Vuelta stage 11 ****SPOILER****

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  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Kessiakoff FLYING. 41 secs up at the mountain top.
  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Only 44km/h. Really tough course.

    LOL, I need to be going down at least some sort of hill to get that sort of speed over any decent distance !
  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    Good time. I want some of that coffee.
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  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    Looks like a real up and down course with three distinct sections. If anyone can nail the start, climb and descent then they could take a good chunk of time - Contador most likely, don't rate Froome downhill although I imagine Sky will have checked this out very closely so he might surprise me.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/41991871@N ... otostream/
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Kess has had storming TT form all season
    Contador is the Greatest
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    JonGinge wrote:
    Good time. I want some of that coffee.

    Got yourself any Dario Cioni olive oil yet?
    http://www.dariocioni.com/

    Used by team Sky no less.
    _
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/contado ... time-trial
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    FJS wrote:
    Gilbert 6th on the climb at 46 seconds. Is a very good descender

    He's going to win the worlds, isn't he?

    He'll have to beat Moser first.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    “I think Alberto Contador is riding with too much eagerness,” Indurain wrote in Marca. “I think someone should calm him down […] and explain that it is better to attack less often, but with more effectiveness and a better result. Because, when you attack, the aim has to be to do damage to your rivals.”

    Contador attacked no fewer than six times on the climb of the Arrate on stage 3, but was unable to drop his main rivals. An attack inside the final kilometre of the Collada de la Gallina on stage 8 looked to set to net Contador a stage win, but Rodriguez and Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) swept past him in the closing metres.

    In the finale of the following day’s stage to Barcelona, Contador admitted that he had made an error in attacking before the final climb up Montjuic.

    “Alberto is riding like he’s in a hurry, as if the Vuelta finished tomorrow, when the reality is that it’s only just starting,” Indurain continued. “He wants things now, and sometimes, when you ride on the counterattack, it can bring the opposite effect. In my opinion, he is wasting a lot of strength and opportunities.”
    Contador is the Greatest
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    FJS wrote:
    Gilbert 6th on the climb at 46 seconds. Is a very good descender

    He's going to win the worlds, isn't he?

    He'll have to beat Moser first.

    He'd have to beat the entire peloton to win it.

    That's kinda the point, right? ;).
    _
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    On the kit I mentioned... only guy seen riding or warming up in the first few mins of coverage using a Hed3 is Froome, the great bulk of people using a 404 front... yet to see that descent though.

    Supposed to be breezy too??
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    FJS wrote:
    It's not unlike this year's Tour de Suisse TT
    Told ya ;)
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    MONSTERED
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Absolutely creamed them
    Contador is the Greatest
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Killer Kessiakoff.
    Gaps could be bigger than expected.

    Meanwhile Eurosport manage 3 ad breaks in 15 minutes........
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Meanwhile Eurosport manage 3 ad breaks in 15 minutes........
    http://sports-livez.com/channel/ch-1.php :)
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Beating Martin by 1:30 is good going.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Coverage is useless.
    More shots of the Spanish lads swanning around the start
    than of riders on the course.

    So far we have seen nothing of either the climb or descent.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Coverage is useless.
    More shots of the Spanish lads swanning around the start
    than of riders on the course.

    So far we have seen nothing of either the climb or descent.
    Bertie at the start - surely they must send a camerabike with him up the hill
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Bert still has that thing where he slides forward on the saddle then has to shuffle back.

    J-Rod off in two mins. Sigh.
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    Oh, dear. The Kask-helmets gets more and more hideous every time I see them. Looks absolutely ridiculous.
  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    afx237vi wrote:
    Bert still has that thing where he slides forward on the saddle then has to shuffle back.

    Maybe it generates testosterone
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    So far we have seen nothing of either the climb or descent.

    This is totally bemusing.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Off topic: Sporza TV commentators bringing news that a board member of the Danish Cycling Federation has been caught for doping at a veterans race, with positives for three different products :roll: :lol:
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Contador on a TT bike is amazing. Perfect.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    FJS wrote:
    Off topic: Sporza TV commentators bringing news that a board member of the Danish Cycling Federation has been caught for doping at a veterans race, with positives for three different products :roll: :lol:

    Its pretty funny

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/danish- ... for-doping
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    LoL. J-Rod has a gel tucked up under each sleeve.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Contador on a TT bike is amazing. Perfect.
    Does he still wriggle in his saddle every three pedal revolutions like he's got piles.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    I do that.

    Only without the piles bit.

    And a few more revs.

    I get bounced off forward, whatever the angle when I'm putting the effort in.
    _
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    J-Rod's helmet must surely be a disadvantage rather an advantage. The pointy bit spends more time in the air acting like a parachute rather than flat on his back. Terrible.

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