2013 National Championships thread (spoilerific)
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He definitely did, I saw him on the front a few times.Pross wrote:Did Cav share the work in the break? If so that's a great ride.
Edit: proof
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Some time before Fenn and Swift were dropped:
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GREAT RACE... GREAT DAY.... ARGHHHH I LOVE BIKES!!!
Story of the day:
Stannard and Fenn break away early. Chase group of Millar, Kennaugh, Swift and Cav follow. Another chase group behind featuring Kristian House, Luke Rowe & others.
Chase group of 4 catch Stannard and Fenn. A few laps later Fenn is dropped, then Swift.
Stannard, Kennaugh, Millar & Cav stay away for most of the race from then on, with Kennaugh being dropped at the last lap. Final lap saw Stannard try to break but he was caught. My last sight before the finish was Millar leading into Glasgow Green with maybe 5 seconds on Stannard, who was chasing with (and towing) Cav back to Millar. Stannard & Cav catch Millar. Cav does the expected.
AWESOME DAY gosh im still so excited. Not often you get to see guys of this calibre in what is essentially a city centre crit
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Via TourdeJose:
National RR Champs by team
RSLT: Jungels, Kiserlovski, Devolder & Roulston
OPQS: Cavendish/Kwiatkowski
BMC: Santaromita, Schär, Hushovd
Astana: Dyachenko
Champion System: Bell & Brammeier
Europcar: Arashiro
NetApp-Endura: Barta
Cofidis: Taaramae
IAM: Saramotins
MTN: Thomson
Vacansoleil-DCM: Hoogerland
Katusha: Isaichev
Movistar: Herrada
Lotto-Belisol: Greipel
Orica-Greenedge: Vaitkus/Durbridge
Euskaltel: Tamouridis
Cannondale: Sagan
Saxo-Tinkoff: Mørkøv
FDJ: Vichot
Belarus RR was Krasilnikau. Sky get TT jersey for Belarus & Norway.
Knedlicky - love that Griepel pic - where did that come from?0 -
http://www.stickybottle.com/races-resul ... -man-wins/
“I knew it would be hard, but not that hard,” said Matt Brammeier minutes after he had successfully defended his national road race title for the third year in a row, making him the first rider to win four consecutive Irish road titles.
Brammeier’s victory in Carlingford, where he out-sprinted fellow escapees Philip Lavery (AC Bisontine) and Damien Shaw of domestic club Aquablue, came in pretty much the same style as his previous three – the Champion System pro getting himself up the road as early as possible and staying there for the rest of the race.“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
nweststeyn wrote:GREAT RACE... GREAT DAY.... ARGHHHH I LOVE BIKES!!!
Story of the day:
Stannard and Fenn break away early. Chase group of Millar, Kennaugh, Swift and Cav follow. Another chase group behind featuring Kristian House, Luke Rowe & others.
Chase group of 4 catch Stannard and Fenn. A few laps later Fenn is dropped, then Swift.
Stannard, Kennaugh, Millar & Cav stay away for most of the race from then on, with Kennaugh being dropped at the last lap. Final lap saw Stannard try to break but he was caught. My last sight before the finish was Millar leading into Glasgow Green with maybe 5 seconds on Stannard, who was chasing with (and towing) Cav back to Millar. Stannard & Cav catch Millar. Cav does the expected.
AWESOME DAY gosh im still so excited. Not often you get to see guys of this calibre in what is essentially a city centre crit
I flitted between the top third of St Vincent St (up - with headwind) and West George St (down - with tailwind) and hung about the tight corners at the bottom. Can did indeed take a few turns on the front and also did a lot of shouting
At one stage I was sandwiched between a couple of elderly Glaswegian ladies (matron!). Old - and middle class - lady on my left complained about the passing spots of rain and that she could't understand the chap in the PA car "he needs to work on his pronunciation". Old - and pure Glaswegian - lady to the right was complaining that Miller was doing to much on the front and that Sky were ganging up on Cav! I could have hugged her - I have faith in the sport in this country!
FYI - JTL did feck all. He hung on the back chatting for a few laps then quit.
Some not very good pics:
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A Euskaltel rider in a Greek national jersey? Cor, lets hope ETA don't notice that one (are they still going?)0
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thegreatdivide wrote:I flitted between the top third of St Vincent St (up - with headwind) and West George St (down - with tailwind) and hung about the tight corners at the bottom. Can did indeed take a few turns on the front and also did a lot of shouting
I did the same as you, only further up St Vincent St, and Blytheswood Square. Jolly good it was too.
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Here's Stijn winning in Belgium:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 7aidtsJqRk
Prepare to be enraged by Radioshack's attempt at a Belgian nat champ jersey.0 -
frenchfighter wrote:Millar brought these two back solo.
Chatted with Millar & Ned Boulding just prior to the podium. Millar's opinion is that realising they were 40s clear from the 4 chasers with 120km still to race they deliberately eased until the 6 regrouped, then Stannard & Fenn in particular put in some big efforts to drag the 6 clear.
Here's my pics of the day.
Glasgow did itself proud today.
Lots more to say about today but I've been shouting into a mic for 11 hours. I need a whisky and to go to bed.
I had a blast.0 -
And another (pretty awful) photo...
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Oh, however the fastest lap of the day (by some margin) was posted by Ben Swift for the lap that he, Cav, Millar and Kennaugh put in to chase down Stan & Fenn.
What does that say?0 -
Yes Alan was a fantastic day out - like i said i was worried about the course if it had rained, but walking the whole course, atmosphere , great racing too and the weather Glasgow should give itself a big pat on the back tonight.0
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Here are my photos from the day with the really crap ones removed (I'm not a photographer as you may be able to tell!):
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m36kwj6n8bimna0/NqVHKZcA2M0 -
Those roads look incredibly slippy!Art Vandelay wrote:Here's Stijn winning in Belgium:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 7aidtsJqRk
Prepare to be enraged by Radioshack's attempt at a Belgian nat champ jersey.0 -
Cheers for the pictures, reports etc. Sounds like it was a good day.0
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Cav was doing plenty of work and on the front several laps as they passed me.
I was between Berkeley Street, Sauchiehall Street and Kelvingrove Park.
Great day and Stewarton on Thursday was another fantastic day of cycling up here.0 -
Sorry to be a pedant, but Gang Xu is still the Chinese Champion.Art Vandelay wrote:Via TourdeJose:
National RR Champs by team
Champion System: Bell & Brameier
Will get over my weird Champion systems fetish over time.0 -
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0
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As many have said: Glasgow did a fantastic job today. Gutted for Millar: he went past the People's Palace with 50+m lead about 1.4km to go. I presume that Stannard pulled Cav up to Millar.
Will get some photos up tomorrow. Looking forward to watching the highlights & seeing what happened between the bits I saw.0 -
Someone nearly came a cropper on first lap.
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That woman was taking her life in her hands!0
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Great day for Glasgow and cycling0
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That photo of the woman crossing the road reminds me of the time I nearly crashed in to a group of people in wheelchairs crossing the track."I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)0
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We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0
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I saw so many people doing stuff like that... why would you cross the road after the motorbikes have gone past with horns going and lights flashing specifically to warn you the race is coming past??? Just wait for a few bloody seconds, your shopping isn't that important! :roll: It's people like this who get impatient when stuck behind cyclists and try stupid overtaking manoeuvres.Alan A wrote:Someone nearly came a cropper on first lap.0 -
Sorry to everyone I didn't see... Given some very exciting cycling news on my own part, I decided a long ride would serve my purposes better than an afternoon of drinking and then watched the last hour and a half on Saltmarket.
Was amazed at the size of the crowds and really happy for the tiny team Scottish Cycling have put this together with and my colleagues who supported them. A brilliant day to live in Glasgow."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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A few pics from Glasgow0
