List of things having "no place" in Grand Tours

tailwindhome
tailwindhome Posts: 18,878
edited September 2014 in Pro race
"These kind of climbs" ....(c) Iain :wink:

Cobbles

Italian roads

Boring sprint stages in Ireland.

Rain
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,137
    Bradley Wiggins
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Smartphones.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • d_o_g
    d_o_g Posts: 286
    Radios.
  • Carlton Kirby.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,069
    Podium girls.
  • EPO
    Giant Trance X 2010
    Specialized Tricross Sport
    My Dad's old racer
    Trek Marlin 29er 2012
  • Dogs
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    40+ km 'descent' to the finish line.
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,163
    Bonifications
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Riders who constantly whine about something "having no place" in a Grand Tour.
  • mm1
    mm1 Posts: 1,063
    Bikes with hidden motors. :D
  • Commentators telling us "it's a very select group".
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Adverts for Israel
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    edited September 2014
    Power estimates. e.g.

    @ammattipyoraily 3m
    #LaVuelta, Stage 14: La Camperona. According to prov. calculation, Chris Froome at 6.40 - 6.50 W/kg for 12 mins.

    ^ wanker (hilarious profanity filtered w@nker)
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Pr1cks that take their massive iPads to take photos on on the busy climbs, because waving big iPads around block other peoples view, it's completely selfish and inconsiderate.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,236
    Good racing... ;)
  • andyp wrote:
    Podium girls.


    WHAT! Are you mad,it's the best bit.
    Specialized-The clitoris of bikes.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,215
    Spectators with flags
    Circuit races
    Fabian Cancellara
  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    Carlton Kirby.

    I was going to say that! He's an embarrassment to the language he apparently speaks.
    d.j.
    "Cancel my subscription to the resurrection."
  • meagain wrote:
    Carlton Kirby.

    I was going to say that! He's an embarrassment to the language he apparently speaks.
    Couldn't disagree more. I like his commentary and his sense of humour.

    Today he did a great job basically of commentating on two races simultaneously.

    A viewer corrected him on his pronounciation of the South Africsn riders surname and he then spent the rest of the broadcast trying very hard to pronounce it properly.

    Chapeau as they would say. I look forward to listening to him again tomorrow.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Dippydog2 wrote:
    meagain wrote:
    Carlton Kirby.

    I was going to say that! He's an embarrassment to the language he apparently speaks.
    Couldn't disagree more. I like his commentary and his sense of humour.

    Today he did a great job basically of commentating on two races simultaneously.

    A viewer corrected him on his pronounciation of the South Africsn riders surname and he then spent the rest of the broadcast trying erg hard to pronounce it properly.

    Chapeau as they would say. I look forward to listening to him again tomorrow.

    +1, I would much rather listen to Carlton than any of the others or ITV4.
  • But, I would happily go without.....

    Boring circuits of towns, no matter how much they pay.
    The first 100km of most stages.
    Any interviewee that says "today might be a day for the breakaway".
  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    "Chapeau as they would say." Point proven!
    d.j.
    "Cancel my subscription to the resurrection."
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,163
    More motos than riders (I'm looking at you Vuelta)
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Pissed-up 'fans' running alongside riders. This should be banned.
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    meagain wrote:
    Carlton Kirby.
    I was going to say that! He's an embarrassment to the language he apparently speaks.
    Awful, when will he learn to commentate.
    I "Mute" him because he only says what can be read on the screen or he Parrot fashions what Sean has mentioned.
    Kirby and Backstedt is just excruciating err, uum, why bother.

    BAN - Motor Homes and their Idiots from cluttering the roads.

    .
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • Dippydog2 wrote:
    meagain wrote:
    Carlton Kirby.

    I was going to say that! He's an embarrassment to the language he apparently speaks.
    Couldn't disagree more. I like his commentary and his sense of humour.

    Today he did a great job basically of commentating on two races simultaneously.

    I have to say that I thought his joke today about Luis Leon Sanchez having to leave Euskaltel
    because they folded was quite funny. :roll:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    I have to say that I thought his joke today about Luis Leon Sanchez having to leave Euskaltel
    because they folded was quite funny. :roll:
    What the hell are you doing, listening to "Chuckles", or (like me) did you tune in hoping to hear Sean Kelly. ??
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Joelsim wrote:
    Pissed-up 'fans' running alongside riders. This should be banned.

    On this subject, it's been refreshing to see the Guardia Civil actually attempting to control the crowds at the Vuelta. I'd rather fans enforce these things themselves, but it really does irk me so perhaps some police brutality might sort things out.
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