There is no such thing as an easy day in the WorldTour peloton as the Tour de France keeps reminding us.
If the riders hoped for a calm day after the chaos of the cobbled stage five, they were to be disappointed as crosswinds and wet roads made for a nervous bunch.
Once again there was no shortage of crashes, with Jesus Hernandez (Tinkoff-Saxo), Egor Silin (Team Katusha) and Xabier Zandio (Team Sky) all forced to abandon.
And in the end, as the peloton was split by a late acceleration by Omega Pharma-Quickstep, Andre Greipel (Lotto-Belisol) was left to sprint to his first victory of this year’s race.
Read what the riders made of the stage in our round-up of the best Twitter reaction below.
