Tour de France 2025: Stage 13 STEEP:SOLO:SAVAGE #tourdefrance2025 #tdf2025 #2025tdf

Hey TDF Fans! and ICW Fans! Wow Stage 12 was insane with the Pogi attack up the Hautacam asserting dominance over the Yellow jersey. Stage 13 is a Mountain time trial, something which hasn’t been in the Tour de France since 2004. It’s short and steep at 10.9km and 650m of climbing from Loudenvielle to Peyragudes. The final ramp is an absolute wall that rises straight up. Riders will go off one at a time in the race against the clock. No drafting, no team mates, no one to help you, just the rider alone, the ultimate test. @LeTourDeFrance #MountainTT #TimeTrial #Peyragudes #ClimbingTimeTrial #SummitFinish #TDF2025 #TourdeFrance #TourdeFrance2025 #Stage13 #TDFStage13 #GCBattle #Pogacar #Vingegaard #Evenepoel #ClimbersTimeTrial #TTSpecialist

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******STAGE 13 PREVIEW**********
⏱️ Tour de France 2025 – Stage 13 Preview**
📍 *Loudenvielle → Peyragudes (ITT)*
📅 *Friday, July 18, 2025*
📏 *10.9 km | ~650 m elevation gain*

🔍 Route Overview**
The **first mountain time trial in over a decade**, and one of the shortest — but steepest — challenges of this year’s Tour.

* First 3 km: Rolling and fast
* Final 8 km: Steady climb averaging 8%
* Final ramp: Brutal finish with slopes hitting **14–16%** in the last 400 meters

No aero bike changes allowed — pure legs and pacing.

⚔️ Key Tactical Points**
* **No margin for error** — GC riders must pace to perfection
* **Time gaps will open** — this climb rewards pure climbers
* Final TT section can **decide podium places** before the Pyrenees
* Riders must balance speed vs. power on technical gradients

🏆 Riders to Watch**
Tadej Pogačar (UAE)** – Current leader, excellent on steep climbs
Jonas Vingegaard (Visma–LAB)** – Needs to regain time, excels at altitude
Remco Evenepoel (Soudal–QuickStep)** – Pure TT engine, but can he handle the slope?

Outsiders for a stage win:
Felix Gall
Kevin Vauquelin
Cian Uijtdebroeks
Matteo Jorgenson

Start Times**
* Riders begin: **13:10 CEST**
* Top GC contenders start between **17:01 – 17:31 CEST**

🎯 What to Watch**
✅ Can Pogačar stretch his lead?
✅ Will Vingegaard claw back precious seconds?
✅ Who cracks on the final 16% ramp?
✅ A GC shakeup could happen in under 25 minutes

📣 Let us know in the comments: Is this the day the Tour is won or lost? Who do you think will crush Peyragudes?**

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Good morning inside Cycling World community. 
It’s Colin here. How’s everyone doing today? Just getting the mic fully set up. Here we are live 
Friday. Don’t know what day it is. Uh July 18th, 2025 at the Church of France, folks. Uh big 
day coming up here. You know what’s going on, right? You know what’s going on. Uh 
individual mountain time trial today, guys. Uh, let me just jump into it here. Still getting 
set up, guys. 5:05 in the morning for me, Mountain Standard Time in Canada. Whoa, that’s 
bright today. Let’s do the old sit back here. Uh, in the jersey I’m wearing today. Just 
having a quick look here. There is my   email I’m looking for. We fire this baby up 
over here. How’s everyone feeling today? Uh, guys, fantastic turnout yesterday. Uh, still kind 
of like in shock, mind numb over how many people are interested in watching this stuff with me, 
chatting, interacting with the community. Uh, Tony, thanks so much for your poll yesterday. Tony 
said at the end, he goes, “Hey, Colin,” he said,   “you poll was incredible today.” And I’m like, 
“No, dude, that’s your poll. Your poll.” So Tony came up with a poll yesterday. We talked about uh 
what kind of cyclist would you be or what kind of   fan? That type of thing. Uh over a thousand people 
participated in that uh poll yesterday. So Tony, thank you so much, dude. Yes, dude. Um, okay. So, 
here is my stream. So, I can see you guys now or I can chat with you guys now. That is bright. Let’s 
just back that baby up a little bit there. Let’s let that load up. Uh, volume’s off. Things are 
good, guys. Okay, guys. So, what’s going on today? Individual mountain time trial. We saw yesterday, 
we saw the hotcomic. We saw the Pogy dominance. Uh that’s why I put that as in the the uh poll 
today. Basically, it’s just what’s your favorite era of the tour? And it just kind of relates to 
my eras of the tour, things that I know a little   bit about. Uh I’m not really up to speed on the 
40s and 50s, kind of the the black and white era, as I want to call it. Uh, I think I know more and 
I’m probably more interested about like the very earliest years of the tour like the 1903, 1910, 
12, right before World War I. That stuff just boggles my mind, too. So, here we go, folks. Uh, 
yeah. So, it’s a mountain time trial today. We’re going to get into it right now. Uh, remember 
individual starts. I think the initial starts,   if I look at the schedule here, uh, here’s the 
rankings after yesterday, guys. But what I’ll do quickly is just show you the route for today. Uh 
where are we today? We’re way down in this corner here. Basically, we’re probably right where 
my fingers pointing on the map right now. Uh   very corner of the map is called Paragudes. We 
start at a small village called Ludenv. And we go to Paragudes. We’re basically on the French 
border there. If we take a look at the profile, uh let’s just see here. Oh, let’s get the 
chat up and running, guys. Up and running.   Chat’s not actually running over here. So, we 
are in the live chat now. And we are streaming now. Just want to confirm everything’s good here. 
We are streaming, guys. It’s always a little bit   of a system every day. Uh we got a few people 
trickling in now. It is Friday morning. You guys are starting your weekends. Uh what else can 
I say about it? Some of these stages I never know what to expect. Uh but they always turn out to be 
really good. People have different things going on   their lives. Sometimes I find that people don’t 
watch the time trial. Last week’s time trial, stage 5, was really exciting. Uh I found there’s 
a lot of people there. So, everyone, if you’re   around, jump on in. Don’t forget, we’re doing this 
today. Uh I am looking at the uh the poll quickly as we go here. Just let me have a quick peek at 
it. So, right now, just got a few early votes in. 50% of the people love the Pogy Dominance. Uh ’90s 
era. And when I put the poll down there, I said ‘9s EPO Lance versus the world. Okay. What I meant 
was the EPO years. Lance versus the world. So, I’m not just singling out Lance, that’s for sure. 
Uh, were they juice to the gills? Absolutely. Did I care? Not really. Would I watch it still? Yes, 
dude. I would. I would watch it still. Uh, it’s just the way it was, guys. It’s just the way it 
was. The powers of those supplements, let’s call them back then, was unbeatable. Unbeatable. We saw 
that yesterday. Uh 30 years on, okay, 29 years on, the uh the record of Oticcom, I think it’s well, 
I think it’s BJ Ree and Luke Leblanc are still faster than Tatty today, tomorrow, uh Pogy, Pogy, 
whatever we want to call him. uh tadpole still faster and they didn’t have all the modern tech 
like when you think about all the modern tech   all the stuff brought about marginal gains uh all 
through the team sky years all the developments in wheel technology bearing technology tire 
technology clothing technology nutrition training uh everything high altitude training they do more 
of that now uh the hyperbaric chambers some guys are doing the old what is it the carbon monoxide 
training now or or carbon dioxide I don’t know   uh they’re doing that too uh I’m not sure if 
that’s going to be pushed back a little bit all the new supplements legal supplements still don’t 
touch those times and and like the bikes back then I mean yeah they were really cool but if you take 
a bike from 1996 it does not compare to a bike   today uh kind that just shows how effective those 
supplements were back then and why it was pretty hard for cyclists that were coming up to say no 
to them. Getting some really cool shots here of Ludenville, guys. What I’ll do now is just jump 
in here and uh we’ve seen the route a little bit, but let’s have a better look at it. Let’s take a 
look here. Jump into the route. I don’t know. I’m I’m kind of off right now. Nope. That’s yesterday. 
Here it is. Stage 13. Luden VL two paragoods. I did a ton of research on this yesterday, guys. 
It’s 10.9 km, 650 mters in elevation gain. Uh we start down in the valley, climb our way up to 
an actual uh airport, if you can believe that. It’s the Paragudes, I think, Balastos airport. 
It’s this tiny little runway, and I I saw some comments on uh Google Maps. You can’t take off 
from here. Yeah, you could like in in a very very   small plane. You could easily take off from there. 
Uh, and I think some people were calling it the 007 airport, so maybe it was used in a James Bond 
movie perhaps, but I’ve seen Bush planes up in Alaska that can take off like honestly in like 20 
or 30 feet. Uh, they have so much lift under them. Uh, guys, go on YouTube and check that out. Um, 
okay. Who’s here? We got the early f early viewers are here. Let’s go. Uh, Hans is back again. I 
think I’ve seen this guy before. They should have   enh the enhanced version TF with no equipment 
limitations. Oh yeah, dude. I would call that hands here. Uh I would call that run what you 
brung. Run what you brung tour to France. Just anything goes. Uh no bike limitations. Just trying 
to see if Hans was the first comment here today. Yes, he was. Hans, nice to have you on board. Uh 
I like that idea. Basically, just bring what you got. We don’t care about seat post. We don’t 
care about this. Air extensions. First riders actually going out here. I knew who it was right 
away. Uh Matteo Virture crash day one stage one of the tour. He’s the first guy out today because 
he’s in last place at the tour right now. He’s not   172nd. He’s actually 171st guys. There was a rider 
never even saw it mentioned on the tour to France yesterday. Uh I think his name is Seace Bowl. B 
O L first name C E S. I think you say Seace. Uh, I know I’m gonna I’m gonna be corrected on 
that. If I screw it up, that’s the way I’m   saying it. Let’s, uh, turn that down. That is 
bright, isn’t it? So, I’m trying to get a little bit of brightness away from me, folks. Sitting 
back. Sitting back. Three screens on me here. He actually did not start yesterday’s stage. He did 
not do the hoticcom stage. Uh, so we’re down to 171 riders. Matteo Virture going out. Guys, this 
one’s going to be really super exciting. I think uh I’m going to take a little bit of a look over 
here events. I’m also going to try to show you some of the uh the live stuff. Live in the sense 
that there’s guys actually doing the stage on a cycling platform. Uh pretty amazing. So, I’m 
not sure who we’re seeing here. I’m just looking for riders names. Got to keep that going in the 
background there. Uh going to get back to my chat that I love so much guys. This is the highlight 
of my day every day right now. Evan Baron, good morning. Where is everyone? I don’t see 
anyone on the chat. Yeah, it was pretty quiet at   f uh at first there. I think there’s a lot of late 
starters today. And Evan, it’s like I always say, it’s Friday. Some people have plans to go away for 
the weekend taking long weekends. Guys, don’t miss tomorrow stage. That one’s going to be absolutely 
fantastic. Uh so here we go, guys. This is what I want to show you. First rider, Matteo Virture, 
is out on course. We start in Ludenville here, Luden BL, I think. Kind of slightly up to flattish 
and a bit of down here for the first 3 km. Then it’s an 8 km climb. Let’s take a look at this 
here, guys. This is really cool. And I’m probably going to bring this one up a few times. If you 
look here in the center of the screen, you can   see where it says kilometer zero. That’s our start 
point today. And I I spent a lot of time looking at this yesterday. Uh, we’ve only got two time 
checks out on course and you can actually see them   on the screen right now. Uh, can I turn that down 
a bit? Maybe I’ll do is just turn this up and down as I need it. Uh, because that is really bright. 
We head north out of town alongside the lake. We actually start I think it’s called at the Pyrenees 
Bike Festival. Uh, that’s where we are. I’m seeing   a dotted line here. Oh, that’s a transfer line. 
But the Swiss the Spanish border I should say is just to the south of us. We’re virtually on it. 
We head out of town going north. Couple of sharp technical corners. Uh, and you can see there’s a 
time check right here. What I’ll do is I’ll zoom   in here. I find this to be interesting. We take 
a hard turn here, 180° turn. That’s a time check. And if you look carefully here, the route we go 
on is this one here. Uh, it heads south. There’s another time check here. It takes a turn and we 
end up right here. This is the actual airport. There’s a runway right here. We’re going to turn 
onto that runway and we are going to go straight   up it. Second rider out on course. Now, uh, St. 
Martins Dyke, uh, Dutch rider here from Intermar. What I really think is cool about this is that you 
can see it in the background. You’ve probably been   staring at the whole time. There’s a number 
14 right here. Uh, it just vanished. Okay, it moved. There’s the number 14. That’s tomorrow’s 
stage. That is tomorrow’s stage right there. So, we will be climbing this exact same section of 
road here outside of this turnoff tomorrow. Uh, and I’m like, how do that’s what you I Okay, I’ll 
talk about me, not talking about you guys when I watch the tour. Oh, we’re down in the Pyrenees. 
Oh, yeah. I know where this is cuz I know where   the Pyrenees are. I have no idea where I 
am in the Pyrenees, though. Like, none. So, today we take a hard hard corner. You can see it 
here. we turn off and continue up to uh Paragudes itself. The the runway there’s there’s the runway 
right there, guys. It’s a very short runway, paved   runway. If you were to continue across this along 
this road, that is the call to parisord right there. That’s the Perry sword right here. I’ll 
click on it. Uh Call to Perry say showing right on screen there. That’s how jam-packed this area is 
with the world’s best climbs. What’s even cooler is that if you come back down, so we’re going over 
the top of the Parisord now. We’ll be coming this   way tomorrow. You end up in uh Ben Luchon. You 
hang a hard right, run down the valley, and here’s the finish for tomorrow up to Super Baner, the ski 
station. Uh so just trying to show you that we are just wedged in here. I’m going to go back to the 
start of uh stage. This gets even better, guys. So the start of stage one tomorrow is way up here. We 
travel along. We’re going to actually travel same some of the same roads as stage 12 that we did 
yesterday. This little section here just after the sprint point from yesterday. We travel the same 
roads. They took a right and took off to do the   culdeor and the border border uh before they raced 
up the hot here. 14 tomorrow will pass sprint points off to the left. They take they go down 
the same road. Then they diverge onto stage 14, pass the start of the autocom. I’m going to try 
I’m going to look for that tomorrow. They’re   going to pass the start of the autocom tomorrow. 
It went up this way. So you can see these roads criss-cross right here. Heading south, we do 
the sprint point. Uh and if you look here, very famous town here. Very famous start of the 
most epic climb at the Tour to France. Uh this is the tormale guys. This is the tormale right here. 
Uh so first this is the first high alpine pass ever ridden at the tour to France. Uh HC climb. 
It’s an HC and they rode it in 1910. No gears, no derailers. Uh there’s some cool side stuff 
about this one here. Uh there’s an actual old way up there that still exists that you can still 
ride. It does show up on some of the climbing apps. Uh you kind of diverge after Berege is back 
here. Do the HC bomb down again into the valley system again. You climb up the call to Aspen. 
This is this category 2 here. Coming downhill again. This is where we tuck in and we connect on 
to this exact same course today. So I’m going to keep a good eye on the road here and see if 
I can identify tomorrow. That road actually   continues on tomorrow. Again, like I said, over 
the perisord, which is right beside the pariguds, um down into I didn’t want to do that. Down into 
uh Luchon here and then we climb up to the ski station. I thought that was really cool, guys. 
Uh give you a better perspective of where we are in the world because like I said, I like to 
think that I’m Mr. uh I know my geography. I had no idea where we were. Going to take a quick 
look here at the uh course starting at the   Pyrenees Bike Festival down here. Going along 
the water up hard corner. That’s that road we connect onto tomorrow. Start climbing out into 
the open. Watch for the hard righthander. Uh we took the hard righthander right back here. Let me 
back that up for a little bit for you. Um you can see right that hard right? That’s where we take 
off. The other road going up the middle of the screen right now. That’s the paris sword over the 
top there. And you can actually see the runway. So stage 14, sorry, stage 13 is on, guys. Let’s 
get live. Let’s get live. Only been a couple of riders start already. You can see them on screen 
right now. Heading out. First rider should be   Matteo Virture. Uh I will be checking. We’re 
going to turn off the table mode so I can see the fastest times through. Jordi Moose the fastest 
rider through the first checkpoint here at six   minutes. Okay, that’s good to know. 614 virture 
through 14 seconds back to Cons and St. Martins Dikeke. No one has even hit checkpoint two yet. 
Checkpoint two, as you can see here in the bottom corner, uh is right into the guts of the climb. Uh 
what are they saying here? Special jerseys on the road here today. Virture opens it up today, guys. 
Let’s have a look. This is just Virture starting out. So, this is the very first rider of the day 
to go out today. First rider out. Just starting his efforts now on a road bike. Lots of discussion 
going on as to uh should you ride a road bike or a time travel bike for this one. So, here just 
jumping on that guys. We’ll pause that and we’ll come back here. Here’s something I wanted to 
show you, too. Maybe get a better look here,   guys. Remember, this is just the initial 
riders going out. I’m actually seeing uh Yeah, this is St. Martins’s Lake going here. Lots of 
crowds out today, folks. Hopefully, we get as many   viewers here in the chat as we do out here on the 
roads because there’s a ton of people out there. Uh roads look really well paved. They look very 
dark to me, meaning they got fresh ashalt on them. We will take a look here. I’ll try to show you 
this here. Uh again, guys, I’m doing my research   for this stuff. Uh right here, we basically 
start at this area called the Pyrenees Bike Festival. We’re in this runway. I bet you most of 
the buses and stuff are parked back here. Start out. We head down this road. Do a few wiggles. We 
take a hard right here. Join onto this bigger road called the D25. Looks like we’re going to truck 
along through this town all along the edge. Then we hit this hard switch back here. You see here 
the D25 hits this hard switch back here. Kind of goes across from open fields through another small 
little village village. Uh maybe we could stop in at Coffee or Corine. Get some get your hair done. 
Hair salon. Hey guys, closes at 7 p.m. tonight. You better book your appointments. Get in there. 
Um, you know me guys, just the way it is. Uh, we squiggle through town. We head out and this 
is where we’re going to connect. There’s another   hard switch back here where we connect onto the 
DE 618. That is the same road we’ll be coming down tomorrow. Uh, on the giant HC data tomorrow, 
guys. So much epic climbing coming up. We we truck all the way along this, take this huge switch 
back here. This is the diversion point here. This is the turn they’re going to take to take 
us up to the finish today at Paragudes. Tomorrow   we’re going to see them go right past here. 
This would have been a really good day to come out to the tour. Camp out somewhere 
along here. Uh wherever you can find and watch them go by on two consecutive days. Just 
camp out. Get into it. Cheeses, uh baguettes, wines. Just just giving her. Just giving her, 
folks. Um I’ll get to the stage here, guys. Maybe we’ll just show the live tracking of the map 
here for now as I catch up in the chat. Uh so good   to see everyone here. Hey guys, and in my little 
poll here too, uh I I couldn’t put a fifth option in. So if you have an other, just let me know what 
it is. What’s your favorite tour? Maybe it’s just   not an era. I just And guys, this is Colin 5:00 
a.m. in the morning thinking about this. This is not Colin putting a huge amount of thought into 
it. If you’ve got a better era, if you think early 70s Merks, I didn’t even include Merks. Like, 
okay, so I I failed. I failed right there. Uh,   just tell me what your favorite era is. Uh, 
Jim, let’s go. Yes, dude. Uh, the best tour win ever has to be Greg, winning by less than 30 
seconds. Dude, Jeff, good seir. Jeff, he won by 8 seconds. He won by 8 seconds in 1989 over Lauron 
Fol, the professor system. Uh he went full arrow and Laurent uh was not arrow. Ponytail flapping in 
the wind like Quinn Simmons does. Still watching Vir here climbing. He’s only 11 and a half minutes 
into his assault. 5.5 km to the finish. Uh yeah. So he went full I think he had a 58 second lead 
at the start of the fi and dude that was the final stage of that year’s tour to France on the Shamzil 
is where they ran it. Uh, in the end, Greg took 8 seconds away from him. So, yeah, and Greg had to 
sit and wait. So, Greg went out second last. Finan had all the time checks to pull it back. I guess 
they were saying on the final stretch into the Shamz, I think the Cobble section. Finan was still 
up by two seconds. Still up by two seconds. Guys, I just I just listened to this in an audio book. 
Uh, and he lost those two plus eight more on the final segment. And I don’t know how long it was. 
There’s been people speculate for years, people uh a lot smarter than me that have done aerodynamic 
stuff. They said if he didn’t have his ponytail,   he would have won the tour to France. So, think 
about that, right? Cut your hair, dude. Cut your hair. Uh I love that guy. He was great. We’re 
going to talk more about him tomorrow. Lauron Fenol. Uh Jeff, final time trial against Lauren. 
Exactly, Jeff. That’s a great one. Uh Jim Bron is asking, “Do you live in Alaska?” I do not live 
in Alaska, but I have traveled there. Guys,   the numbers are starting to pile in now. Smash 
the like button if you can. That’s the that’s my number one request for you guys besides getting 
into the chat and talking to me. Uh the likes get this video out to everyone. Guys, at the end of 
yesterday’s video, it’s because you guys Tony’s   poll really was spectacular yesterday. Uh first 
rider coming to the first checkpoint. Now, who is this? This should be Virture. It is Virture. Uh, 
and it looks like here. Okay guys, what I’m going to do, I want to see what the splits are to start 
here. Uh, they are doing departure times. Let me look here. 10. Those weird looking departure 
times to me. Why do they look so weird? Uh, just trying to get this figured out. Okay, let’s 
get out of table mode there. Yeah, so they’re   doing one minute starts. That makes sense to me. I 
think it’ll probably be and if I remember the last time trial on stage five guys that was a while ago 
now uh they did one minute starts at the beginning then they went to 1 minute 30s and I think 
the final 20 riders might have been two minute starts. Arnold Demar just went through the first 
checkpoint. Jordi Muse still the fastest rider through and Virture is the only rider through the 
second checkpoint. Just going to close that down. I’m going to have a look at something over 
here. See if I can make this happen. Uh, okay. So, guys, I won’t be able to show you. Uh, 
you know what? I’ll still show you some of it. Uh, you know, yesterday we were discussing Berra 
and I did get message from them last night that um, guys, we don’t even know if it’s going 
to be in the right data format for them to   use into bike terra. I just I’m looking at it 
now. Uh, and from one of the developers, Matt, hey all, bad news. TTS are in a different data 
format, unfortunately. We’ll be back tomorrow in full force for stage 14. So, we will get data 
of the cyclist tomorrow. Stage 14, the big day, one of the big days. Tomorrow’s a huge day. 
Uh, that’s it’s going to be insane. Tomorrow, mountain escapades, there’s going to be 
people trying to escape tomorrow. Uh,   and then stage 18 and 19 next week. I look I just 
sunk into them fully yesterday. Studied all the climbs. I probably spent four hours yesterday 
just studying maps. What I can show you, I will be showing you bike turn a little bit here because 
there there’s actually real world riders doing the   course right now. I’m actually spectating. Uh let 
me go back to Matt here. Matt’s not doing there’s a guy here named let’s give a shout out to Joe 
Bont. He’s climbing the uh the paragoods climb right now. the official individual mountain time 
trial of the tour to Francis here, stage 13. He’s climbing it right now. So, it’d be cool to see his 
time checks. Uh, it is really neat to see the map. And he’s probably halfway through his effort right 
now. Problem is, it’s going to get harder and   harder as he goes. So, I’m just going to keep that 
running in the background just for uh me to watch. So, through the second checkpoint, we have uh St. 
Martin Zike through first. Jordy mov second. It’s only getting faster, guys. Let’s hit the chat. Uh, 
so Jimmy here was asking if I live in Alaska. No,   dude. I live in Alberta, Canada. Alaska is 
northwest of me. Uh, I’ve always thought Alaska was close. To get to Anchorage, Alaska from 
here. I’ve done the drive twice now. Uh, it’s three and a half day drive. And I’m not talking 
drive four hours, stop for a Starbucks, and call it a day. I’m talking like 10-hour days. It’s 
about a 35h hour drive to get to Anchorage from here. And I’m way on the west side. That’s how 
far it is. Uh yeah, Jeff, today is less than 11 kilometers. It’s like a neighborhood beer crawl. 
Bar crawl. Yeah, exactly. Jeff, you got it. Um dude, Evan, Evan, have you got your Saras? I think 
Evan was saying way back when that he was getting   a Saras. Dude, that’s I think that’s their top 
model. Uh yeah, it’s a direct drive. It’s a wheel off trainer, guys. If you ever want to get into 
inside cycling one, smart trainer, smart trainer, smart trainer, smart trainer, that’s the only way 
you can simulate it. Uh step two, and guys, it it depends on your budget, too. Everyone’s starting 
out at different levels. Uh I didn’t have So,   I have a tax neo2T. It’s a wheel off. It’s very 
expensive. Uh, it’s probably the most accurate and I’m only saying that someone will be watching 
this saying, “Well, mine’s super accurate.” When a bunch There was some racing that got banned for a 
while. Not banned, they shut it down because there   was a lot of trainers with inaccuracies. Uh, they 
all had to be recalibrated. They needed firmware updates from the companies that made them. That 
tax Neo2T, it never failed. It’s deadly accurate all the time. It has no heat drift. the the system 
on the back is different from a lot of them. So, heat drift, there’s a big flywheel back there. 
It develops a lot of heat. As it gets super hot, the power starts to drift. Okay? So, you thought 
you were doing 240 watts. Well, you’re only doing 200 or it may read the other way. It may 
read too low. It may read too high. Generally, they read too high. So, that’s why we always talk 
about calibrating your trainers. Uh but yeah, uh Evan, great trainer. Great trainer. I don’t 
have hands-on experience with it, but I know the   trainers. If someone told me, hey, I’m getting uh 
Attax Neo2T. I’m getting a Wahoo Kicker uh like the higher higherend one that’s super accurate. 
If someone told me, if someone told me an Elite,   I’d be like, yeah, dude, you are on the right 
track. Uh to do everything you could ever want. It’ll do everything you want, Evan. So, get on 
that thing. Uh Evan, when you can, when you get it set up, send me a pick. I’d love to see it. I’m 
actually helping someone right now who watched an old video of mine right now. Okay, so Virture is 
still on his climb. He’s the first guy on say he’s still got 3.2 km to go here. 8% gradient here. 
Uh I think the average gradient up this thing is 8%. And if you’re thinking to yourself, well, what 
does that mean? So, you know, when you’re Okay, so   this is for like North Americans, I guess, because 
that’s all I can relate to driving-wise. uh when you’re going through the mountains, say you’re 
in Western Canada or the States and you get like   a a sign that has, you know, the steepness coming 
up, uh truckers, check your brakes, that type of thing. Those start around 7%. That’s when I notice 
them. So, this would be the same steepness as those huge mountains that you’re driving through. 
So, like in California, Colorado, the Rockies in Canada, it’s that kind of steepness. And they’re 
going to be doing that for almost 11 k well 8 km. The first section is quite flat. Going back 
here now uh through the first checkpoint. Looks like uh Van Vanitvelt is first through. Jordi Muse 
second. Uh he takes Jordy Muse out by 20 seconds on the first checkpoint. So guys, we’re going 
to get more numbers coming in. Jonathan Milan is out on course or it’s his turn. Yeah, it is. 
He He is gone and he is on aerobic. I’m waiting to see the first Just seeing a little replay here. 
Looks like a rider. So, Eatfeld Van Eatfeld just caught the rider header which is a Bin Victorious 
rider. I’m going to let you know who that is,   guys. Uh, so Van Eatvelt just caught the Bahin 
victorious rider. Who’s that going to be? Oh, uh, all I see right now is Gratic. So, Vanitvel 
must be flying right now. Unless there’s another one out there somewhere that I don’t see right 
now. Gonna have to take we’re gonna watch that, folks. We will watch that. Guys, numbers slowly 
piling in. Thanks for being here, everyone. Uh, love how much you guys are involved in this chat. 
This is what this is what we figured out. This is   how people want it. Uh, and thank you for all the 
support when you guys make comments in the chat like, “Man, you should be doing this full-time. 
you should be working at Peacock. You should be   commentating for Flow Bikes. Like, dude, yes. That 
pumps me up so much. And it kind of makes me want to send them some links to my videos like, “Hey, 
Flow Bikes, have a look at this.” I might do that. I’m thinking about do I got to I got to promote 
myself a little bit, right? Uh but do it my way   or the highway. Um okay, Tony C’s here in the 
mix. Good morning, cycling enthusiast. Hey, Tony. Uh Tony, I would be happy to commit in today’s 
time trial with one small request. I can do it in   the opposite direction. Exactly, Tony. Exactly. 
I love these kind of climbs. So again, guys, um I don’t know if this one’s available on the 
all the platforms. Uh but I could ride this later today. It’s available for me to ride over on that 
application bike ter I told you about yesterday, which uh they don’t have all the data for today. 
They never got the riders data today. So, that’s the hard thing for them is to get the riders data. 
What they did say they do have is they’re going to record somehow. And guys, this takes a lot takes 
a lot of resources. Let’s put it that way. Effort, money, uh, time. They’re going to record all 
the riders data, the pros data, so that you could load in yourself and say, I want to try 
to go up the the autocom against Tatty today, tomorrow. Uh, I got in trouble for saying 
his name wrong yesterday. Sorry folks,   I am not from Slovenia. I am a Canadian 
and that’s how I’m saying it. Most of my friends say Tatty. Able to uh Oh, looks like 
I’m going to have a quick reconnect here. There we’re back. We are back, folks. Uh, so 
you’ll be able to compete against a pro cyclist. Uh, okay. Reuben’s back. Hey, Ruben. Good to see 
you, dude. Always love seeing Rub in the chat. Uh, shout out to my original OG GRC Discord members. 
Uh, I got to say Ruben and Steven Cycles, John Chady, they’re the guys that are generally always 
here. So awesome to see them still supporting me. Love it, guys. Uh, I’d love to hang out with you 
guys in real life, too. I would love to sit around uh and have a coffee, maybe six beers, something 
like that, and uh hang out with you guys. I think it would be so fun. What you’d find out is what 
you see here. What you see here is what you get. It’s the same all the time. Uh I think sometimes 
Joey Jojo hates it and other times she just likes that I’m me. Okay. Uh Jeff saying Saras H3 is 
the best buy in trainers period. Yeah, Jeff, I think we were talking uh so do we have two 
people talking about the Saras H3 here? Was it Evan asking? Yeah, Evan’s asking. So I think Jeff 
has one. Uh I think Saras is the one that’s made in the States. Is it Wisconsin or something? 
Uh so good value there. You’re buying local,   guys. Always try to do that. No matter 
where you are in the world, buy local. Uh, Jimmy, I lived in Wasilla, Alaska and 
Palmer in Ma in the Matsu Valley. Dude, could you imagine a tour in Alaska? Oh my 
god, the roads they have. Dude, uh, I’m Okay, it’s June, but I want to call you Jim Bron, but 
it’s Jim Bron. Jabroni. Uh, dude, I know that stuff. When you say those names, people, okay, 
guys, was Palmer, the Matsu Valley, you’re like, “Yeah, whatever. Those names do nothing.” To 
me, that is Iditarod lore right there. Uh, Wasilla is generally I can’t I think it’s kind 
of the first town they hit on the Ididarod. They leave Anchorage and they head out. Obviously, 
there’s going to be little suburbs they hit,   but Wasilla is a big town for dog mushing. Uh, 
Palmer’s one nearby, too. The the start of the uh the Adidat is kind of ceremonial. They usually 
carry a passenger and they dump them off a few miles down the road. Don’t worry, they don’t 
just kick them out into the wild. They just   drop them off at a car. It’s just ceremonial. 
Uh they usually go out with less dogs. Uh guys, the way I am about cycling is kind of my idea 
knowledge, too. Uh I just I have every book on it. I’ve read it all. I’ve been there, never raced it. 
I have raced dogs outside myself. I’ve competed in races up to 400 miles. Uh I’ve done shorter races. 
My favorite racing was more of the stage racing, you know, 3 days, 50, 60 miles. It’s easy on you. 
You can get up. You can get off your sled. You can go have a real meal at night. You can uh have 
a shower, sleep in a bed. I like that kind of racing. So, yeah. June uh Jim Brony here, I love 
your comment here. Yeah, it would be good there, too, dude. It would be really good there. The 
scenery in the background in Alaska. Okay. Uh yeah, cool. Swoosh kid. The Sagon uh seven 
green jersey. Yeah, Sagon was pretty awesome, wasn’t he? He was awesome and what a character. 
I was just saying to someone this morning,   I find there’s some personalities in this 
modern area era that and when I say personality, maybe I mean not a lot of personality. Uh they 
just they just don’t say a lot. They’re very quiet and that’s just the way they are. I shouldn’t 
pick on them, but I want characters. Blessed one, has the time trial started? Just join out, dude. 
It’s underway right now. Thank you for joining us.   Uh, I know Joey Jojo did put something in the 
comments, guys. Yesterday, someone hijacked my uh, actually I got to ask Joey about that because she 
went to work yesterday as I was still streaming.   Guys, this is like a 5 hour thing I do every day 
now. Uh, now we find the rhythm all climbing from now on. Come on. This is Leel Trek talking to 
Jonathan Milan. He’s probably like, “Shut up.” I bet you his headset’s not even in. He’s like, 
“I just need to sprint.” Uh, bigger guy like him. But guess what? The big sprinters could out time 
trial all of us or outclimb all of us. There was uh guys, check out GCN. If you’re not 
a YouTube junkie like me, maybe you’re just a tour to France fan, go on GCN. There’s 
one they have there where Hank, my favorite uh host on GCN. Uh and he was I think he was pro, 
but not world tour pro. There’s different levels, so he would have had a pain contact at some point. 
They basically said, “How hard is the Alps? How fast are these guys?” They took the slowest time 
of that year, which was just under one hour, which is fast. And that was uh Fabio Jakobson, the guy 
that had the really brutal crash that virtually died at the finish line a few years back that tore 
his face apart, had 130 plus stitches in his face, uh multiple skull fractures, all the other stuff. 
Made a full comeback. So, they took the slowest guy, Sprint Star, and Hank couldn’t beat him. 
So, that tells you how good these guys are. That’s on GCN. I might watch that again today. 
Hey, GCN, throw me some love, too. Thank you. Uh Jeff saying, “Don’t get a wheel on trainer at 
all. I have one and it is so loud that it shakes   my entire part. Not good feeling part.” 
Yeah, that’s another comment, too, Jeff. uh with a wheel off, you’re going to be paying for 
better way better accuracy, way better resistance, and they’re way quieter. Like, you can watch TV 
at a normal volume with a wheel off trainer. So, Jeff, great point. Uh it’s one of those things. 
Well, yeah, I can get a wheel off. The prices have came down so much right now. What you 
need to do is go find a wheel off trainer,   like a kicker core. They start at a good price. 
It’s kind of like the lower end kicker. It still does everything you do. Like it only simulates 
up to a 16% grade. Okay. Virture is uh wheeling across the finish line. It’s so steep here, guys. 
He’s on the final ramp right now. Yeah, he’s doing a little catwalk across the finish line here. 
Just entertaining the fans. Uh a kicker core. I think they’re like 500 bucks, something like that, 
maybe less. You find one of those from some dude that thought he would be into it and then didn’t 
like it. Uh you might get it for half price and that’s a wheel off trainer. It’s not going to be 
as accurate as attacks or the higherend kickers. But guys, are you are you racing for real or you 
just want to get in shape? Do you want to lose that 20 pounds? Uh you got some of you have heard 
this before. You’re that dude that hasn’t worked out since high school. You think you’re in shape 
but you’re not really. Uh yeah, we all do it. I’m one of them. Uh so not picking on anyone here. 
Dawn’s in the mix. Good morning. About 100 people watching right now, guys. It’s going to slowly 
build throughout the day. Steven Cycle saying   straight up buy a smart trainer. So yeah, in the 
old days it was expensive. Like uh my tax neo2t, it was close to $1,800. I think they’re around 
about a,000 now. But if I had like and the other trainers were all, you know, relative to that, you 
could get a really good tax flux smart for like   $1,000. But if you could save a little bit more 
money, maybe reduce the budget on the bike you’re going to ride on there because your bike doesn’t 
need to be incredible. Uh they now have virtual   shifting on the trainers. In fact, Steven Cycles 
just started his up. Basically, you take your rear cassette off, you put this little dudead on the 
back called the cog. It’s got one gear on it. You have a clicker on your handlebars. You click it, 
it changes the resistance on the trainer itself to simulate a gear change. Uh so it’s going to be 
harder resistance if you’re going up gears, lower resistance if you’re climbing. Uh you have one 
cog to wear out. You save your equipment. Uh Sid Martinsike just crossed here, guys. Let’s look at 
the uh first riders in. So currently right now at 2912. So that’s kind of our benchmark right now, 
guys. Uh I did see yesterday I found a segment of this which includes the entire climb outside 
of the initial first three kilometers. Fastest times ever up this climb paraguds to this airport 
itself. Uh two riders are tied. You’re not going to believe who it is. Well, who’s number who’s 
your number one guess? Who do you think? Yeah,   it’s him. It’s the Tadpole himself. It’s Pogy. 
It’s Tatty. It’s Today uh in 20 minutes and 53 seconds. also tied same day. Brandon McNelte. So, 
other riders can go out on really hot day, guys. I know a lot of people were saying yesterday, and I 
never said it. I never said it. Uh, but after I do all this, I chill out, do my thing, ride my bike. 
I rode another Corsica route yesterday. Calvie, I think I was in Calvie yesterday in Corsica. Um, 
it was super super short. I needed it yesterday. I jump on all the stuff and the chore is over. Oh 
my, the chore is over. It’s done. It’s finished. Why? Why is it finished? It’s still going. It’s 
still going. Let’s have some respect for the other   cyclist. Remco said, “Well, unless it’s until 
we get to the final Sunday, it’s not over. It’s not over yet.” So, actually, you know what, too? 
Uh, Remco fell down a little bit yesterday, but I thought Remco had a really good ride yesterday. 
the fact that he was dying in the heat, he said. Uh, and he he brought himself back. He didn’t have 
teammates. He fought himself back. He said, “I had to settle down and and fight my way back on.” He 
did regain contact. Now, someone’s going to say, “Well, yeah, he’s but he’s not the world’s 
best climber. That’s not his specialty.” Uh,   give us a 60k time trial. I don’t think you’ll 
see Tatty in the mix. He won’t be there. Uh, Remco would just blow everyone up. We don’t 
have 60k time trials on this tour though. So, and that was very common in the past. It’s all 
gone now. It kind of favors climbers. That’s the modern tour. It’s just the way it is. Uh 
Stephen saying, “Buy a smart trainer.” Oh, yeah. Yeah. So, I did have some lag there for I think 
that was my uh OBS shutting down. Shutting up. I’m   gonna get you with the chat here right away. Stage 
13. Hey, Don. Uh Ruben saying Belgian beers. Oh, yeah. thick dark beers. Reuben, definitely. Uh, 
Stephen, I’d recommend Virtual Gears 2, Swift with Cog and Click. Steven just switched over. Uh, I 
think we had a chat a couple days ago. He says, “Going to try it.” And to be honest, he couldn’t 
get it to work day one. Something wasn’t working   for him. Day two, he goes, “It works perfect.” So, 
you can get a Zift Cog and Click. Actually, you can get the Zift Cog and Click. Some people can 
for like 10 bucks through Zift. For some reason,   Canadians don’t get it. They don’t like us. Uh, I 
think we have to pay 125 bucks. It’s something I will do eventually. Uh, when would you need this, 
guys? If you want to like not wear your equipment out all the time, you’re going to have one gear 
on the back with resistance settings uh to change it. Evan here. Thanks for the input, guys. I would 
like to give it a try. I have a mountain bike with road tires. Dude, that’s all you need. I know lots 
of people like I’ve seen people setups who I’ve   raced against in the past and I’m like, “Wow, this 
guy’s pretty good and they’re riding like a hybrid city bike. Your aerodynamics don’t matter inside.” 
They do factor that in on some of the programs like you enter your weight and your height. So, 
obviously, let’s say you’re 7 feet tall, your drag coefficient is going to be kind of cruddy. I’m not 
saying all the programs do that, but a lot of them   are getting really smart now and they’re factoring 
that all in. So you can weight dope on there. What does that mean? Enter a less weight, lower weight. 
Don’t do that. Uh you can also height dope. That’s possible, too. Just enter your right stuff. 
Just you’re competing against yourself really. And it’s not expensive to get into. And guys, 
once you start doing it and you realize, wow, I can go on some of the same roads that the pros 
are on, that’s where it really takes off for me. Okay, so first place now, guys. We’re at 2847. Uh 
I think fastest times are going to be I was trying to think about it. If if they did the the climb 
in under 21 minutes, those first three kilometers, maybe a minute and a half per kilometer. I think 
it’s going to be sub 25 minutes for like the very very fastest. That’s just a quick guess right 
now. I could be totally wrong. Uh Ian here saying, “Let’s see other riders win for a change.” Yeah, 
dude. I think everyone’s feeling that right now.   Here’s Jonathan Milan on course right now. 
He’s he’s just taking that bend I told you guys about where they come off the main highway 
here, guys. And if you’re just jumping in here, too, where Jonathan Milan turned off tomorrow, 
we will continue on straight up this road here to the east. Uh the D I can’t read that 
right now. That is the road over the call to Parisord. We will climb this exact same climb 
again tomorrow. So, keep your eyes focused on this road today. I wonder if all the barrier Yeah, the 
barriers will still be up for tomorrow cuz I was thinking this would be a great spot. This would 
have been a really smart spot as a spectator to be at because you’ll get to see them pass by you 
twice uh in 24 hours. Bring your camper van up, uh your crappy little tent, uh one baguette, 
uh at least two dozen beers, and just enjoy. Pray for no rain. Eduardo Afeni. Uh this guy was 
a hitter in stage five, guys. Uh for uh Vizma, always hard to identify him. He is in a different 
jersey. I want to take a look at that, guys. We’re going to look at the teams here. Vizma. Yeah, 
this guy here, he did awesome on stage five. Uh he’s riding in a white and blue jersey today. 
Way down in the standings, but he’s a very fast time travel. And here we go, folks. Look at this. 
If you can see this on screen here in stage five,   the flat time trial. Remember that flat time 
trial. He was third overall and he sat in the hot seat all day long uh till the big boys came out to 
play. Uh here we go. See if we’re getting any uh stuff from Okay, we’re just going to look at that 
there. Yeah, you guys, you can see it’s just an absolute huge climb up there. Go back to the live 
tracking here. Actually, I’m trying to get back to uh here, I’ll go in this route. Oh, this is the 
one where it’s hard to find the commentary. It’s Yeah, I had this problem on stage 52 where I 
can get any info from uh the commentators. I think you got to Oh, you just got to way down. 
Okay, so this is Jonathan Milan getting ready   to go earlier today, guys. Just going to give 
you a little Here’s something from X. I think he’s not looking forward today. He’s like, I 
just got to get this over with. Again, folks,   do you think we’re going to see any time trial 
bikes? I think we might at the end. We might. Uh, they’d have to be pretty confident though. So, 
at the finish now, last ride. Okay, so Phil Bow House just came in. He’s quite far down in the 
standings here. And uh it’s Eatfeld 2749. This guy was actually flying up there obviously. Uh 
Leonard, I was going to say Leo, that was my guess from Belgium here. He’s a time trialist. 
That’s more of his specialtity because he took   considerable time out of second place, like 
almost a minute ahead. So that’s a bit more of his specialtity. Uh I think we’re going to see uh 
Afeni here do really well. So this is Apheni here. And before this tour, I didn’t even know who 
he was, guys. I’ll just be honest with you.   Uh you’re always going to get natural for me. I’m 
not going to pretend something I don’t know. Okay, guys. Uh trying to catch up. Yeah, Evan, 
definitely give it a try. Dude, Evan, you could probably go to a bike shop. Uh I I know 
Cranked in Erdri, they have a full setup. They have Zift running all the time. You jump on, you 
try it out. Uh the dudes out in uh at Cal Cycle, I was there through the week. I need some oil 
for my chain. Uh, so I’m going to go I’m going   to go to full wax next chain change. They’ve got 
the whole system there to get it set for me. Uh, so I’ll be switching to that. Uh, so it’s 
basically a hot wax and then you just tap   it up with wax. You just add little drips 
of wax on in places and it’s super fast, super quiet. Uh, they have a full setup, too. I 
mean, I think they way they have a trainer there. You would just hook it up to the phone. I know 
the owner, so he would just quickly do that. But uh Steven saying Alaska tour have 
no spectators. Yeah, that would be   one problem. There wouldn’t be 
a lot of spectators on course. They’d be worried about moose coming through 
trampling people. What about Tour Canada?   Beautiful country and mountains. I’d love to climb 
there. Brandon is commenting there. We do have two races. We have uh the big ones is the Montreal 
GP where they go up Montreal I think 14 times. There’s a a race I think the day before that, 
the Quebec GP I think they call it. Uh only a few years ago, like within the last decade, 
there used to be a tour of Alberta. That’s   uh Peter Sagan won uh on the main street downtown 
Olds, Alberta, Canada, which is kind of like my hometown right now. There’s towns that are closer, 
but I go to Olds for everything. It’s the first place I moved to when I came out here and now 
I’m kind of in between. But if I want anything   serious, I go to Olds. ODS, that’s what it’s 
called. Olds. By Germay just taking off now. Uh he’s probably not looking forward to this either. 
Germ though is a pretty decent. He’s one of the   better climbing sprinters, but uh not known for 
his time triangle ability. Uh just watching the finish here. I want to zoom this out a little bit 
and turn that on there. Okay, guys. Uh guys, yeah, this is I love this. This is so juicy here, 
guys. I love to say this. Uh Luke Plap, guys. First time trial, he kind of blew everyone out of 
the water. His time stood all day long. In fact, I think Luke Plap, even at the end of the time 
trial after it was all done, he still had the fastest times at one two. And I think by three 
he was some of the fastest fastest riders were starting to overtake him there. But I bet you his 
times will stand for a long time today. Watch him coming through the fastest at uh checkpoint 2 
as well. Uh trying to see I was just reading something here about uh penalties and stuff 
like that. So Luke Plop is the fastest so far. Oh guys, check this out. And if you 
don’t think uh there’s stuff going on, is there stuff going on? Uh good question here, 
guys. Do you think there’s any possibility of any form of mechanical doping? Just let me know in 
the comments. Uh reading a comment here. As part of the tour’s ongoing anti-doping and anti-fraud 
efforts, 60 bikes were checked for technological fraud following the stage. The UCI confirmed 
that all bikes complied with regulations. I wonder why they’re doing that. Just saying, 
guys. Charlie Waggelius DS for EF was fined 500 Swiss Franks for providing food to 
a rider in a nonauthorized zone. Guys,   that probably happened on one of the clims 
where riders were bonking uh where they were out of food. Uh just seeing things light up on my 
screen there. Uh ooh Jordan Jagat, who I think is in 13th overall right now for total injuries, 
was sanctioned uh for an illegal push from a team car. He was fined 200 Swiss Franks and docked 
15 UCI points. Wow. Four points from the general classification and assessed a 10se secondond time 
pal. Okay, so that must have been a very very sticky bottle like super glue sticky bottle. 
Uh, and that’s about Okay, another one here. Two teams failed to comply the com 
the commissaries instructions. So, I think they were like more uh DS’s or 
assistance. Matty Haymon, winner of the Peru Bay, received a fine and a yellow card for 
breaching vehicle movement regulations, whatever that means. Probably passing when he shouldn’t 
have passed. Uh, heat of the moment, guys. Like,   we got to get up there. We got to get to our 
rider. And you’ve got a commisair saying, “No, you can’t pass me. No, I’m getting to my rider. My 
rider’s dying.” That’s probably how that happens. Okay, so that’s some good information there. It’s 
amazing what they find people for, but they are   on top of. So guys, they are checking bikes out 
all the time. Checking bikes out all the time. So here’s that finishing straight 
here. We can see right now rider 43,   Veto Bright and Bert Van Lurberg, they are on the 
actual runway itself. There it is. Uh try to do something here for you guys in the background. 
Probably the best way I can do it here. Okay, so that guy actually did the climb. Okay, that’s 
really cool to see. I’m going to pull up Paraguds here so you guys can see it. Uh, Colin, you are 
on the wrong keyboard. Pra, hopefully. Yeah, it does remember it from yesterday. Thank 
you so much. And I’m going to zoom in here and see if I can find it. Uh, because it’s 
not the ski station. It’s this one here. Like, this is kind of unbelievable, really, guys. 
Let me just flip to this for a second here for   you. Uh, we’re going to turn that one. Flip this 
one on here. Uh, big heads in the way. Big heads in the way, guys. But just take a look. I can 
slide this over for you. Here’s that turn off the road at the top of the screen. Tomorrow, 
we keep trucking this way. We keep trucking uh from west to east along the D618. It looks 
like uh that’s the call to parasaur. If you head in that direction, we’re going to take 
a hard right, come down this road here. We’re not going to take this real switchbacky route. We 
do this big loop, one little switch back. We come across here and then we tuck onto the actual 
runway, the number 60 runway. Uh, Remco, you are clear for takeoff on runway 60, please. Over 
something like that. Right. So, there is a little uh airport here. I don’t know what takes off out 
of here. I don’t even see any airplanes here. They   probably just land in, take off. Probably like 
ultral lights. uh a nice little uh bush plane could land on like a quarter of this. So, I’ve 
seen them up in Alaska. Got to ride in a couple of bush planes. Uh a lot of fun. Homemade ones, too. 
So, you wonder what you’re getting yourself into. Back to the racer, guys. See if we can go 
through. Actually, I’m going to stick in map   mode for all this stuff. 165 folks in now, guys. 
early in the morning. Still watching Germai go uh Germai 6 minutes into his efforts and I 
want to see uh Pl Luke Plap. Actually got to see him chat a few times. Not sure if he’s 
through there yet. No, he’s not. Uh yeah, Luke Plap here for JCO doing well. Derbo, 
he’s always good on this kind of stuff. Right now it’s still Leonard von Eatfeld from 
Lotto at 1647. So that’s kind of the time we’re looking at right now. And he held that all the 
way through into the final. Only two intermediate checkpoints on this one, guys. So looks like Derbo 
is finishing a little bit for Is that the end? No, that’s not the end. This is the second 
checkpoint here, guys. These guys are out of   the saddle climbing the whole way. So it’s a very 
strange time trial. They’re not fully arrow. Uh, it’s a hill assault. We haven’t had a climb like 
this at the Tour to France since 2004. An an individual mountain time trial. Uh, I think 
that was a harder one though back then. Uh, that was during the Lance era. Okay guys, 
going to catch up with you guys here. Ian’s liking GCN. Me, too. Yeah. No people up in Alaska. It 
would be spectacular to look at,   but you wouldn’t have a ton of people out. Uh Ian saying wheel off is better. Ian, yeah, 
dude, send me that. Uh I haven’t seen it yet. Uh Ian and me are going to hook up at some point for 
a ride on Zift together. Uh I told him to send me We’re on different time, way different time zones 
here. I think it’s late at night for Ian right   now. Early in the morning for me, late at night 
for Ian. So it’s probably going to have to be a uh Okay, here we go. I’m watching Jonathan Milan come 
to the finish. Not sure where he’s going to be. Still watching here. Arnold Dei, last 
rider through checkpoint two. And guys, if we look back again, you can see 
where the checkpoints are. We start   out in the valley at that little bike 
festival place. First checkpoint is at the turn where they come back onto 
the main road, the main highway. Second checkpoint is still on the main road and 
then it’s the run to the finish. Uh and in this last section here, there’s gradients upwards of 
16% is what I’ve been reading about. Coming to the finish right now, Stain Everson from UNOX. 
Uh to me, probably the biggest winners of the tour right now. Tima coming in. So I’m going 
to follow their times coming in right now. I’m liking this here too. real time 
gaps. Uh, interesting here. So,   this will let you know. Okay. Are all these 
the guys that are out? Okay. I’m trying to interpret this. Is this is this live live? 
As in these guys are on course right now.   And you can see how riders are moving back and 
forth. Remember, it’s one minute time interval, guys. So, these time gaps in the red. Uh, so 
I’d have to figure out who’s all out on course here. Venyville. Okay. So Venyel’s done. 
Okay. So they’re just showing the time gap uh as they’re happening right now. So right now 
Luke Plop is 1 minute 6 seconds faster than Van Efeld. Okay. I am liking this now. So Luke is 
on fire like he was in the first time trial.   Hopefully he can maintain all the way and get a 
really good result for Jacob today. Maybe I will take a look at this one here too. Okay. This is 
kind of interesting looking at that way, isn’t it? We’re waiting for Luke to come. There he is, 
folks. Right here. If you look at the bottom left   hand side of the screen, Luke Plab is through one 
minute up. It was saying one minute six up there before. I’m watching the start shoot now. Total 
energy riders there. That’s Anthony Turgis Kofid’s rider here. Oh, that is Brian Kard. And guys, his 
hand is fully bandaged and it looks like he has   a cast on his uh second finger beside his pinky. 
It’s in a cast, like a hard cast, all taped. So, I wonder what happened to him. Did he break? How do 
you break your finger on a ride? I guess you have   a small crash. Put your hand out. He probably got 
his finger just like completely reefed backwards. Uh, watching Eduardo Rofini here and I’m seeing on 
screen right now, he’s catching a rider ahead of him right now. Uh, and I think he’s just coming up 
to the second checkpoint. Haven’t seen any times for him yet. Uh he was incredible. He’s third 
overall on the stage five uh time trial. That was a flat one though. Can he repeat in the mountains? 
Okay guys, um Tony here, Tony Karada. Pogy going to destroy everyone today, but the tour is not 
over till the fat ladies sings. Exactly, dude.   Remco was saying that yesterday, guys. It just 
takes one little fall. Uh that fall that Tatty had two days ago, his tour could be over right 
now. He could have some kind of weird hairline   fracture in his arm or his leg or his hip. They 
are not going to even let him race because that’s their money man right there. Uh they got to 
protect him at all costs. It if he would have landed like 1% difference the tour could be 
over right now for him. Uh and it’s you know remember too guys Tatty is the hands on favorite 
to win. that was well go on sports betting before uh he’s the only rider that’s a minus something or 
other. Everyone else is a plus something. I think   he was like a minus 185 to win and Yonas was 
like a plus 150 and then everyone else is like plus you know millions zero chance of winning. 
It was basically uh Tatty and Yonas trailing far behind at this point. Uh only looking worse 
at this point but we’ll see what happens. Um, let me vote here. Yeah, great Brett. Okay, 
Brett, that’s what I want to see. Uh, I want to vote for the Conidor versus Schlleck errors 
in the poll. Dude, I couldn’t put another other.   I wanted to have an other and then say describe. 
So, Brett, I am reading your comment here, dude. Thanks for commenting. Uh, yeah, those are some 
epic years as well. Was he here that didn’t? Uh, there was one year I think Schlleck went 
on the attack and then his chain skipped   off or he couldn’t switch gears and Conador just 
blew right by him. I do remember that very well. The Schlech Bros. Frank and Andy were awesome 
together from Luxembborg. Uh, Team Saxobank, that was their team at the time. I think I 
think it was another name for a while too. Uh, Tony’s agree. Yeah, those guys were awesome. 
Stephen saying, “Also, Zift Cog is great if   someone has arthritis or hand injury and struggles 
to change gear using shifters.” Yeah, that’s true, guys. The Zift Click, um, it’s probably about that 
big, you know, if I’m making an okay symbol like that. Uh, it’s a small thing and you mount it to 
your handlebars. You click up, it will increase resistance in the back as if you’re shifting into 
a higher gear, but it’s staying in the same gear in the back. You can actually use it by using 
your cassette, too. On some trainers, they’re not all I know tax is slow, but they now have 
virtual shifting. You would just put it in your big chain ring in the front and like say a middle 
cassette in the back, kind of keep it locked in place there, and then use the click to initiate 
virtual shifting. You can do it that way, too.   Uh, if you’re really smart, you get the cog, take 
your cassette off, and just use that one gear and don’t wear out all your components. If you have 
a dedicated inside bike, it doesn’t matter. Okay,   Luke Plop is coming to the finish now, guys. 
Uh, he should be getting there. Let’s see where he is on course. He’s number 126. Going to try 
to have a quick look at him. Where can we find   him? Here he is right here, folks. Luke Plap. 
Uh, he was popping up in a lot of videos I was watching earlier this week. Seems like quite the 
character. Closing in on 211 here. Arnold Deli. I’m sure he’s taken back a bunch of time here. 
Arnold Dei more of a sprinter is the sprinter for the lotto team. Uh and Plap has proven himself 
already as a uh very very good time trialist. So we can see here Luke Plap fastest by 
a minute uh at the second checkpoint. Let’s see what time he’s going to set. Current 
time is 2749. So, can we give him a 2649 now, at the first time trial, he was fasted 
through all three for quite a while,   and it seemed like he faded really hard at 
the end. Uh, today’s finish is brutally hard, guys. Brutally hard. Let’s see what they’re 
saying out here. Oh, Kakard starts and says goodbye to the tour. Okay, guys, here it is. 
Examinations carried after yesterday’s stage show that Brian Kakard has a fracture of the 
first failank of the fourth finger in his right   hand. So he did he had a broken finger yesterday 
out on the tour and he did survive the hoticcom climbing with a broken finger. Guys, you know, 
you always hear about guys riding with a broken   collarbone and this and that. I imagine riding 
with a broken finger as you’re climbing all day yesterday would have been really painful, 
too. Even though it’s just your finger. Uh he already says he so he finished yesterday. He says he’s willing to start today, but he 
already said he won’t be there tomorrow. Uh as his injury affects his ability to navigate 
on the downhills. And tomorrow is a huge day,   guys. Huge. Please join me tomorrow for 
Saturday’s stage. Uh and he’s getting right out. He’s getting married right after 
the tour. Congratulations, Brian Kakard.   This is my last bib on this tour and I want to 
make the most of this climb. I can’t break with my right hand, so I can only use the front brake. 
Okay, so really cool info there about Brian Kard. Let’s take a look here. We’re still waiting for 
Luke to finish right now, guys. Here he is. 126 chasing after Arnold Dele up ahead. We’ve just 
got uh Amorei Capot finishing uh Yonas Rooch. This guy, this is the Art Mare guy that got ran over 
by another rider earlier in the week. Still doing   it. Uh, I want to find out where Eduardo Aini 
is. See how his times are holding up today. Oh, wow. Luke Plap absolutely flying here, guys. 
Look at this live timing in the top corner,   which you guys can’t see uh cuz my face is 
up there. Luke Plap right now is almost three minutes ahead of the current leader, Van 
Eatfeld. Luke Plop absolutely smashing it, folks. Love this kind of action here, folks. Love 
it. We’re going to get his final time coming in. That’s live. So, he was one minute ahead of Annie 
Felt at the second check. And now it’s showing that he’s three minutes ahead overall. Almost 
3 minutes. I’m waiting to see his arrival time   here. Jumping back into the chat. James Delara 
from Corsa. James, I rode Corsa again yesterday. Uh G uh James here saying GCN training sessions 
are great for free without a subscription   computer. Yeah, they have uh like workout sessions 
on there you can do right along with them. Uh Jeremy Brown saying I think you’d be surprised. 
That sounds like one of the MMA fighters from years ago. Uh Brendan Sha, I think you’d be 
surprised. uh Jan the uh the idea would started in the 70s and kids knew about it in school soon 
after now it’s a worldwide event it would be it it would be more about televising it but people would 
tune in Luke Plap first he just arrived first place guys absolutely smashed his way uh into 
first place so guys I’m looking at Luke Plap’s time here he did not fold uh after the final check 
he only accelerated 2458 He’s now in the hot seat with a 2m minute and 51 second gap back to Van 
Efelt. So my prediction earlier of 2430 for the top guys probably going to be a little bit too 
high guys. Uh can we see a sub 24 today out of the the big hitters at the front? Anthony Turis 
out uh on course right now. Just going to keep looking at these times, guys. This is what I love 
about the time trial is studying the times, seeing who’s doing good where, who’s falling back. We 
will go back to the map mode as I catch up here.   Eduardo Afini is the next guy I’m watching out 
there. Uh going to have to find out where he is. Once we see his time checks, I’ll get his number 
and I’ll go jump on him. Yeah, I think the Ida Rod started in 1972. It was a uh what should we 
call it? historical recreation of the time of the uh the dtheria run that happened I believe in 
the 20s. So back then dtheria was something that you know well I guess you could still die 
from dtheria but they didn’t have any vaccine   for it and up in nome Alaska uh they had none and 
it was serious and people were dying they’re like how do we get this here storms were so bad planes 
at the time were incapable of getting there so they had a relay team and a lot of guys think 
it’s one dog team that went there you know the   whole Balto story uh it wasn’t just Balto guys um 
there was like I I think there was like 30 teams that did like little 20 mile stretches, 30 mile 
stretches, 40 mile stretches to get there. And they didn’t go from Anchorage. They started at a 
later point, another roadhouse, but they had to   carry the Dtheria serum there, like basically 
in test tubes, uh, prevent it from freezing, prevent it from getting too warm in their dog’s 
bouncing through trails. Guys, remember too, I think it was the 20s. Uh, might have been even 
earlier than that. There’s nothing out. there’s nothing out there right now. So, you can imagine 
how tough it was back then. Uh like basically real hard men going out there doing it. And so 
they would relay the diptheria from roadhouse to roadhouse. Basically back then they would have 
a road house every 25 miles. What’s a roadhouse?   It’s where you go and you sleep and someone will 
feed you something and you can bed down your dogs and stay safe in the middle of nowhere. They 
relay relay. The famous team was the Balto team. Uh but uh oh, what’s the name of the dog musher? 
Norwegian dog musher. Sephila. Leonard Sepa. He had a his own strain of uh Siberians. Little bit 
more. They didn’t really look like Siberians. They were called Sephila Siberians. And uh his his 
lead dog was Togo. So both Balto and Togo have statues. Um I think one’s in New York and one’s 
somewhere else. Both were really good dogs. the   lead dogs. All the dogs are great guys. Uh your 
leader is not much if you don’t have the the team and the wheel dogs behind them. They got the 
serum there, saved the small village of Gnome, and that’s why the IDA rod was originally started was 
to kind of honor that. Started, I think, in 72. Uh yep, right here. Just catching up, guys. 
I know I’ve kind of gone sideways here. We’re   doing dog talk now. Plap is ripping this apart. 
I wish we could watch that. ITV only uh starting coverage in an hour from now. Yeah, guys, just 
stick with me until then if you can. Uh Don,   it’s cool. An airport strip. Yeah, it’s 
really short one. Uncle Maddie here. Good day, fine sir. How’s the coffee today? Coffee 
is great, dude. It’s fantastic. Thank you. Uh Yonas Rooch having a nice ride here too, 
but he will be nowhere near uh Plop’s ride. And this is a bit delayed too, guys. So, this is 
delayed. Who else is out there right now? That’s absolutely fine. So, you can see the times. 
What you Man, I wonder if I can do this today,   guys. I’m going to do this. Shocker, 
guys. Uh, we’re going to do this. No, we don’t do that, Colin. We do not do that. 
We’re going to slide me across here today. And now you guys can see that a 
little bit better, maybe. Okay,   we’re going to slide me up a bit. I know 
you guys want to see the hair every day, but let’s just, you know, come 
on. Let’s back off that for a bit. Yep. So, I’ve got myself on the other side. 
Now, there guys, I want you to take a look at   the top right hand side. These are the live 
times. This is how riders are doing on the course as it’s happening live. So, you can see 
here Luke Plap 2458. Uh, and these times are probably like based on where they are on course 
with reference to where Luke Plap was on course, not where they are right now. Cuz you can see 
Rickard here. Uh that’s the guy that had the   awesome break with uh Matu Vanderpool. It’s 
saying he’s only 27 seconds behind Luke Platt, but he’s just starting the course. He’s still got 
8 km remaining. He’s just started the climb now. Oh, I think I’m going to throw him 3 minutes back. 
We’re going to keep an eye on that and see if that   actually happens. Uh where is Afeni right now? 
I don’t know where he is. Gonna come back here. and zip down. We’re going to jump to the table 
view. Turn the table view off actually. Luke plat through first. Just seeing if Aeni 
can So, from what I’m seeing right now,   I think Afeni is probably like a flat land time 
trial dude. Uh because he has his he’s not showing up in any of the time checks right now. Yeah. 
So, yeah, Luke Plop, he is super impressive. I noticed this on stage five. Uh watching that 
final ramp is just devastating here. Actually they are showing Afeni now. Not his stage today. 
Uh third at the flat time trial. Right now he’s finishing it looks like 3 minutes plus behind Luke 
Plap. So Luke Plap just went out and smashed this to pieces. So either could be a combination 
guys. We’re uh 13 stages into the tour. Could be some fatigue. could be from yesterday’s 
uh efforts out there. I we never even saw Apheni yesterday. We didn’t see a lot of people 
yesterday after that explosive attack. So yeah, he’s sub 25 right now. Uh I was kind of thinking 
2430 is my guess. I’m thinking we could get under 24 now. What do you guys think about that? Let 
me know, guys. Am I being too optimistic? Yeah, I’m going to keep drinking this coffee here. Uh 
Reinhold Everest is here. He’s just dropping in   now. Uh feed zone injury grabbing a bag. Oh, good 
one, Maddie. Awesome stuff. So, guys, that’s the stuff I don’t hear about. I can’t watch at all, 
right? I’m watching three screens at once. So,   Brian Kard broke his finger apparently grabbing a 
feed bag, you know, going by at say 40 km an hour. You reach for the straps and his finger probably 
just got reefed right back. Reinhold saying flow sports. Yep, dude. That’s how I watch Fellow 
Sports in Canada. Reinhold, where you located. Give me a If you don’t want to tell me exactly, 
maybe you do. Uh, I think you’re in Canada, so let   me know where you are. Like to say hi to everyone. 
Don saying, “Every cycling has its own greatness.” And definitely and there’s so many eras within 
that, too. Uh, yeah, dude. It’s fantastic. You know, we had the Team Sky era. There was the CSC 
was really big for a while with Carlos Sastra, Cadell Evans. Uh yeah, just timing when you when 
you start peing. Bigny Germay just came through uh 30 minutes 54 seconds. So here we go. We got a 
we got the Australian national time trial champion individual time trial uh able to beat one of 
the finest sprinters in the world by over by almost 6 minutes on a time trial. So obviously 
Luke Plap is good at time trials all around. Uh whereas Afeni was really really good on the flats 
but not so much on the mountain time trial. Now is that because he’s just not good at the time 
trial up hills or he’s just tired? Probably a   bit tired watching Brian Kard right now. Uh this 
will be his last stage as he says he can’t break and I can see him holding his hand very weird on 
his right brake hood. I don’t think he’ll even be able to stand today, folks. Really cool shots 
here, guys. I do want to show you this again here, too. Uh the map I I want to show you for anyone 
that’s just jumping in here now. Let’s take a look at the map again. And you can see where we 
are today. Here’s our stage today. stage today starts in Lutenville here at kilometer zero. Heads 
north, takes a hard right, snakes along here, takes another hard right here, turns off and 
finishes at the airport here. Category 1 climb is   the finish line. What you’re also going to notice, 
hey, Colin, what’s that other yellow line? Well, coming from the north tomorrow, you can see stage 
14 here. That’s the stage tomorrow uh with I think it’s the two HC climbs, the call to uh and the uh 
super bananers at the end. We will be coming down the exact same road road tomorrow. So, if you guys 
are on the feed be able to stream it and watch it. Uh you’re probably going to see a lot of the 
same landmarks here. I’m trying to watch as I’ll probably watch this again later today, I think. 
Uh during nappy time for Colin. Uh they will take off at this point. They will climb up here to the 
call to parasaur. So, what’s amazing here about the Pyrenees, all these climbs are just packed in 
right here. Uh, it’s not just, oh, we’re in the Pyrenees. Any which way you go, you’re going to 
find a huge climb. Uh, I don’t know which one this is here, but look at this switchbacks here on this 
climb right here. Like, that looks insane. Okay, guys, back to the stage. Take a look at the 
riders here. Get to the race. Uh, Civico. Al, so these real time graphs aren’t even showing 
up correctly here for me, guys, because Luke Plop   should be I’m gonna take a better look at that 
here. Maybe this is going to show up better. Yeah, so Luke Plop 24 58. Okay, I thought it was 
56 there for a second. Coming on through now, guys. He’s first at all three at the first 
checkpoint, the second checkpoint, and the   finish. I think he’s going to be in the hon for 
quite a while here. Uh, seeing the uh Oh, so Lenny Martinez is still in the polka dot jersey. Wasn’t 
aware of that. He did retain it yesterday. Oh, that’s right. He did. Uh, no, they got to Oh, 
guys, sorry. He’s in it by default. I think he’s tied with Tatty on points. He is tied with Tatty 
on points. They have 27 points each. You can see   it here. Uh, but Tatty got the points last, so he 
gets the jersey. We’ve got a Uno X rider going up now. Unoax rider just hitting the 10 km mark. Uh 
really hasn’t even started the climb yet. Just starting his effort road bikes here. Will we see 
a time trial bike? Would anyone be brave enough   to go out on a time trial bike? So Lenny Martinez 
is wearing the polka dots because Tatty’s wearing the yellow jersey. Far and away super dominant 
performance yesterday uh by Tatty. Heard some good stuff too about it, guys. We want to 
be on this one. Best time 2458 Luke Plap. There was a good interview with 
Tatty afterwards where he said   uh and you know Tatty’s super humble. I do like 
him. He doesn’t come across sometimes cuz you know it’s not his primary language. But he was 
saying uh Jonathan Nar narv narvez why can’t I say narvz narvz that’s how you say it. Uh he 
says, “Well, uh Jonathan didn’t understand I was joking.” Something like that. They they 
talked about doing something what they did   at the Criterium Dolphin earlier in the year 
last month. Uh Taddyy said he didn’t know that Jonathan was going to attack that hard then. So 
he said, “I just had to go with it.” He said,   “My radio wasn’t working either.” He says, “I 
couldn’t even communicate with him.” He says, “I just went with him because I knew I had to.” 
And I watched the replay a couple times yesterday. Uh Jonathan attacked so hard and actually if you 
watch it closely, Yonas is the only one that went with him. No other rider could go. Uh he was right 
on their wheels. But if you watch closely, they were kind of going around a left bend. As soon as 
Jonathan pulls off where he’s done, uh Yonas just exploded too. Like he was like, “That’s all I 
can do.” So he exploded when Jonath Tatty was   able to just keep going. Uh got some replay here. 
Vignium finishing here just from before. Took his time. He’s slapping hands with everyone going 
up the course there. No wonder people like him. Don, what’s your favorite cyclinger then? Uh, yep. Colonel. The Colonel is back in the 
mix. Colonel, you’re actually a Colonel. Uh, it’s TT time. Jim Bron. Auto. So, 
Jim Brony’s here. Are most bikes still 10-speed? What’s the deal with that? 
Is Is 10 gear speed gears a rule? Uh no, dude. They’re probably riding 111 12s. I think 
they’re up to a 13 uh gear bike now. Yeah. So, my older stuff, like my Cyclacross bike 
is only a 10-speed. My Curvello Circa uh 2018 19 was 11 11 cassette. Now, I know all 
of them have a 12-speed cassette now. And I think there’s actually a 13 now. I think 
I think Campy has a 13 um rear cassette. Yeah, Colonel here saying they’re 11 and 12 
now. So, all of these guys, they’re probably   riding 13s. Uh looking today here, will they 
only have one chain ring on these guys? Are they riding one by? The first part is pretty 
flat. You might want a bigger gear there. So,   hard to say. Uh, you might want to save 
some weight by not having that second chain ring and the derailure and stuff like 
that. Anthony Church coming along here. Uh, guys, Luke Plop is going to be sitting there 
for quite a while today in that hot seat. Uh,   I think most people are going to have a 
hard time keeping up with him. You can see Van Eatvelt started out really strong uh at 
the first check and then just faded. He was in the haunted spent I don’t know 10 minutes 
there and he’s gone. Civicov here on screen. Yeah. 12 and 13 speeds now. Broken finger would be 
very tough. Yeah, it it might be even though it’s essentially a minor injury. Uh it might be tougher 
than dealing with another break somewhere else. So you’ve heard about guys riding with broken collar 
bones and stuff like that. Once they get in place, they can kind of just stay stable and maintain it. 
You need those fingers. All that weight is on your hands. Uh yeah, it would be very painful, I think. 
Yep. Dawn here, he’s just mentioning it. Tyler Hamilton came in fourth place at the tour with a 
broken collarbone 20 years ago. US Postal Service broke it in a mountain crash on stage 15 or 16. I 
thought he broke it really early in the the race. Coffeey’s getting cold, guys. Getting 
cold. So, I need to warm it up. Uh,   Dawn’s been up in Asess a few times from the 
local airport near me. Pretty cool. Yeah. When I was in Alaska, I got to go up in a tiny little 
bush plane, the one with the big rubber wheels, like huge rubber wheels to bounce along the 
gravel. And the guy also had a float plane. Uh, so we went out on that, too. I think that sat 
about six people. So, we took off on the lake.   He was the host family for the Ididarod team 
that I went up there with. So basically, if you’re from the south, if you’re from the 
lower 48 or Canada, you need somewhere to stay when you get up there. So all the people 
up there will say, “Yeah, you can stay at   my house with your dogs.” And the people in 
Alaska love the idea. That’s their thing. Uh Don, yeah, Dawn, right now they’re all using 
road bikes. I don’t know if they’re official uh designated climbing bikes. That’s kind 
of changing now at the tour. Like they were   saying Tatty was doing the stages yesterday 
on a on a ar aerobike. Uh climbing bike is more I mean because the aero bikes are 
just as light now. All these bikes are   at weight virtually right at the UCI minimums. 
In fact, some they got to add weight to them. A climbing bike would be more for comfort. 
UCI a bit more uh aggressive position, but I haven’t seen a TT bike yet. Been 
a lot of people talking about it though. Evan Baron suggest a new poll for tomorrow. 
Will Tatty take all three jerseys at the   end of the tour? Okay, I can do that. Uh 
typical baller, dude. Got a new guy here, a new Canadian. Hello from Ottawa, dude. Welcome 
aboard. Welcome to the channel, guys. Right now, Luke Plap still absolutely dominant in this time 
trial. 2458. Guys, why don’t you drop into the comments how what you think Tatty’s time is going 
to be. I know a lot of people here are thinking Tatty is going to just decimate the field today. 
What will Tatty’s time be? Will Tatty be under 24   minutes? Let me know. Uh Norberto Fenner here from 
the Philippines. Welcome aboard. We get a lot of uh viewers from the Philippines here. I think 
cycling uh the tour to France, pro cycling is just gigantic in the Philippines. So, nice 
to have you on board, dude. Dude, Norberto,   what time is it there for you right now? Uh must 
be getting late at night or late in the afternoon. Uh oh, missed this one here. Looks like his 
name was Derek Andre Bco. When will they let Padrick go? Dude, he goes dead 
last. He goes dead last. Uh, dude,   that’s that’s one of the hardest things 
for me to figure out. Departure times. See all departure times. I’m looking right now. There’s Vanderpole. It’s like it doesn’t 
want to scroll all the way down for me. Uh,   it’s very hard to figure out. Okay, 
dudes. So, Pogy goes out at 505 C. Okay. So, you’re going to have to figure that out. 
That’s probably That’s 9:05 in the morning for me. 9:05 a.m. Guys, you know, I’m up early doing 
this for you here. It’s currently 6:33 a.m. Oh, and even better tomorrow, guys. Even better 
tomorrow. I noticed the tour tomorrow because   it has two HC climbs. Some of the most glorious 
days at the Tour to France, and I love it. Uh, I wouldn’t miss a second of it. It starts tomorrow 
at 400 am. The roll out 400 am tomorrow morning. Yeah, guys, show you my phone. You can’t even see 
it. Uh, don’t worry about it. Just walk it off.   Uh, 4:00 a.m. So, I’m going to have to get up at 
3:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. Uh, tomorrow night is Joey’s birthday dinner out with her best friend. 
It’s going to be a little bit crazier. And then I’m going to have to tell her, hey, we’re going to 
have to really figure out this day because Colin   may have to go to sleep all day Saturday to be on 
form for Saturday night to get us home Saturday to get ready for Sunday, which has got more climbing 
as we race into Carcasson. I think there’s two climbs on that stage. Probably not going to 
be won by a GC contender, but you never know. Guys, I’m going to just show you the 
little map again here so you can see it.   Right now we’ve got uh Anthony Turgis just 
finishing up 117th overall. Got a nice little battle here. Here’s two riders. One of these 
riders has caught the other one. Looks like Connor Swift is number 67. I think he’s just been caught 
by Brian Cicard. Uh I’m going to say it’s the other way around. Uh I can’t imagine Brian Card 
is flying today with that broken finger. Guys, I’ll see if I can get you anything here from the 
race right now. Uh, so you can see some footage. We have to go way way down. Oh, guys, uh, Nelson 
Mandela day. It’s the birthday of Nelson Mandela. Here’s Luke Plop. Look at this guy. Super arrow, 
shaved head. 26.2 km an hour. Hit 71.9 km an hour. That would have been in the very first 
uh 1 to 2 km. There was a downhill there. So,   he was just smashing it. I wonder how much time 
he got at the beginning. He wasn’t that far of uh Van Eatvelt at the at the first time check. 
Only a couple seconds and then he just took off. Uh okay. What’s this saying here? 
The riders with the two worst times   at the finish line 3127 and 3120 
are Tim Merlier and Luca Mezek. the hypothetical winner of today’s stage would 
eliminate them if you cross the finish line with more than a 9minute faster. So guys, I didn’t know 
this. You can be eliminated from the individual time trial. So it’s all based on a percentage of 
what the fastest riders are to the slowest riders. Uh and it’s saying here that if the fastest rider 
today is 2227, I think that’s I don’t that can’t happen. That’s way too fast. These guys would be 
eliminated from the tour. they’d be just booted   out. Here’s Oh, that was Magnus Court they were 
showing us earlier. Uh over here on We’ll still call it Twitter. Let’s just call it Twitter for 
now. I think X that doesn’t sound right. Uh I don’t use Twitter. Luke Plap here. Still sitting 
strong, guys. I can see Lenny Martinez is out on course. Matteo Trenton just went through. He’s 
only 30 seconds 37 seconds down to uh Luke Plap at the start here. So nice time coming in there 
for him. How will that hold uh guys at that point there? That first checkpoint. Yeah, super bright 
is just where we really start the climb. Just really starts here. And again, guys, you’re going 
to see this tomorrow. You’re going to see all this road again tomorrow. So, uh we’ll be talking about 
it again here and I’m going to be looking for it. Coming back here. I’m looking at a little bit 
of flashback. Oh, they got Alejandro Valverde. He went into the I think he went into the 
yellow jersey. It’s saying on paragoods. Yeah, this is interesting. This is uh Chris Froom 
on the front here for Team Sky. Mr. Skeletor riding up the parags. Uh yellow jersey chasing. 
I can’t. That must have been Alejandro back then. No, it was another. What’s a Team Sky? I 
wonder if that’s Wiggle back then. Yeah, nice little flashback. Couldn’t really catch 
it all. Guys, I’ll get in the chat because   uh I’m not paying attention to everyone 
here. Derek is asking when will Okay, so Pogy’s not going for a while. He’s a few hours 
away last. Yeah, exactly. Uh Matt, Uncle Maddie, 100 more riders to go. Yeah, Derek, just pop back 
in or just hang out for a while, guys. 257 people here. Fantastic stuff, guys. Uh absolutely 
my best streams ever are with you guys here. Can’t thank you enough. Uh the support coming from 
people. There’s support that guys and I can’t even think of it all the time. It’s like I see support 
here. I see people commenting. I see new members   subscribing. Uh my subscription numbers are flying 
up. We will crack through 30,000 subscribers before the end of this tour to France. Uh trying 
to figure out what I’m going to do. Uh, Reuben   wants me to do a live FTP test on camera. Uh, 
Reuben, I am not in any shape for that right now. Oh, it was the UAE rider finishing ahead 
there. Was that Oh, that was Tatty back then. They’re showing a series of uh rides here. 
Guys, just so you know, too, I I did a lot   of research yesterday as well. The last time 
we did the autocom was when Tatty cracked. So, that was kind of redemption for him yesterday. Uh, 
Pithy through the first checkpoint. Pavle Civicov uh through the second checkpoint at 132. Connor 
Swift just finished here. 3 minutes 34 seconds down. Just shows you how incredible. You know, 
guys, I talked about him a lot on stage five. We   didn’t mention Luke Plap’s name once yesterday. 
Uh because yesterday is not his specialtity. Today is his specialtity. And I didn’t know 
he was so good at uphill time trial either. Yeah, exactly. I know. Uh, today, today, tomorrow, 
whenever. I think today is pronounced today for those who are critical. Yeah, I’ve just all my 
friends. I’ve even heard them on GCN called Tatty.   I don’t think they call them today on uh whatever. 
It’s just a name. You can call me Colon if you want. Colon people do it all the time. I don’t 
care. Uh Leonardo analo here. Hey, what’s up, brother? Dude, nice to see you here. Oh, this is 
the dude that did the ride down to Alzheimer’s. Dude, how’d that go, guys? If you remember, 
I think it was stage one. This dude was here uh maybe stage two or three, and he mentioned he 
was doing this and it was his first ever and I   and I dude, I remember this. It’s a 200 mile ride 
charity event uh to raise money to end Alzheimer. What a horrible disease that is. Uh just wanted to 
fill you in. I completed it. Dude, how did it go? give us some stats. Uh Jeffrey Anthony Galora 
Pogy from the Philippines. Lot of support for Pogy here. I’m trying to watch uh what Leonardo 
is saying. It was long as crap. One of the hardest things I’ve ever done, but one of the fi funniest 
things I’ve ever done as well. Funnest things he’s   ever done as well. Sorry, folks. Uh yeah, dude. 
You can do it. That my only advice I could give you last week cuz you said you just started 
riding. Dude, just take a break. Take a break.   Stop on the side of the road, have a quick Sammy, 
uh maybe an ice cream cone, and then just get back on your bike and keep riding. Romeo Abad here, 
that’s the youngster for Moastar. Uh yeah, well behind Luke Plap’s time. Well behind his time. I 
would like to think too that this Spanish rider being Spaniards, they’re very good at climbing. 
I thought he would have been higher up there. So, we’re looking to see some times here. Uh he’s 
probably just exhausted from yesterday. Luke Plop somehow maybe he conserved himself a lot 
yesterday for today to get a high finish here on the stage. We’ll jump back to the map 
mode now guys just so you can see it. I   like to watch where all the dots are. I’m a 
dot watcher. Uh if you know what doting is, you know, you can do watch all sorts of bike 
races, gravel events all over the world. Uh more of the adventure style racing like the Tour 
Divide. You can dot watch dog sled races. Uh, still haven’t found my new super duper camera. 
Joey keeps forgetting to check the mail at work. Brian Kakard here will be finishing more than 5 
minutes down today as he bows out of the tour to   Francis here. Looks like he caught the rider ahead 
of him. So, Brianard finishes just under five minutes ahead. He will be taking off his uh number 
today. Good for him. Nice job, dude. He’s waving definitely. Yeah, that finger I can see how much 
it’s bandaged. You can see he’s got the hard brace underneath to stop it from moving. Uh looking at 
Lenny Martinez here for team Bing victorious. And I can see two riders directly ahead of him here. 
It looks like he’s catching two riders. One, where’s the other? Which would be very weird if 
he was catching two. Uh maybe it was a motorbike. I’m looking close, guys. Yeah, there’s two 
motorbikes riding ahead of that second rider. So,   I think Lanny Martinez is catching the rider ahead 
of him here. Um, yeah, Leonardo, awesome job, dude. Awesome job. I hope they raised a ton of 
money for it. Liverpool D9, where can I watch live, dude? Uh, dude, I don’t know where 
you’re from in the world. Uh, these days   they’re making it harder and hard. They’re making 
it harder and harder to watch the tour to France, which is just going to pull fans away from it. Uh, 
it’s all about the almighty dollar. I get it. Uh, I’m just doing my best here to tell you what’s 
going on, how I can provide you any info. I’m   watching it live. Lenny Martin is here passing a 
postNL picnic rider. Picnic postNL. I don’t know who that is. Talk about uh picnic postNL. How 
about that Oscar only kid? And I shouldn’t call him a kid, but to me he’s a kid. Uh, he’s as young 
as my daughters are. They’re just brats to me. Uh, I saw him a couple nights ago for supper. We had 
a great time out for Joey’s birthday. Okay. Uh, Don, I upgraded my stuff from 7 to 
nine older stuff. I don’t race, so no,   I don’t need any more speeds. I only use 
a few for climbing flats and Yeah, guys, like you don’t need to have all the latest 
and greatest tech. Like, you really don’t. Uh, I fell into that at first. Then I got an older 
time trial bike. I’m like, this thing is so fast.   So fast. Take Lance Armstrong or any pro cyclist 
from circa 2005 on that bike. You will never keep up with them ever. Ever with your brand new 2024, 
2025 bike. You just won’t. Oh wow, guys. It’s 36° C at the start line. 36 degrees CCelsius. So, 
what is that? That’s probably 95 Fahrenheit. So, if you think you’re having a tough day waking 
up today or, you know, hanging out at home today,   uh 9% gradient here. Yeah. So, 
this one’s a pretty constant climb. We will just jump. I just want to show you 
guys this again here quickly. Uh here is   the route LudenVL to Paraguds. That’s 
it. Now, if you look up here though, right before that final ramp, I think where 
they turn onto the runway strip there,   it’s 16% through there and a 
rough stretch before it as well. Come back here looking at dots. So, you can see 
where those dots aren’t equally spaced. Some of that’s going to be from where they’re climbing. 
Uh, but like here, number five, Pavl Civikov, and number 168. Something’s going on there. One 
guy’s fading, one guy’s feeling better at the end. They really shouldn’t be split that far 
apart there. Should be pretty equal spacing. I would imagine that the at the bottom the time 
the this just the actual physical spaces between their numbers should be quite large. It’s a very 
fast part of the stage. It’s flat. We’ll go to the standings now. See if we’ve got any changes. 
Uh we’ll go to the leaderboard here. The table get off table mode. Dylan Toys just came through 
first checkpoint. Luke Plap still strong there. Uh you can see here lots of riders close to him 
at the first checkpoint. They all fade. They fade heavy. Checkpoint two. This is interesting 
here. Lenny Martinez is second through the second checkpoint as the climber. There is a rider from 
Israel Premier here. Uh French rider M. Luvel. He is zigzagging back and forward across the 
road uh to get up to the final. Looks like a bigger rider. I mean, this guy looks pretty 
jacked to me. I don’t know who this rider   is. Israel Premier Techch M LL. Guys, I got to do 
this for you here. I love seeing stuff like this. This guy looks like he’s kind of built. He’s not 
just a And he is tired. Uh he’s got his jersey unzipped. Casper Ascin out on course now. I do 
want to do this, guys. You know, I like to look at the teams every day. I think this is a really 
cool part of doing this. Uh, learning about all I couldn’t have told you who this guy was before. 
This guy right here, this dude right here, he just looks like a bigger dude to me. You could 
see that he’s kind of got some pipes on him. Uh, definitely like if I was to compare him to like, 
okay, this guy looks skinny. Lutenko looks skinny. Blackmore looks skinny. Woodsy is skinny. This 
guy is a bigger build. Hopefully they show us a little bit of a replay of him going up there. They 
probably will. Yeah, Lenny Martin is chasing Luke Plop this climb. The climbers short effort. Uh 
Lenny Martin might be able to do something today. Uh okay guys, we’re going to show you this here 
quickly. This is Bing finishing here today guys. Uh he probably lost 30 seconds just doing this 
to all the fans. I’ve listened to him speak a   few times. Uh he’s very humble, speaks very well. 
Uh I can see why people love him. Going to jump out of that guys and we will get back in here. So 
yeah, Lenny Martin is only 9 seconds off Lupla. So we’ve got we’ve got the climber versus the n the 
uh the Australian champion in the time trial. Uh, let’s see how this holds out. Second place at 
the finish right now is Fred Wright for uh Bar Victorious. 2 minutes and 42 seconds back. Let’s 
get it, folks. Let’s get it. Uh, yeah. So, guys, like Don’s saying here, you don’t need all the 
best stuff. You can use your older stuff inside. Uh, and especially now, like Don could take 
his older stuff, even if it was a seven-speed,   you could convert to virtual shifting inside and 
ride anything. Anything is doable now, guys. All the tech’s there. Uh, I’m hoping a lot of you guys 
watching get encouraged to ride your bikes again inside. I’m super pumped about it. I get questions 
all the time from people that are looking at my old videos that I did like a year ago saying, 
“Hey, Colin, I’m trying to I’m trying to set   this up. How do I do go about it?” They have no 
idea. And I’ll talk them through it. I’m like, “Dude, just send me a question anytime you want. 
I’ll I’ll try to help you if I can.” Um, looking at the poll up above here, let’s take a look at 
the poll, guys. Most people are still uh loving the Pogy era. Someone else mentioned the Schlech 
brothers. Team Sky gets very little uh love right now. Lemon, you know, is probably too old for lots 
of riders. So, it’s the Pogy dominance era. Fair enough, guys. Fair enough. Uh, getting back to the 
chat here. Yes. Yeah. So, if you got older guys, let’s say you got an older seven-speed or 
8-speed bike, don’t go and spend five grand on a new bike. You don’t need to do that. You 
go and you get the uh the Zift Cog and Click. Uh and there’s other ways to do it, too. There’s 
other apps that you can do virtual shifting. Like,   you’ll tie you got a smart trainer, you got the 
program, you interface with your phone first. Your phone talks between your trainer and the 
software. You you can switch gears on your phone. You can even do a clicker on that too if you 
want, but you could have your phone mounted on   your handlebar like your head, like your uh your 
main computer unit, your, you know, to track all your data like that. And you could switch gears 
there. Don’t go spend all this money upgrading. Just get the stuff that works. Okay. Uh Jimboy 
here is from the Philippines. Welcome aboard, dude. Jim Boy. Dude, obviously you’re getting 
a shutter in it. Jim Boy. Uh he’s asking for a shutter. Absolutely, dude. Uh it’s 8:33 at night 
in uh the Philippines. Uh that’s a bit delayed, guys. Sorry about that. Kenny White saying, “You 
wish you could watch from South Korea.” Dude,   just stick here. Uh just pretend you’re in the 
old days when you’re just listening to the radio. That’s is kind of how I wanted to do this. More 
interaction. Instead of you just sitting back uh and just being told what’s going on, you 
could interact with me, ask some questions. Okay, Castrio Zapeder came through 228 behind 
uh Plap. Zapeder was really good at the stage five time trial as well. Abrahamson coming 
in next 28 seconds down. Let’s take a look at this guy here. 92nd overall. This is the 
guy that won the stage a few days ago. Yeah, this is the guy that won the first ever stage. 
Uh we’re taking a look at him right now. Here,   guys. This is the guy. Bright. I know. got the 
first ever stage win for UNOX at the Tour to France. Stage 11. You can see right here, first 
place on that epic breakaway. This is why we cheer on the breakaway, guys. This is why we cheer them 
on. So, he’s on course, too. Uh Plop still sitting strong. Like almost a threem minute. I I can’t 
wait to see the big hitters come out and play. Uh Kenny White, let us know how long you’ve been 
watching cycling for. So you’re watching from   South Korea. How many kilometers to go? 
Dude, it’s a 10.9 uh individual time trial today. So everyone’s going to take their turn 
going out one at a time. Another dude here, John Jury Lolong from the Philippines to 
Philippines 2. Thank you for doing this live, dude. Awesome. Thank you for being here. I know 
it’s late at night for you. Uh, you’re on your   Friday nights. You’re probably relaxing for the 
weekend. Dude, get it. Let me know where you’re from in the Philippines. I don’t know a ton about 
the Philippines. Uh, I know it’s beautiful. I know there’s like a thousand different islands 
there. We got some support from Eratraa. Jim Bron here saying, “Man, that Pogy 
stage yesterday truly deflated me.” Uh,   Jim Bron, were you cheering 
for Yonis? Uh, not a Pogy fan. Don, awesome stuff here. I think the top 10 riders 
in the GC today will be using their TT bikes. Yeah, they said that they saw several top pros uh 
like the hitters of the GC riding their TT bikes on Monday, sorry, on Tuesday at the rest day. Why 
would they be riding their TT bikes unless they’re going to be using them soon? There’s no other time 
trial. Uh Debbiosi’s here. Good morning everyone. Good morning to you, sir. Uh Tony here saying, 
“Event gave an interview to Bob Rol about what he did special to his bike for this TT, but made them 
promise not to air it until after today starts.” Get it? Maybe that’s maybe that’s why I want to 
say Tatty because I’m saying today a lot and now   I’m saying today. Uh Tour to France is wonderfully 
competitive. Absolutely. They’re looking for every advantage they can. I’m watching Pavl Civikov 
replay here, guys. Going up the finish line. It   is like just an absolute wall. 16% plus. So, this 
is Pavl Civicov for UAE coming in well down behind Luke Plap. Like, guys, different specialtities 
in cycling. Take Luke Plop and uh yeah, take any of these other riders. Go out on a local ride. He 
would just drop you. Unless you’re sucking wheel all the way, he would just drop you and leave you 
far behind. You don’t have teammates to help. He’s just a strong puts his head down. Remember, it’s 
the race against the clock. It’s all about you. Uh Robert here. Hey, Robert. Good to see you 
again. Morning Colin. Waking up to your voice.   Thanks for uh for you hosting baseball back today. 
Go Giants. Dude, I I love watching baseball live. I’m considering about watching it on TV. Uh it 
just takes a lot of time. It’s very slow on TV and maybe that’s what I like about it too. 
It gives you more time to get engaged with   uh what’s going on. Uh we saw 
Colorado Rockies Dodgers game uh when we were in Denver just 
a few weeks back. A lot of fun. Yeah. John’s saying it was only 50 here this 
morning. John, I know it was free. It felt   freezing here last night. I don’t know 
what it got to. Uh Joey had some of the windows open. I’m like, I got to shut those. 
Wow. Uh this morning, I think it was Okay, it’s almost 50 now. And I’m going to have to 
change this for you guys. Okay, we’re 47 right now. It probably would have been maybe around 42 
this morning. Just that little bit of elevation keeps us We can drop off really quick at night. 
Uh I know some of you are basking in the heat. today would say sup 36 degrees is super hot and 
he’s always super happy too. What’s the humidity over there here? I don’t know, John. I don’t know. 
Good question. But yeah, 36. You know what? I think it’s very it’s very dry down here. Uh the 
Pyrenees to me just seem like a very dry part of   the world. They actually remind me of interior 
BC in Canada. That whole Cam Loops area. uh the Okonogan Valley. Yeah, it gets rain, but you 
know, it’s not lush. It’s dry, dry environment. Okay. Yep. Starting at the last 11. Good. 
Tony, thanks for bringing this up. I knew   they would split it out a little bit. Okay. 
Lenny Martin is having a good ride here, guys. Uh so that is a replay of him, guys. So, 
the Hill Climber finished 23 seconds behind Luke Plop. the time trialist. Uh I think this might 
bode really well for Remco today. Because yes, it is. People are saying, “Yeah, but it’s a hill 
climb. It’s a mountain one.” If you’re a good time   trialist, you’re just a good time trialist. You 
know how to dose your effort. Uh some of the other guys don’t. To be a good time trialist, you need 
to know how to get to like that 99.8% effort and hold and hold and hold and hold where other guys 
don’t get that. They haven’t trained for that. So, Lenny Martin has made a really good effort. 
It shows him ahead and I think he’s just going   to absolutely implode on the last again. I’m 
watching replay, guys. Uh, going into Okay, could this be true? I’m watching this here. 
Last riders arrive. Luke Plap is still elite with 800 meters to go, guys. He’s got a 45 second 
lead over Luke Plap. So, he’s going to end up, according to this, he’s going to end up losing 
another 23 on top. That shows you how hard it’s 13% gradient here. Let’s just watch this. There’s 
How can this be? It’s now saying he’s 200 m to the finish with a 24se second lead, 14% gradient, 
and I think he’s just going to blow up here. This is actually kind of blowing my mind watching this 
how far behind he’s going to finish. Unless this data is wrong on screen right now. It says Luke 
Plap finishes uh 23 seconds ahead of Martinez. So now Martinez is now behind with 800 
meters to go. He had a 45se secondond   lead. So he loses 45 seconds plus another 
23 in the final 800 m. He just imploded. The climber imploded. Uh the time trial is 
better able to uh apply full effort. Yeah, he lost 23 seconds to Luke Plop in 800 
meters. Plus, he had a 45se secondond   lead at the start there. Wow, that is insane. 
I want to see what they’re going to say here. This is insane here, guys. So he was close to Luke Plap’s time. 
Then out on course he got ahead of Luke Plap and completely he I mean he 
was going all out at the end there. Uh but yeah, he just that last stretch that last 
wall. I think it’s the airirst strip got him.   So the air strip got Martinez there not to 
get into first place. Let’s just sit here for a second guys. I’m going to go grab a quick 
coffee guys. I’ll be right back. Um, see you soon. And coming back in folks, entering the 10×10 cube 
of suffering and sorrow. girl. We are in the pipe. 5×5, folks. That was actually good timing. I have 
a cat here. Uh she had three little kittens. And what’s hilarious, guys, is they were born on day 
one of the tour to France. Um if you guys go back and look at that stage, you’ll see me holding 
the cat. She was all really all over me. And uh I showed her on camera. I put her over on the spare 
bed over here. I jumped on my bike that morning, did a ride, and she was making all sorts of 
weird noise by me. I jumped off my bike, put   her out in the living room, went out there. She 
had her first kitten. Those kittens are now just starting to move around, which is crazy. It’s like 
12 13 days later. Uh, let’s get up to speed here, guys. Castrio Zapator just finished. 4 minutes 
12 seconds down. This guy was really fast at the first time trial. So, Luke Plop has saved a lot 
of energy uh for the end here. Okay, check this out. The Paragudes, the Ascenta Peragudes first 
hosted a race in 2010. Ah, the route to suit. I remember that race. David Muchier won a 16.2 
individual time trial starting from Ludenville down below. So, they probably went uh and went up 
the Parisord, I would imagine, or took a different route up there. Okay. Tour to France. Three Tour 
to France agents have already finished here. First occasion in 2012 was Alejandro Valverde 
attacked from the break and completed a 35 km solo to take his fourth stage victory in the race. 
Five years later it was Roma Bardday just retired and Fabor Ru remember Fabio Ru everyone made the 
most grueling final ramp climber. So Barde took it but the Italian got the yellow jersey. I think I 
remember that. And then in 2022 Paraguds was used again. Tatty today. Tatty got it today. Uh got the 
better of Yonas back then. So that was 2022. Uh oh, that but actually Yonas won that year. So he 
did beat him back then, but Yonas actually won the tour to France that year. Okay, jumping back here, 
guys. Let’s get these time checks going here. Let’s just just jump back to the map so we can 
see things here. Uh finishing now. Marco Holler   from Tudor just finishing up a rider chasing him 
in I believe 142 William Barta from the US. Uh one of those two riders there is past the other. 
We’ll jump into the chat here quick guys. Uh so Gregory here it’s not live so don’t wind us 
up cheapkates. I don’t even know what that means. Gregory please uh clarify what you’re saying 
there. I don’t get it. Starting at the last 11, they will have two minute. Okay, so yeah, Tony’s 
got that. So it will get spread out at the end   trying to keep those GC guys away from each 
other. Gregory is saying something’s not live. Uh this is definitely live, guys. What I’m 
watching, this is live live right now. Uh   these stats are all live here that you’re 
seeing on screen. Uh we come back here, we can see the time check still. So Shampusan, 
okay, that’s way down the stage though. We’ll bounce back here for a second. Luke 
Clap first through the first checkpoint,   second through the second checkpoint with Lenny 
Martinez chasing him. Lenny got ahead of him between the second checkpoint and the third. Had a 
45se secondond lead on him and it all disappeared uh on that final airport ramp. He 
finished 23 seconds behind overall. Uh let me just back up here guys. 
God, lots of chat stuff here, guys. Don uses old stuff outside. Still works. Yeah, 
Don, of course it works. That’s what I say,   too. Like, guys, they were riding, you know, seven 
and eight speeds probably all throughout the Lance era. Uh, Ollie here. Ollie Gdard’s back. Team Sky 
got me into it. They were Ollie’s over from the Zift world. I race ride in uh with Team TMP. Good 
to see Ollie. They were super innovative and Froom was as dominant as Pagach. Yeah, that’s true. That 
is true. Uh, tour of to France, that was Chris Froom’s world back then. Team Sky marginal gains, 
they tweaked everything, you know, like, okay, how much faster can we make our socks? How much faster 
will we be if we, you know, shorten our sleeves a little bit or maybe we lengthen them? Maybe that 
makes us faster. Uh, hope there’s a big British generation who were inspired by them. Only Yeah, 
Oscar only looks fantastic. uh in the top 10 right now. So, good to see that. Saw a good interview 
with him yesterday talking, you know, just weird questions like, you know, not weird, but kind of 
strange to for him to answer. What did you think   when you saw all the other GC guys fading away and 
you’re still there? Like, that’s a moment for that dude. I think he’s 22 years old. Actually seeing 
Champason in the start shoot now uh on the replay here. Trying to get that caught up a little bit. 
Let me get this caught up as fast as I can. Seeing an observatory Tobias Foss out on screen right 
now too. Uh Norwegian runner for Inos Grenaders. Kenny White saying Jonah seems to be struggling 
a bit this year. Yeah, I can see that too. Um anything can happen though, guys. The tour is 
definitely not over. Tatty has to cross the   finish line uh two Sundays from now. He has to 
get over that finish line two Sundays from now. Debbiosi, are people using arrow equipment for 
the TT today or are they opting for lightweight?   So far, it looks like they’re they’re lightweight 
road bikes. I don’t see anything arrow yet. Uh I don’t know if people are riding one by. I haven’t 
got a close enough look at the bikes yet. It’s   all high helicopter shots here, guys. Uh maybe 
we’ll get some more info from that coming up. Some of the last guys might be riding TT as they 
said quite a few of the top GC guys were out were spotted out riding their time trial equipment on 
Tuesday the rest day. Why would they be doing that unless they’re going to use it? John saying here 
cycling is great for mental health. Absolutely, John. Absolutely. Uh Kenny White, I’ve recently 
got into cycling three years ago at age 41. Being in the military, it helps clear my 
head. Oh, absolutely, dude. Kenny. Dude,   you’re at a perfect age to start. I only got back 
into cycling when I was oh when I was 48. Uh, dude, ride every day. Every day is a win. No 
matter what else happens that it’s kind of like   the whole military thing. Kenny Kenny, if you’re 
in the military, you know that story that Colonel, general, whoever it was, uh, basically saying, 
why do you make your bed first thing every day,   especially in the military, because no matter 
what else happens, you’ve already got one win for the day. That’s your first win. I look at cycling 
the same way. No matter what else goes sideways, no matter how many other jobs I get turned down 
for. Uh, you don’t know what I’ve been turned down for, guys. They look at my resume. 
They don’t know what I’m even saying. So,   maybe that’s my fault. Don’t care anymore. Uh, 
welcome to the world of amateur commentating, folks. Uh, this is my destiny right here. I’m 
hoping to continue on. Hoping to continue on with your support, guys. Thank you so much. Uh, 
Xenot’s here. new uh new spectator today. We got Jennut here hanging out in the chat, guys. 
Still rocking along. 260 people watching right   now. I think that’s live. Don’t even know. 
Paulo Sebastian’s here. Tyrone Bishop and watching from Turks and Caos. Dude, awesome stuff. 
Tyrone, do you live there or on vacation? Maybe the Turks and Caos, guys. Love it. Uncle 
Maddie. Uh, he has Pogy winning today, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see someone like 
Vout Vanard have a good time. Yeah, like guys, Tatty can’t be perfect every day. Uh, he’s not 
perfect every day. Maybe he maybe he’s going to be for this tour. Yeah, just see me slurping some 
coffee down there. Uh, I’ll be on my bike today. I need that little mental health boost right now. 
Had a nice short ride yesterday. I think it was only It was on the island of Corsica. There’s a 
Corsica event on Ruby right now. I am wearing my   Ruby shirt today. Jersey today. Uh I think it was 
18 kilometers. Just kind of like a push hard ride. Nothing special. Dawn, it was 96 Fahrenheit 
in Jersey yesterday and ooh 70 75% humidity. That’s brutal. I think it’s Calgary that’s got 
uh I don’t know if it’s just Canada, but some of the lowest recorded humidity ever in North 
America. They can get extremely dry here. People come here from other parts of the world and uh 
their skin’s flaking off. They get bloody noses. Yeah, I’m liking this here. Dawn Remco is a 
good climber and a time trialist and a time   trial specialist. Yeah, to me, Remco is a good 
climber and a phenomenal time trialist. And we’ve seen Luke Plap uh from Australia, their uh time 
trial champion of Australia, kind of dominate this hill climb as a as a pure time trialist. So, 
I think Remco could just ignite the afterburners today. Uh after yesterday’s disappointment, maybe 
he’s got something to prove today. Uh Tunis just crossed the finish line, guys. Four minutes 
behind Plap. So, this is why I want the big time trials back. I want big 50 to 60k time 
trials back where you can’t hide behind your team. You can’t just hide back there, tuck into 
the cars. It’s you. Let’s see what you can do. Uh, okay, Ian, I’ll find you on 
Zift. Ian, is that your name on Zift?   tried to find you on Zift Companion. 
Can’t add a meetup. So Ian, on Zift, I actually go by C as my first name, Colin. 
C. Inside Cycling World. So maybe that’s why you’re struggling to find me. Uh 
Ian, if you go by that on there,   I will look you up. Might actually try to do it 
right now on the fly. Right now on the fly, dude. I got you covered. Messages coming in. Probably 
Joey Jojo. Uh Joey’s always sending me stuff. Okay. Yeah, Matteas Jorgensson had a tough day 
yesterday. I think this where it fell apart for   Vizma. Someone was saying yesterday, too. If you 
watched how Vizma rode at the beginning and and I know people are joking. I see a lot of people 
say this. Yeah, but I thought they had a plan,   bro. They did have a plan. Uh but all 
the pieces have to fit together. Uh, I’m just an armchair viewer as well, but I can 
see things why they don’t work just because they say have they have a plan, it doesn’t work, 
it’s not time to like pile on them. Their   plan was working very well until Matteo started 
suffering on that first climb and then they kind of had to rescue him and bring him back. Uh, 
they did have, I think, Tatty all alone with three or four Vizma riders. I’m not saying 
they were going to beat Tatty at that point,   but the plan was being put into place. It was 
Matteo who just had a rough day yesterday and he’s a key part of the plan. Uh remember guys, it’s not 
like just going out and starting your engineering car. These are these are real people. Uh you 
don’t know what’s going on in the background. So yeah, Eno, look for you here. Uh Kenny White, I 
think Matteo Jorgensson will have a good showing. He’s one of my favorite riders. Yeah, I really 
like Matteo as well. I love Matteo’s interviews.   Uh, you can tell uh he hates the questions 
afterwards. You know, he a he’s like, “Yeah, that’s what happened.” Yeah, that’s it. 
So, it’ll be like, “So, uh, Tatty today,   today uh, blew you guys out of the water. What 
do you have to say about it?” He goes, “Yeah, that’s what happened.” He obviously he doesn’t 
want to talk about it at that point. He just had a   crappy day. Went from fifth, I think he’s sitting 
10th overall right now. Uh, the heat affect him. Ramco was affected by the heat yesterday, too. 
Just takes one little thing, guys. Go back a couple years. You saw Taddyy suffering because 
he didn’t have enough food in him and he bonked   and he got smashed. He was getting babysat up the 
climbs by his teammates. Uh it just takes one bad day on one climb and you can completely lose five, 
six, seven spots. So that’s still all in play. I guarantee you right now, Taddyy doesn’t think 
he’s won the tour to France. He’s like, “Guys,   it’s day by day. We just got to make sure I stay 
safe. I have to uh have all my teammates near me. I need proper hydration. I need proper sleep. 
I need proper rest. Uh it’s a three-week race. Oh, dancing here. Tim earlier is weaving all of 
the road because his legs aren’t conditioned for   climbing. Yeah, I saw another rider that 
uh rider for your Premier Tech doing the same thing. And I’ve seen that in the 
past, too. That final ramp is brutal.   It’s a huge ramp, guys, going downhill 
because when they take off at this airport, they run down the ramp to build speed and 
there’s like a little kick on the end to   kind of ramp them upwards uh and shoot them up 
uh away from the side of the uh mountain there. Uh Don saying, “Most good uh great time travel 
guys are good sprinters and sprinters aren’t   climbers.” Yep. Uh times will get blown up 
today. Really impressed with Luke Plop so far. Uh, I think Remco is going to do something pretty 
special here. So, right now, guys, fastest time is   at 2458 with a ton of fast riders still to come. 
We’re watching Pari Ponch out on course right now in the uh initial starts of the time trial. Guys, 
I’ll go down here and see if we can find anything   else out. Uh, so you can see here, let’s have 
a little look here over on Twitter. Uh, the Paraguds effect as they call it. Road bikes all 
the way, guys. These guys are all on road bikes. See what else we got. Oo, look at this. Plap from 
the hot seat. He’s still in the hot seat. Uh, thinks the winning time will be one or 130 faster 
than his. I wonder if he mentions any names. Uh, he says, “I just wanted to go for 
my fast my best ever 20 minutes on   Training Peaks.” Training Peaks, guys, is a 
a training software. I guess it’s a platform, whatever you want to call it, where you track 
all your rides. It records all your data. See   lots of riders sitting in the start shoot all in 
cooling vest right now, guys. 36° C out there, 95 Fahrenheit. And then you have to go do 
this. Think about that. Uh just going to I’m just trying to read this. He’s saying he 
thinks they’ll do one to 130 faster than him as the GC guys can push 20 watts more than I 
do. Uh on the eve the prediction was 2345 for the winning time. I said 2430 first thing this 
morning. Uh and then I changed it to under 24. I’ve missed the break the last few stages and 
that has enabled me to take it easy in the   groupto. So he’s feeling really good today. 
But he does say I’ll definitely be feeling today’s efforts in my legs tomorrow. Wants 
to represent the Australian flag. Blah blah blah. Good stuff. Dude, that’s kind of what 
I was thinking too. He kind of took it easy,   smashed it today. Wants to represent. This is his 
thing. Uh, and he’s going to suffer tomorrow, too. Back here to the map, folks. Oo, we got a lot 
of guys finishing together here. Giani Moson, uh, Brent Van Moore and Tobias Foss all finishing 
together. Someone lost a good chunk of time here. We’re seeing another one back here. Uh, rider 207, 
Chris Neland’s. And there’s another rider right with him. 128 Moral Schmidt, team Jacob Alula, 
the Swiss rider. We saw him get second place uh a couple stages back. Was that stage 11? 
Just going through the time tracks here. Again, guys, if you’re just coming on today, 
uh you will see this exact same climb, this portion of it right here from the 
time check back here to this turnoff here that looks like a switchback. Uh we will 
be riding that again tomorrow on the big day, the day with two HC climbs, the the the Tormale 
and uh Super Baners up to the ski station. So, don’t miss that. We’ll see what happens tomorrow. 
So, they’re going to know this very well. I could   actually see some attacks going up here now 
that these guys have ridden it. Some of the riders may never have been on this road before. 
Back to the race here. Let’s check the times. Still Luke Plap. Luke Plap. Luke Plap all the 
way. And uh I will get back into the chat here. Oh, Robertson, Kenny, look on YouTube 
first. She was called Riding Fixed Gear   Up Mountains or something like that. Dude, I’ve 
seen that, too. Uh, great interview with Matteo riding fixed bikes. Yeah, so it’s a guy who 
rides fixes, one speeds, really fixed gear, uh, and he rides them everywhere. And he gets, you 
know, high level pros, uh, people that, you know, from the cycling world to ride with them. They 
just ride single speed bikes up hills. I think   he’s somewhere down in the southwest. Kenny 
saying he just watched it yesterday. Okay, good stuff. Uh, I think we had some marathoner 
talk there. Marathoners hit the wall and it’s not a pretty sight at all, but cyclist hitting 
the wall is slightly more beautiful as they   stay up and do a dozen switchbacks for the last 
20. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, runners hit the wall and they fall on the ground, roll around. Uh, 
yeah, it’s brutal. Matteo is a genuine guy. He seems humbled and appreciates the opportunity 
he’s been given. My favorite rider is Pogy,   but I prefer Matteo over Vingigo. Okay, 
guys, I like them all. Just different times I like them better for different reasons. 
Today, I’m loving Luke Plap. Here’s a guy   you don’t hear a lot about. Uh, but he goes 
out there and just absolutely smashes this. Uh, yeah, Jonathan’s back. Jonathan Vandenberg, 
my man. Victor Camparts all the way. You got it. Hands. Hands. I know what you’re talking about, 
dude. I know what you’re talking about. 262 in the chat right now, guys. Absolutely love it. 
Stephen’s saying, “Steel for the win. Been using steel frame for the last 13 years recently in 
sprayed copper.” Oh, that’s a steel bike. Stephen,   I think I did know that. Yeah, Stephen does his 
mechanics. Tore his hand apart earlier this year doing some mechanics. I forget how he did it. 
He was working with a tool that ripped his hand   wide open. And we were going to be doing a climb 
together. Oh, the balak naba. That’s why we missed that. Stephen, we I think we had to postpone it by 
a month. Uh, virtually, guys, inside. Steven’s in Scotland. I’m in Canada. We’re cycling bros. Uh, 
we got more climbs coming up. Ruben’s going to get riding with us again. Uh, Ruben’s still recovering 
from his bike crash in early June. Maybe we can get a ride together with Ian Holmes, too, over 
on Zift. Actually, I saw something really cool last night. was on Hamini, who I don’t watch very 
often on YouTube. Uh he actually got to meet the guy of a bike, the owner of the company of a guy 
that uh he totally tore the frame apart. Like it was horrendous. And the guy said, he goes, “No, 
you’re right. You’re right. You’re right.” And he   bought I guess this guy bought the company whilst 
he was a little intoxicated. It was a company that was bankrupt, going out of business. It’s 
called Bowman. Never even heard of them. I think   they’re out of the UK. Uh, and it was pretty cool 
that they did the interview cuz Ham Beanie just trashed him. Uh, the guy was really good about it. 
He’s like, “Look, here’s the caveat. Everything you said was right. I didn’t own the company 
at that point. They switched away from carbon   frames now. I think they’re only doing steel 
now.” That’s about all I know about them. Yeah, Don here. Don, you’re saying the exact same 
thing that Steven Cycle said. Uh, Oscar only   looked like he was going to throw up during his 
post stage 12 interview yesterday. Anna’s back, too. I think Yonas is having a bad burnout. Vizma 
pushed him too soon after the accident last year and even harder this year. You can literally see 
how uh the fire is gone in his face. Yeah, I got I feel bad for him. I do feel bad for him. As 
much as, you know, we love Pogy, uh we love Cena, I think Yonas is absolutely deflated. Can you 
imagine what it’s been like him today? Going into   the tour thinking he’s got a a really really good 
chance of winning uh and basically just imploding. Uh and then he has to go and then he has to answer 
all the questions. Uh the stress from his team.   Come on, Yonas. Uh I’m going to do a few of those 
today. Stress from home. I I think someone I think he was saying somewhere to an interview he doesn’t 
even know when his contract ends with Vizma. Like   what’s going to happen to him? I wonder if he’ll 
just disappear, which would be unfortunate. Uh, we got Ma here. Ma here68. Thanks for the content 
and the streams, dude. Thank you for being here.   You guys are what makes the stream for me. Uh, 
guys, we’re just going to have a little bit look at the live tracking again here. I like seeing So, 
again, you can see that the splits at the bottom, the distances between the riders are very big. 
Then they start closing up here. When you see them   overlapping, someone’s on a good ride. Someone’s 
on a very good ride there. I’m just going to jump back to uh commentary at the bottom here, guys. 
Take a look at this picture. It’s It’s hard to see how you can actually see it. You know, when they 
always say you can’t see how hard it is on TV or   in pictures. You can see it in this picture here. 
16% plus going up this runway. So, planes take off from this runway. probably small fixedwing uh 
aircraft, probably ultral lights, things like that take off from here. So, I love seeing that 
uh sticking in the table mode. Luke’s going to be sitting in the uh hot seat for quite a while. So, 
Martinez is the only rider that came close to him, but the climber, Martinez, the pure climber, 
absolutely imploded in the last 800 meters. So, the start of the ramp, he actually passed uh 
Martinez from the second checkpoint. He was 45 seconds in the green uh and just kind of lost 
it all. Uh I mean, he was fighting his way up. He wasn’t zigzagging, but yeah, it’s really tough 
up there. Um Don says he’s been cycling non-stop since he was 8 years old. I ride to get from place 
to place until I joined a club when I was 20.   no club for the last 15 years riding solo. Duh. 
That’s what I I ride solo only now, too. Outside of the few guys I ride with uh virtually inside. 
Uh like even yesterday too, I’m like, “Yeah, I’m just going to ride solo.” If there’s people 
on course with me in the virtual world, that’s   great. Uh Jay Taylor’s jumping in now. Morning 
Jay. Uh can we have an up dude? Right now Luke Plap from Australia. uh their national time trial 
champion in the individual time trial has kind of set a rocket time up the course 24 minutes and 58 
seconds. The majority of the riders are like 2 and 1/2 minutes back from him. The only rider that 
kept pace was the climber Lanny Martinez who’s 23 seconds back. Uh but Luke Plap was he like 
absolutely after burner engaged. Uh he himself though expects the fastest riders to be 1 minute 
to 1 minute and 30 seconds faster than him today. Uh I predicted a 2430 and now yeah it’s I’m seeing 
under 24 minutes now seeing based on these times. Uh someone’s saying uh Robert here saying write 
about that general. So general RPG that’s in the   chat and write about riding every day. I think 
that’s what he’s saying. My best fitness was when I had a bike commute to work and could stretch 
it out into the hills off to make my bed. Yes, dude. Okay, he’s talking about the 
general I was talking about. Yeah, guys,   get into the habit of doing something every day 
and that’s your win. So, when you go to work later uh and your boss screams at you for no reason or 
a co-orker screams at you or someone in traffic is honking their horn at you or you’re just having 
a generally miserable day, you know you’ve already won. You got your exercise in. Uh, you feel 
15 years younger than you actually are. You’re probably in better shape than people that are 15 
years younger than you. Cardio Jay Taylor saying, “Yes, bring back the 50k time trials.” I would 
love it. I would love it. People watch them back then. It’s like again, maybe it’s just going 
to the tours getting shorter and shorter. Uh, basically every year we’re at 3,300 
km now. uh in the ’90s, you know,   we’re still over 4,000 km. Uh time trials have 
been just eliminated virtually altogether. Uh those big gun time trialists on 50 60k. That’s 
where you used to see Miguel Enderin beat people by 12 minutes. Why? Because that was what he was 
good at. Uh now it’s more centered on climbing. It’s the spectacle of it, but I think time 
trials are pretty impressive to watch, too.   uh just depends what people want. But now 
with maybe limited time uh attention spans, everything’s short. People tell me all the time, 
“Oh, make short videos.” I don’t want to make   short videos. Not doing it. Just not doing it. 
Don’t want to do it. I like my long form content. Uh Stephen Sy was saying that Matteo mentioned 
he knew he was on a bad day after a little bit   yesterday. Uh oh. He knew after a few kilometers 
he’s on a bad day. Rudy Green here. New guy here. Hey Rudy, thanks for joining us. Why didn’t Vizma 
adjust their plans when they knew Jorgensson was   having a bad day? He admitted he knew. I guess 
they don’t want him to fall out of the top 10. Uh he was in fifth place in the GC, so they kind 
of had to react to kind of bring him back a little bit. Uh if they would have just abandoned him, 
he might have finished a half hour behind. So, it’s about being with your teammates. Uh, just 
looking at some fancy building here in Luden Valley itself. Oh, it’s the sport institute. Okay. 
They really like their sport institutes here. Uh, yeah, I guess they’re trying to protect the 
GCN overall. They got Yonas there. They got Jorgensson there. If they wouldn’t have waited 
for him and helped him out, he would have been   well out of the top 10. Van Hart’s out 
on course, guys. Vanart’s out on course. Let’s see how he’s going to do do today. The 
years that uh Yonas beat Tatty were years when Vizma was all clicking as a machine. It 
was years when we saw Tatty maybe mess a couple things up. When Tatty’s on fire, he’s 
very hard to beat. He is beatable, though. Uh, you know, the year that he wasn’t fueled 
properly, that’s like rookie amateur hour mistake. Uh, you got your teammates there, you 
got your cars there, you got feed zones there, but you didn’t eat enough food. That’s kind of 
like your decision. They’re probably passing you   food and you’re just ignoring it. Uh, why he did 
that, we won’t know. But total rookie mistake not to be fueled properly out there. This is part of 
their job. They should be fueling all the time. Uh, haven’t seen Michael Woods yet. Uh, I will 
be looking for him as an Israel premier tech   rider and as a Canadian. I will be looking for 
him. Niche is saying that the Enderin era. Yeah, guys. Uh, Tatty’s at three to Francis now will 
be at four. He does have quite a while left in his career, but the one thing that’s going to 
be very hard to do is to match Miguel Enderrain of He will match Miguel’s Enderrain five tour 
to Francis. Let’s see. He’s going to he should be at four. That odds on favorite to win the 
tour to France. Uh for all the Pogy supporters,   he is the odds on favorite to win. So when he 
wins, I’m not surprised. No one basically all the top ends guys yesterday said we’re not 
surprised. We’re not surprised. We’re just   trying to fight him. We’re trying to beat 
him. It’s a chess game, as Tatty says. Um, and he’s just won one match. It’s a long 
chess game. Still watching the times here, guys. Uh, Harold Tahada through the first 
checkpoint now. Only 25 seconds down. Luke Plap still in first. Second checkpoint, 
we’ve got Costu just going through. Luke Plap still holding first. Overall, Luke Plop 
far and away the fastest guy out there today. Uh, Vanard started. He’s on 
course right now. Haven’t   seen Ella Philippe yet. I will be looking for him. Uh, Louie Lewis Gasart here. Schlleck 
against Conidor was a good pier, too. Yeah, definitely. Dude, I only had four options. Uh 
I couldn’t put a fifth option there and saying   other because I thought about all this stuff 
too. I’m like okay Carlos Sastra um remember when Bobby was it Bobby Julik? Yeah. He was way 
up there at the tour too. I think he was with   CSE TSA as well. Uh the Schlech Bros Conidor 
era. Yeah, there’s been so much good stuff. Uh Francis Galuggarian watching from the 
Philippines. been a cycling fan since 1995 and tour to France France since Armstrong and Olrich 
days. I loved Lon uh Yon guys. Go back to like that era 9697 and look at Yan Olrich’s position on 
the bike. His position on the bike was absolutely insane. His arrow bars bent downwards and he kind 
of had his hands out in front like that down the whole time. It looked so sketchy and suspect 
to me of how he had any control over his bike. He was the one guy that could beat Lance all the 
time. Yawn was the time trial king back then. Uh unfortunately he had some crashes. Uh there was 
times when he was in the lead over Lance in the time trial and he would have an unfortunate uh bit 
of luck and crash in the rain. Uh so going on with Franc, you were doing a great job giving us live 
commentary and update. Thank you Francis. Thank   you for being here guys. 330 something people 
hanging out with us here. Let’s go. Come on. Don’s uh cheering on Campart. Campart must be out on 
screen then. I think I’ll keep a close eye here. Bruno Amarill’s getting ready to go out. I think 
uh this guy’s been really impressed at this tour.   He was the one that went on the breakaway 
yesterday on the downhill. Max Shackman now through the first checkpoint 33 seconds behind 
Plap. There’s a lot of riders going through that are close and they’re all fading at the end. 
Plap just hammered that time trial, guys. It will change, don’t get me wrong. Uh Jay Taylor, 
so Lenny Martinez finished and has the second best time so far. How many riders have finished and how 
many still need to finish? Uh at the finish right now, Jay, okay, Jay is Yeah, Jay’s asking that 
question. 93 riders have finished officially. So, we still got like just under 80 riders to go. Some 
of those riders are on course right now. There’ll be a good Let’s just Let’s take a guess. Let’s 
say we got 80 to go. Uh looks like two, four, we probably have 20 riders on course right 
now. So probably still 60 riders to go. The   time splits are going to increase to spread them 
out a bit. They’re trying to avoid any potential issues of drafting. We’ll just hang here for a 
second, guys, as I get caught up in the chat. Uh I just saw greetings from Scotland there. 
This is uh Charles Williams. Hey Charles, glad to have you on board here. Thank you 
for discovering the channel. Uh Robert saying Yona should fire his wife. Yeah, he’s 
under a lot of pressure there. I mean,   how do you deal with that? How do you deal with 
your wife on the sidelines saying all this stuff against the company that’s probably set you guys 
up for life? She wants him at home doing the the floorboards at home in the kitchen, which he 
did. And Vizma found out about that and they   weren’t happy about that. For the amount of 
money they’re paying him, it’s like, dude, don’t be going skydiving. Don’t be doing anything 
that we don’t think you should be doing. Uh, yeah, Plap is super impressive today. And guys, 
I love seeing stuff like this. I love seeing   the riders that go extra hard. I love all these 
cyclists. I don’t really have a Okay, you know, I’ve said I love Matu Vanderpool. He’s my 
favorite cyclist, but that day a couple days ago,   the Uno X rider and the JCO rider, uh, where Machu 
was catching them, he pulled back 26 27 seconds once he went solo. That’s how strong Machu is. 
He had someone with him. I think he had a couple riders with him and he’s like, I’m going. You 
guys are too slow for me. Went by himself. Uh, almost caught them. I was hoping he would not 
catch them as my favorite cyclist because I   really wanted Unoax to win. Uh it’s all about the 
stories. That’s why I love the Trader France. I love the stories of the Trader France. Hans 
is back here. We are from the Philippines and   moved here uh from Dublin. I think this place is 
highly cyclable and the government provides cycle to work program. Just got a bike with kids. 
Uh, so he rides daily daily commute to work too. I wish I could do that here. Wish I could 
do that here. Looks like Bruno Amarel. Okay, so that’ll be a slightly delayed. He is wearing 
the socks, folks. Closeup on him. They barely had any shots from inside the start shoot. I don’t 
know why. I’m trying to see the equipment so I can let you guys know what’s going on. Uh, 
jump back to the race here for the stats. Look at this. I’m seeing a 
big gap here between some of   these riders. Must be a very steep section here. Who’s through? Pari Ponch finished 219 
down. Uh Michael Store coming through here. Michael Store from Australia. Uh 124 
down behind Luke Plap. Coffee. Third one, guys. Third one of the day. Delicious. Uh This guy’s back. Cortasi. Uh, Pogy will 
wipe the floor with Fart. I can see that,   dude. No doubt about that. We’ll see 
how Pogy stacks up against Remco. Uh, even Yonas today might have a 
good day. Might have a good day. Uh, Steven’s asking, “Where are you from in 
Scotland?” I think he’s talking to Charles here. Charles is a new guy in the chat today. Thanks 
for being here, guys. Thanks for being here.   uh doing my best to provide the coverage. Uh 
you know, showing what I can, what I’m allowed, guys. I play by the rules here. I’m not showing 
you stuff I’m not allowed to show. Uh I’ve already had it. Okay, Alfalipe has finally 
been shown here. Uh and it’s me missing it,   too, guys. Alfalipe having a good ride at the 
second checkpoint. He’s only 49 seconds behind uh Luke Plap. So hopefully, so Alfipe is the 
third fastest rider, you guys. You can see   it here on screen right now. third fastest rider 
through the second uh checkpoint. So he needs to, you know, get faster now, not lose anything 
here. So nice ride for Alfa Phippe here. So this is going to be a day for like really 
good time trialist or really good climbers. Uh the time trialist know how to measure 
their efforts. They know how they feel all the way. The climbers, well, we’re on 
a mountain stage. This is built for them. Uh, Don St. Colin, I saw your short video 
about the Fondo in November. Sounds cool. Uh, dude, I can’t even remember which 
video that was at this point. Oh, check this out. Pogy and Tagalog means 
uh, the Filipino language is uh, handsome. Oo, Pogy is handsome, guys. Bruno Armarel out 
on course. So coming through now we can see uh we got an Alpasan rider here. We haven’t 
mentioned his name very much. Emile Verstring   from Belgium just coming through the finish. 
Pretty decent finish there, but he is 2 minutes 35 seconds down. And guys, there’s only one minute 
one rider that’s within 1 minute of Luke Plapper right now. So very impressive time. Alfa Phippe 
will be coming here now. Alfa Phippe is number 111. Why don’t we have a little gander at 
him? Here’s Alfalipe right now. Alfalipe, he’s on the main road right now. He will be taking 
a a turn off this main road up to the Paraguds uh airport. I think they call it the Altaport 
is what they call it. High altitude airport. Uh if he continued down this road, he would be 
going up to the Call to Parisord. The Call to Parasord is right up here. I think it’s in this 
area here. These switchbacks you’re seeing here   are on the other side of the parasaurord. 
We can figure that out here, guys. Uh, let’s look here. I want to show you this again. 
I know there’s people coming in late. Here’s   the climb. We start at kilometer zero. Whip out of 
town in the flats. Take a hard corner. We’re going to join the road that stage 14 travels tomorrow. 
Uh, where we saw Alfipe, he was coming right here right before this turn. This takes us up to 
the altaport here. You can see the runway here. That’s the runway. They they tag onto it and go 
straight up it. There’s no zigzags, no switchbacks to make it easier. Uh and just to point out to you 
guys again, tomorrow we’ll be taking on this cat one sandwiched between two HC climbs. Uh this is 
the call to parasord right here. Call to parasord. So the switchbacks you’re seeing here are going 
downhill. This will be the summit of the call to parasur tomorrow. That’s the downhill. Let’s 
get the screen off because it’s burning my eye my   retinas out. Uh here’s Julian Alfalipe rocking it 
still on the finish line here. Oh, I wish we had some footage of this. 148 Rabio Reyes uh looks 
like riding side by side with Euan Costu. Let’s see how they finish here. Who caught who there? 
Quick way to do that. We’re going to bounce back here and see them cross the finish line. So, 
Leair for Arca B&B Hotels finished 3 minutes 37 seconds down. No one’s t touching Luke Plop right 
now. It’s going to be a little while till we see anyone touch that time. I’ll try to keep an eye on 
that. Yeah. So, uh Pogy, handsome. Uh Julius here, just playing through. You’re doing a great job. 
Have a good day, dude. Thanks for being here,   Julius. Thanks for stopping back in every 
day. Appreciate it. So, Rubio Reyes finished uh 1 minute 44 seconds behind Plop. Let’s see 
where the other rider is. Cost you was there as well. Guys, it’s so steep at the end. Like 15 like 
50 m could take you 20 seconds. It seems like uh cost comes in three and a half minutes down. So, 
Rubo did catch that rider ahead of him. That’s what happened there. Um, Don saying, “Tatty has 
a new trainer and nutritionist since 2023. No more bonking for him.” Yeah, like that’s what they 
need. They can’t let that happen again. So guys, you don’t fuel well one day, you could 
lose a tour to France. So, and again,   it’s like I saw videos on it before. It’s like 
the worst mistake you can make. How can you not fuel properly? Uh, this is kind of like what 
they’ve been taught all these years beforehand. I mean, he was probably on one of those days where 
he’s like, I just can’t eat. I just can’t eat. He   had his stomach was off that day. Uh, so at this 
point in the tour, I think for Tatty to get beat. Something like that needs to happen. Uh, here’s a 
dude we haven’t seen for a couple days. Ed Carlo   Burita. Good morning. Good evening. Been busy for 
the past week. Hey, Ed. Good to have you back, dude. Nice to see you here. Uh, we’ve got a 
writer here. Yen’s Neper. Did Pogy win three? Uh, Pogy. Well, I have three Torto Frances. Poggy 
has won three Torto Frances. He won 2020, 2021, and 2024. So, that gives Pogy three, I think, 
at this point. Uh, Yonas won 2022 and 2023. Okay, Robert saying, “This is the first year 
teams have spoken openly about their fueling.   Nutrition was locked up secret for years. Now 
they talk about how many carbs they take on while on the bike.” Yeah, things are getting more 
open. Okay, guys. I’m almost caught up here. I’m almost caught up. Uh, well, maybe I’m not. Maybe 
I’m not. I got to catch up. I got to catch up. Uh, okay. Wow. Still okay. I’m all Yeah, I’m getting 
there, guys. Uh, Yens, I think he will win four this year. Yeah, I think so, too. I think And 
guys, he went into this tour as the hands-on odds down favorite. If you had money to bet, you 
put it on Pogy. no one else unless you’re going   for a long shot. Uh, everyone’s saying we’re 
not surprised. We’re not surprised. He’s the world’s best rider right now. Uh, that’s obvious. 
So, if Pogy’s winning, it’s to be expected. Uh, Yenz, I was saying earlier, the the only 
thing Pogy might have a hard time doing,   he does have time on his side, is can he do the 
five in a row? Can he pull a McGill Enderin off? Uh, I think McGill Enderin was 91, 92, 93, 94, 95. 
Could be 90 to 94, I think. No, I think it was 91 to 95. Five in a row for Big Mig. Different 
era. Uh, equally as dominant during his time. I have a lot of respect for the riders from yester 
year. It’s not just all about these guys. I’m sure if you took Big Meg in his heyday and put him 
on modern tech, he’d probably still be the best time trialist out there. I can see Tatty gaining 
45 seconds to 1 minute 30 on the rest of the GC. Yeah, potential for that. Uh Ed, good comments. 
Luke Plap actually said from the hot seat he expects the top guys to be a minute to a minute 
and 30 faster than him. It’s just all based on   power output. Pogy has tremendous power output. 
I think they were saying his hotcom power output uh I think he’s 67 kilos. He’s pushing over seven 
watts a kilo. The only guys that beat him on the hoticcom were Bj Reese and Luke LeBlanc from 
yester years. Mark Solair just coming through for UAE. Uh 1 minute 16 seconds behind at the 
second checkpoint. Let’s get back to the map here. Second checkpoint’s right here. There’s Mark right 
there. So, having a pretty decent ride here. Bunch of riders coming in right now. Uh Bastian Trashon 
is just finishing up. Michael Woods. Michael Woods is here, guys. Mike Woods is here. This is the 
first I’ve seen of him right now. I want to see   his time at the finish. Uh Mike Woods coming up 
to the finish now. I have no idea how did he not in the top five at the previous checkpoints, which 
I wouldn’t expect. uh at the finish line. We just seen Tron Shawn finish 4 minutes 30 seconds down. 
There’s three riders all wedged in there. So, a couple of riders have been passed. Uh 
hopefully Woodsy passed a couple of dudes   there and has a pretty decent time. It’s amazing 
that I just looked at his dot on screen and he still hasn’t crossed the finish line. 102 riders 
have already finished, guys. Luke Plapp in first, Martinez in second, Shampus in third. Michael 
Woods finishes three minutes and 45 down, guys. So, we’ll not be moving up much today. We’ll 
see at the end what we got in the standings. Uh Gashinard, who we’ve seen a lot this tour uh for 
Total Energies, comes through the first checkpoint only 14 seconds down. Guys, it’s starting to heat 
up here now. Uh starting to heat up. Some of these teams, they might just go all in. Like, you know, 
if I was a smaller team, I might be like, you know what, guys? Just absolutely level yourself. 
And that may be it. That may be it for the tour for you. We need something good. Uh, okay. Don’t 
know how I bounced to that. Just want to see that everything’s still streaming here. Okay. Oh, it’s 
weird seeing me on that side, isn’t it? I’m on the   wrong side today, folks. Uh, but I did want you 
to see some of that stuff in the top corner there. You know what? I might shrink myself down just 
a little bit and we’ll get right back to this. For those of you that are kind of joining us 
a little bit late, I do want to show you this.   We’re going to bounce over here. We’re going to 
turn this on. This is our finish line right here, guys. So, let’s have a quick peek at this. This 
is the finish line right here. The Altaport de Parasaur. Uh even though they climb the they 
call the climb the pair of goods. Uh there’s an air there’s a runway strip here. Switchbacks 
everywhere. We come in from the right hand side of   the airport. Uh take this switch back here. That’s 
where they’re climbing all through that. Uh on screen I’m seeing Amarel catching the rider that 
started ahead of him. This is the turnoff here. They turn off here. This road here takes you up 
to the call to parasord which we take on tomorrow. So guys, you’re going to see all of this road 
again tomorrow. We started down in the valley down here. Uh where they join us. So we start in 
the valley. We come along here. Uh they connect onto this road right here. So there is a very hard 
right-hand corner. That is the first checkpoint   where we enter. We come off the D25 onto the 
D618. Uh this looks like Tim Wellins. Yeah, Tim Wells in the start guys getting ready to go. 
A little bit delayed. So he’s on course already.   He’ll be going towards that first checkpoint, the 
one I’m talking about uh right here at this corner and then they climb all the way up through 
here. Tomorrow we come down this D618. So,   make sure you guys are around for that one. Going 
to jump back here again. Jump back into this uh main site and we’ll get back into it. Laurance 
just came through. Uh 1 minute 4 seconds down to Plap. Plap in the hot seat all day. STO came 
into the finish now 251 down. Nelson Olivea uh kind of having what I would call an average 
ride for the riders here at the tour when I   look at the overall standings. 206 down at the 
second checkpoint. Nowhere near what Plap and Martinez did. Take a look at the live track 
again. Some riders getting bunched up here. Herald Tahada and number 51 Santiago Vraago 
riding very close together. Same here too. 152 Bruno. Bruno Arml was the one I just 
watched catch uh that rider ahead of him on course through the checkpoint there. Uh so 
looks like Bruno Amarel has just caught Nelson Olivera from Ovastar out on course there. See 
what we’re getting from the actual feed itself. Yep, we know that already. It’s saying third 
time here for Alfalipe and they’re still saying there’s about 50 riders to go. Let 
me get you guys back here. Neielson Powell 24 seconds behind at the first checkpoint. 
Uh haven’t really seen a lot of Neil Pace uh this tour yet for EF. EF’s performance being 
dominated by Ben Healey. uh stage win earlier uh and then getting the yellow jersey just a couple 
stages back. Going to jump back in here, guys. Darth Puncher is here. Good to see you, Darth. 
Darth, another guy I ride with over on uh Ruby, Darth, so glad you could make it, dude. Having a 
great broadcast here. Uh trying my best. Really appreciate you stopping in and saying hi. Uh we’ve 
I’ve only seen a few of my Ruby friends here. Uh Steven Cycles. Uh Ruben John Chades here’s a lot. 
Bashock’s dropped in a couple times. So good to see other people coming on board. Uh Nisha here. 
Vizma get new contract to Jorgens. So he’ll be their main man soon. I can see that too. I can see 
that too. Uh with the way things are going with   Yonas, I think Yonas is 28 29. So, he’s not old, 
but he’s got the amount of stress that’s on that young dude’s shoulders. Unbelievable. Yesterday’s 
climb at the hotcomic is a foreshadowing of what will happen today. Okay, Ed, we’re going to 
see that. John Chady, uh, saying good good   morning to Darth. We all know each other, guys. 
Uh, Don, I’m kind of just going what I’m saying there. Yonas will be retiring from pro cycling 
by 29 years old. Back to Fishmonger. Well,   hopefully not that. R. Stanley, dude, I saw this 
earlier, but I’ve been trying to catch up. Uh, thank you for your contribution to the channel, 
guys. This totally makes everything easier for   me to do here. Uh, helps cover some of the costs, 
the internet cost, things like that. R Stanley, great supporter of the channel. Uh, chiming in 
from Oklahoma. Let’s make this Colin’s best day   yet. Like, subscribe, and donate. Thank you, 
Colin, for providing value. Thanks, guys. Guys, I had a spectacular day yesterday, so I don’t know 
really what’s going on in the background. When   I shut the stream down yesterday, we got 55,000 
views. I’m like, “What? I can’t see that happening live.” Uh, I only see when I say at the end, you 
know, cycling out, peace out. When I stop the stream and then I stop YouTube, it gives me the 
overall results and it kind of just blows me out   of the water. I stumble around the house for 20 
minutes going, “What?” Uh, so guys, I appreciate all the support. Maybe someday I’ll make it to 
the big leagues. Uh Ian saying it’s uh I think it’s almost 9:30 at night in the Philippines. I’m 
delayed so I’ll catch up again. Uh R. Stanley from Okay. Thank you very much, dude. Thank you very 
much. Can’t say that enough. Shackman just crossed the finish line. Tim Wellins here hits the first 
checkpoint, guys. Only 34 seconds back. Grant Thomas goes through the second checkpoint in his 
final tour to France. Almost 2 minutes down. Uh so this will be his final tour to France. I’m not 
even sure what he’s doing after this year. Will we   see him at Devalta? Guys, I’m really excited about 
the Valta. I downloaded the entire road book last night and I’ve been, you know, pouring over it. 
Uh, thanks again, Stanley R. Stanley. Uh, Cortesy is a real tatty supporter or today. Uh, hey today. 
Today, please smoke all the bees today. Also, maybe I should keep just saying tatty because 
that kind of messes everything up. Uh yeah,   he’s really cheering on Pogy here. Darf’s going 
to be racing. He’s talking to John. Going to be racing in a few. Uh Robert agree. Yonas retires 
soon. I can kind of see it. I think he’s just he’s got to mentally retire. He’s got everyone pulling 
him in every direction. Uh take a look back during the Lance era. Uh compare him to Yonas. Like when 
Lance would win, he was confident. He was like, he was in the moments. It seems like when 
Yonas wins, he’s just like, “Okay, yeah,   well, I won.” It’s just not I think it’s too much 
for him. He doesn’t like all the attention on him. Uh Corte saying Yonas Kaput. Robert agreeing Yonas 
retires soon. Uh John saying his legs are tired, but he’s ready for the Sunday Sunday short race. 
Guys, over on Ruby, we’ve had this thing going   for I don’t know, it’s probably coming up 
on two years now, the Sunday short race. Uh, super short races we do on Ruby virtually 
inside. Vocalon and Lipawitz are the dark horse now. Absolutely, dude. Let’s throw Oscar only in 
there, too. I’m throwing Oscar only uh will be in there. Tudor’s cheering on Lulu. That is a great 
effort by him. That’s what they’re saying. This is a great effort. Lulu uh Alfipe, who knows how much 
longer he’ll be around, too. I think he’s 31 now. Bago finishes 117 behind. So now we’re seeing 
times that are getting a little bit closer outside of Alfa Phipe and Martinez. Most guys have been 
really far back. Uh so the early hot rider was Luke Plap. Martinez had a great effort until he 
kind of fell apart on the last ramp. Alfa Phippe   just came through. Fourth place is Bago right 
now at 117. Uh it’s going to start flip-flopping, guys. Big guns are coming. Uh 109 riders have 
arrived. We only have 171 riders at the tour. So, as one of my YouTuber friends says, you do the 
math in the start shoot right now. Slight delay.   Quinn Simmons. Uh, does he have his ponytail up? 
Ponytail is up. The mullet is Nope. He is rocking the mullet, guys. Mullet out. Flowing like an 
aerrow foil off the back of his head. Dude, just Why don’t you just ride in jeans and a 
sweatshirt? That’s what I’m thinking right now.   you might as well just go out in jeans 
and a baggie sweatshirt. Uh, you know, like the uh the Rocky style sweatshirt, the gray 
one, showing all your sweat pits. Uh, when you have your hair flowing 8 inches off the back of 
your head. Insane. Mark Solair just finishes, guys. 2 minutes 50 seconds down. Looking for 
any other hot riders coming through. Luke Platt, man. I love seeing someone like I love seeing 
a strong time trialist out there. Bago replay here just kind of goes sideway across the 
finish line. I think he was doing some   zigzagging. Luckily there they got a dude at 
the finish line to push them up at the finish. Uh okay trying to catch up guys. Uh Don saying Poggy and Remcor are pretty 
boys. They’re both Poggy. So in Filipino uh Tagalog uh that Pogy means handsome. could crack top five if they have a monster 
ride. Okay, so yeah, he’s talking about Valon   and Lipoitz. I can see Lipoitz doing it for 
sure. Uh I’m hoping Kevin’s doing good. He was so far at the front. He’s had a few bad days, 
but I think he’s going to bring it back now.   He just needs to settle down. Uh Cortasi saying 
Remco is cooked. Not yet, dude. He has not gone on stage yet. He has not gone out yet. We’ll 
see what happens. Dude, you could be correct,   but we’ll see what happens. I think Remco is going 
to have a good ride here. uh you know he may not be able to hang with Pogy and Yonas and the other 
top GC but in a time trial he’s the best again if you were to let’s go back to yesterday years 
let’s throw in a 60k time trial and see how the   boys stack up against the world’s best time 
trialists uh it would be be huge flip-flops. Uh, so we got a new guy here. It looks like looks 
like he’s probably finished is my guess. Reneer, I’ve never said that name in my life. 
Rene Hakarinan. That’s got to be finished,   dude. Tell me it’s finished. Only stage worth 
of watching this uphill time trial. Dude, I love the time trials. Uh, this is fantastic. 
So, this guy loves the time trials. Sounds like Anna is back. I think his wife spoke in media 
to hint to clubs they are not happy with Vizma. She is a marketing person. That’s right. Uh and I 
think she was a marketing person for a pro cycling   team. So that’s why a lot of people are kind of 
she’s trying to protect her husband family. I get it. Uh but other people are saying she should 
know better because she worked at a cycling team. Uh Ben Wilder going out now for Sudal Quickstep. 
Could see him in Red Bull Dathlon or EF. Yeah, maybe he’s got to sign a new contract that’s 
like, “Hey man, we want you to do this.   we’re willing to do what you want. We’ll work 
around your family. Uh he may drop to a smaller budget team to be their absolute superstar. Uh 
where he does have a chance of winning races, but more let’s get you back with your family. 
Uh okay. Al Robert saying Alfalipe crooked race number on purpose for better hero. Dude, I 
didn’t even see that. Let me know what you saw. Jeff Le saying 54% say Poggy Dominance era is 
their fave. Are you joking? You must be joking, dude. I don’t know. That’s what I’m seeing, 
too. Uh 565% is what I’m seeing right now. End poll. No, we’re going to keep the poll 
going, guys. I love the poll yesterday. Uh   Tony created the poll yesterday, guys. In 
fact, he was kind enough to say at the end, Okay, I got to close this. How do I close this? 
Okay, there it’s gone. Okay, got it. Uh Tony, I think it’s Tony. Tony C sent that to me. Uh 
Vanderpool heading into the start shoot now. It looks like he’s grabbing something here. Oh, he’s 
grabbing some cold water bottles from the Vitel service booth, whatever you want to call it. 
Uh yeah, Tony said, “Hey, dude. Great job with your poll. Over a thousand votes yesterday.” Uh 
that was all Tony’s doing, guys. Tony, if you got another poll for me, send it to me, please. I like 
getting people involved here. Uh Cortasi obviously is an absolute Pogy lover. Uh hang on. Saying that 
uh yeah, Jorgensson did have a bad day yesterday. Okay. Yeah, Kassi saying Jorgensson roasted. 
Yeah, he was definitely roasted yesterday.   Jorgensson is going to be their guy of 
the future coming up. Uh Don saying today in rimcore handsome fellas bingo not so much. 
Yeah he looks pretty gaunt in the face. Okay, Reer here finished. I hope he’s finished. Time 
trial stages only stages how we can how we can   calculate how good these o overrated cyclists 
are. Fine. Really vingo indilakar pachakar beat 180 riders many minutes. That shows how 
overrated cyclists. I guess what he’s saying here is this is the one event where you see how 
good a cyclist really is like by themselves. Uh it is a team sport at times and it’s 
multiple stages. It’s different climbs. Some of the climbers will do nothing all day. 
They will hide in the pack protected by the   bigger riders on the team. That’s what they’re 
supposed to do. Uh and then they explode for the last 10 km and try to win. But a time trial 
just shows you what you can do on a bike. Sheila says Yonas is handsome plus adorable. 
Sheila, didn’t you also call him a dork? I think he might have. Uh because I think 
he’s quite dorky, too. I agree with you. Uh Robert saying, “Just realize that 
chicks really dig Roick. Must be a   good-looking fella.” Oh, yeah. Uh 
guys talking about racing here. Okay, we got Agno Appreci Apparicio Alves from 
Brazil. He’s here. Robert saying Yonas looks like one of the beeges. He needs more hair. He needs 
more hair. Okay guys, uh let me just look at some   standings here. Nelson Olivera finished now three 
and a half minutes down. We got Tim Wellins 142 through the second checkpoint. And let’s see. It’s 
going to start getting faster and faster here. But Luke still dominating that first checkpoint, the 
second checkpoint, and the finish. Bruno Amarell has just finished up for he’s got fourth place 
overall. So again, he did good at the first time trial, too. Uh Grant Thomas comes in 3 minutes 
and 30 seconds down. So this we just saw Grant Thomas’ final time trial at the Tour to France. 
That it just happened there, folks. On screen, I’m seeing a quick replay here of Neielson Powace 
uh riding with an Inos rider very close together. I’m not sure who passed who here. I’m just waiting 
to see the time gaps here, guys. Uh, let’s see   if I can see that happen. I think Neielson’s 
just passed a rider. That’s what I’m seeing. Matu Vanderpool is on course, folks. Uh, okay. John Manion’s back. Uh, John’s from 
Ireland, I believe. Just Oh, he’s just saying just uploaded Irish Masters TT course and bike 
terror to practice and all that. Everyone,   thanks for the awareness of that website, dude. 
Yeah, Bike Terra is a great little feature. Uh, and even with a free subscription, that’s what I 
like about it. Every day they select six courses from their library that you can ride. Anyone can 
ride as long as you have a trainer and a bike. Uh, and even as a free subscription, you can upload 
route. I think you can only have one uploaded at a time. So, you do that and then you got 
to delete it to do a different one. Just   delete it. It only takes minutes to upload. 
But if you guys, one of these things, guys, I’m always that person. do the free stuff. If 
you like it, support them. So, support them. If I start riding riding back to bike bike chair every 
day, I’ll get a subscription. It’s so cheap. It’s   uh a coffee at Subway, sorry, Starbucks that I 
wouldn’t buy anyways. Uh yeah, get the GPX. So, it sounds like John snagged the Irish Masters 
time trial course from somewhere. John, let me know where you got the course from just 
so I can tell people how easy this is to do.   He’s taken that file, thrown it into Bera. John, 
give me an idea how long this took you. Uh, we got Nenah here. Nah’s back. I only got to the 
tour to France in 222. Therefore, anything before is history. Yeah. So, we’re going to get a lot of 
people like that, too. If you’re new to the sport,   uh, Frank Vander, is it Frank? Vandenbrook though 
for post is swerving back and forward up the final ramp so steep that these pro cyclists have to 
put their own switchbacks in. He’s going to finish probably close to three minutes behind uh 
Luke Plap. So, tough day out there for him. Uh Agnaldo from Brazil here cheering for Pogy. He’s 
the champion. Definitely looks like he’s the   champion this year. Uh what’s the average chain 
ring size on the bike? 60 plus. John, I don’t know. It depends what they’re riding. Are they 
riding one buys? Uh, I think if they’re riding a   one by and it depends what they have on the back, 
too. If they actually show some of these bikes up close, I’ll let you know. Coutassie saying 64 
teeth for this. Again, I’m not sure. When is Ben Healey starting uh Handy TT guy? I’ll take 
a look at that in a second here. Starting times, departure times. I think Ben is 11th overall 
still. So these are the start times here guys. Uh so Tatty goes out at 5 minutes after the hour. 2 
minutes gap. Yonas goes perform at 503. Remco 501. Ben Healey goes out at 4:45 C time. Jorgensson’s 
right ahead of him. Felix Gaul. Johansson for Yuno X. Let’s go, buddy. I hope he does this. Uh 
Primos, the one everyone wants to retire. He’s out there. Uh I think he’s seventh overall at the Tour 
to France, guys. Uh Oscar only directly ahead of uh Roick. What kind of time trial can Roick have? 
One of the the saddest things I ever saw is when he lost the time trial in 2020. Remember him 
going up that hill with his helmet almost falling off his head. It seemed like pushed so far back 
uh and Tatty passing him. Up until that point, it looked like Primos was going to win the tour 
to France. And then Tatty came along. So those guys are coming soon, guys. Uh Burke Morris just 
came to the finish. 313 down. Okay, look at this guy. C Venturini here. 27 seconds down at the 
first check. So he’s going out pretty hot here. Yeah. So, John, uh, I think I said 
Ben Healey here. He goes out 4:45, uh, CST. That’s going to be 8:45 a.m. for me. 
It’s 8:07 right now. So, he’s 38 minutes off from me right now. Got a lot more riders 
to come, guys. I still haven’t seen a TT bike yet. I don’t know if we will. I mean, 8 N% 
gradient, that seems pretty tough for a TT bike. Uh, what’s the elevation profile? Hang 
on a second, John. Let’s do that. Uh,   I’ll pull it off you. Going to back my face 
off here. Stage 13, Ludenville to Peragoots. Here’s our profile right here, John. So, 10.9 km, 
650 m approximately elevation gain. First three kilometers, look at the bottom of the screen here. 
Uh, it’s very flat through here. It’s up, down, it’s flat. I did see cyclists earlier 
on, I think it was Pl saying he had a   top speed of 71.9 km an hour. That would 
have been between kilometer in 1 and two on this downhill here. And so basically 
it’s an 8 km climb of well over 600 m. Back to the standings. Uh Vanderpool’s through 30 
seconds down at the first check. Vanderpool now will be thinking about other stages up ahead. 
He’s not here to win the time trial, guys. at the finish. Gashinard is in. 
Good time travel to him. Sorry,   three minutes 10 down. I thought it was 10 
down. Uh he did have a really good start earlier and has fallen off as well. Camponarts 
through the second check at 225, I think. No, that wouldn’t have been Tatty here because 
he was just in a white jersey. He should   be in the yellow. Quinn Simmons on course. 
I guess his hair is probably not affecting him too much right now, but it definitely 
would have in the first three kilometers. Uh, yeah, I don’t know about that whole 
mullet look whilst you’re riding your bike. Yeah, sorry Rob. Hey, got a new guy here. Rob, 
I was looking for the Merx era. I mentioned that   earlier, dude. Uh, yeah, dude. I’m probably as old 
as you are. Uh, I got down to four and there’s no other options because I wanted to put a other in 
so that other people would contribute and say,   “Hey, man. I love the Ankatil era. I love the 
Pulador battles. Eddie Mks, I’m like I didn’t even mention Eddie Mks. Uh cuz that’s kind of 
where after that’s before I started getting into cycling. Uh but yeah, Eddie Mks era. During the 
Eddie Merks era, he was more dominant than Tatty is right now. Let’s just park that right there, 
folks. If you’re new to cycling, that may be hard to get around. Uh I should do a little bit of 
research and show you all like rider versus rider. There’s been riders this good before, just in a 
different era. Uh Rob, thanks for commenting here. Uh Ed saying Nelson Oliver is a good TT guy. 
I think he could perform better maybe. Yeah,   guys, there’s going to be a lot of tired riders 
today, too, after taking on the Otto. And then there’s also guys today thinking, “Oh, I have 
to do two above category climbs tomorrow. So, if I blow myself up today, am I 
going to even survive tomorrow? Uh, more like Nelson Tarsus. Okay. Oh, he’s saying 
Neil Neielson powerless. Yeah, I haven’t seen a lot of them this year. It’s more like Neilson 
Powerless is what he’s saying. Don just cracking   a quick joke there. Uh, Nick Fu here. Okay, Nick. 
I do know Nick. Uh, fellow Ruvian here too. Good to see you, Nick. Nick, have I seen you over 
on Zift as well? for some reason. I think Nick, I think you’re over on Zift 2 and I think I’ve 
covered some of your events. I think I’ve done   some uh team time trial events that you’ve been 
involved with. And I also want to think that are you TNP maybe or you’ve competed against 
TNP? Just let me know in the comments. Yeah, he just needs he needs to ride better if he 
doesn’t want that nickname. Okay. Uh Robert   here saying the Louiswis and Babooers. That’s 
something I barely know anything about, guys. I call that the black and white era. You know, 
black and white TV is all I’m talking about   there. Uh I don’t know much about it. Interested 
in learning. So yeah, like I said, that first volume of the tour to France history, it’s on my 
wish list to Joey. She still hasn’t sent it to me   yet. Come on, Joey. Come on, Joey. Uh John, man, 
TNT Sports may have a lot to do with no one on Tristal TV not being able to see the tour. Yeah, 
they kind of got it all locked down, guys. So, I love cycling. I love commentating. Uh, if you 
want to waste some of your time, jump back through the channel and see all the bike race coverage 
I’ve done for all these dudes that I know and   I don’t know on all sorts of platforms all around 
the world. Uh, it doesn’t get a lot of exposure. When people find them, they’re like, “Dude, thank 
you so much for doing this.” And I’m like, “Dude,   I love this. That’s why I do it.” Uh, yeah. It’s 
hard to get cycling coverage. Looks like Tim Wells is getting up to the finish here. Uh he’s working 
his way right now towards the final ramp. Let me have a quick look here at Tim. Actually having 
a really good ride here at the bottom of the   ramp. He’s 112 behind uh Luke Plap. And this 
ramp, I think it’s only about 800 meters long, but it’s like steep straight up. It’s an This 
is the definition of a wall right here. The road just rises away. Let’s see how far he’s How much 
time will he lose in that final 800 meters. Ah, okay guys. 300 people watching plus all the time. 
Finished riders now. 121 riders have arrived. Uh Quinton, I think it’s Quinton. Quinton 
Pache through the first checkpoint.   25 seconds down. Okay, we’re getting speedier 
through the first checkpoint. Can he hold it? The groupama FDJ rider. Vari’s going out soon. Uh 
Steph Crass, Adam Yates will be going out quickly, guys. That will be at 4. That looks like 
419 CST. Okay, Adam Yates is going out in the next five minutes, guys. Uh we’re getting 
up there. It’s going to get faster and faster. Uh Jay, I’m not surprised Luke’s uh still number 
one after seeing him on stage five. I just didn’t know how as a time trialist he would handle 
the uphill time trial. Uh because I think it’s the kind of event where either a really good 
time trialist or a really good climber can win   it. And that’s probably what we’re going 
to see. One of the really good climbers. Nina, it’s sad when the media focus keeps focusing   on people who are evidently past their 
prime instead of on the young ones, future stars. Yeah, I’m really excited 
about all the young upstart guys here. Uh Jay Taylor’s asking John, what do you 
mean about TNT Sports and Terrestrial TV?   Uh I don’t I think all he’s saying we can 
answer. Uh but my impression too is like in the past we you could see this on normal 
satellite cable TV. That’s how I watched   the tour. It was always on and now it’s 
all locked down behind pay walls. Evan, absolutely. I’m thinking I would do some classics 
next year. Guys, I look back at the schedule and I’m already planning for next year. I’m thinking 
how I keep this going. Uh, and to be honest, guys, I need your support to be here with me. Uh, jump 
in when you can. I know you can’t do this every day. Maybe you can. Uh, there’s so many good races 
coming. And I look back, I’m like, I should have   done Peru Bay. I should an Amsel gold release. I 
can do them all. They’re all available to do. Uh I know just enough to talk about them. Um Quinn 
Simmons here entering the final kilometer. Wow, guys. This shows you something. So Quinn Simmons 
has passed the final kilometer mark. And again, this is slightly delayed. He’s at 21 minutes 
and 30 seconds. The final kilometer is probably going to take him eight or nine minutes. Let’s 
just watch this. Could it be that slow? Uh, however, what I’m seeing on screen there says two 
kilometers. Okay, I’ll get that figured out for   you guys. Uh, what I should do is take a look 
at the live tracking here and see where we can see Quinn. Where would he be? That’s Victor 
Camponarts. Quinn Simmons right here. Yeah, that could be a kilometer from the finish. 
Could be the final stretch. I keep saying it’s   800 meters. Yeah, I I thought it was 800 meters. 
Maybe uh Quinn’s two kilometers from the finish. So, we’ll just come back here for a second here. 
Uh, maybe I can find him here. Quinn Simmons number 84. Okay, we’ll take a look at it. Velasco 
coming through the first check. 28 seconds down. Second intermediate checkpoint. 
Baine, seen him working along for   EF. 117 down. Garcia Pir just came 
through. 4 minutes 20 seconds down. Quinn’s working hard out there. Hair is 
not flapping anymore because he’s only   he’s in a 12% section right now. He’s not 
going fast enough for that hair to flap. Get that coffee of me. Yes. So, Evan, definitely doing some classics. 
Actually, you know what? I’m going to I’m going to keep pumping it, guys. I got to pump and 
promote the channel. Soon as the tour is done,   I’m on the women’s tour uh very early August. 
I think it’s August 2nd. I’m doing the uh San Seb San Sebastian Classic one-day 
race. In August 2, there’s also the Voalta is the big thing for August. That’s at the 
end of August, I think the third week. So,   we’ll have another three-week grand tour. Uh I 
love the Valta. It has the craziest hill climbs, the craziest routes. Uh really focuses on 
the upandcomers, I think. Uh the riders that maybe didn’t ride the Tour to France 
that want that big win for the year. That’s   what goes on there. Start shoot here. Okay, 
that’s a replay of Steph Crafts from earlier. Uh, wow. That’s a weird time here. I’m looking at 
this time here. I just changed. Yeah, the times are really weird here now. Okay, what are they 
saying? 420. Yeah, those are hard time checks now. Okay, they got some really funny checkpoints here 
now. have Dylan Gron. Yeah, it’s flying. Okay,   now we’re getting back to Luke Plat. It had Dylan 
Gronovan being the fastest rider through the uh intermediate checkpoint there. If 
anyone caught that on the video. Uh yeah, these times aren’t right here. Now, 
guys, if you’re looking on screen now,   it has Mielberger first at the finish line in 
15 minutes. Uh so, they need to fix something here. I’m going to give this uh a full 
I’m going to refresh it myself. Yeah. So, something’s happened with the transponders here, 
guys. They now have G Muger here. I love watching this stuff happen live. Uh, finishing the stage. 
This is wrong, guys. They have him finishing the stage in 15 minutes and 16 seconds. Uh, so let 
them fix that up in the background here. Uh, I’ll try to figure out what’s going on here for 
you. We’ll watch this for a bit. We’ll catch up   with the chat as they fix that in the background 
because it’s absolutely wrong right now, guys. Uh so yeah, Evan, please join me for the 
classics. Uh the smaller stage races. We’ve got the Deutschon tour. We got the tour of Poland. We 
got the tour of Denmark. They’re all next month.   Uh another big one I want to do is uh I will be 
doing the World Championships. I will be doing the time trial for the World Championships, 
too. So get into that. Let’s do all of it. Go back and see if they fix the the standings are 
still off. Wow. So guys, we’re going blind now. Yeah. So, it looks like now it’s the final 
checkpoint they’ve got wrong. Uh, I’m going to guess Muleberger’s uh transponder is doing 
something funny. Let’s see Muer here. How does these end? Okay, this looks about right. So, he’s 
probably on course right now. He is placed high up   in the rankings. He’s 39th overall. So, he is on 
course. His transponder is not reading correctly, though. It’s saying he’s at the finish already. Uh 
Luke Plap is in first place at the finish, guys. Yep. So, checkpoint one and checkpoint two are   correct. Now, Bonuk goes through first 
checkpoint. 45 seconds down on Pl. And we see Blackmore go through. Yeah, it’s 
showing weird times there. I can’t I’m having   a hard time figuring that out. Uh let me get back 
to the chat. We’ll let the stuff reset itself. I’m still watching Quinn Simmons here. He’s still 
finishing here. So, when we jumped to him before, uh he was at 2130 total time. He’s now at 2642. So, Quinn’s going to do uh it’s going 
to lose some time today as well. Robert St. Palace won Darwin Vanderin 
this year. Visma with an epic fail. I turn this up. My eyes are getting tires, guys. 
In the threeon-one sprint. I think I remember   that. Yeah. Neielson Palace on a good day is 
really good. Can’t watch John saying can’t watch the tour live as Tint Sports bought the rights. I 
am lucky as in Ireland. Irish speaking channel has it like live. Other countries not so lucky. Yeah, 
I think uh there’s a Welsh channel on YouTube. You can watch it. So Quinn Simmons guys goes across 
the finish line. Pretty decent time. 3:30 down. Uh, so his aerodynamics weren’t that affected. 
Adam Yates is on course, guys. Adam Yates is out for UAE. Let’s see how he climbs today. Uh, hasn’t 
been on best form this year. This is a hill climb, though. So, can Adam Yates knock it out of the 
park? Par Ponch comes through first checkpoint. This is Aurelion Perry Pon. Remember, he has 
a brother here. Quinn Simmons takes his time   actually at the finish line, folks. He’s 
high-fiving everyone there. Uh, you know, he just gave up 20 seconds there. There’s a Vizma 
rider who’s just finished ahead of him. I missed who that was. Uh, last riders arrive. Can we see 
that? Okay, this will be overall finish here. Let’s just have a look. So from front to back, 
the slowest rider right now out there finished six and a half minutes behind the fastest 
rider, Luke Plap. That’s going to change. Uh, keep Warren Bar through first 
checkpoint. Only 20 seconds down. Keeping a close eye on things here, guys. T 
Bonut. Okay, it’s T Bonut who went through intermediate checkpoint two. They’re giving 
me weird times here though. Uh just Yeah, I’m not in at 1 hour and 55 minutes 58 seconds 
at 1 hour and 48. Oh, I’m not sure what they’re saying there. I’m going to be looking for the 
time splits down below. Uh see if I can figure   that out for you guys. Uh whoa. Yeah, someone’s 
saying woe there and I’m thinking woe myself. Uh, no winner yet for stage 13. Okay, I’m just trying to catch up here, guys. Ian saying, “Never underestimate Remco.” I’m 
thinking that today, too. I think Remco can have an incredible day today. Jay Taylor saying, 
“No, the Arab of Pocky dominance is not fun.” No. Cutouty keeps saying that everyone else is 
burnt out. Uh question 30 to 50 years ago, did riders retire at a similar age as today or 
were they considered old earlier back then? I think they did more development back then. 
That’s why the best young riders jersey I   thought it was under 23. Someone told me 
it was under 25. They took young riders and developed them. Uh I guess it goes 
rider by rider. You know, people forget, look how young the riders are now winning the 
tour to France. There’s a bunch of riders from   the past that were winning it at 21 and 
22. The one that comes to mind right now quickly is a Lauron Fol. He won his first 
tour at 22. Uh you go way way back when uh there was a rider who run it at 19 years old. 
Uh like in the olden days, as I like to call them. So yeah, I think it kind of goes rider by rider, 
but I think they’re starting them. so young now,   we’re likely to see more burnout by getting 
them at like at the best level in the world, uh, when they’re 20 years old. How long can 
they keep that effort up? Uh, EF Rider here just finishing. Who is this? Maybe this is Neielson 
here sitting down in the shade. Adam Yates out on course, guys. We’re going to be looking for his 
checkpoints. Wilder vent through at uh 316. Pache hits the second point. Checkpoint only. One down. 
They finally got things fixed up for me here now,   guys. They were showing like their overall 
totals, too. Adam Yates through the first checkpoint. Bingo, folks. Only seven seconds 
down. Yes, Adam. Let’s get it. You know, whenever I say something like he’s not having a 
very good season. He’s poor performance. I love   when I see them doing well. Uh, and when 
I say stuff like that, I’m not crapping on Adam Yates. Just he hasn’t had a great season 
for whatever reason. He’s not a machine, guys. Sheila is saying yes and a dork, but I’m still 
rooting for him. So, she’s rooting for Yonas.   How is Woods of Canada? Uh, Woodsy finished quite 
a ways down. I think he was 330 down today. I’ll find his uh overall results soon. Cortisi is the 
Pogy fanatic here. Tatty first all the way. Corti, can anyone beat Tatty today? If so, 
give me your prediction. Or Corti, uh, how what will Tatty’s finishing time be today? 
Let’s put it on paper here. Let’s see it. Uh Sheila saying dorks can be handsome, too. Yes, 
they can be poggies, apparently. Uh no winner. Uh Muhammad here is asking who’s the winner. We 
haven’t had a winner yet, dude. We are live trying   to get there to the finish. Uh Cortasi saying 
potentially Pogy for stage win. Corti, I need your stage win. What’s your winning time? Will Pogy go 
under 23 minutes? Is that possible? Uh Muhammad, it’s an individual time trial. So each rider has 
to cover 10.9 km solo. So one goes, the next goes. Uh Cortasi Filipogana records for 64 
teeth. Yeah, he always used the big chain ring. He was out stage one of this 
year’s tour to France, unfortunately. Uh Anna’s interesting question, Anna. Seems like 
we have fewer older guys than before. Cadell Evans was 34 when he won in 2011. Yeah, I think guys are 
getting developed so early. So guys, now they take young kids, they put them in a lab, they’ve put 
them on a V2 max machine, uh test them and say, “Oh, your V2 max is 85. You can be a pro cyclist.” 
They can identify them that way. They couldn’t do that in the past. Well, I guess they could, but 
uh because they were testing V2 max in the 80s. uh just it’s more accessible now. There’s 
programs out there. They even have it in Canada where they’re identifying athletes as 
young as they possibly can. Uh what could you   be good at? It’s like I talked about a few 
days ago. Uh there’s guys like me killing myself trying to ride my bike and improve. My V2 
max is probably crappy. It’s probably not much   above average to be honest. There could be some 
kid laying around on the couch playing Call of Duty right now who’s got like a 90 V2 max. But 
that gives you the potential to win the tour to   France. It’s genetic. You can never if you’ve 
got a 40 V2 max, it’s never becoming 90 ever, ever, ever. It will never get to 90. You can’t 
bring it up to that. Uh but you could be just a random human being walking around with that 
genetic gift built into you. Then you develop it. Uh we got someone here. Konac 21, my usual 
stream not working. Anyone got one? Dude, you got this one stick here. Uh, don’t 
be watching the uh the stuff uh that’s being streamed that shouldn’t be streamed. This is 
probably why they keep locking it down even more. Don saying Simmons need to let 
that mullet here fly. He did,   dude. He let it fly. Uh, okay 
guys, I’ve just been watching her. Blastoff for Red Bull comes through. to his second 
checkpoint at 124. Venturini came in at 306 down, guys. Luke Plap has been in the hot seat the 
whole day. He knows he’ll be out of it soon. Uh Venard, we haven’t seen Venard yet, have 
we? Actually, Vanard was out there. Uh yeah, I don’t know where he is right now. Van Art was on 
course, wasn’t he? Let me look at the start times, guys. Let me try to get caught up for you. 
I’m trying to do two things at once. Um, so Simon Yates, Simon Yates is going up pretty 
quick, guys. Sepus is going out right away. Uh, now we’re getting up to the big guns here. See 
all? Okay, dogs, please don’t start barking. You can see here on the look at the bottom screen. 
Tatty is out 5 minutes after 5 C. Then it’ll be two minutes gaps before that. This is going 
to get hot, folks. This is going to get hot. Jordan Jagat here. He’s the guy that got that 
penalty yesterday for hanging onto a car, I think, uh, for way too long. So, who knows the 
situation. Probably grabbed on and the uh I’m just seeing the start assignment here now. 
And probably the DS probably just gunned it. Uh, I remember uh Nibbi doing that a few years 
ago. I think it might have been the Jirro   and he got eliminated for doing that. Okay, 
so Machu Wanderpool finishes at 406 down to be expected. Not seeing anything surprising 
yet, guys. Uh, so yeah, watch anime here. Uh, asking for vanarch time. I’ll have to find them. 
I don’t think it was spectacular. Let me see if I can find them here quickly. Just look for 
I’ll be looking for the yellow and black,   the bumblebees. Van Art finished at 305 down 
in 23rd position. So that’s where Vanard is. John here. Sean the King Kelly era. Yeah, 
exactly. Uh when he used to win the green jersey. Uh Sky era is great. Yeah, Nairo Canana. Contidor 
Nibbally. Yeah, I loved all that stuff. This is coming from J. Looks like a new uh commenter 
here in the chat. Uh, Nichi disagrees on Sky or it was boring. I actually really liked it. I 
love Team Sky. Uh, I’m not sure if I was a huge Chris Froom fan. He just had a particular 
style about him. Uh, he was so skinny. I don’t think anyone can argue that Team Sky 
wasn’t very powerful at the time. Yeah, Wallins had a really good ride today from Jay Taylor here. 
Rob S, some great battles. Merks versus Aana. Dude, I’m just learning all about that. Uh, I’ve 
only just found your site. Great commentary. Thanks, dude. Okay, Rob. Yeah, that’s it, guys. 
Please like. See how Rob’s got that little thumbs   up beside him there? That’s what I need you 
all to do today so that more dudes who are very knowledgeable cycle get in here and help me 
out. Uh, Rob, thanks for those comments there. Uh, that’s that second book I need because the one 
I picked up is 76 on MarkX was just finishing up there. Uh, so I’ve kind of missed his 
part. And guys, I’ve read other histories, but this one goes like really cool stories, but 
they’re just so short. It’s kind of like this is what happened. Stage four, they tell you some 
times, they talk about the battles. I need more. I think there’s always more room for more uh True to 
Friends books. Uh Aunt Debbios, uh was every stage of the True to France on TV back in the day? 
Yes, it was. How can they expect to grow the   sport if they f limit the eyes on their product 
behind? Exactly, dude. Dude, uh, in the late 90s with Lance, you come home after work. I turn on 
Outdoor Life Network, which became, uh, Versus, which be and then the Discovery Channel got it. 
It was part of my cable package. So, you know, when you get your cable package, you pay 50 bucks 
a month, whatever it is, or 150 wherever you live. It was part of one of my normal channels. 
It wasn’t an extra. It wasn’t a subscription add-on. Blackmore’s in now. 309 down, guys. It’s 
going to get hot here pretty quick. going to get higher. Tim time and Aaron’s been through the 
first checkpoint. 21 seconds down. He’s someone   that I thought would have done better yesterday. 
Uh maybe this hill climb suits him better today. Uh Cortasi saying more excuses for Vingo. What 
excuses are those, dude? Dude, you still haven’t given me your Tatty finish time. I want to know 
what your Corti calling you out, bro. What will What is your prediction for Tatty’s finish today? 
Let’s hear the number. I’ll give you my number. Uh Robert with MKS it was how many times he won 
the big races. He didn’t just win Leaz Baston Lege. He won it five times. Milan Sanoro seven 
times. Tour five times. World Championship three times. Utter dominance guys. So yeah, new people, 
younger people. There’s been guys before Tatty, guys that were way more dominant that won 
everything. There was one tour where um Eddie was leading. He got punched in the gut so 
hard that I think he almost dropped out of that tour. I believe he almost dropped out of it. 
Like fans were hitting him as he was going by. Uh Dawn here. Vingo was a great 
cyclist. Absolutely. Second to tatty,   but still better than most. Yeah. And 
anyone comment uh dropping comments here, you’re like 1% of these guys. I’m probably 
0.1% of these guys. Uh these are like the elite athletes of the world right here, folks. 
Uh you know, I love them all. I love them all. Uh yep, DBS, you just answered my question. 
Cortasi, many many riders win more Jirro tour than Bingo and Pogy. And Pogy, bro. Poggy’s got 
three. He will have four. I agree. I totally agree with that. It’s It’s pretty obvious that 
he’s the world’s best rider. I don’t think being   a Pogy supporter right now means that you’re 
making predictions that no one expects. Uh but there’s been multiple five-time winners of the 
tour to France. We had one guy that won seven. Okay guys, uh so we see Luke Pla here at 2458. 
Anyone want to put out? I’ve asked Cortace to give me his guest for Tatty’s time. Uh, he hasn’t 
given it to me. What does anyone else think Pogy   will do today? Watching a Groupama rider come. 
Looks like a French rider. Fans loving him. I see Tatty warming up now, guys. Warming up now. Full 
yellow suit. He still has his left arm bandaged up. He’s got his cycling cap on. Fans are blowing 
there, folks. Fans are blowing. Everything else is still sitting stable here. Nothing’s changed, 
guys. Adam Yates though, guys, check this out. He’s second four seconds behind Luke Plap into 
the second checkpoint. He’s rider number eight, guys. I’m getting on this right now. I’m getting 
on this right now. Here is Simon Yates. Sorry,   Adam Yates. I believe Simon Yates is out on 
course two. Adam Yates on a good ride here, guys. 181 is Steph Cass. I’m trying to 
find Simon if he’s out there. Actually, Simon will be higher up. I think he’s departed, 
though. Valentine Madawas here. Simon Yates here. Not sure how he’s feeling today. Uh if Tatty’s 
on a real good one, 2345. That’s my guess. Um neutral zone to podiums add free 
on Sports. Uh I don’t even know what that is. Bingo never won 
the Jirro. Neither did Lance. Yep, dude. Everything you’re saying, 
Cortasi, everything you’re saying,   Lance didn’t do either. He did a few classics. 
Lance, if you look at his career, too, and I don’t think anyone can argue that Lance wasn’t a 
great champion because he was. It was a different   era. Everyone was doing the same thing, though. 
Uh, Lance only focused on the tour and saying that’s what Vinko does. He only focuses on 
the tour. That’s what they want him to win. Uh, but yeah, good comments, dude. Coutassi, 
you are correct. Yeah, Bingo doesn’t touch the classics. He’s not a classics rider. I think 
he’s too small for it. If you’ve noticed, most of the classics riders kind of 
bigger riders. Kind of bigger riders. Uh, one of the best I can think of is Magnus 
Backstead. A big beast of a man. Uh, any of you older dudes here probably know who 
he is. I think he walked around like at 6’5 and he was a giant of a man. Uh and he won Perry 
Rubé, I think. Yeah, he did win Perry Rubé. Finger going world championship. Yep, you’re 
correct about that. So, obviously, uh Cortasi is   all in on Tatty. How much money are you betting on 
him, dude? Dude, I still need your time. I still need your time. Uh Krin here does not like Tisso. 
French uh watch manufacturer watches based made in Swiss uh Switzerland but uh they are a French 
brand. Quinn Simmons lost 3:30 today just in the time trial. Ah Krin I like this saying Simmons is 
number one in hair classification. Dude, we need that jersey. We’re going to start making that up. 
Okay. Uh will anyone miss the time cut off Charles here? They did say if Tatty gets a time or the 
winner, sorry. Uh, see guys, I’m expecting Tatty to win. I’m not going to be shocked if he wins. 
He’s the hands-down favorite. Um, I think they said if you got a time of 2237, he would eliminate 
uh a couple of the sprinters already. Yeah, Quinn SL Simmons hand slapping fans on the way to the 
line. Not too cring. No, he’s not concerned about   his time at all. Quinn Simmons just wants to win 
one stage. He’s not concerned how he does today, guys. Uh, we’re going to jump back here. I think 
we’re going to start seeing time things change   here. Uh, we need to keep an eye on Adam Yates, 
guys. I’m going to get back to him here. T Spoon crosses the finish line. Four minutes, nine down. 
Adam Yates is number eight. Let’s find him on   course here. Here he is. How is Adam Yates going 
to do? And again, guys, I keep saying Adam Yates is not doing very well. He’s 28th overall at the 
Tour to France. He hasn’t smashed out of the park, but he’s still 28th at the Tour to France. He’s 
gonna do better as we’re in the mountain stages and maybe he’s riding himself back into form. 
Uh we’ll soon see. You know, I always hate when I say stuff like that that they’re not 
doing great. Uh again, they’re not machines,   they’re not motors. Going to the finish line 
right now. Xander Maurice for Alison Dynic, one of the domestics on that team. Orurelion 
Perry Pont for uh Decathlon AG2R Lemonial 192 is Warren Bari. Love this guy too. 30th at the 
Tro of France, guys. Always does better in the hills. Used to be one of the best guys on the hill 
climbs. Ben Healey in the Staroot, guys. All in pink now. Looking good. He’s he’s had like a a 
great tour to France. Uh back to the chat, guys. D’vor is asking, “What about Bingy?” Bingan’s 
already finished. Uh, definitely not a stage build   for him. Bing still has a chance to win next week. 
Okay. T Young Rider jersey. He’s been under 25. Under 23. Yeah. So, I I said 20. Someone said 25, 
then I said 23. Uh, because we’re talking about Tatty. Tatty can’t win it, guys. He’s too old for 
the young jersey. Otherwise, he would win it. Uh,   they need to drop that down to like 19. 
Don saying, “Too many matches burned in the first week of the tour to France. These guys are 
fatigued.” Absolutely. Uh this has been probably   one of the hardest starts of the tour in years. 
Uh 10 stages without a break day. I’ve never seen that before. Uh Benny’s already finished. Jay uh 
finished earlier on today. I can’t remember his time right now off hand. I’ll I’ll look into that. 
Who’s your favorite American rider? Oh jeez, dude. That’s a tough question. Uh Quinn Simmons is just 
cool. Uh Matteo Jorgensson is extremely talented. Uh like talking about the top top guys. Uh the 
old days there would have been different ones. Greg Lamond is still probably one of my favorite 
cyclists of all time. I like that Adam Yates. How are times? Uh Adam Yates is coming to the finish 
now. He’s going to be starting the final climb up that chute. Uh, I don’t have any more times on him 
right now, but he was only 4 seconds behind at the second time. Uh, check. Let’s go through that 
again. So, Adam Yates is 4 seconds behind Luke Plap, but he’s got to take on that wall now. 
Aurelian Pari Pontra finished. Ben O Connor comes into the first checkpoint only 5 seconds 
behind Luke Plap. So, now we’re seeing more of   the climbers showing their skills and talents uh 
against the pure time trialist Luke Plap. He’s just a power beast. They’re climbing beasts. So, I 
think we’re going to see some of these times start changing here right away. Adam Yates here. He’s 
on an 11% gradient right now. I’m going to have   a little quick peek over here. Get fully caught 
up with Adam. I’m seeing Jordan Jagat leaving the uh starter now. I think he’s 13th overall. 13th 
overall. Uh I’m going to try to get caught up. Dawn here. Dawn’s the first guy besides myself to 
drop a Tatty time. Cortesacy, where’s your time? Uh, Tatty will finish sub 23. Dawn, if he finishes 
sub 23, we could see riders eliminated. His V2 max is probably 35. Don’s V2 max is probably 35 to 
40. Yeah, I think I was generous with mine. Don, I think I said I was over 40. Peter Kimell here, 
new guy. Hey, Peter, nice to see you. Uh, any info on riders bike preference for the vertical 
TT? Any bike swaps? Mostly standard. Dude, it’s been all road bikes so far. There’s been 
some talk about there being TT bikes. Maybe for the very very top guys. As soon as I see it, 
I’ll let you know. Uh but yeah, not one bike swap yet. It’s not like the ones from a few years 
ago. There was that one where it was like a 20 km   time trail. Well, they did do a bike swap or the 
one where Primos lost. They basically all did a bike swap at the bottom there. Adam Yates going to 
the finish, guys. Wow. Adam Yates rocking it here, folks. Currently watching him ride. I think Adam 
Yates is going to take it away. He’s taking the   final corner onto the final shoot. Uh I think 
here, okay, he’s 400 meters from the finish, guys. He has a one minute. He’s one minute 
ahead of Luke Plop right now. Let’s see if he   falls apart. This last four So, okay, the final 
shoot, guys, is a 400 meter wall of like 15 16% in places. Uh that time is dropping real fast. 
Adam Yates is going to have to uh engage overdrive here real quick if he wants to get up there. Uh 
having a look at this here, folks. Wow. I just saw the results flash up. I just saw the guys. I’m 
watching about a 40 secondond delay here. And Adam Yates just let all that time slip away. You can 
see on screen here right now, Adam Yates is second 17 seconds behind Luke Plop. So guys, that final 
400 meters, it’s taken them like a minute and minute and 30 seconds to get up. It’s so steep. 
So Adam Yates, pure climber, not a time trialist, finishes second behind Luke Plop right now. 
Okay, this is good stuff, guys. Good stuff. Emer 19 seconds down. Uh I do want to take a look at 
Emer Mass. Rode in 13th place for quite a while, but you know what? He’s still sitting 50. Is he 
really 15th or he’s still 15th overall at the tour to France right now? So he was as high as sixth 
place earlier on. Sat at 13th for quite a few days. Just lost a couple of spots yesterday. So 
we’ll close him down. Come back here. Uh I would have sworn that Adam Yates was going to take that 
stage. That last 400 meters of Sober Ben Healey setting off, guys. Uh just a a little heads up, I 
may be going for a quick nature break here, just like the pros do. Yeah. So Pete, if I can give you 
any more information, I will as soon as I can. Uh Ben Healey going out on just a standard road bike 
here. It is pretty steep. Like time trial bike up that last stretch would be insane. I think I think 
that would be a mistake. Watch them all come out with time travel bikes now. Um Jay Taylor, 
uh up north, I feel like we’re all supposed to support Quinn, national champ with maturity 
and personality. Also, I like Matteo Jorgensson   and and Shawn Quinn. Yeah, there are other other 
there are other Americans here, guy. Uh Will Bart is here. Uh just um Jay mentioned Shawn Quinn 
here, who I don’t know if I’ve even seen yet. Or is it Shawn Flynn? Is there a Shawn Flynn? 
No, he’s from the UK, isn’t he? Uh I’ll have to   catch up with that. Steph Crass crosses the finish 
line almost four minutes down. Uh Seb Cous comes through the second checkpoint 43 seconds down. So 
I think it’s going to be very hard for him to uh take first place from Luke Plop today. So the 
time trialist winning over the climbers right   now guys. Gon Martan down 39 seconds at the first 
check already. He’s going to have to really start grinding up the power here, folks. And we will be 
into the final stretch here, folks. Ben Healey is out on course. It says he just started two minutes 
ago. Then we got Carlos Rodriguez, Jordan Jagat. Uh I think he’s out on course already, isn’t he? 
Let me look at this. Yeah, he is on course. Okay, so he’s been out there five minutes. Gio Martan’s 
out. Enrich Mass. Jonathan Nveas will be coming. Yeah, looking good, guys. Looking 
good. Here we see Ben Oconor was   fourth through the first checkpoint. I 
still haven’t seen any more times from him. I’m keeping an eye out for him here. 
I’m going to get caught up with the chat. Uh, Robert saying, “You’re not trying to do two 
things at once. It’s more like six or eight.”   Okay, I just lost where we’re talking here. 
Uh, Krin’s asking, “Why don’t I like Chris Froom? Is it because he’s African?” No, dude. I 
I do actually like him. I read his book. He’s an   interesting dude. He came from basically nothing. 
uh kind of like when you watch his uh if you watch his time trial that he first competed. Someone 
posted it a while ago and dude that’s not even   a good question to ask me. I don’t like that at 
all. Uh I just didn’t he was very robotlike. Kind of like a robot. I didn’t like his riding style. 
I guess that’s what I didn’t like about Christian.   Otherwise, I really like him. Uh he kind of 
faked his way into I think it was the World Time Trail Championships. Uh, this is a known 
fact. He kind of used someone’s email to say, “This is our representative. His name is Chris 
Froom. He showed up there. Uh, I’m thinking it was London for some reason. Started the time trial, 
crashed on the very first corner, and uh, no one would ever expected what he would have become.” 
So, it’s a really cool story about him. 400 and   almost 500 people watching, guys. So, Krin, thank 
you for the uh, the question there. Uh, I do like him. I just didn’t like his writing style. Uh, 
June Basad is back. Hello again sir. Good day. Okay, so Nichze here saying in Europe tour to 
France is on your sport. No normal TV package.   No extra money needed. Okay, so everyone 
in Europe itself can watch it. Uh up north is saying I predict 2211 for Pogy. Dude, 
you’re getting aggressive. Getting aggressive, bro. Uh but yeah, dude. Wouldn’t that 
be awesome? Uh Jumba here just jumped in the stream. team who was leading 
13 straight. Luke Plap is still in   the lead. Uh I thought Adam Yates was going 
to take it, but uh Adam Yates kind of faded in that final climb. That final climb is 
really hard, guys. Really, really hard. Uh Robert, I’m not a big fan of Simmons, 
but admire his riding. Hard not to root for   the Vizma guys. Like the EF guys. Yeah, I I like 
that. Uh again, maybe that’s the difference. So, someone asked why don’t I like Chris 
Froom? Not that I don’t like him,   I just didn’t like his riding style. I like how 
Quinn Simmons rides. Is he anywhere near good as a ride as Chris F? Absolutely not. Uh he’s 
Quinn Simmons is more flamboyant. You can tell with his hair. He’s got the mutton chops on. He’s 
got the full beard, full mustache. He’s a rocker. Chris Froom was just different. Still got to give 
him credit for everything he did on the bike. And I still really respect Chris Froom. uh still out 
there riding. Uh he’s kind of a mentor now for the junior guys. Remember he suffered like basically 
another life-threatening crash. To expect them to come back to 100% is I think that’s asking 
for a lot. Okay. Sitting in the star shoots. Uh Kevin Balon. Uh he’s got his ice vest on right 
now. His cooling vest. Fifth overall. I think he’s 543 down. Ooh, these legs look nice. 
Whoever that is here, it’s the Unoax rider, the guy’s name who I never remember. Sorry guys. 
Uh to me is Tobias. Uh they’re the big winners of the Tour to France right now. Uh obviously 
Tatty the tour to France victory is ultimate   but to have UNOX that high up at the Tour to 
France uh we talked about budgets earlier UAE being 60 million some of the other world tour 
teams being 15 million and then you’ve got UNOX who is not even a World Tour team. They don’t 
have the budget that the lower end world tour teams do. Uh this guy his paycheck just went up. 
Uh, Higguides threw the first check at 225 down. Rodriguez came through the second check at 229 
down. Luke Plops loving life right now, guys. Uh, Don’s asking, “Did Eddie Merks have a rival 
like Olmstrong or Vingo?” I guess it would be like Pulidor was his big adversary at the time 
and Pulidor over overlapped two of the giants of the tour to France. over overlapped I think 
Ankatil and Eddie Mks. Uh and again that’s my knowledge on the Eddie Mks area is very limited. 
Uh Don I’m hoping someone else can jump in but   I think it was Raymond Pulidor at the time 
uh that put up a lot of the battles against Eddie Mks. Uh Nietz just saying I vote for root 
for Vizma because I doesn’t like the UAE team. Uh sorry typo Americans Shawn Quinn and 
Quinn Simmons Matteo. Yeah, I love Sepus,   too. Uh, yeah, I really like Seep Cous. Just guys, 
sometimes you just they’re not going to have the best tour every year. Ed Carlo Barita saying 
2230 for Tatty or 22 for a beast ride. Okay, Lipoitz needs a good TT today from Swoosh Kid uh 
to keep his uh podium run going. Cummoff. Yeah, uh Lipoitz has had a fantastic year so far. 
Jorgensson’s on course, guys. Jorgensson’s out there. So, Aguita has finished. 225 down. 
Skelemo is through. This might be, I think, the highest place Trek rider. Uh 238 down at the 
second check. 18th overall because going to want to do well today to keep that position. 
Um June. So 13th is just starting. Yeah, dude. Let me go. Let me figure this out. Departure 
times, guys. Um, there’s only seven riders still to start. Only seven riders still to start is 
what I’m thinking here. Is that correct? 165 have started. Six riders still to start. Sorry, there’s 
only 171. We only have six riders left to go. Uh, Raj Lick is now on course. I just saw him 
start, guys. Nature break’s coming imminently. Uh, I’m going to catch up here. 
Oh, sorry guys. I just saw Crin   dropped another good comment here. Oh, 
I’ve lost it. I want to get back here. Okay, Krin’s got some great great com. Dude, I 
remember these names now. You’re saying Phyllis   Gond uh Lewis Okana. Uh, while Merks was known for 
his dominance in both Grand Tours Classics, those two riders posed the biggest challenge to me. 
Okay, Krin, thank you for that. Don saying 2137 for Tatty. Whoa, Don, hang on, bro. Uh, Pogy has 
shown them yesterday. Who’s the boss? That’s from June. Yeah, definitely, dude. Jay Taylor Okconor 
went against Merks in the tour to France. Okay, Jimmy here. New dude, Jimmy, I love seeing new 
people drop in, guys. Love everyone watching.   Please, if everyone can like this, uh, it’ll just 
shoot this video straight to the top. Uh hopefully other people can see my video and not just people 
broadcasting other ones. Rights. Looks like Seb   Cous here has just been passed by. Wow. Is that 
I don’t know what that looks like. Simon Yates maybe. We’ve got the two. Okay. Seuss there. I 
can see his style. He’s number 16. That looks like Simon Yates ahead of him. Or someone’s I 
don’t know who’s catching yet. They’re turning on to the final turn now, guys. Uh, and when I 
say the final turn, I mean that little shoot. So, at the bottom of the shoot, Septus is 20 seconds 
behind. That’s all going to just blow away now. It’s taking them a long time to face that final 
wall. And that thing is an absolute wall. Uh, wow. Just seeing here, I haven’t seen this 
yet, guys. Jorgensson’s had a really strong   start at the first time. He’s 9 seconds faster 
than Pl. Not a lot of imagery coming through, guys. Let’s take a look at this over on Twitter. 
Uh, you can see how steep this is. You can see   the road just disappear. That’s the final shoot 
there. Just having a look here. Getting the push across the finish line. Yeah, Adam. It’s got the 
second best time. We’ve seen all that, guys. Let’s get back up here. Jorgensson through first into 
the first checkpoint. The first contender to Pl’s uh position today. Just a little quick shot 
of Emerick Mass there. And in the star shoot   here is Remco. Remco is in the star shoot. Wow. 
Jeez, I got to say this. Don’t want this to sound weird. He’s got really nice legs on him. Uh, and 
there’s that. Uh, anyway, Jamie Jamie Gaver here, new dude. My addiction with the tour started 
with Greg Lamond. Yes. But the real addiction   start with Lance Era. I would tape and watch him. 
Dude, I did the exact same thing. The Greg Lamond era, there was virtually no coverage. Greg 
Lamont, probably one of the best cyclists   ever. His reported V2 max was 92 to 93. That 
is like way up there. I was asking yesterday, I wonder what Tatty’s V2 maxes. For him to be that 
much better than everyone, he’s got the genetic gift and it’s just there. Another guy that had a 
phenomenally high V2 max was Jon Jonathan Bers, the DS. Well, I guess he’s the manager or 
CEO of EF Education Post. General manager, maybe they call him. Uh, I think his V2 max over 
90 something as well. Uh, dude, Lipoitz is yet to go. Lipoitz goes out in 2 minutes. He’s ready 
to start here. I’m really interested watching Jorgensson here today. I’m hoping Plop can hold 
it for a little bit longer. Keep him in the   hot seat. Uh, Feliz Aonda here. Lance, okay, 
same wasn’t a great champion. He was a great doper precancer program. his results. Feliz, 
you’re absolutely right. Prior to the cancer, uh I I think Lance did win the World Championships 
though before that. He was more of a classics   rider. When they first went over to Europe, 
they’re like, “Why are we so slow?” Uh because all the Europeans were already using EPO and 
so they had to what they did they they adapted. Whether that’s right or wrong, they adapted to 
the situation and then he became the best at it. Um, hiker Rining here again. Uh, saying do Jacong 
road week poor hour record at 40 46 km and 57. Moser better bike. Okay. 84. Yeah, I remember 
Franchesco Moser set the hour record. Quinn Simmons number hearts for Americans. I will bet 
on Pog against all riders but no dirty tricks. I think they’ve been pretty good this year. Like, 
uh, I said it, guys, when I saw Pocky Crash,   I would have just kept going myself. Uh, that’s 
just me. Um, but then everyone else is like, well, if he would have attacked him then, it would have 
looked bad on us. Uh, then he would have just been   mad at us. And I always, to me, it’s always been 
if the yellow jersey falls, you wait. He’s the patron of the tour. patron, I guess I should say. 
I always say that wrong. Uh, Robert, it’s like Merks had a different set of rivals for each race, 
but nobody could match him across all those races. Yeah, Merks was an absolute. They called him the 
cannibal. They called him the cannibal. That was   his nickname. Uh, yeah, we are seeing Jorgensson 
here now. Let’s see where we’re going to be at the next check. Actually, Carlos Rodriguez here 
riding really well for Inos Grenaders. Carlos Rodriguez is placed still well. 12th overall 
at the tour, guys. We’re I’ve talked about him, but he’s just kind of lurking in the background. 
Uh so, highest place Grenadier right now. Lipoitz has started, but here’s him going up. Oh, I just 
missed his uh gear setup, guys. They are showing some of these riders setups. Uh guys, we’re doing 
a quick sip of coffee. Nature break. I’ll be right back. I want to make sure I don’t miss I want to 
see some of the gear setups. I’ll be right back. Okay, riders, we’re now into the final stretch. 
Apologize for the nature break. Had to be done there. I want to stick around. So, when 
they’re leaving the start shoot, okay,   I’m looking here now. Uh, Remco is in the start 
shoot. They are quickly showing their gear setup. Let me have a look here. Oh, okay. What is Remco 
on here? Remco’s got uh Remco’s on a TT bike, guys. Remco is on a TT bike. First rider to see 
go out. It didn’t show his gear set up. Like, I’m looking for his chain ring size. That’s what   it’s I can’t believe Remco is going on a 
TT bike. Oh my god. Oh my god. I insane insane guys. 400 people plus real time. Oscar only 
out on course two guys. Let me get checked up with the times here. Uh only through 15 seconds 
down on Matteo’s time. Wow. Roick threw at the same time as Jorgensson. Both ahead of Plop. 
So Luke Plop in third place now overall. Uh to be expected guys. Even uh Luke Plop said this. 
sequence. That’s what’s going to happen. These guys know their abilities. They’re real realistic. 
Uh Vocalon through only two seconds behind. Guys, I’m going to hang out here for a while. Uh who 
do we have here? Number 72 is Florian Lipoitz. Number 21 is Remco Avental. He is on a time trial 
bike. If Oh, you know what? I would have said no time trial bike. I would have said no time trial 
bike, guys. Uh I think it’s so steep at the end.   Maybe Remco feels he’s got so much power he’s 
just going to like obliterate the field. Uh, still asking for times on the finish here, 
guys. I’m not even keeping track of them,   so you could tell me whatever you wanted, but I 
think winning time is going to be sub 24, maybe 2330, something like that. Uh, Jeff says he’s I’m 
getting more elite every day. I got my watts per kilo up to 0.025, but that’s on a downhill 
average. Jeff, I love your humor. I love it. Got his V2 max up to five. Weights down to 400. 
Then you slam the stem. That’s right. Uh Matteo Jorgensson, guys. This is looking good for Matteo. 
Better ride than before. Loving all these numbers at the top. You can see them happening here uh in 
the top right hand side of the screen. How much   faster they are at the same checkpoints here. 
Uh well, this is relative overall how far they are above ahead or behind them here. So, let’s 
take a look here. We’re going to go back to table mode here. Jorgensson, Roick, Vocalon, Luke, Plap. 
Top four through there. Second checkpoint. It is Matteo Jorgensson. He’s only one second ahead of 
Plap here. So, with Yates being third, what does Jorgensson have left in this last stretch, which 
is brutally hard, guys? Vingo is out on course,   guys. The man himself, Pogy’s coming soon. Poggy 
lovers, rejoice. We will get to see him here soon. Jeff, I love your humor, dude. Stick around. I 
love it. We get along great in real life. Uh, Robert saying, “I’ll argue all day long that Lance 
is not a great champion.” Okay, dude. I can Yeah, I can see it both ways. Uh, Tatty slight 
delay, guys. Remember, in the start shoot now, road bike. So, only one dude was brave enough to 
take uh the time travel bike. Happens to be Reno Venipole. Either he’s going to blow them up or 
that’s going to really cost him. That’s really going to cost him. He’s only got three kilometers 
of flats to get the the benefit of the time trial   bike. Uh he’s got a team. You think they would 
have suggested it to him. Uh Felix Gaul comes through the second checkpoint. Uh 18 seconds down. 
So right now we got Jorgensson leading. Uh Luke Plap, Adam Yates. Uh I’m thinking Lipoitz will 
be No, sorry. Felix Gaul is sixth place overall. And he is through there. Enrich Mass arrives at 
the finish line. 101 down. So at the checkpoint at the final, it’s still Luke Plap in the lead. 
Tatty’s going out, guys. Tatty’s going out. He’s riding a 55 big ring, 38 small ring with a 
3411 on the back. So kind of like a slightly bigger for the flats. Nice small one for the back 
with a 34. He’s got all the gears he needs. So, either Remco made the smartest move of 
all time or it’ll be disaster for him. Uh, Adam Yates is still getting better 
than the other. That’s right. Nietze 191. Lancer’s cheating. Greg Lamond is my favorite 
American writer. Yeah, I love Greg Lamond. I wish we would have got to see more of them on 
TV, but it just wasn’t the time for it. Uh, our Finnish friend here, time trial stages only. How 
good these riders are against each other. Okay, I think I understand that. Jeff saying, I think 
Pogy takes another 30 seconds out of the lead, so   we don’t know who will win, but we do know. Okay, 
currently riding. This is Don answer. favorite uh America is still Sepkoose. Too bad Taylor Finny 
doesn’t run. I know. Taylor finished way too soon. I think he he he I think he finished his career. 
He wanted to go do art or something. Art or music. Vizma, really concentrate on yourself today and 
do your best effort today. You can do it. Come on,   Yonas. Come on. I I’d like to see Yonas do really 
well. I hate how big their helmets are. They’re so big. I’m surprised they’re not banned. Uh, 
watching Tobias Johansson here for UNOX. I hope this guy dominates it too, dude. Stay in the top 
10. Stay in the top 10. Smallest team at the top, guys. Smallest team at the top. Cous is 
phenomenal in the mountains. Jun Bas here saying Steph Curry would be the best. If he would 
enter, he would cheer him. Only joking. Uh, June, I appreciate that. Um, Nietze saying maybe 
he’ll get his chance to fight for a win in the Walt. Guys, join me for a Lvalta. Okay, 
so it looks like uh Tobias is doing good.   He’s not that far down behind Matteas. Going 
to get a time check here on Nagas. Actually, here it is. 23 seconds at the checkpoint, too. 
Tobias is hanging in there, guys. Good job. Uh, man, Unoax must be losing their minds. Ooh, 
it’s getting juicy fruit, guys. Check this out. or a certain Primos Rodri first at the 
second checkpoint. Uh at the first checkpoint, Ramco Aanapole uh riding a TT bike 10 seconds 
ahead of Matteo Jorgensson. Guys, I got to show you this here if I can find it. Uh sorry about the 
bright glare. First checkpoint though is at this hard this first section here guys is generally 
all flat through here ups and downs and then it starts climbing in this section. So Remco has used 
the benefit of the time trial bike. I think it’s going to start hurting him now though. I’m But 
you know what? I’m absolutely cheering for him. I am absolutely cheering for Remco. Uh the only 
guy to go out on a time trial. Hang on a second. Yonas is on a time trial bike, guys. Yonas is on 
a time trial bike. I’ve just noticed that Roick is too guys. It’s the camera feed. I’m not getting 
enough of it. Rajick is on a time trial bike too. So maybe for some of these guys it’s going 
to be to their benefits. Vingo goes through the first checkpoint 3 seconds down on Aventipole. 
So Yonas has had a nice start. Nice start. That remains to see what’ll happen. So at least three 
riders, Remco, Yonas, and Roick on TT bikes. Not sure if they’re full-blown. Like I’m not sure 
if there’s like a Can you do No, those look like   proper TT bikes to me. And it looks like Well, 
I think I see a derailure there. But here comes Tatty, folks. Here comes Tatty. Number one, the 
guy expected to win. So when he if he does win, guys, we all knew it. Uh Carlos Rodriguez 
finishes 50 seconds down. Luke Plap still on the hot seat for now, guys. Just watching 
that finish there. Gonna try to catch up here. Jeff talking about a bike ride. A bike big 
enough for Shaquille O’Neal. Willy’s here.   Uh time prediction for Tatty. Anyone think he 
I will I think there’ll be a few riders under 24 minutes. That’s what I said ear like 
at the very beginning today. Some people   have got times down to 2137 or something 
like that. Uh John just back in for Ben. Hopefully he can grab a few spots up on the GC 
today. I hope so, too. I really like that dude. Yep. Like Car Ed Carlo Burita here. Never said I 
didn’t like Chris Froom. I just didn’t like his   writing style. He just glared down at his power 
meter the whole time. Uh oh, A Sunday in Hell. I should watch that today. Jeff’s mentioning here 
a a really good movie. Uh you you can find it on   YouTube, guys. Uh A Sunday in Hell. I think 
it’s all about Peru. Goose is on road. Yep. Colin Whit here. Hi Colin from Hong Kong. Colin, 
thanks to have you. Glad you you’re back in the stream. We saw you earlier in the week. Tony here 
saying, “Tatty, maybe 23 minutes.” Uh, okay guys, sorry. I’m going to have to try to start catching 
up here. I’m so far behind. Always believe Kelly Gunther. Kelly Gunther is back in the stream, 
guys. 2014. Kelly, I’ve talked about you quite a bit after you mentioned your name. I believe 
it’s Kelly. This is Kelly Gunther. She started   out inline skating. Tatty is up 6 seconds at 
the first check, guys, over Remco. Uh, so Kelly Gunther here started out as an inline skater. The 
really cool inline skates with the big wheels, the fast ones, the ones that help you transition 
over to ice skating really well. Probably cycling,   too. Guys, look this lady’s story up. Uh, kind 
of blew my mind. She had such she was I think it was in a race. She had such a brutal crash. 
It said that she had a double compound fracture   in her ankle. Kelly, please fill us in. And 
I don’t I don’t want this to be too gory, guys. It said that her skate almost took 
off her other foot. like the doctors were telling Kelly uh an Olympic athlete that you’re 
probably gonna lose your foot. She didn’t lose her foot and she competed at the 2014 Olympics. 
Kelly, I love your story and I love your name. I always believe I went on about this a little while 
ago, Kelly. So, great to have you here. Uh yeah, great story, Kelly. I love it. Always believe 
that’s a good thing. coming back from. So guys, here is someone in the chat right now. Okay, 
Matteo Jorgensson coming to the finish,   guys. He’s actually across the finish. Second 
place, he lost time. He lost 5 seconds to Luke Plap. Okay guys, I got to keep an eye on this 
now. Uh Kevin Valon is 41 seconds down at the uh second checkpoint. Wow. Roick Primos, the guy 
that you all want, not all of you, some of you want to retire. Uh was 31 seconds ahead of Matteo 
at the second checkpoint. Remco on his TT bike. Yeah, either the TT bike is going to be smart 
or not so smart. Uh Tatty, no TT bike. Tatty is first through, guys, at the first checkpoint. He’s 
even ahead of Remco. He’s 5 seconds up on Remco,   six on Vingo, 15 on Jorgensson. So guys, just 
to shoot back here, Kelly is the real deal, and she knows what it takes to come back from 
a devastating injury. Uh so so glad she’s here. Yeah, I would have said road bike for this. 
Kevin Balon on a road bike. Tatty on a road   bike. With how steep this thing is, I 
don’t know why you would want a TT bike. R. Stanley saying 400 and something people 
watching but only 140 likes. Let’s crank it up,   guys. Let’s crank it up. Just hit that 
little thumbs up very quickly. That’s all you need to do. Then more people 
get to see the stream. More people   get to see the stream every day. We 
can get more uh cycling fans in here. Okay, I’m trying to catch up. Tequila’s back 
again. Tequila Nichols, greetings from France.   Good to have you here. Uh just trying to catch uh 
Krin’s got some good comments here. Riders from top teams compete the first part of the distance 
on time travel bikes and then switch to Noah,   they don’t switch to electric bikes. Come on, 
dude. Uh R Stanley, dude, like the stream, guys. Happy Friday. Thank you so much, R. 
Stanley. Super contributor to the channel.   number one in the chat right now. Uh Robert here, 
those big concrete blocks from the Fabio Caster telly crash. Yeah, I remember that too, man. 
Hit that thing. Uh wasn’t wearing a helmet,   but they were talking about it a few days ago. Uh 
the helmet wouldn’t have helped him anyways. Mo, I guess it was slightly better, but I guess he hit 
at such a speed. Uh there was no surviving that. Uh how are things? Your boy Vingo is on a type 
of TT bike too. Jay Taylor, Matio Jurgensson, nice ride. Yeah, Matteo did have a nice ride. 
Uh, Matteo Jorgensson is second overall. Luke Plap saved it by 5 seconds. Guys, Red Bull really 
looking good right now. Roick threw first at the second checkpoint. Leap was second through 
the second checkpoint. Tatty though, guys,   for the tatty lovers out there, the Pogy lovers, 
Tadpole lovers, uh, today is today’s day. Uh, he’s through first at the first checkpoint on 
a road bike though. I’m watching Felix Gaul   finish. That was a little bit of a replay 
there. Let’s see how Felix G did. He’s just through now. 24 seconds off. Puts him fifth 
place overall for Decathlon, AG2R, Leandial. Ooh. So, right now, Rajick is 38 seconds up on 
Pl. I’m trying to see where he is on course. Okay, Rajick is right there. Let’s get to the little 
tracker here, guys. Let’s see about here. That’s   Oscar only. Kevin Valon. So, 21. Oh, that’s Remco. 
And here is Yonas. Tatty’s not appearing on the tracker right now for some reason. Unless he’s 
hiding underneath Yonas here and he’s caught him.   Uh, I just don’t see Tatty’s tracker. He’s gone 
incognito. Kevin Vocalon Oscar only. Okay. Yeah, I’m too far up. 71 will be Primos right here. 
Primos is in the final shoot right now, guys. Seventh place overall tour to France. Let’s 
keep an eye on him. How good he does today. Getting fantastic here, guys. Getting fantastic. 
Everyone has started. There’s no one left to go. Tatty, current leader. Johansson comes 
through. Tobias Johansson for Yuno X comes through at 54 seconds. That should give him a 
pretty good finish today. Uh that puts him in seventh place. Fantastic ride for I’m still 
saying UNOX, they’re the winners of the tour   right now. Oo yeah, Roick having a nice ride. 
13% gradient on a TT bike up this final ramp, guys. This is insanity. Absolute insanity. I 
guess maybe they just felt more comfortable going on TTS. There was a few of them 
that took it. Uh Remco is slipping behind   uh Rodri. So Rajick, the old guy, 
is doing really well out there, guys. Remco goes through the third checkpoint. 
Sorry, second checkpoint, guys. In third place. Sip of coffee, guys. Getting really hungry here. 
Vingo is first through the second checkpoint. He’s 29 seconds up on Rodick. So, I would expect 
that and more out of Pogy. If I don’t see that out of Pogy, he’s not on. He’s not on. I know some 
people are going to be mad at me. That’s okay. I love the electric bikes. Uh, okay. So, Quinn here. The electric motor 
on today’s bike is interfering with the   tracker signal. Dude, maybe you’re right. We got 
conspiracy theorists here, folks. Uh guys, Primos Rogick, he’s through 38 seconds ahead of uh Luke 
Plap today. So, maybe it’s good he didn’t retire, right? Maybe it’s good he didn’t retire yet. 
Yonas looking pretty decent here. He’s setting good times, but we have the one, the only Tatty 
coming up next, folks. Tatty’s coming up next. So yeah, all we have for Tatty right now is that 
he’s 5 seconds behind Yonas. And for some reason, we cannot see Tatty’s transponder. Where is it? 
Is he actually on course, folks? Maybe he’s AI. We don’t know where he is. Here’s Yonas taking 
that bend off the main highway. Uh we can see here that Remco is just coming off the highway. 
Tomorrow, guys, we’ll continue down this highway   to take on the call to Parisord. Luke Plop is 
at the finish. It’s It’s hilarious watching on screen here. He’s in shorts like normal shorts, 
a t-shirt, baseball cap on bag on backwards,   and it looks like carry-on baggage with him. He’s 
just jumping out of the hot seat right now. Uh, this is fantastic. I love this, guys. 
Hope you guys enjoyed the stream. Smash me a like if you can. Primo’s doing well here. 
Okay, guys. Tatty through second checkpoint, 23 seconds ahead of the Fishmonger. Uh, out 
of Denmark, Yonas Bingo. Tatty still on fire, guys. Tatty still on fire. That’s where I’m 
thinking. I don’t know if that time trial bike was the best choice. I don’t know if it was the best 
choice at all. Yonas is having a good ride. Oscar only hits the finish. Fourth place, 46 seconds 
out of first place. Fourth place right now. Uh, this guy is dominating. Look at uh his team, 
Picnic Post. really he’s not he doesn’t have a lot of support right now. One of the uh smaller 
teams. Okay. Uh trying to catch up, guys. Uh Greg Jones. Hey Greg, I think he’s your 
first time here. Hello from Canada. Loving this   live coverage of the tour. Hey Greg, let us know 
where you’re from in Canada and when you started watching the tour to France in general. Uh when is 
Pogy ever not on? We’ll make it look flat. Yeah, Pogy’s on again today, guys. So maybe the TT 
bike wasn’t the best way to go. I think Remco could have done better on just a road bike. 
Uh like when they’re hitting those climbs. Yikes. Greg is saying Tatty is today dogak car 
or or carar. Love those Bora pinstripes. Oh yes, someone brought that up yesterday too. Robert 
brought them up. Okay, Oscar only’s in. Tatty’s 23 seconds up on Bingo right now, guys. Again. 
Okay, just getting a replay here. I think Remco was having a bit of struggles there on the 
road with his bike. Maybe he’s looking over   his right shoulder. He’s looking down at his bike, 
I think. Oh, he’s having trouble with his gears. He was just spinning out of control there. So, 
Remco’s had some kind of like moving mechanical   there. Uh shifting was not working well for 
him at all. Uh, I think Remco’s choice for the TT bike here today was not ideal. I think 
he’s probably, as Cortace would like to say,   roasted from yesterday. Let’s take a look at the 
map and see where the mystery man is. Why is Tatty a mystery? There’s There’s actually five riders 
left out there, guys. 131 is Kevin Vocalon doing a great job. Fifth place overall. Number 72, Floren 
Lipoitz, upandcoming star uh GC leader for Red Bull. Bora Hansor for sure, fourth overall. Remco 
Oven third overall. Um I don’t think he’s going to have the best time trial today. Still a good one. 
Then we got Yonas. Tatty’s somewhere here because the broom wagon’s showing up, but Tatty’s not 
showing up. Okay, I’m going to stick around here, guys. Sticking around here. Uh, looks like we 
just had I think that was Florian finish. Kevin Valon finishes 1 minute 15 down. So, good 
time trial but not elite level time trial. Uh, okay you guys, just trying to catch up 
here again. Pete Kimble, any idea on the weight difference between a tour to France road bike 
and the lightest TT setup? That I don’t know. I know they’re saying the road bikes and 
the aero road bikes are virtually the same,   but you got to think there’s considerably extra 
weight for those uh time trial extensions. Okay, watching this rider go up here. So, 
Bakalon’s through. Pagatar’s coming. How does he hold up? I can’t tell you on the live 
tracker because apparently his transponder is   not on. But with the broom wagon. So guys, this 
is what I’m looking at. The broom wagons here. Uh, Tatty’s somewhere in here, probably closing in. 
And what I’m seeing here is Yonas is making a big impact on Remco’s time. Uh, so Remco is probably 
getting it the worst out of the top GC, guys. Uh, Yonas is catching him. I also think 
that Tatty’s not very far behind Yonas. Come on, Yonas. Come on. Uh, Tatty’s 
the winner again today, guys. Uh Willie saying, “Content is incredible. You 
should do a five to 10 minute prediction video the day before each race.” I thought about 
doing that, Willie. I might do that. We’ve   got almost 600 people watching, guys. Thank 
you so much, guys. The number one thing you can do right now is just hit that little 
thumbs up button. It’s right in front of   your face. Just go click. I can’t actually 
see how it’s updating, so I have no idea. Uh Krin’s saying, “Tisso, are you for real?” Okay, 
so Krin, let me know what you’re saying there. Uh,   Remco on TT, but regular road gearing by the 
looks of it. That’s from John Manion. Uh, Willie, I glad you appreciate my content. I 
do the best I can here to keep it like fun and   real. Don’t want to be too biased. I love all the 
cyclists. Um, I love when people do well. We got uh Rohit Yadab here from India. Hey, from 
India. Really enjoying your commentary,   dude. I’m really glad you’re here. So, 
we got people watching from India, too. Okay, that’s just showing a replay of Lipoitz 
hitting the finish line here. Who’s left out   there? So, best time so far is Roger 20 2420. 
Uh, no one’s been under 23 yet. That’s coming up, folks. That is coming up. We should be seeing 
Vingo come over the finish line here right away. Uh, so yeah, the young guy finished behind 
the old-timer, the old-timer Primos Rodri, who almost won the tour to France back in 2020. 
That was only 5 years ago, guys. That was the rise of Tatty. So, Primos almost had it. Don’t worry, 
guys. Primos is fine. He’s won other grand tours. He’s got the bank account. He’s all good. He’s had 
a good career. Uh, he’s competed in other sports,   too. Remco here at 541 meters to the finish. 
Replay time. I can see by his time he’s going to be well behind Rodri. Well behind him. Uh that 
final ramp takes a long time to get up. Ooh. And looking at this, they’re almost on the final ramp. 
There’s a quick bend in the road. Vingo can see uh Aventipole ahead of him. I think Tatty’s 
probably got the same view too of Vingo. So, we’re going to hang out here guys in the chat. 
Guys, love the chat. Keep it blasting. So, India’s in the house representing India. 
Love it. Uh, Robert, could Jonas possibly   look any more dickers with that massive red 
mushroom on his head? Laughing at him. Yeah, dude. I don’t like the helmet either. Tatty’s 
wearing a normal helmet. Remco is wearing a   normal helmet. It’s showing here Remco 250 meters 
from the finish. He’s already 15 seconds behind Roger. He’s going to lose a ton of time here. Uh 
Krin saying Leo not so good but not bad. Lipo is uh third place today. He’s a young guy. He’s 
developing. Kevin Valon I think he got sixth place today. Let me just have a quick look. Kevin 
Valon 10th place today. So Kevin Valon 10th place. Uh okay. Ed Carlo. Man, it would be a heartbreak 
for Remco if he was caught by Vingo. Uh, dude, I’m seeing it happen on screen here right now. 
Vingo looks like he’s probably going to catch Vingo is out of the saddle all the way on a TT 
bike. Remco seated on the TT bike with 75 meters to go, guy. Guys, Vingo gets into the slipstream, 
smartly gets out of it, passes Remco. That’s two minutes he just took back from Remco right there. 
I’m looking at the camera right now. I’m trying   to see if Tatty’s coming. So, actually, that was 
a really good performance by Vingo. Vingo first now at 2336, guys. So, I asked earlier, will 
we see riders under 24? There we go. 2336. Uh, Tatty’s probably going to finish ahead of him. 
Tatty was 23 seconds ahead at the last check. Uh, I’d show you where he is, but miraculously his 
timer’s not out. He’s in the final shoot here,   guys. This is the final runway shoot. The 
broom wagon’s there and coming up to the finish. Tatty has a good lead on Bingo. It’s 
going to come down quickly all the way with   200 meters to go. Tatty has a 1 minute 20 second 
lead. He’s going to have at least 30 seconds on uh Vingigo by the finish. I think he’ll finish at 
least 30 seconds ahead of Vingo. And here it is, folks. He finished 36 seconds. I am looking at a 
replay, guys. It can’t come to me any quicker. So, Tatty Pagachar, the Slovenian alien, the tadpole 
finishes 36 seconds ahead of Vingo today. Now, what would have happened if Yonas wouldn’t 
have been on a time trial bike? I think that   would have been a much smaller gap. So, hands 
down, Tatty is the best cyclist out there. Uh Yonas had a lot better performance today than uh 
yesterday. Okay, still trying to catch up here, guys. Love the comments. Love all the cool 
stuff you guys are throwing in here. Hank Bohan, dude. Just saw your name here. It looks like a 
new guy, dude. 600 people here. Insane. Please   hit that like button. That really helps me 
out. Thanks again for another great uh night of coverage. Hello from Taiwan. Taiwan’s here, 
too, guys. Do I need the map behind me with the   little flags on the wall? I’m going to go 
out and get one today. Uh Greg Jones here. I started following Leam in 83, 80 to 90. Then I 
got away from cycle racing, but now I’m getting back into Israel Premier Techch. Yes, dude. 
I love them too. Greg Jones. Kind of the same   thing for me. I kind of got back in. I took a 
bit of a break. I would say early 90s because there was nothing to be found. Uh and then with 
the rise of Lance, it was on TV every day. Yeah, Vingo was doing good. I think he had a good he had 
a good ride today. That should help him with his   confidence. Uh we got she uh looks like Shein from 
Taiwan. Hello to you from Taiwan. Uh, Remco had drivetrain issues at the 2024 tour of France. 
Just watched Netflix Unchained. That’s right. He did have troubles in the time trial. I lost 
about 30 seconds, but still won it, I believe. Brendo Gasone, watching from the Philippines. 
Thanks for your live, dude. Thanks for being   here. Uh, just trying to catch up. Yeah, Vingo 
caught his minute, man. He did his twominute man, dude. Two minutes. Uh, Remco had a two-minute head 
start over him at le Yeah, it was two minutes. So, Bingo had a really good ride there. Tatty just 
that next little step up I think there. Okay, guys, predictions. Uh, do you think that 
time gap between Pogy and Vingo would have been a lot smaller if Vingo had a road bike 
there? I think the TT bike was a mistake. Uh, Greg Jones, inside Cycling, what is 
your first name? My first name is Colin.   C O L I N. Uh the Darth Vader helmet. That’s 
from David Cho. Remco. Yep. Two minutes back. He lost two minutes there. Grin here. Dork. 
Dork father. Uh guys, there’s so many comments. Uh yeah, it’s Colin Robert Greg. I believe 
his full name is Colin. His his full name   is Colin. Inside Cycling. Yeah. So guys, my name 
is Colin Emerson and my channel is called Inside Cycling World. had the channel now for wow 
in January. It’s been three years I’ve had   this channel going. Uh and it’s taken me 
this long to meet all you awesome people, legends, warriors, cycling junkies like me, 
uh to make my channel like great now. So, I love it. Thank you very much. 
Yeah, 36 second gap there, guys. Uh Greg Jones, we are strapped for Yeah, dude. 
Especially I know North America’s brutal for   coverage. It’s peacock or flow. Uh yeah, they’re 
cheering on Yonas here. Just this is an absolute replay here. That must be very disheartening 
for Remco. Uh getting passed by Yonas here. But good job by Yonas, too, right? Yeah, Uncle 
Maddie. Great day for Bora. Exactly. Uh guys, I don’t know what you think. And I keep seeing 
it. I’ve seen it all over the place right now.   Bora, Red Bull, Bora Hansor, third and fourth 
place today. Let’s take a look at the standings, guys. Uh there’s no one left on course. I got 
nothing left to show you there. So, what we’re going to do is we’re going to go to the rankings 
here. Team rankings. And what I want to do this, this is the daily ones. Yesterday, I kind of 
screwed it up and I was showing the daily ones.   We got Tatty in first place. I’m going to sit back 
cuz I’m getting my eyes blazed out here right now. I’m wondering why my eyes are so tired every day 
right now. Uh, Vingo at second at 366 seconds, Rajlick at 120, Leapowitz at 156, Luke Plap 158, 
Matteo Jorgensson at six. Good ride by Matteo. Oscar only. Great ride 206. Adam Yates, he turned 
it on today. Uh, 215. So hopefully Adam’s getting on form. Guys, we got another epic day tomorrow. 
Uh, it’s a 4:00 a.m. start for Colin here or at Inside Cycling World. Uh, 4:00 a.m. start. I 
got to get up at 3:00 a.m. So, my whole days are shifting here. Joey Jojo doesn’t even get to 
see him anymore because I’m like, “Okay, it’s 7   o’clock. I got to go to bed.” Like, it’s not that 
bad, but it’s pretty it’s almost that bad now. Uh, Lenny Martinez had a great ride. He went out 
early. Uh, got ninth place today. Felix Gaul,   strong ride for Decathlon, AGTR, Lamondial, 
10th place. Let’s jump to the GC, guys. Here we go. Tatty, he now has a 4minut 7-second 
lead over Ving Go. Okay, guys. Yeah, that may be the end of the tour right there for overall 
classification. Uh, but then we have Aventipole still in third at 7 minutes 24. Uh, Florian 
Leapitz, Young Gun, Red Bull, Bora Hans Grow, fourth place. I bet you they are thrilled with 
that. That just made Red Bull’s tour right there. And I’m sure Red Bull went into this tour, I can 
say this right now, I truly believe this. Red Bull was never thinking, “Yeah, Primos is going to 
win the tour.” They’re thinking Primos is going   to help Florian get that confidence uh that Grand 
Tour uh experience that he needs at the highest level. It’s like when I used to train sled dogs, 
guys. I take my super steady older dogs that might be a little bit 5% off the other dogs and I would 
sandwich them in with my young wild things. Those young wild dogs have no idea what they’re doing. 
They’re you put them beside your steady season   veterans. Same kind of idea here. Oscar only fifth 
place overall for team picnic postNL. Loving this. Another young gun. Uh Kevin Vlon still hanging 
really strong in sixth. Primos here he is now the veteran. Seventh place 850 back. Tobias Johansson 
loving this for uh you know X. Eighth place at the tour to France. Not even a world tour team. 
Felix Gaul, awesome too. Ninth place. Matteo Jorgensson rounding up the top 10 for Vizma. Lisa 
Bike. Going to jump back here guys so I don’t get my eyes burnt out. Wow, what a stage. I want to 
catch up with everything here too. Uh, great day for Bor. Yep. Krin, thank you. No, Karen. Guys, I 
appreciate everyone being here. Uh, I love all the comments. Good, bad, whatever, biased, it doesn’t 
matter. Uh, I do have a few little biases myself, too. Uh, cheer on your favorite cyclist. I 
like to cheer them all on. Uh, new guy here, 3D wearable. Okay, 3D wearable here. Hello from 
Boise, Idaho. Dude, you’re right below me. You’re not that far. Uh, Tatty has a well-developed 
physique for a cyclist, particularly strong core from T12. I don’t know what that means. T12. He 
also prioritizes stabilizer muscles. He is better than most finding hip pitch. Dude, when Tatty won 
a few days ago and he put his arms in the air,   I thought, “Yeah, he looks kind of jacked 
right now. He’s wellb built up top. I mean, he’s not huge. He’s, you know, he’s not like me 
or anything.” Kidding. Kidding. Uh, but he looks bigger up top than Yonas. Sterland Slingerland 
here. Hello from New Zealand. This might be the first New Zealander here. This guy gets a special 
reward. Uh, New Zealand, four stars, not six. Uh, like Australia. Angie T. Okay, I think that 
was Angie T. Oh, guys. Yep. It’s jumping. It’s jumping. Uh, Angie, thank Angie T. Thanks 
for being here. No, thank you, Angie. Uh, guys, I can’t help thank you guys enough for helping me 
do this every day. And there’s been some hardcore   OG uh inside Cycling World Fans here at the Tour 
to France, guys. Stick around. There’s a lot more coming. We got Pelonius Fantasticus. I love your 
name, dude. Love your name. Greetings from Poland. Uh, Robert saying, “Thank you, Colin. Great job. 
Kudos to your caffeine dealer. Yeah, that too. Uh, swoosh kid. Woohoo. Boro hands grow. Uh, thanks 
for the stream. Swoosh loves Borro boys. Uh, Uncle Maddie. They all started one and a half. 
Oh, okay. So, one and a half minutes parts,   guys. Okay. I thought it was two at the end. 
It was one at the beginning, then I thought they went to one and a half, and then I thought 
it was two. I’ll I’ll have to check on that. Uh yeah, Boise’s got some I That’s where 
Matteo is from, isn’t it? I think Matteo   is from Idaho. Uh he is from Idaho because I 
know a guy I ride with on Ruby inside. He’s a super strong cyclist. His name is Duke Norton. 
That’s his shout out here today, guys. Uh way   stronger than me. Uh he’s talked about times 
that he’s seen of Matteo in his local area. Uh yeah, Pogy, Poggy, Pogy. Dawn, you were 
probably closest to the time, I think.   Uh, we got Bruce Shoot here, I think. Thanks, 
Robert. Uh, watching French broadcast and you on tablet from cons. I think James St. Pog is pure 
class. Yeah, he is. Uh, he’s not overly exuberant at the end. Uh, he knows he’s a dominant rider. 
He’s pretty humble when he wins. Uh, he talk, you know, I like him. He just wins everything. We got 
Deem here. Dean Gamble West. Hello from Vancouver Island. Dude, Vancouver Island. Love it. My mom 
lives in Sydney by the sea in Victoria, the Sanish area there. Vancouver Island. Guys, if you’ve 
never been there, you better go. It’s probably the   nicest part of Canada. Uh they don’t get winters. 
Uh they just get a lot of rain in the winter time. John Shady back in the mix. John, I think 
you’re probably at work. Thanks for following   along today. Stuart Murray following along from 
Tokyo, Japan. Love the coverage, Colin. Stuart, thanks for being here, dude. Uh, again, it’s you 
dudes that are doing this. Uh, it’s so nice to have my channel just go. Uh, and I I’m going to 
keep doing more of it all the time. Uh, it’ll probably never be as big as the tour to France, 
but there’s other fantastic races out there. Love   the way the eight boys are doing things and 
Bora working well. Yeah, I’m so pumped to see Adam Yates do good today. Anne Celtier, greetings 
from the San Francisco Bay area. Ann, love it. Uh June here saying Pogy advantage will become 
bigger and bigger as days go along. Yeah,   the only way Pog is not going to win right now is 
uh what are we seeing here is if something if you get sick. That’s the only way he’s not going 
to win. Stay focused. Yeah, you’re right. No dirty tricks against you. Yeah, I hope. Yeah, 
I think the guys have all played really fair,   really safe. Again, I would have left him on 
the side of the road myself, but all those other guys said, “Yeah, well, let’s just wait for 
him.” I think they have so much respect for him. Brandon, based on times, uh, that Pogy 
got compared to earlier two times. Okay, I can’t really figure out what 
Brandon is saying there. Brandon was   just saying it’s almost impossible for one 
top world to be that much faster naturally. Okay. So, I think we got some 
stuff here about potential doping. Okay. John here saying, “Callin, for tomorrow 
morning, you need a cafe bon bon.” What is that in an It’s an espresso cup, equal amounts of 
condensed milk, double espresso, then whipped cream. First have one at my cap for mentor. Dude, 
love cap for different mentor ride. Uh I’ve never been there. It’s just really hard for us to 
get over there. where is if you’re in the UK,   what is it, an hour and a half flight? Two hours 
and you’re there. Here it’s like an overnight flight. Uh I don’t do well with uh Jonathan 
Milan talking to the UAE guy here at the end. The uh the head manager, you know, the guy that looks 
like he needs to put about 30 pounds on. Eat at least three cheeseburgers a day. He looks way 
too skinny. Interesting. Wonder why Jonathan’s talking to the UAE guy. Kind of strange. Uh 
dude, that coffee sounds fantastic. And guys, if I ever get a chance to go over there, I’d love 
to meet everyone. I’d love to have some meetups,   shake hands, have a couple coffees. Obviously, a 
lot of pints. Rasifi. Okay. He’s saying he’s the most dope rider of all time. Saying the tour 
of friends is a fraud. Okay. Uh Greg Jones, bravo leapitz, remember the name. Absolutely. 
And I think what Red Bull did was perfect this year. And again, that’s the one thing that kind of 
always gets under my skin. People saying, “Yeah,   Primus should just go retire.” Why? He’s 
in the top 10 at the Tour of France. Guys, if I said to you, “Hey, man, just show 
up tomorrow. You’re gonna be top 10.”   You would do anything to be in the top 10 of 
the tour of France. So, let Primos continue the dream. This is his lifestyle. And to 
me, he’s there to help that young guy. Uh, Uncle Matty Lipowitz is so fun to watch. I 
hope to see a crazy mountain breakaway stage when someone gains 10 minutes backs. It’s happened 
before. So, you’re saying there’s a chance,   guys. We have two HC climbs tomorrow. We’ve got 
a category one climb tomorrow. Tomorrow could be a nightmare out there for any of these top guys. 
Uh, what if Tatty decides tomorrow’s the day I’m going to have a bad day? Most of these riders have 
one really bad day at the tour to France. Uh, Jess Gold. Okay, Jess Gold’s asking here, “Did you ever 
do the ID rod?” No, I never did the ID rod myself. My friend Rob Carse, I think he lives in British 
Columbia now. Uh he was a geologist as well. He did the IDID rod in 96, finished it, scratched 
in ’98, and I think he scratched in 2000 as well. He was the first guy from this part of the 
world uh to do the Ididar rod way back when. So I went there with him. I did all the training 
of his team with him. Every night after work,   I’d go to his property way out in the middle 
of nowhere. We’d load dogs up. We train till 11:00 at night. I race home, drag myself to work 
in the morning. No wonder I had no much no time for bike riding. I’d love to do some I did rod 
coverage. I’m thinking I might do some up north uh dog sled racing this year because I still 
know some people out there. Not many of them, but I know dog racing. I know how to handle 
a dog. If I saw out of control team going by, I know how to jet get on that sled without 
killing myself. I know how to handle dogs. Uh Rob s great coverage and excellent chat to 
you. Enjoying this form from Thailand. Okay,   Rob, I didn’t know you were from Thailand. Orlando 
Galan following from Whoa, Colombia. Dude, thank you so much for being here. So, we have riders 
from all over the world watching. I absolutely   love this. Pogy is like uh Novak of tennis. 
Yeah. Yeah. If he wants to, he can probably still be riding in 10 years from now. Just see 
how long he lasts. Uh, it’s either going to be   a few more years or another 10. Jonathan Milan, 
congratulating Tatty. Full cool down, guys. It’s so funny watching these guys. I do a hard ride, 
which is like a baby ride for these guys. The   second I’m done, I jump off my bike. These guys 
do a full cool down. That’s the difference between the pros and the amateur hours like me. Uh, Pogy 
interview. Okay, so thank you, Robert. You guys are seeing stuff that I haven’t had a chance to 
look at yet. saying pogy interview. Big decision   to go with the road bike. Did the calculations 
and finally decided to be more comfortable. Went without a radio today. Oh, nice. Saw he was 
good at the first time check and knew. Yeah, I’m I don’t think the time travel bike was the 
right one. This is the Pogy area. His dynasty. Cuba Libres back again. Favorite tour is Merks 
1969. I got to get into that stuff. Uh I think we got a Greek guy from Greece here. Greetings from 
the salon Nikki Thealo Nikki Greece. Dude, I’m sorry if I destroyed that. His name is Hapeditus 
Demetrios. Dude, thank you for being here. Uh Jun saying Pogy has a very good rhythm if 
you watch him carefully. Respect all. Yeah, they will. I guess he’s saying they will 
respect him or they will be uh they will face humility from him as they play dirty tricks. 
I don’t think anyone’s played dirty tricks yet,   but I know what you’re saying. Silent owl scribe 
saying Tatty Pogar one dude. Silent Alcre another new guy here. So Silent Owl, uh the winner 
today was Tatty. Vingo was second. Roick third. Okay, dude. I 3D wearable here. I thought you 
were talking to something. Whenever I hear T this,   I think it’s something to do with the spine. 
Uh T12 is where the hip flexor origin is located in the lumbar region of the back. 
Okay, we’re getting very medical here. So, something about Tatty. He’s got really good T12. 
I think that’s who you were talking about there.   Uh please correct me if I just kind of Anna’s 
back again from the Niagara region. Uh another awesome day of listening to your stream. Thank 
you. See you tomorrow. Shout out to Jojo and   the behind the scenes sports. Yeah, she’s 
always back there supporting me, guys. Uh, John Manion. Okay, John, I don’t want to 
I don’t want to ruin this. Conamera, west coast of Ireland. Amazing cycling. The West is the 
best, baby. That’s what we say out here in Canada,   too. The West is the best. No one get mad at 
me out east. Please don’t get mad at me. Uh, I’m not really one of those guys. It’s like, oh, 
I’m Canadian, so I I’m in the best country in   the world. Uh, wherever you live is probably the 
best place in the world. That’s you. Uh, but yeah, I like everything. Oh, this dude again, name is 
currently unavailable. He was here yesterday. Uh, did anyone miss the time cut? Milan, I don’t 
think so. Uh, I think they said Tatty had to finish in 22 minutes and 30 something seconds. 
Uh, and he finished at 23 flat. That was what I saw earlier today. Uh, I will, guys, I 
spend two to three hours after this trying   to figure things out afterwards. Cuba Libra 
probably can win with a scooter. I’m sure. Uh Krin here saying, “Sir, you are the nicest 
man in H.” This guy, are you talking about me, bro? Are you talking to me? Uh Krin, if you are 
referring to me, I appreciate that a lot. Thank   you very much. Hope to see you again tomorrow. 
Guys, we have a banger tomorrow. I do want to show that quickly here. Uh absolute banger tomorrow. 
Let’s take a look at tomorrow here. And I really want to get through the chat, guys. I hate not 
talking to people that are here. Stage 13 POW to Luchon Superb Baners. And again, guys, we’re 
riding some of the same roads we rode today. Let’s just look at the profile. Uh we actually passed 
by the Ottoint Point. The sprint point is where stage 12 kind of came on to the climbs of the 
Caldor. We’re going to pass right by that. We travel down a small segment of the same road. 
We take on the uh the awesome call to Malay, the original high alpine pass first climbed 
in 1910 at the tour to France. 19 km long at 7.4%. Things might get shaken up there, guys. 
They might get shaken up there. Special shout out to Steven Cycles. He helped me make a flight 
simulator video of the call to term. He’s in the background doing all the flight simulation stuff 
for me and I added a full audio commentary for it.   It’s buried somewhere in the channel, guys. Then 
a few weeks later after that, me and him rode the call to term together. And when I say me and him 
rode together, I mean he waited for me the whole   way. Uh the more videos I do, the less the less 
my cycling it gets worse and worse is what I’m trying to say. We take on the call to ask span 
category 2. We take on the parry sword. Dude, the parry sword, we were on it this morning. We 
were at the start of the parry sword. That time trial is the lowermost flanks of the parisord. We 
just turned off to go to the parags, the airport there. Uh continue up the road where they turned 
off. That’s the parisord. We’ll be coming past   that road again. We descend again. Uh over the 
top is the town of uh I think it’s just called Baner Dash. Yeah, it is there. We climb up the HC, 
the ORS category to the uh Super Baners ski hill. Uh yeah, guys, amazing day. Amazing day. Going to 
get through this all guys. I got to get through this all for you. I would like to see the kitchen 
flooring that cost Yonas the tour. Dude, I know, right? Uh, perhaps they should have a bicycling 
event. Oh, yeah. GC time plus time to install for Yeah, Tatty, you may be the best cyclist in the 
world. Cyclist in the world, but how good is your uh laminate installation times? We could do that, 
too. Uh, Crrenain Electric, Lipawitz, and Only are the the breakout riders of this tour. Sad to 
see Bingum was a one-h hit wonder. Uh, yeah, Bingham hasn’t been on fire this year. There are 
some stages coming up that may have Bing written   on him. Uh, he did win three stages last year. He 
was abs he just peaked at the right time. Uh, I’m really liking the Uno X guy as well. Like, he’s 
on the smallest team with the smallest budget. Uh, top eight. He’s in eighth place right now in 
the GC. Uh Peter here saying Jonas is a standout rider. The Tur of to France clearly second best in 
the field uh versus a generational best rider in today. Uh why would he or Vizma pull the plug on 
racing at the Tur of France since No. Yeah. I mean Yonas Vingo is basically the second best rider in 
the world. Uh you can look at the times. Jonas had almost a minute. He had like 50 seconds on pretty 
much Roick who’s known to be an incredible time trial list. Yeah. Seeing riders go by here. Big 
ring, small ring on the front. Okay, guys. Trying to get through this. I see Willy’s here again. 
Uh oh. Wow, guys. So much stuff going on here. This is crazy. Do you think Lipitz has improved 
at climbing? You think he could beat Jonas? Uh, I think Lipoitz is on the way to the top here right 
now. I think Leapowitz can easily get a podium   position with the help of Primos. And I I honestly 
believe I think Primos is probably a mature enough dude who’s done enough sporting events that he 
knows he’s here to help Lipoitz set him up for the future. Obviously, if he gets a chance, it’s 
always hard when you have two leaders. Uh just gold. Cool. Would love to watch some dog racing. 
Subscribe. Thanks, dude. Thank you so much. Yeah, I’m thinking about going out. So, there’s a race 
in Saskatchewan called the uh Oh, I can’t can’t even remember the I think it’s called the Northern 
Lights Challenge now. It’s one of the first   distance races I done did. Starts north of Prince 
Albert, goes out to Lange. If you’ve ever been there, guys, that’s the middle of nowhere. That’s 
like the end of the world. Then it takes you out   onto the frozen lakes. I still have all the proper 
winter gear. jump in the car, take the cameras, get out there, find some good cell service, 
and do live on stream locations. On location live streams, uh 3D wearable. This guy knows a lot 
about uh he must be like a physiootherapist. The correct length and tension of the hip flexors is 
key to get up on top of the pedal stroke. Okay, good to know. Yep, Stephen here. He loves Oscar 
only. Fifth place. Is that what he is right now? Uh yeah, Oscar only, fifth 
overall at the tour to France. Uh Don’s talking about how his friends thought 
he was funny after doing uh long rides. Yeah,   I think if you don’t ride bikes, you don’t really 
know what how obsessive it can get. John Manion, cheers, Colin. Thanks in chat tomorrow. 
Uh what does it say? and Gaelic earbu. Okay. Uh I guess see me tomorrow. 3D wearable saying you can’t push a rope. 
I’ve always said that about sled dogs too. Can’t push a rope. Holly here saying would love 
to watch your ID rug coverage. Yes, please. Guys, that I think that might be easy to do. Uh I still 
know the names. The CVS, uh the Mackey’s, you know. Remember Lance Mackey? Unfortunately, he’s 
passed away. The CVS are like basically a mushing dynasty. Uh I think it’s like the grandfather’s 
one, the father’s one, that would be Mitch. Uh one of the sons is one that would be Dallas CV. 
And I think there’s another uh son racing now,   too. Lots of great racing guys. The Yukon Quest 
is another one. I’ve watched that stuff for years. Stephen saying Ramco won’t finish. 
That’s what I think so too. I think   he’s got to watch for Lipoitz and Oscar 
only coming up. I think Remco is very tired right now. Uh might be realizing 
that the tour to France is not his thing. Uh I’m going to say I would say okay Stephen’s 
asking a question here. So Lipo, Roick or Only for third. I would have to say Leoitz and that’s 
only and I know you love Oscar only. I do too. uh because Leo has got the support from 
Roick whereas Oscar only he just needs a team built for him. Uh they need to rebuild 
that team and uh get more GC domestics for him. Uh yeah, haters going to hate. Folks don’t 
understand what it means for a person to have a V2 max of 90 plus. So they all think it’s 
doping. That’s correct, dude. And like I was   saying before, you could be a normal dude like me, 
train your life away, and never get your V2 max up to 50 because you can’t train it up to 90. It’s 
not possible. Uh it’s genetically in your body. So the reality is these guys are meant to be cyclist 
from the day they’re born. They have a gift that   we don’t have. Uh it’s not like being tall and 
basketball. Uh I I guess that is a little bit, but they’re built different inside. uh they have 
a genetic ability that allows them to absorb oxygen better into the system and they don’t 
get tired. We get tired. We have to quit. Uh 3D wearable. We use our 3D wear. I am used 
to track T12. Okay. So, it’s some kind of tracking device. Okay. I see what you’re saying 
to like the power stroke of the pedal. Battle for third is the most interesting thing left on this 
tour. for barring some dramatic events. Uh yeah,   I can see that right now. Battle for 
third is really good good right now. Uh guys, still almost 300 people 
here. Insane. Nice day for 13th day stage commentating, sir. Keep up the 
good work without biased comments. Yeah,   dude. Try my best. God bless you. Yeah, 
guys, I look at all the cyclists. Uh I love them all. I would love to meet 
any of these cyclists out there.   Uh, I’m not a hater on any of them. Just seeing 
it how I see it. I think like I think that was a horrible decision by Remco’s team to send him on 
the TT bike. I mean, it worked for Yonas, but I think Yonas could have stayed closer to Tatt there 
if he was on a road bike. That’s just my thoughts. Robert here. I feel some folks felt so betrayed 
by the Lancer that they now refuse to believe in   outstanding athletic performances. Lance giveth, 
then he tookth away. Yeah, 100 percent agree, Robert. I feel that way sometimes, too. 
I’m just being honest. Sometimes I’m like,   what is that real? It’s the way 
it is. ML saying Tat is too good. Okay. 3D wearable. 3D Wearable’s really into 
the look of Tad. Look at his body at the body size from the ribs down. Okay. Yes, Julius 
Caesar. I am the mushing jellers. I I mushed I ran dogs for over We call it running 
dogs. Uh that’s what I was. People say,   “What’s your hobby? I run dogs.” And they’re 
like, “What do you mean?” Well, you know, like dog mushing. I just hate saying dog mushing. 
Uh that’s what everyone else says. It’s mushing. You never say mush. Mush comes from the word 
mush, which means to go. It’s a French word. Uh Steven Cycles here. Check out Rohe Brand. 
That’s our good buddy Eddie Rice. Uh yeah. So, it’s a cycling brand. He is in Ireland, 
guys. So, check out uh Rohe Brandon. Okay, Brandon. Okay, I finally understand. What I 
was saying is I plugged those numbers into an   AI bot and it said these times show possible 
performance enhancement. Okay, I understand. Two more stages until rest day number 
two. Yeah, it seems really strange,   guys, at this time. I’m only going 5 
days. That first 10 days I was like, “Wow.” And I look back and I and 
I’ve even said to myself like,   “Wow, I can’t believe you did that.” Uh, but I 
did. I’ve never done that many days straight. Yep. No doubt. P. Uh, I would say Tatty’s power, 
his performances are that much better. But like what if he has a 100 V2 max? It’s just and and 
that has happened before. I think it was some young dude. I think I mentioned it yesterday in 
Norway had like 103 V2 max did take up cycling but just never went to the top. I think he maybe 
I don’t know maybe he got married. Maybe he   decided to go to school and never became a great 
cyclist. Almost caught up guys. Uh looks like TL here saying the inner ears were my favorites. 
What a beast. Yeah, he was like time he would   just win every time trial. just smash people 
like 10 12 minutes on like a 60 70k time trial. Uh, okay. I think you’re talking about the 
diaphragm 3. Most people don’t realize that they’re deep. Oh, the diaphragm attaches about T12 
and your diaphragm is how you get air. Yeah. When you’re crunched up, you you have a hard time 
breathing. Don Sior. Lance got greedy after his third Turner of France win. I think he started 
juicing after that regardless. Still a monumental. Yeah, that’s how I look at it, too. Uh Lance 
at the time, loved him. Found out he was doping and when Lance was winning, I was suspect. I will 
tell you that. Uh after he was done, I liked him even more. Uh tried to watch his podcast a few 
days ago. Too much ads. I was kind of out. Uh, but I still have respect for him. No, 3D. You got 
it. Your diaphragm. It’s just spell auto correct,   whatever it is there. Wow, guys. What a stage. 
This has been awesome. Coming up on five hours again, guys. I’m going to be I’m really hoping to 
see some crazy numbers at the end there. I’m like   the day I get over 60,000 views in one video. Uh, 
yeah, he came out on Oprah, like the lies that he lived behind. And I guess the only thing that 
made me not like Lance at the end was the fact how hard he was on people that questioned him. Uh 
there’s a cyclist. There was a couple in the tour back then. I think one guy’s last name. I think 
his name is like Kristoff Balon. I think he wrote   a book about it. Lance would go up to him every 
day and basically threaten him. He would threaten him every stage. And basically they kind of like 
threatened him out of being a pro cyclist. So I am not cool with that at all. That’s total bullying. 
That’s all it is. I always wonder I thought about this yesterday if um Lance has ever talked to that 
guy. There was a couple of them that were trying to ride totally clean, but it’s impossible. Uh I 
was talking to some other dudes yesterday. Here we are 30 years later after the hotcom yesterday, 
29 years later, and there’s riders from that era that are still faster than Tatty. Uh, with all the 
developments in tech and training and nutrition and body monitoring and faster wheels and faster 
chains and faster derailers, electronic shifting, lighter bikes, faster shifting bikes, that EPO 
from the past was so powerful that everyone had to do it if you wanted to have a chance of 
having a career. And that’s why they did it. Uh, okay. Just seen D. They call him Lance Arms 
AdSrong in his P. Oh, okay. Dawn. Yeah, I tried to watch I think I’ve tried to watch two 
now and it’s it’s too much. I mean, I hate to say   that because I still really like the guy and I 
and I don’t want to knock someone else’s stuff, but I’m just like he’s just looking at a screen 
reading an ad. I don’t like it. Brandon uh Brandon just was curious what AA would say key say 
in those differences. However, I also believe in   V2 maxes and his lightweight and power per kilo 
output, but AO said it’s suspicious. Uh Lance used during my recent days. I guess he’d have to 
figure out in the AI how you calculate the V2 max   in there and power output. Like maybe he’s just 5% 
better. Uh maybe Yonas’s V2 max is 95 and Tatty’s is 98. Uh it could be just as simple as that. 
3D, thank you for your work, dude. Thanks for explaining that stuff to me. It’s kind of a bit 
above and beyond now. Hope you come back tomorrow. Uh thank you for reading my post. I started the 
world’s final online three. Okay. I’m not sure. I started the world’s final three online. Okay, 
I’m misunderstanding what you’re writing there.   probably be like a typo. Uh, Lance was trying 
every adventure he could even back then when he was a teenager. He never had a V2 max that 
suggest he could win a Grand Tour. That’s right. They say Lance is AR Lance Armstrong’s V2 max. 
Great athlete. He was a triathlete first. Uh, his V2 was supposedly tested at 85. That’s why 
Greg Lamont has always said there’s something funny going on here. Uh, it’s physical limitations 
based on your V2 max. You can only absorb so much oxygen into your body and that’s what stops you 
from fatiguing. Once I get through these chats, you guys, I’m going to have to jump off, 
start my normal day up. But yeah, Robert,   you’re completely right about that. TLLL, dude. I 
think you’re going to I haven’t read your comment, but I think you’re going to say what I’m 
thinking for me with Lance Armstrong is   what he did to people and with what 
he did to Lamont. If he just doped, maybe I could look by. But people killed himself 
because, okay, I don’t know about anything about that and so many other cycling careers. I agree 
with that. He bullied people. He threatened people uh because he was doing everything to hide the 
drug use. Uh he directly threatened Greg Lamont just like that’s how competitive he was. 
He would go to any degree to be number one. a brand. I never used anything but I never knew 
but I knew even when I raced as a junior and   placed up with natural races with top who were 
supposedly on steroids. Yeah, it happens guys. I’ve heard about Grand Fondo races. Uh there was 
just one some podcast I listen to 182 riders were in the race. They got word that their testing were 
there and like 52 guys m 50ome guys just magically quit the race. That’s at an amateur level. 
It was like like an amateur fast Grand Fondo. Oh, okay. 3D wearable here, dude. I’m going 
to look you up. I started the world’s first   bike fitting online in 1999. Line of pole 
is everything. Okay, dude. I’m going to check that out. Come back tomorrow and we’ll 
talk more about this. Still mad about how he   treated uh Betty Betsy Andreo. Exactly. I 
remember all that, too. Frankie and Betsy. Don, I just fast forward 10 minutes on 
his podcast. Still a good show. We do   the move. Yep. Yeah, you just got to get 
through that. And Brandon only here. It’s a huge power output difference over the race. AI 
explained. Yeah, dude. I don’t know enough about it. Uh there’ll always be speculations 
when someone’s so dominant. Uh maybe, who knows? Maybe we’ll find out more in the 
future, but for now, we it is what it is.   Uh, we’ll go from there, guys. 10 after 5. We’ve 
been doing this five hours. Uh, I’m going to start my day. I’m going to do my bike ride. I’m 
going to get prepped for tomorrow. 3D saying, “I have worked with many of the best TT racers 
in the world.” Dude, I’d love to know more.   Love to know more. Uh, I know it’s not really 
super cool to name drop, but dude, name drop. Floyd Landis father-in-law, David Wit. 
Oh, okay. Wow, I didn’t know about that. Yeah, guys, they’re all going to bend the rules 
a bit. Every team out here is going to look at   it and go, “Okay, how close can we get to the 
weight limit? How can we do this?” Uh, this has been going on for years and years and years. I 
don’t want to say anyone’s cheating. I don’t want   to know about it. Uh, do I suspect it? Sometimes I 
do. Uh, Pogy now has the polka dot jersey as well, guys. 37 points. Lenny Martinez 27. Yonas at 
27. Michael Woods in fourth with 22 points. Krin here, Krin Kokos is saying, “Tatty is on 
pure sugar and water.” Yeah, bread and water   all the way. Bread and water all the way, folks. 
Uh, I have no idea, guys. I’m just here to have fun and I’m glad you uh like it, too. So, guys, 
I’m going to jump off here now. I appreciate   everyone being here, guys. Tomorrow’s a super 
early start wherever you are in the world. It’s 4:00 a.m. for me, Mountain Standard Time. Uh that 
means I’m getting up at 3:00 a.m. I need that hour to get up uh to have the coffees, to have the uh 
Pop-Tarts. I eat terrible. It’s just how I do. and