Snow based debate

rick_chasey
rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
edited December 2010 in Pro race
OK.

I'm a little desperate.

Take your favourite races, Tours, etc.

Now, imagine every stage/km of that race was done in the weather we have today.

How would it have chaged the outcome?


E.g. Ullrich in 97? Not a chance, he hated the cold.
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    OK.

    I'm a little desperate.

    Take your favourite races, Tours, etc.

    Now, imagine every stage/km of that race was done in the weather we have today.

    How would it have chaged the outcome?


    E.g. Ullrich in 97? Not a chance, he hated the cold.

    They'd all have been cancelled.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    johnfinch wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    OK.

    I'm a little desperate.

    Take your favourite races, Tours, etc.

    Now, imagine every stage/km of that race was done in the weather we have today.

    How would it have chaged the outcome?


    E.g. Ullrich in 97? Not a chance, he hated the cold.

    They'd all have been cancelled.

    Like the Gavia? stage in the Giro? :P
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    OK.

    I'm a little desperate.

    Take your favourite races, Tours, etc.

    Now, imagine every stage/km of that race was done in the weather we have today.

    How would it have chaged the outcome?


    E.g. Ullrich in 97? Not a chance, he hated the cold.

    They'd all have been cancelled.

    Like the Gavia? stage in the Giro? :P

    That was snow on the peak of a mountain, not over 200km of roads. Double :P to you.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    johnfinch wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    OK.

    I'm a little desperate.

    Take your favourite races, Tours, etc.

    Now, imagine every stage/km of that race was done in the weather we have today.

    How would it have chaged the outcome?


    E.g. Ullrich in 97? Not a chance, he hated the cold.

    They'd all have been cancelled.

    Like the Gavia? stage in the Giro? :P

    That was snow on the peak of a mountain, not over 200km of roads. Double :P to you.
    :cry:
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,462
    How about the 1980 Liege-Bastogne-Liege? Oh.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    andyp wrote:
    How about the 1980 Liege-Bastogne-Liege? Oh.

    They managed to clear the roads of snow on that day. Where I am, the snow is just constant so as soon as the snow is cleared more lays. You wouldn't be able to run a bike race on that.
  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,852
    Cancellara would have them all going along at a nice safe speed and would neutralise the days efforts.

    Perhaps a scandinavian would have gone up the road laughing

    Perhaps Menchov would have fallen over into a drift.
    Half man, Half bike
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Why are you desperate?

    As for races in poor conditions, I guess you could find a few guys that would come to the fore here:
    http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12692038
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Ridgerider wrote:
    Cancellara would have them all going along at a nice safe speed and would neutralise the days efforts.

    Then he'd use his chin as a snowplough.
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Erik Breukink would win, but history would suggest that Andy Hampsten did.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    Tom Danielson is apparently a quarter Inuit and this is why he suffers when his fat level gets low, maybe the same Inuit genes would help him in these conditions?

    No thread like this would be complete without a pun or two on cyclists names. Therefore i shall start you off by saying that the previously unheralded Kyle Gritters might be the guy whose wheel you want to follow (although maybe not too closely).

    http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/ri ... derid=2712
  • Tusher
    Tusher Posts: 2,762
    No, these are the Real Hard Men and Women-

    http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... t=12744410

    A great question, but it depends on which part of the country you're in. I was the only driver I saw heading north between Dunblane and Crieff on Sunday morning, and got through just before the A9 closed. A bike could have made it, maybe, but as my car was eventually beached in the deep snow, I imagine a bike would have as well.

    Any actual race would have had to be cancelled because the support vehicles either could not make it, or would have posed a danger of skidding into the cyclists (yeah, I know, many video clips of DS driven support cars are hairy).


    But the real reason the races would have to be cancelled would be the extreme danger faced to riders when having to take a nature break in a wind chill factor of minus 15.

    I rest my case.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,559
    Surely they'd have had to race on orange bikes? Or am I getting my sports mixed up.... ;-)

    Here in Copenhagen I've bottled out of the commute in the snow this year so far, but cycled through all sorts of horrible stuff last year. Plenty still out on bikes though.
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