TDF Stage 10-Mulhouse-La Planche des Belles Filles *spoiler*

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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    edited July 2014
    http://www.bt.dk/cykling/fuglsang-conta ... paa-roeven

    - "He took a big risk on the descent. On poor and wet asphalt he passed me and several others and went like 15km/h faster than us. One km later he went down on his arse and elbows."
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    OnYourRight wrote:
    BenderRodriguez wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Daniel Friebe ‏@friebos · 49m
    Contador's second bike WAS broken because it had fallen off the Tinkoff team car early in stage, BUT he never used it.

    Odd then, that on the TV coverage it seems that they waited until after his crash to put it in the boot...

    A damage limitation exercise, I would think.
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    Plastic bikes …
    Question is was that damage from the crash? From what the other riders have been saying it didn't sound like the frame just suddenly snapped under him...
  • nevman
    nevman Posts: 1,611
    If Brompton did race bikes....
    Whats the solution? Just pedal faster you baby.

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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    adr82 wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    If he is not in the Vuelta then it will be disaster or disasters. That is too much to countenance right now.

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    That's a lovely horse.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYzVMcgWhg

    Without opening the link is that "My Lovely Horse"?
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  • Art Vandelay
    Art Vandelay Posts: 1,982
    Above The Cows wrote:
    adr82 wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    If he is not in the Vuelta then it will be disaster or disasters. That is too much to countenance right now.

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    That's a lovely horse.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYzVMcgWhg

    Without opening the link is that "My Lovely Horse"?

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    Conclusion: probably end of season for @albertocontador @tinkoff_saxo #TDF


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  • BenderRodriguez
    BenderRodriguez Posts: 907
    OnYourRight wrote:
    BenderRodriguez wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Daniel Friebe ‏@friebos · 49m
    Contador's second bike WAS broken because it had fallen off the Tinkoff team car early in stage, BUT he never used it.

    Odd then, that on the TV coverage it seems that they waited until after his crash to put it in the boot...

    A damage limitation exercise, I would think.
    gznd.jpg

    Plastic bikes …

    Yup, that was clearly on the Planche Des Belles Filles, so proof that this was the bike Contador's was riding. There was also the live commentary that mentioned the bike breaking in two. As I recall, Contador was climbing at the time he crashed, so how he might have been descending prior to the this also seems to be something of a red herring.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    OnYourRight wrote:
    gznd.jpg

    Plastic bikes …
    Enough about the bike. Why have Tinkoff hired Riccardo Ricco as a mechanic?
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  • BenderRodriguez
    BenderRodriguez Posts: 907
    adr82 wrote:
    Question is was that damage from the crash? From what the other riders have been saying it didn't sound like the frame just suddenly snapped under him...

    If that was the case I am sure that the team would have just said that, rather than coming out with a load of BS and lies...
    "an original thinker… the intellectual heir of Galileo and Einstein… suspicious of orthodoxy - any orthodoxy… He relishes all forms of ontological argument": jane90.
  • Art Vandelay
    Art Vandelay Posts: 1,982
    BenderRodriguez wrote:
    OnYourRight wrote:
    BenderRodriguez wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Daniel Friebe ‏@friebos · 49m
    Contador's second bike WAS broken because it had fallen off the Tinkoff team car early in stage, BUT he never used it.

    Odd then, that on the TV coverage it seems that they waited until after his crash to put it in the boot...

    A damage limitation exercise, I would think.
    gznd.jpg

    Plastic bikes …

    Yup, that was clearly on the Planche Des Belles Filles, so proof that this was the bike Contador's was riding. There was also the live commentary that mentioned the bike breaking in two. As I recall, Contador was climbing at the time he crashed, so how he might have been descending prior to the this also seems to be something of a red herring.

    No. Contador crashed taking a risk on a descent and hitting a pothole. Bike undamaged. The bike that cracked was one that fell off a roof rack. Been said quite a few times now!
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    daniel mcmahon ‏@cyclingreporter · 7m
    Specialized: Roche's "bike was laying on the road; it was run over by a car causing it to break

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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    edited July 2014
    If that is AC's broken bike then wouldn't it have some of his dickhead graphics on it?

    Plus, why is the chav in the photo trying to nick it, can't he tell it's broken?
  • Art Vandelay
    Art Vandelay Posts: 1,982
    TailWindHome wrote:
    daniel mcmahon ‏@cyclingreporter · 7m
    Specialized: Roche's "bike was laying on the road; it was run over by a car causing it to break

    http://t.co/VL6hF6Am6j

    The one in the pic is the one that fell of the roof rack. Roche has the McLaren job. Contador's bike didn't break though!
  • BenderRodriguez
    BenderRodriguez Posts: 907
    Art Vandelay wrote:
    BenderRodriguez wrote:
    Yup, that was clearly on the Planche Des Belles Filles, so proof that this was the bike Contador's was riding. There was also the live commentary that mentioned the bike breaking in two. As I recall, Contador was climbing at the time he crashed, so how he might have been descending prior to the this also seems to be something of a red herring.

    No. Contador crashed taking a risk on a descent and hitting a pothole. Bike undamaged. The bike that cracked was one that fell off a roof rack. Been said quite a few times now!

    No. Look at the caption 'La Planche Des Belles Filles, Direct'. That is the the bike was on when climbing the Planche Des Belles Filles, which is why they are putting it in the boot on Planche Des Belles Filles!
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Contador didn't crash on Les Planche des Belles Filles so why would they be putting his broken bike in the boot on the Les Planche des Belles Filles?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    TailWindHome wrote:
    daniel mcmahon ‏@cyclingreporter · 7m
    Specialized: Roche's "bike was laying on the road; it was run over by a car causing it to break

    http://t.co/VL6hF6Am6j

    I thought Roche was on the orange Mclaren one...
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Anyway enough of that silliness, more importantly.

    Le Tour de France ‏@letour 2m

    .@Tiagomachado85 est repêché par le jury des commissaires / @Tiagomachado85 still in the race #TDF

    Yay!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Art Vandelay
    Art Vandelay Posts: 1,982
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Contador didn't crash on Les Planche des Belles Filles so why would they be putting his broken bike in the boot on the Les Planche des Belles Filles?

    Yep. Contador didn't make it to Les Planche.
  • Art Vandelay
    Art Vandelay Posts: 1,982
    Good call :)
    RichN95 wrote:
    Abandon Thread!

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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,311
    Gazzetta says Nibali's VAM on the last climb was 1872... not good news... :?
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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    edited July 2014
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Anyway enough of that silliness, more importantly.

    Le Tour de France ‏@letour 2m

    .@Tiagomachado85 est repêché par le jury des commissaires / @Tiagomachado85 still in the race #TDF

    Yay!

    Chapeau to him! And good of the commissaires to let him stay on...
  • Art Vandelay
    Art Vandelay Posts: 1,982
    Ok, Ok. His bike was broken!
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    ugo.santalucia wrote:
    Gazzetta says Nibali's VAM on the last climb was 1872... not good news... :?

    And how would they know that?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Art Vandelay
    Art Vandelay Posts: 1,982
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    It's a fair cop.
  • OPQS
    OPQS Posts: 187
    ugo.santalucia wrote:
    Gazzetta says Nibali's VAM on the last climb was 1872... not good news... :?

    Sorry, was does that mean please?
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    It would of been beautiful to see Contador v Nibali on that climb. C'est la vie.

    I would love to see J Rod getting himself into top form for another tilt at the Vuelta, Worlds, Lombardy combo.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    dish_dash wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Anyway enough of that silliness, more importantly.

    Le Tour de France ‏@letour 2m

    .@Tiagomachado85 est repêché par le jury des commissaires / @Tiagomachado85 still in the race #TDF

    Yay!

    Chapeau to him! And good of the commissaires to let him stay on...

    Hopefully he can rest up tomorrow and keep going once play resumes on Wednesday.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • ben@31
    ben@31 Posts: 2,327
    gznd.jpg

    Anyone else thinking "Man thats a £2600 S-works Tarmac SL4 frameset. I wish could afford to snap it, fold it into the back of the car and get another Tarmac SL4 from the car roof"?
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,332
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Contador didn't crash on Les Planche des Belles Filles so why would they be putting his broken bike in the boot on the Les Planche des Belles Filles?

    Also worth pointing out that the bike Contador was waiting by, knee bleeding and unstrapped, is conspicuously in one piece - it certainly hasn't disastrously split asunder.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    ugo.santalucia wrote:
    Gazzetta says Nibali's VAM on the last climb was 1872... not good news... :?

    I'm sure they take into account all the variables , including Scarponi's tow, when deriving a power estimate. Not.
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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Above The Cows wrote:
    dish_dash wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Anyway enough of that silliness, more importantly.

    Le Tour de France ‏@letour 2m

    .@Tiagomachado85 est repêché par le jury des commissaires / @Tiagomachado85 still in the race #TDF

    Yay!

    Chapeau to him! And good of the commissaires to let him stay on...

    Hopefully he can rest up tomorrow and keep going once play resumes on Wednesday.

    Looks like he had his team mate Andreas Schillinger with him as they both finished on the same time 43 mins down. Thankfully doesn't affect Cheng's position...

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