2013 National Championships thread (spoilerific)

Turfle

Millar, Cav, Stan back together. Looking good for Cav.

above_the_cows

Edge of the seat this...

compo

Back together.

Bunch sprint

Cav wins

Turfle

Cav wins!

British jersey front and centre in the Tour again.

rick_chasey

frenchfighter wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Huge disappointment for cycling fans with Devolder taking the jersey. Possibly the nicest nat champs jersey in the World and it goes to a guy who has a suspiciously poor performance most of the year and for the last few years.

I suppose he did a good job to win this race though and did a good amount solo. Big fail from the big boys.

Do they have drug testing at Nationals?

He was very very strong in Flanders

Yep sure was. I wonder how come he is SO strong in Flanders and shi t the rest of the year?

'cos he cares about two races. Flanders & nat champs.

Turfle

1. Cav
2. Stan
3. Millar
4. Kennaugh

adr82

Great job from Cav, happy to see him take it but wouldn't have minded any of that front bunch winning tbh!

compo

Except its now hoped he will not wear it for a lot of the Tour...

above_the_cows

CAV!

frenchfighter

My man takes it. Sky fail. This race was 150km to long. I bet Cav is glad that is over and he wont be coming back.

Cav to represent like a true champ. HEAVYWEIGHT. Cant wait to bank some photos with him crossing the line several times in the TdF with that new kit.

Turfle

compo wrote:

Except its now hoped he will not wear it for a lot of the Tour...

Win with it on stage 1, and hope it's the last time we see it.

frenchfighter

EASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSY

above_the_cows

adr82 wrote:

Great job from Cav, happy to see him take it but wouldn't have minded any of that front bunch winning tbh!

^This.

oneof1982

Never watched a bike race on twitter before. #neveragain :roll:

Well done Cav. Will be great to see the stripes in the TdF.

Yellow Peril

Nice to have 3 Brits from three different top flight teams duking it out for the Nat champs jersey. well done Cav

above_the_cows

Damn you're fast at getting photos up Frenchie.

frenchfighter

Above The Cows wrote:

Damn you're fast at getting photos up Frenchie.

Just the ones on the twitter feed.

rick_chasey

Yellow Peril wrote:

Nice to have 3 Brits from three different top flight teams duking it out for the Nat champs jersey. well done Cav

It is a good sign for brit cycling.

adr82

Couple of crappy photos from their last time up Great George Street:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b1i42zoc58sd5ez/1.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/10zuyzhhkju4kh9/2.png

above_the_cows

frenchfighter wrote:

Above The Cows wrote:

Damn you're fast at getting photos up Frenchie.

Just the ones on the twitter feed.

Aye but still.

Three teams on the podium is great.

frenchfighter

8 hours racing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

frenchfighter

I cant believe that clock says 7.57. If so they did the course in a average speed lower than a multiple HC TdF stage.

above_the_cows

adr82 wrote:

Couple of crappy photos from their last time up Great George Street:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b1i42zoc58sd5ez/1.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/10zuyzhhkju4kh9/2.png

Is that a skin suit Cav's wearing in the second one?

above_the_cows

frenchfighter wrote:

I cant believe that clock says 7.57. If so they did the course in a average speed lower than a multiple HC TdF stage.

That's the time, 17:57

adr82

Above The Cows wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

I cant believe that clock says 7.57. If so they did the course in a average speed lower than a multiple HC TdF stage.

That's the time, 17:57

if it was 8 hours long they'd have overlapped with the women's race FF!

adr82

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3gguyzkkliidcfm/3.png
This is the bit at the top of Great George Street, last lap - Armitstead got herself a bit of a gap over Laura Trott and Dani King, not sure if she kept that all the way to the finish or not but they were together until then AFAIK.

frenchfighter

Last year the men's World RR was 267km long and was won in 6hrs 10mins.

MSR 2012 was 298km long and took 6hrs 59 mins.

I cant believe this race really took 8hrs - there must be something wrong with that clock.

Edit: Thanks ATC! Phew : )

above_the_cows

I am finding some sort of amusement in the Team Sky tweets.

Team Sky ‏@TeamSky 5m

More congrats, this time for Ian Stannard for finishing 2nd in the British men's road race. Hats off to Pete Kennaugh as well for coming 4th

Not a mention of who won the British champs.

Turfle

5. Rowe
6. House
7. Thwaites
8. Yates (u23 champ)
9. Wilkinson

ddraver

It's pretty impressive that the GB champs now has such a heavyweight break! Might have to try and find it tomorrow...

Good work by Cav and Millar to disrupt the Sky Train, (about flipping time!!)