what you like to see this year?

VinceEager
VinceEager Posts: 247
edited February 2010 in Pro race
i'd like to see hausler win a classic
...the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon...
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Rain at Paris Roubaix (think I wished for that last year...)
  • shinyhelmut
    shinyhelmut Posts: 1,364
    Floyd's autobiography :?
  • dulldave
    dulldave Posts: 949
    VinceEager wrote:
    i'd like to see hausler win a classic

    +1
    Scottish and British...and a bit French
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Cav in rainbow hoops.
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Cav in rainbow hoops.

    Cav in Green first!
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

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  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    Boonen to win flanders and the worlds..
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • terongi
    terongi Posts: 318
    Twiggo dropping Bertie and Baby Schleck in the mountains.

    Fantasy, I know, but just think of the warm tingly feeling rising through your chest if it actually did happen.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    A Tour de France that's not a boring load of tosh.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Gibo win a final stage on the Giro

    Ricco return as a wrestling style bad guy.
    "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'"

    @gietvangent
  • pat1cp
    pat1cp Posts: 766
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Gibo win a final stage on the Giro

    Ricco return as a wrestling style bad guy.

    :lol::lol:

    The Sun. After this bloody winter I hope we get a proper summer at the end of it.

    errr, cycling wishes, Cav to take green.
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    A GC rider in the Tour take off on the second to last mountain pass of the day, build up a lead and take the yellow jersey at the finish. None of this "last 5km" nonsense.

    I hope Wiggins retains his sense of humour and doesn't get any more big headed.
  • VinceEager
    VinceEager Posts: 247
    Kléber wrote:
    A GC rider in the Tour take off on the second to last mountain pass of the day, build up a lead and take the yellow jersey at the finish. None of this "last 5km" nonsense.

    not sure that sort of riding can exist in the dope free peleton
    ...the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon...
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    VinceEager wrote:

    not sure that sort of riding can exist in the dope free peloton

    Used to happen a lot pre-blood doping
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    iainf72 wrote:
    VinceEager wrote:

    not sure that sort of riding can exist in the dope free peloton

    Used to happen a lot pre-blood doping

    A change in the tactics and smaller differences between the best and the very have caused that, surely?

    http://cyclocosm.com/2010/01/the-death- ... e-climber/

    To use old cyclocosm again, he mentions a few theories in the second half of his post here.


    I agree, I'd like to see a yellow jersey fight that was exciting. I think it's too much to ask though...
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    teagar wrote:
    A change in the tactics and smaller differences between the best and the very have caused that, surely?

    Possibly. But I don't think you can understate the importance of doping

    http://www.53x12.com/do/show?page=article&id=58
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    iainf72 wrote:
    teagar wrote:
    A change in the tactics and smaller differences between the best and the very have caused that, surely?

    Possibly. But I don't think you can understate the importance of doping

    http://www.53x12.com/do/show?page=article&id=58

    Would you be more interested in a Tour with longer - more fatiguing stages?
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    teagar wrote:

    Would you be more interested in a Tour with longer - more fatiguing stages?

    Yes.

    You'd need to race it differently rather than getting tooled up for a 30 minute effort at the end of a 4 hour ride.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    iainf72 wrote:
    teagar wrote:

    Would you be more interested in a Tour with longer - more fatiguing stages?

    Yes.

    You'd need to race it differently rather than getting tooled up for a 30 minute effort at the end of a 4 hour ride.

    In theory I'm in agreement, but the 09 Vuelta has left me a bit less sure about it. Seemed to be the riders were so intimadated by the course the racing became negative.
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • pedro118118
    pedro118118 Posts: 1,102
    Why does every thread end up discussing doping?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Leaving aside the reasons for tactical changes in the last 25 years (it just happens, same as every sport) and going back to the original thread:

    I'd like to see Geraint Thomas have a big season. I think he has it in him to be a top class rider (and he's a local boy).
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • oscarbudgie
    oscarbudgie Posts: 850
    I'd like Wiggins to win the Tour and Cav to get green. The question was like to see after all
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  • dougzz
    dougzz Posts: 1,833
    pedro118118 wrote:
    Why does every thread end up discussing doping?

    I feel this is a bit like stating the bloody obvious, but........ Because it was a huge factor in the results of many races, and many many people believe it still is. It's also separated fans into camps of pro and anti certain riders and organisations. In the modern world of 24 hour news truth is often lost in who has the best PR and media contacts. Many people are very incensed about what they see happening and can not get over their core beliefs about doping, so it then slips into every thread. You can state something that's reasonably certain, such as Lance Armstrong was according to the record books the best GC Tdf rider between 1999 and 2005, and there will still be a flood of people saying yeah but.......so in my books he wasn't.

    As for me I'd like to see Brad win a mountain stage in the TdF having rode the wannabes like Contador and Schleck off his wheel :)
  • Grimone
    Grimone Posts: 95
    Cav in rainbow hoops, Wiggo in yellow.
    Don't rake up my mistakes, i know exactly what they are.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    RichN95 wrote:
    I'd like to see Geraint Thomas have a big season. I think he has it in him to be a top class rider (and he's a local boy).

    Agree with that.

    I'd also like to see someone follow Devolder when he attacks in this year's Ronde.
  • Neil McC
    Neil McC Posts: 625
    As with others on here. Wiggins to podium at TdF. Cav green and worlds.

    Gilbert to win a spring Monument and EBH to win a monument too.

    + A good, competetive, action packed Giro please!
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    afx237vi wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    I'd like to see Geraint Thomas have a big season. I think he has it in him to be a top class rider (and he's a local boy).

    Agree with that.

    I'd also like to see someone follow Devolder when he attacks in this year's Ronde.

    Pozzato anyone? Or is Pozzato to Boonen's arse what a moth is to a flame?
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • VinceEager
    VinceEager Posts: 247
    afx237vi wrote:
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    I'd also like to see someone follow Devolder when he attacks in this year's Ronde.

    yes
    ...the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon...
  • ynyswen24
    ynyswen24 Posts: 703
    Robert Millars autobiography
  • paulcuthbert
    paulcuthbert Posts: 1,016
    In the Tour:

    - Cav take the Green jersey

    - Wiggins crash (and either lose a load of time... or lose an eye!)

    - Cancellara kicking AC's ass in the TT

    - Hincapie win a stage

    - Jens Voigt win a stage

    - David Millar win a stage

    - Cadel Evans crash (see Wiggins crash for more info)

    - LA win the Tour


    In other races:

    - Hincapie win Paris-Roubaix

    - Dan Martin doing well in any race

    - Wiggins drinking too much beer, getting fat and being crap

    - Cadel Evans living up to the curse of the Rainbow jersey and doing crap
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  • BikingBernie
    BikingBernie Posts: 2,163
    Dick Pound replacing Pat McQuaid as head of the UCI.

    Patrice Clerc being put back in charge at the ASO.

    Armstrong having his arse kicked all over France - just like in the days before he teamed up with Ferrari - then being busted for doping. :wink:

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