TDF Stage 10-Mulhouse-La Planche des Belles Filles *spoiler*
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pottssteve wrote:mrushton wrote:Oooh - bad timing for the competition bike! Horner still on Nibs wheel
What are the odds of Horner getting on the podium? Worth a punt?
300/1 to win, so 1/4 of that for 2nd or 3rd.0 -
They want to reduce the number of challengers. The fewer that provide a threat, the fewer they have to chase if they attack.type:epyt wrote:type:epyt wrote:Astana don't need to do anything on this stage. They have no jerseys and Nibali is best placed of the remaining GT contenders. Astana achieved one of their goals with no effort expended so just need to re-group and re-assess over the rest day.
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RichN95 wrote:
They want to reduce the number of challengers. The fewer that provide a threat, the fewer they have to chase if they attack.type:epyt wrote:type:epyt wrote:Astana don't need to do anything on this stage. They have no jerseys and Nibali is best placed of the remaining GT contenders. Astana achieved one of their goals with no effort expended so just need to re-group and re-assess over the rest day.
Ok, they obviously think otherwise as they are pushing on now.
Agreed, the group is a bit too big.Life is unfair, kill yourself or get over it.0 -
alan sherman wrote:Love the ITV prize. A specialized bike. I wonder if entries will be down after todays stage?
Bikes crash when you fall though, don't they.0 -
Porte and Sky riding up near the front again now.0
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Did he not quit a bit easily there?
Any injury reports?“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
For those not obsessed with Froome or Contador this is starting to look like real entertainment.0
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ddraver wrote:Strange thing to say but I have to give credit to Sean Kelly for his commentary when Bertie got in the car. He was much better than the so called lead commentators, Carlton and P&P
Pretty obvious statement. Carltons like a hyperactive 8 year old that’s been dosed up on amphetamines and blue smarties. P+P are dull as dishwater.
Did Kelly mention that Contador had made any form of “calculation”?0 -
TailWindHome wrote:Did he not quit a bit easily there?
Any injury reports?
Stop being naughty...It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.0 -
ThomThom wrote:alan sherman wrote:Love the ITV prize. A specialized bike. I wonder if entries will be down after todays stage?
Bikes crash when you fall though, don't they.
That sounds way more likely than it randomly snapping underneath him (unless it was a Stem or steerer or something...)
Given how Astana have pulled back OPQS it does seem like they were riding tempo rather than attacking Bertie too
Think you may have called that well today Thom...We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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Race Radio @TheRaceRadio
.@tinkoff_saxo saying that Contador hit something on descent and crashed......Bike was not the cause of the crash.We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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We'll hear what happened later, I'm surprised we haven't already.
Edit: Spoke too early
...was on a descent too? it wasn't made out like that in the earlier commentary. 0 -
ddraver wrote:Strange thing to say but I have to give credit to Sean Kelly for his commentary when Bertie got in the car. He was much better than the so called lead commentators, Carlton and P&P
Like everything else in cycling, King Kelly's been there and done it. Popped collar bone in 1987.It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.0 -
I thought the crash was on a climb?ddraver wrote:Race Radio @TheRaceRadio
.@tinkoff_saxo saying that Contador hit something on descent and crashed......Bike was not the cause of the crash.0 -
Pic of Contador and bike when he crashed:
Doesn't look like it snapped in two like many saying. And the chain is also in place.0 -
Sure it's not a team mate's bike? Rogers was on MacLaren bike initially...0
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I thought Roche was riding the Mclaren Tarmac?0
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coriordan wrote:Sure it's not a team mate's bike? Rogers was on MacLaren bike initially...
Exactly - never seen Contador on this bike before.Contador is the Greatest0 -
Ah the plateau of the thousand stagnant pools.Correlation is not causation.0
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ddraver wrote:ThomThom wrote:alan sherman wrote:Love the ITV prize. A specialized bike. I wonder if entries will be down after todays stage?
Bikes crash when you fall though, don't they.
That sounds way more likely than it randomly snapping underneath him (unless it was a Stem or steerer or something...)
Given how Astana have pulled back OPQS it does seem like they were riding tempo rather than attacking Bertie too
I'm not even sure where the 'snapped frame' come from and why it's suddenly THE explanation. It might be, but surely the frame split in to two bits because the actual crash is the most likely cause.
The commentator here were on about and takling nonsense hinting doping ("we can't say whether or not.. but we can only give the riders the benefit of the doubt"..) on Tony's riding. Not once has Martin gained more than the 4:30 or so and the first time the pelton actually gave it a go they made 2 minutes on him. There's nothing 'out of the ordinary' from Tony here (he's a beast, obviously, but we all knew that).
Annoying.
Edit:ddraver wrote:Race Radio @TheRaceRadio
.@tinkoff_saxo saying that Contador hit something on descent and crashed......Bike was not the cause of the crash.
Yep, there we have it.0 -
This race may as well be the Tour down Under without Froome and Contador.
Contador is the Greatest0 -
Above The Cows wrote:Ah the plateau of the thousand stagnant pools.
I read that as 'posts'.Life is unfair, kill yourself or get over it.0 -
The bike number doesn't look right. Looks like it ends in 72020 Reilly Spectre - raw titanium
2020 Merida Reacto Disc Ltd - black on black
2015 CAAD8 105 - very green - stripped to turbo bike
2018 Planet X Exocet 2 - grey
The departed:
2017 Cervelo R3 DI2 - sold
Boardman CX Team - sold
Cannondale Synapse - broken
Cube Streamer - stolen
Boardman Road Comp - stolen0
