Haven't managed to see it today. What's he crying for?

It looks as though he's in pain & wants to stop but the the team won't let him.

He must be flirting with the cutoff time?

He's undone his top buttons & is fiddling with his hair as we speak

Has peter sagan's confidence gone a bit. He should have been able to go with Gallopin. No need to worry about Kwiatkowski, surely? Just one quick burst.

The gearing is the ratio between the number of teeth on the front gearwheel, compared with back. If you are on the smallest ring at the back, then one rev at the front turns the back wheel a lot of times, but its hard to pedal. Especially uphill. Ullrich used to pedal a hard gear uphill. Froome seems to go the other way, I think.

So normally there will be 5 to 7 gear wheels on the back, giving you that number of gears. If you have 2 front gear wheels, then you get twice the gears, although there will be some overlap.

Talansky inside the time limit but fined 50 CHF for something or other. I did't see it but sounded a bit mean by his team, he's had 2 crashes, a day off and still in pain, and they make him ride to the end as if they can magically sort it overnight? Chances are he wont start tomorrow anyway.

No, i agree.
Think I'd heard it was his back playing up so unlikely to be able to ride back into form easily.

With Sagan nowadays his reputation precedes him. If he had caught Gallopin again, then Kwiatkowski would have had a free tow and then would have attacked - there were several attacks, and Gallopin got lucky. Every time Sagan gets in a break now everyone just takes it in turns to attack solo and nobody turns a pedal to help him. Perhaps if he hadn't been such an arrogant prat over the last 2-3 years he would get more chances, but he has made his bed and now must lie in it.

Car hanging probably.

50 swiss is a bit niminal, isnt it?

I think they felt sorry for him, poor guy.

No great surprise: Andrew Talansky is leaving the Tour and will not start today.

They made him ride all that way for nothing. Gits

From what I can tell, no one forced him to ride on, they just told him (rightly, IMO) that if he was going to abandon there and then, he needed to be sure that it was the right decision for him.

I know that's what Garmin are saying but I'm not convinced tbh. That's not how it looked

As Chris Boardman just said, in the middle of a stage when you're tired and in pain is the absolute worst time to make a logical decision about whether you should abandon. Part of the DS's job is to encourage people and help them to do things that they might not believe they're physically capable of doing. Garmin really don't have a reputation for putting the team above rider welfare. They got him through the stage and I'm glad he can say that his Tour didn't end by the side of the road.

Jonathan Tiernan-Locke banned for 2 years..............

http://www.uci.ch/Modules/BUILTIN/ge...k5OTY&LangId=1

Well that's a bit sad, one amazing season, Sky contract, then rubbish results, caught for doping at Endura and banned. Seems obvious now what happened, but I wanted him to be legit :/

2012 Tour of Britain winner is now .. Nathan Haas, who?

Yeah, I was a fan of the guy (local and club connections, etc). Sad and disappointing. I can only think that he must have come to believe that whatever substances he was taking didn't contribute that much to his success, as he would have known that he couldn't continue to dope at Sky. Looking back, I suspect that Sky knew fairly early on in his contact that something wasn't right because he had an absolute mare of a season and couldn't come close to his Endura form.

Big stage today with a 'hors category' summit finish

Should find whether or not anyone is going to challenge Nibali

I am expecting a bold showing from Richie Porte today with G spurring him on,
praying Nibali has a bad day soon as well

Bloody hell, Porte's cracked.

Not quite the little Tasmanian devil we thought.

Nibali lays down the law !

Porte lashé........

Valverde and Bardet climb up the GC.