Tour de Suisse Stage 6: Wil SG > Biel/Bienne, 237.3kms

Matej Mohoric is leading a quartet of escapers away...

FDJ is already chasing with the gap at less than three minutes....

Thibaut Pinot is the one being protected as the new race-leader...

Tour de Suisse - Stage 6

Mark Cavendish is trying out his new Specialized bike today...

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Tour de Suisse - Stage 6

Peter Sagan has the exact same Specialized bike but with different 'bars...

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Tour de Suisse - Stage 6

Rivals for the sprint-finish today, yet Sagan and Cavendish take the time to swap notes on their new bikes...

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Tour de Suisse - Stage 6

Miguel Lopez Moreno gets a radio fixed - is the young Colombian heading for greatness..?

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Tour de Suisse - Stage 6

Jan Hirt is on bottle-carrrying duties despite being CCC's leading rider here...

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A rare sighting of a World Champion carrying bottles - Michal Kwiatkowski is the champion...

Kwiatkowski has pedalled to the front of the peloton and now hands Cavendish a bottle, with some help from a Tinkoff rider, tut, tut..

Fellow Pole, Michal Golas, gets a Kwiatkowski bottle further up the peloton...

Tour de Suisse - Stage 6

Jerome Baugnies leads the escape now, they are sitting on a three-minute lead but getting no further...

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Tour de Suisse - Stage 6

Frank Schleck is already eating as he takes on a feed-bag halfway through the stage...

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It's pouring with rain now - Darwin Atapuma pulles on his rain-jacket...

Tour de Suisse - Stage 6

Christian Knees is soaking up the rain too...

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Tour de Suisse - Stage 6

Pinot cruises up one of the day's few hills, but a crash near the end will reduce his race-lead a little...

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Tour de Suisse - Stage 6

Fran Ventoso and Eros Capecchi have suddenly shot out of the peloton and are trying to bridge across to the escape...

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Tour de Suisse - Stage 6

Mohoric is still pulling the escape along in the last five-kilometres, they might even stay away..!

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Capecchi and Ventoso are closing in on them...

The Katusha-led peloton is closing in on the chasers and the escapers...

Tour de Suisse - Stage 6

Peter Sagan wins stage six after the escape was caught in the last two-kilometres..!

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