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The Pro Cycling Thread (Part 2)
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Edward_Sloley
11-07-2015
Originally Posted by swingaleg:
“Seems a bit odd to have a team time trial tomorrow so late into the race

There had to be a possibility that a really unlucky team might not have 5 riders left.............”

Orica are pushing it with just 6 riders ATM (effectively 5 with lanterne rouge Matthews still recovering from the Stage 3 crash)

Originally Posted by grassmarket:
“Easier to understand than Sean Kelly, on the whole.”

LOL, Sherwen just shared your sentiment on Kelly during commentary!
grassmarket
11-07-2015
Welsh commentary is on a different adverts schedule than ITV, so don't miss a minute! More helpful Welsh vocab: "cocaine" "maverick" "screen grab" "tweets".
swingaleg
11-07-2015
interesting little break from the peloton with about a dozen guys going off the front including Sagan.....

probably won't last but makes life more interesting !
swingaleg
11-07-2015
Sagan back in the peloton but several riders continuing with the break having caught the original 4 man breakaway.......
divingbboy
11-07-2015
Clever bit of riding from Froomey and Sky at the end there. Left the other GC teams in no doubt that they weren't prepared to let them claw back any time.
grassmarket
11-07-2015
Originally Posted by divingbboy:
“Clever bit of riding from Froomey and Sky at the end there. Left the other GC teams in no doubt that they weren't prepared to let them claw back any time.”

And chipped another 15 secs or so from Nibali.
divingbboy
11-07-2015
Originally Posted by grassmarket:
“And chipped another 15 secs or so from Nibali.”

Yeah, I was quite surprised to see Nibali in trouble there.
grassmarket
11-07-2015
Sky are still intact for the TTT tomorrow, going to pick up more time on the other contenders, I think. And fantastic to see "Team Yates" going so well, I think there is something good for them in the mountains.
grassmarket
11-07-2015
Originally Posted by divingbboy:
“Yeah, I was quite surprised to see Nibali in trouble there.”

Did Quintana get up in the bunch, didn't see?

[edit] Just caught a glimpse of him in the bunch on the replay, I think. Unless there are any other Incas in the race.
grassmarket
11-07-2015
Am I the only person who thinks that Dan Martin looks like a young Shane McGowan? Better teeth, though.
Edward_Sloley
11-07-2015
Originally Posted by cmq2:
“Don't drive like this at home video ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7BCSpRasAU”

Video has been removed because the DS wasn't wearing his seatbelt! As a result he served a day's suspension.
fluffed
12-07-2015
Originally Posted by swingaleg:
“I quite like that one with Kittel......

but in general all adverts that are dubbed from German or whatever into English, like car adverts, seem faintly ridiculous to our ears........I think they have a very different style of 'advert language'!”

Anyone watching ES in the last few years can't forget...

"Salice .. made of sport"

the current Merida 'more bike' one comes close in cheesy-ness, though everytime I see that I worry about the scuffed up seat tube.
cmq2
12-07-2015
Originally Posted by Edward_Sloley:
“Video has been removed because the DS wasn't wearing his seatbelt! As a result he served a day's suspension.”

I thought at the time, the seat belt should have been the least of their concerns.

The live tracking site is up and running. In Beta, so not too user friendly at the moment. For example, the map window does not move with the race. It also had Sanchez and Nibali 40mins down at the end of yesterday's stage. I presume they changed bikes at some point.
http://letour-livetracking.dimensiondata.com/
cmq2
12-07-2015
Sky 5 seconds up before the final climb. Lost 6 on the last sector.
cmq2
12-07-2015
Porte confirms he is leaving Sky: http://cyclocosm.tumblr.com/post/123...2016-from-sbss
grassmarket
12-07-2015
Originally Posted by cmq2:
“Sky 5 seconds up before the final climb. Lost 6 on the last sector.”

Yes, it was Nicholas Roche that cracked, unfortunately. Still a good day overall.
swingaleg
12-07-2015
Think I'm right in saying that Sky still had the full team at the start of today ?

In which case they'd already dropped 4 riders before the last climb

Knowing how meticulous Sky are that's probably the way they planned to ride.......use up certain riders early on and jettison them

But it just shows how they could have come unstuck if Roche had cracked with a kilometre to go .......

Makes you wonder if they could have gone a bit slower early on and kept 8 or 9 guys for the last few kilometres them really lashed it

I guess that's the tactics of TTTs and you'll never know how it would have turned out if you'd ridden it differently.........
cmq2
12-07-2015
BMC brought six riders into the final sector. I think that is the usual tactic balancing speed with risk. Sky possibly intended to do the same.

The GPS monitoring showed Roche as clocking the fastest individual speed early on. He possibly got his pacing slightly wrong. The alternative is the climbers in the team hit the final hill too hard.

Only 35 seconds over top five teams. Sagan's chance of yellow now gone. Nibali slipping a few more seconds away from Froome before the mountains start on Tuesday.
grassmarket
12-07-2015
Originally Posted by cmq2:
“Only 35 seconds over top five teams. Sagan's chance of yellow now gone. Nibali slipping a few more seconds away from Froome before the mountains start on Tuesday.”

I suppose the good thing is that Nibali will be forced to attack
Edward_Sloley
12-07-2015
Just like the 2013 TTT, this one produced a winning margin of less than one second.

Back then, OGE pipped the world champions; it's rather ironic that OGE were last today. Today, the world champions finished on top by an even tighter margin!

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If Dowsett can somehow hang on all the way to Paris, he's a contender for the lanterne rouge. Whether he wants to or not is another matter.
Edward_Sloley
13-07-2015
Ivan Basso has abandoned after being diagnosed with testicular cancer.

This might be a rare instance where a crash proved to be beneficial. Seems like he found out before it reached an advanced stage, thankfully.
cmq2
13-07-2015
Let's hope he makes a full recovery though treatment will probably force retirement. His mother died of cancer. In the film documentary Overcoming about CSC and the 2004 Tour, Basso was shown phoning his rival Armstrong, a testicular cancer survivor, about treatment options.
Andrew-W
13-07-2015
He may well have been fortunate to have that crash, I hope he makes a quick recovery.

I'm looking forward to the start of the mountain's tomorrow with a good climb at the finish, obviously Chris Froome looks to be in good form but we should see tomorrow who the contenders will be.
gemma-the-husky
14-07-2015
Originally Posted by cmq2:
“BMC brought six riders into the final sector. I think that is the usual tactic balancing speed with risk. Sky possibly intended to do the same.

The GPS monitoring showed Roche as clocking the fastest individual speed early on. He possibly got his pacing slightly wrong. The alternative is the climbers in the team hit the final hill too hard.

Only 35 seconds over top five teams. Sagan's chance of yellow now gone. Nibali slipping a few more seconds away from Froome before the mountains start on Tuesday.”

Originally Posted by grassmarket:
“I suppose the good thing is that Nibali will be forced to attack”

I don't think nibali has/had a chance this year.

It's froome or Quintana.

Tomorrow's uphill finish will see the two of them going clear I think.
Edward_Sloley
14-07-2015
Today is La Fête nationale - so expect the French (particularly Pinot) to be really hungry for a stage win.
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