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The Pro Cycling Thread (Part 2)
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deivu74
16-07-2014
Originally Posted by divingbboy:
“I feel terrible for Andrew Talansky. Poor guy. He's cycling along in tears now.”

Haven't managed to see it today. What's he crying for?
Electra
16-07-2014
Originally Posted by deivu74:
“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.
aggs
16-07-2014
Originally Posted by Electra:
“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?
Electra
16-07-2014
Originally Posted by aggs:
“He must be flirting with the cutoff time?”

He's undone his top buttons & is fiddling with his hair as we speak
gemma-the-husky
16-07-2014
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.
gemma-the-husky
16-07-2014
Originally Posted by swingaleg:
“I think I'm OK on the structure and tactics of the sport and how it all works and plays out but I'm useless on the technical things about the bikes.......when they start going on about bottom brackets my eyes glaze over

To be honest I'm not even sure how gears work.........I never rode a bike with gears

I certainly don't understand how the chain can jump from one ring to another one.........and become a bigger chain on a bigger ring.......”

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.
fluffed
16-07-2014
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.
aggs
16-07-2014
No, i agree.
Think I'd heard it was his back playing up so unlikely to be able to ride back into form easily.
grassmarket
16-07-2014
Originally Posted by gemma-the-husky:
“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.”

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.
grassmarket
16-07-2014
Originally Posted by fluffed:
“Talansky inside the time limit but fined 50 CHF for something or other. .”

Car hanging probably.
gemma-the-husky
17-07-2014
50 swiss is a bit niminal, isnt it?
aggs
17-07-2014
I think they felt sorry for him, poor guy.
divingbboy
17-07-2014
No great surprise: Andrew Talansky is leaving the Tour and will not start today.
Electra
17-07-2014
Originally Posted by divingbboy:
“No great surprise: Andrew Talansky is leaving the Tour and will not start today.”

They made him ride all that way for nothing. Gits
divingbboy
17-07-2014
Originally Posted by Electra:
“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.
Electra
17-07-2014
Originally Posted by divingbboy:
“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
divingbboy
17-07-2014
Originally Posted by Electra:
“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.
divingbboy
17-07-2014
Jonathan Tiernan-Locke banned for 2 years..............

http://www.uci.ch/Modules/BUILTIN/ge...k5OTY&LangId=1
fluffed
17-07-2014
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?
divingbboy
17-07-2014
Originally Posted by fluffed:
“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.
swingaleg
18-07-2014
Big stage today with a 'hors category' summit finish

Should find whether or not anyone is going to challenge Nibali
Party Animal
18-07-2014
I am expecting a bold showing from Richie Porte today with G spurring him on,
praying Nibali has a bad day soon as well
divingbboy
18-07-2014
Bloody hell, Porte's cracked.
deivu74
18-07-2014
Not quite the little Tasmanian devil we thought.
swingaleg
18-07-2014
Nibali lays down the law !

Porte lashé........

Valverde and Bardet climb up the GC.
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