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After 3 days in the high Pyrenees and an all out climbing assault, we leave the mountains and are headed to Carcassonne. Looking at the profile one might think it is for the Sprinters, but the Cat 2 lump only 50km from the finish will probably prevent that. The first hour of this stage will be an all out war of repeated breakaway attempts and the sprint teams trying to control the peloton until the first Sprint point at 60km. Once we pass there we will see even more attacks as teams hungry for a win go on the hunt for the breakaway win. This will be a ring a ding dong dandy! And the Ventoux is right after the rest day, the last week is brutal. The Tour is not over yet. @LeTourDeFrance
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STAGE 15 PREVIEW
🌄 Tour de France 2025 – Stage 15 Preview**
📍 *Muret → Carcassonne*
📅 *Sunday, July 20, 2025*
📏 *169.3 km | ~2,400 m elevation gain*
**🔍 Route Overview**
A lumpy transitional stage with rolling climbs and a fast finale. One last chance before the rest day.
**Key Climbs:**
* Côte de Saint-Ferréol – 3 km @ 7% (Cat 3)
* Côte de Sorèze – 6.2 km @ 5.5% (Cat 3)
* Pas du Sant – 2.9 km @ 10% (Cat 2)
Final 30 km: downhill into a flat run-in to Carcassonne. Could go to a break or a powerful sprinter.
**⚔️ Tactical Outlook**
* **Breakaway opportunity**: punchy riders and rouleurs will go for it.
* **Crosswinds possible**: peloton splits could happen on open roads.
* GC contenders will likely conserve energy before the rest day.
* A **versatile sprinter** like Wout van Aert may survive the hills and contest the win.
**🏆 Riders to Watch**
* **Wout van Aert** – big favorite for this terrain.
* **Mathieu van der Poel**, **Lutsenko**, **Quinn Simmons** – breakaway threats.
* **Jonathan Milan**, **Tim Merlier** – can hang on and sprint if it’s controlled.
**⏱️ Schedule**
* **Start**: ~13:20 CEST in Muret
* **Finish**: ~17:08 CEST in Carcassonne
* Expect fireworks before the rest day!
**🎯 What to Watch**
✅ Will a breakaway survive the climbs and chaos?
✅ Can Van Aert handle the gradients and sprint from a reduced group?
✅ Will GC teams play it safe or go for bonus seconds?
✅ Will the wind play a role?
**📣 Question of the Day:**
Will it be a breakaway win or a power sprinter like Wout van Aert taking the stage in Carcassonne?
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Good morning everyone. Sunday morning here folks.
How is everyone doing today? I’m tired. Okay guys, stage 15. Looking at my green screen back there,
over here. There. I don’t like all that weird pixelation stuff. I’m going to change it all up,
guys. Yesterday, uh, and I just noticed here too, got a really short neutralized start
today. I’m really liking that today. Uh some of these 10 15 km starts uh they seem to
drag on forever, don’t they? Let’s get into it, folks. Uh GC after stage 14 after the uh assault
of uh the Super Baner Ski Station, Tatty in first, Yonas in second, Florian Lipoitz in third,
Oscar only fourth. Wow, team picnic. Uh Kevin Valon still in fifth place. Well, he moved back
up to fifth. Uh he was third early in the tour. Uh Primos sixth place. I’m I’m looking at Primos
here. I wonder if Primos can move up. He’s gonna be have he’s gonna have a fight for fifth place
for sure and then I’m sure he’s going for fourth. Could we see Red Bull, Bora, Hans Growa,
three and four uh in the GC. Unfortunately, we lost Remco yesterday. I do want to see if we
can show you guys anything here. I know the is total crackdown of the tour right now. Uh, what
can we do? Is this a short one or a long one? I don’t even know. Uh, well, looks like a short one
here. This is from yesterday, guys. Team radio. So, everyone was talking about going to the
break yesterday. There was early attacks on the break yesterday. Look at this. Total G’s. We
believe in ours. This is where I watch him slap. See the director there kind of he didn’t show it
but the director kind of tapped his hand and he kind of hit the door like sorry dude like almost
like a hand clap a handshake like at that point I knew he was done. Lenny Martinez on the attack
for a good majority of the day and then we saw uh time and Arisman come to the front winning
his uh stage of the tour of France yesterday. I did see afterwards Tatty said he had nothing left.
He did not have anything left for a counterattack uh to take this stage win. So here we’re going
to look at this here too while we’re just getting ready here guys. Uh this is timing at the end of
the stage yesterday. He’s a Dutch rider. Always got to make sure these are turned down. I think
my master volume’s down anyways. Yeah, guys. So home late last night. I think we walked in the
door. I think it was like 11:47 or something. So, had did the big stage yesterday. What a fantastic
stage that was. Everyone, just let me know what you thought of the stage yesterday. Um, I’ve
already got bike terra set up again for today. Just watching the tutor riders go out here.
Uh, wonder for our steak dinner. I thought we’d be home around 9:00. We didn’t leave there
till 10:30. It was pouring rain. Uh, you know, it’s the summer time, so you just have like
whatever it is you’re going out for supper on, you don’t have a jacket. So, uh, yeah, I
got soaked before I even got the car. Uh, got home. Joey just absolutely cratered. I think
I sat up for 15 minutes and here we go again, folks. Here we go again. Yeah, look at Tatty
here. Great champion. Comes over, congratulates him. Tatty even said himself he was, I just did
not have the ability to bring him back today. So, uh, guys, people get tired at the tour.
People are getting tired at the tour. Uh, we’ve still got one more rest day to go. Let’s
take a look at this here. I do want to see what’s going on with the stream. Uh, I’ve got that
all set up for you. We’re going to do that. Oh, yeah. I haven’t set up
this yet. Give me one second, guys. You think I’d know how to do this by now.
You would think I would fully understand this, guys. Thanks for uh all the support in the stream
yesterday. Uh the channel’s just growing, growing, guys. Uh I think I’m 200 less than 200 subscribers
away from hitting 30,000. So pretty excited about that. Uh it’s the views and it’s the likes.
That’s what’s makes that’s what makes the channel, guys. Let’s get this volume turned down here so
I don’t have to listen to myself. There we go. 1.6 km start. We might actually be there already.
Let me just get this all hooked up. We’re going to skip through that. Get the live chat going,
guys. And we’re set. I think we’re going to have another banger of a stage, guys. Uh love all you
riders that are up early. Uh tour to France fans, cycling fans, uh French fans, maybe
I should say France fans in general. Uh let’s take a look at the course today. Here we
go, folks. Uh we actually started just southwest of Tuloo again. So, it’s kind of really cool
to go back and do all the stuff for me to see where we’re starting every day. Uh Dawn here’s
again. We lost Remco and uh Skeleos yesterday. Yeah. So, Skeleos I saw later on the day, remember
I said yesterday it looks like they bandaged him on the fly over top of his jersey. They thought
he had some kind of internal bleeding in his arm, like the like an artery or a vein cut in there.
Uh guys, it looks like a sprint profile. It’s not. Looks like a sprint file, but it’s not.
Uh profile. It’s not. Let’s take a look here. Uh Muret Mure to Carcasson. Uh it is technically
called a hilly stage. This is not a flat stage. 169.3 km. 2400 meters of elevation. Guys, the
elevation that they’re doing every day is just staggering to me. I think the biggest week I ever
had on my bike was maybe eight or 9,000 meters. That’s a week. They did 5,000 yesterday. They’re
doing 2400 today. So, here’s our stage today, guys. Uh take a look at it. Sprint point comes at
60 uh kilometers. This will go off so fast today. Um I need to get this one live. kind of takes me
different routes every day stage. This guy here, we’re going live. Uh I bet you it’s just taken
off. It It has just taken off now. So, it looks like I’m about 700 meters behind. I would imagine
that this is going to explode from the get- go. Probably just going to go off. 26°. Uh yesterday
we were like 14 15 degrees, even colder up top. So taking a look at the profile here, you can
see we got our sprint point at 60 kilometers in. Let’s have a look. Uh does it give us more
details here? Yeah, it’s 60 km in the sprint teams. Jonathan Milan, Tim Merier, Bingham is
desperate for a win now. Uh I think he has really one chance after this. Next week guys, third week
of the tour is going to be very important. Uh, I’m sitting here at uh, what time is it, guys?
It feels like I slept in today. It’s 5:31 in the morning. It ain’t none of those four o’clocks.
I didn’t take a look. I think the von 2 day. I think it’s a 4:00 a.m. start. So, I’m going to
have to really get my days figured out here, folks. Um, yeah, we’ve already got attacks, folks.
We already have a tax. It’s going to be hellbent all the way to the sprint points. It’s going to
be breakaway teams. It’s going to be sprint teams. Uh I think eventually the sprint teams will end up
controlling it. Uh I’m just going to read the chat to make sure um everything’s coming through here,
guys. Guys, any of you OG uh supporters here, uh people that like to hang out with me, guys, I
feel like some of you are like totally part of the crew. Some of you guys are a like real members
of the Inside Cycling World family. Yeah. And it’s just off the rip. Moros Schmidt, Unoex on the
front. Uh, I think somewhere down the roads, guys, if this gets bigger, I’m probably gonna say I’d
like a couple of you to be like a moderator here, maybe just to keep an eye on the chat for me.
Uh, I do like doing it myself, but just in case, you know. Um, I love the uh the suggestions for
polls. Yeah. So, Remco is out, Skeleos is out. Uh Brian Kakard didn’t start and I think there was
one other. I think there was one other yesterday. Let’s take a look. I did look uh yesterday. I
think before we went out for supper. Let’s look at the withdrawals yesterday. We lost four riders
yesterday. I believe ah there it is here. Steph Crass. I remember seeing him sign on the side
of the road. Uh looks like he was in tears and he did withdraw. Brian Kakard didn’t start with
that fractured bone in his hand. Uh Remco started the tormallay and just said basically f that I
am not doing that. Uh and pulled out 2 km in. Now everything I’ve seen about Remco here uh
basically he said one day okay one day off the bike one bad day is okay. Two bad days. Three bad
days I’m out. Uh, I saw Tatty talking afterwards today, talking about it afterwards, basically
saying, he goes, “You never know when you get on the bike how you’re going to feel. You get on the
bike and you just, you know, you can’t do it.” Um, another thing to bring up yesterday, brakes
going off, guys. Brakes going off here. Uh, Kofidis Rider, uh, Decathlon and Bin Victorious
are on the front pushing hard right now, guys. Let’s take a little look at our map. Here’s
the overall profile. Uh starting just southwest of Tulus, southwest of Tulus, heading in an easterly
direction. 60 km. We get our first sprint. The last part of the stage. I will fire back here
guys just to give you that route again. I want to see the route profile again. Uh be right into
Carcasson. Carcasson is the walled city. Uh man, it’s a place I want to see. So it looks like Oh,
wow. But look at this last let’s say this last 10 km here is like basically flat at a carcasson
but you got these lumps and it’s this lump here the past ducusant uh it’s only 3 km but it’s
10%. The sprinters are not getting over that in the front group. There’s no way unless they
get on a break in the valley system in between. Uh we’ve got the Kote Santol Cat 3, the Kot Sz cat
3. Uh then we got the cat 2. just a series of them over 60 kilometers. My guess breakaway day. I’m
thinking we’re going to have a breakaway. I think it’s going to be uh crazy out there. Let’s get
to the race, folks. Let’s get to the race. Uh so, everyone here, let me know how you’re doing today,
how you found the channel. Um going to catch up with Dawn. Don’s always in the mix. Number one
already. Saw bike terror and your first first thing this morning. Bike terra, so good to see
you. Uh hopefully today was able to get a good rest last night to charge. Yeah, you know, Don
uh he looked tired after that stage yesterday. Just seeing who’s on the front here. Is that
uh I can’t tell who that is on the front. So, Group is on the front. Archa’s got riders up
there. I think that’s a Vismo rider trying to go with them, too. I don’t know who that is
right now. Could be a Vismo. Barto is there. Um, and Pogy actually has a cold right now. Now,
he’s not hacking up a lung. He’s not dying, but he said he had troubles breathing
yesterday. Uh, I heard him clearing his throat a few times. Uh, he just sounds congested
to me. So, those are the kinds of things that he has to worry about. Uh, you know, when
you wake up one day and you’re like, “Oh, man. I just feel like garbage today. What
happened?” It just comes out of nowhere. He might be going through that. Um, I’m sitting
here this morning, guys. Like I said, it’s uh 5:36 in the morning. I wake up just over an hour
ago. Well, an hour and a half ago, and I’m like, you know what? I still think the tour is on. I
do not think the tour is over yet. Uh, I don’t think UAE has it in the bag yet. We’ve still got
a week to go. And the third week has been in the past. And guys, I’m only talking about the past.
I’m not talking about this year, but in the past, that’s when Yonas has done better. Uh we have
three massive stages coming up. So today is going to be our breakaway. Uh anyone that hasn’t won
anything is going to want to get into it because now they’re in panic mode. Like, wow, we have one
rest day left. And they know what’s coming next week. Maybe if you haven’t looked at the route
guide yet, uh, next week is the toughest week of this year’s tour. So, just going to hit it here.
Upgrade your mind after 40. Good morning to you. Uh, Don, you are correct. Tatty is not an alien,
nor is he a robot. He’s a human, guys. And he was really complimentary. Uh, looks like we got an
EF rider trying to go off the front here, guys. Uh Neielson Powellis who’s been pretty quiet this
tour. Is he in this number one group here? Let’s slide this down. Have a look. It is Neielson
Powace off the front guys. Uh one of the riders that’s probably done the least for me so far this
year at this tour. Uh used to seeing his name more. They’ve given him 27 seconds already. I’m
what I’m seeing here on screen right now. What I’m looking at there, uh I don’t think it’s 27, but
it looks like it’s opening up fast. Maybe they’re letting one rider go. Got some team radio going
on here. It’s Arca B&B hotels. I didn’t really pay attention, but any were on the home trainers
group. Uh, at any rate, let’s face it, every team wants to be at the front except maybe UAE. So,
that’s what our KB&B is saying to their boys. So, I think what they’re saying there is there were
several teams that were warming up hard on their trainers, like smart trainers or even just dummy
trainers, uh, at the the buses. They weren’t just like leisurely going they they’re they want to
be fully warmed up for the start of the stage. It’s breakaway day, guys. This is not going to be
a leisurely stroll into Carcasson. I know at some points with Tatty having what an over four-minute
lead now, people are like, “Oh, the tour’s over, bro. Tour’s over.” That remains to be seen. That
remains to be seen. Uh Donza saying good morning dudes to everyone. Got the coffee going. Waving
to everyone. Great stage yesterday today. And UA looked comfortable all the way. Yep, they
did. Upgrade your mind after 40 saying that. Uh Pogy even put in that little dig at the end.
Put that little attack in Deion. And actually, you know what? I thought he was right there. But
yeah, there was a big separation there again. Uh very congratulatory of the winner Aeronman
yesterday and he said he was I had nothing left to bring him back like nothing. So
fatigue is setting in for everyone guys. Uh guys I was listening to we talked yesterday
about Mr. 60% uh Bje Ree. I actually doing some stuff outside yesterday. I always have headphones
in. I’m always puttering around out there. Uh they said his hematocrit guys hematocrit is
your blood uh red red blood I guess basically red and this is very layman’s guys your red
blood cell count by volume. Ooh guys we do have a bit of wind today. There’s about a 20k an
hour tailwind here. Ah that is very interesting. If those winds hold up uh and possibly gust we
could have some echeloning happening. We are going out through some big wide open fields here.
Uh so it’s going to be crosswind. Tailwind now, crosswind later. Tired legs, boys. Tired legs.
A little bit of inattention. People are getting fatigued going into the rest day tomorrow. Uh back
to Bjornne Ree. His hematocrit they said for the I guess it’s the year one. I think that was 96.
His sematocrit uh 64%. like basically maple syrup hematocrit. Like that’s amazing to me. Uh don’t
know how he lived through that. Neil’s here. Good morning. Just finished Mvon 2 on Ruby. So just
relaxing. I thought I’d catch this from Hey Neil, good to see you. Neil, thank you very much
for the coffee again yesterday, dude. Really appreciate it. Uh love the support. Uh and I
know that the Muckers have always supported me. Uh you guys have always got my back. Once
we get away from the tour and all that stuff, I’ll be back doing some uh more of my other race
videos. Cole Kane direct from Saudi Arabia. Good morning to you all. 2:30 p.m. here today.
I hope for a win in a breakaway group and with a team with a Yeah, exactly. Cole,
I’m looking for a team. Total Energies, maybe Groupama, FTJ, Dathlon deserves a win.
I’d love to see Bruno Amarel get out there. Uh, Carl Carlson. I think Carl was here before.
Carcasson is my favorite board game. Yes, dude. I know exactly what you’re talking about.
I’ve only played it a few times. I might, you know what? Later today, I might find a digital version
on my phone. Just find like a mobile version, play against the AI. Uh, guys, board games, fantastic.
I know a lot of us play board games, but uh, yeah, good way to spend your time. Don saying you can
assign a mod. Yep, I think I’m going to be doing that in the future, guys. Uh, Don saying, “Your
channel came up on my feed when I was looking for 2025 tour to France.” 150 people already, guys.
Sunday morning. People are relaxing, staying home today. Uh, maybe they’re out late like me. Guys,
I don’t even know how I’m doing this right now. I’m so fatigued right now. And gets even better.
It gets even better, guys. So, check this out. I found out yesterday going into town. Uh, Joey
Jojo’s mom called us. We haven’t seen them yet for Joey’s birthday. We’re going out again today. So,
at 1:45, we’re going to the golf uh what do you call it? The golf clubhouse. The clubhouse where
her dad used to golf all the time. He doesn’t golf anymore now. He’s too old. Uh which is sad kind
of really. He used to live at that clubhouse. uh they lived in a community that was on that
golf course in Erdri and uh yeah that’s at 1:45 so it’s kind of like finish this start the chores
I won’t have enough time to like go to bed and get the sleep I need uh I had a very light sleep last
night just waking up waking up waking up so yeah I I just got to get through that brunch that late
brunch and then just get home and then I’ve got a rest day tomorrow. Uh, John Manion here from
Ireland. Howdy, Colin. Greetings from Galloway. Come on, Ben. Yes, cheering for Ben Healey here.
Uh, Robert’s back. Good morning from Oregon. Thank you for your channel, Colin. Pogy sick is breaking
news for me. Yeah, he talked about it yesterday. He says, “I’m having troubles breathing.” Uh, he
wasn’t hacking up a lung, but several times during his post uh race interviews, he was clearing
his throat. It even looked like his nose was red to me, so it obviously affects him. Uh, okay.
So, that was Robert here. Upgrade your mind. Oh, Robert, uh, upgrade is from Kingston, Ontario.
Dude, I didn’t know you were Canadian. Oh, the Cafe Bon Bon. Uh, John, what’s the Cafe
Bomb again? We talked about it. Refresh my memory on that one. That was a few days ago. What’s up,
guys? Tequila Nichols here. Hope all is well. direct from France. Tequila, where are you in
France if you’ll let us know? Uh Don, I would like to see Neielen, Sep, Matteo, and Quinn each with a
win by the end of Yeah. Uh who else do we have for uh Americans there? We have we I think we have
uh Oh, we have Will Barta. Uh he showed up at the Tour to France this year. I’ve seen him on
screen. Um just trying to think of any other Americans we have. There’s I think there’s five or
six Americans perhaps. Looks like Tobias Foss was pushing on the attack there. Let’s take a look.
It’s going to be real rowdy at the front, I think, today, guys. All these sprinters, they don’t they
don’t really have much chance of it. So, Neilson Palace out front. Uh looks like Foss is trying to
bridge up to him. Yeah, there’s Tobias Foss there from Inos Grenaders. What a great day for Inos
Grenaders yesterday. uh Carlos Rodriguez and uh Erandsman uh flying up the standings. I think uh
Rodriguez did move up one position overall. Lateno for Israel Premier Techch and Fedorov uh I look
this guy up here, Fedorov, who’s 161st overall. Uh he’s actually a really good time trialist if you
can believe that. uh hasn’t really shown up in the tour, but he placed quite well last year at the
uh UCI road champion time tri championships, which guys, I’m doing that in September, too. Uh I’ve
got the feeds. I’ve got uh all the stuff I need to help me do it. Uh that will be in September. So,
it’s going to be women’s uh road race, men’s road race, uh and the TTS. So, I’m already thinking
about the future, what we’re going to be doing. Looks like we got three riders in that group.
I can see the replay here forming now. So yeah, uh we’re going to have this barn burner today.
I’m doing my thing. I’ll be off tomorrow riding my bike probably. Uh one day off and then Steven
Cycle sent me a message. I didn’t see it till late late last night. This is after I’ve gotten
completely drenched um trying to get to the car to go pick Joey back up at the restaurant.
Um I looked at my phone. He says, “One rest day and then you have then you’re going 13 days
straight.” And I’m like, “Oh my I’m just exhausted from that.” So guys, I think what he means by 13
days straight. So we’re going to start the tour again on Tuesday, the third week, the final week,
the hardest week of the tour this year. And uh and let’s quickly go over that. So Monday, chill
out. Have your bon bon. Have your cafe bon bon. I better look here quickly. Uh, Roelio is here.
Hey, Roelio, where are you from? Okay, EF, keep it steady there. Neielson, it’s it’s not going to
be a finish. What does that say? It’s not going to be finished behind you, but if you stay out there
like this, you can save yourself an intense effort to make the split. Okay, so keep something
in your feet. I think they’re just saying just keep going at your pace. Uh, let others
catch up with you. You won’t have to do that intense effort. You You’ve already got it. Just
stay there. Don’t fall back now. Uh, so they’ve given him a bit of a gap right now. Uh, rest day
tomorrow. And there’s a lot of people saying, “Oh, the tour is over. Tour’s over, bro. Tour’s over.”
I’m like, “Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? The tour is not over, guys. The tour is not over
until UAE and Tatty cross that finish line on the Shamsi. That’s when it’s over. Uh, before that,
we have a rest day tomorrow. These guys are going to sleep in. They’re going to do nothing.” That’s
not true. They’re going to ride their bikes for 2 to three hours. uh still have to stay upright.
Then I should have looked. I thought about this. Uh I wonder if anyone has gotten seriously
injured on the rest day in the past just so anything can happen. Uh Tuesday, we’re climbing
Malvon 2. We are climbing the giant at Provence on Tuesday. Uh I think the weather’s supposed
to be sweltering that day. Wednesday looks like the last chance for the sprinters because I think
this year with the way they’ve changed the shams, the traditional sprinters are not going to be uh
racing for stage victory on stage 21. It’s going to be more of a long range sprinter. It could be
like a vout. It could be like a Machu Vanderpole, uh a Matty Mohoric, someone like that. Strong dude
actually. And we’ve barely seen Maddie this year, but he’s here for Ballinger Victorious stage
Thursday. So, this is after the last real sprint day. There are some rollers on it too. Uh
Thursday and Friday. So, when we do the call lots, three HC’s in the same day, guys. We did two
yesterday. We have three HC’s. I think it’s more climbing than yesterday. I’ll show you the profile
in a bit. Friday, we’re doing the uh I think it’s Shawn Bri. I think that’s what it is on Friday
with just the same amount of climbing again. It just takes one poor day on one climb and you could
lose 10 or 15 minutes. Uh so that’s that’s where my brain is going right now. Robert Same Dawn,
best crop of American tour writers ever. All these guys are legit stage with Yep. Absolutely,
dudes. Quinn, it could be team Quinn again today. Guys, what are your thoughts about Remco? Um,
feel bad for the guy just like bailing on the termite 2 and a half kilometers in. Even
me, even Colin got up the termite. Uh he must have been feeling horrible and you could
see by the day before to get caught by Yonas, the the UCI world time trial champion from last
year uh Olympic champion and he gets caught. Uh so he’s obviously way off his game. Uh and the
stage before he did terrible so pulled the pin and he was out of there. Uh William Gurnie here.
Hey William. Uh William looks like dude. says, “My dad plays golf twice a week at 95.” That’s
awesome, dude. Awesome stuff. Uh, guys, you know, your parents, enjoy your time with him. I noticed
with Joey Jojo’s dad that his health, he he’s healthy, but just in the last couple years, he’s
really slowed down. And we’ve got a crash here, guys. We got a two door rider down. Uh, Arca BB,
this looks like one rer’s down. He’s holding his shoulder. Dude, no. Please, come on. You can’t
be out. Uh, looks like at least 10, 11 riders involved in that crash. Movar rider down over
here. We got a Vizma rider down. Back up already, though. There’s only one rider down on the ground.
Uh, and he’s sitting right in the middle of the uh It’s Julian Alfleet, folks. Julian’s down.
He looks to be in pain. I think Julian’s out. I think Julian’s out, guys. Uh, yep. Julian’s gone
to the medical card, so he’s up. Uh the way he he was holding his arm in probably just trying to
protect it. Let’s go through this quickly here. Neielson Palace on the front. 4 second lead.
There’s a chasing group. Tobias Foss, Lutenko, and Fedov. We saw them earlier. Uh I think Lipoitz
must have went down in that crash. They got the camera on him and he has two teammates with him.
Um I think he was just someone that had to put a foot down. Actually, there’s a fourth uh Bora
rider there. Start of the stage. All the teams are kind of sticking together. So, they’re going
to have to pace him back on. Let’s see what’s going on here. So, we got three chasing. Then,
we’re just 9 seconds back to the Pelon here. So, we got 54 riders are. That’s how many people were
involved in that crash. Uh we’ve got a 100 riders probably got affected by the crash. Julian is back
on his bike. You can see them pushing him back on. And here’s our group. We have 104. I said 100.
Uh, Vingo is in that group. Only is in that group. What do you know? Mr. Lucky himself,
Tatty Pagachar is in that front. He’s always He’s very lucky, this dude. Very
lucky. Uh, and let’s keep it that way, guys. I don’t want to see anyone crash out.
Uh, yeah, it’s exciting when you see stuff like that happen, but I don’t wish anyone bad
luck. I don’t want to see anyone crash out. Uh, I’m just telling you guys how I see it. I can see
Vizma pushing pretty hard in this group. This So, this must be the Chase group here. They’re
trying to get back on right now. Uh, I’m going to figure out who this is here. Catch
up. So, yeah, William, awesome that your dad’s still getting out uh twice a week at 95. Must have
stayed in shape all his life. Don, you were never too old. My friend’s grandpa rolled in a bowling
league and played nine holes of golf at 91. Yes, dude. That’s who I want to be. I want to be that
old dude who’s in shape. Oh, let’s go bang out 30 miles on the bike. Let’s hit it. Leading group
William Gurnie. It’s Neilson Palace right now. He’s being chased by three riders. Uh it looks
like it’s getting back together already. So yeah, it looks like Neielson, the three escapees that
were trying to bridge up to him have now joined uh Tatty, Matteo, Victor Camponarts, Mat Matthew
Vanderpool. So there was a crash that left like about 105 riders behind. Uh very very skinny
little road, like a ridiculously skinny uh looks like a tiny roundabout through a little town here.
Uh just Okay, that’s the polka dot jersey there of uh Martinez. He’s wearing it today. Anyways,
does he actually have it? Does he actually have it? Uh or is it He does have it. That’s right. We
didn’t know that yesterday. I think Tatty had 57 yesterday. Yeah, crash in the Pelaton here.
It’s It’s showing it here now. Uh Florian, yeah, he was there. Lenny was there. Julian’s
the one that looked the worst affected. So, let’s see how that’s going to affect Julian later
on the stage. These guys are quick to rebound. The adrenaline kicks in. They’re back on their bikes
and then they start realizing, “Oh, I broke my collarbone or something like that.” Uh, yep, it
does say here the Frenchman suffers from his left shoulder. I saw him protecting his shoulder. Jordi
Muse and Giani Mosone are pacing Lipwoods back to the front. And again, a lot of guys were just
putting their feet down. Uh we’ve got a couple of little uh pelaton groups here. We’ve got three
riders of Vizma. Two of them pacing Yonas back to the front behind the uh Vizma car. Careful boys,
don’t draft too much. Uh so it’s a huge group back here and they are absolutely strung out, guys.
Hey, someone uh gave me an idea a few days ago. I think it was Colin Coats. He said you need
a standing desk. I might switch to a standing desk to do this because I know when I stand I’m
a lot more animated. Uh, and that’s part of the channel. Uh, Tequila, Tequila is outside of Paris
in Evo for the moments until the end of the race, then heading to Leo. I love it. Thanks for letting
us know, John. Man, equal parts condensed milk. Okay. A bomb bomb. Uh, double espresso, whipped
cream, small coffee cup. Comes up layered. Impressive both visually. Okay. Well, I can make
that, but mine would not be impressive visually. It would just be like a glob. Uh, and I would
devour it probably like in a millisecond. Uh, but I’m going to try that out. I do have one
good coffee machine upstairs versus the uh, you know, the standard drip one that always makes
a mess. Um, I saw a few seconds of video from Will Barta’s bike, but haven’t seen it again. Look at
the live stream. Yeah, someone was saying that there was some live streams going on. Yeah,
John here. Big crash road furniture village. It looked like it was just a small It might have
been a a little tiny traffic circle, but the road just squeezed down. You’ve got 170 riders hitting
it. Uh, I’m going to catch up with Hey Neil, thank you so much again, Neil. Uh, me and Neil are
having a coffee here together tonight, guys. Uh, come on, guys. Let’s get calling a few coffees.
I guys, I really need caffeine in me today. Uh, and I keep whining and I don’t want to sound like
one. Actually, here’s the uh, Bora team. There’s four of them here pacing up. Actually, you know,
I didn’t know they all wear a Red Bull helmet. I just noticed that now. So, it’s kind of funny
seeing that because I’m so just so used to seeing uh Vout wear that. Tom Pickock wears that. Hey
guys, don’t forget next uh month, September, sorry, August, uh we get to see Tom Pickcock race
again. He will be at the Valta uh Q36.5 team will be there. Uh Neil, thank you so much, dude. I
appreciate it. Me and Neil are having a big sip of coffee together here. Uh, Dawn, there was a chat
yesterday that said the tour to France is designed to crack even the best riders. I think they went
back to the diabolical way of approaching these race routes. That’s what it should be. Let’s get
back to the hard days. I’d love to, like I said, guys, I’d love to see bigger time trials. And
how about some insanely long stages? Like, let’s just bang out a 300 km stage. Like,
that’s what they used to do. They were doing that in the ‘9s. And it just get it’s just
getting shorter and shorter and shorter because I guess people are too busy doom scroll
scrolling. They can’t watch the tour. Uh uh Robert, I don’t know how to send money. It’s
fine, dude. Don’t worry about it. Uh would like to support some cash. There’s there’s a way
you can contribute on the bottom. But guys, uh this is just the above and the extra, the
beyond stuff that does help the channel. I was talking to a buddy last night at dinner. His
name’s Ronnie. He’s uh he does he what does he do? He does ashvalt and he’s a country singer. He’s
actually got songs out there. He’s actually toured uh he’s I don’t I’m not a country fan. He’s a very
good singer though and he’s a very good guitarist. Uh yeah, he and he was I think he was the in the
first group of 10 people that ever subscribed to my channel. Uh and he goes, “Yeah, I still see
your videos. They pop up.” And he’s like, “Holy crap, dude. What happened?” I’m like, “The tour to
France. What happened?” And live commentary. Uh, so he’s got me pumped and motivated. So, I’m just
pushing forward on it, guys. Just pushing forward. So, Robert, yeah, just guys, it’s always going to
be available for everyone. This is never going to be locked away for anyone. Uh, Don here, I would
I understand my friend’s dad, who was my bike team’s captain, is like Superman to me, but he
has declined a lot after he reached 8 years old. I still call him and talk to him every day about
this tour. Yeah, dude. You got you’ve only got you’ve only got your health. That’s all you really
have, guys. Uh, reading through the chats here. Uh, Neil, there’s a dollar sign. Okay, Neil’s just
telling you there’s a dollar sign next to the chat box. Yeah. Okay, we got some radio guys. UAE guys,
Yonas crash, Lipoitz crash. So, this is in the past. If you can slow down the group, Tatty today.
So, I think they’re saying slow it down. Uh, you know, this goes back to a few days ago when
they basically sat up and waited for him. So, it looks like maybe UAE was driving hard and now
they’re being told, “Hey guys, you probably should slow it down.” Uh, but that looks like that’s
happened to me. I have a leading group showing up, just three riders. Oo, dudes. Take a look at
on screen right now. I just want you to look at something. Sometimes I’m so lucky and I guess
things right. uh in this three rider breakaway was looks like they’re just off the front. Matu
Vanderpool, Neil Palace. Okay, groups are coming together. Lucenko, there’s one name in there that
just popped up. Matty Mahor’s in there. Uh his name just disappeared off screen. I got to find
it because I did say it earlier. There’s Mattie Mahoric. Uh he’s three hours down overall. Today’s
a day for him. Today’s his kind of day. Uh I love seeing that. I, you know, when I actually forecast
something that might be right. Uh, yeah, I like that. Okay, upgrade your mind, dude. Thank you so
much. Let’s hype the channel up. He’s saying here, uh, from Kingston, Ontario, dude, thank you so
much. Coffee time, bro. Coffee time. Let’s get it. Let’s get it, guys. So, yeah, I’ve got a
huge push of cycling coming forward, guys. I hope you guys can join me uh for the women’s
tour that’s going to be going on every day. Uh, it actually starts next Saturday, the 26th, which
I thought was the I thought it was the 27th. So, I’m gonna have an overlap. So, I think I’ll
probably I’m going to have to finish the tour up Saturday, Sunday. That’s almost sad that
the tour is finishing up next Sunday. Um, the women’s two stages will go off. I’ll start
on Monday and I’ll probably come on like an hour, an hour and a half before the stream
early again and uh do like a review show, like a live review show, catch everyone up.
So, I’m going to do that. Upgrade your mind from Kingston Ontario. Thank you so much, dude.
Really appreciate it. Uh let’s celebrate. Uh what do I do here, dude? I got to get better
at this. I really got to get better at this. Let’s celebrate their Okay, reading that there. Uh
IKEA has standing desks. The desk in my office are tell Yeah, dude. I’m really thinking about it. I’m
on a tiny little desk here. I’ve got a second tiny desk down behind me. Oh, I was supposed to set
up my camera today to show you my smart trainer setup, which Joey said, “Don’t do that. Leave that
for a video.” Uh guys, let’s take a look here. Nine riders on the front. This is kind of a scary
little group. They’ve only got a 16-second gap, but you know, Camponart’s time trial ability.
Machu Vanderpool just allound wickedest guy on the planet. Uh Kaden Groves there too with Machu.
Uh Matty Mahoric. A lot of guys who can put down a lot of power. Uh we got the yellow jersey group
here. Wow. Uh okay, so like where’s Yonas right now? I just got to say, oh, uh, I just saw Gronov
is in this group and I I’m actually watching a replay of the Vanderpool attack. Of course, it was
him that went on the attack. Uh, looks like Matt Maddie is right in his wheel. It’s a barinium
victorious rider and a Totel Energy Rider, but at this point, I’m kind of surprised that Wow.
Okay, guys. Uh, here’s my question of the day. Uh, new question. Remember a few days ago when uh Pogy
crashed? They’re not waiting for him. Poggy’s not waiting now. Uh just let me know uh in the
comments what are you thinking about that. So here’s Pogy. He does have Matteo Jorgensson
with who has had a couple of horrendous days. Uh this is a group of 28 riders. Grant
Thomas is there. Uh Vouts there. Okay, so we do have Vizma riders here. I bet you there’s
some stuff being said in these groups right now. Uh, who’s all here with Tatty, though? I just
noticed that. Tim Wellins. Okay, so we just got Pogy, Tim Wellins. Uh, yeah, there’s only Pogy
and Tim Wellins in this group. So, guys, what I’m thinking, you know, what are my thoughts about it?
Yeah, they should have waited. Uh, fair is fair, right? But I think it’s just the way it evolved.
There’s a ton of UAE guys back there. They’re not even waiting for their own teammates. They’re just
hoping it’s all going to come back together. And uh Alpason saying, “We ain’t waiting. We’re
going. We’re not waiting for you.” Uh it’s part of bike racing again. Uh upgrade your mind.
Thank you so much, dude. Uh I wonder how I can loving it, guys. Absolutely love it. Uh yeah. So I
I’m thinking about getting a standing one. Robert, dude. Okay, man. Uh really appreciate you
supporting, too, Robert. Uh yeah, this is perfect right here. Love it, guys. Uh all this
goes to help building the channel even further. Uh there’s still more stuff I want to get. This
could be the fund for uh a better setup in here. Uh like my setup is just all over the place. It’s
kind of I’m in a spare bedroom. Um what I’m doing right now, if you can believe this, so I rode my
bike yesterday. Again, it’s right back here behind me. Uh, I’m leaving everything set up in the
direction I’m looking at right now. Joey doesn’t like my camera set up. She says the camera’s a bit
too high. Okay, fine. We got to figure that out, too. Uh, when I’m doing my bike rides using
my cycling software, I don’t want to touch the streaming setup. I’m leaving everything over here.
So, I’m kind of riding my bike this way and I’m just looking out of the corner of my eye at the
screen. Okay, how am I doing? Okay, we’re doing that. Uh, it’s just I don’t have enough equipment
here. So, I got to keep working on it. So guys, all this stuff goes right back into the channel
to make it better. Uh, the mic’s good. Uh, but I probably need another monitor in here. I do all
the streaming on one monitor. The other monitors are just for me to watch and for me to talk to
you guys. Uh, but I should be picking up another monitor here. I’m going to have a look today. Uh,
Robert saying, number one guy in the chat right now is Robert. Uh, appreciate the content watching
the Belgian feed in Flemish and nice hearing English. Robert, appreciate you being here, dude.
You’re a huge part of this community. Uh Evan here, Evan’s in the mix. Colin, have you seen
any kind of speculation on Inos doping? I saw, dude, that is floating around and I was kind of
like just doing stuff around the house yesterday and they said there was something leaked about
uh an Inos team me team member, not not a bike rider. Uh, someone had leaked some information as
to what was going on in the past, which I don’t know exactly what that means. If you know, why
don’t you let us know in the chat here and we can discuss that. We got 14 riders in the front
group, guys. 14 riders up there. Okay, so this is nice to see. So guys, it’s hard to say what’s
going on. Jonathan Milan is now being picked up by the Pelaton. So he must have went out ahead. Uh,
looks like he survived the uh, crash. No problems. I think at first uh UAE and others just kept the
pressure. They just kept riding at their pace. I don’t want to say they were attacking, but there
was a radio order from UAE. Hey, Tatty. And they said his name in the in the message. You need to
slow it down. Uh so maybe he was being a bit too competitive there. Maybe. But I think it was
more of just it was just how it was evolving. remember there was a ton of UAE riders back there
as well. I’m I’m not I want to make sure that everything I do on this channel is super unbiased
and I’ve always been that way. Uh and I want to cover all the riders. So I think it’s just how
it evolved. Uh okay. Yeah. So there’s something going on in about doping. There’s some like uh
information being leaked. David Geesler here. Geistler at work now. Listening to your uh to you.
who love your commentary, dude. I appreciate it so much. Uh yeah, some guys, you know, people
Yeah, just the the commentary, the voice. Uh someone said yesterday, some dude said, and I
said, “Hey, dude. Thank you.” Uh he said, “Dude, your voice is so soothing.” Well, that’s part of
it, right? Uh whatever. It’s just a voice. But you got to have a voice that sounds half decent.
If you got a really annoying voice, and trust me, I’ve heard them out there. I’ve heard people
with it. Oh, there’s more attacks going off here, guys. A little bit of a replay here, but Jonathan
Milan’s already struggling off the back of this group. Um, let’s take a look, guys. They should be
all back together here now. So, UAE was definitely telling them, “Hey, slow it down at their guys.
Not cool. Slow it down.” So, here the Jonathan. Wow. It’s all kind of So, 20 riders again here
in the yellow jersey. Pelon’s right on them. So, it’s just the way they’re displaying it right
now, guys. Broom wagons coming up behind us. Uh when we start turning uh to the northeast here,
there’s a chance for some crosswinds developing there. It’ll be more of a crosswind across their
left shoulder. So, also going to be a bit of a tailwind. Uh David, dude, you’re working on a
Sunday. Listen to the commentary. I love it, dude. I love it. Uh hopefully it makes your
workday go a little bit quicker and you can stay informed as to what’s going on. So we do
Oh, there’s Campon Arts with his arrow helmet. Matu Vandool is right there. Matty Mahoric,
remember his descent at Milan Sanoro. I love that. That guy has got guts. Uh Pedo here. Ped
uh new commentator commenter saying Pogy doesn’t wait after crash. Yeah, he didn’t wait. He didn’t
wait. Um, I don’t know how hard he was pushing, but he was told to slow down. Uh, basically,
hey, Tatty, you need to slow that group down. So, it’s good that UAE did that. Did that. Maybe Tatty
got caught up in the moment. Uh, maybe it was just it just kind of evolved that way. It wasn’t like
he was going all in attacking up the uh the perig goods on the TTD. It wasn’t nothing like that.
Yep. Tony, see here, radio from you. He said to keep it slow paced, allow them to catch. Yep,
they did. I saw that, too, Tony. Good catch. Uh yeah, dude. Uh upgrade your mind after 40. Could
slide your trainer underneath your training desk. Yeah. So, guys, I am basically in, you know, I
call it the 10 x10 cube. Uh just a stupid thing I came up with a long time ago. Uh and I try to put
like a a little descriptor behind it every time. I’m in basically a 10×10 spare bedroom in the
basement. I’m kind of in the dungeon down here. Um, but you know, it’s funny too. Depends where
you come from in the world. Uh, I’ve got buddy I got a friend down in Vegas. He goes, “You’re
in the basement?” Like, uh, Vegas doesn’t have basements. At best, they might have a crawl
space. I’m like, “Dude, no. In in Canada here, and not everywhere, uh, but out in the West,
everyone has a basement. It’s like just another developed level of your house. You go down eight
stairs and you’re in another level of your home.” So, I’m in a bungalow, so it’s even better. So, I
only have that one set of stairs going down. Uh, bungalow. What’s that? Maybe you guys don’t use
that term. Uh, just your main house is just on one level. Okay. Shout out to Chris Burchchard,
my realtor friend in Calgary. Uh, ex geologist as well. There’s no work for us, guys. and he’s
talking about the value of bungalows in Calgary because if you look at new communities in North
America, every house is a two-story. And if you see a bungalow, it’s like, what is that thing?
They’re more expensive to build. So, yeah, let’s uh I think I will be looking to that
standing desk, guys, and maybe even a new uh I like these little cheapo computer desks,
you know, that kind of go up and down. They’re kind of like a TV tray desk almost. That’s what
I’m using right now. I’ll still keep that. Uh, okay. Tony C. Lance, hate him or love him. Always
understood compassion during race crashes. He waited and told the whole P. Yeah, he was kind
of like the last patron of the uh of the tour. Like he kind of made the rules up. No, we’re not
doing that today. Uh maybe some of it was too much. Like some of the stuff I’ve heard about him
now again. Uh that one French rider who was like out there b I think he was documenting it. I’m
riding the tour to France and I’m not doped. Uh, and basically Lance threatened him like basically
every day. Not cool. I did see a little snippet yesterday with Phil talking and he was talking
to two guys on a random YouTube podcast. Uh, I’m seeing Binium in a move here now. So, I
think there’s more guys trying to bridge up. Take a look. We got 15 riders in this front group.
Uh, Camparts vouts up there. I said this could be a vout day, too. Uh, kind of like the long range
strongman attack. Matu Vanderpool’s there, too. Uh this is not the vout of three years ago or even
two years ago. Uh hopefully he’s got his wheels under him. His legs are back. Kaden Groves up here
could sprint. Matty Mahoric. Uh the second group on the road, three riders. There’s Bingham
Germine. He wants the green jersey points, guys. He knows it’s today. He he needs to get
points at the intermediate. He’s not getting them at the end. Well, we’ll see. We’ll see. See if the
sprinters can pull something special off today. Uh radio coming in, folks. Looks like team Bora. Hang
on. What is happening? There’s no problem. Tatty is actually Fair play. Tatty’s actually pogy. Fair
play. He is trying to calm down everyone to let us come back to the bunch. Yeah, guys. They weren’t
waiting. They were not waiting. That could have been Tatty saying, “Well, I’m going to wait, but
I’m in a group that’s just attacking like crazy.” some of these other teams, they need to get
something out of this tour. So, it’s just kind of how it evolved. I don’t want to uh poo poo
on Tatty too much, but uh we’ll figure that out. Pedal here saying, “I don’t
know why the British comments say it’s incredible that Tatty didn’t wait.” Uh Chris man here, are you Canadian? Chris, first
question. Why Why do you think I’m Canadian? What did I say today that you think I’m Canadian?
Uh, dude, right here. Okay, I I sorry I I finished reading a question or Minnesota,
dude. Yeah, we kind of talk the same. Uh, there’s a lot of words in the northern
states, guys. Americans and Canadians, all this tariff junk that’s going on. We still
love each other. We just hate the politics. Uh, I’ve met so many cool people from the States.
When I meet an American, I’m like, “Dude, you’re just like us. We’re just like us. We drive
the same cars. We watch the same TV. We enjoy the same sports. Uh who’s getting a little push on the
back here? Who is that? Uh we’re the same people, guys, Americans and Canadians. But we got
this goofy tariff crap going on. And I’m in support of Canada throwing it right back.
Uh and I don’t want to say any names on here uh at US government leadership right now because
we’re just getting hosed. But yeah, dude. Yeah, Canadians, we met people um at the Denver concert,
uh the Metallica concert in Denver. They sat right in front of us, so we chatted them up before
the concert. Uh he was from the Dakotas. First thing I asked him, I go, “Dude, oil and gas.”
He goes, “Yeah, how’d you guess?” “Cuz I know, dude. I know. I know where all the basins
are. Uh if you’re a field oil and gas guy, you know your field. If you’re like an exploration
geologist, your your thing is to know all the fields across North America. Do I know them all?
I know of them. Uh I’ve worked a lot of them. So, I just had an instant connection with him.
As a North Dakota, it’s like he’s like just a regular dude out of Saskatchewan. They ended up
living 2.5 miles from the Saskatchewan border, like the Canadian US border, and they go across
the border all the time uh for hockey tournaments. So, same people. So, okay. So maybe that’s why I
thought uh but yeah, dude, I’m a Canadian and I live in Alberta, so I’m directly above Montana.
Uh Pedto asking, “Is Tatty going to win today?” I do have a poll up right now. I said, “Uh,
breakaway big sprinters day or today day?” Uh, we’ll see. We’ll see. I think Tatty’s going to be
getting some rest cuz in the past when Tatty has uh looked weaker than Yonas, it’s been in the
last week. That’s where Yonas has always kind of gotten ahead of him. Uh like you know stage 17
18 in that range. We’re getting there. That front group with Camp Arts is going hard now guys. 37
second gap. See what Race Radio is saying here. Uh Alfalip’s back in the bunch. Doctor was
asking he needed more attention. He doesn’t. Uh Valon did have a mechanical here. I didn’t
see that on screen. I haven’t seen that yet. So Bing’s trying to get up in that group. Is he in there now? I think he’s still
chasing, but the Pelaton’s also moving pretty quick right now, too. They don’t want this
to get away. Uh Trek will be working hard. Okay, so here we are, guys. All back together. I wonder
what goes through their head at this point. Like, dude, you didn’t wait for us, dude. Yeah, I
did. I did wait for you. But yeah, you know, it’s going to be one of those things. Uh, I got to
turn that up, guys. My eyes are my eyes are really tired today. Uh, if Tatty’s anywhere near the
front, dude, he will try for the win. He’s like the most competitive guy out there to me. Uh, but
he can’t win every Colin Coat is here. Morning, Colin. Colin, we were just talking about the
standup desk that you mentioned yesterday. I think I’m going to look into that. Uh, I think I’d
rather stand up and be even crazier on screen. Uh, because I know when Joey goes, “Yeah, you should.”
She goes, “When you talk, I’m very I’m an animated talker.” Uh, so we’re going to look into that.
Don’s cheering for the broom wagon driver. Uh, as I cheer for the Zamboni driver. Yes, Don
knows what a Zamboni driver is. I love it, Don. I’m going to keep my coffee going in. Keeping the
coffee going in, guys. Uh, I’m going to look at the poll here quickly. What are you guys saying
right now? Let’s see how this can change. 43% said breakaway win. uh big sprinters fight today
day tatty day uh to die, whatever you want to call him. Like I said yesterday, I’m not Svenian. Um
I’m just going to say it how I want to say it. If I ever met him, I’d be like, “Hey, Tatty.” And
he’d look at me probably weird and be like, “Oh, whatever.” I bet you he doesn’t care. Uh I’m going
with breakaway 2. Uh so let’s get back here. So, we’re cheering on the Zamboni driver, guys.
Zamboni, let me know if you know what that is. Uh, obviously Dawn does, but someone tell me what
a Zamboni driver is. David Giser, thank you. Appreciate you. Just joined your channel.
Thank you. God bless you and your channel, dude. Thanks for being here. Uh, guys, we’re
on the way to 30,000 uh, subs. I’m thinking I’m going to grow that way beyond that. It’s one
of these things, guys. When I first started the channel way back when, I I think there was one
video, my very first video, I didn’t have one view in the first week. And I was just like,
wow. Like, how pathetic is that? Uh, it’s so hard to get into the mainstream and get views. Uh,
it’s very hard to be found by people on here. So, when you guys like the videos, share it with your
bros, uh, you guys are probably doing a better job at promoting the channel than I am. 223 people
here, guys. Absolutely fantastic. Joey does a lot of stuff in the background for me, too. Uh, you
know, there’s always that typical husband, wife, you should do this, you should do that, I’m not
doing that, I’m do, you know, that kind of stuff. Uh, but she’s trying to do like take some of my
stuff I’m doing here and make shorter videos. Uh, and I’ve told her now, I said, you know what, I
just do not have time to do it myself. I can’t take this and edit it down. Uh, because guys, I’m
sifting through 5 hours of video. I just it’s not in me. Uh I want to ride my bike. I want to stay
in shape, too. So, she’s got some stuff. Um yeah, upgrade your mind. Basement is my man cave. A
lot of us Canadians, we love our basement. I’ve got my big TV out there. I’ve got the Xbox out
there. Uh got the huge sectional. That’s my zone. When Joey’s watching too many videos
about how women kill their husbands, uh, I just head to the basement. That’s a lot cooler,
too. So, guys, up here in Canada, uh, well, okay, so upgrade your mind. I guarantee you, I’m going
to say he has whole house. He has central AC. Uh, because Ontario is generally hotter than Western
Canada and way more humid. Uh, they actually have the humidex here. there. We never talk about Oh
jeez, the uh the Jean Darmms Police motorbikes were basically bunny hopping road furniture there.
Ke this looks like Kevin Valon coming back on now. Uh I think we only got two groups, guys. We got a
strong bunch out front of 15 runners. 41 seconds. We’re getting closer to that sprint point. Uh
who’s in here? Who’s important in the sprint here? I mean, I think uh I think I saw Kaden Groves
was in there, wasn’t he? Maybe he’s not. Oh, Arnold DeL’s there. So, to me, him uh Matthew
Vanderpull’s here about Van Arts here. Those are probably our three guys who might contest the
sprint. Uh I am seeing, let’s take a look here at the live tracking again. So, yeah, at this point
here, the wind’s coming from the left hand side of the road, basically straight out of the west. So,
they’re getting more of a tail crosswind there. Wow. Time Arenson’s on the front of this group
here of the Pelaton. Yep. There’s Tatty. Tatty’s about eight, nine riders back. That guy yesterday
absolutely killed it. And I saw he had a fantastic ride on stage 10, too. That guy needs a pay raise.
That guy needs a pay raise right there. Uh, let’s get back to the chat here. Uh, so yeah, upgrade
your mind. He does have the basement. That’s his man cave. He lives in Kings, Ontario. Probably a
central air out here in the west. Uh we don’t have AC as much. We don’t really get humidity here. We
never talk about the humidex here. That’s not a thing. It’s so dry here. Uh Robert Vizma is trying
to execute a plan. UAE ain’t having it. Well and so good as road captain. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah,
looking at it right now, Yonas is sitting in front of one Visma rider. Guys, it’s pretty hectic
and frantic in this group here. Uh, again, I’ve seen lots of comments and mostly the other
the the main media sources. Like, there’s a lot of media sources you can watch on YouTube. Uh, I have
a hard time watching it cuz it’s so I don’t know, maybe it’s too staged. They’re trying to be
like news broadcasts, flashy uh things in the background, and it’s all scripted it seems. I I
don’t like that style at all. I like just off the cuff. Oh yeah, someday I might spill my coffee.
Uh you might see Pop-Tart crumbles falling down. Quinc Team Simmons at the front here too. He’s
riding right behind Tim and Arensman. Uh we got uh Picnic is up there too. Riding to his team car
right now. Yonas sitting seventh or eighth back and Tatty’s right with him. Let’s keep an eye
on that. Gonna get through the chat here. Uh, almost everything Lance did was too much in all
his activities. Wink wink. I hear what you’re saying. Oh, yeah. So, I was talking earlier. I saw
a quick clip yesterday, Phil Liot talking to two guys. I don’t know who they are. I don’t know if
there it was a cycling channel I was watching, but he was saying that basically they were talk they
were actually talking about an event in Calgary. I was in Calgary last night and basically cuz
Phil said, “Hey guys, I really appreciate you not asking me any questions about Lance.” Uh, and
it must be now uh basically he said L cuz Phil did say uh apparently Lance doesn’t think I’m I’m too
old to commentate anymore. They are showing winds being 21 km. Uh echelons are forming right now
guys. Uh there’s a huge group here on the back. uh Arca B&B hotels uh obviously trying to
bring back Kevin Vocalon right now. Yeah, definitely there’s some echelons formed. They
were the whole team was probably sitting back there waiting for him. Tim Merly is stuck back
here in this echelon 2. They’re not that far back though. They’re maybe 30 m back. Uh
so Phil said to them, he said, “Uh guys, thank you for not asking me any questions about
Lance. And because of that, I’m going to tell you a story about Lance.” he kind of offered it out.
So basically this must have been at the end of Lance’s uh when he looked good to the public. He
said he sent a message to him. Someone else said, “Hey, we need you to show up for this thing
in Calgary. I think it was a fundraiser for cancer again. It was Bike Rides with Lance.
Calgary does have a lot of oil money still, even though I don’t.” And uh Phil didn’t believe
him and he’s like then he said he was at a race and basically Lance stormed up for me. You going
to be in Calgary? And Phil was like okay. Phil said he goes they did pay me to do all the MCing
and attend and all that stuff. He goes yeah they did that. Uh and his thing was he goes there’s two
sides to Lance you know there’s the side where he did all that good and then there’s the other side.
He said, “After that event, I’ve never spoken to him.” And I’m like, “When was that?” Like, when
would Lance have been doing rides raising money uh for Cancer Foundation? That would have been
probably back what, 2012 before it all broke out. Uh cuz I bet you Phil feels pretty jaded, uh
pretty betrayed doing all that commentary, talking about Lance, praising him, and then being oh, you
know, one of those things. Uh he did say too that at that event in Calgary, uh that particular
events raised something like $2.5 million. So he did do a lot of good. Um yeah, so wink wink,
right back at you, Tony. uh upgrade man. Are the are the norms of waiting for a crash
different early in the stage versus later I guess it depends who crashes uh what the state
of the race is. I think there I think UAE was saying, “Hey, hey guys, they waited for us. We
better wait for them.” Or, like I said before, I don’t know if Tatty was attacking. I didn’t see
it. I think the other riders were like, “Okay, we got to go. We’re going to go because they’re
racing for anything they can get. It’s Tatty’s job to say, “Hey guys, slow it down.” Or I guess
Tatty could have slowed down by himself. I mean, he did stay with that group. He
He still wants to race, right? Um, okay. Trying to catch up, guys.
I I start falling behind really bad. Chris Man. Chris Man looks new here. I’ve
got a Fiverr on Tim Wellness for today. Hope Pogy wants to help one of his teammates
win. Yeah, it’d be nice to see the teammates win. I love seeing that when the the team
leader tries to help a teammate get a win. Upgrade your mind toward again. Uh if by later
you’re thinking last 3 km then I can say I have never seen a sprint team slope for anything. Oh
yeah after yeah after the 3 km rule they don’t have to wait because if you crashed in that
3 km you’re going to get the same time as the bunch you were in. So if you were in a bunch of
150 riders let’s say there’s 20 riders off the back and you’re in that 150 and you crash in the
last 3k and they finish up the road the sprinters go crazy. Pelaton strung out so long right now.
It’s crazy. The heat is on. Uh let’s look here. We still got our group out front. Looks like there’s
riders trying to bridge up. Green jersey out the back. Uh yeah, so it is showing the splits
happening. Uh there was some crosswind action there, folks. Estelons were forming. Let’s take
a look at the map and see where we are. So, it’s not much, but it’s just over the shoulder a little
bit. And I think it’s split split the field apart. They were also waiting for Kevin Valon back there.
So, might have been a bit of hesitancy. Broomwagon is sitting right behind them today. This guy wants
to scoop him up, doesn’t he? Look at this. Pac-Man action here. Uh, so here’s the main group of 76
riders. Lipitz is up there. So, he got right back up there. Only’s there. Primos is there. Tobias
Johansson. Big win of the tour so far. for me. Uh, we got the sprinters back here. Kevin Valon’s back
here showing the winds again. They are showing the winds again on screen. 21 km an hour and now
it’s coming straight out of the east where they’re travel. Sorry, straight out of the west where
they’re coming here right now. So, any of this road that’s kind of snaking towards the northeast
is quite dangerous. Sprint point in the distance, folks. Oh, I want to see what race is saying here.
Here’s a little shot of the breakaway today. You can find this over on Twitter. Uh showing Tim
Wellins, Vout, Alexi, Tobias, Lond Anderson. Gap’s grown a bit, I think. Yeah, the gap has
grown. They were saying 20 seconds before. Uh they were probably talking about
the Pelaton and the group behind. So, they’re merging back on now. All
everyone’s back together now, guys. Okay. So, Fiverr on Tim Wellins today. Uh, upgrade your mind. Kingston, Ontario here. He
might prove me wrong, but Yonas has looked like he mentally cracked at the end of both of the last
two stages versus Tatty. I think at the end he was losing, but I did see some comments and I saw
a lot of people saying the exact opposite. Uh, I think Yonas is just getting better day by
day. So on the hot account, he cracked huge when uh Jonathan Nvas went. Then Tatty went
UAE arm flicking the uh grenadier rider at the front there. Get up there. Do some work. They’re
chasing really hard here. Poggy’s right there. Uh so let’s just go back. What was that? Stage 12.
I think Yonas looked really bad. Caddyy dropped him and just went up the road uh and basically
secured multiple minutes over him. Uh stage 13, the individual time trial, he finished second
overall, only 36 seconds down. I’m going to say why don’t we give him if he would have picked
the right bike. Uh that TT bike was only good for the first 3 km. I don’t know what they were
thinking there. Like who would have would anyone here have picked a TT bike for that stage? It was
3 km flat and then 8 km at basically 8% gradient. Uh 8% gradient, you don’t take a TT bike unless
it’s 8% for 300 m. That’s it. Uh not the final 400 meters being 16% plus. Like why would you
take a TT bike? That makes no sense. Uh guys, when I do my indoor rides, like say over on
Ruvie, I look at the profiles and I go, “Okay, it’s uh 30 km. I got 200 meters of climbing, I’ll
look at the little kicks on the profile and go, “Yep, TT day.” Uh, when I see a bunch of climbing,
if I see like a a 400 meter hill I got to take on, uh, I’m not taking the TT bike. You’re going
to lose too much there. A lot of these, uh, Okay, I can see the Alpson guys doing a lot
of waving here. Yeah, more waving. I’m not sure what he’s waving at here. Uh, I don’t know if
it’s a motorbike. Quinn Simmons is up there. Oh, so this is back in. Okay, this is the ch this
is the main Pelon. GC Pelaton here. Tatty’s back there. Quinn Simmons is in this group here. 46
seconds out front now, guys. Uh the big sprinters are not getting those green jersey points unless
they decide to bring it back right this second. Uh 27° wind out of the northnorthwest at almost
20k an hour at times. They’re traveling at 52k an hour right now. Uh yeah, and the winds look strong
out there to me. And they’re going through trees and little villages, the flags are sitting
still. As soon as they hit the open fields, those flags are just unfurled, flying straight
out. Uh looks like Neielson is doing an arm flick here to Israel. Premier Tech Rider. I wonder who
that would be there. Let’s check this group out. So yeah, Neilson Paulus is there. Uh who was
Israel? Oh, that’s Lenko. We got uh Picnic Post here. Uh super high overall, but besides that with
Oscar only. Besides that, uh they really haven’t done a lot yet this tour, but he is is he sixth
place overall? I think he’s sixth place overall. Uh okay, guys. Uh let me close that there. Getting
close to that sprint point, boys. Getting close. Uh, are we going to see Matthew Vanderpool
and uh, Vout go headto-head? I hope Vout’s got his wheels under today. You know, I love Matt
Matu Vanderpool, but uh, I love Vout, too. Um, yeah. So, upgrade. I think Yonas is just getting
stronger mentally. Every day he’s getting beaten up, but Ottocom terrible. Time trial getting
better. Uh, finished second overall that day. uh yesterday 4 seconds behind Tatty.
Couldn’t beat him in an explosive sprint, but right there he was the only guy there
with Tatty. So I think he’s getting better. Anthony Maya Mangi here, Kenya and Ethiopia
endurance type of athletes could challenge TDF champions if they could afford equipment and
technical training. Most of them can barely afford a pair of you. Dude, it’s happening in Atraa.
It is happening in Atraa. Uh we know they have tremendous endurance values there. Uh the majority
of the world’s best runners come from there. Although there’s always an oddity that stands
out, some random dude that comes from some random country. I think it just depends on the individual
too. I understand what you’re saying though. It’s kind of their thing. Like running is so big
there. Like here in can if I’ I’m sure if I went to Ethiopia or Kenya, uh every kid in high school
is probably running. We have track and field here and it’s like the least enjoyed sport. It’s so not
important to us. Uh endurance running in Ethiopia or Kenya is like hockey to us. Uh if you were go
to the states, it’s like football or baseball or um basketball down there. It’s like the schools
are basically developing kids from a young age. They start young. uh they start in little league
uh and they get developed and there’s a chance they could be in high school and get noticed uh
and you’re off to the races. It’s not track and field. If there’s any Americans here or Canadians,
you tell me how uh big endurance running was in school. It’s just I think Ethiopia and Kenya,
that’s your sport. That’s your thing. Uh hockey, Canada is a country of 40 million people. We have
probably 70% of the world’s best hockey players uh with only a population of 40 million which is
like less than the size of California and that’s our thing. So that’s what we do. Uh but I hear
what you’re saying, dude. It’s uh huge endurance athletes there. But it is their sport, too. Tatty
sounds like tada. He can be a magician. Yeah, dudes. I I don’t even know how you guys say it.
I’m just sticking with Tatty. Um, all cool, dude. Uh, right here. Upgrade your mind. So, he knows my
my part of the world. Uh, wow. How did I lose you guys already? Uh, upgrade your mind, dude. Let’s
have another coffee sip together. Thank you so much again for your support. Uh, lived in Alberta
for 7 years, working out of USC and UL. Dude, what were you doing there? Obviously, uh I’m not sure
if you’re an instructor, a professor, uh research assistant, something like that. USC, that’s where
I went. University of Calgary, guys. Kind of like the oil and gas learning center for this part of
the world. Uh Dawn L. Wives with knives. I think they are all scheming to get us husbands. Exactly.
Wives with antifreeze. That’s what seems to be the worst. Uh Annette here saying, “I wish we could
see the video.” I will be showing highlights as I can and I know I can show those uh because I I
mean I got I got hit with copyright strike twice in the first week. Once was for a little tiny
jingle that I didn’t even know was playing. It wasn’t the video, it was the jingle and then uh
like a 10-second jingle. You know, the sound. Oh, the flags are a weapon, folks. They are a whapon
here. Group one going into the sprint point now, folks. Heading in there right now. Uh, I’m
going to watch them go through here and then, uh, I’ll be able to see what happened and I’ll
talk you through what I saw on the sprint as they went through. I got to think it’s going
to be a Matthew Vanderpool/vout sprint. Uh, Matty will be there, but I don’t think he’s a long
enough range sprinter to to match those two. Uh, we’re going to go to the race here and see what
they got to say. Jonathan Milan is out the back of the Pelaton right now. So, none of the big boys in
the green points jersey are getting points here, folks. Uh, they’re going to be devoured by
Matthew. I think Matthew Vanderpole is fourth or fifth overall. So, maybe they’ve got intentions
for Matthew. Uhhuh. That’s what’s going on, folks. That’s what’s going on. Yeah. Jonathan
Milan out the back. Bingyan’s not up there, guys. I’m sorry. Bing Germay is not up there. Uh,
we are in Oatana, I think, or Oatenia. Hopefully, Tequila’s here and can correct me. Just entering
another department. It’s actually really rolling hills here. So, I’m looking for the sprint points
here. Matchu of Arnold Dele. Yeah, he was there, too. I did mention him earlier. Uh, let’s see
how vout’s doing these days. Uh, I thought we’d have more. They’re only showing six points
already scored. Oh, Matty got fifth. So, guys, uh, looks like Alpison Coin now is going for the
green jersey. Let’s have a quick look at that. and they should because he’s not that far out. Uh
stages are going to get so hard that Milan may not be scoring any points anymore. So on this stage
ranking here, you can see it right here. Uh that’s not true. Sorry guys, wrong stage. Let’s bounce
up here onto the Carcasson stage. Here is himself, Mr. Smiley himself, Matu Vanderpool. Uh 20
points. Arnold Dele sprinter for lotto. That makes a lot of sense to me. getting 17. Inkorn
for Sudal, Stewart for Israel, Premier Techch, Matty Mahoric, Lutenko, Camponarts, Driers,
Groves. I thought Groves would have been higher. I bet you uh Matthew went on like a long
range attack there and Lund Anderson. So overall, now let’s have a look at this. Jonathan Milan
will get no points coming through here. He is at 251. Tatty’s at 228. Machu Vanderpool is at 210.
And this dude here, the man himself, the duche, uh, he could win the stage quite easily today. Uh,
he might be able to stay away all day. Got another attack by the Inos riders here going off the front
of the GC Pelaton. Trying to figure out who that is. We’re going to bounce back now, guys. They’re
through. So, I think they do play points down to 15 secondary group here. This is Laurance. This
guy was trying to bridge up before. Ah, that’s what’s showing up there in the replay. And I’m
going to get a replay here of the sprint going in. Let’s see how they went across. You know what?
It might It was just a high-speed. Actually, you know what? It wasn’t even They didn’t
even contest it. Let me see this again here. uh watching this. Matthew Vanderpool’s on
the front, Arnold Dele just rolls across the line second. Uh as they went through, so
you’ve got Matthew Vanderpool on the left, Arnold Dele on the right. Matthew Vanderpool
like waved his hand to him, like gave him a little thank you. They know they’re So Lotto’s
allowing uh Alpison to uh get those points, guys. There’s stuff going on between the teams
that’s in the background that sometimes you don’t understand or just never see. Um, okay. So,
upgrade your mind was in Alberta for 7 years. Robert, UCI so concerned about safety but allow
riders take hands off handlebars to look into their chest to talk on the radio and design
dangerous courses. Yeah, that’s true too. Uh, guys, I’m going to point out right now when Tatty
went down on stage six, who knows when that was. Uh he had his hand off the handlebar, which I kind
of thought, you know, and not to sound mean to him or whatever. Dude, you were in the final 4 km.
He wasn’t inside the 3 km thing yet. Things are getting crazy. They were probably going 50k an
hour and you’re riding along with your hand off your handlebars. Uh kind of probably like a little
bit of slip, just a little bit inattentive there. Uh probably just feeling really comfortable where
he was and then Oh, and then he’s down. Uh hands on the handlebar, boys. Um Bratu Gabreasi here.
Benny will win. Dude, I don’t know if he’s The bumps are too hard today for the sprinters.
Uh it looks like a sprint stage. It’s not. Uh these sprint teams are going to be fried right
now after those climbs. Uh Bingham’s going to be back here in this group. Uh he is probably
in this main group here. Jonathan, actually I just saw Jonathan Milan. He’s back in this group.
So Jonathan Milan is in the GC group, but we got a group of 15 hitters up front here with a 49
second gap. Uh first little bump of the day is coming. And every one of these bumps, we’re going
to see those sprinters start falling out the back. Let’s get this sped up a little bit here. I got to
find out where I am. Just a tiny bit behind here. Uh just really trying to get caught up.
Okay, there’s live live now. 104. Okay, looks like I’m 600 meters off. There’s always
a slight uh lag there on the front of the GC Pelaton. We got Tutor up there. Alpas and
boys are there. Pogy sitting very near the front. Uh Vizma’s right behind him. Looks
like three Vizma guys back there. Guys, what’s Vizma going to do this week? I think
they’re still going to stick to the plan and hope for a day that everything just comes
together. Um, Yonas is not going to give up. Like, Vizma is not here to lose. They will do
everything. They will just apply the pressure every day. Apply the pressure every day. And if
that day happens that today is not feeling great, that gives them their opportunity. Uh,
yep. All the Benny supporters coming. Uh, Yinga Yamani Benny will win today. Uh,
we’ll see that in a couple hours, guys. Robert saying, “Phil got dropped as a
commentator long ago. I lost patience with all his name mixups. He could have retired when Paul
passed.” Yeah, that was crazy when Paul passed. Although Phil is commentating this year apparently
for Peacock. Uh that’s what I’ve been told. I I wouldn’t know. I’m not in the world of the
commentators. I’m just like totally on the outside here, guys. Uh Mr. Independent. Um
256 watching. Great day Sunday here today, guys. We’re going to see an awesome
finish here coming up. Uh Robert saying, “I hope all the people predicting a Benny win
today.” Right. Well, like Okay. So, they’re only 53 seconds behind this group, but we got two
Cat 3 coming. That secondary Cat 3 looks way worse than the first Cat 3. I would say that Let’s
Let’s have a look at them. First Cat 3 coming up, guys. It’s 1.8 km at 7%. It’s kind of like more
like a classics type climb. The second one is 6.2 km at 5.5. That’s a Cat 2. How can this
one be a Cat 3? 6.2 2 km long at 5 1/2%. Yet, this one is 1.8 at 7. I think the other one’s
going to be tougher. Uh, this first one, they’re all going to get over and we’re going to see all
the sprinters falling out of this one here just on the second climb alone. Uh, and then we still
got to do the pasta, which is even harder. Uh, short but super steep, 10% gradient for almost
3 km. Once they get over the top, it’s going to be a runaway to the finish. So, everyone needs to
get into that group. Uh, we’ve got riders dipping out the back already. We got a group of 38 back
here. Simon Yates, Adam Yates. Just going to look at a few of the big names here, guys. Martinez
is back there. Mark Hershey, Giani Moscone, Mororrow Schmidt for JCO Alula, Sean Flynn. Uh,
other Scottish rider I think here in the tour. Just looking at dropped a bottle there, dude.
They’re showing replays of people trying to grab their bottles. Tim Wellins. Yeah, you
missed one, bro. That’s one that’s gone. There’s a drinking mix. Here’s him grabbing his
Museette bag. He dropped his Museette bag, too. Uh, so Tim got no uh food or liquids there.
Imagine if they couldn’t take it from the car. I think that would be really interesting to see.
Like have a tour one year, no feeding from the car whatsoever. No drinks from the car whatsoever.
You can only feed and drink in those those feed zones. Uh or maybe have the roaming uh Vetel
dude with the bottles coming off the motorbikes. just that would throw another whole twist to
it. Uh David Ger, live in Southern California. Weather is great. High8s, very userful this time
of year. Uh usually in the hundreds, dude. High 80s for us is hot here. Uh in fact, I woke up
this morning and uh opened the front door and it it seemed like it felt like fall. Um I don’t
know how cold it was overnight. I’m seeing it’s uh 50 degrees Fahrenheit right now. Feels like
about 42 with the uh rain and the wind. And today uh yeah, rainy, crappy. We’re barely hitting 60
today, I think. Uh we’ve been getting way too much rain lately. Johan Berniel said that there
is a 300 gram difference between a TT and climbing bikes. I think they chose which bike they were
more comfortable with. Okay, makes sense, Don. Yeah, because that’s the thing now.
These TT bikes are so light. Uh, it’s whichever bike you feel more comfortable
with and which one is more comfortable to ride, I guess. So, good point, Don. It’s not like the
old days where your road bike weighed X and your TT bike was really fast and on the flats, but
weighed a lot more. They’re so light now. Uh oh. Yeah. Lipoitz used it. Raj used it. Yo,
uh Yonas used it. Uh who else used it? I think there was four or five of the top guys that
used it. Lucien Arabi here is saying, “Of course Tatty will take the win.” The W. Is that today or
overall? Uh yep. Saying definitely he will win. I you know just my gut feel tells me that Tatty
doesn’t need to win today. Uh of course he’s going to be right at the front controlling. Uh
going into rest day he wants to start recovering already I think for the week that’s coming up
because guys we haven’t hit the hardest week yet. Probably three of the hardest stage outside
of the HC day yesterday uh are up this week. Uh, the Bonto is a brutal climb, but that’s the only
hard part of that day. It’s a I think it’s a it’s a 1500 meter climb, so it’s almost a 5,000 foot
climb at the end of the stage. Hilltop finish, mountain top finish, guys. Um, okay, Hank. Hank is
back in the mix. Hank Bohan. Hank, where you from, dude? You haven’t told us yet. Thanks for the
coverage again. Really appreciate your efforts, dude. Thank you so much for being here. Uh, like
guys, I t I chatted with my buddy. You know, girls are over there, dudes are over here chatting. He
goes, “Dude, I’m watching your channel. What’s going, dude? What’s going on? Keep going, going,
go.” He goes, “Dude, G, just be consistent.” Um, yeah, I love the support. Uh, I’m listening
to him, but he doesn’t have a YouTube channel, but, you know, he’s like a media guy. Uh,
he actually has a lot of stuff on the go, and he’s told me he’s going to probably
start he’s looking at moving to the States. Uh, Canada apparently has some crazy capital
gains tax coming on your primary residence, which is just brutal. Uh, I think there could
be a 50% capital gains tax on your primary residence when you sell your house. So, you sell
your house, you got to pay tax on half it. Uh, everyone will sell their houses. Or I guess you
could uh I don’t know. I think someone else said, “Use your house as leverage to get a bunch of
equity in something else because at that point, you don’t really want your house to be
worth much because when you sell it, you’re going to pay all that tax.” Uh, sounds like
a stupid idea to me. Uh, okay. Less political, less political, guys. All cycling talk here.
Uh, look at those tires. Incredible. Uh, okay. Alexander Wall in Eratraa. Cycling is more
popular though. Yeah, Eratraa is huge for cycling right now. Huge. I’ve seen footage from there and
uh I’ve seen local crit races. Pretty exciting. Brandon, you don’t sit and wait for crashes and
lose a race. You keep racing unless you want to give up time to all your competitors. Look at how
Pogy sits on Bingo, then sprints the end for the win. Yeah. Yeah. To me, Tatty was just rolling
ahead. I think the group he was in was just going hard. Uh so then UAE said, “Hey, Tatty, you need
to slow it down.” which kind of is the job of the yellow jersey. When you’re in charge and you get
all the respect back towards you, you should keep things kind of in control for the rest of your
contenders you’re going up against. Otherwise, it’ll look like you took advantage of them. Uh
Don saying, “We had some endurance running at my school, but football, hockey, soccer, baseball
is more popular. The kids want scholarships for college. They pivot to lacrosse.” Yeah. Yeah, go
to go to a sport that’s not as big and be good at that. Tudor pushing really hard on the front
right now. Uh back in the GC Pelaton. Got three riders up there. Uh Yonas sitting right on them.
Starting the climb here, guys. We’re starting that climb. Uh you can see it right here. Front group’s
already on it. This category 3 uh 1.8 km at 7%. So again, this is more like a classics
type type climb. Something that uh Mr. Bonderpool will be well used to. Tim
Wellins will be used to as well. Van will be used to Van 2 hours and 6 minutes behind. 70th
place overall. Uh best ranking guy here is wow crazy. It’s Victor Camponarts. I thought it would
have been Matthew Vanderpool. Bouncing back here. Uh yeah, Don Colin antifreeze. So it hasn’t been
Gatorade. Exactly. They slip that stuff into your Gatorade, boys. Do not let your wives cook for you
or prepare your energy bottles. Do not let them do that. Uh yeah, it’s crazy how much crime stuff
Joey watches. We don’t really watch like I refuse to watch fictional crime shows now. I just like my
mom would be like, “Oh, there’s a great show. It’s a crime this about a crime.” Uh yeah, it’s fake.
It’s all fake. It’s fake, but it’s real. That’s what I don’t like about it. Now, someone will
say, “Yeah, but Colin, I bet you you like Game of Thrones.” I love Game of Thrones, but we all know
that’s super fake. It’s not trying to be real. I’m so far It’s so far outside the realms of reality,
I just say, “Yeah, I’m in. I’m into this.” But when I’m when I’m trying to believe there’s a
super tough family and they got this going on and they’re like control, yeah, it’s all fake.
Uh I’d rather watch a real story about it. Uh I, you know, it’s like all of us. We probably spent
too much time uh watching TV. You know what’s crazy? It’s Alfa Phippe who’s pushing here on this
climb. So, Alfa Phippe who crashed earlier. That sure looks like Team Simmons. Here he goes again,
folks. Team Simmons is trying to be first out of the yellow jersey group. I need to catch up here,
guys. Catching up again. Nope. That’s live. Live right there. Uh over the top of the first climb.
Let’s see what they’re going to say here. Uh do we have any details on it? Yep. Just seeing
here Simmons is attacking. We don’t have any stats coming over the first climb yet. They are
over it though. Uh only two points available. The Vanderpool group is through it now. So they’ve
already taken the points. They’re the KM points. They’re through it. Nothing showing up yet, guys.
Uh so even the TR France is slow at times. Lots of attacks going off the pelaton here using this uh
2 kmter long climb, 7% gradient. Uh probably as an effort to break the pelon up more uh and maybe
send more riders down the road. What is our gap right now? Uh it’s only 18 seconds, 16 seconds.
Uh Jonathan Milan 2 and a half minutes back from the GC group. Uh then we’ve got the King of the
Mountain jersey. There’s 38 riders back here. A lot of tired riders here waiting for the rest day
saving their legs. Simon Yates and Adam Yates back here. Actually, Simon is 18th overall. Uh Adam is
uh 22nd overall. Uh I wonder if the twin brothers are riding side by side just having a little
family reunion. Opposing teams, probably the two the two most powerful teams at the Tur of France,
the two opposing teams competing for the win. They’re just riding along having chitchat. Do they
talk about the teams? What do you think? They ever I wonder if they ever say anything to each other.
I’d like to know that. Uh Brandon, it depends on the situation whether uh wait if you wait though.
If a jeopardizer raise it, if eraser jeopardizes place, I can guarantee you the team will not wait.
Other day was a simple few seconds wait. Yep. Robert, when I grow up, Yeah. me too, Robert.
I want to open a chain of bike shops across Africa. long-term investment, lose money for a
couple of decades and then kaboom. Oh, definitely definitely it’s flying there. Uh Tequila here,
still here. Uh okay, still here. She says, “Say a Okay, I know I’m butchering that anymore because
that doesn’t sound right at all.” Uh, Swoosh Kid, NHL draft 2022, first and second overall pick,
Slovakia. Ah, okay. Nice, dude. So, Swoosh Kid calling me out and correcting me on the fly, bro.
I love it. Uh, dude, I’m not like fully up to speed on hockey. I only started getting in back in
the last couple years with Ebson being strong. Uh, but it’s always there in the background. Or like
Calgary, the Calgary Flames are right down the road. We still get tickets for it. we go we watch
Calgary get beat up every year. Um but yeah, no doubt there’s other countries. Finland has I
think Finland only has what a few million people and I would say they’re probably the strongest
presence out there. Uh obviously the US has a lot of good players too. Not picking on any
countries, but they have a population of over 300 million. It’s kind of like what you’re good
at. I think it’s also too uh I think it’s Slovakia or somewhere in there like in that central Europe
parts that are like incredibly good at basketball for some reason. That’s their thing there. That’s
what they really like. They’ve got a good I guess a good system feeding people into it. Upgrade
your mind. Are we doing bike terror today? Yes, we will. Dude, it’s sitting in the background
right now. I’ll let you know. Uh you can see I’m looking over here. I’m going to take a look at I’m
already in it right now. The bike terror guy said, “Hey Colin, if you’re going to use it,” he they
said, “Hit F5 more often to refresh it. If I leave it running, then it kind of desyncs.” And again,
guys, this bike terror stuff is like brand new to them. I’m actually looking at the Pogy group
right now. Uh I can see the I can see the chasing group. It’s saying there’s Okay, so right now I’m
seeing that Jonathan Milan and Tatty are riding together. Okay, I’m going to refresh this. Got to
refresh this, guys. Uh, let me do this cuz I don’t think that’s right. There was a second group
just riding in the distance. So, it needs to be refreshed more often. So, I got to get in the
habit of doing that. Yeah, it is refreshed now. So, there’s that group. Okay, I’m going to have
a quick look here back and see where I’m seeing them sit. Yeah, this is like this is pretty
close. Is Jonathan Milan in the main Pelaton right now because that’s what I’m seeing on
Berra. Uh I don’t know if I need more of a refresh. I didn’t see his name there. I’m just
looking for that green jersey right now. Uh no, he’s back here. 342 back. So I probably have to
refresh it again. Uh once we get more into a bit more of the technical climbs, I’m thinking
I’ll probably use it. You know what? We’ll probably use it up here. Actually, you know
what? I’m going to show it right here. when we got these crazy switchbacks going on,
it really gives you a coolest perspective uh of what the riders are doing because as we’re
talking about it and guys, even when you watch it on TV, you don’t really know where they are on the
road. And I’ve watched the tour for a lot of time, a lot of years, and it’s like, okay, they’re 1
minute 30 back, but where are they on the road? I’m trying to figure it out. I’ve always been
that guy. uh when you see them riding and you see the pel the riders looking up the switchbacks
uh once in a while they’ll show you a look back down of where the chasers are. Let’s give a
quick little update here. 17 riders in front group. So I think Laurance did get across. Uh I
think his name is Axel Lawrence. Maybe someone’s joined this group at front. There was 15 before.
Oo, look at this guys. Quinn Simmons is there. So he did go off the front before uh and join
up with that group. Okay, so they’re saying Lenenko got the first climb of the day. Palos got
second. There’s only two in one points. They did talk about the Simmons attack here. Uh that was
seven minutes ago. So it he’s bridged across. Okay, they’re talking about when at
Carcasson here in the Pelaton Magnus Court Neielson. I do remember that one. Uh
starting the next column of the day. Let’s 17 riders up front. We’re gonna continue this.
Jonathan Arvias, Matteo. Okay, Matteo, let’s go, dude. Here is this rider here, Axel Lance. That’s
the one I was thinking of. Danny Van Pppel. Uh, we’ve got four chasers. And then it’s the
Pelaton just lurking right behind them. Leapits, Pogy, they’re all there. Then we’ve got the green
jersey and King of the Mountains jersey. Uh, three minutes back. No one can take the KM jersey today
from Lenny Martinez, I don’t think. Not enough points available. Let’s see how much his lead
is. He’s got 60 points GC ranking. He’s got 60 uh two points for the cat 3es and then I guess
theoretically it was possible that maybe Pogy could have tied him if Pogy was to win both of the
cat twos. Oh, we don’t need to be on that one. Oh, wow. Uh, what’s going on here? Sorry, guys. Just
bounced me somewhere else. So, the cat 3es are only two-pointers. This cat 3 looks way harder
than a cat 3 to me. Just even at the profile, uh, it looks similar to the cat 2 over here. The cat
2, there’s five points. So, there were nine points available. Uh if Tatty had taken everything, he
would have been one point out of the KM. So that’s why Lenny is sitting at the back right now. It’s
not worth his effort to kill himself here today. Uh this group of 17 up front may be caught by this
chasing group of four. A UAE rider is positioned in there. So probably a day where they’re going
to let some of the other riders maybe try to go for the win. Uh yeah. So we will do some bike
terror. Let me actually keep that in my mind here. Okay. So, there’s some of the switchbacks
coming. We might be able to catch the Yeah. So, group one here and then group two I think is 30
seconds back. This would be kind of a cool place to show it here. Uh more when we get into these
little switchbacks here, though. Then I can look down, show you. And I I’m like the director of the
tour at that point. That’s what I love about it. Phil retired from commenting two years ago, then
came back. It’s him and Bob roll on Peacock with a few others. Okay. I didn’t know he was I think
he’s 81 and I heard he was on Peacock. Uh someone was asking about Benny here. I wonder why Benny
has lost so much power from last year. This Oh, it’s Anna. Uh did he have an accident or is it
just Milan is way better? Wonder if Yasper would have been able to win against Milan. Well, we had
the discussion and I was saying earlier I think Jonathan Milan’s got the highest top speed. I
think it was either I think it it was Evan, maybe it was Jay Taylor saying that they think Yasper
is the most explosive. So, he can accelerate the quickest. Jonathan Milan a touch off that.
Uh, but he’ll go to a higher speed overall. Um, I think Benny is not as fast. I don’t know if he’s
even as explosive. He’s got to be more tactical. He has to be positioned right all the time with
his team. So maybe his team just can’t get him to the line. Not giving him good placements here.
Uh this looks like Matty Mahor’s trying to go up the road here. Uh Quinn Simmons right is real
and that’s probably Vanderpool back there. Okay. Um Robert saying, “Surprised nobody has invented
a race radio with pushto talk on brake levers and little microphone helmet on strap. Maybe when
I grow up.” Yeah, Robert. That’s We got to get a company going, Robert. We’re going to have a
bike shops across Africa. Push talk radio. Dude, there might be like UCI regulations against
it. It’s probably something like that. Uh Chris man here. Yonas needs to give in.
Throw it all in the brakes. Uh so he thinks Yonas needs to give up. Or you saying Yonas needs
to go harder. Maybe throw it all in the brakes. Reuben. Hey Ruben. Uh Ruben OG supporter from
Belgium. Almost 30,000 calling. Thanks, dude. Um, Chris man here. Dude, I agree with you. No way.
Are inner Mare bringing this one back for Benny. Too many big strong boys in the break. Yeah, guys,
this one’s probably on a flyer right now. Probably on a flyer right now. I’m looking here. It shows
like group one and two are getting close together. We are on the climb though. Let’s look at the
profile. They have started the climb. Might be a good time for me to just divert over here. See
what I can see over here. Um, I’m going to exit that. I’m going to refresh this for you. Spectate
that and see how things look. I like to see how it looks first before I’m doing anything with it.
Leading group. Oh, yes. There he is. There he is. So, I don’t think it’s going to, you know, I’m
going to have a look over here now. I’m going to have a quick peek at this group here. Wow. So
good here. Uh so guys right now you’re seeing five riders in the front group. Mahoric store,
Tim Wellins, Quinn Simmons, and Victor Campen Arts. So five guys have taken off from that group
of 17. There’ll be 12 chasers. Now let’s jump over to our little friend bike terra. Boom boom time,
folks. I love stuff like this. Uh hopefully it didn’t desync on me. I want to show you something
here. Uh okay. Sometimes it does that. guess it’s giving me I call this the funky chicken when I’m
streaming. Uh so good guys except that this is going on. This is my OBS system here. There’s five
riders in the break. It’s actually showing you what’s going on. Uh looks like se now we just
got two more riders come back on. Tim Wellins got back on. Uh looks like Neielson came back and
maybe Alexi Latenko. Now take a look in the bottom corner here. You can see the little arrow. Let
me just zoom out a bit. We’re on the climb here. When I go back to the other screen, you’re going
to see that exact same profile. Try to get like that memorized in your head a little bit. So,
I’m just going to zip back here quick. I want to show you some stuff. Zipping back in here.
Uh, boom. Boom. Come back here. We’re going to zip in. Here’s our same map. So, look at this
really harsh switch back here. This is going to be really cool when they get there. Uh, I want to
be able to see group one above group two here. uh climbing through. This is super forested. Uh when
you get around a corn corner, you don’t even see the other riders. Don’t even see them. So, group
one and two. Right now, if I go back to uh Berra, turn that off. And I’m going to swing back, guys.
I bet you I’m going to see them in the distance here. It’s showing me that there’s riders trying
to go off the front. Now, again, guys, this is a work in progress. Uh, not everything’s going to be
shown. I sometimes like let’s say there’s a group of 30. I don’t think it’s going to show all 30
riders. I don’t think they’re there yet or they’re not tracking a lot. So, we just went around the
really hard switch back there. There should be a group right down below us. I’m just going to keep
peeking here and see if I can see it. I’m trying to look down below. Uh, might be too much of a
corner there. Okay. So, what we’ll do then is we go to the chasing group. I just We’re going to go
to vout back here. This is the chasing group. Uh, okay. They’re on the switched back still down
below. It says in the chasing group that we have, if that’s the chasing group, there’s a lot of
riders there. I think it’s 16 riders. I’d need to confirm if that’s really what’s happening.
Have there been a bunch of guys jump out of the pelaton? Okay, guys. Trial almost call this beta.
We’re calling this beta here, boys. This is like beta for uh Bike Terror doing this. And again,
they’re the only platform out there that can do this. So, they’ve just gone around that really
hard switch back. Maybe we’ll have to jump back to the front group. Let’s go to my man Victor Campon
Arts. You know that thing. Yeah, they’re already around the bend. So, if you look at the map
again, the chasing group has just started gotten into that long straightaway. These guys have just
tucked around the corner. You can’t see they’re traveling up this climb at uh 28 and a half km an
hour. Uh if we were doing this this kind of climb, we’d probably be like 12 13 km an hour. And when
we go back, I want to see if that second group’s got bigger. Still saying seven riders in the front
group. Let’s just go through it. Let’s pretend that bike ter is giving us all the data. Maddie,
Victor, Tim Wellins, Alexi, Michael Store, Quinn Simmons, Neilson Powell. You saw it. Uh I think
we got another really good switch back to look at here. I’m going to jump out of this now, guys.
Get back to race coverage here. And let’s see what they’re telling us about these groups. So, this
needs to get refreshed because I know they’re further than that. That kind of got hung up on me.
Yes. So, see, they’re heading to this other really sharp turn here. There should be seven riders in
this front group. There is seven riders in this front group. Uh they were showing that group
two is bigger. It is bigger. Wow. By Terra, killing it, dudes. Killing it. Uh, Matt and Ansow.
Anslo, I don’t actually know your first name. I’m not sure if that is your first name. I know that’s
your Discord name, but dude, you guys are rocking this. Love it. Uh, guys, I ride all the platforms.
Five major platforms. Uh, or I have ridden all the platforms. Zift, Ruby, Training Peaks, Virtual,
My Whoosh. Last but not least, By Terra. They’re the only ones that can do this. Thank you so
much. So, remember before I was saying, “Wow, the second group says it’s 16 riders.” Riders are
jumping away from the Pelaton, the GC Pelaton to get and they’ve made the second break bigger.
Uh they were saying it was 161. Obviously, more piling in. I saw Warren Bar’s name in that break
and I’m like, is Warren really there? Canadian flag flying in the background there on the side
of the road. Wow. So cool. So, they’re going to go around that other really hard switch back now.
Guys, give uh Bike Terra some love in the chat here if you can. I’m trying to I’m trying to help,
dude. I’m just trying to promote them a little bit. Uh I have no connection with Bike Terra. Uh
all I can say is that those dudes have messaged me. Those dudes have answered me. Those dudes
listening to me. Uh the other platforms don’t. They’re in their own little worlds. Uh so, if I
can help bike out in any way, I’ll gladly do so. Help a bro out. Help bike terror out here.
Give them some love in the chats. Um, hello from Bignyion fans. This is uh C. I J
Taylor, good morning y’all. J Taylor’s asking how is Yonas? How is Binnie? Uh, Yonas is back
in the GC pelaton. Benny is further back. UAE on the front right now. I’m watching the feed over
here, guy. We got Neil’s Plet of I’ll figure out the rest. Pogy sitting in fourth place. They’re
taking control of the climb. They’re managing the front of the GC Pelaton. GC Pelaton, guys, is
further down the road here. It’s a group of 94 riders. Second group chasing here. I actually want
to jump back into bike here quick. We got seven riders in our front group. Uh we should have 21
riders in that 23 riders. So, the second group’s getting stronger and stronger over this uh what
do we call it? They say it’s a category 3 climb. That ain’t category 3. That’s category two. Bro,
if that’s a category three, this is a category two. I just look at this profile here and I can
kind of overlay it on this profile here like all the way. Uh the total climb. Why is this two and
that’s a three? I guess it’s at the end of the the stage, but still that usually only applies for
the higher ranked categories, not these twos and threes. Uh I wonder if I’ve got that turned on.
I might have that turned on here just so you guys can see this later. I think this is the climb
later today. That’s not the climb later today. Okay, I had this figured out earlier. I think it’s
this one here. Just turn that off there. Is that the climb we’re doing later today? 8.7 at 5.3%.
Okay, I’m going to have a look at that, guys. Uh I might show you some more data there from uh
Climbinder. Looks like uh I’m watching a little bit of a delayed section here. And looks like
we got an Inos rider going off the front of I think that’s the uh the breakaway that’s formed
up front. Getting stronger and stronger by the moment. Yeah, this is the breakaway up front.
Uh soon to be probably 30 riders when they get on. Seven in the very front. Then we’ve got uh
okay, it is showing it here. Carlos Rodriguez, this is the rider I’m watching on screen right
now. He’s in between the two of them. Any rider uh and then there should be 22 riders behind
that. There is 22 riders behind him. Uh good group again. Jordan Jagat, Ben Oconor, Guom
Martan, uh Christian Rodriguez for Arcade B&B, Valin Valentine Matuas, Bari Machu Vanderpool,
Alfa Phipes there. Great to see Alpha Lee. He fell early in the day, crashed hard. Uh up and at it in
the break. Jumping back over to the screen here, we’ve got uh three UAE riders in the front. The
bricks the big smile grimace out of Neil’s pallet. Tatty looking quite bright in the uh full yellow
suit today. Uh let’s take a look at the map here. Yeah. So, all these groups Oh, this is this is
good here. This is Rodriguez. Here’s our chasing group of 22. I’m just going to slip over here for
a second. See what I can do here. And I’m going to see if I can find Rodriguez for you because the
other group’s right on them. Uh just to show you like this live tracking that we got going on here,
guys. This is fantastic to me. Uh so, okay, I got to turn it on. Sorry, guys. I need an assistant
here. I need full support. Uh, you’re now looking at Carlos Rodriguez, 12th place overall. Inosios
Grenaders. I said he was attacking earlier. Let’s have a little look behind him here. And if you
guys look in the distance, just have a little look. Calling the director here. Uh, again,
simplified graphics runs on your browser. You can see the only group coming up behind him
right now. Says there’s 12 riders in this group. I I think you know what? I’m really impressed
with how uh close the numbers are. You know, I don’t know where they’re getting the data from,
how they get the data. He’s climbing at 24 25 km an hour. I’m going to jump back to the only group
here and let’s hang out with uh who do we want? Let’s hang out with Alfa Phippe here. So, we’re
with Ala Phipe here. I can look up the road and we’re going to see Carlos Rodriguez just around
the corner up here. There he is right there. And it looks like we’re catching some riders. Is
that real? Is that real, folks? Uh remember, uh nope. The other guys are further up the
road. So there may be some people riding this uh live and by Terra. So what we’ll do is we’ll
jump out of that again. I’m just going to do a quick reset, guys. Again. Beta beta beta beta.
Just think that it’s not fully perfected yet. So, we got our leading group of seven. We’re going
to go to Neielson Palace. It’s showing seven riders. They’ve actually got Neielson in the
right color jersey. I wonder if they did that on purpose. And that group of seven up front
looks right to me. Then we got Carl Ro. So, I think what we were seeing before
was something a little bit glitchy. Uh, and if we look back again, the chasing group
here, it says they’re 150 back. We’re going to hang out with Ben O Connor this time. They should
just be seeing Carlos Rodriguez around the corner there. I think he’s just slipped away around the
corner. We’ll jump back to our main feed here. Uh, Yonas just getting a mechanical on the side of the
road here, guys. Just trying to figure this out. Uh, he’s fallen a long way back here through
the cars. He’s behind the medical car now. So, I’m not sure if he was standing waiting for a bike
for a long time there. Uh, I do want to get a look at this again. Okay, I’m just clicking everything
that I shouldn’t be clicking. Okay, sorry guys. So, yeah, the Carlos Rodriguez group, it’s him by
himself. Uh, they’re catching him right now. They just they’re right on them. surprising. I thought
that would have been like 1 second. It’s 15. Well, now they’re showing 30 seconds. I think it’s just
bouncing around. 23 riders chasing Rodriguez who’s trying to bridge up to the seven up front. Guys,
again, if you think that perspective from Bike Terra is cool, just let them know in the chat.
I mean, they developed this as a cycling app. They developed it as basically one where you
can ride more of your own local roads. Guys, I could go on Strava right now and I could
develop my own uh Berra app. I see the the little love hearts flying here 100%. I’m going to
do those. Uh oh my Dorcas Maximus Yonas blowing kisses riding with Septooseus. Dude, stop with the
blowing the kisses. It’s just insane to me. Uh, feed zone technology hasn’t evolved since the
20th century when I grow up. Robert’s got new ideas for the uh, feed zone technology. Uh,
John Chady here. That’s fast four lug Fox body Mustang racer. Speaking of tires, how
wide are the tires these guys are in? Dude, I don’t know. I’m not really sure. I think
they’re all like on 28s now, I would believe. Uh, okay. Rodrigo Pharaoh Gomez, who times a clock race.
Uh, I wonder if he’s asking who does the timing, maybe. That’s what I’m thinking, guys. I’ll
show you the groups again here. So, over the top of that one there. Rodriguez is in the group.
I wonder if he caught them. Uh, Lutenko goes over the top. I think he got the last one, too. Israel
permit. No, I think he got one point at the last one. Tim Wellins goes over in second. Uh guys,
we’re going to start bombing downhill here right away. Let me catch up in the chat right now. Uh
US Chris uh here in Nago, Japan. Haven’t heard Healey mentioned today. Is he out of contention?
Um let’s take a look here, guys. We’ll use this one. We’re going to go rankings. Let’s check GC.
I think Ben Healey’s in the top 10 right now. I’m pretty sure he’s in top 10 overall in GC. Uh he
did move up. Ben Healey ninth place overall dude. Uh ninth place though is 18 minutes and 41 seconds
behind the Slovenian alien. The tadpole Pagachar. I don’t know why stage 13’s open there. We want
this one. Going through the chat again, guys. How is MV MVDP? Uh he’s in that front group. Actually,
he’s in the second group chasing the front group. Uh there’s about 30 riders off the front away from
the Pelaton, the Smart Racers today. Uh Wellins is up there, too. Uh I think Wellins is in the very
front group. There’s seven riders in the front group. Tim Wellins is up there for UAE. Quinn
Simmons is up there. Quinn’s still going for that stage victory. Uh we’ve got an EF rider at the
back. It’s actually Ben Healey now getting a push. Uh, so Ben Healey had a mechanical at the back
bottle hanging out of his mouth. I think he got a bike change because I can see him putting his
head unit back on. So they take their head units. They stand there. Uh, there’s an EF rider waiting
back here for him. So Ben had some kind of issue there. Uh, been a couple of issues on this hill.
I wonder if the road has got some debris on it, debris. Um, and there’s been some flat tires.
Wonder what kind of I don’t even know what kind of wheel setups do these guys use like sealant
and would they use that or is that too heavy? Um yeah, Simmons is way off the front. Uh Ben
Healey was with the yellow jersey group, the GC group. Uh just had a full mechanical
bike change. I saw him attaching his headset back on his uh computer. Tim Wells smiling at the
front. Four UAE riders shephering Tatty up here. Jonathan Novirus sitting right behind him.
And looks like we’ve got more attacks coming out of that second group. Yeah, I think there’s
attacks coming out of that second group. So again, first group, eight riders. Someone just jumped
on. Okay. Yeah, Carlos Rodriguez jumped on the Inos rider who I was showing you on Berra. Uh
second group, 26 riders. It’s grown even more. There’s slowly been riders filtering away
and they’re not showing up on the tracker here. Uh the group’s getting bigger and
bigger. These 34 all need to get together. Uh race is underway. Rodrigo, dude. Rodrigo, no problem. Uh dude, dude.
Okay. Anyone that speaks a second language and apologizes, please don’t because you’re doing
an awesome job of it. Uh he says, “I’m sorry for my bad English. I’m Brazilian and I’m learning
the language.” Dude, you’re doing absolutely fine. I can understand you. Uh the first one
I didn’t just about the clock thing. But yeah, the race is underway. I do a full audio commentary
here, what I’m seeing happening in the race and how I can show the data to you guys so you get
an understanding of what’s going on out there. Uh whoa, falling behind again. Someone says,
“So much for the breakaway win.” Well, I’m thinking there’s going to be a breakaway
win. I think it’s right here. It’s going to form. I don’t know how many will be left at
the end. Uh we are descending quite rapidly now down the other side of the coat dez at the
turday France as uh Mr. Bob Ro likes to say. Uh Rodrigo, yep, he’s here. Yeah. Anna saying
Serbia is good at basketball. Yeah, it’s kind of like a weird one. I was like what? Like I see
them at the Olympics, I’m like Canada is not that good at basketball. Like and again Serbia is just
a tiny little country. That’s kind of their thing there, you know? I guess yeah, that’s their thing.
Make sense? Like certain countries play certain sports and they could be a tiny country, but it’s
their number one thing. Uh they kind of dominate everyone else. Okay, who’s this dude here? We got
a new bro here. Uh, his name looks like um, well, it’s NTN not I’m not sure what I’m supposed to
say, but let’s just call him NT for now. Serbia is the best around the Balkan area in basketball.
Nikolai Yokic, the current best player in the world. Okay, dude. Yeah, dude. I know so little
about basketball, so this is awesome. Svenia are pretty good, too. European champion some years
ago. Luca Donic, Donic, the main man. Donic, the pretty Donic. Yeah, dude. That’s what I mean.
I so I don’t follow basketball at all. Not a fan of it. Just not my thing. Um then but you know at
the Olympics and stuff like that and I’m like who are these guys? Cuz to me basketball I just think
NBA and I don’t even follow that. So I see other countries that show up and they like really really
good. And then I found out the country has like 5 million people. Uh like I have no idea. I bet
you Serbia doesn’t have many people. So they’re they’re pulling from such a small population, but
they’re working so hard at it that I find that to be really impressive. Who’s in the lead group?
This is Jim Boy here. Lead group at the moment. There’s seven eight riders out front. Uh Carlos
Rodriguez, Victor Campen Arts, Quinn Simmons, Tim Wellins, Neilson Pace, Michael Store for Judor
Cycling, Alexi Latenko for Israel Premier Techch, and Matty Mahor for Team Bing Victorious.
They are being chased by 26 riders. 31 seconds back. So, I think they’re going to
come back together in the valley flats. So, between the Kotus and the Pastusant, uh there’s
a valley system. It is kind of false, flatty, and rolly. It doesn’t look easy. Uh you guys can
see it on the map in the middle of the screen right now. This little section through here, uh
before the past, I imagine the bigger group will be able to pull back that smaller group. Uh just
more turns on the front for the smaller group. Um, yeah. Let’s see what race’s got to say here. Just
showing Alexi Lenenko up the climb 27 km an hour. Uh, okay. So, 30 sec. It’s coming down. 30 seconds
back from the leaders to the group of 26. We want that firepower. 34 riders at the front would
be awesome. Uh, the GC Pelaton is 2 minutes 15 seconds behind the second place group on the road.
That’s the big group of chasers. And the green jersey is way out the back. There’s 42 riders
back there. They are more than 8 and 1/2 minutes behind the leaders. Joey Jojo now awake, folks.
I can hear the dogs running around the house. So, she is up and at it. She came home and she was
flying, folks. Uh, red wine tasting last night. I was a good boy. Didn’t have anything.
Diet Cokes all the way for the win. Uh, Tequila’s trying to help me again.
Tequila. Uh, oh, I got it now. Okay, Tequila. Oxitania. Oxitata. Perfect. I That
was good. That was a good one. Oxitana. Yeah, the way you spelled it that time, I got it.
Oxitata. I like it. Love the French language. Uh, too bad I can’t speak it. Uh, June’s back. Nice
to be back on time. Good day, everyone. Nice one, too. Uh, you have all the illustrations. Okay,
that must have been the bike terrace stuff. Okay, Julius Caesar seems to be turmoil within
Vizma. Julius, what do you know? Tell me more, bro. What do you know? 343 people watching, guys.
Yes, you guys are killing it. You guys are killing it. Tatty and Vingo, this is Forester, new
dude here again. Forester, welcome aboard, man. Thanks for being here with us. Such a
good group here. You’re going to love it. Uh they’re in the GC group hanging out together.
Actually, Yonas was off the back. He’s back on now. There’s only 90 riders in that group. We got
42 out the back. That’s the green jersey group. And then we’ve got a smattering of breakaways
up the road. Uh you can see them here on the profile. I think there’s a third group forming.
Yeah, take a look at this. There is a third group forming. Yellow jersey group just went top the
uh co the sur. They’ve just crested that. Look at this guy here. Group three, 25 riders there.
Group two, Andress Lechnes. I saw him going off the front over on my other screen over here. It
was a Unix GR. I’m like, “Okay, I don’t know who that is off hand.” So, he’s trying to jump across.
He’s trying to initiate something by himself. Uh, group one, uh, eight riders up front. Guys, I
think this is a perfect spot to maybe highlight, uh, a little bit more by Terra. I’m
going to exit so you guys can’t see it. We exit out. We spectate back in. So, I’m doing
a refresh of it. They said if I leave it sitting idle, and again, this is the developers telling
me this. Hey, Colin, if you’re doing it, if you’re ever going to do this again for us, absolutely,
I’m going to do it for you guys. Um, make sure you refresh. So, they said they’re working on that,
guys. You’re looking at Bike Terror right now. You’re looking at the lead group of the tour to
France right now. Here it is, guys. Uh, so here’s Neielson Palace. There should be eight riders
here. That’s what I’m seeing here right now. I’m going to zoom out a little bit so you guys
can see it. They are on a downhill section here. So, there is eight riders in that group going
through the switchbacks and take a look at the profile here. That’s the profile we’re going
to see when we jump back to the map. Just, you know, look at this big uh part where we
head north and come back down to the south. So, we’re like riding in these rolling hills.
What I want to do now is uh let’s jump back to Lchneson. Let’s see if we find one rider solo
back here and let’s see where he is on the road with reference to these guys. Take a look at their
arrow. Uh Lchneson’s not that far back from them, I don’t think. Uh click on him. Yeah. So, he’s
riding solo back here coming out of all this curvy, swervy, switchbacky area. Uh he’s a
little ways behind them. Uh then we’re going to jump back another 600 meters to the Jagat
group. Okay, I got to click on an actual rider. Herald Tahada. Uh and all the riders populate in.
Remember, this is all browser based, guys. So, uh there’s always going to be that tiny
bit of lag as it loads everything in for you. It’s all being loaded. This is all being
generated as it happens. This is not loaded on my PC anywhere. So, we’ve got this group
here. I think they’re showing up pretty well. Uh, I’m going to say here that not all the riders
been shown. We’ve only got maybe five uh maybe 10 12 riders showing 12 15 riders showing up there.
And well, it does say it’s a group of 12. Is it really a group of 12? I think it’s bigger than
that. Bike Terra did tell me they’re they weren’t going to show every rider, so that must be just
the data they have right now. Jumping back out, guys, just so we can get back to the chitchat.
I think it shows a good first thing I want to do is I want to see the group sizes and I’ll let
you know how that’s working. Hopefully this will be some good feedback for the bike terra boys
as well. Eight up front. That was right. Here’s uh Andreas Lechnesend. Here’s those switchbacks I
was talking about. Here’s that little map thing I told you. We go north and then we come straight
back south. Group three. See, they got 25 riders here. We were seeing 12. they already told
me that they may not have the ability or uh or allowed to see every single location. So,
obviously, if there’s a group of like 150 riders, they’re not going to show every single one. Uh
and just and probably you’re thinking, well, why can’t they? Um I know on Zift, that’s the biggest
platform out there, the most powerful platform out there. Uh, I’ve been in races with 12,300 people
or group events that become races. They can only ever show a 100 riders on screen at once. That’s
their kind of like their draw in capability. Uh, and that’s a fully installed um software on my PC.
My PC can easily run it, but that’s all they allow to be drawn in. So, I guess it works the same for
Bera, something like that. It’s just limitations of draw in. Again, if you guys like what we’re
seeing there on Bera gives you a better feel of where we’re at on the road. Uh I’ll try to pick
some cool points where you can see it. Let’s just jump back to this profile here, guys. Getting
into the valley system soon. Uh I’m thinking those groups are all going to join back up. The
likeness is trying to get on. I think these guys behind are going to try to get back on in the
valley. Joey will be in the chat soon, guys. Yes, sir. Forcer. Yeah, GC guys
are hanging out with the GC boys. Uh, Robert, Belgian TV, we’re interviewing Quinn
Simmons. Robert, you’re number one in the chat. Talked about Durango, Colorado said he plans to
go for an Olympic medal in ski mountaineering someday. What is ski mountaineering? I don’t even
know what that is. Uh, Ansel, dude, you’re here. So, Anselow, guys, is one of the developers of
Berra. Uh, guys, drop some comments here. What do you guys think of how I’m able to show that? And
again, there’s no one else showing you that stuff. Like, I’m not saying me. I’m saying Bike Terra.
Uh I don’t want credit for that. I can’t show you that stuff uh using any other platform out
there. I think Yeah, Bike Terra is on to something really cool here. They started a cycling platform
and now they’ve got a Proour Race Tracker under their belts. Uh, super cool. An Angelow, dude.
Matt, dude, if there’s any way I can help you, just let me know. Uh, what comes around goes
around, boys. What comes around goes around. Uh, so anyways, guys, uh, show some love here to bike
terra Ian Holmes from the Philippines. Hey, buddy. Zift Tik Tok meetup time tomorrow. Okay, dude.
I’ll do it. Uh, I I’ll need to see what time it is cuz I know we’re on totally different uh time
zones. I love riding Zift on Mondays uh to get my uh my streak week done. I always got to keep it.
I think I’m at 37 weeks uh Zifting. Okay, so guys, listen right here. You’re listening to one of the
developers of that software we’re using. Uh we use the same data stream as the official live stream,
but we limit groups to 12. Boom. Right there, folks. For performance reasons, sometimes they
merge into larger groups. So, exactly. Uh Anzo, I was trying to explain that there. Sometimes
that’s all you’re allowed to show. And so guys, um, obviously, how do I put it? The bigger
the company, the bigger the platform, the more money behind them. There’s probably more
resources, more server power to show more. Uh, they’ve decided that 12 is the limit
that they’re going to show uh for like performance of the platform, which is smart. I
like it. I hope I explained that correctly. Uh, the jersey and and helmet color should
approx. Yeah, they they are matching. Like Neielson Palace was in pink and I saw the UA
boys in white yesterday. I saw Tatty in yellow. So great job. Uh dude, look at this. Anslo, take
a look here. Upgrade your mind from Canada. I’d watch the whole tour on Bike Terra, especially
with the ability to be the director and choose my own views. Dude, you can do it. You can do it.
Dude, you could fire up Bike Terror right now, dude. Please. I’m I’m asking you to do
this. I don’t want to say begging because that sounds weird. Fire up bike terror. Type
in bterror.com. Uh should load up really fast and you can probably be in there watching it. Uh
watching from San Diego, California, we got John uh Rivas here. 300 people in now, folks. Loving
it. Please like the channel if you can. Uh Kushitz Tyagi here. Uh hard for me to say that
name, but can anyone catch Pogy? Uh, I don’t think anyone can catch Pogy, but I think Pogy can
slow down and have a couple bad days, allowing Yonas to perhaps come back up. That’s kind of my
feel for the third week. Uh, it’s happened before. Uh, Junior, the stage will be an easy ride
before rescue tomorrow, I think. Dude, they’re going pretty hard. They’re going pretty
hard. Okay, what’s going on here? Looks like one of the picnic riders is gesticulating at everyone
else. Get up here like he’s Come on, go. Uh, let’s take a quick look again. Eight guys up front.
Lchniston still riding solo. The group of 25 trying to get back with Lechneson and catch these
guys down in the valley here. Let’s see the map, guys. So, at this point, groups groups one and
two are more in a lower valley system here. Uh, trying to escape. appears group I mean group three
is right behind them. Uh they should merge on with Lechnesend and I’m thinking they’re going to catch
these guys probably starting at the base of the next climb somewhere through here. It’s kind of my
guess. Uh highly speculative at this point. Going to catch up with the chat guys and then I’m going
to zip for coffee quickly. Nature break all that stuff. Uh okay June. Yes, I love Yokic Luca, but
the best now is Steph Curry. Cycling only Poggy. Okay, June. Uh, again, I forgot to greet you, sir.
Good day and good commenting. June, great for you back here. Appreciate all your comments in the
chat. Uh, everyone’s input’s important here to me. Uh, Dave Paragus, uh, Dave, where you from, dude.
Uh, thanks, sir. Great commentary. Appreciate it, man. Doing my best here. We’re just trying to
show you how much I love cycling, the pros, uh, all the teams, all the cyclists. I’ve
learned so much this tour, too. Like I was saying to Joey Jojo yesterday, um, in the past, I
mean, outside of the big teams, I’d be like, “Oh, yeah, I know two names on, well, I probably still
know two, I’ll be honest.” Uh, but there’ll be some teams I’m like, “Oh, yeah, I know that one
guy on that team.” And there’s like nine riders back in the old days. And I’d know most of Lance’s
team and I’d know most of team, uh, a couple of guys on Pontani’s team. Now I need to know every
guy on every team. Uh, it’s a work in progress, but uh, yeah, I feel like I’m getting it. I’m
finally understanding all the the the players. Um, so, uh, Zip Humber Ruez here is saying, “Is
Yonas back after crash?” Uh, I think you’re referring to earlier on today. I don’t know if
he crashed. I thought he just had a mechanical, but they did drag him back on no problem.
Uh, I saw him do a full bike change. Uh, I didn’t know it was crash. If it was
a crash, it would have been like a slow probably 24 20 km crash going uphill
because it wasn’t on an uphill section. Check this out. Uh right here, upgrade your mind.
I have my own bike terra tour to France view going with your feed alongside. Very cool. Yeah, dude.
It’s fun to play with it. And so that’s how my channel got going is doing stuff like that. Uh
on other platforms though, I only moved over to Berra. I did my first ride on Bera in November
and I don’t think I actually covered my first race uh until maybe February. I think I actually only
have two rides on Bike Terra. I did a fun ride, that’s a common one, and then I did a Mount
Palomar race, uh, Mount Palomar somewhere in the States. I don’t know where it is. California,
I believe. Uh, actually, that doesn’t sound right. Doesn’t sound right to me. Some of you Americans
tell me where Mount Palomar is. Uh, I did a race with the OTR boys. That’s a club that races on
there, otr virtual events, James Oglevie. And, um, and then I did a race after that,
like full coverage of it. Um, okay. June, UAE might have the best budget. It is
because UA is the best writer now. My opinion. Yeah, they do have the best budget. I think
they’re probably I think they kind of keep it a secret. They’re saying UAE is over 60 million. Is
it 60 million euros? Which is a lot of money. Um, is Vizma there? Uh, they’re saying the smaller
teams 15 million. Uh, I think Uno X is less than that. Let’s have a look again, guys. Eight
riders in the front. I’m looking at them right now. Higher speeds here. They’re not showing
speed. There’s Victor Camponarts. He rides a full arrow helmet. No ventilation whatsoever.
I wonder why he would wear that. Uh, I mean, he’s riding with a group. It’s not really super
aero form at this point. Uh, Lchnesend is down to 18 seconds behind them. Then we got the Jac
Jagat group. Actually, I think that gap opened up a bit. It’s 31 seconds now. Uh, the main group
from front to the GC group. It’s six and sorry, it’s three minute. No, it’s 6 and a half minutes.
Are you kidding me? How does that look like six and a half minutes? Oh, yeah. It’s Oh, no. I think
it’s six to that group. So, it’s 304. Sorry, 304 from the GC Pelaton to the very front. They are
descending right now. 7% gradient downhill. Uh, Lechnesend is frantically trying to get back on
here still. Let’s have a look at them. Okay, so here’s our groups, guys. Group one, we got eight
riders there. Group two, here’s Lechnesend. It’s actually there’s more riders. Group three, we got
four riders. There should be a group of about 20. There it just merged together. There’s 25 chasing
Lechnes. They’re going to catch him right away. Uh to me, this is just a matter of seconds. What does
it actually tell us it is? They’re saying it’s 20. Sorry, it’s 15 sec 20 seconds. Is that really 20
seconds in between them? Hard to tell. Campart grabbing a bottle here. Uh a little bit of feed
zone here. Looks like we’re just on some of the bumps that like this valley system is quite lumpy
and bumpy here. Tim Wellins hopefully he grabs a bottle. Earlier on it showed him miss a bottle and
Mrs. Museette bag altogether. Okay. Uh okay. June, go ahead sir. Have your coffee. I will settle for
uh smooth smoother beer tonight. Nice. It’s Sunday night here in the Philippines right now. Dude, is
it raining there? We had a ton of rain here last night. Probably nothing like what the Philippines
gets in Monsoon season, though. I got soaked going back to the car last night. Uh, Andrew Rodriguez,
do you think Yonas is off fitness from Tur France 2023? Well, he did come back from that huge crash.
I think he’s back to where he was. He did say a few days ago, I think it was the uh the Mountain
Time Trail, he goes, “That’s my single best ride ever.” Uh, I don’t think his team is as strong
as 2023. Like guys, you guys remember back then, if you’ve watched Tour to France, Vout Vanart was
like killing it every day. Van Art was winning stages. Uh, that’s not happening this year. So,
they are a real team. Uh, and it’s the Vizma team that won last time. So, basically what happened
last time is that Tatty had a couple bad days. Vizma took advantage of it. That could happen
again in this last week. The tour is not over. Um, okay. So, Andrew, welcome aboard, dude. Uh,
I think you’re a newcomer here today. We’ve got almost 400 people watching here, guys. I
love it. Uh, if you can hit the like button, join the channel. Uh, do the little bell button
thing if you can. I think that’s the first time I’ve ever said that. Hans here, uh, attendance
check from the Filipinos. Lots of Filipinos love their cycling. Love it, dude. Dave Paragus
from the Philippines, dude. The land of boxing legending. Manny Manny Pacquiao. Yes, dude. He was
so good, wasn’t he? So good. I think he’s a dude, too, that gave a lot back to the Philippines.
I think he’s quite charitable. Um, I used to watch a lot of boxing like in the 80s, 90s. I
loved it all. Uh, obviously the Tyson years. Uh, Roy Jones Jr., Roy Jones Jr., baby. That guy
was like phenomenal. Who was the other guy? Uh, James Tony, he was really good, too, for
a while. Really, really good. Uh, Jim Boy, I can tell already Pogy is winning tour to France
back toback. No riders are threat for him right now, especially he’s a Yep, he’s Yeah, he’s 413
ahead of Yonas. Uh, it’s a wrap. If we were to end the stage, the tour to France today, he’s
got to go through another six stages, I think. He’s got to go through another six stages. Uh,
three of those stavages stages are absolutely savage. So guys, why don’t we do that right now?
Let’s see how bad this coffee is going to be. That’s terrible. That is terrible. Uh, but yeah,
Jim Boy, great comment. Appreciate that. I’m What I’m going to do, I think, is uh we’re caught up
on the chat here. I’m flying along today. Robert, full arrow helmet. Keep bugs out. Sun off
bald head. Yeah, that’s it. That’s it. Robert, he does have a bald head, doesn’t he? Uh oh,
Julie’s just saying time to drop the tax. Time to drop the tax. I love it. I love it, man. Uh
see if we can get anything race commentary here. Carlos Rodriguez is the main threat in the
GC move. Lechnes has joined the front. Okay, guys. Lechnes got back on. It does show nine
riders now. So, nine riders here. Where is Lechnesend? He must have been bombing like a
mad man. He did jump on. Uh 19 seconds back, we got six guys chasing. They all want to get
on with this group before the start of the next climb. Uh next climb. Not super long, but it’s
like almost an 11% gradient. I think this is a perfect time for me to grab this coffee. Uh say
hi to Joey Jojo. Guys, drop some comments and uh let’s social some love to bike terra
and uh tell everyone Joey Jojo’s awake. Jojo Okay, riders, we are back. Extended
break there. Just said hi to Joey, trying to tell her all the
craziness that happened last night uh before we got home. Uh we had a night
out. That was fun. Okay. Uh here we go. Let me catch up. Full arrow helmet. Time to
drop the tax. Oh yeah, Roberto Durant, Sugar Ray Leonard, the Hitman Hearns. Dude, I remember
all that. That was all during high school for me, I think. Julius uh Caesar here. Okay guys,
let’s catch up with what’s going on here. Uh we are starting to climb up the category 2 climb
here. It’s not very long. They are showing riders position on screen here. Are we looking at some
winds? Where are we on course? I’m just going to give you my guess as to what they’re trying to do
here. Uh yeah, this would be an area that there could be crosswinds. We are on a climb though. It
is very sheltered, so winds will not be impacting them here. Uh it would be more when we’re out in
the open. Uh which could be any of these northerly looking or southerntherly looking routes if the
winds keep up. Uh it’s coming from the Westerly side. Coming back here, uh nine riders in the
front group still. So great job by Rodriguez and Lechnes to get on board. We have a group chasing
only 11 seconds back. It’s two riders, Warren Bar and Alexander Flassov. I was going to say Anatoli
for some reason. Uh and 9 seconds behind that. We got a big group. We got the freight train coming,
guys. 21 riders are getting up there. Uh, okay. Yeah, Philippines is very proud of Manny Pacquiao.
He won eight division titles. The only one who made it. He also inducted into the box hall of
fame. He made MGM Grand as the ring announcer headset. Okay, I missed that part. Pogy is
making TDF as his home. Okay, I got you. Oh yeah, Manny Pacquiao. I don’t think I saw a ton of his
fights. Like I kind of was out of boxing with him, but like superstar. Absolute superstar. I’m
watching uh Alexander Velasov and Bari. Looks like they’re abs they are now catching on to
the group ahead of them. I think this is them right here. Yeah, here they are. On camera,
you can see them. It’s probably a 50 to 60 m gap. They’re going to bridge up to the nine up
front. Narrow roads here, too. I think uh these roads could be pretty sketchy for the big pelaton
behind. Quite narrow roads. Fans right nearby. Uh we’re going to jump back here a little bit,
guys. So, will the 22 riders from behind? Now, they have a 51 second gap starting the climb.
They’re not going to catch them right now. Uh that front group’s going to be driving hard
now from the very very front. Uh let’s call it the Rodriguez group. It’s uh looks like 3
minutes back. 348 back to the main Pelaton, the GC Pelaton. 91 riders there. Let’s have
a look and see who’s all there. All the top 10 are there. Ben Healey’s there.
Jonathan Ovar’s there is for Daddy. Okay. Pretty good sized group. Uh then we’re
going to bounce back from them. It’s over six minutes back to uh the green jersey group.
So in that green jersey group, we got the Yates boys resting up for the next few days.
I guarantee you they’re resting up right now. Uh JCO Alula rider getting a bike switch here.
Not sure who this is and where they are seeing all the team cars. So I got to imagine
that’s out of the main pelaton there. And Quinn Simmons looks like he’s trying to go
with someone here. Looks like a tutor rider. Let’s figure out who this is. Who is the tutor rider in
that front group? Again, that’s slightly delayed. Quinn Simmons is up there. Uh Michael Store
Camparts is bringing the other six up behind them, but Tudor is uh sorry the store from Tudor
is out of the saddle climbing all the way uh 2.8 there. Let me take a look at this
here. We are climbing now. We are on the ascent of the pass through salt. It’s only
2.9 km long, but average gradient is 10.2%. average uh 2.9 kilometers and my screen is showing
that we’re still at 2.7 to go. Again, slightly delayed. They’re saying now it’s 15 seconds back
to uh the Jordan Jagat group. Uh Jordan Jagat, I think, is the highest placed Total Energies
rider. Uh 11th overall. Like look at this. This guy’s just lurking in 11th place. So, he needs a
day where he can get out there and steal some time from the GC guys. Uh, I mean, he’s 24 minutes
back. He’s not going to vault over Tatty today, but you know, this is what you got to do if you
want to get into the top 10. We’re going to take a look at the yellow jersey group right now. Um,
GC, this is GC overall. You can see, yeah, this is correct. 413 back to Yonas. Here’s our top 10
next rankings. There’s Jordan Jagat right there. uh 11th place only just over a minute and 30
seconds uh up to 10th place to Carlos Rodriguez who’s in that leading group. Carlos Rodriguez
probably thinking, “Dude, I can’t let this jag guy get up catch up with me. I got to go. We got
to go. They’re all fighting for their positions, folks. All fighting.” Okay, so that should
not be on screen there. We don’t need to see that. It’s Mirrett. It’s this one. Uh, why
does it do that? Okay, guys, back on track here. Let’s get it. Two in the front group now.
Quinn Simmons and Store. So, their attack is uh it’s maybe a couple seconds. Camparts
is right around the corner following them. Camparts second rider. Looks like there’s just two
riders chasing them. Let’s take a look right now. It says three and it’s not showing the right
riders cuz I can see campart there. Uh unless they’ve merged them. So two riders up front.
Second group has camparts. It’s not being shown. Uh oh, they’re missing all the breaks in
between. That’s what’s going on. So it’s showing that the Jagat group is 36 seconds back. Uh you
can see that here. Okay. Now we’re seeing campen arts again. So even with the tour to France,
there’s delays with the transponder stuff. uh because I’m watching and it’s
Tim Wellins and that’s who we’re seeing on screen now too. You can see
the Belgium uh jersey uh into the chat. Okay, Rail Medav here famous for the win. I’d
love to see him win today. Um at this point 99.9% chance Tatty’s going to win the tour. I’d
love to see someone different win every day from here. Looks like Lectes is struggling here out of
this front group. Again guys, this is over a 10% gradient all the way. This is a steep hill here.
Andreas Lechnesend 79th overall for UNOX Mobility, 2 hours and 16 minutes behind overall. So
no threat to the GC. Uh with the big boys, they’ve just started the climb on my replay
here. 2.9 km climb. It’s UAE sitting on the front. Uh three white jerseys sitting directly in
front of Pogy and one behind him. Visma sitting right there too. kind of the typical thing
we’ve been seeing the entire tour so far. Guys, what do you think Vizma should do? What
would you do if you were Visma right now? Okay, Robert here saying, “Looking at a picture
of the lady who had the cardboard sign Alipe stole from her yesterday. Sign was support for Vout
fan art. picture of her without an elephe holding holding the sign. Yeah. So when he got over
the top of was it the tormale? He grabbed a cardboard sign from someone and was kind
of like messing around with it trying to stuff it in his jersey. So it was actually a sign
supporting vote. I wonder what the lady thought. Uh I wonder wouldn’t it be cool if he signed it
and got it back to her? I would love that. Uh yeah, June here saying that uh they think uh
F1’s boring now. Dude, I got out of F1 years ago when it got quiet. So I followed F1 probably
all through the 90s. uh the Jacques Villanuv uh Damon Hill then the rise of Schumacher Hackin uh
DC David Kulard um all those dudes Viddlele took over the cars got quiet right after that and I was
like I am out guys listen how quiet my car is no one’s ever said that well maybe they do now with
electrics but uh if I’m going to be at a car race I want my ears to hurt I want to smell the fuel
That’s what I want. And F1’s not that anymore. Um, just probably banged my microphone there. Sorry,
guys. Okay, the voice is still good there. Going to maybe turn that up a little bit. Uh, let’s
try that out. Good enough. Okay, we’re back. Uh, Julius Jonas should get the jersey for work
life balance. Yes. Best overall GC contender and floor installer. We could do that. Uh
store in this picture here, four riders, Tim Wellins, Simmons, Campon Arts, and Store.
Store going. Camparts can’t keep up. Camparts is more dieseling his way up. Sitting Simmons
behind him, then Wellins rocking heavily. Store kind of trying to dance away. Probably has
like a 10- m gap right now. Wants to be the first over this climb. He has picked up a few
points uh towards uh KM. This is not going to get him the jersey. This is gonna get them a
bonus for the day. You know, thousand euros and uh I don’t know, something local from the
area. Oxitatania. I think that’s where we are still. Quinn Simmons just ripping up the road in
France. Should be a bigger story in the US. Yeah, there’s very little coverage of the tour to
France. Uh guys, I do my best to bring it to you, so hopefully everyone will stick around. June,
next stage will be very exciting. the mountains, the Alps, anybody’s ball game. But even but still
betting for Pogy, he is the best right now. Yeah, June agree 100%. Uh when Pogy wins on some
of these stages, it should just be Well, that’s to be expected. We you should expect
that. Uh but if Pogy fails a little bit, which he’s done in the past in the third week,
Jonas in the past didn’t win in week one and hold the yellow jersey all the way. He took it in
the third week. Uh, Pogy had some bad days. Uh, maybe he struggles in the third week. He is
nursing the slightest bit of a cold right now. So, you got to stay healthy. You can be the world’s
greatest cyclist, but if you can’t stay healthy, well, you’re out. Obviously, Remco’s had some
bad days. There’s something wrong with him. Uh, it’s it’s going to be so exciting. And June,
thanks for bringing up. I know Jim Boy brought it up earlier. I’m going to show that. Joey Jojo, uh,
give me a coffee. I got to give her a little love heart here and a special little like. Thank you,
Joey. Jojo, good morning. Tour to France fans. Cortas, he’s back, bro. Good to have you
here, dude. I love when you come in. Uh, Simmons roasting himself. Yeah, Simmons
is driving hard on the front, guys. Uh, Simmons is in that front group before. He wants
a win. They need to get over the top and be gone. They don’t need Vanderpool catching up with them.
Uh, I I would say Vanderpool would have been my uh prediction before the stage. I know everyone
says Pogy, Poggy, Poggy, Pogy. Yeah. Poggy’s not going to kill himself on today, guys.
If he can stay close to the GC contenders, uh, and ride a little bit easier. They’re
not machines. You just don’t turn on like a motor and hit the start button or
whatever and go hit the throttle. Uh, they need to recover. They got a rest day tomorrow
and then we do Von two. Speaking of which, guys, we’re doing that right now. I’ve been yammering on
about it. Let’s do it. Uh, Mr. Super Distracted, you’re calling. So, guys, we’re doing Muret Mure
to Carcasson today. Tomorrow, Melier. Mopel. Oh, that is so French, isn’t it? Uh, that’s our rest
day, Tuesday. So, I’m on a rest day tomorrow. I’m riding Zift with Ian Holmes, who’s in this
chat. Me and him are going to do a meet up on Zift. We’re going to write Oh, I’m seeing Quinn
Simmons waving on the other dudes. Ticked off. Yeah. Come on. Come on. You slackers. Do you
want to win or do you want to be caught? We got two Belgians here. Uh, an American and I didn’t
see store. I don’t know if he’s Australian or New Zealand. I didn’t get to count the stars.
Uh, Tim Wellins grabbing a water bottle off the neutral water bottle service here on the climb.
But yeah, so let’s take a look at the stages, guys. This is Tuesday, so we got one day to rest.
These guys are still going to be riding. Here is Tuesday. This is our Tuesday stage. I know it’s
bright. Uh 171 km. First 141 km are generally flat and the last 30 climbs we just climb up the
flanks of the giant of Provence. First half of the climb is all in the trees. Uh the second half of
the climb is wide open. Could be windy up there. Anything can happen after a rest day. I think
they’re quite nervous after the rest day eight. Uh the Vontu climb itself, even though we’re
climbing way before that, the Vontu climb is probably start it starts here at Bedawin. If you
look at the map has a time called Bedawin here, uh says it starts at 149.2. We’re climbing before
that too already. The race may be on at the bottom. Uh could be on 1520 km before that 15.7 km
at 8.8% gradient. I’ve done this one inside. It’s brutal. The next day after that, stage 17. Here’s
your last chance if you’re a sprinter right here. This is it. So, this is our last chance again.
After doing the bond two, they’re going to come out and race like beasts uh to get to the sprint
point. Then then the breakaway teams are probably going to try to take over. The sprint teams are
going to try to control them and have a sprint finish. That’s Wednesday. Thursday, hold on to
your hat, boys. It’s going to be insanity. Uh, the most climbing so far at the tour. 5,500 meters.
Corabal, uh, Cold Deal. One of the most brutal climbs. I’ve never done this one. I don’t want to
do it. Uh, but take a look at this puppy here. Uh, called the glandon 21.7 km at 5%. So, it’s a super
long grinder. Uh, the calledataline 19.2 km at 8%. Guys, these are the longest things we’ve done this
year. Uh then the Korscheel Cold Deal Souvenir Henry Degrange, that’s the guy that started the
tour to France in 1903. Uh highest point of the tour this year, 26.4 km at an average of 6.5%.
If you have a bad stint on any one of these, your tour could be over. Uh if you have a
bad stint on the Calandon, that’s easy four or five minutes. or it could happen on the matal
line four or five minutes or the cold loos four or five minutes that’s the lead TY has over uh
Yonas right now of course Yonas has to be able to maintain his pace as well the next day almost
as hard uh Albertville to La Plania it’s only 130 km but it’s got 4500 meters of climbing uh
take a look at this little juicy baby right here uh category 2 to start us it’s climbing all day.
We climb from the very rip. There’s a sprint point 8 kilometers in. Sprinters, goodbye. We won’t
see you again. Uh, category 2 climb, dip into the valley. Category one climb called ACC’s dip into
the valley. Called Depri 12.6K at 7.7. That guys, that shows you guys that’s an HC at 12.6 km. The
Calot is 26 km long. It’s like HC plus. That’s my new uh categorization. I’m starting that out
this year. Uh fully trademark branded in my name, patented to. Uh I’m going to recategorize the
coins for the tour of France. That is so much harder than that climb. Uh the Cormet de Rosland
category 2. And then we have our final uplap plan. Yeah. 19.1 km at 7.2. You know, 7.2 two 7.7
to this HC here. This one’s 7 km longer than that guy. I don’t know if that one’s an HC. I’m
taking that away from it. Uh let’s get back to it, guys. Here we are climbing still. Let’s get caught
up. Four riders still up front. Same guys as before. Uh second group at 23 seconds. Rodriguez
who fell out. Okay, Harry Sweeney uh looks like he’s going to Yeah, rear wheel change for EF. And
just jumping back to the UAE boys here uh on the front. Looks like they’ve got that’s the summit
right there. So they’ve just hit the summit here on my replay. Tatty sitting in fourth or fifth
position. Let’s have a quick peek at the map and see if that’s where we’re seeing them. Yes, we
are. Actually, it’s slightly delayed here from what I’m seeing. I’m going to do a refresh on that
because I think that’s delayed. Uh I’ve seen them go over top on the video. And yeah, it must be
really close because they’re there right now. So, this timing may be even more delayed. We can
see the big boys back here. Uh, group seven on the road from the very very front from Quinn
Simmons up front to the very very back. Uh, almost 13 minutes again. Vanart’s back here. Vanart’s
wedged in between the two. So, Vanard could be getting some form back. Hasn’t looked the same
as previous years. Back into the chat, guys. Uh, okay. Yeah. So, thank you, Joey Jojo. Let’s have
a great Sunday. Another day out for food and then I’m go falling into a coma tonight. I’ll probably
I think tonight probably be sleeping by about 6 6 p.m. She’s holding the sign, grinning with vout
and Julian on the other side. She’s good. Okay, awesome. Uh, Joey Jojo just saw it. She saw it on
Facebook. She’s wearing a polka dot shirt. Yeah, how cool would that be? Julian Ellen Phipe steals
your sign and it’s all captured on TV. I think that’s great. Uh, Julius, I saw that Cadillac is
getting F1 next year. Looking forward to that. Yeah, I did see I do just barely follow it now.
Barely follow it. Um, when I walked down, guys, I went to Silverstone in 2012. I did a crazy three
and a half day trip to the UK from Canada. Uh, flew the redeye, stayed in a camper van, uh, well,
a caravan, I guess I should call it. I think it was 14 ft long. Three large grown men in there.
Uh, I had the worst bed in there, and that’s okay. That’s the one I picked. I didn’t want
to sleep beside the So my two buddies Chris and Trevor were sleeping like in little single beds at
the front end of the caravan closest toward like the tow vehicle and it was so close together they
could they could reach out and hold hands at night if they wanted. They might have done that. That
might have happened on the trip. I’m not really sure. We’re trying to keep that confidential.
Just kidding, guys. I slept at the back. Uh, walking down the back stretch of Silverstone and
like covering your ears as fast as you can as the cars go by in free practice and you just feel the
wave, the wall of sound and energy coming at you. It’s absolutely mind-blowing. Two, then I did
uh Montreal was really good. That’s an easy one for us to do here in Canada. Probably one of the
best uh F1s for the drivers. They love it because the F1 track is in downtown Montreal. It’s on an
island, a man-made island in the river there. Uh, you’re probably only a couple miles from all the
best bars and restaurants in Montreal. Montreal is very Euro. Uh, it’s the place where you go out at
10:00 at night to eat. Kind of strange for me. Uh, 4:00, that’s my supper time. Um, then we went
to Austin and the cars were so quiet, like super disappointing. I love going to Austin. Really cool
city, but the F1 there, I hated it. Like I I mean, I liked it, but it was like h there’s the lower
classes like the Ferrari challenge cars and there was another group there. They sounded better.
Uh moving on here, guys. Uh Jeff Jeff’s back. That is the really the only reason Vizma is still
hanging right there on UAE. They are just waiting for Pogy to start feeling sick. Yeah, Jeff,
they’re waiting for him to make a mistake. Uh guys, around 300 people chilling here with us
today on a beautiful Sunday here. It’s absolutely terrible outside here. Uh looks like it’s going
to be one of those days that I shouldn’t leave the house. Uh John here, John Chady, fast forward
like Fox Buddy. Channeling my inner Colin and his GRC jersey from race today. Keep rocking, Colin.
Thank you so much, John. Uh dude, you’re one of the the real OG supporters, John. Uh there only
a few of the GRC dudes that come out here and hang out with me. you uh John, sorry, John, Ruben,
Steven Bashock’s jumping in once in a while. Glad to have you here. Uh Wade saying, “Pogy does not
get sick. He’s a Slovenian alien.” That is true. Uh Joe’s back. Joe 512. Good morning, all cycling
fans. Uh yes, dude. That’s what they told me. Upgrade your mind from Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
He says, “Bike terra secret F5 every few minutes. It gives a full re uh reyncs all the riders.
I got that from Anslow yesterday uh through a discord message me and him and it got going on.
And again guys, I’m just showing you Bike Terra because it’s the best way to track them there. I
have no affiliation with Bike Terra except that I like the dudes and I think they like me. Um June
cyclists really are humans today. You are strong. Tomorrow’s a different day. I said good luck to
the best rider until stage 20. God bless to France riders. You were all great. That’s what I think,
dude. Anything can happen here. Anything can happen. I should do some research on like who was
the dude, the unfortunate dude that kind of like blew it the most. Probably just off hand would
probably be Lauren. Uh blowing a one minute lead, losing by 8 seconds. Smallest victory ever. But
I’m sure there might have been other things. There might have been a dude that might have
been minutes ahead way back in the 60s who had a terrible crash in the last week uh and was
just out. Go look that up. Uh Jeff saying there are rolling hills on the back side of the Montu
that exhaust riders before they get to the base on. Yeah, Jeff, I was just saying that like the
climbing starts from quite a ways out. The voluntu itself is 15 point whatever uh kilometers uh but
I think they’re climbing from at least 30 km out. Upgrade your mind. HC colon. HCC. HC colon. You
got it, Jeff. Sorry. H upgrade your mind. Uh staring at Jeff’s name here as I said that. But
I’m going to reclassify those clims. I There’s no way they’re the same even today. Uh World
Famous Foods is back. West Point, New York. Okay, dude. Nice to have you. I know you’ve been popping
in and out. Uh, June again saying, “What I love about Pogy is his humility. Still appreciates
other riders efforts and commits.” Yeah, I saw that yesterday even though he did attack
Yonas when he didn’t have to because I’m like, I wouldn’t have done that. Uh, yeah, he did gain
4 seconds. Uh, Uno X rider. Okay, Uno X is on the front now pushing with EF and UAE sitting behind
them. So, Uno X is on to something here today, guys. Uh, EF’s working hard, too. UAE finally has
some support from other teams in the Pelaton here. Uh the lead group of four riders, it should be.
Yes, still four riders. Uh is getting kind of the highest point today. They’ve already uh crested
the the climb point, but they’re still climbing. Neielson Powus is up to something today. Uh
hasn’t really shown up a lot this tour riding solo. The Jagat group is only three riders now.
I’m sure they’re all over the place here. Let’s take a look at the map and see if they all show
up. Yeah, look, look at this here. Uh, we’ve got a ton of riders here, guys. This seems like a
good time for a little bike terror action. So, I’m going to hit it again just so I can show you
some stuff here. Uh, make sure it’s all fired up. Uh, I need to do that. I’m going to have a sip
of coffee here. Everyone, thanks for the coffees today. It’s keeping me going. I’m going to have
to power through again today, guys. So, like after this chores, hang out a little bit, then we got
to go back into town again. Um, here’s our leading group here. Let’s see if that’s correct. I think
I need to do an F5 over here myself. Is that what that is? I’m not sure if I hit it actually.
Messing around. Yeah, then we’re going back out for another meal. We probably won’t be home
till after 5:00 and sleeping shortly thereafter. Joey won’t like that. Whatever. Michael Story here
in the front group, guys. Okay, I’m going to let this load in. Everything’s synced back up, guys.
Let’s do a little uh bite here again, just so you can get a feel for where we’re all on stage
here, guys. So, if you haven’t seen this yet, uh I know someone said a few days ago, well, this
looks fake. And I’m like, what do you mean fake? It’s real. Uh here we are. Here’s our group of
four. I’m actually on Michael Store right now, our front group. Take a look at the map here.
You can see where they are on screen. There’s like a about six groups of riders behind them
here. So, I’m going to try Well, Neilson Powas, if we zip to him, he’s 900 meters back. Uh,
someone’s flying by. So, I don’t know if that’s a weird data point. That rider looks to be
going very, very fast. Yeah, something’s going on there with the data, guys. Uh, we’ll go back to
the Jagat group. We’ll go to Andreas Lechnesend showing that there should be three riders here,
I believe. Actually, it’s four riders. See, only seeing three. There might be one off the
front here somewhere. Again, this is all on how I update this, guys. The Venard group. So, Venard
is somewhere in the middle, too. Uh, says there’s 11 riders here, and that’s kind of what we’re
seeing right away. Looks like 11 riders to me. Is there anyone up the road here? They’re
all kind of spread out here a little bit. Michael Vgrren’s up there, too. Uh Julian Ala
Phalipe. Here’s our group, guys. Uh we can zoom out a little bit here on the map. You can see
where we are. See where we’re going. Heading into Carcasson. We’re heading southsoutheast right
now. Back to the front. Let’s uh take a look here. I don’t think that front group’s that big
right now. I think it’s only four riders. I think there’s some extra data in here or
maybe they’re bridging in between. What I will do though is jump out of here. Turn this
back on and just check and see what’s happening. Um, okay. We’re back here. Guys, look at this.
We got eight riders there. And that’s what we were seeing on Bike Terra. I only expected
to see four. So, they were that close. The four have merged back together. We’ve got eight
riders up there. Uh, looks like Tim Wellins was trying to go off the front before by himself.
Probably realizing those chasers were coming. And as I look on screen here, I can see all eight
riders are really strung out. Tim Wellins on the front. They’ve all came back together, though.
So, so guys are trying to push over the top here and get a break before we start the descent.
There is little bumps going downhill. Um, but if you can get a gap here, time trial to the
finish. That’s what it’s all about today. So, yeah. By Terra, you you did it. I was like, uh,
in my head I was going, I don’t think there’s eight riders here. This is what I’m thinking in
my head. There’s not eight riders here. There was eight riders there. That’s what we’re seeing from
the tour of France. Um, back here we’ve got Powus with Chagat. That’s what we did see on screen
two there. Uh, we’ll jump in the chat here, guys. Ivard’s back. Ivard. Oh, wait. Fizma and many
of the other teams seem to have given up when they see Tatty’s going well. Big mistake.
Yeah, they’re just waiting for a mistake. Uh I think they’re going to wait and wait and wait
till there’s a mistake. If there’s no mistake, they’re going to have to do one last uh
attack like on the following Friday. So guys, the biggest days of the week, if you can join me,
please join me every day if you can. Uh but the days you cannot miss are Tuesday for the Mong 2.
Uh, Thursday. Yeah, Tim Wellens is burying himself here trying to get away, but the other riders are
right there. They’re still saying it’s a group of eight. See if this actually uh becomes anything
cuz I don’t think it will be. I’m 500 m behind in this video. Tim does have a break. He does have a
break here. I’m not sure if he does get away here yet. Let’s keep looking here, guys. Uh, so yeah,
I’m 500 m behind what I’m seeing over here. And at this point, it looks like he’s got 100 meters on
the riders behind him. So, this may be happening. Yeah, it is happening. Okay, so that feed there is
pretty close to this one. Tim Wells doesn’t ride a solo, guys. Tim Wellins off the front. Here we go.
Quinn is not going to let him get away. Uh, yeah. So, right now, we’re not seeing the other riders.
They’re hidden here somewhere. They’re probably right behind him on this corner. Tim Wellins,
it says here he’s solo. He’s He is solo, but the other guys are about 100 meters back. Uh the other
seven riders that should be there. So, let’s see how that forms. I’ll catch up in the chat here.
Yes, sir. I can see them just waiting and waiting and waiting and then next Friday. So, don’t
miss Tuesday. Do not miss Thursday or Friday. You need to like book a day off work. Uh retire
early. You need to watch those stages with me. Uh June’s loving F1 because of uh Lewis
Hamilton. He is the goat with Michael. Okay. I really like Shumi still. Uh and you
know what? I think when he was a champion, I more liked the DC guys. I liked uh I loved Mika
Hackinan. I just loved how cold he was. You know, they would congratulate him for a race and he’d be
like, “Oh, thank you.” didn’t mean nothing to him. Uh very Finn finish. I love that. Just like Kimmy
Rekenon. Those guys are the best guys out there. Uh I just love their personality. So if you’re
Finnish, love you, man. Uh breakaway win 41%. Big sprinter fight still at 22. Uh Tatty Day still
at 37. Really got 500 votes. It’s breakaway today, guys. Breakaway for me. Going to get back here.
How do I close this? I have no idea. Uh okay. We had uh Ray Phillip Regis is here. Looks like
he was going to comment on something. Yeah, Ray, drop us a comment. Tell us where you’re from,
dude. Don saying Tatty can’t allow you to take even one second. Yeah, and that’s thing too
when Tatty’s probably thinking there cuz he does say he goes he said after he goes anything
can happen on any day. Anything can happen. Uh he did say too he goes I didn’t have anything left
to attack really. I couldn’t counterattack Aaron’s been going up the road. Uh cuz uh people were
saying the whole time like, “Oh, he’s going to hunt him down no matter what.” Tatty came out and
said, “I just couldn’t.” Tim Wells off the front, guys. I don’t think they’re even showing it
properly. So Tim’s here by himself. Group two is uh Okay, now showing it. Are they really that
far back? Did he really gap them that quick? 18 second gap. Back to these fighters.
Baree, Alexander Vassov, Victor Campon, Quinn Simmons, and Michael Store. So Tim
is just absolutely leveling himself here, trying to get away uh going for a win. Uh
today he’s allowed to uh be an entrepreneur and get out there and win for a privateier
today. Get out there and go for the win. Uh Ray here saying, “Oh, Ray, thank you for
commenting. Uh Pelaton is too far already.” Yeah, they’re so far behind right now. Pelaton right
now is from the very very front. They’re six minutes back, guys. 553. The front. The Pelaton
is not catching. This is more of a rest day, a pre-est day to the real rest day tomorrow
before the week of hell starts. And even the even Wednesday, the flat day, teams are going to
be going all out. Uh that those are days that Pogy has to be careful that he doesn’t let, you know, a
GC guy go up the road. Just takes one day, things can be off. And remember, remember Pogy, it’s the
third week where Yonas was able to beat him in the past. He didn’t do it last year. Uh but Yonas was
nowhere near where he was before. Last year, he’s nowhere near where he is now. Uh that’s the the
the benefit of the de of the doubt uh defense I’ll give Yonas. He wasn’t the same person. He almost
died in that crash. Uh double collapsed lungs, laying on the side of the road. Team Rodeo coming
here from EF. Okay, this is from EF. We want to go and start to pull to bring down the gap.
So EF’s trying to bring it down. Come closer. Obviously not too close. Go and catch Michael and
Neielen. So they want EF to get up the road there and catch Neielen and Michael. Let’s have a quick
look here where Neielen is. Is he in this group? Was he in that group? Nope, he’s not in
that group. Uh, he’s not in the Quinn group. Carlos Rodriguez group. I don’t know where
Neielson is right now. Probably with Jagat. Yeah, there’s Neilson Palace there. So, they
want to bring these guys back. I wonder what ES thinking there. Is this all for Ben Healey? Uh,
who are they worried about here? They might be worried about Rodriguez. I think they’re worried
about Rodriguez. Uh, this guy here, Rodriguez, he’s sitting in 10th place overall. Okay, he’s
10th overall at 2257. If we bounce back to the yellow jersey group, we’re going to find Ben
Healey. Ben Healey here uh is currently ninth uh at 1841. So, they don’t want Rodriguez going
up the road and getting any time. Uh I know people say, “Well, no one remembers third or no one
remembers seventh.” Uh these teams do. UCI points. Uh this is important for they want to keep their
rider in that top 10. Top 10 is kind of like the cut off point. I would say no one remembers 11th.
Uh people will be desperately when you look at the display of the rankings, it always shows the first
10 results. It’s always 10. Okay, chat time. Uh Quinn Simmons, what a monster. Yeah, Quinn’s doing
really well here. And I can see them trying to hunt down Tim Wellins on the descent here. Quinn’s
doing perfect. 49th overall, 1 hour and 46 minutes back. Uh we’re just going to hang out here
for now, guys. And at the end, I’ll be able to uh show some more videos and stuff at the end here
today. Still 315 people here. Love it, guys. Love it. Drop a like if you can. It’s pretty quick to
reach up there and just hit that little thumbs up button if you can do that for me. I would love
it. Uh AR, new dude here. First comment I think from him. I wish it would show me who the new
commentators are. Uh F1 Patronis should sponsor a team. Uh okay. So like I think back in the old
day I think the Williams team. I think they were sponsored by Patronis, weren’t they? I’m positive
they were back in the days when they had Ruben’s Baron Barello. Was it Ruben’s? No, not Ruben’s.
Sorry, not Ruben’s. Uh, Juan Pablo Mononttoya. I think W Pablo Mononttoya raced for Petronis.
I think so. Long time ago guys. Like I said, I barely call a cover for follow Formula 1 now. Yes,
Julius Jackie Stewart. It’s a great day for motor car racing. Exactly. Uh, Robert Two Monster other
guys in the chase letting him close the gaps. Jeff Carcasson is named after the famous castler
which was repaired at great massive expense. Oh, look at this. The famous dish dish
of the year castle which is just an embellished pork and beans. Really? I
didn’t know that. I’m going to look that up afterwards. I’m going to make castle
later today. Uh J Taylor. So about 30 km left. Uh 34.1 km remaining for Tim
Wellins. The rest a little smidge more. Let’s get this energyfilled coffee into me, folks.
Just going to power through one more day here. Day off and then I’m on another 13-day stint.
Finishing up uh the Tour to France. It’s going to be the best week of the Tour to France, too. We
haven’t seen nothing yet. We have seen nothing yet at the Tour to France. It’s going off this week,
folks. This is where the true battles are going to start. This is probably where the point where
UAE is probably like, man, can we keep this up? Can we really keep this up? I mean, again,
they’re not superhumans, right? Well, they are, but they aren’t. Uh, superhuman performance, but
not robots. Tim Wellins absolutely drilling it, folks. Uh, he has a 43 second lead over the five
chasing them. UAE message. How is he looking? How does Tim look now? You should reply. He looks
fabulous. So, they were probably asking another uh team car. How does he look? They’re saying
he looks fabulous. Uh Belgian jersey smashing at the front guys. 42 second lead over the five
chasing him. And then from there, we’re going to bounce back to Carlos Rodriguez riding solo.
This is why EF’s chasing. They don’t want this guy sneaking up on Ben in the standings. That’s my
guess anyways. Uh then we go back to Jordan Jagat group. 16 riders here. Nice to see Ben O Connor
active racing. Neielson Palace is up here. Alfipe who crashed and sat on the side of the road for
quite a while earlier as there Yasper Stoven Vouts there as well. Been pretty quiet today. Uh there
are some sketchy corners so I’m going to keep an eye on those later. Like Tim went around that
pretty gingerly. I can see that being a big uh choke point for the Pelaton when you’ve got uh you
know 100 riders coming around the corner. Okay. Yep. Joe here saying gap is looks like 25 to 30.
I’m going to have a quick look here and see what I’m seeing. They’re saying 48 on here. 4849 from
Tim Wellins to the five that are chasing them. I’m watching that group right now calling it
the group the the group Bargui for Warren Bari. Come on Blasov let Bora Hansro get at least one
this tour. So let’s take a look there. Uh here’s Velasov right here guys. Red Bull Bora Hansro.
He’s in the mix. They just got to bring back Tim Wellins. Uh quite a bit of downhill coming up too
here guys. We’re on like a run into Carcasson. So there’s a really cool little splotch of mountains
there. How can I show that guy’s best to you? I think I know where I can do it. Uh, I’m
going to do this, guys. Just kind of want to give you an idea of where we’re at. I’m
going to use Climbinder actually to do this. Uh, there’s Carcasson. What I’ll do here is
I’m just going to turn this off. We’re going to hit that one. Do that one there. Back on climb
finder, guys. Uh, if you look at the screen here, the climb we just did that category 2 is this guy
here. I’ve already got it highlighted for you. We came from this little town here called, it’s hard
to say, uh, Essusens, I believe. Uh, we came up the climb. We’re bombing down the other side now.
Obviously, I don’t know the full roads, but we’re working our way away from this. You know, you can
see the elevated areas all in green here. It’s all lit up. Uh we’re working our way to Carcasson
here, which is down in the valley system. Uh away from more of like these coastal mountains. Uh like
again, we’re just on the border of the Pyrenees here. We’re climbing back up in the Pyrenees down
here. These are the French Pyrenees here. Oh, here’s Andor. Sandor for you guys. Right here.
Little uh I think it’s called the Principality. So yeah, we’re coming out of the green stuff
here, elevated areas, and we’re racing down into Carcasson today. After this, we launch and we
head way over here somewhere. I think we go head over to the Ardesh. I think that’s kind of like
near the the giant of Provence, the Malvo 2. Okay, I’ll get back to it, guys. Uh we turn that off.
Turn that off. Uh we are back in we are in the pipe 5×5, folks. 56 second lead. This group of
five cannot bring Tim Wellins back. They are not bringing him back. Uh hopefully all my streams and
feeds are working good. I can see Flow Bikes is totally cratered here. Uh I’m looking good here.
I think I’ll just keep chitchatting like I’m still good, guys. Yeah, it’s back. Just getting a bad
feed from Flow Bikes there. Uh oh, Uncle Travel Maddiey’s here today. Oh, hey buds. What have I
missed today? I hope everyone’s going. Tim Wellins on the break, dude. He’s got a one minute lead
over about five riders. Uh there’s multiple groups behind them there. I think there’s like five,
six groups on the road in between him and the uh GC Pelaton. All the GC hitters are in that
main group. Tim Wellins absolutely burying himself here. He’s 53rd overall. Uh cruising downhill,
76 km an hour. Uh full arrow tuck, reaches in his back pocket, pulls a gel out. He’s taking a gel
going downhill at close to 80 km an hour. Yeah, I wouldn’t ride down this hill at 80 km an hour.
Yeah, he is on a mission. He’s He’s not holding It’s like either I get caught or I win the stage.
He’s not wondering if anyone’s going to come up to him. He’s just gone. He’s going for it right now.
And we’ll be flying downhill here. Okay. Um, uh, Ivard, Yonas has made a magnificent comeback from
the crash, plus his rife. Really wants some takes. Yeah, that’s true, too. Yonas has made a full
recovery. I think Yonas has looked better. And people are going to say, well, what do you mean?
He’s he’s losing. He looked, let’s just say it, he looked really bad on the hoticcom compared to
Tatty. Uh, at the individual mountain time trial, he looked way better passing Remco. And you know,
it was a 36-second gap between him and Tatty. Uh, he picked the wrong bike. He would have been
faster on a better bike. I still don’t think he would have beaten Tatty. Maybe it would have
been an 18-second loss versus 36. And yes, yesterday he finished with Tatty. Uh, take what
you want out of that. Neil here, Neil Rushby, Muckers Worldwide, one of the Bolton boys. Really
nice attack by Wellins just before the crest and he’s never had a stage win. Dude, that’s how
you do it in Ruby, too. You attack right on that crest and get over the top and you go. Uh, yes,
Robert, for Chris her fans who is riding like a knucklehead today. Victor Campon Arts, my man.
Look at my weird big hands. Um, uh, Abel here. Kele, what are Benny chances today? I would say
zero today, dude. Zero. Uh, Bingum is this is not a course that was designed for him. At a quick
glance, it looks like a sprinter stage, but it’s not. Uh, Bingham is back here, I believe. There’s
Jonathan Milan, and Bing, there’s Tim Merlier, Andre Demard, St. Martins Dikeke, Jordi Muse,
Edward Toyins. I believe Bingan’s back here in the green jersey group. Unless he’s just hanging
on. Yeah, I actually don’t see him there. Uh, he might be in the yellow jersey group. If he is,
that’s pretty amazing. Uh, let’s have a little look for him. I’ll spend some time. I just look
for Bingium quickly, guys. I know there’s a lot of supporters from Eratraa here and Africa. Uh, where
is Bingham? I guess you can’t actually search for them, but uh, I hate doing that. Is he in this
group? I’d be shocked if he’s in this group. There’s Laurance Rex in this group for Intermar. So, I’m thinking I scroll past him. I think he’s
back in the green jersey group. Uh, and the green jersey group from front to back is now Wow. 18 and
12 minutes behind, guys. 18 and 1/2 minutes. So, I didn’t actually find him, but he’s nowhere near
the front right now. Not a stage for him today. Uh, I’ll have another look from here.
Maybe I can spot him. Sometimes it doesn’t populate all the groups correctly.
Well, Wells is doing a great job, but the problem is there’s still 33. I know,
dude. I know. So, he’s on this massive attack, but is he going to time trial away for another
24 km? Like, that’s a huge effort. Huge effort, but he is slowly walking away from them.
It’s out to 111 now. So, right now though, it’s going to be one versus five. these five.
Victor Camponarts is in that group, too. Uh, you know, a really good time trialist. Can him
and Quinn pulled them back, I think. Yeah. And Vlovi more of a climber. Store more of a climber.
I think it’s Velasov and Camparts and Simmons. Uh, who are going to have to do all the majority
of the work to pull back Tim Wellins now. Uh, yeah. Thanks, Maddie. Uh, he says, “My man
Victor Campernonauts, great impression.” You got And you know what you got to do, too? You
got to sit. You almost got to sit like this. And you got to look at the camera like that and
then talk to the camera like this. That’s what you got to do. Have a stuffed lion up here.
Uh, a jersey in that corner over there. Maybe a little hat or something, too. And have a really
nice press shirt on. I like that look. And jeans. That is the Chris her. I love it. Love it. Uh
Chris her won the Valta Espña. I think it was 2013 at the age of Was it 41 or 42, guys? 41
or 42 years old. He won the uh Vulta. That’s coming up next month. Don’t miss that, guys. I’m
doing all of that. We’re going to do it just like this. Pile into the chat. Jump in here. Give me
your predictions. Uh Don here. Wellins will get a stage win to go with his KM jersey from earlier.
Yeah, he did have the KM jersey earlier. Uh, it’s a long ways to go. 23ks, but he is going
for it. I think he’s just Yeah, you know what, guys? Rest day tomorrow. Tim’s going to empty the
tank. Uh, deplete the reserves. He’s going all in. Time trial and let’s go. Let’s go, folks.
It is downhill. uh you know it only gets flat probably I don’t know looking at this 5 6 7 km
down are going to be flat where he’s not going to have the advantage of the downhill he’s out
to 121 it’s looking better and better for Tim Tim Wellins here back to the group of five the
Bari group who are making no inroads into him I’m really shocked by this uh Carlos Rodriguez
and Lutenko uh there there’s a big group there it’s actually just refreshing on screen there’s
says there’s 16 riders in that group. Uh yeah, they’re saying it’s the Jagat group. Then it’s
139 back to uh Murice here and Vandenbrook. Then we’ve got Christian Rodriguez here for Arca
BMBB with Kaden Groves and Matteo Verce. Always like to comment he’s the guy that got crashed
on day one. 7 minutes back to the Pelaton from Tim Wellins. So he’s flying now. Now, the Pelaton
group here to uh Carlos Rodriguez is important. I think he’s in this group here. Well, he’s up here
somewhere. He’s in the gap somewhere here, guys. Don’t see him there. He’s not in the bar. Well,
he is in the bar group. So, this this group got bigger. It was five, now it’s seven. Uh, that’s
interesting. Rodriguez, if he holds this position, he could actually jump over top of Ben Healey.
Uh I think they’re separated by a couple minutes. Let’s take a look down here. Yellow jersey group
right here. Uh Rodriguez 2257. Ben at 1841. Okay, so that is 3 minutes. Is he going to hold 3
minutes finish? Probably not. But he’s going to gain some of that back if he can keep this gap.
So that’s really cool to see there. Uh, I wonder if I could just back out of that there. Jump back
here. This is what I wanted to do. Live tracking. I’m going to go to this map mode again here. Quite
sheltered here. So there I if there is winds out, I don’t think they’re going to be exposed to it.
Maybe when we get more out into the valley system here, uh, because we’re still just coming down
off the hills here. Okay, catching up, guys. Uh, yep. 25 km. He has more than a one minute lead
still. It’ll be decided once it flattens out, won’t it? Yeah, exactly. Either he hits that
flat and he just implodes and they catch him. If the chasers don’t work together.
Yeah, they need to work together. Uh, one of the things I’m seeing though that there’s
there’s some climbers in there who may not have the oomph at the end of a stage to go all out.
Tim Willins is capable of doing that. Quinn can. I think Velasov can. Camparts can. Uh, but for
some reason he’s still getting away. He’s at 128. Let’s just see how this evolves. Seven riders
chasing him. Uh, yeah. Dawn got the GRC shirt on. I’ve gone full rotation. I’ve got some new
jerseys coming. They just haven’t arrived yet. I think I’ve got nine or 10 jerseys. I’ve
rotated through them all already. Uh, this tour just keeps the tour
just keep nothing stops the tour, guys. Nothing stops it. Just keeps
going every day. Uh, Uncle Maddie. Oh, yes, dude. A Grant Thomas look should
be tried. Massage table reviews. Yes, I like that idea. That’s the
funniest thing I see every day. I haven’t really watched the full one
yet, but yeah, he’s he’s he does this podcast. He’s a YouTube podcast, guys, live on
camera after the stage. Uh, getting a massage. Uh, Julius here. Yonas’s wife is claiming that
flooring task was part of his recovery plan. Could have been worse. Almost separated
from his wife. Julius almost separated from his wife over the wall piping.
Yeah, guys, never do home renovations, home improvements with your spouse. It’s just a no
no. You just don’t do it. They can do part of it, then you can do part of it. Make sure you’re not
in the same room or just pay someone to do it. Uh Don Chris her has some nice background stuff
on a show. He displays his jerseys. Yep. I like I like what he does. Uh he kind of changes up her
day. Yep. Baker Tilly. I don’t know who that is, but I have seen him talking about
it. They sponsor all his stuff. I love Robert’s karma here. Number one in the
chat today, guys. I love this statement. This is something I would say, Robert. I only
use Baker Tilly these days. Next, what do they do? Make no idea. I don’t know either. I
think Baker Tilly is kind of like is it like a financial investment thing? That’s kind of what
I’m guessing. I’ve wondered that myself, but yeah, I it’s the only they’re the only ones I use,
too. I only use Baker Tilly myself, too. Robert, thanks for being part of the club. Um, when
Pogy sprinted past Yonas in the last stage 14, it was a psychological. Yep. Pogy tried to show
Yonas’ strength, age, and capabilities. It’s just like like a warning. You could not beat me.
True. Victor driving hard on the front here, guys. He’s leading the way of the chasers.
Uh, we’re at 121. Come down just a little bit here. Uh, they’re now calling it the
group Rodriguez behind. So, uh, yeah, Carlos Rodriguez here. This looks really good for
him today. He had a good day yesterday, too. Uh him and Tom and Arensman did really good for Inos
Grenaders yesterday. This guy here is uh hoping to take time away from Ben Healey. Ben Healey is way
back here. Where is he folks? There he is right there. He’s 1841 in ninth place. Rodriguez is 2257
in 10th place. just over three minutes difference on the road right now. Uh he if they stopped it
right now, he would take uh Ben Healey’s ninth place. Uh they’re separated by 5 1/2 minutes.
Uh actual race difference is about 3 minutes 10 seconds. He would jump ahead a good minute and
a half over top of Ben Healey. So that’s why EF is on the front driving right now. Uh Tim
here just leveling himself on his cogo here. Super Arrow looking great in the Belgian jersey.
Number seven, UAE dripping with sweat right now. Uh, the Chase Group has the right numbers. This
is from Jeff. Jeff L. Le has the right number, but they cannot get organized, which means
they don’t want to do the work. It seems more like that Wellins might win. Come down to
navigating. Yeah, Wellens is fine, guys. Uh, where’s Wellins right now? Let’s have a quick
look. Uh 126. So they pulled it back a bit. Then he pulled out again. He is going over a little
bump here right away. If you look on the screen here, let’s I’m going to zoom in. It’s going to
it’s going to flatten things. You can see here uh he’s still downhill. It just bumps up a tiny
bit here. Uh and then down onto the flat here. But 14.5 km to go. I’m looking at this. Probably the
last let’s say 8 kilometers are pretty much flat. That’s where we’re going to see how strong he is.
See if he can hold them off. You know, maybe if we had that the like, you know, there’s the Van
Art groups behind here. Uh then the G Jordan Jagat groups here. I think if all these guys were
together chasing, they’d absolutely devour his lead. Uh but the five behind or the seven that are
behind aren’t working well together at this point. I’m going to keep a good eye on it. I’m
getting ready to see Quinn Simmons throwing uh his hands up in the air asking for people to
help. Yeah, sometimes do get guys do get nervous going through towns, road furniture. Uh guys
like Tim Wellins though, you know, he’s Belgian, rides on like the craziest roads, the hardest
crosswinds, the cobbles. Uh they’re used to hard riding through town. So I think Tim Wellins has
got it no problem going through towns. Uh could be some of the other riders that struggle with
that. Uh Karin’s back. Karin’s back today. Uh Tim has a rear wind almost to the finish. He won’t
stop. Yeah, let’s take a look at the map here. I think it was coming out of the northn northwest.
So yeah, he should have a bit of a tailwind now. Uh rolling into Carcasson now, guys. Rolling in.
Tim getting a bottle on the fly here from his team car. He’s at He’s spraying water in his face from
the bottle. Spraying it straight up at his face. There’s only one guy in that car. Usually there’s
a DS in that car. There’s just the driver in that car. Uh Baker Chilly looks like it’s a human
resources consulting firm. That’s me. That’s my sleeping sound for those companies. Uh George
Higs is here. Ben Healey back in the GC group. Ben’s currently ninth overall at this moment.
Uh, so Ben Healey is with all the big brand names. Unfortunately, Carlos Rodriguez is well
ahead of him. Uh, Carlos Rodriguez right now, uh, third group on the road. He’s got about
a 5 and a half minute lead on the Pelaton. If they finish the race right now, he would take Ben
Healey’s ninth place away. Ben would drop to 10. So, we’re going to see how that forms. I I would
imagine the Pelton is going to start speeding up the closer we get to the bottom. Wow, guys.
There’s a bunch of soldiers on the road full camo wearing the white hats. Is that the French Foreign
Legion? Is that the French Are we in the world? Where does the French Foreign Legion hang out?
Uh I’ve seen documentaries. I’m super fascinated by it. But yeah, I can see them in those white,
you know, hats with the I can’t see the brim, but I can see the white hats. If you know where the
French Foreign Legion is based out of, let me know here. must be local to this area. Uh there’s like
tons of them standing on the road cheering. Uh my bike club used to have a different jersey design
for each season, so we only had generic shorts with our name on it. I have like 12 shirts. Yeah,
I think I’m rocking nine or 10. Uh probably almost the same number of bibs. Well added 25 seconds
to the gap in the last 8 kilometers. Yeah, he’s growing it still. Uh it’s one is it 139? Yeah,
Tim Wellins is there. Uh it’s 140. Uh back to the Rodriguez. Okay. So yeah, they they did come back
together. So there was four or five chasing. Now it’s seven chasing. Rodriguez will push hard.
Um hm. Rodriguez wants maximum time today. So he might want to help Simmons pull this guy back.
Uh, it is only 10 km with a 141 gap. I don’t think they can catch him now. They might try. And that
really helps Rodriguez out overall in the GC. Um, he could vault up today. Let’s see what happens
at the end of today here. Uh, okay. Uncle Matty, for the record, I picked the breakaway to get away
and win today. However, I have Woodsy Yates in my breakaway. I was incorrect for sure. Walls is a
great rider and UAE teammate. That’s right. Yeah, I thought today would be a breakaway as
well. Uh, and it looks like in the poll, uh, we’ve got 43% predicted a breakaway
win. That was out of 555 votes. Uh, 21% uh, said big sprinters fight. And we still got 386%
saying tatty day. Uh, did not become a tatty day. Okay. Oh, stop that. Ruben says, “I’ve turned
the live broadcast off. I don’t believe what the team is doing is normal. Tim has always been
a decent rider, but suddenly is 20% better.” Oh, yeah. He’s hammer right now. Head down.
Uh 9 km to go. I’m slightly delayed here. I’m going to try to speed this up right now.
Okay. So, I’m at 9.6 km. 9 km over here. So, I’m going to see the finish and I’m going to call
it in at the end. Uh, I guess I’ll be calling in the sprint groups because uh, looks like Tim
Wells is going to cross by himself. Jeff saying, “Is the Jean Darm?” Uh, surfer dude is a man bun
today. Oh, you’re talking about uh, Quinn Simmons, right? Cool factor just plummeted. Yeah, dude.
I’m not into the man bun. Either you let that either you keep it short or you let it flow.
You just got to let it all flow at the back. Uh, I think we’re getting a little look at is
that vote? Yeah, I think it’s V Vart there. He might be with Maddie. I think he’s riding
with Matty Mahoric. Yeah, we’re looking at V here right now. Where is he? 211 back. Uh, it’s
saying here it’s okay. I might have mistaken the white jersey. Yeah, that’s that is the Romeo
Abad. Ivon Rio Abad. Uh, I saw the white Moistar thought Bahrain there for a second. Tim Wellins
flying 142. These guys aren’t catching them now. They are not catching them. Awesome stuff. So, UAE
leading the tour to France, yellow jersey, Pogy and looks like they’re going to get a stage win
here again. Awesome. So, this is great for Tim. Uh, Julius, whenever I hear the name Healey. Oh, dude.
Yeah, exactly. Uh, Julius Caesar. Whenever I hear the name Healey, I automatically think of Jeff
Healey. He was such a gentle kind, magnificent musician. Yeah, guys, if you don’t know who Jeff
Healey is, look him up on YouTube today. Um, I’ve seen some incredible He’s a blind guitarist.
Uh, I think he’s Canadian. I think Jeff Healey’s Canadian. Can someone check that for me? Um,
he was he was in a couple of movies. Was he in Roadhouse? I think he was in Roadhouse. Uh, so he
plays sitting sitting down with his guitar across his lap. And I think I just saw him in some video
with like Carlos Santana or something and like they are like blown away about how good he is. Uh
he’s passed away, died way too young. Uh but yeah, super talent, Robert. It really is remarkable
for how one totally committed rider can drop a group when the group is riding defensively.
Wallen’s riding to win, those guys riding not to lose. Yeah, I think the only guy that here
might be trying to give her is probably Simmons and Rodriguez. I think Rodriguez should be going
for everything he can here to make sure he he can move up the GC, guys. There’s always other battles
here. Uh I’m looking at the Rodriguez group and it looks like there are a few attacks going
off. They’re getting restless here. And who’s on the front? It’s Rodriguez. He has the most to
gain here. Uh they’ve left it too late now. 6.3 km remaining for Wellins. But for Rodriguez, he’s
not concerned about the win. He wants maximum time uh towards the yellow jersey. I want to look at
this again here. Let’s take a look. You’ll see it here. Rodriguez is 3 minutes 16 seconds. Sorry,
it’s 4 minutes, guys. Uh so yeah, he probably is fighting to get the spot. Uh the next jump up to
Johansson’s a long way, but he wants to move up. One’s going through the roundabouts. They’re not
catching him now. They will not catch him now, guys. Uh, chat time. Wade’s cheering for Wellins.
Yeah, me too. Anyone on the breakway? He’s got his tongue hanging out now. I think he’s getting
some severe fatigue now, but 5.4 km to go, 3.2 miles. Uh, rest day tomorrow. Be like a
cafe ride tomorrow. Uh, Tim Wells is going to win the stage today, guys. No doubt. Outside of
a crash, uh, he’s got a 1 minute 51 second gap. Uh Ruben saying by suddenly Tim Wellen’s
performance suddenly increases by 20 prints by joining UAE nutrition bro marginal gains.
I think Tims was given the green light to go all out for the stage before the rest day.
Yeah, me too. I wish Vizma could release the leashes on Seus and Vout. I think they
did with Vout. He’s just not up there. He’s about his is third on road right now
uh with the Movar Rider. Still with Romeo Abad. Um they’re two minutes back though. He just
didn’t he missed some of those breaks. Probably got I think Vout wasn’t in the lead group
going over the top of the third climb today. And yep, Jeff Healey Band Roadhouse. I
thought you would be bigger. I think I remember that line from the movie.
Uh John Wolke here. Walt Wikeke Alan. Oh yeah. Is it called Obana? Maybe
France. French uh foreign legion is based. Are we nearby that marginal dope?
Marginal gains marginal doping. Yeah, possibly. Uh every ride for me lately has been
a cafe ride. Yeah, I’m feeling like this is my cafe ride today. Uh I think I need some rest
after this. Get ready for the next family thing. Got to be I got to be on for Granny. That’s Joey’s
mom. Just call her Granny. She’s quite kooky at times. Um Vizma concentrating too much on Pogy.
That’s why they’re not securing stages. Yeah, Vizma’s here to win Tour to France. Uh
they should have sent some guys up. I mean, I guess I’m watching Van Art right now.
They’ve given him a chance to go. He just didn’t have it. This is not the same Van
Art as a couple years ago. Uh I think if Van Art was the same as a couple years ago,
those stages would have went down different. Uh Robertson hearing lots of ayay on Belgian
TV. Yaya Campart’s here. Uh looks like he’s just drifting off the back of the chase group, guys.
3.4 km to go. Let’s we can start celebrating Tim uh Wellan’s victory early today for
Belgium and UAE. Wolf Tikeke. Okay, Wolf Tikeke. Got it, dude. Thanks,
John. Thanks for being here. Thanks for joining the chat. Uh Joe’s asking,
“Where’s the chat watching from today?” Uh Ruben, when are we riding, Colin? I’m back to
two watts per kilo. Did an hour and a half today. Uh I think I’m probably going to miss today. Uh,
I mean, I didn’t have to start as early today, guys, but I my sleep was terrible last night
after we got home. I I came downstairs right around midnight to get up for just after 4. Oh,
Tim’s cheering already. The smiles on his face already. 2.8 km to the finish. He knows he’s got
it. Oh, yeah. He’s hammering and the guys behind him are like they look like they’re out for a
club ride. They’re all sitting upright. Okay, now there’s attack going off. It looks like
a post rider is going. Picnic rider. Uh, who is the picnic rider? Warren Bar. Warren’s
trying to uh get things going here. But yeah, they’re all virtually sitting up uh on
the tops of their handlebars and Tim is super aerodynamic. Hands just draped over the
brake hoods. Looking good on his colono here. get a win at the tour to France, Tim. Love
it. Uh, so Ruben, I’m going to ride tomorrow. And there’s a dude uh that’s on here, Ian
Holmes. He wants to do a Zift ride. Uh, you can ride you can ride 25K free on Zift,
Ruben, once per month. So, if you want to do that, I think I’ll do that tomorrow. I’m going to
find a short ride on Zift. I might just ride 25K. Uh Wade’s asking where Vanderpool is. He
was in part of the initial breakaway today, the group of eight. Uh he has faded back. I’ll look
for him in a second. Tomorrow’s rest day. Yep. Uh Jeff here saying uh under the 3 kmter
banner. How far behind am I guys? How far behind am I? Well, I’m seeing uh it says 1.6
km remaining Jeff here. So must be a bit of delay. I’m seeing so I’m seeing go under
the two here and over here it’s saying 1.4 herers knuckleheads from that group of
seven that let Wellins get away. Yeah, that’s his knuckleheads for the day. Maybe even
my man my man Victor Camponarts one of those uh Cole Nagos. Yeah, they’re fantastic
bikes. And speaking of Victor Camponarts, he’s on the attack now out of the group
of seven. uh quickly gets a gap. Strong time trialist. He’s got the arrow helmet on.
He doesn’t care how sweaty he gets. That’s why he just shaved his head bald. Uh I think
that’s a premier tech rider chasing him. Who would that be there? Who would that be there? Um
Lutenko. Lutenko’s trying to go with Campon Arts here. They want to fight for second and third
place. There will be time bonuses at the end, guys. Just smidg. I think it’s 10 six
4 seconds. Uh, we are in Carcasson now. Uncle Maddie, I had much higher expectations from
Bout and Vizma. They should have let others have yellow and have all the win break till Yonas till
everyone else is spent by week three. Yeah. So, when Yonas won last time, he had the
strongest team. Uh, the support riders, Vout himself was just like on fire, could
win stages. this year about just kind of like chilling out further back. Injuries, who
knows? Camping Arts is pulling away from them. So, Camp Arts was able to drop everyone out of
the group of seven, showing you who’s the strongest. Uh, I just saw Tim doing some
hand slaps going down the road here. Uh, 200 meters to go, guys, for Tim Wellins.
Congratulations, Tim Wellins for UAE. Coming to the finish. More hand slaps, maybe. Just
focus on winning now. Tim Wellins is the winner of the stage today, guys. Uh, next group coming in
here. I want to take a good look at this. I think Victor’s away, and it’s not going to even show
it here. Victor Campen Arts has gone on a break. Maybe that’s him there. Yeah, that’s him solo. Uh,
he’s being chased by the other six riders. I think they’re going to let him go. Victor’s the only one
that really wants to work here now. Yeah, really cool seeing Tim finish fist pumping like this
as he crosses the line. Love it. So yeah, little bit. Yep, he’s doing a lot of hand slapping. So
he’s crossed the line. I’m a little bit delayed here. Waving to the fans. Awesome. Good stuff.
Yeah, Victor’s going. Uh, is anyone chasing him? Get over here. Uh, okay. This here’s Victor Campen. He
does not have a 132 gap to those guys. Uh he’s on a straightaway. I’m looking for
them now. Coming around the corner here. Remember delayed. Victor’s under a kilometer
now. Uh but it is delayed. So we’re going to see the finish here. So yeah, stage 15 won
by Tim Wellens of UAE team Emirates XRG. Uh okay, George H here again. Looking forward
to Tuesday. I remember Tom Simpson collapsing uh on the Bonu. Yeah, I think that was
1967. Uh and the monuments there. We’ll we’ll probably see the monument going
up. Let’s see the times here, guys. Oh, look at this. It says Tim Wells makes
Belgium shine on this National Day Eve. So, uh sounds like to me it’s a national holiday.
Maybe it’s uh the national celebration of the birthday of Belgium or something tomorrow.
Uh Belgian runners Ruben, let me know here. Catch this guys. Just going to see the
stage. Okay. Yeah, that’s just him doing his little pre-posed win. Those they do those before
the tour. Uh they usually say do a couple poses in case you win a stage. Well, he got it at
the time doing that. He was probably like, “Why do I have to do this? Group’s coming
in, guys. Here we go. Victor survived solo. He should be getting to the finish right now. Uh
there’s a sprint for the group further back. So, those guys are going through now. It seems like
my video is ahead of that uh the timing somehow. Yeah, like they still got Victor out
there. Uh with the Chasing Group, the Rodriguez group coming in next. I’m going
to keep a good eye on Rodriguez here in the Ben Healey split. Uh going back to the Ben Healey
split uh four. Yeah, Rodriguez might uh steal that spot. And I’m looking right now EF is driving
on the front of the Pelaton. Uh they’re trying to preserve ninth place for Ben Healey. That’s
what they’re working on there, guys. Sometimes you wonder why is this team attacking? I don’t
get it. They’re trying to defend that position from a rider that finished. Uh Victor doing the
green uh squishy box drink, whatever it is. They drink out of those. Seems Vizma drinks out of
those all the time. Vouts finished now, too. Really good celebration for Tim Wellins
here. He looks pretty happy. Um, Uncle Matty, great one for Tim Wellens.
Another interesting race day. Yeah, guys, every day seems it’s just fascinating to me
watching this go down. The entire currency and the entire group was mesmerized
by Simmons flowing hair. Someone said he was wearing a man bun today. So, he his
coolness level dropped about uh four rungs. Uh Jay Taylor, who’s top three? Who’s the next?
Oh, excuse me, guys. Had to have that sneeze. Uh Tim Wells cross first, guys. Let’s look at the
standings here again. See if I can get to it here. Uh Tim Wellins first. Victor was 1 minute
and 20 seconds gap back. So, Victor was pulling back the gap a little bit. He was out to like 150.
Uh and he pulled some gap back. Alfa Phalippe got third. Awesome for Alfa Phippe. Fourth place went
to uh Vout and fifth one. So Vout and that other dude came, they caught on with the remnants of
that seven rider group. Vote got through him. So Vout actually had a really good ride there because
he wasn’t in that group of seven. He was dangling back the whole time with uh Ivonne Romeo Abad. So
this is where we’re at so far today for the stage. Definitely going to stick around to see the Healy
finish just so we can see if he’s lost his ninth place. It’s like I’m lurking like a vulture
waiting to see that happen. Uh and we’ll hang out in the chat here for a little bit more. What
time is it, guys? 9:07 in the morning. Bravo Tim, great ride. Yeah, awesome ride by Tim Wellins.
Congrats Tim Wellins. He’s slapping hands with SP. Yeah, I saw that Jay uh UAE AR the dream
team this year. John Wolf Tikeke again. What’s happening with Vingo? He’s uh sitting in the
GC pelaton. Actually, I’ll bounce back to that, guys. Uh we’ll come back here. Actually, I need to
get back to it. Come back to the live part here. Smash it into here. Vingo. Uh well, it looks like
they’re getting to the finish right now. Yeah, the times on the bottom, guys, are not updating.
Looking at the the stream over here though, you can see them all coming in right now.
It says they are 1 kmter from the finish here. They’ve actually probably passed it right
now. Uh looking at the finish, I can see five, six Vizma riders here. Uh Pelaton’s really strung
out. I think I’m seeing Banderpool up ahead here finishing. Here’s Pogy on the front. We still have
a Uno X rider. We got EF all working together. I think that’s Ben Healey in secondary right
now. That looks like Ben Healey’s pedaling style to me. Followed by UAE. Uh they’re only 700
me finish. Then we’re going to see what happens to Ben today. Uh yeah, I think he lost. I think he’s
going to lose ninth place to Carlos Rodriguez. We’ve got Vanderpool here on
replay and a picnic rider. So, there’s about a 3 minute 40 second gap between
Carlos Rodriguez and Ben Healey on the road here. I’m seeing it’s 5 and 1/2 minutes. It’s almost
6 minutes since Wellins finished. I just don’t know exactly how far back Rodriguez finished.
Uh he finished about a minute and a half at least behind. Uh it’s going to be very close.
Ben’s actually on the front pulling the Pelaton across here. So, Ben’s fighting for that position.
Let’s take a look at this guys. Uh we’re going to look at today’s stage. We’re going to look at
the stage today. That’s yesterday. Carcass on here. Tim Wellins, Campon Arts, Alfalipe,
Vanart, Axel, Laurance, Alexander Blasov, uh Paul. I was expecting something
a lot more different than that. Um, okay. Paul, we don’t want to do
that. We want to do this. Uh, Michael Vgrren in ninth. 10th place is Valentine
Maruas. So, I haven’t seen Rodriguez finish yet, but he’s going to be in this group. Uh, looks
like Rodriguez is going to be about 136 back. I think Rodriguez just moved up. So, that
that’s a good day for Inos right here. Uh, I haven’t seen his number yet. There he
is. He finished 19th overall, 136 pack. So, there was a big group of riders. I saw them
come sprinting in without leading the way. Uh, and if you look here quickly, Healey
won’t be showing up for quite a while. So, I think what we need to do now is go
to the general ranking and see how much things will change. What do you guys think?
My prediction is Carlos Rodriguez just jumped ahead of Ben Healey in the GC. This is stage
15 2025 tour to France. We’re in Carcasson. Let’s roll on down, guys. Uh GC
standings here. Tatty Yonas. Okay, they’re only showing us three riders.
Hopefully that refreshes. I’ll catch up in the chat guys. I hope everyone has a good
day today. Please join again on Tuesday. Uh yeah, Yonas would have finished fine
there in the uh the Pelaton. Yeah, Robert, all kinds of emotions in that Wellins victory.
So yeah, he was pretty pumped up. And again, I think there’s a national holiday or, you know,
it’s kind of like Canada Day here or July 4th in the States. I think that’s going on in Belgium
tomorrow. I don’t know what they call it. Maybe it’s called Belgium Day. Tomorrow Tim Wellins
day. Wade saying UAE knows how to scout talent. Okay guys, finally the GC showing up here. Top
10, I believe. And it happened. Take a look at the bottom of the screen here. Hope you guys
are seeing what I’m seeing. Uh, yes, you are. Tatty going up to uh the yellow bus area probably
for a little uh urine sample I would imagine. But if you take a look here, you can see now uh look
at this. Carlos Rodriguez for Indios Granaders um has now vaulted ahead of Ben Healey and he he
had to work hard for it because it was quite a big gap. It was over four minutes between the two of
them. I think it was like four minutes 10 seconds. Uh he’s now looks like 25 seconds or 15. It’s 15
seconds ahead of Ben Healey. So that’s going to be a cool battle to watch uh for the rest of the
week coming up. Both are good climbers. Uh guys, if if this part you think is over at the top
here, Yonas and Pogy, take a look at some of these battles here. There’s a 15-second gap here.
These two teams are going to fight all the way to the finish. Now, uh Tobias still sitting in
eighth place. Felix G in seventh, Primos in sixth, Kevin Valon remains in fifth, only in fourth
place. So good. Uh he’s just over a minute and a half behind Lipoit, so they’re going to have to
really protect that from Oscar only. Uh actually, Vocalon and Primos are very close together, too.
There’s only 33 seconds between Felix Gaul and Johansson, guys. They’re going to be fighting
all the way through the mountains coming up. Uh Jeff saying, “We’ve never seen a winner. Embrace
all the fans like they.” Yeah, once in a while you do see it. But yeah, he’s pretty pumped
up for this win here. Yeah, he’s very excited about this. And as someone said earlier, uh
he’s pretty emotional about it, too. Okay. Uh yeah, Uncle Matty, this race must drain every
emotion. Oh, totally. I bet you that they must have a team of like psychological experts to
keep them motivated uh from crumbling when they feel bad. You know, the pep talks. Uh Robert,
thank you for hosting calling. Uh got an hour before the Giants get whooped by your Blue Jays
again. Time to get a ride in. Hey Robert, dude, thank you for being number one in the chat
today. And everyone that contributed today, thank you so much. Uh I know Robert did.
I can’t even see where all those people are right now. I don’t know how
to do that. Uh, how do I do that, guys? I’m just trying to have a look here. But
Robert, you’re number one in the chat today. Uh, Neil Rushby’s up there, too. Andrew here. Uh,
it’s kind of funny when I come back into this, I see different names. So, I’m going to
mistake people’s names here, guys. Like, I’m seeing a list here of like your standings with
your XP you earn. It It resets every day. This is a fun little thing to do. Uh, some of your names
there are different than your names in real life, so I’ve lost track of everyone, guys. Anyone who
went above and beyond to help the channel out. Uh, super appreciative of it. And
I love everyone being here. Uh, jumping into the chat. We still got 247 people
here. Pogy was 33rd today. Thank you, Wade. Uh, Jeff saying an important victory for Waffles,
Windmills, and Dikes. Yes, Robert’s going to So, Robert’s going to go watch a nice baseball game
today. That sounds relaxing to me today. Uh June, thank you for another wonderful commentating
and stream. See you Tuesday. Good night from the Philippines. June, take it easy, dude. We’ll
uh catch you early Tuesday morning. That’s your evening. We’ll see you then. Uh Chris here in
Japan. Thanks, mate. After midnight here in Japan, dude. So glad you hung out all the
way. Checking out get those Z’s in, bro. We’ll see you on Tuesday. We are going up the
M on to uh fireworks time, baby. And don’t forget, it’s not just fireworks for Tatty and Yonas. Uh
we got a battle brewing uh here for Red Bull. We got another battle brewing between Arca
B&B and Red Bull. Uh Felix Gaul, Dathlon, uh one of the lower budget teams is in seventh
place. Tobias Johansson, a pro series team, uh, is only 33 seconds behind him. Inos, you know,
they’re not the same Inos. They’re they’ve got a ninth place rider who’s just sitting ahead of
Ben Healey right now. Uh, Dawn’s asking, “Which job is worse, driving the broom car or driving
the semi-truck full of urine samples from the the riders?” Yeah, I know, right? Uh, Bruce here
saying, “Colin, thanks, Colin. Rock on.” Yeah, guys. Thanks so much for being here. Uh guys,
I’m going to probably just like vanish today. Got lots to do. Appreciate everyone being here. Uh
thank you so much for putting this supporting the channel. And uh guys, I see the light at the end
of the tunnel. I see it. I see it now. Uh where the channel’s going, what we can do going forward,
how I can make it better, and you guys are all part of that. So, thank you so much for being
here. I’m going to jump. I got animals to feed.
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