Giro 2017: Stage 2:- Olbia › Tortoli (221k) *Spoilers*
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So I didn't miss anything too exciting today then? Although I would rather have watched the stage than do decorating0
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Sean Kelly admitted to cheating in a sportif.yourpaceormine wrote:So I didn't miss anything too exciting today then?Twitter: @RichN950 -
I wouldn't say Ewan is one of my favourites, but not really getting the hate...
Has he been misbehaving with the partners of Bike Radar Pro Race forum dwellers or something?0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:Split after the sprint for zakarin.
I assumed that was what the director was looking for with the lingering shots of the back of the bunch passing at 500m to go.0 -
bobmcstuff wrote:I wouldn't say Ewan is one of my favourites, but not really getting the hate...
Has he been misbehaving with the partners of Bike Radar Pro Race forum dwellers or something?
Horrendous.
Should be banned for aesthetic reasons.0 -
Says the dude who's love for that Belgian bobbing donkey thrasher Boonen knew no bounds?0
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Well yeah, at least he rode the bike as it's supposed to be ridden.
Caleb looks likes he's trying to f*ck his stem.0 -
He's an iconoclast, redefining how a bike should be ridden. (Or at least reworking Cavendish). And I think that's good. I like mould breakers. (I like this in Froome too)Rick Chasey wrote:Well yeah, at least he rode the bike as it's supposed to be ridden.
Caleb looks likes he's trying to f*ck his stem.Twitter: @RichN950 -
Maybe some people are just jealous that someone that short can be so quick.0
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Aestheticism is important in cycling.
I do wonder if he trained to sprint more conventionally for a couple years, how much slower he'd be, if at all.
It's also something not to be repeated on pothole filled club run bus stop sprint... No-one wants a broken sternum or a bruised liver.0 -
Extra humiliating for him that it popped out in front of everybody in sight of the finish today then.Rick Chasey wrote:Well yeah, at least he rode the bike as it's supposed to be ridden.
Caleb looks likes he's trying to f*ck his stem.0 -
Only to a few. No-one really cares that the likes of Kelly looked horrible on a bike. Any great looking rider would trade style in for a slice of Froome's palmares.Rick Chasey wrote:Aestheticism is important in cycling.
Have you listened to the Malcolm Gladwell podcast about Wilt Chamberlain (as recommended by IainF72)? It's all about style v substance in sport.Twitter: @RichN950 -
Unless you're paid to win bike races, at which point it's completely irrelevant...Rick Chasey wrote:Aestheticism is important in cycling.0 -
RichN95 wrote:
Only to a few. No-one really cares that the likes of Kelly looked horrible on a bike. Any great looking rider would trade style in for a slice of Froome's palmares.Rick Chasey wrote:Aestheticism is important in cycling.
Have you listened to the Malcolm Gladwell podcast about Wilt Chamberlain (as recommended by IainF72)? It's all about style v substance in sport.
Why are guys like Pozzato and Vandenbroucke so popular, considering they have a (comparatively) poor palmares?
And Kelly? Horrible on a bike? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGNHFFgcPQs0 -
They have (or had) personality off the bike and were maybe tactically maverick. Look at Sagan - he's no stylist in terms of pedaling style or position (builder pushing a wheelbarrow - Inner Ring) - but he attracts fans for more than his wins.Crampeur wrote:Why are guys like Pozzato and Vandenbroucke so popular, considering they have a (comparatively) poor palmares?Twitter: @RichN950 -
RichN95 wrote:No-one really cares that the likes of Kelly looked horrible on a bike
BlasphemerCrampeur wrote:
I would bloody LOVE a pair of those Puma shoes. I would even start riding my bike again if I got hold of a pair. Mind you, I probably couldn't get Look cleats on them, so not much danger of that
It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.0 -
I like my cyclists to either look fantastic or be really good while looking terrible. Got no time for average.0
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OMactualG :shock:RichN95 wrote:
Sean Kelly admitted to cheating in a sportif.yourpaceormine wrote:So I didn't miss anything too exciting today then?0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:bobmcstuff wrote:I wouldn't say Ewan is one of my favourites, but not really getting the hate...
Has he been misbehaving with the partners of Bike Radar Pro Race forum dwellers or something?
Horrendous.
Should be banned for aesthetic reasons.
Jesus I knew he was low but that is something else - one benefit of being horrendously unfit is at least I'm safe from being taken out in the sprint for the 30 sign at the end of the chaingang by some chopper practising that as there's no chance of me getting to the end in the front split.[Castle Donington Ladies FC - going up in '22]0 -
Good idea - I'll give that a go next time. My sprint is utterly uselessDeVlaeminck wrote:Rick Chasey wrote:bobmcstuff wrote:I wouldn't say Ewan is one of my favourites, but not really getting the hate...
Has he been misbehaving with the partners of Bike Radar Pro Race forum dwellers or something?
Horrendous.
Should be banned for aesthetic reasons.
Jesus I knew he was low but that is something else - one benefit of being horrendously unfit is at least I'm safe from being taken out in the sprint for the 30 sign at the end of the chaingang by some chopper practising that as there's no chance of me getting to the end in the front split.
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lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
Unless you're paid to win bike races, at which point it's completely irrelevant...Rick Chasey wrote:Aestheticism is important in cycling.
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RichN95 wrote:
Only to a few. No-one really cares that the likes of Kelly looked horrible on a bike. Any great looking rider would trade style in for a slice of Froome's palmares.Rick Chasey wrote:Aestheticism is important in cycling.
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Yeah but I'm not a rider am I? I'm a cycling fan, and I spend a lot of time watching the races, not riding them.0 -
You're like someone who thinks that Justin Bieber and One Direction are great musicians because they look good.Rick Chasey wrote:RichN95 wrote:
Only to a few. No-one really cares that the likes of Kelly looked horrible on a bike. Any great looking rider would trade style in for a slice of Froome's palmares.Rick Chasey wrote:Aestheticism is important in cycling.
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Yeah but I'm not a rider am I? I'm a cycling fan, and I spend a lot of time watching the races, not riding them.Twitter: @RichN950 -
I'm less likely flick over if it's an attractive woman singing if that's what you mean.
I take the aesthetics into account when choosing to support someone or not.
Sometimes I like them in spite of that, sometimes I like them because of that.
Cycling podcast even conceived a prize for it - before it morphed into a 'fans favourite' prize.0 -
Perhap one of the stages should be a dressage?0
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AFAIK plenty of pro's tried them, but saw no advantage even after getting used to them for a week. Initially they were advertised as giving you 5% more power, until it was found out, that they screw up the power meter measurements (calibration prior to riding seems to be needed to be done on round chain rings, then swapped to osymetric) and just show a false value of 5% more power. Now they are advertised as reducing lactic acid by 10%. No one knows if any of this is actually true.RichN95 wrote:The thing that puzzles me about style etc. is that four of the last five Tour de France winners used asymmetric rings - yet no-one, bar Froome, seems to want to try them.PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 20230 -
Does everyone agree that Ewans sprinting style is ugly? I just think it's a new idea and fir that should be applauded. On saying that, im not keen on the sitting on the top tube descending especially when peddling at the same time.Rick Chasey wrote:I'm less likely flick over if it's an attractive woman singing if that's what you mean.
I take the aesthetics into account when choosing to support someone or not.
Sometimes I like them in spite of that, sometimes I like them because of that.
Cycling podcast even conceived a prize for it - before it morphed into a 'fans favourite' prize.0 -
Ewan's style looks like he is on the edge of losing traction, particularly if there is any up gradient in the finishing straight. Clearly not as he wouldn't do it /or dial his position back a bit. Wonder if he has ever been caught out?
Position looks risky: any high speed pile up is going to smart a little, but his position would suggest a trip to the dentist might be involved. Cav knows a good one in Colombia, maybe he should ask for the number?
Certainly doesn't look pretty, but if it works for him...0
