The Tour de France.

scribe · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:46 pm Post subject: The Tour de France.

I see that tomorrow's stage ends in Ralf's hometown. I wish I could be there to see it.

and hope everyone's faired well with the London attacks and all. Best wishes.

Ralf Toth · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:48 pm Post subject:

Yeah it'll be here. It's gonna be a big show for such a small and unimportant town. However, I'll be at work. I'm not sad missing the event, I've never been much of a biking fan. I'm more into soccer and the world championship is coming next year! (Not this town though).

I hope that goddamn terrorist motherfuckers are rotting down in hell.
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TheShield · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:23 am Post subject:

And on the 12th of July, they start from Grenoble.

Ralf Toth · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 8:21 am Post subject:

Then will you watch it? Is it worth it? I have never been to any bike race.
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falstaff · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:06 pm Post subject:

I'll be off to see the tour in a few moments.
Experience tells me that watching a bike race is fairly boring :)
Since they don't race on a circuit.

Like stuff like this here http://www.redbullrampage.com/action.php

Last year some guy jumped right across the main body of the tour.
Quite funny :))
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Ralf Toth · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:24 pm Post subject:

Man, I just walked to the bakery to get me some food. There are thousands of cars from all kinds of places on the streets and lots of people walking towards the track. And I am on the other side of the town!

I read that we expect 1,000,000 visitors today. Quite something for a town of (nearly) 300,000...
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Ralf Toth · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:25 pm Post subject:

The mountainbike stuff looks like fun! Fal, can I watch you doing the same stuff somewhere? Wink

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Ralf Toth · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:24 pm Post subject:

Chris, I hope you had fun? It looked like a nice dramatic finish with crash and everything. Next to my building is the main police station (also where my father used to work). Now there's choppers everywhere. Scribe might smile about this, but for a small town, that's a lot of action Wink

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falstaff · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:59 pm Post subject:

Wasn't at the finish but at the ZKM (media museum).
1 hour waiting and the entire field passed within 8 seconds shocked

Ah you can't watch me doing these stunts. Some of the bikers make 100.000 $ and more a years doing this stuff. But you can watch it on DVD hehe.
Alas! I got the proper bike but lack the guts
Wink

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Ralf Toth · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:11 pm Post subject:

falstaff · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:44 pm Post subject:

Lucky me.
Last year: one dislodged shoulder, a nearly broken nose, + a lot of abrasions and scratches
Missed a few jumps here and there.
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TheShield · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:48 pm Post subject:

Actually, I'm not a big biking fan either, and I've never seen the Tour de France...
But I may have a hard time to avoid it this time. Tonight, when I left the parking where I park my car, I saw a paper saying that leaving the parking on Tuesday morning might be 'difficult or impossible', because the Tour will pass in the street just at the exit ! I think "impossible" will win over "difficult" !

Btw, Ralf, there are only 150000 or so inhabitants in Grenoble. So have no fear, Karlsruhe is twice bigger Wink

This will be a mess...

scribe · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 2:04 pm Post subject:

Even if I dont care much for something....if an event passes through I always enjoy taking a bit of it in.

I have followed the tour heavily via internet for the last 7 years since Armstrong has won it. What a great story he is! I can't get enough of it. That crash was something else. Looked like a really tight turn and the newb leading the group just could pull it out.

I would love to physically see the peleton pass by but I wouldnt do this more than once. Christian is right, these guys are doing 30 mph (whatever that is in KM...sorry guys) It would seem like a blur passing by.

Ralf Toth · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:59 pm Post subject:

So Christophe, how was the tour? I read the farmers were protesting, because they are not allowed to shoot the wolves.

You got wolves around Grenoble? shocked

Two days ago, I became a little nervous, when I was running in the woods in the night with the wife, and there was a wild boar squealing in the dark (I tried to remember the AD&D statistics and if he had any special attacks or weaknesses, but couldn't remember.) Wink

Now I wonder how I would feel, if I was jogging in the woods near Grenoble, and encountered a pack of wolves. Shock and Awe

And what kind of monsters might be on the encounter table for the Mad Scribe's Tower's surroundings?
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TheShield · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:12 pm Post subject:

Well, I saw nothing... I left the parking a bit earlier than usually, at about 08:45 am. Cops were slowly installing some fences here and there, but that's all I've noticed ! I didn't have time to go back in Grenoble during the day, to see more. Lot of work at the moment.
I heard the end of the race has been changed to avoid the farmers. It should have been about 10 Kms longer. I didn't hear the reason the farmers was angry, but wolves is a possibility. One wolf was shot recently without authorization, and the farmer will be judged for that. Wolves are a protected specy in France. There are a few ones in the Alps. I think they came from Italy, but now some are really installed in the french part of the mountains. They make some damages in the cattles, espcially amongst sheeps.
But they never attack human, even when encountered in pack. Your boar may have been way more dangerous !