La Vuelta 2015 S#1 - Puerto Banús / Marbella **SPOILERS**
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Puerto Banús / Marbella - Team Time Trial 7.4 km
It is along the coast and is as flat as a pancake
Looks a bit silly - but last years 12k TTT had Movistar put upto a minute on other teams - and this route looks primed for accidents
It looks from the map as if they are running along the harbour wall
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and across some sandy board walks. Team time trial on Spring Classic bikes?
Puerto Banús / Marbella - Team Time Trial 7.4 km
It is along the coast and is as flat as a pancake
Looks a bit silly - but last years 12k TTT had Movistar put upto a minute on other teams - and this route looks primed for accidents
It looks from the map as if they are running along the harbour wall
and across some sandy board walks. Team time trial on Spring Classic bikes?
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Quite a few riders tweeting their concerns about the surface for this. Looks more like sand than tarmac in places...0
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Looks pretty "interesting" https://twitter.com/rorysutherland1/status/6343157091542466560
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Google maps street view has much of the course and the ground looks to be compacted sandy gravel. TBH it looks just like many of the canal paths in and around London. I love riding on that stuff - but it is not that fast, braking can be an issue, and the day after it rains it is as bumpy as hell. Also some the street furniture will have to go - there are bollards designed to keep cars off the path which are only a metre or so apart0
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If they have to run to start with, maybe CX bikes are needed?
Interesting point made by INRNG. Teams only just seeing the course for the first time today, and if it was the Tour they would have reconned in March0 -
Expect a course change on stage 1.
http://cyclingtips.com.au/2015/08/uci-to-meet-vuelta-organisers-over-ttt-course-concerns/0 -
The Big Red Balls were probably a little excessive, to be honestExpect a course change on stage 1.
http://cyclingtips.com.au/2015/08/uci-to-meet-vuelta-organisers-over-ttt-course-concerns/Twitter: @RichN950 -
The Big Red Balls were probably a little excessive, to be honestExpect a course change on stage 1.
http://cyclingtips.com.au/2015/08/uci-to-meet-vuelta-organisers-over-ttt-course-concerns/
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[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19683975#p19683975]Richmond Racer 2[/url] wrote:
The Big Red Balls were probably a little excessive, to be honestExpect a course change on stage 1.
http://cyclingtips.com.au/2015/08/uci-to-meet-vuelta-organisers-over-ttt-course-concerns/
G was looking forward to this section v much
Barguil isn't riding...Team My Man 2018: David gaudu, Pierre Latour, Romain Bardet, Thibaut pinot, Alexandre Geniez, Florian Senechal, Warren Barguil, Benoit Cosnefroy0 -
News via @velofacts that the stage could be neutralised.0
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@friebos 3h3 hours ago
Vuelta boss Javier Guillén tells @Vanlooyalfas that controversial TTT course won't change
@friebos 2h2 hours ago
Also from @Vanlooyalfas, Spanish riders association president calls Vuelta TTT 'very, very, very dangerous'Contador is the Greatest0 -
Was Banksy involved in this stages creation?0
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the Inner Ring @inrng · 10h10 hours ago
@rorysutherland1 @UCI_cycling don't hate the playa
InnerRing wins Twitter“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
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the Inner Ring @inrng · 10h10 hours ago
Vuelta's opening stage could be the strangest route since the 1978 Giro used pontoons to ride around Venice“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
We haven't heard from Chief Commissaire Fabs yet
Surely only a matter of time0 -
[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19684266#p19684266]Richmond Racer 2[/url] wrote:We haven't heard from Chief Commissaire Fabs yet
Surely only a matter of time
Expect to see him at the fron tof the Trek line doing the stupid hand wavy thing he does when he wants to go all Hinault and wants everyone to stop riding/stop riding in a way that means he can't win."In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"
@gietvangent0 -
[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19684268#p19684268]disgruntledgoat[/url] wrote:[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19684266#p19684266]Richmond Racer 2[/url] wrote:We haven't heard from Chief Commissaire Fabs yet
Surely only a matter of time
Expect to see him at the fron tof the Trek line doing the stupid hand wavy thing he does when he wants to go all Hinault and wants everyone to stop riding/stop riding in a way that means he can't win.
ITV4 showing Spartacus twice Saturday.0 -
[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19684268#p19684268]disgruntledgoat[/url] wrote:[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19684266#p19684266]Richmond Racer 2[/url] wrote:We haven't heard from Chief Commissaire Fabs yet
Surely only a matter of time
Expect to see him at the fron tof the Trek line doing the stupid hand wavy thing he does when he wants to go all Hinault and wants everyone to stop riding/stop riding in a way that means he can't win.
ITV4 showing Spartacus twice Saturday.
Tbf there's a lot of sand in the movie too0 -
Ha.0
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Katusha continues its best sex, drugs and rock n roll shizz
Silin and Trofimov have been booted from the Vuelta squad after being found drunk at the airport after the Rio test event
They've been replaced by Smukulis and Machado
(source @CyclingUpdates)
"Ah, cmon we'll just have the one before our flight is called..."0 -
deleteContador is the Greatest0
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Stupid stage. Runs the risk of eliminating a contender through bad luck.
This is a bike race not a circus act.It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.0 -
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Now announced, apparently....
"The recorded time will be counted for the team classification and not for the individual general
classification".
“You may think that; I couldn’t possibly comment!”
Wilier Cento Uno SR/Wilier Mortirolo/Specialized Roubaix Comp/Kona Hei Hei/Calibre Bossnut0 -
Now announced, apparently....
"The recorded time will be counted for the team classification and not for the individual general
classification".
Will there still be a cut-off time I wonder 40 pct in a team time trial is normally completely doable unless you are too injured to sensibly continue - but my sums make this under 2 and a half minutes which is just a fall, feeling shakey for a moment, then a poor bike change0 -
Official statement :
The Technical Jury , having received the concerns of teams and riders and after an inspection of the course with the technical director of the race, and after obtaining the agreement of the UCI has decided :
1. The stage will be held on the planned route .
2. The recorded time will be counted for the team classification and not for the individual general classification.
3. At the end of the stage equipment that you have made the best time will be submitted to the protocol.
Google translate of
http://www.biciciclismo.com/es/vuelta-la-cre-se-disputara-sobre-el-recorrido-previsto-21-08-2015
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Well if I'd known that I'd have changed my PTP pick. I can't see the GC guys risking anything now so it should be one of the other teams that gets it. Goodness knows how they got to a day before the race before realising what a silly idea this was.0
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You're allowed to change your pick.Well if I'd known that I'd have changed my PTP pick. I can't see the GC guys risking anything now so it should be one of the other teams that gets it. Goodness knows how they got to a day before the race before realising what a silly idea this was.Twitter: @RichN950 -
I'm surprised all the fuss is about the stage 1 TTT. The teams clearly haven't recced Caminito del Rey, the stage 2 finish:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@36.9163029,-4.7732325,3a,75y,342.78h,66.01t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxFIAl9UXTA1AwWW9QuKd7w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1
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Stage 3 also looks a bit dodgy
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