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of britain stage six carlisle to my house with brown morning who's actually not called
brown in real life we're here with swift carbon price cycling and i'm going to be
in the car it's a toughy we're going from carlisle to gateshead near newcastle today
uh across the penins so three pretty pretty stiff climbs on the cards uh it's gonna be
198 kilometers in total so a big day after you know some hard stages previously um
tough tough ride today alex has had a great result yeah a couple of days back yeah potentially i mean
like the main priority would be to ride for alex who's who's high up on gc we'll try and get one
of us up the road in a move early doors um that person then has got a little bit of sliding room
on the climbs and everything else and can be there later on to help alex in the finale sort
of thing that's that's the game plan yeah i'm just gonna see how the legs are really in the
final see what i can do uh give it my best how did your third place pan out and how did it happen
pete just said alex move up so i moved up [ __ ] got first really far up that's it yeah
it will go uh sooner rather than later but you're just gonna have to be a little bit
reactive not proactive and just just watch out for those usual suspects that are going
up the road and let's look for the usual patterns in the usual science
three
energy for alex polly that wasn't a double energy that was just energy so uh
if you if you want to know that you'd have to come back so a small group of riders has formed
mark cavendish is in it they're all attacking each other but
they haven't hit the pennines yet so i imagine things are going to get spicy
guys just to let you know we're gonna have uh two uh feed zones today the first one is at
96 k so that's another 30 k's for the first feed
double okay mate okay we've got alex in position and looking after him for as long as possible
you're hanging in there yeah it's just gone so yeah um just tuning along and see what happens
yeah okay mike apparently this thing's behind me yeah yeah ollie's oh there's not far behind
you if you can get in a small little group just roll through yeah just roll through pete'll be
around to give you a bit of assistance if you need a bottle or anything like that i
motivate alex it seems a bit low is he okay mate biggest climb of the day now done uh we're now
at elevation for quite a while so the next two are not going to be quite as long but they are
very steep we're deep into the penins now whether they could be a bit changeable um but currently
sun's out on the horizon so fingers crossed for the riders that's all yeah it's all good
uh
hold on that one
saddle feels slightly low saddle feels slightly low
but maybe it's maybe it's perfect i don't know yeah it's absolutely
mate
just a little red derailleur issue after having changed onto the spare
following that uh crash back there we'll get you back on just uh stay calm for now
uh this is going to be a bit of a long process but we'll make sure you get it back on hold on guys
you've got about another k and a half here of this climb and then that's it
just call me a [ __ ] goat all right you [ __ ] mountain go three count ones
more more yeah that's that's water for you mate yeah i need some for alex yeah
you've got double energy for alex i don't want the water no okay chicken energy yeah
just gets two more for alex yeah give alex the ones in in your cages because they're a double x
guys this is just a shower this will uh this will cease
so just uh just hang in there i know it's bloody unpleasant but just hang in there
40 kilometers to go now we've got alex back in the main bunch and he's got one rider supporting him
just gonna drop some food and get to the finish
oh sorry just take it for now i'll try and find you some
something yeah some taste different olives the watermelon the watermelon tastes weaker
ride some wheels if you can and then the last the last kilometer 800 meters is uh
four percent of a drag so just use your head and uh just try and beat as many guys as you
can up there empty the tank mate up here more time gaps you can get the better material
we're behind anyway aren't we why did philippe just come out of that bush i don't know
there he is he didn't study the course enough no we didn't we didn't so it was so difficult
could you hear me on the radio i heard something i couldn't say what you were saying this uh this
slipped handlebars on the climb and then i came back and i i was asking if i should come back
and just at that point it was like a long critical point and uh and i was so far back
i've like jumped across now if you're on the live stream you would sweating it across yeah only uh
i wasn't up there either i went to grab a bag jane from jane yeah and then or chris i'm not
sure which one and uh i think he just had a wobble he'll have to ask what happened but he
came down and then like two it sort of you know took got me down as well 44k an hour honestly
i think on grippy roads i think though like she could take massive heart from all this you know
at the end of the day it would have been nice to you know we've got two stages to go and see what
we can do but it would have been nice for you to you know have pulled off a big result today but
things conspire against you sometimes you know i think in the final as well
i wasn't like aggressive enough to like max placed himself really well
yeah i should have just been yeah top three around the corner and then yeah
sprint yeah it's difficult when you don't quite know what's coming up ahead of you feedback got
caught around my handlebars and i don't know whether it was a kahura rider um that kind of
then caught the feed bag as well but basically it just took my front wheel from underneath me
um i don't really know what happened to be honest like i mean i took the feedback but i mean like
maybe i shouldn't have even taken the feedback because we were going at 60k an hour i don't know
you were 10 seconds down today
take three i thought it was going to be like a second gap so it was going to be like
13 seconds down or something like that 20 seconds down you know what place
20 seconds 20 seconds but at the same time
without that without that mechanical if you'd have been on your other bike and you knew the road
you developed top 10 there yeah all day long so you just need to bear that in mind i did a crash
and it rained i'm good with the excuses just ride the whole stage on that yeah i did the whole thing
you