Vuelta Stage 16 *Spoilers*

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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,391
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Simon Yates has inspected some Spanish tarmac.

    Did Chaves give him a nudge?
  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,852
    Can we start calling him 'drug cheat Yeats' to help me differentiate him from his clean brother?
    Half man, Half bike
  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    Ridgerider wrote:
    Can we start calling him 'drug cheat Yeats' to help me differentiate him from his clean brother?

    Inhaler Yates.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Ridgerider wrote:
    Can we start calling him 'drug cheat Yeats' to help me differentiate him from his clean brother?
    Is 'Simon' too intellectually taxing for you?
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,533
    De Gendt and Bakelants not impressed by the 54 mins crowd still being in the race.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,533
    RichN95 wrote:
    Ridgerider wrote:
    Can we start calling him 'drug cheat Yeats' to help me differentiate him from his clean brother?
    Is 'Simon' too intellectually taxing for you?

    You realise people remember things by events and images? I know a Brownlee brother won two Olympic golds. I don't know which one.
  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,852
    Exactly...I am a visual learner, I need more than just a name to trigger recognition.
    Half man, Half bike
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Carltonism alert.... Ticker says riders are doing 70+kmh, camera bike speedo 95ish kmh. Carlton argues that speedos have a built in safety mechanism that over exaggerates speed to make people on motorbikes think they are going really fast. Therefore we should trust the ticker.

    So if I get stopped for speeding do you think that argument would work?


    (Okay I know that speedos can be inaccurate, hence traditional 10% leeway, but c'mon Carlton do you think we are stupid?)
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Ridgerider wrote:
    Exactly...I am a visual learner, I need more than just a name to trigger recognition.
    Are you a Native American who needs names like Dances with Wolves?

    If so here's the current GC:

    1. Little Stoneface
    2. Spinning Legs
    3. Smiles A Lot
    4. Broken Leg
    5. Wheezing Bird
    6. China Gold
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,642
    RichN95 wrote:
    Ridgerider wrote:
    Can we start calling him 'drug cheat Yeats' to help me differentiate him from his clean brother?
    Is 'Simon' too intellectually taxing for you?

    Oh Rich, we know you're the smart one and everything but you're being more than a tad sensitive here.

    One brother has been banned for an anti-doping offence, the other hasn't. To pretend that isn't the case and that we can't make a comment about it really is putting your head in the sand.

    We've had more than our fill of steak jokes on here...
  • wallace_and_gromit
    wallace_and_gromit Posts: 3,390
    TheBigBean wrote:
    I know a Brownlee brother won two Olympic golds. I don't know which one.

    That's nothing to be proud of. Everyone knows it was Alex Brownlee who has won the Olympic triathlon golds.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,533
    Sounds like there are a lot of riders disgruntled with yesterday's decision. Obviously, we know it must be less than half given that more than half benefited. We just need one of the 91 to narrowly pip one of the others on the line today for it to really kick off.
  • hanshotfirst
    hanshotfirst Posts: 397
    Wallace and Gromit wrote:
    TheBigBean wrote:
    I know a Brownlee brother won two Olympic golds. I don't know which one.

    That's nothing to be proud of. Everyone knows it was Alex Brownlee who has won the Olympic triathlon golds.

    Alex Brownlee? That not the guy from Blur who loves cheese?
  • shinyhelmut
    shinyhelmut Posts: 1,364
    Wallace and Gromit wrote:
    TheBigBean wrote:
    I know a Brownlee brother won two Olympic golds. I don't know which one.

    That's nothing to be proud of. Everyone knows it was Alex Brownlee who has won the Olympic triathlon golds.

    Nah, it was Adrian. Or was it Andy? :lol:
  • Blancmange
    Blancmange Posts: 103
    dish_dash wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Ridgerider wrote:
    Can we start calling him 'drug cheat Yeats' to help me differentiate him from his clean brother?
    Is 'Simon' too intellectually taxing for you?

    Oh Rich, we know you're the smart one and everything but you're being more than a tad sensitive here.

    One brother has been banned for an anti-doping offence, the other hasn't. To pretend that isn't the case and that we can't make a comment about it really is putting your head in the sand.

    We've had more than our fill of steak jokes on here...

    Yep, the steakism on this forum is a bloody disgrace!
    - Slave to the cadence -
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,533
    ShinyHelmut wrote:
    Wallace and Gromit wrote:
    TheBigBean wrote:
    I know a Brownlee brother won two Olympic golds. I don't know which one.

    That's nothing to be proud of. Everyone knows it was Alex Brownlee who has won the Olympic triathlon golds.

    Nah, it was Adrian. Or was it Andy? :lol:

    I can remember another detail to assist in trying to determine the name. He was the older one. So I think that means it was Edward.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,533
    The break has 1 min. Just in case anyone is concerned about the stage.
  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    RichN95 wrote:
    Ridgerider wrote:
    Exactly...I am a visual learner, I need more than just a name to trigger recognition.
    Are you a Native American who needs names like Dances with Wolves?

    If so here's the current GC:

    1. Little Stoneface
    2. Spinning Legs
    3. Smiles A Lot
    4. Broken Leg
    5. Wheezing Bird
    6. China Gold

    Too funny!
  • Shadowrider
    Shadowrider Posts: 483
    So TT will be shortened? Fire looks uncontrollable atm.

    Anything to make a Spanish team win.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    delete
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,533
    Sky drilling it on the front with 10km to go. Possibly one day late.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,533
    Bennati jumps with 2.3km to go.
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    RichN95 wrote:
    Ridgerider wrote:
    Exactly...I am a visual learner, I need more than just a name to trigger recognition.
    Are you a Native American who needs names like Dances with Wolves?

    If so here's the current GC:

    1. Little Stoneface
    2. Spinning Legs
    3. Smiles A Lot
    4. Broken Leg
    5. Wheezing Bird
    6. China Gold
    Surely Froome should be "Looks at Stems"?
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,533
    Meersman went too early and Drucker won.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    RichN95 wrote:
    Ridgerider wrote:
    Exactly...I am a visual learner, I need more than just a name to trigger recognition.
    Are you a Native American who needs names like Dances with Wolves?

    If so here's the current GC:

    1. Little Stoneface
    2. Spinning Legs
    3. Smiles A Lot
    4. Broken Leg
    5. Wheezing Bird
    6. China Gold

    I can see why you stopped at the top 6...
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,533
    Top 10 all on the naughty step yesterday. Bennati wasn't though.

    1 Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux) BMC Racing Team 03:21:18
    2 Rudiger Selig (Ger) Bora-Argon 18
    3 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin
    4 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Etixx - Quick-Step
    5 Lorenzo Manzin (Fra) FDJ
    6 Jonas Van Genechten (Bel) IAM Cycling
    7 Kristian Sbaragli (Ita) Dimension Data
    8 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Trek-Segafredo
    9 Tosh Van Der Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal
    10 Jhonatan Restrepo (Col) Team Katusha
  • the article don
    the article don Posts: 578
    3 pages and 1 post about the stage. Must have been a pure belter.Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
    Giant Trance X 2010
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,533
    the article don wrote:
    3 pages and 1 post about the stage. Must have been a pure belter.Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

    I made four on this page alone, but I suppose your point still stands.
  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,455
    yourpaceormine wrote:
    (Okay I know that speedos can be inaccurate, hence traditional 10% leeway, ...)

    Is that why they are so popular on european beaches... :wink:
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Ridgerider wrote:
    Can we start calling him 'drug cheat Yeats' to help me differentiate him from his clean brother?


    I don't know, would that be Yeats the renowned Irish poet?

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