Sharing the Load

CM92S4E
CM92S4E Posts: 33
edited July 2008 in Pro race
Evidently during Stage 15 we had Egoi Martinez doing about 70% of the work and Danny Pate doing approximately the other 30%. Of course, wheel follower Simon Gerrans scored the cheeky win.

How would this affect a riders reputation in the peleton? Most will not care, but those who like to comply with the unwritten rules of breakaway cycling surely will feel like "Gerrans didn't deserve his win and therefore he is a ******* **** etc etc"

So how will people react to Gerrans in the peleton on Stage 16... or will they just not care (as in, its not that bigger deal)?

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  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    He may have been cunning and bluffed about his fatigue or genuinely been unable to lead on the climb and just hung on, but that's bike racing. They should have dropped him if/when they had the chance.
    Tour de France
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    It's a professional sport not an afternoon run of the Burlington Bertie Gentlemans Club. If you want to guarantee a win then arrive at the finish line alone.

    Martinez was clearly the strongest but a) he let the others know that too early and b) he made a lot of small attacks rather than saving it for one big one.
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    I seem to recall a simiar situation a few years ago involving Big George. Oddly enough, Gerrans hasn't received anywhere near the amount of flak on this forum for his stage win that BG did...
    Le Blaireau (1)
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    DaveyL wrote:
    I seem to recall a simiar situation a few years ago involving Big George. Oddly enough, Gerrans hasn't received anywhere near the amount of flak on this forum for his stage win that BG did...

    People are just jealous of George's trophy wife.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    :D
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  • deal
    deal Posts: 857
    iainf72 wrote:
    DaveyL wrote:
    I seem to recall a simiar situation a few years ago involving Big George. Oddly enough, Gerrans hasn't received anywhere near the amount of flak on this forum for his stage win that BG did...

    People are just jealous of George's trophy wife.

    not bad..
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    DaveyL wrote:
    I seem to recall a simiar situation a few years ago involving Big George. Oddly enough, Gerrans hasn't received anywhere near the amount of flak on this forum for his stage win that BG did...
    Wasn't that more at the incredulity that a 6' 4" 80 kg serial classics loser was winning the toughest Pyrenean stage in that year's Tour rather than his tactics?
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    "Gerrans said that he would settle for reaching the finish line with me and being second. So when he was not able to follow on the ascent to the Prato Nevoso, we waited for him."

    Egoi Martinez has now usurped Stijn Devolder's title as the dumbest rider in the peloton. Or the most gullible, at least.
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Ooh funny clavicle thing going on there with BG.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    cougie wrote:
    Ooh funny clavicle thing going on there with BG.

    Hincapie is in that photo?
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    :D
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Hincapie sat on Pereiro's wheel all day, it was quite different from Gerrans.

    And since we're doing riders and beach photos :wink:
    Tommeke
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    CM92S4E wrote:
    Evidently during Stage 15 we had Egoi Martinez doing about 70% of the work and Danny Pate doing approximately the other 30%. Of course, wheel follower Simon Gerrans scored the cheeky win.

    This is a point that's been debated on another forum. Is this an American thing?
    Danny Pate did 5% max, for the first 170kms of the 180km break.
    Your figures only hold true for the last climb Since you don't mention Arrieta, they guy who did most of the days work, at all, this must be the case.
    Gerrans did a full third, until having to claw his way back on the final climb.
    afx237vi wrote:
    "Gerrans said that he would settle for reaching the finish line with me and being second. So when he was not able to follow on the ascent to the Prato Nevoso, we waited for him."

    Egoi Martinez has now usurped Stijn Devolder's title as the dumbest rider in the peloton. Or the most gullible, at least.

    Neither expected Pate to be hanging around to spoil any deal and since he'd done nothing all day, Gerrans wasn't going to let him contest the win.
    At least, that's my theory! :wink:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Great quote on cyclingnews.com about the Aussie:
    Australian cycling coach Dave Sanders once said that he believed that Gerrans was virtually indestructible. "If there is ever a nuclear war and all of mankind is wiped out. The first living thing that will crawl out of the cracks will probably be the cockroaches, but they will be followed closely by Simon Gerrans."
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Kléber wrote:
    Great quote on cyclingnews.com about the Aussie:
    Australian cycling coach Dave Sanders once said that he believed that Gerrans was virtually indestructible. "If there is ever a nuclear war and all of mankind is wiped out. The first living thing that will crawl out of the cracks will probably be the cockroaches, but they will be followed closely by Simon Gerrans."

    Pity the quote was originally about Keith Richards!
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'

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