Tour of Turkey 2015 **Spoilers**

The_Boy

ThomThom wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

I Find this picture a bit apeeling.

*hands ThomThom his/her coat*

bobmcstuff

Greipel takes today's stage.

pete54

mm1 wrote:

"Testy" seems to be Kirby's new favourite word, can someone please buy him a dictionary? If not, I can see myself becoming quite testy.

He's been mis-using that word for years. Pales into insignificance amongst all his other verbal diarrhoea though.

cal_stewart

Greipel's climbing well for a big lump this year, anyone think he's trying to change into more of a Thor type classics rider?

LeePaton

Cal_Stewart wrote:

Greipel's climbing well for a big lump this year, anyone think he's trying to change into more of a Thor type classics rider?

He cant win sprints with the best or usually the second best may as well try something.

Pross

Decent stage today (well, last 10km). Surprised Cav got dropped on that final climb. Less surprised Carlton failed to notice his absence and seemed to put the fact there were no EQS riders chasing the late break down to them burning themselves out on the climb!

Bo Duke

The_Boy wrote:

ThomThom wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

I Find this picture a bit apeeling.

*hands ThomThom his/her coat*

How come Cav's got two right hands?

Lanterne_Rogue

mm1 wrote:

"Testy" seems to be Kirby's new favourite word, can someone please buy him a dictionary? If not, I can see myself becoming quite testy.

You don't like Kirby's over-exposed 'testy' calls?

adr82

Astana rider apparently DQ'd today for punching someone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtr7elr8Lys

hammerite

Pretty impressive effort. Swing a punch, get off bike, go for a second go, get back on bike before the peloton has gone through.

That said they were hardly tanking it.

thomthom

Must have hit him pretty well considering how inelegant he tried to get that bike rolling again..

dish_dash

Does the SouthEast rider just cycle off the edge of the road afterwards?

dolan_driver

It looks like these Astana boys will do anything they can to make sure they don't have to race. If they don't get thrown off the race for doping, they'll assault someone and get the early flight home instead. They are a (bad) joke.

DD.

frenchfighter

Stage 6 Results
ESP 1 BILBAO LOPEZ DE ARMENTIA, Pello (CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA) 4:38:46
COL 2 LOPEZ MORENO, Miguel Angel (ASTANA) + 3
COL 3 PARRA BUSTAMENTE, Heiner Rodrigo (CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA) + 11
BEL 4 DE GENDT, Thomas (LOTTO SOUDAL) + 14
COL 5 CANO ARDILA, Alex (COLOMBIA)
CRO 6 DURASEK, Kristijan (LAMPRE - MERIDA) + 18
ARG 7 SEPULVEDA, Eduardo (BRETAGNE-SECHE ENVIRONNEMENT)
ESP 8 MAS BONET, Luis (CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA) + 34
URU 9 FERRARI BARCELO, Fabricio (CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA)
AUS 10 MCCARTHY, Jay (TINKOFF - SAXO)
ITA 11 SELVAGGI, Mirko (WANTY - GROUPE GOBERT)
POL 12 MARCZYNSKI, Tomasz (TORKU SEKERSPOR)
BEL 13 PAUWELS, Serge (MTN - QHUBEKA)
AUS 14 HANSEN, Adam (LOTTO SOUDAL) + 46
ESP 15 MEGIAS LEAL, Javier (NOVO NORDISK) + 48
KAZ 16 KOZHATAYEV, Bakhtiyar (ASTANA) + 54
ESP 17 PRADES REVERTE, Eduard (CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA)
BEL 18 CAMPENAERTS, Victor (TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN - BALOISE) + 59
ITA 19 REBELLIN, Davide (CCC SPRANDI POLKOWICE) + 1:01
BLR 20 KOSHEVOY, Ilia (LAMPRE - MERIDA) + 1:06

General Classification after Stage 6
CRO 1 DURASEK, Kristijan (LAMPRE - MERIDA) 24:21:34
ITA 2 REBELLIN, Davide (CCC SPRANDI POLKOWICE) + 21
ARG 3 SEPULVEDA, Eduardo (BRETAGNE-SECHE ENVIRONNEMENT) + 32
AUS 4 MCCARTHY, Jay (TINKOFF - SAXO) + 1:14
COL 5 CANO ARDILA, Alex (COLOMBIA) + 1:30
BEL 6 PAUWELS, Serge (MTN - QHUBEKA) + 1:32
ITA 7 SELVAGGI, Mirko (WANTY - GROUPE GOBERT) + 2:05
ITA 8 BARBIN, Enrico (BARDIANI CSF) + 2:08
AUS 9 HANSEN, Adam (LOTTO SOUDAL) + 2:18
POL 10 MARCZYNSKI, Tomasz (TORKU SEKERSPOR) + 2:20

RideOnTime

Good stage.

Paul 8v

Caja Rural, love those guys :-)

frenchfighter

Another win for Cavendish.

dolan_driver

Mark Cavendish will never win an easier sprint than that. No-one challenged him at all.

DD.

Pross

Excellent riding by EQS to deliver Cav today after losing a minute over the climb with 20km to go and then he looked like his old self in the sprint albeit against limited opposition. Ratto riding an extremely consistent race.

Yellow Peril

Lot's of people keeping the riders on their toes by wandering aimlessly across the road.

Also Rebellin out due to a crash...but no one particularly caring

Pross

This race keeps catching me out as it's on so early. When I watched yesterday I assumed it was highlights of Friday.

Yellow Peril

Pross wrote:

This race keeps catching me out as it's on so early. When I watched yesterday I assumed it was highlights of Friday.

You haven't missed too much. Break of 4 with Keisse on the front of the peleton pegging the break. Lots of wandering dogs and people though.

Yellow Peril

oh and there's a complete 180 degree bend within the last KM which has pile up written all over it

Pross

They could do with some padding on the first of the concrete barriers where they have the chicane through roadworks. Judging by the punctures there's also a bit of debris there too.

napoleond

Rebellin taken out by a sniffer dog.

Yellow Peril

Pross wrote:

They could do with some padding on the first of the concrete barriers where they have the chicane through roadworks. Judging by the punctures there's also a bit of debris there too.

Yes there has been a extraordinarily high amount of punctures

Pross

Tiny bunch left!

Pross

He's got this I reckon.

Pross

Cav deserted at 500m. Great win for Caja Rural and Cav holds on for 2nd after leading from 500m out. Really used the technical finish well there.

Yellow Peril

Pross wrote:

Cav deserted at 500m. Great win for Caja Rural and Cav holds on for 2nd after leading from 500m out. Really used the technical finish well there.

That was a lesson in road book study. great win for Bonet