Tdf Stage 9 *Spoiler*

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    He has punctured in just about every TT I can remember him riding.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • slimreaper
    slimreaper Posts: 738
    Martin 29secs up on Westra at finish.
    How much time would a puncture have cost him?
  • ilm_zero7
    ilm_zero7 Posts: 2,213
    but Tony Martin finishes 29 seconds clear
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    slimreaper wrote:
    Martin 29secs up on Westra at finish.
    How much time would a puncture have cost him?

    Prologue puncture cost him 20 seconds plus whatever time it took to get his rhythm back.
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    If SKY only have a plan A (their words) does it mean they'll tell Froome to soft pedal? I can't see it myself, but as for Rogers? The whole team went pretty well in the prologue, but do they really want the team award so badly? In theory they should all just roll round and save themselves for Wiggins.
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    inseine wrote:
    If SKY only have a plan A (their words) does it mean they'll tell Froome to soft pedal? I can't see it myself, but as for Rogers? The whole team went pretty well in the prologue, but do they really want the team award so badly? In theory they should all just roll round and save themselves for Wiggins.

    Got to be useful keeping Froome up there in GC though as it makes the other teams have to factor him into their own tactics for winning the race.
    "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'"

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  • slimreaper
    slimreaper Posts: 738
    Pross wrote:
    slimreaper wrote:
    Martin 29secs up on Westra at finish.
    How much time would a puncture have cost him?

    Prologue puncture cost him 20 seconds plus whatever time it took to get his rhythm back.

    Bummer
    Probably would have been about a minute ahead of Westra at the finish.
  • ilm_zero7
    ilm_zero7 Posts: 2,213
    Jens only 9 seconds behind Martin in second place at the first time check ! can he hold it?
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Got to be useful keeping Froome up there in GC though as it makes the other teams have to factor him into their own tactics for winning the race.

    Good point. I wasn't really thinking it through :oops:
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    inseine wrote:
    Got to be useful keeping Froome up there in GC though as it makes the other teams have to factor him into their own tactics for winning the race.

    Good point. I wasn't really thinking it through :oops:

    I wouldn't wory about it.

    I butchered that sentence so badly, I'm amazed you could draw any sense from it at all.
    "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
  • avoidingmyphd
    avoidingmyphd Posts: 1,154
    that's a good ride from jeremy roy, currently 3rd @ 36 seconds.
  • avoidingmyphd
    avoidingmyphd Posts: 1,154
    Jens Voigt is flying - only 13 seconds behind Tony Martin after 31.5km
    That's a pretty good sign that Martin is hampered by his injury. I think at least 2 of Cancellara, Froome, Evans and Wiggins will go under 53 minutes here, possibly by some margin.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Is it a 2 minute starting gap between the big boys?
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Lol.

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  • avoidingmyphd
    avoidingmyphd Posts: 1,154
    Pross wrote:
    Is it a 2 minute starting gap between the big boys?
    Nope, 3 minutes.
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  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Lol.

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    Were you at a Star Trek convention?
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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    Contador is the Greatest
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Jens is impressive.
    _
  • rebs
    rebs Posts: 891
    Froom's headshape has always made me feel.... uncomfortable... :P
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    rebs wrote:
    Froom's headshape has always made me feel.... uncomfortable... :P
    He'll be bald in three or four years - then that'll really freak you out.
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  • RowCycle
    RowCycle Posts: 367
    I heard on the ITV4 highlights yesterday that Sky have brought a yellow skinsuit with them. Good move given the problems Wiggins had with the fit of the one at the Dauphine - wasn't it that they only had small, medium or large, but he couldn't take two sizes to try, so ended up with the large and the back taken in?
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    RowCycle wrote:
    I heard on the ITV4 highlights yesterday that Sky have brought a yellow skinsuit with them. Good move given the problems Wiggins had with the fit of the one at the Dauphine - wasn't it that they only had small, medium or large, but he couldn't take two sizes to try, so ended up with the large and the back taken in?

    Thought they had to use the official one as it is sponsored by Le Coq?
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Pross wrote:
    RowCycle wrote:
    I heard on the ITV4 highlights yesterday that Sky have brought a yellow skinsuit with them. Good move given the problems Wiggins had with the fit of the one at the Dauphine - wasn't it that they only had small, medium or large, but he couldn't take two sizes to try, so ended up with the large and the back taken in?

    Thought they had to use the official one as it is sponsored by Le Coq?

    Is it not mabe the one from the Dauphine that they tailored. Same skinsuit isn't it?
    "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
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Kirby - Lots of well trimmed bushes here

    Snort! :D
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    RowCycle wrote:
    I heard on the ITV4 highlights yesterday that Sky have brought a yellow skinsuit with them. Good move given the problems Wiggins had with the fit of the one at the Dauphine - wasn't it that they only had small, medium or large, but he couldn't take two sizes to try, so ended up with the large and the back taken in?

    Thought they had to use the official one as it is sponsored by Le Coq?

    Is it not mabe the one from the Dauphine that they tailored. Same skinsuit isn't it?


    TdF has different sponsors so not sure it will be.

    I bet they just bought a TdF TT yellow Skinsuit and fiddled with it. And a polka dot one. And a Green one. All for Wiggins.
    _
  • ilm_zero7
    ilm_zero7 Posts: 2,213
    RichN95 wrote:
    rebs wrote:
    Froom's headshape has always made me feel.... uncomfortable... :P
    He'll be bald in three or four years - then that'll really freak you out.
    then he will look like an extra from the old Tefal advert........ what the hell, would i care if i could ride like him ? no
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  • slimreaper
    slimreaper Posts: 738
    Gesink almost 3 minutes down at the finish.
    Oh dear
    Frank Schleck might beat him at this rate.
  • ilm_zero7
    ilm_zero7 Posts: 2,213
    Spartacus is off like a rocket
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Good work done in that field...one of the better displays thus far this year!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    My eyes glaze over when commentators start talking about gearing and equipment.

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