Pure Climbers
Comments
-
Was just wondering why yesterday's stage was only just over an hour. It was reduced from 130km to....44km! Too much snow on the Col de la Madeleine.
Barguil from earlier this year
Thursday was not a solo effort. Was reduced to a small group from which he won.Contador is the Greatest0 -
Barguil came 2nd on the final stage.
Final GC. Russia frist on country rankings. Top 10 separated by less than a minute...
1 Warren Barguil (Fra) France 18:36:07
2 Juan Ernesto Chamorro Chitan (Col) Colombia 0:00:01
3 Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Italy 0:00:09
4 Sergey Chernetski (Rus) Russian Federation 0:00:15
5 Ian Boswell (USA) United States Of America 0:00:19
6 Sergey Pomoshnikov (Rus) Russian Federation 0:00:26
7 Gennady Tatarinov (Rus) Russian Federation 0:00:31
8 Daan Olivier (Ned) Netherlands 0:00:42
9 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Austria 0:00:45
10 Tim Wellens (Bel) Belgium 0:00:49Contador is the Greatest0 -
frenchfighter wrote:Was just wondering why yesterday's stage was only just over an hour. It was reduced from 130km to....44km! Too much snow on the Col de la Madeleine
It was more a hill-climb than a stage. There was about 30cm on the cols. Took this from a race I did yesterday.
BASI Nordic Ski Instructor
Instagramme0 -
davidof wrote:frenchfighter wrote:Was just wondering why yesterday's stage was only just over an hour. It was reduced from 130km to....44km! Too much snow on the Col de la Madeleine
It was more a hill-climb than a stage. There was about 30cm on the cols. Took this from a race I did yesterday.
Is that Grenoble?"In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"
@gietvangent0 -
The big white building is Grenoble hospital and the mountains are the Belledonne. Snow down to 1450 meters on the 31st and very cold.BASI Nordic Ski Instructor
Instagramme0 -
Spent a few happy months racing out of Grenoble in 2001 and 2003. Would love to go back!"In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"
@gietvangent0 -
-
davidof wrote:Paul Kimmage used to live their too, well in Vizille anyway.
Jacky Durand lived there when I was in town. And some rat faced little amateur climber who used to muller everyone. Can't remember his real name, everyone called him "Blondie""In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"
@gietvangent0 -
What a load of romantic hippy bullsh*t."Pure climbers are another breed. They still talk about sensations rather than numbers, and about things like the feel of their pedals. They exist partly outside of the training mannual, partly beyond numerical definition and do things very much on intuition. They are a living reminder of an old way of cycling, the spiritual descendants of mountain kings like Bahamontes, Charly Gaul and Van Impe" - CycleSport.You only need two tools: WD40 and Duck Tape.
If it doesn't move and should, use the WD40.
If it shouldn't move and does, use the tape.0 -
Gavin Cook wrote:My hero when I was growing up was Lucho Herrera. He was almost untouchable in the mountains.
Gav
Lucho was beautiful.Warning No formatter is installed for the format0 -
Look who is pulling on the front in San Luis
Contador is the Greatest0 -
Deleted0
-
Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 19720
-
You've never done any cross country ski then.deejay wrote:0 -
I'll have you know that there are no lifts within 200K of where that photo was taken
0 -
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/elisson ... fter-pinot
I prefer steeper sections and changes of rhythm
Maybe one to look out for. Kenny Elissonde for FDJ.
In 2011, he rode the Giro della Valle d'Aosta. On stage 5 (mountainous), he was 2nd behind none other than Dombrowski and behind him came Aru.
The next day in the ITT he came 2nd behind Aru and in 3rd was Dombrowski.
In 2012, other than the win mentioned in the article, he came 4th on Route du Sud stage 3. Behind: Quintana, Dupont and Charteau. I wish I had visuals for that stage - gaps for those four from Quintana were: 1'11', 3'49'', 5'55'' and every rider in the top twenty came in solo.Contador is the Greatest0 -
This is Dombrowski. Look how young he looks, look how thin he looks, look how narrow his shoulders are, look how long his arms are :shock:
Not sure how he could manage a TT with that. Maybe he could be stuck down as a pure climber.
Contador is the Greatest0 -
He's got to be about 57kg!1-2-3-4 Tell me what you're looking for0
-
You used a helicopter didn't you!ShinyHelmut wrote:I'll have you know that there are no lifts within 200K of where that photo was taken 0 -
-
Muscle and bone density may be different though so it's hard to get within 5kg,
On the sky procycling website it says he is 68kg - that is definitely wrong!1-2-3-4 Tell me what you're looking for0 -
He's 6ft2. Articles/interview over the last couple of years quote his weight ranging 145-150lbs
EDIT0 -
Look how low his rib cage comes. Those must be some BIG lungs.Correlation is not causation.0
-
frenchfighter wrote:This is Dombrowski. Look how young he looks, look how thin he looks, look how narrow his shoulders are, look how long his arms are :shock:
reminds me a bit of Ali Brownlee in his gangliness and general lack of definition/ordinariness0 -
Richmond Racer wrote:He's 6ft2. Articles/interview over the last couple of years quote his weight ranging 145-150lbs
EDIT
Sounds about right, I am the same height and at his age I was a very similar build and weighed in at 150lbs.0 -
-
This is one hell of a multi-media feature on Joe Dombrowski by the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports ... d/?hpid=z10 -
Never seen an article like that before...thanks for the link.Contador is the Greatest0
