Exciting stage today!!!

It was a classic course and classic ride today.

I will not ruin the surprise for anyone... it's worth watching for your self. It was edge of the seat viewing today.

best,
mike

I assume this refers to the 'le Tour de France'.
 
I find bicycling to be really 'geeky' ( e.g., the outfits), but I find myself captivated by 'The Tour'. I started watching it last year and it sucked me in. Been recording and watching this year's stages. The French countryside is beautiful.  The TV coverage is excellent. I find it to be one of the most dangerous sporting events. These guys are all packed together in the 'paloton'. How they all ride so close to each and do it without more accidents is beyond me. There is still a lot I don't understand about the sport, but have been enjoying watching it.

Ken - You're right, cycling is a dangerous sport, but not so much from riding in the peloton.
Consider instead the mountain stages, where after struggling up one side of a mountain with lungs screaming in the thin air, riders fly down the winding roads on the other side pushing speeds of 50 to 70 mph on tires have pencil thin contact with the road.  Then they do it again.  Drug/blood doping abuses or not, cyclists have the hearts of lions!

(But yeah, the whole doping thing almost made me lose all interest in the sport, just coming back into it this year.)