Tour de France

poliss · July 11, 2011, 01:57:40 AM

I thought I'd seen everything on 'Le Tour' but I've never seen a TV car sideswipe two bikes off the road before. One rider did a sommersault into a barbed wire fence!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYPDAry-A-s

Lawrence · July 11, 2011, 08:54:52 AM

French TV crew

been banned for the rest of the tour, muppets

longbridge · July 11, 2011, 09:01:12 AM

Seeing is believing but was it accidental

??

lesmond · July 11, 2011, 09:07:01 AM

"muppets"

- haven't heard that for a while.

Did anyone surrender?

Newportnobby · July 11, 2011, 10:32:49 AM

Someone once said "If you like the French put one hand up - if you are French put both hands up"
I dare say this will be removed tout suite!

OwL · July 11, 2011, 05:57:55 PM

Crikey!

Im guessing the French cyclists paid off the TV crew car to wipe out their nearest rivals!!!

That did not look very accidental to me!

poliss · July 11, 2011, 06:27:44 PM

The driver swerved to avoid a tree.

jonclox · July 11, 2011, 07:42:46 PM

Quote from: poliss on July 11, 2011, 06:27:44 PM
The driver swerved to avoid a tree.

..............which had just walked across a field and was about to cross the road

findus · July 11, 2011, 08:53:43 PM

Quote from: jonclox on July 11, 2011, 07:42:46 PM
Quote from: poliss on July 11, 2011, 06:27:44 PM
The driver swerved to avoid a tree.
..............which had just walked across a field and was about to cross the road

im glad somebody else saw the walking tree $:-\$

im amazed the driver did not stop, regardless of a race he had just hit somebody...

Newportnobby · July 11, 2011, 09:34:47 PM

Bonjour mes amis.
J'ai pense qu'un cycliste est pas de hard comme un tree et so je clobbered him. Je was en retard pour mon dinner et ma wife est une battleaxe.
Vive la Franglais

lesmond · July 11, 2011, 09:42:24 PM

Did anyone else see the Panzer chasing the car or did I get my tablets mixed up again?

Newportnobby · July 11, 2011, 09:54:46 PM

Quote from: lesmond on July 11, 2011, 09:42:24 PM
Did anyone else see the Panzer chasing the car or did I get my tablets mixed up again?

Lesmond - are you getting your pillboxes mixed up

lesmond · July 11, 2011, 09:59:00 PM

That must be it, although the only time the French go that fast is normally when they're on the run.

BTW, was either of the cyclists seriously hurt?

longbridge · July 11, 2011, 10:24:42 PM

I think we may have a couple of SNCF modellers on the forum so I think we should ease up on the French

poliss · July 12, 2011, 01:24:32 AM

What really, really, really upsets me is that Googling French Military Victories no longer works.