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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Climbing now. The camera bikes must have been repossessed by the bank.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • argyllflyer
    argyllflyer Posts: 893
    edited January 2016
    But compared to 2015, 2014, 2013 etc this (camera bikes I mean!) is good coverage. 2013 I seem to recall a camera phone or something of that nature filming Bertie coming up the mountain. Last year they filmed the whole climb of the big mountain stage from the International Space Station... spectacular I suppose but not much use for watching a race.

    https://youtu.be/CzbewmXqzvc?t=13m50s
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,304
    It's a very picturesque finish, sort of. I do like how the static camera condenses that climb.

    Bit like that Isle Of Skye bridge shot. Now where is it?...
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,304
    That motorbike's getting in the way.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Someone needs to put a peso in the meter.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,304
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Someone needs to put a peso in the meter.

    Spectator crowd funding perhaps? That'll be interesting.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Quintana off the front? I can't really tell. Looks to be Movistar....
    It is according to the commentator, with Acevedo chasing.....
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    I haven't got the faintest idea what is going on. Just a load of cycling ants.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,304
    One of the bloggers said:

    ATENCION ATENCION ::: Informamos que el Helicoptero se quedo sin gasolina-

    (WARNING WARNING ::: inform the helicopter ran out of gasoline) lol
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  • argyllflyer
    argyllflyer Posts: 893
    edited January 2016
    It's the annual cycling equivalent of a hairshirt, testing devotion. TDU apart (which I watch on fast forward before work), when was the last decent racing on? At the end of 2015, they even tried to test us with the odd televising of that Chinese chipper, the Tour of Taihu Lake... panflat, empty roads along bleak industrial canals, raced by a field of continental nonames.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Pinno wrote:
    One of the bloggers said:

    ATENCION ATENCION ::: Informamos que el Helicoptero se quedo sin gasolina-

    (WARNING WARNING ::: inform the helicopter ran out of gasoline) lol

    Oh.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,304
    Joelsim wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    One of the bloggers said:

    ATENCION ATENCION ::: Informamos que el Helicoptero se quedo sin gasolina-

    (WARNING WARNING ::: inform the helicopter ran out of gasoline) lol

    Oh.

    I don't think he was serious. Nice pictures of the 'dolly's' wearing odd platform trainers.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,304
    Rigoberto Uran has retired from the race.
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  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    I think Sepulveda is 1 min ahead of Dayer who is 45 ahead of Nairo, Lopez and Cardoso.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,304
    Quintana...
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,304
    Carlos Checa?
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    LOL, it's Sepulveda.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,304
    No. Eduardo Sepuldeva
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  • argyllflyer
    argyllflyer Posts: 893
    Sepulveda is not pronounced as Carlton Kirby says so. You live and learn! :D
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,304
    Ditto
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,304
    New forum suffers lag.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Acevedo second. Dayer (4th) not Nairo ahead. Lopez and Majka also beat him over the line.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Dayer is going to be in the lead
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,304
    Aaah, found it:

    65f41ad823721fef16f8d8c69e234582.jpg
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  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Nibali loses over 5 minutes
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    Joelsim wrote:
    Nibali loses over 5 minutes
    And the helicopter did run out of Gas. ?????
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    deejay wrote:
    Joelsim wrote:
    Nibali loses over 5 minutes
    And the helicopter did run out of Gas. ?????

    Did Nibali try to catch a ride on it?
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    argyllflyer wrote:
    Sepulveda is not pronounced as Carlton Kirby says so. You live and learn! :D


    No doubt Rob Hatch will come up with a dreadful pronunciation of it. North of England Flemish Spanish ish.
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    argyllflyer wrote:
    Sepulveda is not pronounced as Carlton Kirby says so. You live and learn! :D
    ......Astana is not pronounced as Carlton Kirby says so. You live and learn! :D

    General classification after stage 4#
    1 Eduardo Sepulveda (Arg) Fortuneo Vital Concept 12:00:16
    2 Dayer Quintana (Col) Movistar) 0:00:03
    3 Rodrigo Contreras (Col) Etixx - Quick-Step 0:00:38
    4 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (Col) Movistar Team 0:00:42
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Joelsim wrote:
    argyllflyer wrote:
    Sepulveda is not pronounced as Carlton Kirby says so. You live and learn! :D


    No doubt Rob Hatch will come up with a dreadful pronunciation of it. North of England Flemish Spanish ish.

    You are in no position to criticise about commentary.
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