TdF 2015 Stage 9 TTT Vannes to Plumelec **SPOILERS**

ddraver

ASO certainly kept it very quiet...

okgo

45 is not incorrect, it's all listed on procycling stats.

Can someone tell me how you mute someone, a feature I never knew existed!

I'm almost tempted to stick some cash on TJ beating Contador.

ddraver

User control panel/ friends & foes add his name to foes

I wouldnt stoop to that level though.

No_Ta_Doctor

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19649774#p19649774]okgo[/url] wrote:

45 is not incorrect, it's all listed on procycling stats.

Can someone tell me how you mute someone, a feature I never knew existed!

I'm almost tempted to stick some cash on TJ beating Contador.

Click on the username, click "Add Foe".

Pretty useless really though, as you'll see what they post whenever anyone quotes them, which is pretty much all the time.

okgo

True, when you go out of your way to post guff then its gunna get highlighted on here by others

frenchfighter

I am using cycling quotient numbers.

Regardless which one you use, Froome is significantly more rested.

Fatigue will catch up with them all and consistency will pay.

frenchfighter

okgo

I think you're being too binary.

Rolling around a flat stage in the tour is not difficult, Dowsett got round one the other day with 200w which is in the recovery zone for a pro... its probably actually easier in some of the flat stages than going out on a solid training day (which I am sure Froome has been doing while they were doing Giro). So race days do not tell a full story IMO, fair enough in the shorter races and the classics there are more days where you're riding, but in a grand tour certainly there will have been a few days where Contador would have been towed round and barely been out of breath.

KnightOfTheLongTights

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19649742#p19649742]OnYourRight[/url] wrote:

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19649734#p19649734]KnightOfTheLongTights[/url] wrote:

How many times did Sherwin say 'The thing is, Phil, this team time trial is ALL about the last two kilometres...'.
HOW MANY TIMES?? Seven, eight, nine maybe!?
What a f * cking idiot.

Don’t you think this is a slight overreaction?

Honestly, if the various commentators are bad, the meta-commentary is infinitely worse.

Yeah but I haven't said it nine times.
Yet.

emadden

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19649734#p19649734]KnightOfTheLongTights[/url] wrote:

How many times did Sherwin say 'The thing is, Phil, this team time trial is ALL about the last two kilometres...'.
HOW MANY TIMES?? Seven, eight, nine maybe!?
What a f * cking idiot.

I have to agree with this. I am currently in Australia and have the (mis)fortune of having to listen to Phil and Paul on SBS.. I honestly got sick of Paul going on about the last two kms every few minutes. he must have said it at least 8 times. Also, the way he was saying it was almost in a manner that was to contradict Phil - "I told you Phil, its the last 2 kms"

Also, the other day I heard something unusual - Phil correcting Paul in a bit of a snippy way. Paul was saying "the neutral cars will be pulled out once the gap is down to 30second", and which point you can hear Phil snap "20" ....

I wonder if there is friction...

I know I know ... all very petty

DeVlaeminck

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19649927#p19649927]okgo[/url] wrote:

I think you're being too binary.

Rolling around a flat stage in the tour is not difficult, Dowsett got round one the other day with 200w which is in the recovery zone for a pro... its probably actually easier in some of the flat stages than going out on a solid training day (which I am sure Froome has been doing while they were doing Giro). So race days do not tell a full story IMO, fair enough in the shorter races and the classics there are more days where you're riding, but in a grand tour certainly there will have been a few days where Contador would have been towed round and barely been out of breath.

Well I've never ridden the Tour and we could all roll round at 200 watts for 5 hours - well any half decent club racer anyway - but everything you read from the pros suggests flat stages of the Tour are far from easy days. Froome tweeted last week that a flat stage had been exhausting because of the nature of the racing.

robnewcastle

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19649927#p19649927]okgo[/url] wrote:

I think you're being too binary.

Rolling around a flat stage in the tour is not difficult, Dowsett got round one the other day with 200w which is in the recovery zone for a pro... its probably actually easier in some of the flat stages than going out on a solid training day (which I am sure Froome has been doing while they were doing Giro). So race days do not tell a full story IMO, fair enough in the shorter races and the classics there are more days where you're riding, but in a grand tour certainly there will have been a few days where Contador would have been towed round and barely been out of breath.

Wiggins talks about exactly this in his book.

okgo

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19649965#p19649965]DeVlaeminck[/url] wrote:

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19649927#p19649927]okgo[/url] wrote:

I think you're being too binary.

Rolling around a flat stage in the tour is not difficult, Dowsett got round one the other day with 200w which is in the recovery zone for a pro... its probably actually easier in some of the flat stages than going out on a solid training day (which I am sure Froome has been doing while they were doing Giro). So race days do not tell a full story IMO, fair enough in the shorter races and the classics there are more days where you're riding, but in a grand tour certainly there will have been a few days where Contador would have been towed round and barely been out of breath.

Well I've never ridden the Tour and we could all roll round at 200 watts for 5 hours - well any half decent club racer anyway - but everything you read from the pros suggests flat stages of the Tour are far from easy days. Froome tweeted last week that a flat stage had been exhausting because of the nature of the racing.

I think the first week of the tour is famously more manic (read mental exhaustion vs physical..) than something like the Giro.

The point was I suppose that as a sport it has moved on perhaps from measuring workload in pure race days given how much the teams know about training and training load now.

gweeds

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19649922#p19649922]frenchfighter[/url] wrote:

I am using cycling quotient numbers.

Regardless which one you use, Froome is significantly more rested.

Fatigue will catch up with them all and consistency will pay.

Following that logic Froome will be less fatigued.

As for posting a photo with spot-colour. Just say no.

frenchfighter

:roll:

frenchfighter

I think their bars were 3D printed? Money no object for this team.

takethehighroad

Indeed. Better to spend it on Sagan instead...

greasedscotsman

Some of my photos from the stage. Seems a very long time ago!

keyser__soze

Nice to see photos someone's taken themselves

imatfaal

Love the Garmindale shot showing the leaning into the corner varying from front to back of the team

greasedscotsman

Cheers guys.

Anonymous

Those Cannodales are hideous.