. Some of the riders have fallen completely behind now. They’re
10, 12, 15 minutes behind. That’s because they’re climbers. Uh we’re going to see more of them in
the mountains. They’re they’re workers here. So, if you’re new to cycling, they are here to
support the team leader. They’re not here uh for their own goals. if there’s a chance that
they can win a stage uh or get into a breakaway, they’ll give it to him. That’s all
kind of developed on the fly. Yeah, Pelaton is flying right now still. So, it’s
a kind of a very fast active recovery day. We’ve got Tim Wellen sitting on the back actually
with Jiao Almeida. Jiao is hanging out with one of the Sudal riders. Like to see what they
So, Jiao is at the back right now. Sudal. Sudal here. Who is he hanging out with? Hanging out with number 26. Uh I was
trying to see if I could see their numbers here. Couldn’t figure
out who the rider was. Again, it’s always hard to figure out who they are when
they’ve got their uh helmets, sunglasses on. Um, Ian saying, “When you go on Zift, your
name your name is on this app.” Uh, Ian, what do you mean? Are you talking about yourself
or just let me know what you’re talking or are you talking about me? Uh, I do write on Zift
and you can find me on Zift. And I Yeah, I think what you’re saying is that I could
be wrong. Uh, so on Zift I right under the name it actually it’s it shows inside C cycling
world if it ever shows you the full name there’s a C out in front and a dot C period inside
C cycling world and I don’t think you ever see the C. I do a lot I’ I’ve done quite a few
Zift streams and for all my Zift bros out there uh who I’ve done race streams for. Uh I’ll be
back soon guys. I’ll be back soon. I think I might try to do a Zift stream on Tuesday on the
rest day. do my recap stage. Quinn Simmons just pulls over the left hand side of the road, takes
a little look back at the Intermar guys and just slots in amongst them. He’s not even going
to the back. He’s slotting in in second place every time. Tim Wellins riding on the back
of the Pelaton in the polka dot jersey. He’s number seven. Uh Jawa is right there with him.
Uh he’s got number two on his uh number plate. Okay. Uh, let me get into this. Quinn Simmons
representing the states. Oh, totally. Yeah, Quinn seems very American to me and I love
it. Represent your countries, folks. I think Seb Cous will get some television time once the
Mountain Station. Absolutely. I’m really looking forward to see SE out there. I’m really looking
forward to see SE. Uh, and I hope Simon Yates, we know he’s hasn’t done anything this
tour really. That’s not his job here. uh got the victory at the Jiro de Italia
back in May. Uh that’s where Isaac Del Toro had to counterattack Richard Kerropaths. All
Isaac did was look at Kerrapaths. Simon Yates went up the road and got full redemption.
I think if it was from seven years earlier uh I think that was on the fenist stair. I think
it was really late in the st. Wasn’t that like stage 20 or something? It was stage 20 of the
Girro this year. Uh so seven years before that he lost that exact same stage. He lost the Malia
Rosa on that stage. Uh so he got the the stage win and he got the uh the Mal Rosa back, the pink
jersey. Joey is uh contributing money to me. So not only did I get a coffee this morning, folks,
and I’m going to drink it. Uh I got a little uh little support for the channel here from her.
I guess I’ve been a good boy these last few days. We were out for the company function last night
at the Calgary Stampede, so maybe I didn’t tell anyone off. Probably I probably did okay. Uh,
okay. People are slowly drifting in. Guys, I get it. It’s a Saturday. Trust me, I had a very,
very slow start today. The panic when I woke up, I honestly opened my eyes at 5:15. It’s
I’m like, “What time is it?” I looked Uh, I generally have my phone, you know,
I’m that guy. Well, I’m not that guy. Uh, don’t have your phone in your bedroom with you.
Uh, I put a podcast or an audiobook on at night. I have a timer. Uh, so I know the next day I
need to back it up. Just that little bit of noise to put me to sleep. Looked at my phone and
it it was stream start time and I’m in bed. So, very rough start today. I was kind of whining
about it yesterday. I was trying to tell Joey how worn out I am this week. Uh, good morning
my friends. This is from Doug Sanders. Hey Doug, good to see you. Happy weekend to everyone.
That’s right, everyone. Enjoy your weekends. Uh Evan here. I wish Le would have added Matt
Person to the team. I know when I saw that he wasn’t here, guys. Good point. Let’s just have
a take a look at the LLE track team here. I do like to do this every day just because I
don’t know about you guys, but for years I know like what 12 of the guys look like. Uh
because I don’t really look at the full teams. Jonathan Milan, big sprinter. Cons
here’s Quinn Toy Stoven Scoins and Skelemos. Uh Matt Peterson is on the same
team. Uh maybe it would have been too many sprinters on the same team. Uh this team
is developed to be a sprint team for sure. 41.7 km an hour in the first hour. No breakaway.
And it is it’s just a nice steady pace. No breakaway. And no one’s even tried. Uh most
teams are pretty tired here, guys. Very tired. Show you the map again here quickly. We’re just
kind of like mossing along at 42k an hour all the way. Uh, but the way the Pelaton’s riding,
everyone just wants to ride in a nice big line. Uh, Jiao Jiao is still he’s like
fourth rider from the back. So, what do you guys think? Is he just has he just
been told, “Hey, just go way to the back and ride, or is he in a little bit of pain back there?” I
think I did see a couple of teammates nearby him. Looks like there’s two UAE teammates, maybe three
or four riders ahead of him. I think they’re back there just in case. just in case he drops off. Uh
they might be there to provide some assistance. Okay. Brandon saying premium membership. That’s
right. So I think if you go what is it called? So Brandon, are you talking you guys? See, I
learn about YouTube every day. Uh I’ve only had a YouTube channel for two and a half years.
Uh so what does that tell you? I think if you go YouTube, Isn’t it called YouTube Red or is it
YouTube Black? I forget what it’s called. If you have that or maybe they’ve called it YouTube
premium now. I think that’s what he means. Um my friend has it. Talked to my buddy Bur yesterday.
He’s my geology buddy. Uh he says he watches my channels and laughs every day. Some of the crazy
channel uh videos I’ve done in the past. He says, “Dude,” he says, “Just keep going. Keep going.
Keep going.” Uh every time I talk to him, he just pumps me up about the channel. Uh
he knows me so well. I met him second year of geology way back in 1993. Uh stayed
friends the whole time. He’s hired me uh two different companies. Uh one company here
twice. My basically they had me there for I think two and a half years. I left for a couple months
and I came back again. Uh I was like a contracting consulting geologist. Um yeah. Yeah. So, I
think if you go premium memberships on YouTube, anything you watch on YouTube, you’ll
never see an ad. Okay. So, Joey saying, “Happy Saturday.” I agree to that. Can I give
that a thumbs up? Yes, I can. I got to interact more with the chat here. Uh, as in the typing
stuff, Septoose Durango. Yeah, dude. Durango, Colorado. You know what was really cool when we
did go to Denver. So, flew in, told Joey, “Yeah, it seems like Calgary to me. saw the Rockies game
and then I started realizing how close we are to everything. Uh like you hear that Vil, Colorado
is just up the road. Joey wanted to go up there because James Hadfield has his house up there. I’m
like, you’re kidding, right? We’re not doing that. Then I heard uh one of our Uber drivers mentioned
that her son lives up in Leadville. Uh Leadville, home to the Leadville, is it just called the
Leadville 100? Uh probably one of the longest running gravel. Is it just a gravel race? Is that
what we call it? gravel mountain bike races out there. Uh tons of people every year. I think it
got started way back when in the early 80s. Still running and it’s a serious race. Uh serious riders
show up for it too actually. Uh that’s a race that I think Lance came to one year after retirement.
Yeah. So you mentioned Durango, Colorado. I mean I don’t think Boulder’s that far from it. Uh we
were in Calgary yesterday. So Denver and Calgary, very similar. Denver, higher up, a little bit
closer to the mountains. I had a good look at that as we were driving in yesterday. When you
land in Calgary, you’re a little bit further from the mountains, but very close. Joey saying, “Joey
is the number one chatter now. How did you get to be number one, guys? Joey needs to be knocked
down standings uh with your little badges.” So, I read about those yesterday, too. Uh it’s just
for this the stream. It disappears at the end of every day. It’s just YouTube trying to uh make
it a little bit more fun in the chat there. I bet you after a while they’re going to change that.
So you can change that to your own little emoji uh your own little picture, whatever you want
it to be. Uh Joey saying I was quite miserable. She wouldn’t even know. Getting her out of there.
Unbelievable. Sprinting is fun but dangerous in a competition. I prefer to suffer climbing hills.
There is 1,500 ft of elev elevation in a 8 mile training route. I ride it over and over again if
I have the time. Yeah, that sounds like a nice route. So 1,500 ft of elevation would be probably
about 400 m of climbing. And let me think, 14 km. Yeah, that’s a nice little route for sure.
Definitely not brutal climbings. Uh not brutal hills, but just enough. probably sounds like, you
know, more like five, six, 7% stuff versus 15, 20% stuff that we’re going to see at the tour
here. Slowly picking up, guys. Slowly picking up. Come on, Yonas. Come on. Uh, I feel like Yonas
in this chat. That’s what Don saying because he’s number two. Always number two. Kind
of like the uh guys that audio book. I’m outside doing stuff yesterday. I’ve learned
so much about the tour and it comes in two parts. The narrator is a little bit strange,
but that’s okay. Uh it’s a great book and uh they were talking about uh Raymond Pulidor,
the eternal second. Uh later on in the book, it talks about so the book starts at the tour
1976 on to 2018. So you know a good chunk of the stuff kind of the tour to France. I know
1976 I don’t know. I only probably started with the tour and got familiar with like people
from the 80s onward. So obviously when I got involved in ‘ 86 I was learning about okay who
won in 81 82 that kind of thing. Um but yeah you say yope zoid milk they’re like he’s the true
eternal second. Uh that’s how they they described him in the book yesterday’s. Uh John Chady,
good morning John. You going to work today? Uh Doug Sanders here. Grew up in in Colorado.
Fort Collins. Uh great for cycling. Dude, I think we saw a sign in Denver that
said Fort Collins, I believe. So Oh, I remember this night. I think this is
after Metallica the first night and Joey was actually I think she was asking if
there’s actually a fort there. Uh I you know it was kind of funny at the time. Yeah,
I’m positive we saw a sign for Collins. If so, uh Doug, I would imagine Fort Collins is very
very close to Denver, almost a suburb of it now. Don say, “Yeah, you’re correct. Four to 5%
grade. Just enough to get the lungs going.” Yeah, like I like to push against, you know, 2 3%
4% just for power. So, a nice false flats once I’m getting to that five and I’m like, “Okay, now I
got to start thinking about down gearing.” Uh, but not in the lowest gear type riding. So,
yeah, that sounds like a great loop. Don Sheila, thank you for watching the stream.
Sheila’s been paying attention here. She’s pretty quiet in the chat. She’s just jumping
in every once in a while. She says, “Come on, Yonas. Blow us a kiss.” Lol. And he does do it all
the time. The other thing they say all the time, there was another one yesterday. Uh they
asked Tatty something. I’m super happy. Everyone that does well at the tour is super
happy. That that’s that’s their thing. It’s just the way they talk. Uh Doug Sandlers
is saying cycling Dane. Not sure what he’s referring to there. Maybe he’s talking about
someone. Uh maybe I said something there. It’s he’s referring to it. Reuben says,
“Another boring stage. He’s taking a nap.” Yeah, I kind of expect this stage to be a bit slower. Uh
the sprints are super exciting, though. Yeah. So, it’s it’s afternoon time for Ruben. Uh oh, I
don’t even have my phone with me. I was so in such a panic to get things going today. Um Rub Oh,
John’s at work already sitting at his desk. John, let’s make it go. I’m gonna have a big day
today at the dealership. Let’s Let’s shoot out for five high-end units. Let’s
sell all the the lariats. Platinums. Ian, dude, definitely. Uh Ian Homester
from the Philippines. He says, “Hey, Colin. Hope we can ride virtually soon.” Dude,
just uh if you find Well, you you said my name is on the app. I think you were saying my
name is on the app. Just add me there. Send me a friend request there. I’ll instantly
follow you back. If I could reach my phone, I would do it right now. Uh oh, Yonas is waving
at the camera. Please blow a kiss. He blew a kiss, guys. He absolutely just blew a kiss on
camera. Uh it’s showing he’s fourth overall, 1 minute and seven. He does He
always does a little wave like this every time he looks at the camera. Jonathan Milan
right up there with Yonas right now. And he’s got a a Trek teammate with him. Trying to figure out
who that is. Jonathan Milan, one hour five minutes behind me. The size difference between these
riders, folks. Unbelievable. Uh, and what’s funny is I, you know, some of the sprinters are quite
tall, but they’re not huge dudes. They’re like, they could be 6’1, 6’2, three, but they’re
not that big. They’re not walking around at 205 lbs. Uh, these guys are like 180, 185. That’s
like a big guy at the Tour to France. They look gigantic compared to Yonas and Tatty. Uh Yonas
looks very, very small riding next to Jonathan Milan. What does that tell you about mountain
climbing, folks? It’s good to be small. Uh yeah. Oh, yeah. The cycling day. Yep. He
has a string, too. Uh I wasn’t sure. He I’m not sure if he does them all. Cole Kane
here from Saudi. Uh 3:45 p.m. here. Cole, did you do your ride today? I think you were
talking about doing an endurance ride. Uh 2 and 1/2 hours. We were talking about that yesterday,
so that must have been this morning. So, he’s got to get out early and get his ride done
before 7 a.m. before it hits 100° Fahrenheit. Uh yeah, Don’s doing the uh
the Yonas kiss here on screen. Uh, Reuben’s asking, “Who’s for a toutel ride in
a few hours? Need to spin my my uh sore knee a bit.” Yeah, Ruben’s still recovering
from his uh wipeout that he had. Reuben, that’s over a month ago now,
isn’t it? Over a month ago. Dawn’s already been working for two hours.
Yeah, Sheila, that I love when stuff like that happens. I’ll say it and then it happens.
And this time you said it and it happens. Uh the camera just cut to him. Uh Yonas must
have heard me. He just blew me a kiss. Yeah, there you go. So Sheila saw it, too. That’s what
he does. It’s to me it’s just his little routine he does every time. Uh they all like to say super
happy for some reason. I’m super happy about this. Let’s see if we got anything going on here in
stage, folks. Again, it’s going to be kind of like this. Having said that though, guys, we’re
not that we’re starting to work our way towards the sprint point. Now, uh, dude, Ruben, thank
you so much, dude. Thank you so much, Ruben. Just giving the channel a little bit of love here. Oh,
I see what I need to do here. I need to do like this now. Ah, perfect. Okay, guys. Uh, again, only
been on YouTube two and a half years. Actually, it’s probably two years and eight months. Uh
just figuring how to do things in the chat still. Just a quick shot of the Pelon here. Uh rainbow victories. Among the 20 reigning
road race world champions who have raised their arms in victory on stages of the
tour to France. 12 have done so at least twice. Tatty joining this elite group
yesterday. Okay. So they’re the world champion and they win a stage at the tour
to France while in while while they’re in that jersey. The record is held by Eddie
Merricks with six wins during his 1972 tour ahead of George Speckier in 1934 and Bernard
O Bernard Eno in 1981. Guys, that same book I might have mentioned it yesterday. Uh the tour to
France started in 1903. Derailers were invented before World War I. The original guys that
designed the the tour to France just wanted to punish these riders. They wanted to make it
as hard as possible. So derailers were available by World War I. Uh the 1937 tour to France was
the first one that allowed derailers. Why? Cuz they wanted to keep it hard. They just wanted
to keep it hard. That’s what they did. Now I’m not sure if they allowed the rear wheel. So
way back in the old day, I read another book, uh, the Ned Bolton book, uh, before derailers
were invented, at the very first tours, they had no derailers, but they could put
a double cassette on the back of the wheel, one on each side. So when you wanted to change
gear, you stopped, took your crescent wrench out, no quick release back then. Uh, you
unbolted, took the nuts off the bolts, and you flipped your wheel around, and you
would have a different cog on that side. XDSana is saying, “Man, you guys look good
when you’re riding on TV altogether.” So, everyone’s just t taking it easy, but man, it
looks like they’re really moving out there. Yeah, Intermar at the front. XDS. So, Aana decided
it’s their turn to do some work today. Get some TV time maybe. Uh, haven’t really been really
that present at the front of the tour. Um, thanks again, Ruben. So, yeah, five weeks on
Monday, uh, is when Reuben had a bad crash. Cole already Okay, so Cole did it yesterday.
Uh, 2 hours 32 minutes, 109 total suffer score, 80.6 km. Dude, this sounds like a really good
ride. 33 degrees Celsius weather. Oof. Cole, I did a ride few years back when I was still
riding outside a lot. It was a 100k ride. I know the route. It was one of those rides though where
I wasn’t really thinking and it was it was one of the hottest days. I remember being in July around
here. Uh and I think it was right on 32 degrees. Went out with about a bottle and a half of water.
Did my first 50k. Try to come home. Massive heat stroke coming home. It hit me so fast. I turned
off the main road and all of a sudden it’s 32 Celsius. I’m cold. I’m just cold and I realized
I’m not sweating. I got to a post box that’s out in the middle of nowhere in the country where
you go and pick up your mail. They don’t deliver to your door here, folks. And uh I kind of saw a
farmer going by. I’m like, “Please look at me and realize I’m dying.” And and I was already kind of
I could feel myself weaving on the road. I was so laded. I had zero water. Um, took the final left
turn to go home heading easterly. I was probably two miles from home and there’s a little pull
out to an old farmyard with some big trees. It goes from pavement to gravel on the side of the
road. I went and laid in the dirt there uh in my cycling gear. Just put my bike down two miles from
home. I could not get the final two miles home. uh kind of like a field tech for an oil company
came by. His vehicle went by me. I was only probably 10 ft off the road. His vehicle went
by me. Brake lights come on. Reverse lights come on. Backs up. Window goes down. Dude, are
you okay? I looked at him. I go, “No, I’m not, bro.” He pulled over, parked, uh talked to me.
He was going to call me an ambulance. He says, “Do you need me to call 911 for you?”
I said, “No, I’m okay.” Uh, I said, “I’m just dying. I’m so hot.” Uh, he he gave
me his Power Aid out of his vehicle. Um, got me feeling better. The coolest part was it’s still
2 miles home and I know where he works. So, he’s a field tech. He’s a instrumentation tech. They
basically service instruments out in the field for the oil and gas facilities. And uh he turns
left there. That company has no more facilities in my direction. He followed me all the way home
as I was kind of like weaving down the road. It’s only 2 miles. It’s a quiet road. Then I have to
step off my bike at this my post box, uncip and put my sandals on. He followed me to there. Once
I started walking to my house, he turned around and went the road. Like that guy kind of followed
me all the home to make sure I was messed up. So, you have to be extremely careful in the heat.
Uh, same thing as before, folks. The race is just moving onwards. No breakaways. It’s
the first day without a breakaway. This does happen at the Tour to France. So, yeah,
Cole, uh, good job saying in that weather. Uh, you’re probably really used to it, though. And
great ride. Nice. 81 kilometers. Uh, 2 and a half hours. I love it. Ian says, “Uh, yeah, just sent
me a straa request.” Cape, dude, I’ll get you. Yeah, John. Uh, he says, “Is it just
a pellet?” Yeah, not one breakaway, John. Uh, not one attempt at a breakaway.
Got a rider from Bor Hansro going. Uh, Lawrence Pathy here. Looks like he just went
back to the car to pick up a looks like he got his uh feed bag from the team car. He must
have missed it earlier. really good to see even though it’s a kind of more of a recovery day. Uh
tons of spectators out on the side of the road. Uh Ruben saying they’re lazy. Brandon just pay
small premium amount, no ads. Uh many movies start to show up also. Okay. Oh, it’s
it’s Brandon. Brandon, I missed that. Ian Holmes, what I would give to be at the tour
of France. Eddie Merrick’s Merricks, my hero, met him in Europe. And Oban. Yeah, like that guy,
the cannibal. Uh, so now I need to get the first part of that book. It goes from 1903 to 1975. Uh,
it’s about a 13, 14 hour audio book because that’s going to be the very end of uh Eddie’s career.
And there’s so many cool people in between there. uh riders of different talents. You know, it was
really common back so I learned about this too. They didn’t have the first individual time
trial at the Tour to France until 1934. So the the tour ran for 31 years minus the years
missed for the war. Um no time trials till 34. And another common thing they did, they didn’t
really have up they didn’t have hilltop finishes. Uh so they created the hilltop finish to give the
climbers a chance because what would generally happen is they would go up over the mountain
pass and on the descents there’d be a long run in on the flat valley. The stronger time
trial type riders would catch those climbers pass them and beat them every day. So they’ve kind
of modified the stage and it was the 1905 tour to France. It wasn’t based on time. It was based on
a point standing, how you finished every day. So, at first I’m thinking, does that make sense?
So, you finish first, you get a point. Uh, you finish or you get 20 points, whatever it
may be. Uh, but they said the problem was on certain stages it meant for a very boring tour
because if you know you’re going to be second, you can be second by 2 minutes or second by two
hours. You can just kind of relax and go, “Okay, man. I’m done.” uh because all you get is the
points per second. There’s no time bonuses. Uh there is none of that stuff. So really interesting
the the the OG history of the tour to France. Okay. Uh let’s keep going here. Isalas Mahari is uh cheering on Bingham here. Yeah, we’re
going to see Bingum later in today’s stage, guys. It’s just Quinn Simmons sitting on
the front intermar. It it is one of those stages today. It’s one of those stages. And
I know what you guys are thinking, too. Yeah, it’s that stage. It’s that sprint day. Everyone’s
tired. These happen every year. Uh but trust me, they’re going to be going hard for uh Green Points
jersey later today. There’s no doubt about that. Thanks everyone here to uh keeping the chat going,
keeping it lively. And also Cole Kane. Hey Cole, thank you uh during all the technical stuff
yesterday. Thank you for your extremely uh generous support of the channel. Really appreciate
it, dude. I think Cole’s been here since day one. Uh I I know who’s here every day. I can tell
who you guys are now. Uh okay, Ruben’s got a Yeah. Uh Ruben. Okay. Yeah, thanks Ruben. Uh Ruben
saying here, and I hate to read this out, guys. Uh I’m not very good at self-promotion. Uh, hey guys,
think about sponsoring Collins monthly you monthly through the YouTube. It’s only two coffees, which
you won’t notice and it helps him a lot. Yeah, he’s 100% right, guys. Very little. Helps me
a lot. You do you, though. Everything’s always going to be free here for everyone. That’s the
way I want. It’s always going to be that way. Uh, I did actually see another guy I watch on
YouTube. Uh, he does a lot of inside stuff. I love his channel. He did have a Patreon. Uh,
and he took it down because behind that he was locking certain people out. I don’t want I’m
never going to lock people out. That’s never going to happen with me. Uh, average speed in
the first 60 km. 41.7 km. Uh, Tatty looking nice here. The yellow jersey in the corner standing
in his world champion jersey uh for UAE Emirates. 104 km remaining. got anything else
in the commentary to show you here? Just the same stuff, guys. Why don’t Why
don’t we do this while we’re looking here? So, this is stage eight right now. We’re going
to bounce it tomorrow, guys. Hate to say it, you might get some of the same, possibly some
of the same tomorrow. It’s basically the same length within 5 km, slightly less climbing.
Uh the difference with this one tomorrow is wait till you see the route. The sprint
comes super early. So, see this one here? This one will not be starting like today’s
did. The sprint point comes at 24.2 km. Uh, label Indian. Looks like the town name I think
would probably be Sereni. Uh, 24 km into the stage. There will be sprint points. If I look at
the sporting stakes that day, there’s 20 points available at that first stage. Uh, they’re not
going to let Tatty just ride up there and take it. There’s 50 points available at the end. So, this
will be an all-out war tomorrow for the sprinters. Uh, probably if I look at the route again here.
Why doesn’t it just take me back to that route? Sorry, guys. I’ll pull this up. This is what
we want to see. Yeah. Here. Uh, it could be an allout war. Yeah, I think I think tomorrow’s stage
will be different. This is more of a recovery day. With the sprint point being so far out, no one was
really willing to work. Even though Intermar and Quinn are up there the whole day. Yeah, the Quinn
train uh which is called Quinn Train. Tomorrow will be a smash fest from the very beginning when
they drop the the flag. Uh after the neutral zone, the flag will drop and it will be on. It will be
on so hard tomorrow. Uh after the sprint point, I can see a breakaway group launching because
it’s quite lumpy over that next little segment. uh you can see through those towns there orchay
thur uh lots of little points that the breakaway can try to slip away and then it’s going to be a
case where we’re going to see the sprint trains, the big group, the big pelaton hunting down those
brave uh riders taking off on the breakaway. Tomorrow will be a breakaway day. Even though the
stage looks similar, it’s the way they’ve got it set up with the sprint early. someone’s going
to let off and then we’re going to see someone from Total Energies probably EF will be right
in there heading out on the break. I can see that for sure tomorrow. Uh let’s see if it turns
out that way. So I think tomorrow’s stage will be different in that sense. We’re going to see
a group trying to survive to the end. I think today we’re going to see a huge sprint going into
the finish. So when you watch days like this too, it looks pretty relaxed, pretty simple. They’re
not doing anything. Uh, but there’s going to be a ton of sprinters around to go for it.
And they’re all going to go for it. Um, Ian here saying, “Heat stroke on distance rides is
the worst. I always take two big bottles, even a short ride on heat rides.” Yeah, Ian, my problem
was is I wanted to get out in the sun. We don’t get a lot of days that are 32 degrees Celsius.
I wanted to put a 100k ride in. Got to town. You know what? I think I was going to fill my water
bottles up in town at a gas station and usually grab like a quick Coke, uh, just pound some
sugar into me and I can’t remember why. I spun around right before I got into town. I’m like,
“Yeah, I’m good. I’m going to make it back.” Uh, not realizing I was probably super dehydrated at
that point. Uh, and I was I was freaking out. I was freaking out riding my bike. I’m like, I don’t
even know if I can steer my bike right now. Uh, and I always think about that guy saving my butt.
Like, he saved my butt out there. I I look at him, he was kind of my guardian angel. Like, that dude
didn’t have to follow me home. I didn’t even know he was following me. So, I was so out of it.
I drove 2 miles down that road. Didn’t know there was a truck right behind me. It’s like
a service truck. So, it’s like a a Ford F-150, F250 or something. And it’s got the big service
unit on the back. He goes out to the field. He basically checks uh gauges and meters to see that
they’re calculating things right. Uh I definitely called his company on the Monday and said,
“Hey, that guy needs a special like trust me, they’re not going to give him a raise. That
guy saved me.” Uh when I got off my bike after the two miles, Bingham’s just sitting at the
back of the Pelon now, readying to his team. Uh looks absolutely fine. Just doing a quick radio
check here. The rest of his team is on the front. Warren Bar trying to work his way back up
through the cars here. May have just had a little bit of a nature break going on. Yeah. So,
I got off the bike after two miles, you know, pulled over. There’s two mailboxes there. I have
my sandals that I wear, my flip-flops tucked under the mailbox. Then I clip out of my shoes, put
those on, and I walk the gravel home. It’s just the gravel’s too deep on a road bike. And I, as I
looked, I’m like, “Oh, oh, there’s someone there.” It was him. I’m like, “Wow, what a dude.” I forget
his name now. This was quite a few years ago. But yeah, once heat stroke sets in, you are messed
up. I got in the house. I don’t know what I did, but I just remember sleeping the whole afternoon.
Okay, it’s showing Bing going here again. He was virtually at a stop there. So, I think Bingium
just had a mechanical 152nd overall, an hour and six minutes behind. He’s getting moving again.
Just going to keep an eye on Bingium here for you. Ah, yeah. I saw that. Swoosh kid. Yeah, dude.
Thank you for bringing up her name. Your Swiss rider Marlin Marlin Rouser took fourth
in the fems and Del Toro three in a row, guys. There’s some great racing going on in
the world. I actually swooshkit. I did see uh I’m not sure if Marlin got a penalty. Yeah,
she she actually got a fine. Um, I think it was the day before she gave a hand gesture to someone,
you know, one of these in the final sprint. Uh, and I don’t think the girl even saw her do it,
but basically they do not want you doing anything like that at a certain point in the stage because
they’re saying they deem it as dangerous. In fact, they’ve even warned riders if your teammate
is up the stage, sorry, if your teammate is 100 meters ahead of you and you know he won the
sprint, they don’t want you putting your hands in the air like that and celebrating cuz they figure
you could crash uh and wipe out the whole pelon. But yeah, she’s very powerful. I did watch uh
I think it was yesterday I saw it where she jumped out of a group and you could tell she’s
strong. She’s so strong. She’s a time trialist bridging her way back to the riders up ahead.
There’s some great racing over there. Uh who did I see yesterday? A rider. I think she rides from
Movieart. Leanne got kind of think it’s Rippard or something. Rightart maybe. Uh the way she bridged
across from the Pelaton to the breakaway of three was super impressive. It’s like she could have
rode right through those three up front. Great riding. Um Cole Kane. Yes, Ian, you’re right.
Water management, the heat are the key. Here, I freeze one bottle and have one ready
from start always. Yeah, smart. Yeah, I generally try to keep my water ice cold. It was
the kind of day where I’m like, “Okay, I’m going riding. I got I’m going.” Uh, and I think I had
one and a half bottles. That’s it. It was hot. Uh, I know 32 is not hot over in Saudi Arabia. Really?
Here it’s hot. Depends what you’re used to, right? 64 people in the stream right now, folks. Okay.
Uh, yep. I knew this would happen here. Tony C is just rolling out somewhat late. Good
morning. It’s Saturday, guys. You have to sleep in sometime. Tony, trust me. Uh, join
the club. I did the exact same thing. Uh, the stream was set to start at 5. Neutralized
start this morning, folks, was at 5:10 for me. uh race time you you can actually see the
schedule times of everything for the tour if you look closely. Uh was set for 525.
They gave it a 50-minute. Yeah. Okay. So, here it is. It’s showing up now. Uh Binium Germay
had a puncture cher and Muse had a puncture. So, they’ve ridden through an area. There must have
been a lot of road debris. Uh good question here. It’s pro someone’s probably watching the same
thing here. When was the broom wagon introduced into the tour to France? uh introduced in 1910.
The Vtois Berlai Vutois Berlai broom wagon was introduced to the tour to France in 1910. It is
placed behind the last riders who are struggling to keep up with the pace set at the front. You can
follow its position on the race center. Uh it’s the first day it showed up, but now we know where
it is. Uh right behind the writers here. Live tracking folks. So you can see here this is uh
Binium and it looks like Jonathan Milan here too. Okay. So there must have been a lot of mechanicals
there guys. Uh because I did see they showed Yonas off the back too. I did mention earlier
Warren Bari was off the back and I thought he was working his way up after mechanical. Uh we’ve
got Yonas back there. Jao Almeida. Hopefully he’s content to ride back there. Uh Bari Hershey.
They said Bingium had a a mechanical. Jonathan Milan is there. I think this is Gil. Oh, this
is a Canadian right here. Gom Beon. That’s a Canadian dude. Uh for Israel Premier, Ballerini
and Conre rider. Two truck riders back here. Ah, Cony’s hanging out back here with Jonathan
Milan. Best place rider. So, we got the fourth place rider overall, Vingo right there. Uh 20th
place Jao Alida. Remember Jiao Almeida was in top 10 yesterday. Uh fell back quite a bit after
his accident. How does UAE look if Jao Alida has to pull out? What does that mean for Tatty? You
guys let me know. Uh I don’t want Jawa to pull out. Would I love to see something that happen to
the powerhouse team? Yes, I would. I would really like to see that. Uh UAE fans, don’t roast me.
Uh, it just helps stir up the race a little bit. Everyone’s gonna be back together, guys. So, I
think they went through a patch there. Must have been road debris. Could be anything. Guys,
in the past, people have thrown stuff on the roads to cause punctures. Uh, in fact,
yesterday, just talking about punctures, they said that uh Jao made his tire blew
off his rim and kind of like that’s what caused the accident. Showing another rider here,
Brian Kakard. He’s also getting a bike change. So there’s been a ton of riders get
punctures here over a certain stretch of road uh right around the point where we have
about 97 kilometers 98 km remaining right through this stretch here. So some people
pranksters it’s not it’s not funny. Uh yes so Tony I got a very late start today.
Uh, neutral start 510, race start 5:25 for me. Stream start 5:15. Colin, get
up. I woke up at 5:15 and I was like, “Oh, this is going to be a rough one.” Joey
Jojo brought me a coffee down. Uh, we’ve got uh, Philip Noi here uh, cheering on Tatty.
Tatty, Tatty, Tatty. Uh, Wade Aroer. Okay, dude. I’m trying to figure that out here.
What am I miss What am I missing? Uh, freezing uh is useful to keep the
body temp normal, guys. So, you know, I do a lot of riding inside. A lot of
riding inside. That’s all I do. Now, riding in your basement uh or in your 10 x10
cubes, that’s where I ride, guys. Remember, uh it gets hot, it gets humid. I don’t have AC
down here. The amount of heat that you develop with none of that wind coming on your body,
there’s like pools of water, guys. But I’m not talking about 10 drops. I’m talking like
standing pools of sweat. It’s gross. I have a really thick industrial gym mat down. Uh it’s
probably Oh, it’s probably 8 ft long and 5t wide, you know. So, there’s only one real section
it gets it. It gets bleached all the time. Uh soaking wet. My towels are absolutely drenched at
the end. Uh I’m thinking about getting a cooling vest. Uh because your performance go it just goes
down as soon as you get hot. I’m like, you know, all those rides when I’m kind of not doing great,
I’m probably just suffering from a bit of heat stress. Uh pretty easy to fix. Get yourself a
cheapo heat vest, you know, get some ice cubes going. They have ice packs and they don’t use ice
cubes. And uh stay cool. Stay cool, my friends. Okay, guys. Good to know. Holly’s letting you guys
know it. You can watch live on flow bikes today streaming from Canada. So guys, check that out.
Check that out. Why don’t you watch on Flow Bikes and hang out with me here in the chat? And that’s
probably what a lot of people are doing right now. Uh Flow Bikes does do a few stages uh freebie
throughout the tour. Generally the first couple and then a smattering of ones along the way.
Guarantee you Flow Bikes will not be giving you stage 10 free or any of the mountain stages free.
They just don’t do that. That’s not how it works. Okay. Uh, moving on here, guys. Uh, Ian saying he wrote, “Uh, I rode on Saudi
and it’s really warm.” Saudia. Are you talking Saudi Arabia? Is that Have you been to Saudi
Arabia? That’s where Cole uh Kane’s from? Yeah. So, tour to France started in 1903. Uh,
and they’ve had so many changes. Like again, 1905 there was no time standings. It was just and
it was kind of like thought about like it’s just easier. Quinn Simmons still on the front, guys.
He’s been up there the entire stage. Stars and Stripes just flying, folks. He looks I love that
jersey he wears. Uh it’s a really good looking jersey. I you know, it’s just it to me it’s a
little bit snazzier than just having like the bands or the stripes of your country. First, uh
we’re basically been riding the whole the same speed the whole way. 42 44k an hour and now we’re
back to 41 km an hour for the final 40 to 60 km here. Rolling countryside here folks. Intermares
there. The whole team and then Estana. Bingham’s back up there now guys. So there was just a ton
of punctures through that one little stretch there for a while. Yeah. So happy Saturday everyone.
Yeah. So basically uh the timing was hard to keep track of and they thought that it would prevent
cheating. There’s been cheating since day one of the tour of to France. Uh any sport people are
going to bend the rules and try to cheat. Uh so they introduced a point standing. Uh so you get
you you’re ranked based on how you finished. How how far you finished ahead of someone didn’t
matter. But because of that, riders are like, “Well, if I’m going to finish last, I can
pull over on the side of the,” let’s say, you know, you’re last. Well, there’s no way I’m
going to cash the guys an hour ahead of me. So, you mean I can just sit on the side of the
road for eight hours and have a nap? Yeah, you can do that. We don’t care if you finish 20
hours behind. As long as you finish, you still finish. Uh, so they changed that the following
year. The term autoboost used to be for used for the sprinters groups left behind. Did they stop
using it for some reason? just not have heard it in a long while. Yeah, I think I remember that
term too. Now I just hear more of the uh groupto. Yeah. So I always hear when I think of that
term the way you’re using it, Tony, I think of groupetto now. Uh it’s the group that’s way at the
back. It’s guys that are injured. It’s guys that are tired and it’s usually a bunch of dudes that
are fighting for the sprint jersey. Uh they’re all hanging out together. I always say they’re telling
jokes back there having a good time. They’re probably back there absolutely dying, hanging
on for dear life. Jordy Muse back here now. Going back to get bottles. It looks like one bottle. Anyways, just having
a little chat with the team car. Uh Cole Kane here. Sir Wiggins says, “Wigo,
I love that guy.” Uh, so Rigan says, “Yonice needs to show off with a win on Monday uh to hang
on to the leaderboard.” Correct. Or, uh, yeah, stage 10, guys, is going to be killer. It’s super
hilly. Is it mountainous? The elevation gain, yes, it is enough to be a mountain stage. Uh, but
we’re not really in the high mountains yet. Uh, I agree. It’s at the point now in the in the
tour that Vizma has to show some of their cards. Does he need to win? I don’t. Uh, okay.
Just trying to look at a UAE here. Uh, looks like we’re doing a reconnect.
Going to check my phone here for a second. Reconnection successful. I know we
lost connection there for a second, guys. Ah, this is funny. Okay, so
Ian has ridden in Saudi Arabia, guys. I realize we just dropped out there for a
second. I’m just seeing that now myself here. Uh, funny listening to the team radio there. Uh
UAE is telling the riders at the Tour to France uh how Del Toro did at the uh Tour of Austria
today. Three in a row for Del Toro over at the uh Tour of Austria. Uh so probably one of
the superstars of the future is at a different race. Uh probably getting condition for the
Valta. That’s what I’m that’s my guess. I do have the Valta. I’ve been checking it out
every day, guys. I’m going to be doing it this year. Uh they just haven’t shown any of
the teams yet. Ramco Aventipole hanging out at the back here with one of the uh Visma
guys. Who is that there? Looks like uh looks like one of their, as I like to call them,
windbreakers. Number 13. He’s got his number on upside down, too. A little bit of superstition
there going on. Intermar still at the front, guys. Uh guys, if you look at the screen right
now, we can see it here. Sprint point coming up in Vray here right downtown. Probably going to be
just a village we’re going through. Uh the speeds are going to start increasing at the front here.
These guys are going they will fight for this here and they will fight for the very end. Back
to the race coverage here. 91 kilometers to go. Kind of feeling that this is my rest day too.
I think this will be a very quick stage today. Yeah, you can see there’s not a lot
going on here from the commentary. Uh, before hosting today’s inter intermediate
sprint, Vrey has crowned four sprinters in the tour of France. Okay. And I remember
these names. Robbie Mchuan, Rudy Matthysse. I remember that name. I don’t know a lot about
him. Hopefully learn about him in that book. Oh, Brian Card is one here in the past. Okay,
guys. Here’s some good stuff coming up here. Five kilometers to the intermediate sprint
coming up folks. Dominant sprinter this year for intermediate sprints. And yeah, he’s won them all.
Like, well, he hasn’t won them all, but stage one, he was first at the intermediate sprint, fifth at
the inter spin, but he picked up the points after it, first on stage three, fifth on stage four,
first on stage six, sixth on stage seven. So, Jonathan really goes after the intermediate
sprints. And sometimes you’re going to have to do that because uh sprint points get grabbed by
the riders up front too. Get them early. Get them while you can. Uh you may not have anything left
in the end. Yeah, they are showing here. 5 km now. 4.9 km to go. Uh I want to get back to this here.
Live tracking just so you can see where we’re at. Yeah, definitely Cole. I think Vizma has to show
something before the rest day because right now UAE is just dominating the tour. Uh T it’s in
Tatty’s hands. He’s it’s obvious that he’s the strongest rider out there. It’s in his control,
but I think Yonas is right there. Love the Breton uh flag with the pine trees in the top right
now that top left now that I know what they are. Intermar and Shrek the only riders up there.
Jonathan Milan is hanging out up there now though. Uh when I say Trek, I meant Quinn Simmons.
Uh but Intermar is there. Quinn Simmons is there. I can see another Trek rider further
back. Jonathan Milan in the mix now, too. Oh, and I can start to see the Alpison riders start
creeping up now. It looks like Turgis for Total Energies is coming as well. Lots of uh guys are
drinking a ton of water today. Tons of water. Uh, let’s get to the chat here. So, Ian’s actually ridden Saudi Arabia. Oo,
tough one. Cole is used to that as well. Are they still doing the same time at 3K to the
finish time? Um, I think Evan’s asking here, are you talking about if there’s a crash
in the final 3K? I think that’s what he’s saying there. You get the same time as the group
that you were with. Uh head of the course, guys, they are getting a a headwind over their
left shoulder and that will be directly into the sprint. Actually be almost a
headwind going into the sprint point. Yeah, Tony. Exactly. I think the Gupetto
and the autoboost is still useome. Yeah, it’s it’s a bunch of dudes uh hanging out
back there trying to survive and beat the time cut. Uh guys that weren’t designed to climb up
mountains. Um they probably weigh 50 lbs more than the people that they’re chasing. And it’s every
day for them. They got to get over that climb, come down the descents, survive in the valleys.
They got they have to fight like madmen in the valleys to try to bring bring back some of the
damage that’s been done before they start the next climb. Uh, it’s just cuz I always
talk about they’re back there, you know, telling jokes, slapping each other on the back.
They’re killing themselves. They are absolutely killing themselves back there. Uh, we’ve got
a new uh commentator here. Which position is Vingo? Vingo is fourth overall and he’ll just
be hiding in the Pelaton somewhere. Earlier on, he did have a puncture. Uh, there was about 10
riders out the back. Everyone together right now. Quinn Simmons on the front as usual. It’s
the Quinn Shim Simmons show, folks. Quinn Simmon show folk here. Uh Bigny Germay and Interar are
there as well. Stretching things out a little bit. Getting very very close to the sprint point
now, folks. Very close. I think it’s better to look at on the map here. You can just see
it a little bit better. just on the outskirts of town. You can see kind of the ring road here
set up around this little village sending people traveling in different directions. Uh looks
like we’re going to be going under a bit of a, you know, a bit of an intersection,
overpass if you want to call it that. Wow. I’ve let this coffee
get cold. Heading into town, crossing a small river, and
uh into the sprint point. Uh yeah, Evan saying yes. Uh that’s what was
strange about yesterday. That’s pretty standard now. Like within 3 km to the finish, if you crash,
you’ll get the time of the group that you were in. You’re obviously not going to get the time of
the group uh that was 100 yards ahead of you. Yesterday, they didn’t they didn’t implement
that. And I think it’s because they were kind of saying it was an uphill finish. But what was
strange about that is um because that’s a rule, too. They they kind of throw that out.
They gave full sprint points yesterday, which they don’t do on an uphill finish.
Uh it would be more points towards the uh the Hill Climbers jersey, the polka dot
jersey. So, they gave 50 points, which put Tatty back in the green jersey. Uh just kind of
weird how they assigned the points yesterday. Things are heating up, folks. Really
stretching out here. Watching a slight delay here. It’s strange today. The flow
bikes is virtually right on par here with the uh tur of to France feed. If I can see
this here now. We’ll get a little bit of talk here. 41.5 km an hour now.
Coming up to the sprint point now. Uh going to keep up here guys. They’re going
to be through the sprint point really really quick here. Uh Quinn Simmons mixed in
with the Inter Mare guys. They’re still chatting each other. Jonathan Milan right
there. I see a couple of Alpison riders. Yeah. 41.6 kilometers at this
point in the race. Uh 30° C. So like they were saying earlier,
very important day to stay hydrated. Yep. So I’m a little tiny bit behind here
on the sprint point here. We’re going to see the sprint results right away. Anyways,
let’s just check this out here. How quickly can they give them to us through the sprint
now, guys? Who got the points there? Remember, there would only be 20 points for first there.
Jonathan Milan, the master of the intermediate sprint right now. How quickly do we get
them, guys? I may have to watch this here on the replay. See what happened. Looks like
they all went through as one huge bunch. Uh, I’m sure it stretched out quite a bit going
to the finish. You can see them actually into the sprint. They’re actually cranking up right
good right now at 50k an hour. I’ll give you my version of what happened in the sprint and you’ll
probably see it pop up on screen right away. Uh, okay. Just going to catch this here. Yeah. So,
oh, so I’m watching here. Jonathan Milan went super early in the sprint. Very, very early
in the sprint. Like s such a long ways out. Bingham’s right there. Jonathan Milan won the
intermediate sprint, hands down, folks. Uh, Bingan was probably fourth or fifth back
and the pelon went through. I’m pretty shocked that we don’t have any results
here from the Tur of France here yet. So, I had to do a little bit of a
replay there. Jonathan just went Bingham’s there and I think that’s Sud Tim earlier
might have been there too. I think that’s Tim earlier, I believe. So, I think his jersey is
more weight. Let me just have a look at that, guys. I want to see that for a second. See if I I
figured that I was looking from quite a distance up. Kind of a really bad camera shot on them
there. Yeah, this is the jersey I saw here. I saw a white jersey with a smidge of blue. Pretty sure
Tim Merier got in the sprint points there, too. I think he got second. Okay, so now from the tour
of France, it’s just showing up now. You guys can see it on screen. Uh Milan goes first on the line.
They’re probably going to give us another little post right away here and it’s going to show us.
I don’t think Bingham got top three there. It’s Jonathan Milan. My prediction is uh Merly second.
Third rider was in another white colored jersey, but again the trees were quite closed in there
and so they were quite high up in the helicopter. Watching that sprint there. Uh jump into the
chat. Lots of good stuff going on here, guys. Uh Quinn is going to win a stage. Just when is
the time? Yeah, Quinn’s that kind of guy. He’s like second means nothing. I think Quinn wants
to win a stage really bad. Uh tomorrow I can see Quinn being the first guy to hit that breakaway.
So tomorrow guys, uh I think it’s kilometer 24.5 sprint point. It will be madness tomorrow in the
first 30 minutes. Uh people just smashing at the front. Breakaways are probably going to wait.
Okay, so they’re saying here Burgo accelerates after the intermediate sprint. We still don’t have
any other standings on the other riders who cross the sprint point there. I’d love to see that right
now. So, race controls, send us some sprint data. Uh yeah, I can see Quinn winning quite easily in
a breakaway. Uh and I think tomorrow will be a breakaway day. Even though it looks the same as
this, it’s the way they’ve got the sprint point set out so early in the stage. The sprint teams
are going to go out early and then it’s quite lumpy after. Here we go. Finally, Flow Bikes
is getting me this the points. Uh Milan first, Merier second. Yes, dude. I knew it
was him. And the third rider there, I should have known this. I did mention him
earlier. I saw moving up. Anthony Turgis, Totel Energies, white jersey, uh
with a little bit of color on it. Okay. So, the tour needs to give us some
uh give us the points, guys. So, yeah, Milan is just dominating the intermediate sprint
points. Uh yeah, good guys. I’m really want to be in the chat here with you guys. So, yeah,
I can see Quinn. Here we go. Turgis, Germia, you’re going to see it now, guys. It’s
finally coming up here. Milan Meria Turgis, white jerseys. Germ got fourth. I think I said
that. And the rest were just a big blob of riders came through. Rex Kakard, Quinn Simmons was
there, Zimmerman, that’s George Zimmerman, and I think it’s Martin Van Simmer Sundike, Neilson
Palace in the mix, too. But again, tomorrow, sprint point early. Sprinters will be done for the
day. Well, they’re going to let things happen at that point. There will be attacks at that point
over the top of the sprints. Probably going past the sprinters, a breakaway group will set up and
go off on their merry adventure. uh the sprinters will let them get so far before they start
pulling them back in. And then it’s going to become that cat-mouse game of will the breakaway
survive? Will the sprinters catch them? Those are some of my favorite stages. So, I think that’s
going to be a really good one to watch, guys. Uh Tony here, great question. Uh great comment.
Sprinters drag themselves over the mountains because if they don’t, they cannot win in the
Shazia in Paris. That’s right. And that is perfect end to the tour for a sprinter. Yeah,
that’s what we got to remember and that’s what some of the people are upset about is that they’ve
changed it this year. It’s not really guaranteed to be Jonathan Milan last 500 me sprint. He
did go a long way out. 60.7 km an hour over 500 meters. Seems really fast to me. Uh that’s
probably 37 38 miles an hour over 500 meters. Like kind of more of a long range attack for
him. Once he gets his once he gets his jump, they he just keeps pulling away the whole time. Uh
he’s just that much faster than them right at this point in the tour. Uh yeah, so they change stage
21 generally for as long as I’ve been watching the tour of France outside of 1989 with the time trial
finish uh Greg Lamond and Lauron Fon um the tour has always been a sprint finish on the Sham Sil
always. you always knew that the best sprinters were going to show up and go for it uh with the
parade beforehand. This year we’re gonna have probably a mini parade and they’ve made the finish
really hard with three ascents up a it’s only a one kilometer but at that point it’s probably
on cobbles 2. It was used at the Olympic road championship course road race course uh that Remco
who’s now on screen won last year. Remco’s got a little bit of uh cuts and bruises on his elbow.
That looks like it’s from a couple days ago. I know he was involved in a crash a few days ago,
just a small one. So yeah, uh that’s the sprinters have to survive all the way to try to get to the
Shamzil for that for that glory. And now the tour of France committee has decided we’re going to
change it all up. It’s more for TV drama, I think, viewership. Um, to be honest, I I know from the
past too guys, I think kind of like some stages like this and the final stage are probably the
least viewed. I think you guys let me know. I’ve done it in the past. The last stage I just kind of
watch to see, okay, who podium? Okay, good. Done. And I want to see who won the sprint obviously,
but the parade part, I never really watch that. Uh, Brandon here. Electrolytes are so important.
I used to race bike back in Armstrong days. Began as a junior, then never took anything.
Otherwise, Armstrong may have found a new US teammate. Lol. He’s a runner and a climber now.
Uh, so Brandon here is saying that he never moved on to the special supplements. Uh, electrolytes
only. Bread and water, dude. Bread and water. That’s all we do. Yeah, dude. Good stuff here.
You can make your own electrolytes, guys. Okay, something interesting finally going on here,
guys. There is a breakaway happening. Breakaway happening now. This is good to see, guys. It’s
going to start heating up now. Uh, it looks like it’s two riders from Total Energies. That’s what
I’m seeing happening here now. Uh, only 8 seconds up the road. I think we got two riders. It is two
riders and it was Burgo that was going before and he has gotten away. So Burgdo and Virture, the guy
from stage one who had that brutal crash. Uh look at the standings difference. One’s in 52nd place
at 24 minutes back. The other 176th place back. I think he’s the last place rider in the tour. We
started with 184 riders. We probably lost seven, possibly eight. Uh Virture here might be the last
place on the road. He’s 1 hour 16 minutes down. So, they did try to control him. These guys
kept pushing and they’ve gotten away. Are they really thinking about going on a breakaway
today? Did this just light up the stage? Yeah, it shows the two of them launch together.
Quinn looks at them, gets out of the pedals, takes a look over shoulder like, “Anyone else?
Anyone else going to help?” And they’re gone. when they went, it looks like Quinn says,
“Okay, I’m gonna lift the pace a little bit, but he didn’t counterattack them.” He kind of let
them go. They I’m not sure if they were expecting that there or not, but that’s totally flipped
the the stage upside down now, folks. We might have something uh a little bit exciting going on
now, folks. I love to see these attacks. Love to see these attacks. Catching up with the chat.
You guys have probably already seen that. Uh I want to go back here. Brandon, I make my own
electrolyte drink now with uh I think primes is I think that’s a brand, isn’t it? For magnesium
and potassium and Gatorade and water. AI has helped me formulate a perfect electrolyte drink.
Totally huge difference. Okay. Yeah. Basically, I try to find uh like I’m riding inside all the
time, so I’m never stuck out on the road anymore by myself struggling. Uh yeah, just you can get
like the better Gatorade. It’s actually got some really good sodium content. Uh that’s probably
like your most important electrolytes. Uh lack of sodium can kill you. Uh that’s honest truth
reality. Uh sodium is so important and I think when you ride inside so much uh my experience you
don’t realize how much sodium you’re losing as you’re sweating. You don’t realize how much you’re
sweating. Uh you need to replace all that sodium. Okay. So Brandon Brandon is on the stuff
obviously. Brandon, hey Brandon, why don’t you give us a little bit more of your background
cycling? Uh, what kind of rides did you do? Road, mountain bike, and antioxidants like CoQ10 and I
can’t even say that word are awesome, too. Dude, I’m always interested in stuff like that. Uh,
I do suffer a lot from because I’m an inside cyclist now. Uh, just yeah, sweat, the sweat
loss, the sodium loss. I stumble around the house like a zombie afterwards. Sometimes
if let’s say I do a 2-hour ride inside. Uh team total energy’s lighting up the race for me
right now guys. It’s only a 13-second gap. Man, I hope they get away. Go boys, go. And while
we’re at it, let’s do this quickly here. Let’s take a look at the rankings. We’re going to go to
stage seven. We’re going to go to GC overall. I want to see I think Vir’s in last place overall.
Uh and remember, he had a terrible crash day one. Let’s get right to the bottom here. Fedorov
Fedorov was also involved in a big breakaway. Uh so we’re going to call this the fight for
the Red Lantern. Uh the last place finisher in all the sports I know like dog mushing.
Uh that’s the Red Lantern. Do they have that at the Turf France? I think they do, don’t
they? The last place rider gets an award or or they used to. Uh so it’s between Veter
Federov and Virture right now. Currently 15 second gap. These guys are still going for it.
Flow bikes keep showing this attack quite a bit. They attacked on a little bit of an uphill. All
the fans are out today, folks. What a glorious day in France. Man, I think I just want to
go to France. Maybe get somewhere central, rent out a I don’t know, a house, Airbnb, whatever
you want to call it, for like a month and just soak in the life and just I don’t care if I even
go if the tour comes by me, great. That’s what I’ll apply to do. I don’t really want to chase the
tour cuz I think it would be so much work. Uh but I want to be that dude that shows up at the local
uh pub. What do they call the local bar? What do What’s the nickname for a bar there? Is it a
pub? um and hangs out with the French locals and watches the tour of to France with them. I
think that would be awesome. Uh broken French uh trying to communicate with them. Uh I think that’d
be so great. And just become one of the locals. Okay, just going again here. Evan cheering on
Milan. Okay, Brandon here. Racers are using more antioxidants and cherry juice these
days. Yeah, dude. Brandon, I think I know exactly what you’re talking about. If guys,
if you look closely at the end of the stages, you’ll see a lot of them drinking little
bottles of red juice. I think that’s the cherry juice that Brandon here is referring
to. Brand uh Brandon, love it. Good info. Um, okay. Love this dude here. It looks like
uh Spriitic. Is that what I’m seeing? Yeah, Spriitic the Explorer. Dude, I love your name. Do
you got a channel? I’m kind of thinking you got a YouTube channel. Just want to say hi and support
this channel, guys. Dude, let us know who you are, where you’re from. Sprick the explorer. Holly
saying that my sound is cutting out every now and then. Good question. I’m going to look and
see that. Yeah, my mic looks good here. Volumes are good. Possibly the stream, Holly. I’m not
sure. Maybe YouTube just wants to keep me quiet. Okay, Yonas is on camera again. Please
give us the kiss. No kisses done. Actually, Yonas is back in the cars again. Uh, being led
to the front by a teammate. So, I think Yonas has had just another mechanical here. Don’t think
we have any stress in the pelon there right now. Going to jump back here, guys. Live tracking.
Let’s see what go going on. Yeah, it now we can see it here. Here’s our little breakaway
group. Two riders from Total Energies. Love seeing teams go out on the attack. Uh the
main pelon consisting of 170 riders. And this should be Yonas back here again. Just a
bunch of riders by Eduardo Rafina remember in uh stage five the uh the time trial. He
did incredible there. Mororrow Schmidt, team Jacula, Enkhorn, and Bingo back here. So,
Eduardo must be bringing them back to the front. Uh, if I needed someone to give me a draft
back to the front, I’d want it to be Aenie. That guy’s a very, very strong time trust. The
boys at the front are pushing hard. They are not relenting. They’re not sitting up. It’s
time. It’s on time, folks. Let’s go. Go time. See if we got any stuff. Uh yeah, so here’s the
duel today. Uh Jonathan Milan 60.7 kilometers of sprint. Tim Merly right there at 59.5. So
Jonathan would have picked up 20 points there. The thing is Tatty will still be in the green
jersey. Jonathan is wearing it today. He’s got the most points back. Tatty probably didn’t get
any points. It’s showing him at 156. I think he was at 156 at the start of the day. Keep an eye
on this. I know I’m still behind in the chat here. So, Holly was saying my sound was cutting out. Um Tony saying not sure if we can fix anything
about the Shams Le race. Guess who we will see this year. Yeah, I think they’ve just tried
to like liven it up. Uh the tour to France is all of it’s a giant it’s a giant machine. I and I
love the the final Shamz. So we will see the final Shamsai sprint. We will still see that they’ve
just made the stage harder now right before that sprint point. Um which is going to take some of
the sprinters out of the mix. That ascent it’s not a brutal climb. Again, it’s only a 1 km climb. I
think it’s only four or five% something like that. Um, but they got to do three circuits of it.
Their legs are already going to be kind of sapped or they may not even be in any position
to be involved in the sprint at that point. So, here you are, you’re a sprinter. Uh, you’ve
got a handful of opportunities to win a stage, one like today. Maybe the Shamzil is kind of a
guaranteed for sprinters and the tour to France is just kind of taking that away from you. The
tour to France is always evolving though. Uh, from what I’ve been listening to anyways in this book,
they’ve always changed it. There’s been years, uh, a quick stat from a couple years ago, uh,
one tour to France here had five individual time trials in it. And hold on, two team time
trials. It was like all about time trialists. other years and way back in the past like
we’re talking like in the 40s and the 50s uh all the Tour France Tour to France stuff
I know nothing about. Uh they’d have climbing years, they’d have time trial years and
certain races would fit certain riders. Thanks for everyone being here Saturday.
Slow start for everyone it looks like. Uh yeah, Don’s cheering on Total Energies. Ian
saying give uh the channel needs more support. Yeah, guys, I love the support. Love everyone
being here. And uh we’ve only got 69 pe 59 people watching right now, but dude, everyone
that’s here, I appreciate it so much. Uh it’s going to come. It’s going to go. You got to stay
consistent. It’s all about being consistent. What was the saying that I totally butchered a few
days ago from the comeback kid? Uh, the comeback is better than the setback. Whatever sets you back
in life, your comeback is greater than that. Total Energy’s race radio here. Perfect, guys. We’re
honoring the race. It’s great to show character like this. Good job. I love guys like this. Good
job, boys. It’s not going to be just a sit in day. Um, I love the sprinters win at the end.
Let’s go. French teams love Total Energies. Uh, next year I’m not sure what they’re going to
be called. Will it be the Grenaders? Will it be Total Energy? How will the two teams merge?
Where will riders go? A lot of riders there are between the two teams. Be a good infusion for
uh some of the riders over to Inos Grenaders. Okay. group in the back of the stage is the groupedto is the red lantern in the tour the single
pedto. Yeah, usually the red lantern. So, uh they do it all the time in dog mushing all the
time. Uh and it’s kind of uh it’s it’s prestigious to get the red lantern. People will actually fight
over it like, “Okay, dude, you’re going to Okay, I’m gonna I’m going to take more rest because
you get you get you actually in dog motion, they’ll give you a red lantern.” Uh it was a
thing back in the day uh for trappers way back when that were out with their dog teams. Their
wives would hang a red lantern that would glow at night to kind of signal their direction
home. That’s the story behind it. Anyways, okay. Uh okay, cool. Uh Spriotic here, the explorer.
I’m from Manila, so he’s in the Philippines. Also streaming right now. Good to hear, dude. Content
is more on bikes and bike touring. Keep it up, brother. Yeah, you too, man. Uh, you got to
keep the grind going. Keep your dreams alive, dude. Just make it happen, right? Uh, guys, I’ve
been grinding the channel since January of 2023. And I think I looked yesterday, it was like 358
channels. I’ve learned more during the tour to France than I learned before. Uh, and Joey’s put
a lot of time into it, too, guys. Like all the little hashtags to put in. I I don’t do that
stuff. Um, I like to be a real idiot and say, “Well, you know, I just make the content. I don’t
know about all that stuff. There’s certain little hashtags you put in. Otherwise, people don’t
find me.” So, if you guys can like the channel, uh, that’d be appreciative of that. Uh, so
[ __ ] dude, I’ll check your channel out. We’ll check your channel out for you. Kind
of hard for me to do right now, but I will jump on. Spriotic the Explorer. Gotta see how
you spell that. Spriick the Explorer. Guys, go check his channel out. Derek Martin is just
saying goodbye. Okay, see you later, Derek. Uh, I think he might have just been hanging out here
for a little bit and he’s taken off. I didn’t see him comment anymore before that. Ruben saying he
thinks conditions are right for Alons. Reuben, you could be correct. I know they were saying
there was like a 16 km an hour uh headwind coming over their left shoulder. So, it’s possible today.
And guys, the two guys out front are still giving her Burgo Versure for total energies honoring the
tour. It’s so true. It’s not a race about just dillydallying along all day. Uh, okay. I think
we’ve crossed like basically a region or what do they call it in France? Not a province, but I’m
seeing here. This is the line of Britannia and Paz de Leo. I think that’s what we’re looking at. I
think that’s like more of like a territory mark. I think so on the map here. If there’s any
French people watching, just let me know. Um, Sheila, I worked briefly for Total Minaton when
they did a hostile takeover of my beloved Texas gas exploration in Houston. Oh, tell me more
about that. Oh, yeah. Cuz Total Energies is involved in oil gas. Uh, Sheila, who did you
work for in Texas? Was that the actual company where they just called Texas Gas Exploration? So
Sheila, if you don’t know, uh, and I’m sure you do if you’re if you’re involved in oil and gas like
that, Calgary is like your Houston. It’s the oil and gas. Calgary is the oil and gas hub of Alberta
and all of Canada. It all happens in Calgary. So we have oil fields off the coast of Newfaland.
It’s uh a huge oil field called Hiburnia. Uh the platforms are way out there in the middle of
nowhere. There was a tragedy way back when in the the 80s where one of those platforms went down.
Uh, everyone on board died. I forget the name of it. Maybe if someone remembers, you could find it
on YouTube. Uh, the waves were so gigantic and the entire drilling platform, you know, one of those
things you see out at sea with the big pillars pounded down, gone. Uh, I should know the name
of this. All of that stuff is done from Calgary, though. So all the companies that do that are
based in Calgary. The offices are there. Uh wow, this is cool. They are just showing the home flow
bikes how we’re passing into Paz de Lewis. It’s just a new region of France or traveling through.
I forget what they call them. Not not provinces. Uh if the wind Yeah. If the wind can pick
up a little bit more, if let’s say the wind can gust from like 16 to 25k an hour, then
that’s going to be Echelon uh country. And I think the boys up front are praying for that.
Yeah. Hey, uh Don, thank you much. He says, “Let’s get to 30K subs by July 27th.” Uh Steven
Cycles asked me that yesterday. He said, “Hey, man.” He goes, “Do you think you get to 30K subs
by the end of the tour?” And I’m like, I dude, I just look at it and go, “Yeah, I think we can.
I think we can. Yeah, I love it, guys. I love it.” Uh, the more people that sub and like and
share the channel, if you can share with your Strava friends, uh, share with your friends,
the circle of friends, they might be interested. Uh, yeah, Dawn, you’re falling out. He’s falling to number three in the stand.
He’s feels like Remco now. Uh, Evan saying here, I’m glad the tour is
mixing it up, especially after the Lance era. The American fans had no one to turn to
after a few years. We’re coming back and the tour seems stronger. Dude, there’s uh Henappy,
George Henappy is leading the start of a new US team. They’re recruiting 20 riders right now.
They said they want at least 10 of them to be Americans. Lance is directly involved. How is he
involved? I don’t really know because technically he’s got a lifetime b ban from cycling. Uh
I’m like just let it happen. Just come on. Just there’s directors right now in cars here that
were doing the same thing Lance was doing in the same time period. Now they’re leading teams.
So they did the exact same thing. I think I was talking to Joey Jojo about it yesterday is
the only difference was when they got caught, they’d say, “Fine, you got me. What do you want
me to do? I’m sorry.” And that was it. Where Lance fought back. Uh, that’s his Texas spirit,
folks. Uh, he stood up and fought back and just denied denied denied. Uh, I still really like the
guy. I’ve read all his books. Uh, so I I hope they get the teams going and if Lance involved, that’s
great. Departments. Thank you so much, Tony. So, yeah, like in the States, it’s called a state.
Uh, in Canada, it’s called a province. And we have territories as well. In France, they call them
departments. Probably more like a department mall. Yeah, department. Ruben’s
got it, too. Thanks, Reuben. Oh, Ruben’s asking, “What are you doing?” Ooh, they’re just showing the Aasper crash again on
TV here. They’re talking about safer sprints. How are you going to make sprints safer when
you’ve got savages battling at 70 to 80k an hour shoulderto-shoulder basically riding in their
underwear? How are you going to make that safer? What do you guys think they’re going
to do? It’s impossible. Oh, they’re showing some really nice bingum finishes
here. You’ve got barriers on either side. Uh do you I mean honestly do you think
when you’re going 70k an hour dropping 15600 watts after 180 200 km riding do you
think you’re thinking perfectly as well? Uh you’re riding on equipment one touch with a
wheel you could go down and take down 50 people. Uh I think that’s a lot to be asked. I I’m going
to check that out later and see what they got to say. I don’t know how you make it safer. Uh oh,
Reuben’s saying oncreen FTP test. Oh god, Ruben, please don’t make me do it. Uh dude, I got to get
back on the bike. So guys, uh feeling pretty good today. Definitely not where I want to be. Uh been
off the bike. I did ride Monday. So glad because I I would have broken my Zift streak. Uh I think
I’m on a 36 uh week streak right now. Not hard to do. You ride one day per week on Zift, you get
a streak. You get a bonus. But I want it. Uh I’ve been off Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Yeah, Ruben, I’m on the bike today. I’m going to do a quick uh Zift spin inside. Uh probably like
20k. Hopefully they got a fun little event on. I can get some double points or something. Guys,
we’re flying along here. We’ve only got 61.4 km left to go. Really appreciate the riders that
are here uh watching right now commenting. Uh, so Ruben saying if I get to 30K subscribers, that
is a good idea, Reuben. Except a lot of people here I don’t think actually there’s people that
watch the channel and I said before they don’t ride bikes, they’re fans. They’re fans of the
sport. So it would only be good for some of you. Uh, Dawn, awesome point here. George rode in 17 to
Francis. Yeah, he was a beast at the tour to France, wasn’t he? I still remember early 90s
reading like I swear it was winning magazine before the internet and I saw a picture of him as
a teenager, George Henappy. And yeah, look who he became. Pretty successful guy now. Very successful
guy. Seems like he’s got his hands in everything. Uh Sheila, yes, I got to visit Calgary one once
when we flew up for the day. Uh at the time we’re for Infamous. Oh, Enron, I love it. We had a
small Calgary office at that time. Yeah. So, Sheila, for me, Calgary is kind of my hometown.
I spent 21 years working where you were downtown there in Calgary. I’m sure you remember the Well,
maybe you don’t. The plus 15 system, how we walk around Calgary. Those are designed Cal in Calgary,
guys. Uh, I actually spent some time looking at it online. All the buildings are connected by an
elevated walkway. The walkways are approximately 15 ft above the road. So it’s called a plus 15
road system. They’ve got AC in them. They have heat for the winters. It’s so you never have to go
outside. You walk from one office to your business meeting in another office. Otherwise, you’d
have to bundle up in winter gear, you know, sludge along through the snow and the slush, the
ice, the blizzards in the winter time. You can you can get a full workout walking around downtown
Calgary and you stay inside the whole time. Uh, so Sheila, glad to know you’re involved.
Sheila, what end were you in? Uh, upstream, downstream. Uh, I’m, as I’ve said before, I was a geologist. Just curious. Someone say
they don’t don’t lean like Cavendish. Oh, am I doing the Am I doing the Cavendish
lean? Are you talking about me? I know I’m leaning over a lot right now. Uh, here. I’m
going to turn my screen a little bit here. Ruben says, “I found a video of Tom Steels.”
Now, that’s right. Tom Steels, I think he’s a director. He’s a DS for one of the teams. I just
saw a video of him uh winning on a stage finish, the same finish today. Do you want to dare show
it? Absolutely not today, dude. Not today. Uh I am going to spend some time over the next
while seeing what images I can access more of. I’m going to go back to the live tracking here
down below, though. See if we’ve got anything. uh tour radio here saying we’re 45 seconds. It’s
actually 55 seconds now. These guys are actually doing something here. Really impressive to see. Uh
no matter what happens to these guys, these guys will get a lot of respect. I know there’s other
teams out there now. Like guys, why don’t we have someone up the road? I guarantee you there’s a
big man, a big boss man somewhere. uh maybe not at the stage wondering or talking to his DS like
why don’t I have anyone up there why isn’t there say a dathlon rider up there why isn’t there an
aana rider up there bond Total Energy’s here folks so yeah I believe uh from Sheila’s comments
uh Total Energies is uh well Total is a huge French natural gas oil and gas company Uh, they
got the ice down their backs stuffed in ladies panty hoes. It looks like that. I swear that’s
what it looks like. And it’s amazing that they still do use technology like that. Isn’t there a
better version of an ice pack now? Probably not. Live tracking here, guys. Just to give you
an idea, they’re really not that far ahead. Is the Pelon being lazy? I don’t think the
Pelaton’s being lazy today. uh cuz they have been strung out a lot today. Intermar and team Simmons,
let’s call it that now. Uh on the front, there has not been one other truck rider on the front
except for Jonathan Milan for about 45 seconds. It has been Quinn Simmons all day at the front,
first or second place. I guess he feels really strong. Um he’s done so much work this tour. I
don’t know why he’s putting so much effort in. Back to the race here. 55 seconds. Uh, we do have
someone out the back. We had a small group out the back here. Think Oh, it’s one rider. Mororrow
Schmidt. I did see him out the back before, too. Mororrow Schmidt here. Team JCO Alula,
Swiss rider. Hopefully, it’s just a mechanical. Jao Almeida is somewhere in there. I’m hoping
we can get some camera shots here right away. There’s about a string of eight riders at the
front and then the pelon is just a blob behind them. No one else wants to do any work. If
Intermar and team Simmons is not on the front, the Pelaton is content just to ride fully
across the road. That’s what I’m seeing right now. Intermar might be time flags. I can
see the flags of Bratton still waving here even though we’ve crossed over. Okay, here’s Tatty
talking to Jiao right now. They’re side by side. I think uh UAE sur uh survived a major scare
there with that crash. Jiao’s looking pretty good actually. Um I always kind of say
too after a crash a or after like a major something that happens outside to you
doesn’t have to be a bike crash, you know, you drop something really hard on your
foot, uh you twist something really bad, it’s not the day the next day, it’s the day
after. So, we’ll see how like the pain settles in. Um, okay. I just want to see
if I’ve missed anything here. Whoa, you guys are going well into the chat now,
guys. Guys, really appreciate keeping the chat going today. We can see that the stream we don’t
have a ton of people watching right now. I think it’s because it’s Saturday. I think it’s probably
also too that a lot of sites are probably offering the stream for free today. Uh, I know Flow Bikes
is Spriotic was saying earlier adding info with Brandon, I use a pinch of rock salt on my bottle
to survive the ride to prevent bonking. Dude, I do the same thing. Uh, I kind of make my own
electrolytes, too. It’s like I get the best. So, I just find the packets of the really good sport
power aid. I think they have 500 milligrams of sodium in them already. And I will take a sprinkle
of rock salt and put it into my water bottle, too. I actually add some sweetener to it as well
because I got a sweet tooth. I like a triple triple coffee as well. Uh, let me get caught
up, guys. Thought I just saw a little bit of a crash in the Pelon, but it wasn’t. Just the
way it caught my eyes there. Uh, okay. So, Reuben wants that FTP test. Lance and andap. Yeah,
I love those two. Remember when Floyd was there with them as well? Floyd Landis Days 2006 tour
to France. There were most the most ridiculous stage at the Tour to France ever. Uh I think
it was stage 16. If you guys haven’t seen this, go on YouTube and watch this. This is when Floyd
raced for uh Phoneac. Uh they wore like white and greeny yellow jerseys. The day before he got
massacred, he was behind by like half an hour to 40 minutes. Um Michael Store looking pretty decent
here. Day 16. He comes out the next day and uh just Okay. Uh sorry guys, just responding in chats and stuff
here. Um day 16, he comes out the next day and absolutely destroys the Pelaton. He rides off
the front and I think he went over like three mountain passes with the entire pelaton chasing
him the whole way and just gaining time. He ended up finishing like ahead of the pelon by like
it was something ridiculous like 45 minutes. Uh absolutely destroyed everyone out there. I need
to go back and check those numbers. Uh it’s just and shortly thereafter long pause I like to say
this long pause tested positive for substances. uh and did not win the tour to France. Okay, guys,
catching up. Sorry about this. Trying to catch up again. Cole Kane, dude, thank you so
much for your support. This guy, dude, uh someone has vaulted straight to number one
here. Uh I’m just seeing this happen. I’m sorry, dude. I’m seeing it in delay. I appreciate
all your support of my channel. Uh, okay. Joe 512 made it. Dude, Joe is
finally here, man. Joe, we kind of got a a slower day here today. It’s kind of
a different stage out there. Sprinter stage, active recovery day. Uh, but we do have two
riders off the front. 51 second gap. Totel energies representing France out front. It’s the
tur of France. You’re supposed to race. Let’s go, boys. Let’s go. Yeah. Side of the road. The black
the flags are blowing around. The big flags are blowing around that the fans have set up. Uh it
looks pretty strong to me. I’m saying that’s more than 15k an hour. This headwind. If one team got
real ramy right now, uh I think this is echelon country right here. Just the direction it’s coming
right now. Joe, good to have you on board board again. George’s son is doing well. It’s like,
okay, I’ll check that out. Thank you, Evan. Uh, absolutely. Don George Henappy is one of
the best domestics of his of his of you your generation. Mine too. Uh, dude, Per Rubé, right?
Like he was such a good classics rider. Actually, you know what? Is it Hin Cappy that snapped his
handlebars at Rube that one year? I think it is. his handlebars snapped off in his hands
and then he’s riding his bike and I think there’s a video of him crashing too uh because
obviously he couldn’t do anything at that point. Uh Matias Mati Matthysse Leber from Arsu. Okay,
thanks Tony. Uh hopefully George’s Adventure Cycle team is ready for the tour to France in
time for his son to be a team member. I hope they go fully and it’d be great to see a US team,
another US team come along uh help develop the US talents and because you know what, that helps the
Canadian talent, too. Guys, if you don’t know, there was a race a couple nights ago. It’s a very,
very famous crit race. It happens in Vancouver. So, I know there’s a couple of BC watchers
here. It’s called the Gas Town Grand Prix. uh happens in downtown Vancouver. It happens
in the evening. It’s a very big race here. Lance Armstrong, I I did a deep dive on it. Lance
Armstrong run it quite a few years back. There’s a lot of big names there. Um but it was really cool
because there’s tons of American guys that come out to race it. And what was really neat about
it was that two of the top guys, first and second place, they ride for Project Echelon. Um, I don’t
want to say I know the Project Echelon team really well, but I know the uh I don’t know if he’s like
the manager of it. He still races. Eric Hill. Uh, he runs Project Echelon, which is a charity one.
It’s a cycling team. It’s a Continental I think it’s Continental level team based out of the US.
They obviously race in Canada and they come and win the Gas Town Grand Prix. Uh there’s also
a charity side to it where they provide uh it this is a good talk here guys trust me. Um project
echelon pres uh provides inside cycling equipment, trainers, bicycles through their sponsors through
donations to disabled veterans. So, I jumped on board that right away and I did a bunch of race
commentary for Project Echelon over the winter uh on the My Whoosh platform. So, that’s how I
met Eric Hill and obviously I still see him on Facebook and Instagram and he says, “Yeah, check
out the team. The team is stacked stacked.” Like some of these guys are going somewhere very soon.
Uh very very strong team Project Echelon. So, I think the rider who won, I think his name was Ryan
Tess. I think that’s who it was. Was that him? Maybe he rides Maybe he writes for a different
team. I’ll have to check that out again. Uh, but Project Echelon was there. Brandon, I used
to road race for teams. Okay, this is great. I love this stuff, guys. So, we’ve got we got
riders here. We got racers here. Uh, Brandon, I used to road race for teams San Jose and team
Santa Barbara and California. Santa Barbara was near where Armstrong sometimes trained. Malcolm
Elliot. Yes, I do know that name. Malcolm Elliott lived there. Would do training races and rides
with. Wow. Awesome. It’s funny thing here. Uh there’s someone in the chat, not right now.
Steven Cycles. He said, “Dude,” he goes, “I’m on a group ride today.” He said the night before,
he goes, “Dude, I got to get rested up.” I go, “Okay.” He says, “I’m on a group ride with a an
Olympic rower tomorrow.” I’m like, “Those rowers, they make very strong cyclists, right? really good
transition uh transitional sport. Speed skating, running to cycling, rowing, they they all kind
of blend together. Uh he gets to the ride and he and he messaged me. He goes, “I don’t know
what he looks like now.” He goes he goes, “I think Shawn Yates is here.” So he may or
may not have gone on a group ride with Shawn Yates. Uh the kind the people that he hangs
out with, I can see it. He’s always hanging out with someone that’s connected to someone.
Uh, it’s kind of my connection to the UK racing. Uh, Derek here says, “It’s okay. I know I’m
boring.” Dude, no one said you were boring. Derek Martin, where you from, man? Let us know.
And again, Cole, thank you for your generous support of the channel, dude. You’re killing it.
Uh, someone’s asking, uh, ML, could sled dogs finish the stage race faster than the race? No,
absolutely not, dude. Uh, absolutely not. Yeah, we can get on sled dog talks as much as you guys
want. I thought about it yesterday driving to town. I’ve got a bunch of pictures from my sprint
days. Uh, because I do have digital pictures of those. I’ll put a little slideshow together and
show you guys like what it was like and whatever. Uh, I have a ton of more pictures, but they’re
actual photos from my distance dog days. Uh, where, you know, you’re out there trekking through
the cold. Okay, guys. Looking interesting on the frontier now. Looks like we’ve got some more
Trek riders coming up. JCO Alula is getting more involved. Yeah, I’m hoping there’s some
DS saying, “Come on, guys. Get up there.” Uh, part of riding at the tour is respecting the
tour, honoring the tour. uh and racing. I mean, they are going, guys. They’re riding at 43k
an hour, but we got two young dudes riding off the front right now uh for Total Energies.
For some teams, they don’t get to win a stage. They need to be seen. Let’s get seen, guys.
You can’t win every race, but you can be seen. Yeah. And I think these teams are coming up to
the front here, too, because this is a bit of a danger zone here. Uh the roads are very
open at this point. I’m having a good look here. Lots of different jersey now. It’s not
just team uh Quinn and Intermar anymore. Got another Trek rider right there. JCO Alula on the
right hand side of the road. Uh Vizma Lisa Bike Alpason’s tucked over on the very far leftand
side with Archa. And it is blowing pretty hard out there. Maybe not hard enough to split them
right now. Actually, having said that, I’m seeing it getting kind of spread out at the back end.
The boys at the front, Team Total Energies just rocking it here. Spraying water down their backs.
It’s hot, too, guys. It’s very hot. 31.6° C. It’s right at 90° F. And I just saw a Diddy the Devil
out there. Diddy the Devil is on course again. Uh, dude. Yeah, we can have sled dog talk anytime
you want. Someone mentioned yesterday I should do some sled dog stuff. Uh, and I’ve been thinking
about it. There’s races I know. It’s about an 8 hour drive. I’ve been there. I’ve raced
them. Uh, I know what the dog mushers are going through. I know what the dogs are. I
know how to handle sled dogs. I know how to step on a sled and ride it easy. Uh, 37 second
gap now, guys. I hope these two stay away. Ooh, the winds are coming strong from their left hand
side right now. Yeah, this is echelon territory right here. Right now, it’s only a double wide
uh road, not very wide to start with. Two lanes. Total energy guy shaking his legs out. Come on,
boys. Keep pushing. Now is when you need to press your attack. Uh the wind’s coming directly from
the left hand side of the road where they are on the course right now. Let’s just see the math
quickly. So coming directly from their left side, it’s coming straight out of the north. The wind.
Oh, sorry. there on this segment. That’s a little bit dated though because the video I’m looking
at is tiny bit behind. I’ll figure this window out in a second here. Go back to the race.
See what the commentators are saying here. Breakaway 50.2 km an hour. Pelaton at 49.2. So over that that was over that last 10 km. And
uh Milan is quoted as saying I quite like this kind of uphill finish. Let’s see what we got
for EPO, guys. Uh we’ll come back to the live tracking here. We’ve seen that. Yeah, you can
just see a tiny bit of a wall at the end. It’s just a little bump. There’s going to be a bump
before that’s going to be crucial to get over to the top first. Bomb down the descent and up
the top. Uh one rider out the back right now. Mark Solair’s out the back. 45 second gap. 48.
Um, thinking mechanical for him. Get into the chat. You guys are You guys are being busy
now. Let’s get busy, folks. Uh, B Brandon, great stuff here. I love it, man. Malcolm, I
do remember that name quite well. Oh, it shows uh Mark Solair had a little bit of a crash
here. Looks like he crashed by himself almost. UAE car is right there.
Maybe he crashed in the cars. Looks fine, but still. Who wants to fall and
hit the pavement at 20 miles an hour? Again, jump out of your car at 20 mph today and see what
happens. Actually, don’t do that. Disclaimer, please don’t do that. I didn’t tell you to
do that. He’s back on his bike. Don’t worry about it. Uh, yeah. Seven stages of carnage.
People are just staying safe now. Got another rider back here though named uh Jared Drizzers
for lotto. He is an Australian in the cars, too. So, maybe there was someone else involved
in that, too. Might have just been a corner with some road furniture that caught them out. He’s
currently using uh picnic postn to get back to the front. These speed bumps here, I could
see guys crashing on those all the time. Uh, dude, stage 10 is brutal. Why don’t
we do that? Good question here by Joe 512. Let’s take a look at the route, guys. Stage
10. So, we’ll do stage eight first. This is what you’re looking at today. This is part of the
reason why they’re riding this way today. It’s set up for sprinters. The sprint point came so far
into the stage. Intermediate sprint. We’re halfway through the stage. This one makes sense that they
took it easy for all the first half. No attacks. Uh we’ve got the two total energy riders off the
front now. uh we will see some craziness at the end here but when you start coming back to the
route here stage 9 is somewhat the same however as I said earlier the sprint comes very very early
in the stage there is rollers and it’s actually a really short that’s later on uh it’s about the
same distance tomorrow it’s going to be a break a breakaway day tomorrow I don’t think tomorrow will
be as mellow as this one’s been so far stage And look at this beauty. Uh, seven stage uh, category
2s, one category 3 climb, sprint point, uh, 25% of the stage. The sprinters will be glad just
to get through that and survive the day. Uh, that is a very difficult stage there. Okay, so there
it is. Uh, there’s a stage here right at the end, the se the la the second last climb here. It’s
called the call de laqua St. Robert. I rode that one inside on Zift. It’s in the climbing portal.
So, it’s not in one of the real world roads. It’s it’s like in the climbing portal roads. I
guess it doesn’t really make a difference, but uh that is available on Zift to Ride. So, I’ve
done that. That’s a nice little climb. Nothing hard. Now, we’ll bounce to uh I think
I think uh Joe here was saying 12, 13, and 14. Let’s take a look at stage 12. Oh,
Joe. Stage 12 is a nightmare. O to hotcom category 4 to start the day off. Category one,
the coldest allore called C calledis Bordeair’s category 2 and the HC or category up the autocom.
Uh I got to think a little while as to when they finished here last hilltop finish too. Mountaintop
finish. We’ll go to 13. Oh, this is probably going to be my favorite stage of the tour. This is the
one, or at least the one I’m most looking forward to. Uh, it’s an individual mountain time trial.
Uh, and the beauty of this one, it’s 11 km long, 600 plus meters of climbing. So, 2,000 ft of
climbing in 11 km. Uh, that’s like 7 miles. If you look at this profile on the bottom of
the screen that I’m showing you right now, uh basically the first three kilometers, the
first 1.8 miles are essentially flat. That tells you all the climbing is over about
uh six miles. It’s all kind of in the back uh 8 kilometers there. Five to five to six
miles climbers. Quinn Simmons on the front now working with Inter Mare again. Just going
to try to have a good look at the Pelaton here. See if anything’s getting stretched out. Uh the
cameras uh helicopters just cut away again. Back to the live tracking here. Only 28 seconds to
the boys. Oh, what’s going on here now? Um nope, wrong group. The boys have lost a bit of their
time. You know, it’s two of them fighting the entire Pelaton. So, you’ve got 173 riders
chasing our two out front back of the race here. 23 seconds back. Mark Solair is trying to
battle his way back on. Might be a little bit of a battle for him only because there is
that strong wind coming at him. He’s riding solo. Wow, that’s a neat center there. Looks like a big
horse center here. Looks like a huge horse jumping center. Going to see what they’re saying here.
Yeah, they’re just same thing here. Solair quickly crashes, gets back up, takes a new bike, and
resumes racing. So he might have crashed his solo. 29 seconds. These guys need a
little bit of a breaks. They need a little bit of luck to try to get
a build on this now. Not very likely. Uh, okay. Let me get reading here. Brandon has
awesome mountains to train on. Uh, and wish were in my backyard and moved there. I love to
road and trail run now and climb mountains like Reineer in the Pacific Northwest. Dude, that that
Pacific Northwest is just incredible. All those uh volcanoes, you know, summer active, summer
dormance. Uh, and they just stand out. Uh, what’s the other I know there’s a bunch up
there. Uh, oh jeez, my mom lives in Victoria, so you can see them on a clear day. You
can see them like crystal clear from there. Uh yeah, Spria Sprrickite is saying someone is
streaming on YouTube. That’s because your stream’s down. Yeah, dude. Possibly. I don’t know that
that guy will just be shut down later on today. I’ve had it happen this week, too. Uh absolute
accidental copyright strikes. Uh my stream got shut down. My stream got interrupted yesterday.
Uh, it actually told me once I stopped showing that video, my stream would have went back up.
But I had no idea what was going on. It was like, okay, I don’t know what’s going on. Uh, people
have came into the stream before and said, “Hey, man. Can you show me what’s
going on?” Like the stream. No, I can’t. I absolutely can’t do that. Uh, I’m
just trying to give you my point of view. Oh, cool. Sheila’s answering here. I started out at
17 as a geotech working for three great guys, two geologists and geoysicists at uh H&M. I don’t
know that company. Then after any managers end up at Andron as an ex executive assistant. Yeah, I
remember the days of having geotech around all the time. I first worked my first big company
in Calgary was Apache. So you know who Apache is. Apache guys is a giant corporation out
of Texas. Definitely not as big as Enron. Uh Apache still around, still rocking. and they had
an office in Calgary. Uh I think we had about six floors of the Husky Towers in downtown Calgary
on 9inth A. Yeah, I spent three years there as a geologist. And yeah, we had a geotech that
supported I think four of us geologists. So cool. Sheila, same background. Uh okay, guys.
Let me just Oh, wow. There’s so much talking here. Oh my. Ah. Okay, I’m back on. Yeah, guys, some
of the brightness, it’s just my screens. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I tried to adjust my brightness
on my main monitor yesterday. I can’t turn the brightness down on it. I don’t know why.
So, it’s how it is. What I’m going to do is turn these down. Joey is my director,
obviously. Trying to figure out Joey, I do need another coffee, please. Thank
you very much. I’m going to turn that one way down. Try to turn this one down. And
uh okay, so Sheila, thanks for that info. Don 60/40 split of water Gatorade in my bottles.
Yeah, thin your Gatorade out a little bits. I like mine strong. I used to even do my own. Like when I
didn’t have any Gatorade laying around the house, which I do right now, I pick some up. Um
I would take Tang just for the sugar and the sweetness and I would put some
salt in it. I’m like, you know what? It’s better than water. I got some calories
coming in. I got the sweet taste which I want and uh the salt some sodium in there like sprinkling
quite a bit of rock salt sodium. Uh and then I always have a bottle and I like it full
strength. It wouldn’t be great outside. I just like that little sip of energy in my
head. I’m like I’m getting energy. I’m getting energy every time. But I also have a bottle of
water to kind of rinse it down with. Uh yeah, Joey saying amazing here to cocaine. Yeah,
definitely amazing. Thank you again, Cole. Uh Evan saying, “I saw that stage of Floyd and
water bottles.” Uh I think he’s talking about the stage the 2006 tour of to France. Uh Don Singer,
Floyd Landis, my goodness, I was just thinking of Andy Schlleck on my morning walk today. Yeah, like
all these legends from the past. And then after that, Floyd disappeared. Uh, I think he unleashed
on uh like he told a lot of stuff later on because he was so mad at Lance. Uh, Doug Brown here in the
mix. Greetings from the Netherlands watching local Dutch TV and listening here on my speaker. Can you
do a shout out to my host? Uh, okay. You’re okay. I got I got to turn the brightness up. Joey’s
going to get mad. Alo Maria von Müster. Doug enjoyed the bike ride this afternoon. uh your
host. So, are you staying in uh the Netherlands right now? The host of your bike ride. Okay.
So, maybe you went on a bike tour there. So, yeah, absolutely, dude. Let me know more about
it. So, he’s watching on Dutch. So, I imagine D uh Doug doesn’t understand the television he’s
listening to. So, he’s getting a little bit of commentary from me here live. There’s a lot of
people doing that. And just so you know, Doug, right now we still got Burgo and Virture, the
the studs from Totel Energy on the front pushing the whole way. You know, in the back of their
minds, they’re probably telling themselves, “Wow, is this going to go anywhere? Is this going to
go anywhere?” They’re probably going to swamp us, but there’s always that little glimmer of hope.
So, you’re saying there’s a chance. You’re saying there’s a chance. Yes, I am. There’s a chance. Uh
if things go their way, there’s always a chance for the breakaway to get away, guys. 31.7 degrees
Celsius. We are right on 90° Fahrenheit Fahrenheit right now. Uh so Doug, welcome aboard. Gra glad to
have you here. Always happy to learn about people. Uh shout outs for whatever you guys want to talk
about. Uh Joe 512 is welcome, Doug. Thanks Joe for doing that. Greetings from SoCal. I should have
been out riding today, but here instead that’s me too, guys. I got to finish this, do my chores,
and then I will be getting on the bike today. Yeah, Tony, you’re correct. They are going
through an area with crosswinds. Um, yeah, I don’t have my phone on me to see even what time
it is. Joey saying, “Hit the like button.” Yep, guys. The more likes and you know, I love
doing this, guys. It’s every day. I don’t care that we’re not having a ton of people
viewing right now. People will find me. Uh the likes help though for sure. And it’s free to
hit that little button to uh give me a thumbs up. Dawn here. Dawn used to see Henappy,
George Henappy back in Philadelphia, PA riding the US Pro Championships in the 90s.
It’s crit stage. So we would see teams like US Postal Service and Jelly Belly. I remember Jelly
Belly, too. Some of these teams have been around forever, too. like some of the teams I
remember from the ’90s are still there. Uh Spriotic from playing uh NCAA now he used
to cycle after pandemic. Okay. So he looks like he’s doing a lot of bike stuff after the pandemic
hit. Scotty Mack, dude, thank you so much, bro. Uh like me me and Joey talked about you riding to
driving to the stampede yesterday because I I go Scotty Mac I said that guy’s awesome. I said,
“How much do we have in common?” The cycling, Denver, Calgary, they’re similar, dude. Trust
me, they’re very similar. Uh, we can probably get a little around our city a little bit better.
Uh, although it was kind of a terrible drive to the Stampede last night. You know, it’s like the
busiest week of the year in Calgary. Um, parking, but it wasn’t that bad really. We actually got
to park really close. And I said, “Yeah.” I go, “His wife watches crime shows.” Uh, he joked
about his wife getting ideas. I think the same thing. So, uh, yeah, Scotty Mack, you’re the man
right now. Thank you so much, dude. Uh, so much awesome support from you guys. I absolutely love
it. Uh, yeah, likes, guys. Please like. I want to keep growing the channel. Uh, you know, it’s
been a long grind. Joey’s seen me go through it. Joey’s seen me streaming, you know, hours a day,
uh, race videos. And I’m still gonna do my race videos for those dudes because, man, I know those
guys so well. I know people all over the world that race bikes and those are my inside cycling
world. And it’s so niche. It’s so niche. Um, but they love my videos. They they’ll send me
calling. Do you think there’s a chance you can? And they always ask so politely, too. I’m like,
dudes, I could just just ask me. Like, I don’t know when you’re racing. I don’t know when a bunch
of dudes in the UK are racing all the time. Just ask me. You don’t just spit it out is guess what
I’m saying. Don’t feel like you’re putting me out. Gap is coming down very rapidly now guys. I think
the pelaton’s getting busy here. That’s because there is a bit of lumpiness coming up in the
stage here and there is a bit of a climb coming which could be a launch point for the finish.
Uh I think maybe they’re changing ideas now. Could be a lump uh a launch point right there on
that small coat category 4 climb there. Uh we’re down to 10 seconds. We’ve got drop riders out the
back now, guys. Uh, looks like things are getting a bit heated. Uh, 10 drop riders. Felix Gaul, uh,
Perry Pontra, Gilliam Martan, Septus, Alex Baen, Matteo Trenton, Py, the other Perry Pontra,
the superstar time trellis, Castrio Zapeder, and Vandenberg all out the back. So, I got
to see if something happened there, folks. Yep. Bunch of teams moving to the front now.
They don’t want these two guys to get away. Oh, crosswinds developing, guys. They’re going to
turn and they’re going to have a crosswind from their right shoulder. Now, it’s only 16k an hour.
So, I think the only way that would develop into echelons. I’m going to zoom in here. Now, guys, we
want to see this a little bit closer. I’ll try to give you the map view here. Now, here we go. So,
now they’re getting the winds from the right side. uh if the wind got stronger or let’s say the road
got exceptionally narrow uh and it was in the open then the echelons would would be forced to form.
Let’s just keep an eye on this here. Uh yep, that’s not what I want to do. Want to go
here. Just going to get resituated here, folks. Um okay. Yeah, Scotty Mack, thank you so
much, dude. Denver all the way, dude. Broncos. Go Broncos. Going to say that too. Actually, Mile
High Stadium was a really awesome stadium. Uh really impressed with it. Uh the train services
right there. Our Uber driver that night though was insane. So, we had to There’s a place called
Ball Arena. You got to walk over there to get your Uber. It’s busy. Me and Joey had no idea where
we’re going. It’s in the dark. Uh Metallica fans everywhere. Joey was probably one of the craziest
of them. Our Uber driver picks us up. We go past Uh what is it called? Empower at mile high. We
go past empower at mile high in this huge loop. We come back, come back again, come back, and
we go past it again. I’m like, dude, why are we going past it twice? And then we get stuck on some
highway or something. Started with an aur a r i or something and it was just gridlock all the way.
And so he’s following his Uber app and I’m like, this is the best route. Uh, I think it two it
took us 2 hours to get home and it was like, “Let us out.” The Uber driver was stressed
out. Uh, I don’t blame him. I’m like, “Dude, you should know the city good enough to know
get off here and cut way over. I don’t care if you take us out of the city. Maybe he
has to take that route. I don’t know.” Um, okay. Uh, sorry guys. Yeah, Scotty Mack, he says, “You demand calling. Great channel.
Keep going, dude. Thank you so much. Joe 512.” Yeah, Scotty Mac. Awesome. Yeah, I
agree 100%. And dude, I can’t thank you enough. Sponsors want to be seen for sure today. Let’s
see. Are they still there? They’re still there. 21 seconds as they are fighting desperately to
stay ahead. Uh, it’s coming back. Getting pulled back in. sponsors went out. Flags are blowing from
the right hand side of the riders right now. Just depends how the road goes, the size of the road,
the effort of the riders. Everyone is blocking across the road right now. No one wants to be too
far back and miss a crucial turn in the road right now. The back end. Yeah, everyone seems to be
there. These two are doing awesome. Uh, Prickotic says, “Our channels are being robbed by someone
streaming the actual race.” Yeah, guys, I saw it yesterday. Uh, when I finish streaming, there’s
dudes somewhere in the world just wide open streaming the race. Uh, and the reality is, and
they’ll have like a thousand viewers or something, they like they’re just going to get shut down.
I don’t think they even know that. They probably just develop they probably just open a new account
and just get shut down again. Just get shut down again. I don’t want to do it that way. I want to
be your source where you can come to hang out, talk bikes, sled dogs, whatever you guys want.
Weather, I still want to continue my story about uh and I I keep holding off cuz I hope she
jumps in. You guys remember always believe uh come back kid 2014. I hope she watches
this later. I’d love to talk to her. Uh, I did have to look her up cuz I didn’t
know who she was. I did guess she was uh a long track speed skater because she kind
of said, “Ooh, Calgary’s got the oval’s got really nice ice.” I’m like, “Okay, well that makes
sense to me. Calgary has a great facility.” Uh, 2014. She did mention her yesterday. I’m positive
it was Gunther. Her last name is Gunther. Guumb kid. Uh, and I found a lady named Kelly
Gunther. uh who competed at the 2014 Olympics uh representing the USA uh long track speed skating.
But her story is so awesome because uh she started out skating when she was young. I think she was
first like roller skating, did a little bit of ice skating, which she didn’t really like that
I don’t think that much. She switched over to uh inline skating. Now, in the past, and I’m well
aware of this, I remember way back when Team Yumbo Visma used to have an inline, they sponsored an
inline skating team. I’m talking like the they are fast. They’re the ones that use like the larger
inline skating wheels, not the smaller style like the hockey skates. They look more like long track
speed skates. The It’s very very long, bigger wheels, fast. And these these uh what am I these
skaters they’re in shape. There’s no doubt it’s a very strong crossover sport. Uh I think I’ve seen
in South America like in Brazil uh it’s it’s very popular. They do marathon races, they do short
races. So she excelled at that. It said in 2009 that she won multiple gold medals on the USA relay
team at world championship events. Switched to ice skating. sorry, the ice version of it. And I think
she was originally qualified for the Olympics right away. Uh there was some rules overturning
of a race, some kind of weird upset of rules where she didn’t get to go. She had an injury that
was so horrendous. Uh and if she’s watching or when she sees this, and I I apologize if I’m
just paraphrasing it all. I probably spent 10 minutes researching as f hard as I could as I was
waiting on Joey Jojo to get ready for the stampede yesterday. Um, she almost lost her foot in the
accident. She crashed so hard in an event. Uh, she had a double compound fracture of her ankle and
later I read and all the images are all blurred on on uh, the internet. I guess it’s graphic
content. I think her one foot got tangled up with the skate of her other foot. And these aren’t
like hockey skates. It’s not like, you know, where they have the double edge. It’s sharp, but it’s
not that sharp. Uh, these skates are like skating on knives. Uh, she came back, I think she couldn’t
do anything for two or three years recovering from it. Uh, to the fact that we’re going to cut your
foot off to then you’re never going to use this again and you’re never going to compete again to
actively competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Uh, the comeback kid. Love it. Absolutely love
it. So, I hope she hears me talk about that. Um, okay guys, I know I’m behind now. Way behind here.
Uh, what do we want? The boys up front are rocking for Total Energies. 32 seconds back out front.
28.7 km to go. In their heads right now, they’re thinking, they’re looking at going, “Do you think?
Could we?” Uh, let’s take a look at the coast uh course. Quite a bit out in the countryside,
passing through just a couple small towns. Uh, this might help favor the breakaway here. The
fact that they’ll probably get through this town a little bit quicker than the Pelaton will, but
it is pretty open. They are fighting winds. I see one of them. Okay, that’s further back. We do have
the cat 4 right after another small village. It is kind of lumpy through here as well. Uh, if we can
quickly jump back here. That’s from another stage, guys. Uh, definitely not today. We’ll come back
to this stage here. Uh this guy here and we will look at the stage. You know, we’re in this
section here. We’re gradually climbing. Uh there are lumps and bumps they can use to their
advantage. Uh tiny bit of bump at the end as well. That’s where our brave riders are. I love
riders like this. I don’t care where they finish in the tour to France. It’s the
breakaway for me that does it always. Uh Sylvia Valentino asked, “Will Vout try to win?” Uh
I I think if votes in the right place at the right time, he has as good a shot as anyone at winning.
Uh Tatty seems to be very dominant. This is more set up for the green jersey today. Tatty’s
in the green jersey. Uh in an allout sprint, Tatty wouldn’t stand a chance against Jonathan
Milan. Uh that’s the one thing Tatty is not capable of doing. Uh looks like Robert Stannard
here bombing victorious just getting pushed back on probably mechanical. They’re they are moving
along quite nicely right now. I think I do want to look at the this I want to look at the time
gaps better. I’m really pulling for these guys right now. Back of the race here. 23 seconds back.
Okay, that’s Robert Stannard. So that group of 10, the Felix G, all those guys, they’re
definitely back in right now. So, he’s going to have to chase hard to get back
on. At the front of the Pelon, it’s everyone, guys. All the teams are there. Uh, blocked across
the road. They’re moving along at about 40k an hour. Uh, traveling through the wheat fields
here in France. Wind is very strong from the right side. All the flags are whipping in the
wind here. I just don’t think it’s strong enough and the roads aren’t narrow enough. And maybe
there’s not enough uh desire in the Pelaton to really attack right now. They’re hoping that
they’re going to slowly bring them back and then that the sprint chain teams who need to win
this stage, uh Jonathan Milan’s not going to win on stage 10. Jonathan Milan has a chance
today to win a stage at the Tour to France. uh the teams that are vying for GC, they just
keep an eye on each other and they are expecting the sprint teams with their sprint trains to bring
this breakaway back. That’s kind of how it works. So these guys now, it says they’ve been in the
breakaway for 50 km. Average speed 48.2 km an hour. Uh that’s what I’m seeing there. Let
me just confirm that. Yeah, 48.2 km an hour. Matthew Burgau and Matteo Versure continue their
breakaway. The two French riders have been out for 50 km at a pace of 48.2 km an hour since attack.
So, they are absolutely hammering here. Uh these guys think they’re going to win. These guys are
they they know there’s a chance. It’s a very low chance, but no guts, no glory. Dream big, dare
to fail. Right? Love those sayings. If you don’t, you don’t if you don’t shoot, you can’t score.
How about that one? Okay, trying to catch up, guys. Uh, so yeah, we talked about what they’re
quickly. Oh, check this out. Joe used to mix Gatorade and chocolate protein mix and or coffee.
Oo, dude. Aggressive. Quite aggressive there, Sheila. They don’t know what they’re missing. Be
there or be square. Doug, I was a true duchy and went grocery shopping with my housing host to the
bakery, the butcher, the market. I’m doing that naman. Oh, Doug’s doing the namigan walk. That’s
good. That’s good. Okay, I forgot about that. Oh, I got the link, dude. I haven’t even seen it yet.
I apologize. So, Doug, did you send it to Inside Cycling World? I’ll definitely go click on that
today and I’ll find out all about it. I actually want to share it with my friend who does uh the
hang grenade division guy, Michael. Michael. I don’t call him Michael. His name’s Mike. Uh,
I will. So, I’m not sure where he sent it to. I’ll find out where it is. Maybe my assistant, my
lovely assistant, Joey Jojo, can do that for me. Joey, I’m not doing anything today. By the way,
I am not leaving the house today. Thank you. Uh, Doug Brown saying, “Thanks for the shout out. She
loved it.” Uh, yeah, Doug. Anytime, man. Anytime. I know. I I I my pronunciation problems where
they go sprinkling super. You should try to ride here in the Philippines every day with 36 degree
heater climbs. Yeah, I can imagine that. Dude, the heat and dude, the humidity, like the
the humidity in the Philippines, it must be, you know, even if it’s 30, it probably feels
like 40. Talking uh Celsius here. Uh Dawn’s back, Quickstep, Fu uh God, I almost said Fuji
there. FDJ, Estana, and AG2R were around back then. This will be the last tour to
France for AG2R. Well, they’re Decathlon now, right? Uh I’m not sure what they’re talking about
their name, like if it’s going to change anymore. L’Oreal is taking over the sponsorship like as
in L’Oreal like the hair care products. Okay, it’s just showing video here of the leaders going
through the town and even the twoman breakaway, the twoman total energies. There’s a turn
coming up through town. Uh, that one guy almost smoked into the side of a building. So,
let’s go here now. Quickly, I want to see. Yeah, the breakaway group. It might have been right
here in the middle of town. The second rider uh just took a 50 m gap, having to
slow down so much to avoid that. So, I’m going to keep an eye on this. I think the
pelon could be kind of smashed apart here a little bit. And look at the second turn. It’s
pretty rough as well. Uh out of town though, so probably no buildings to crash into. Just
some of my little thoughts. I like to have 53 second gap, guys. We only got 24 kilometers to
go. It’s flying now. Um love it, folks. Love it. Uh Ann Allen was here. Okay. Uh looks like she’s
commenting down below. Almeida is still in the race after huge cash yesterday with a fracture.
Yeah, Almeida is still here, believe it or not. Uh, is that them through there? I’m trying to see
the live tracking again. Looks like the Pelaton. Okay, they’re they’re coming up to kind of like
that danger point now. Oh, okay. That’s delayed a little bit. Uh, just going to keep an eye
on the race radio here. See what’s going on. Yeah, these guys are not letting off. There’s
a chance here that they could steal a win. Uh, I think it’s a very low chance, but they’re there. Uh, there’s comments here. I’m not see. Sorry, guys. And if I miss any of your comments, uh,
it’s only because I just didn’t see it. Um, I see them commenting about pickle juice
and stuff like that. Pineapple pizza. Okay, Ann Allen’s here. Hey, Ann, good to see
you. Newbie here on both tour and your channel. Always a good time to join. Uh, absolutely.
broaden your brain knowledge. Liked. Thank you so much. Ann and do you ride bikes? Do you just
love the tour to France? Do you like seeing the scenery? Let us know. Uh the channel’s for
everyone. You don’t have to ride bikes to be here. Uh I I watch the tour to France when
I could see it every day from I think it was about 199798 the US I think through Outdoor
Life Network. If there’s any Americans here who remember that just tell me. Uh maybe it
was the Discovery Channel. I think it was ON first. Every stage was shown. I watched every
stage. Uh then Joey got to understand cycling. And here’s a little shout out. Uh during the
2012 Jurro when Ryder Hzall won the Canadian, uh Joey first got introduced to cycling then. I
made her watch the stages. She put up with it back then. Uh I don’t know if she would now. And uh
just kidding, guys. 58 second gap back to the boys here. see where the main pelaton is coming through
now. So, they’re going through those hard they’ve been through the hard corners in town heading out.
They got one last turn and then they’re going to be seeing this long drag towards the finish line.
Well, towards the hill, the small climb we got to take on. These boys are fighting at the front.
55 seconds. We need something that Let’s keep our fing fingers crossed. Fingers crossed for the
breakaway. It’s my favorite thing every day. I actually thought earlier that we were just gonna
have uh them all ride together to the finish. So, I’m glad it kind of got spruced up a little
bit. Uh yeah, Ann, so welcome aboard. So, Ants here learning about some cycling, maybe some
tour of to France. Uh and just chime in anytime you want. Uh Joe’s asking if anyone knows a guy
named Richard Nolles. I I don’t know that name. Don’s going to try the chocolate, the Gatorade
chocolate protein mix. Okay, Tony knows. Kelly Gunther faced a devastating injury in March of
2010. That’s right. Double compound fracture in her ankle during a race. Uh yeah, and I’ve
seen the pictures and what I read about it, they were going to take her foot off. Uh and four
years later, she’s skating at the Winter Olympics. And again, I she never wanted to tell us her name,
but she mentioned it yesterday in the stream. Uh, Kelly, I hope you see this. Uh, tons of respect
for you. And she’s the one that mentioned it was one of the first or second stages. She had a great
comment. And guys, um, I’m an arch I’m an armchair athlete slashcritic slash commentator, whatever
you want to call me. Actually, I don’t even like to criticize the writers because I think they’re
all fantastic. Uh, I will defend Yonas right now because no one knows what he went through. And
Kelly chimed that into the chat and she says, “No one knows how hard it is to come back. Think
what she came back from and competed at an Olympic level. It’s harder for them to come back than it
is for say your average person uh to get their, you know, that elite level athletic ability back.
So sometimes it’s like, oh yeah, that guy should just go retire. He’s hurt.” He’s trying to
come back, man. He’s trying to come back. Really interesting finish today. We kind of hang
a right and go through like a big roundabout and then head back in the same direction. That
looks like they go down a gigantic roundabout. 1 minute 8 seconds, guys. Who’s got their fingers crossed for the breakaway?
Who is on board with me? Uh yeah, great comments, Tony. Glad you
know about that. I saw she even did a podcast just a little while ago. Um, yeah,
she’s inspiration story right there for sure. Yeah, Tony. Real small breakaway makes Pelaton
happy. Not much. Yeah, there’s not a lot of issues once the sprint train is going. Everyone
is spread across the road. Every team is up there near the front waiting to see what’s
going to happen. Uh, all the sprint teams, they’re showing Merlier, Germay, Jonathan
Milan, all the sprint teams are right there. Uh the majority of Yeah, four riders here for
uh Tim Merlier. The Trek riders here. Okay, I can see Quinn moving up. Jonathan’s over on
the front. Only a couple of Trek riders at the front. The Alpison riders are on the left hand
side. Quinn goes right to the front and gets, don’t worry, guys. Got this. You can sit
on my draft all the way to the finish. Uh this guy’s doing way too much work today. He
must just feel like a beast out there. Um, D is saying, “Jojo, apparently the commentator
needs a walker and his slippers.” Yeah, exactly. I feel like it today. Uh, I had
to instantly turn my brain on and go, “Whoa.” And I knew I was late already. And
just with this with the stuff that happened yesterday with the stream, I’m like, “Guys,
I got to make this one perfect today.” And it didn’t start out perfect. But guys, it’s
the way it is. It’s natural. It’s authentic. Uh, I see Sheila saying, “Be here with you guys
or be square. I definitely want to be in France for at least one stage someday. I love your idea
of staying for a month and watching at a pub with the locals.” Yeah. Then you don’t got to chase
after everyone, but you can like get involved with the the lifestyle. Like, you know, here Sheila, I
don’t know about you, but I go I go do most of the grocery shopping. I go pick it up. I walk around
to Walmart. Good morning, sir. Have a good day, sir. There’s like no interaction. I just pick
up a big cart load of groceries. I come home, throw it down, whatever. I want to live in the in
the local village. It could be a small apartment uh and have the butcher downstairs and have
the baker over here and have the produce guy, whatever you get over there, that stuff. And you
go out every day and you go pick up your fresh smoked meats or whatever they are and your bread.
Oh, there was a crash that happened. I wonder if race radios caught that. Two riders down at the
back. One up very quick. One laying face down in the road. Quick guess. It looks like it’s an
intermareteer rider. Um, nothing from ra from the race here yet from the tour to France. Medics
are on honor. It is definitely an intermareteer rider. Trying to see who that is. Here it is. It’s
just popping guys. Guess who said it first, folks. Boom time. Uh, I think his name is Yonas Rooch. He
hits the deck. He was at the front earlier today. The German rider gets back up after being hit.
Uh oh, it says here, “The German rider gets back up after being hit on the ground by a Moasar.”
What does that mean? Did he run him over? Okay, so he’s down. Yeah, he was down. The Moasar
rider had to uh detour over to the left and did basically run him over. He basically ran him over.
Movar Rider’s gone quickly. Uh yeah, he’s probably going to be behind by two and a half minutes
here. Rooch, what is he? Is he German or Dutch? Getting back up here, guys. Just so you can
see, our leaders are just about at the points for the uh small only one point available. Who’s
going to duel it out between the two teammates? Uh yeah, you can see Rucho here. He’s already
two minutes behind. We’ve got Rub Rubio uh by himself also. 1 minute 16 30 seconds
gap behind. That’s going to be probably a mechanical. Whenever I see a quick 30 second
gap, I’m thinking mechanical. Mechanical every time. Uh the leading group. It’s going to
be a tough one, guys. Going to be a tough one. They’ve got a 47 second gap over a Pelaton
that is coming to get a green jersey win here. uh you know some of these stages. Oh yeah,
he hit the ground hard. His jerseys shredded on the back side of it. Uh he’s two
minutes behind Rubio right now. He’s 3 minutes 20 down already on the front.
Uh I expect it to be a lot bigger. He’s probably in a lot of pain right now.
Just the shock of hitting the ground. Jay Taylor’s I think Jay’s just jumping. So,
a breakaway. Who’s in the breakaway? We’ve got two riders from Team Total Energies. We got um
Virture and I’ve it’s just completely slipped my mind there for a second. Oh, Burgo. Here he is.
Matthew Burgo and Matteo Virture. Virture involved in the day one crash over the top of the small
CFO climb with Ben Toma. Not much of a climber, guys. It’s only like a 4% gradient. They’ll be
over the top now. They’ll be over the top now. Uh, someone got one point there. So, the Pelaton’s
accelerating again. Uh, when the Pelatons’s at full pace, they can easily bring this 45 seconds
down in no time. Kofod, actually, Kofod’s riding on the right hand side of the road. Sudal in
the middle. Tudor getting into the action. Vizma right there as well. I think they were just
showing Yonas there actually. Uh, I didn’t see him blowing a kiss, so I couldn’t confirm that
it was him. Uh, tour to France. Tour to France. Don saying, “Yep, Tour to France was on ON
back then.” Yeah, Versus. That’s the one I remember. They I think it was ON that switched
their name to Versus. And for some reason, I’m think it was even like Speed Vision
or something like way way back when. Is there any truth to that? Does anyone
remember that? Uh Doug Brown. It’s the Nyiman Walk of the World officially. It’s okay.
I got to remember this. Uh the Nimigan Walk of the World officially. It’s the Verdigasi,
which translates to 4day. Oh, cool. Ver for translates to forer. Okay, gotcha. And Doug,
I think I was mentioning I think I brought you up yesterday or the day before. Um, is it a
historical walk? Like is it basically a walk from monuments to cemeteries, things like that? Niggan
walk of the world. Okay. Going to look it up. Uh, Doug saying, “I’d like to see
the Dutch duo breakaway.” Pelaton looks angry. Breakaway. getting nerv getting
nervous. Oh, yeah, definitely. They’re like, uh, we’re going to be caught. 39 second gap,
guys. 39 second gap. I’m liking this. We have four uh groups on the road. We’ve got the two leaders,
uh, the teammates from Totel Energies. We’ve got the majority of the riders in the Pelaton. We
have a group here of drop riders who have fallen 50 seconds behind the Pelaton. That’s Julian
Alfalipe, Mudor, Mororrow Schmidt. Uh, I think Mororrow’s been having a tough day. He’s been out
the back quite a bit. Rubio and Jordi Muse from uh Red Bull Boro Hans Growa. Uh further back we have
Yonas Rooch. Is it a Yonas? It is a Yonas intermar German rider uh riding completely solo after that
crash on the ground. And then to add to that, he got ran over by the Movar rider. And yeah, hit him
pretty hard too. 3 minutes 30 seconds back. Can’t blame this guy if he finishes well behind today.
Hopefully he rebounds from that pretty quick. Uh the images I’m seeing, uh the flags are blowing,
folks. Just not strong enough. And the guys from Totel are driving themselves hard. Down to 34
seconds. Go. Uh are we getting any speed? Yeah, the battle is fullon. Exactly. Burgau got the
one point uh 33.5 km an hour up the climb. It’s surprising how well these guys are holding
them. Uh are the sprint teams just playing with them. Uh the pelatons’s getting very very
stretched out in the back end. Not everyone’s going to want to be there at the front. It starts
getting pretty crazy. The roads aren’t super wide here. Uh you’ve got 15 20 riders across the road
in rows. One goes down, they’re all going down. Uh okay, just catching up here. Jim Bron is asking
where Jorgensson is. Uh Matteo Jorgensson will be in the Pelaton right now probably protecting uh
Yonas. The two leaders are absolutely burying themselves like Ma’s hanging open. Remember guys,
they’ve been on the break now for probably close to 60 kilometers. It’s uh close to 90 90
degrees Fahrenheit racing all out against the world’s best cyclists. Uh, and they’re
just holding on. 25 second gap, guys. Pretty uh, obvious they’re going to be caught unless
something strange happens in the Pelaton. I can see the green jersey way on the left side. Sorry,
way on the right side right now. And what’s what’s even more crazy about the the breakaway is that
it’s 24 seconds. It’s 23 seconds. I’m watching it happen live. They are not letting off. It’s
like there’s still that little glimmer of hope that something happens behind them. Uh, and the
Pelaton slows down quickly, but again, the tour is designed to highlight the skills of different
types of riders. This is a total sprinter stage, uh, designed for the sprinters to get up there.
So, the sprinters can’t let this opportunity pass. Uh, I think as a sprint team, if you don’t win
today, you absolutely failed. Uh if you if you let the breakaway get away, but I always cheer the
breakaway. Always cheer the breakaway. Um yeah, Joe’s saying to uh Juny that yeah, Matteo’s just
hanging out in group two, staying upright. Oh, and actually at the front right now, the total
energy group broken into two. One of the riders has absolutely just stopped cycling. He has
stopped pedaling. His teammate has gone off alone. There’s only one left. One guy left. It’s
Burgo going for it. Vir’s had enough. It looked like he was doing a lot of coughing there. Maybe
even hacking up a lung. Uh the images I’m here now. It’s kind of like on a brick cobbled path
uh roadway here. He’s just kind of getting going. He just took a big Oh, sorry. That’s Merlyier.
They’re showing now. We about back. We got a rider down on screen here. Rider down on screen. Um,
I’m not sure if that’s Group Palma, who that is, guys. 12 seconds to go with 11 kilometers. Looks
like a crash happened at a roundabout. Looking now. Where did that? Yeah, crash went down
at the big roundabout. Highspeed roundabout. I’m waiting for Yeah, mechanical from earlier
shaded up. That’s good. Virture is done. Yep. Uh they haven’t mentioned who was in the crash there.
Burgido is flying all out, guys. Flying all out. They are so close to him. He’s not giving up. He’s
going to make them fight for every last bit. Guys like this, this is this affects the uh this is
Matteo Verure. He’s looking back seeing them now. This is his first signs that he’s like, “Okay,
it’s done.” Uh okay. Who is that? Is that the Astano rider? It’s Israel Premier Techch. Yeah,
it’s an Israel Premier rider. Taking a little while to get back on his bike, so looks like the
catch is imminent. He’s looking over his shoulder now. It’s only a 5-second gap. Doug started
watching Tour to France in 1978. Don saying, “The company I used to work for back in 2000 used
to handle software for cataloges like Phil Ligits World Cycling Productions. I love those.” Uh yeah,
then the internet got popular and we pivoted to websites. Okay. Wow, views are coming up, guys. I
just noticed now we got 184 people watching. Very slow start today. I think too many people were out
last night having a couple of uh pints, perhaps a wine or a chandi. Uh it’s summertime, right?
I don’t know why I’m thinking about shandies right now. Um 9.5 km to go. He still has a 4se
secondond gap. They’re making the poor guy just dangle out front. So again folks, we got Burgo out
front by himself. Uh great exposure for team Total Energies at the front at the front today at the
tour. Uh the Pelaton 159 riders. All the hitters are there. 1 minute 4 seconds back. Oh, there’s 15
riders in. It’s changing on the fly. Mark Solair, Julian Ala Phipe, Mororrow Schmidt. So this group
here, there’s 15 riders here. Uh, some there’s Ben Toma Virture. Virture who was in the breakaway all
for the last 60 km with his teammates now finds himself behind the Pelaton. When the camera cut to
him, it honestly looked like he was really hacking up along. Finally seeing images of the Israel
Premate getting a bike change as a group PAMA FDJ rider who’s been dropped is going by. So, I’m just
trying to figure out who they are. And we have our poor one solo dude who got ran over today, the
intermareteer rider, uh, Yonas Rooch, 4 minutes 53 behind the very front. Okay, the legends have been
caught. Uh, Bersado and Virture today, they lit up the stage for me today. That was the the highlight
of the stage so far right there. And they’re showing the back of the Pelon here. Just trying
to see if there’s a reason why they’re doing this. Funny here. Now, the man, the legend himself,
Quinn Simmons, who’s led all day, is now sitting at the back of the pelaton. Uh, I’m sure we’re
going to see him again real quick. Okay. Uh, oh god, so many comments, guys. The Pelon knows as
soon as they catch them, some other riders will launch attack. So, time is important. Exactly.
They need to catch them at the right time. You don’t want to catch them too soon because other
guys could launch. Then the sprint teams have to react again and again and again hurting their
chances. Alpasin on the right hand side of the road pointing out the road furniture. Some of
these barriers are just brutal here. Visma on the left side. I can see Yonas riding in second place
on the left hand side of the road. I think there’s still a lot of fight left in Yonas. Uh the Trek
team dead center. I can see Jonathan Milan right now. Kofod right there. The Namigan March started
in World War I. Oh, okay. As a as a Dutch army training program, the Netherlands abstained from
the war, but as but seeing as tens of thousands of Germans were invading Belgium. It was a good idea.
Okay. So, it started in World War I. Since then, it’s became the largest walking event in the
world. I had no idea, Doug. This is awesome. 47,000 walkers including 7,000 soldiers from
30 countries including Canada and the US and also the Calgary police. Thanks Doug. Appreciate
that. That’s awesome info. Uh I’m going to pull up the website after this and uh tomorrow I’m
going to show the website uh on the channel. I’ll show the website. I’ll try to show a
few images. Uh it’s easy to show websites. Uh guys, 6.9 km to go. The sec that second group
is being dropped pretty hard right now. These are guys that are just shutting it down today. That
group’s getting bigger. Almeida’s back there, guys. Almeida is back there. He’s not feeling
that great. Uh he does have good company. He’s got Alfipe. Uh Mark Solair’s back there. So,
you can see these riders like Mark Solair uh in the past would be a contender. He’d be like
a a GC type guy. He’s here to work for Tatty. He’s not a GC guy here. Uh, so he can afford to
lose time on stages like this. Michael Woods back there. Volgrren Leair who had a problem earlier.
Uh, look at this. We got an Elbear. And we got a Le Bear. Intermar Rider and Arca Rider. Cost
shoes back there. Michael Store. Luke Pla. Luke Pla from the time trial. What a champ he was.
Uh, sat in the hot seat for quite a while. Uh, Ben Toma. Yeah. So, lots of big brand names
back here. Virture. This guy, just this guy just buried himself trying to get away. Uh,
six kilometers to go, guys. Milan’s up front. Ger is up front. Binium supporters, don’t worry.
Your dude is there. Your dude is there. Probably they probably have the 3 kmter rule here. And
I And again, I thought that was on every stage, too. That kind of threw me off. Um, so basically
get to 3 kilometers and then just stay upright. Don’t put yourself in any uh dangerous
positions. We’ve got Alpison up front. Bing Victorious is there as well. Uh seeing
some JCO riders on the far left. Just kind of keep an eye out for Yonas here.
Sure the directors are constantly in their ears right now. Okay, Doug. So, I’ll
get on that tomorrow. Thanks for the info. Um yeah, this is a true allout sprint finish now
coming up, folks. Uh they took a hard right and the pelaton is completely stretched out. 5.1 km
to go. 2 minutes back to a group of 23 riders. Uh that rider that group with first I think
was 9 15 20. Now it’s 23. These are all the riders that are like I’m done. No mass. And
they’re just slipping back into that group. Like I’m off the back. I’m gonna get caught up by
these guys. I’m gonna try to hang on with them. Uh Yonas Roo who had that crash just at the worst
timing of the day then gets ran over. Uh 6 minutes and 30 seconds down. 4.7 km to go guys. Try to
show you where we were are on screen here. Here’s our groups. Here’s that kind of crazy finish I was
telling you about. Uh we’re going to be finishing at a roundabout here over on the on the west
side, the left side of the page. But before that, we take this hard right. We come all the way out,
do this full loop around this roundabout here, and come back in the opposite direction. Uh, so
the front runners might be seeing some of these guys that are riding at the back. They’re going
to be passing each other in opposite directions. Uh, yeah, Jordi Muse is out the back.
Penhold is still chasing. Yeah, Merlier did go back in. Yeah, he need Meria
needs to be at the front right now. 4.1 km to go. Um, how is Benny doing? This is from Elmort.
I would like to see him win a stage. Uh, yeah, Benny’s right up there, dude. Don’t
worry about it, Benny. This is a stage that Benny can win two today. Benny, Milan,
Merlier. Uh, it’s so funny. The riders that we’ve seen so much before. Like, we
haven’t seen Matthew Vanderpool today. Uh this is not his type of stage. Uh but
he’s just I think he’s just resting today. Uh he didn’t he finished fine at the mirror
de Bratana but uh he was burnt out from the day before. So he’s probably taking a couple
rest days here now if if you want to call this resting. He has to still hang out in
this pelaton. 3.3 kilometers to go riders. And it’s funny here Jonathan Vandenberg just asked
how is Matthew Vanderpald doing today? He’s just I haven’t seen him. He’s missing. He’s MIA today.
Jonathan. Um, back to Doug. Four days July 1516th walking around 40k today. So, Doug, it’s coming
up right away. No significance to the route, but it was the center of the Canadian battle
in World War II as seen in the film A Bridge too far. Yeah. Awesome. Uh, I read that book,
uh, Cornelius Ryan. I think I read that way back when when I was in high school. I should
probably do an audiobook version of it again. I think that’s that I think that’s one of
the definitive and there’s been a few guys I think Anthony Beaver is is it Beaver
an Anthony or Anthony Beaver be e vo r uh he’s done a full version of it too I think
he’s done two of them on uh that whole battle up there in the Netherlands 2.7 km to go guys
trying to watch this all go down for you here I’m seeing the giant roundabout they’re
going in It’s a little bit delayed here. I’m actually 600 m behind from what I’m seeing.
I’ll show you. They’ve gone through the giant roundabout. Let’s have a look. They’ve gone
through it now. And actually, they’re so far ahead now of the group that they’ve dropped.
Uh they won’t see them going by. Maybe some of the other groups will see each other. Crossing
the river coming up right away. We’re going to have to hang out here and just see how it goes.
Um yep, that will be delayed, so that’s okay. I actually found an a tour tracker
app yesterday. Uh more live updates uh and you can follow a bunch of races on it.
So, I’m going to start using that in the future. Uh uh Doug’s here is talking about a stadium
Prague built in the Cold War held 250,000 was used as a countrywide fitness
center. Really Benny can do it. He just needs his team to lead him
out correctly. Uh high speed finish, guys. We really don’t have any more sharp
turns to take. This looks like we’re going to have this kind of like wider road to
do this sprintish finish. Sprint finish on. It’s going to be a wide open sprint finish
here. Uh let’s just keep a look on this here, guys. What I’m going to do is because I’m
watching a little bit uh delayed, I’m going to do a full how I see it from my delayed which
is very close behind. So technically they’re going to cross the finish line right before I
get there. Uh I right now 61 km an hour. I’m going to jump back a little bit. We’re at the
last roundabout. So you’ll have to understand that this is going to be slightly delayed. I’ll
catch up with that. Pelaton super strung out here at the front right now. Uh, looks like we got
two track riders on the front. Alpison rider, just the pedaling style. I think that’s Matthew
Vanderpole right at the front right now with uh Jonathan Milan right behind him. We’re on
a very, very long camera shot here. I don’t know why there’s no motorbikes riding near him.
Uh, strung out by about 10 riders long. Having another quick peek. Yes, that is Matchu Vanderpole
sitting on the Trek Riders wheel. Again, guys, I’m 1 km from the finish. I know the Pelaton
right now, I’m looking in this direction, is only 500 meters from it. I’m going to try
to ignore that because this is really how I want to do this. I was explaining this to Joey
last night. My stream is slightly delayed. Um, who is at the front here? Yeah, it’s such a long
shot. I can see Jonathan Milan sitting on third. We’ve got a couple of riders from it looks like
Groupama FDJ come along. Um, I can see who the stage winner. It’s absolutely unbelievable, guys.
Uh, mind blown here. Let me just get through this. I don’t know how this happens. I’m going to tell
you how it happens. This is insane if it happens like this. Where is he? I see Jonathan Milan
there. Up the right hand left hand side comes two riders from Alpison the coin there. Okay, I’m glad
they fixed that. That was funny. You guys saw that on screen because there’s no way that happened.
Boom. Here he goes. There was a little bumping and grinding there between a Israel premerc rider
and Jonathan Milan. Jonathan Milan lights it up out of the saddle. Vout Vanard going with him,
folks. Matthew Vanderpole on the far left just gets dropped. Jonathan Milan bouncing around like
a madman. Just easily pulls to the finish. What a champ in a sprint, folks. What a champ in a
sprint. Wow, that was actually fun to do that, guys. That’s how I want to do it. Uh, I might do
that going first. Yeah, great. Here it’s coming up on stream now. You guys would have seen before it
had Quinn Simmons showed up as the stage winner, and I was like, what? So, I’m like, I
don’t see him. The last time I saw him, he was at the back of the stage. Jonathan Milan
wins. Uh, Vout Van Art was sprinting with him side by side briefly. Jonathan Milan is just the
man right now. Uh, he pulled ahead of Vout. Vout just stayed in his draft all the way. Didn’t make
any impact. Oh, it was Kaden Groves who went. So, Kaden Groves is stepping up for Alpha Done here.
uh gets third place overall on same time, too. Uh let me catch this. I want to see if anyone else
saw that in the video in the the stream there. Uh Tony saying, “Really missing uh Jasper
on days like this?” Yes, I agree 100%. Doug’s also saying that Geo Channel carried
the tour way back when. Uh, okay. Looking at it again here. Jonathan starts from third out. Two
riders for Alpus in there. Matchu was leading out Kaden Groves. That was happening. Vout tries
to get on Jonathan’s wheel. Maybe gets Okay, he does only get about a quarter way up it.
Jonathan’s accelerating all the way. Vout’s in his wheel and he’s still kind of drifting
back. Uh, different type of sprinters. Jonathan right now is the all out. He’s kind of like
a he would compare to like a Marshall KD, Andre Griel type sprinter, just horsepower.
I’d love to see his power file. I would absolutely love to see that. The fact that
they showed Quinn Simmons as the stage winner, that really made me pause. Uh long pause there,
folks. Okay, let me just get through this, guys. No breakaway win today, dude. Uh who’s
this guy? Uh I’m not sure if it’s ML or ML. Guys, I love it. 172 riders now. I don’t know
what we get to. I know it was it was you know what it was the the circle of friends early on. It
was the inner circle of the inside cycling world uh community. Uh we had it small and tight at
the beginning, folks. It was perfect. Great interaction in the chat. We were rocking 50 60
70 people in here and at the end it’s taking off, folks. I love it. Uh yeah, I actually didn’t
see where Benny finished in that one. Guys, let me take a look at the stats, guys. You
can’t always be right up there, right? That’s the general ranking today. So, Jonathan Milan
wins. We know that. Uh I called that one to the finish. And guys, uh what I’m seeing right
now, Jonathan Milan, Vanard, Kaden Groves, Pascal Acrian. Pascal Acriman had a big bump with
uh well, I don’t know if they touched. Jonathan was riding really hard and he just kind of moved
over a little bit and kind of bumped Pascal Acan just a tiny bit. Uh bumping and grinding and
racing right no it was no one’s fault. Arnold De having a really nice showing here. Sprinter for
lotto doing a great job. That’s all I’m seeing so far. You know what I’m going to do here guys?
Let’s go to the stage eight here. We’re going to look at the rankings right now and see where
our other sprinters finished. Stage eight stage ranking. You can see it right here. Uh Milan
won that easily even though it’s showing on the same time he won that sprint easily again. Kaden
Groves really impressive. Uh Pascal Arian great too. I saw the bump. It really threw him off.
Uh managed to hold fourth place. Arnold Dele in fifth. Ah team picnic postal rattle coming
up. Uh Lond Anderson. Brian Kakard in the mix here. Brian keep going dude. Uh don’t worry about
stage three. Uh, Diani for Twodoor Pro Cycling, Albani for EF. Great job for EF. And Unix rider
here. Uh, Edvartson Fryinheim. Let’s see if we can find out. Uh, Bingham finished in 19th
today, guys. Anthony Turgis in 17th. Gonovan 16th. When will he get his sprint going again? It
seems like he’s been off for a couple years. Um, I’m going to have to take a look at that and see
who is lead out. People are bow house right there. Danny Van Paul was always uh deadly in a sprint
at the end. Asky doing really well. Okay, let’s just look through the reg. Arnold Demar here for
RK B&B. This guy’s always dangerous, too. Uh, top 20 finish here. Same time. They gave it all the
same time. Matthew Vanderpole was there. Matchu was leading out. Uh Kaden Groves there. Want to
finish the chat here. Yeah, V was second. Milan won. Benny was uh I think I said 19th. Benny gets
19th today. Let’s just look at that again. 19th or 17th. Benny gets 19th today at 50 minutes. 3 hours
50 minutes and 26 seconds. Uh and just so everyone knows, that’s the same time as the winner. They
were all that close. I think there was probably a little bit of a time gap there. Uh we’ll see
probably more splits later. Uh but they they given them all the same time. All same time. Back
to Wow, guys. It’s everyone. Everyone’s getting the same time today. Tatty gets the same time.
He was nowhere near the front. He was just in the big group coming in. Um in reality, there could
be two, three seconds between all these riders. Uh great job here, guys. Great job. So, Benny
won that one. Cole Kane, dude, thank you so much. Guess what, Coleca folks? Number one in
the uh group chat today. Thanks a lot, Cole. Uh loved hearing about your ride. 2 hours 32 minutes
out in the Saudi heat. Here’s a question for you, Cole. Are you like actually out riding in the
sand dunes with Lambos and Ferraris driving by? Maybe the occasional uh Grenadier or an old Land
Rover or something like that. Just kind of where Gwagon’s passing by you. I’d love to know about
that. Yeah, Tatty will still be in the yellow for sure. Uh, so Jonathan got some good points, guys.
Let’s take a look at that. Uh, sprint finish win. Jonathan should have picked up 50 points. My
prediction is without looking at it, Jonathan is now back into the green jersey. So, let’s take
a look at that green jersey. Jonathan Milan. Okay, this is the stage. He got 20 for Oh, he got 20
there, but he also has the intermediates. Oh, this is for the intermediates. It’s showing here
at Vray 85.5 kilometers. Uh then he gets 50 for the finish. B got some good points. Kaden got
good points there. Uh overall in the green jersey, we can see it right here now. Jonathan Milan 192
points back in the green jersey handily now over Tatty Pagachar. Bingan still 124 points. Matthews
always getting good points up there. Anthony Church had a good showing today. Tim Millier, um
I’m not sure where he finished today. Vingo still got good points. This is all from uh finishing
those stage wins. Not really sprinters points for those guys. Um Weights in here. Yep. Tatty
finished 42nd. Matteo Jorgensson. Yeah. Uh who’s pointing out here? Uh yeah, Juny. Yeah, Jorgensson
looks really good. Jorgensson if he keeps this up. Liddell Trex saying to uh saying, “Nobody had a
chance today, Johnny. Unbelievable. Chapo guys managed really well. Managed really well.” The
Green Hulk man. Congrats. The Green Hulk man. I like that. Uh Matteo Jorgensson, there’s another
that could be a top 10 finisher for Vizma there. Cole, thanks for being here, man. Uh, Jim Brony Jorgensson finished in the Pelaton
there. Uh, there was a just a swack of widers that came over the finish together all at once. Uh,
Steven Kelly. Uh, I think we talked to Stephen yesterday. Yeah, I think Stephen I think Steven’s
from Ireland, I believe. I think he was supporting the Irish Riders yesterday, the day before. Dude,
thanks for watching. Uh, different stage today than what we’ve seen so far. That was kind of the
first real D. I mean, even the time trial seemed different to me, but all the other stages have
been kind of similar. Lumpy and bumpy. Uh nothing flat. That was kind of our first flat uh what I
would say all out sprinter stage right there. Uh there is another one tomorrow, but the way they’ve
got it set up again, guys, if you just take a look at the route again, let me go just go through this
quick. This is why the stage happened the way it did today. Um, oh yeah, they do this to me now
that uh Oh, it’s down here. This stage happened the way it did today because the intermediate
sprint was at the intermediate point basically. Let’s just roll easy to the halfway point.
Quick sprint breakaway goes uh then final sprint tomorrow different Shenan to Chataro. The sprint
point is so early. We’re not going to have an easy start. It’s going to be racing from the flag drop.
At that point, sprinters are they’re going to shut down for a while anyways. And there’s going to be
a mad dash for teams to break away here. All the teams that were not involved at all did not that
weren’t at the front of the pelaton today. Who can I think of? Uh I didn’t really see much of Dathlon
today. I didn’t see a lot of Israel Premier Tech today. Um, a lot of teams were we didn’t see
much of Tudor Group Palma, we didn’t see them. JCO Alula was really nowhere near the front at
all today. Those teams are going to be getting an earful. Guys, you need to be in the breakaway
tomorrow. You need to get to the front. Uh, make some attacks. Uh, stage nine tomorrow, guys.
Uh, some of these teams, this is the only chances of stages they end up winning. It is designed to
be a sprint finish, but also there’s climbs in between. Uh the other thing to think is the next
day, day 10 after this stage, how hard do you want to go when you’ve got to tackle this the next day?
How hard do you want to bury yourself uh to do this? So, that’s kind of always going on. There’s
probably like they probably have like constant strategy changes. 118 people still here, folks.
Uh let me just get through this all for everyone. Um yeah, so Jorgensson’s finished today.
He well placed, well up in the rankings. Joey saying just like the video before if you
can go, guys. I have no idea. Mine’s kind of stalled out now if a video counts. Like counts.
Uh Holly saying a good day for the Italians. Yeah, Stephen, thanks for being here. Hope to
see everyone again tomorrow, guys. I think the stage will be a lot more exciting uh for the
whole day tomorrow. We’re not going to have an easy start at all. I think it’s going to be an
awesome stage. Uh two stages for Jonathan Milan. Jim Bron saying says he finished 14th but not on
the main page. Can multiple RA riders tie? Dude, they’re all getting the same time.
They’re probably all getting the same time and that’s what you’re seeing there. So unless there’s a time split, uh, yeah. So if 50
riders cross in a bunch, the guy that’s finishes, let’s say, in first place, he gets that time.
The guy that’s in 50th place, even though he’s a second back, gets the exact same time. Uh, so
that’s probably what you’re looking at there. Uh, so Jay’s asking the same question. Why do
all first 51 riders all have the same time? Uh, I guess it depends how the how they design the
brakes. Sometimes it’s like, oh, there’s a one second break. It’s up to the marshals. They look
at it and go, “Yeah, that’s a break. Give them a different time. Oh, that’s a break. Give them a
different time.” If 200 riders cross in a huge group and it actually takes the first rider to the
back rider, let’s say they’re at full speed and it takes them 3 seconds to get across. They all get
the same time as the first rider. They don’t say, “Well, technically you’re 3 seconds back.” So,
you don’t have to be at the very front. You just have to be thereabouts. Uh, as long as you’re
in contact. what that contact is. That’s kind of what the race marshals decide. So, they’ll
all get the same time. So, yeah, that 35026, you should see a lot of guys with that exact
same time. Uh, I’m going to just turn that down because I can see the brightness hitting
my face right now. Tour to France winner. Uh, guys, I’m going to show you this here. This
looks like uh we can watch it on X maybe the last kilometer there. Yeah, Jonathan
Milan does it. Stage winner Jonathan Milan Van Art was right there. Looks like
Vouts feeling good today. A little racy. Uh Doug saying his Nimigan March radio from day
three passing the Canadian Cemetery local Legion branch at 11:00. Okay, dude. I’ll be checking
that out. I’m going to check out the website after this. Joe’s saying to Jumbon, “When a big
group finishes, they all get the same time. The mountains will separate them enough.” Uh, yeah,
they’re going so slow on a mountain climb finish that the separations are obvious. Uh, but
when they’re sprint finishing, it’s like, okay, well, he’s 3 ft behind him. Do we give
him a separate time? No, we don’t. We just, it’s all the same. He’s six feet back.
Not enough. Oh, these guys, they’re like 500 meters back. They’re getting a separate
time. So everyone gets the same time there. Yeah. So yeah, Pogy gets beaten by 40 riders.
You’re right. But he gets the same time as the winner. Uh maybe explain how the time as long
as they’re in the group, they all get that same time. As long as they’re all the group’s kind
of in contact. Uh if there’s breaks in between, like let’s say there’s a 15 meter gap or 10 m gap,
then they start saying, “Okay, different time, different time. Time to cut off’s going down right
now. There’s only five minutes left on the cutoff time. Uh, are there any riders left out there?
All we had was Yonas Rooch. Everyone’s done. So, everyone’s done there. Hopefully, no one’s
too banged up from their injuries. Actually, I think this is Yonas Rooch coming here now. I’m
seeing on screen. Wow. Shredded on the back. You can actually see his upper butt a tiny bit.
His back shredded. Awesome finish there, guys. Okay. Uh, do I think Jorgensson has the right stuff to
win this year? Uh, he’s not the designated team leader, but he’s an incredibly strong. I
don’t know if he’s got the talent yet for the extremely long climbs. Dude, the exciting
part is we’re going to see it happen. Uh, currently this year, let’s just go look at the GC
before we head out here, guys. The GC as of today individual general ranking Tatty’s in the front
Ramco second Kevin Bacolon third Yonis Ving go fourth all these riders will have made sure
that nothing changed from yesterday Matthew Vanderpole still holds fifth place uh Jorgensson
in sixth Oscar only seventh place Florian Lipo it’s eighth Primos Rock in ninth place and Uh,
I think it’s Matteus Skeleos in 10th place. Going to finish up the chat here quickly,
guys. I have no idea what time it is right now. Yeah, all Matteo has to do, if he can hang
in the mountains, he’s got a chance. Uh, the mountains will start shredding everyone
apart. That’s where the tour gets decided. Jay Taylor saying more than one second separated
the top 50 riders. So they just assigned the same time to the top 50 being Yeah, totally. What J
Taylor? Yes, 100%. That’s what they just did. Uh they’ve done this forever. So yeah, if you’ve got
a big group moving and technically it takes them two seconds to get by from the first guy to the
back guy, that guy that’s just on the back, he’s riding someone’s wheel, gets the same time as the
guy that actually crossed the finish line first. It’s always been done that way, even though they
have the transponders. Uh they’ve got Jonathan Milan here signing some really cool medals.
What’s that all about? I want one of those. Uh oh. For uh Trek here this year, they’re here to
win the green jersey. Dude, Jay Taylor’s asking, talk a little about team Tre Liddell. Who’s
directing it? What’s their strategy? Who’s their top rider? Jonathan Milan is their top
rider 100%. Uh they are not here to compete for GC. Anyone can pipe in here right now and say
what you think. Uh when I look at this here, Quinn Simmons will be going for stage wins. It’s
pretty obvious he’s hunting them. Uh for a few seconds today, they gifted him the stage win.
And I just kind of looked over and I was like, “What?” Uh that will be probably the guy
that’s going to go in the breakaways the most trying to win a stage. Skeleos, this guy here
is placed in 10th place right now. He’s 10th place overall at the tour right now. I I’ll quickly go
through this right now. So 10th place overall, Tomcoins. Tomcoins had a lot of success sitting
54th. Jasper Stoven 57th overall. Twins 170th. Uh Everins more the kind of rider uh hard
worker in the front. uh does a lot of work on the front pulling the team as does Quinn
Simmons. Quinn’s I think uh he’s 69th place right now. That’s really good. 11th in the green,
seventh in the polka dot, 17th the young riders jersey. Should be actually number one in the
most aggressive rider. Nice Tibon 84th overall. Simona Cons 167th. Milan should be very low in
the standings, too. He’s 147th. This team here is working for Jonathan Milan to win the green
jersey and for potentially Quinn Simmons to win a stage. I can see him win a stage. Uh Skeleos
as well sitting 10th at the tour. Uh so it all depends what happens with the other teams. Um,
if Skelemos is in a good position, it may come to that, you know, it might be a good stage for
Quinn Simmons to break away and try to get a win, but he may be told, “Hey, dude, you need to hang
out with Skeleos for a bit longer because he’s 10th place overall in the GC.” Top 10 is kind of
the place you want to be. If you can say you got a top 10 at the GC, that’s a big deal um for the
riders and for the team because it looks good to sponsors. So, they’re going to work a lot to
protect uh Skeleos’s 10th place. My opinion, anyone else can chime in. Uh Joe’s jumping out,
I think. He says, “Thanks all. Great commentary, Colin. Thank you, Joey. Jojo Emerson, by all.”
See you, Joe. Take it easy, man. See you tomorrow. Uh Holly saying, “Thanks for all your hard
work. Stay healthy and rested.” Thank you, Holly. Jay’s asking, “Why is Quinn’s Tim uh kit so
different from his teammates? He’s the US national champion.” Uh to me, uh good question, dude. Uh,
this is the best national champion jersey. Uh, not because it’s the USA, but partially. Uh,
it really shows it off. The other teams might just have a little band around the center. I
think the Belgiums do like a a black, orange, red, whatever the color is. It’s kind of off
orange color. Uh, they’ll have a three jersey, but I just really like the stars and stripes
look for the track team. Jim Bron is asking who’s who’s doping. Let’s be real for a
minute. EPO motor doping. I don’t know. I I know nobody wants to discuss it, but it’s
part of the tour. I enjoy the catamos. Dude, I’m interested in it. Uh guys, I mentioned
it probably in stage one. Sorry, video one. Uh jump on any podcast uh service that you
use. Uh type in Ghost in the Machine, listen to that podcast. I think it’s seven or eight
episodes. Uh it’s a British guy that does it. He investigates uh motor doping. Uh there’s been
only really one proven case of it at the pro level. Uh and that was a female cyclacross rider
back I think in 2016. Femi something or other. And uh yeah, they they grabbed her bike after the race
and there was a motor in it. So absolutely busted. You can go on YouTube, you can find videos about
it, about motor doping, things that look sketchy, but we’ll never know. So, it’s it’s a fascinating
podcast. And the interesting thing about the podcast is that he got to meet I forget the guy’s
name. Good podcast, dude. Uh he got to meet the UCI guys and they told him they said just so you
know, and it’s in it’s in the podcast. You’ll hear it. It says we are implementing new develop new
techniques to further catch more motor doping. Extremely long pause of long dead air there. Why
is the UCI working on trying to catch more motor doping? That’s my question. Why would they
be implementing new techniques to catch motor doping when there’s no motor doping going on,
guys? What’s the answer? Cuz maybe they think there still is. Uh, hard to say. We’ll never know.
Okay, guys. That was a fun day. Got really good at the end. Appreciate the support. Uh, guys
that are really going above and beyond. Dude, you’re awesome. Uh, I hope Kelly Gunther gets to
hear the the video at some point. Kelly, please come back and tell us a bit about your uh career
in skating. Actually, I wanted to learn about the inline skating, too. Uh, I’m going to go watch
some of those videos today. Uh guys, I’m going to jump off. Sorry for the late start today. And uh
we’ll see you all tomorrow. Thanks for watching.
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good show man
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