Milan - San Remo *spoiler*

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  • ThatBikeGuy
    ThatBikeGuy Posts: 394
    Makes my sunday ride look positively tropical! :lol:
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  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    Tusher wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Boonen abandons.


    Lightweight.

    Yes not very Belgian is it.
    it's a hard life if you don't weaken.
  • IanLD
    IanLD Posts: 423
    Why give the countdown then stop them from riding???

    Still looks vile - can't be fun at all having thawed out a bit in the bus.

    In for a bit of a different MSR - that's a wee bit of an understatement
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    ThatBikeGuy wrote:
    Makes my sunday ride look positively tropical! :lol:

    Was just thinking that however miserable Scotland was this morning, it's heartening that the Italian riviera is grim as fupp tio.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Cav loses Terpstra and Stijn V.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Poggio is narrow. Tricky for big group.
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Cav loses Terpstra and Stijn V.

    I thought the low countries produced hard men. Boooooooo
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Declan Quigley? Isn't he the guy from X Factor?
  • overlord2
    overlord2 Posts: 339
    Looks like the winner will be the one whos most used to the conditions. Im going for Cavendish tbh.
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    It really is a day for shattering illusions of toughness isn't it?

    Riding without mudguards gives you stomach ache? !
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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Tom Butcher wrote:
    Tusher wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Boonen abandons.


    Lightweight.

    Yes not very Belgian is it.

    Could they not have slipped Sven Nys out in Boonens kit
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    whoop whoop! Smart TV arrived yesterday so it is now streaming Eurosport on a 39" screen! Still want Greipel to win.
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Is that Brian Smith commentating? He just used the phrase "light the afterburners" Did Hugh Porter sell it to Eurosport to spite the BBC?
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    OMG! he just used the phrase "hammer going down" I can sense Sherwen emerging from the diamond mine to sort him out!
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  • ademort
    ademort Posts: 1,924
    Tom Boonen just interviewed by Sporza says he gave up partly as a precautionary measure as he was frozen and partly asto make a statement to the organisation. Boonen says "this is not Milan San Remo"
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Six man breakaway continuing. Cannondale still working hard on the front of the peleton
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Matt Goss abandons
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    ademort wrote:
    Tom Boonen just interviewed by Sporza says he gave up partly as a precautionary measure as he was frozen and partly asto make a statement to the organisation. Boonen says "this is not Milan San Remo"
    Ademort

    Got to say I'm a bit disappointed with TB. always considered him a hardman considering his P-R palmares.
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    ademort wrote:
    Tom Boonen just interviewed by Sporza says he gave up partly as a precautionary measure as he was frozen and partly asto make a statement to the organisation. Boonen says "this is not Milan San Remo"
    Ademort
    So he's saying he would have ridden over 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'"

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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,310
    So, need a real man today... Nibali?
    Where is Cavendish going to get dropped? Cipressa? :lol:
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  • majormantra
    majormantra Posts: 2,094
    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    Just watching Eurosport.. one of the Lotto guys in the break looked like he was using a makeshift bum-guard sticking out the back of his saddle?! Is that UCI legal?

    Could be an Ass Saver?:

    http://ass-savers.com/

    I've done races where I'd have loved one of those. Totally breaks 'the rules', but no soggy bum has to be a good thing.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    leaders holding over 6 minutes
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  • Jez mon
    Jez mon Posts: 3,809
    I'm going for EBH having an outside chance, being Scandinavian he shouldn't have an issue with the weather.
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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Looking at how glacial these roads are I think even the good descenders will think twice before going too crazy.
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    MajorMantra wrote:
    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    Just watching Eurosport.. one of the Lotto guys in the break looked like he was using a makeshift bum-guard sticking out the back of his saddle?! Is that UCI legal?

    Could be an Ass Saver?:

    http://ass-savers.com/

    I've done races where I'd have loved one of those. Totally breaks 'the rules', but no soggy bum has to be a good thing.


    Good point. I thought 'guards represented dangerous parts?
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  • ademort
    ademort Posts: 1,924
    Terpstra calls it a day aswell.
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Boonen blames organisers. "They knew it was going to snow"
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  • Jez mon
    Jez mon Posts: 3,809
    Gap is down under 6 minutes. Those ass saver things are awesome, have one on my campus bike. Would just come off in case of crash.
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  • majormantra
    majormantra Posts: 2,094
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    MajorMantra wrote:
    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    Just watching Eurosport.. one of the Lotto guys in the break looked like he was using a makeshift bum-guard sticking out the back of his saddle?! Is that UCI legal?

    Could be an Ass Saver?:

    http://ass-savers.com/

    I've done races where I'd have loved one of those. Totally breaks 'the rules', but no soggy bum has to be a good thing.


    Good point. I thought 'guards represented dangerous parts?

    I know conventional ones are banned, and you can see why what with pointy stays and all. Even the UCI would have trouble arguing that a bit of flexy plastic is a threat though.
  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    On the face of it Boonen is being a bit of a prima donna - if he was a footballer he'd get fined for refusing to play. See what he says after the race th ough.
    it's a hard life if you don't weaken.

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