Criterium du Dauphine 2016 pre race chat

My favourite race of the season, barring the tour!
Can't wait to see the prologue as it's gonna be a killer, we will see if Froome is on form or not after the first day.
Stage 1 Prologue Les Gets / Les Gets 3.9KM
Can't wait to see the prologue as it's gonna be a killer, we will see if Froome is on form or not after the first day.
Stage 1 Prologue Les Gets / Les Gets 3.9KM

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that's a 4Km pursuit - up the banking
Oh yes, him too. Dauphine.
Suisse looks pretty poor. G, Lopez, Costa, Spilak and not much else so far.
Steady on - With their revenue sharing deal Velon have done I've been assured TdS will have a killer line up....
Although, so far it just looks like exactly the same people who usually do TdS will be there. Velon - Will there ever be a rainbow?
Of course not. At least not until it is brought forward a few days.
Velon on the other hand will partner with Wang Jianlin, buy out RCS and ASO and create an closed shop World Tour in which the French teams will be the biggest losers. And it will catch people by surprise because the media are too busy trying to make motorised doping into an actual thing.
My blog and pod...
Beers of Belgium Cycling Club UK
why would you??
For the lulz. There's literally no other reason.
(But might have to 'ave a go later that week.
Probably. He did it last year.
On the one hand, as a test of the power to weight status of the GC contenders, I'd have thought that such a short but brutal climb (all but eradicating so many of those annoying factors that normally cloud such discussions: wind, road surface, aerodynamics, etc) would make "10-20 seconds" very meaningful.
On the other hand, it might not...
I love bike racing.
(It will need over 7W/kg to win)
It does in a way... but 10 seconds are 10 seconds... you puncture 5 miles to the finish and you lose a minute at least, so in the grand scheme of things is nothing
I agree... but it's a different ball game, as you say. My VAM for long alpine climbs is somewhere around 900-950 mt/h, but I can easily pull out a 1100-1200 on 5-10 minutes climbs, especially if they are steep
Last year Froome beat TJVG by 10 secs, so could mean a lot!
you would still be on the warm up - its only 4k
http://www.skysports.com/cycling/news/15264/10295944/simon-yates-confirmed-to-race-criterium-du-dauphine-in-june
In other news Landa to ride the race in support of the dawg.