Tour of California 2017 **Spoilers**

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  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,231
    Looking forward to the Vaughters tweet of what bottle he's opened to celebrate.
    And would be great if this win is what Talansky needed in order to get back to being viewed as a GC heavyweight...
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,150
    As an aside, best wishes to Blazing Saddles's family - a cycling traffic incident in the family was mentioned by Magnus B in the commentary. A look on twitter reveals it to be nasty but not critical.
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  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,339
    Best wishes! Hope everything works itself out well!
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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Best wishes and here's hoping for a speedy and successful recovery.
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    yes, speedy recovery wishes to Chris, Saddles. I sent a tweet to her and Dai, but sympathy and speedy recovery wishes.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    RichN95 wrote:
    As an aside, best wishes to Blazing Saddles's family - a cycling traffic incident in the family was mentioned by Magnus B in the commentary. A look on twitter reveals it to be nasty but not critical.

    A fractured cheek bone, hairline fracture to both sides of her pelvis.
    Elderly bloke coming onto a roundabout off a dual carriageway.
    Hood ornament job.
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    yes, speedy recovery wishes to Chris, Saddles. I sent a tweet to her and Dai, but sympathy and speedy recovery wishes.

    Ta.
    Much appreciated.

    Gareth, her son, was driving the same route to a meeting, only to see his mother on the ground.
    Quite a shock.
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  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 8,736
    Glad it's not worse and hope she makes a good recovery.
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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    All the best to the family, Saddles
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,712
    Well done Cannondale, the wait is over :)
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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    The wait is over indeed ...

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    Sagan's audacious wheel cookie grab doesn't go unnoticed ...

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    Photo's from Steve @Steephill and the @SkepticCyclist
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,558
    Is it churlish of me to point out that my man Toms took a stage win for Cannondale at the ToC last year but it didn't count because it wasn't a WT race then? So this is really a result of the expansion of the WT to include the ToC and a bunch of other races rather than the team's performance somehow improving...
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,612
    dish_dash wrote:
    Is it churlish of me to point out that my man Toms took a stage win for Cannondale at the ToC last year but it didn't count because it wasn't a WT race then? So this is really a result of the expansion of the WT to include the ToC and a bunch of other races rather than the team's performance somehow improving...
    Fair.
    _
  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,474
    RonB wrote:

    Sagan's audacious wheel cookie grab doesn't go unnoticed ...

    DAKCAKFUQAEZ-qn.jpg:large

    Photo's from Steve @Steephill and the @SkepticCyclist

    Not wanting to be a party pooper or anything, but taking a food item from a random stranger by the side of the road is just the sort of thing that ends up with something unpleasant, or worse still illegal in your system. Imagine if some righteous dude had baked up some hash cookies or some hygiene-phobic manages to pass on a tasty dose of e-coli - surprised Sagan is that naive...
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,150
    larkim wrote:
    RonB wrote:

    Sagan's audacious wheel cookie grab doesn't go unnoticed ...

    DAKCAKFUQAEZ-qn.jpg:large

    Photo's from Steve @Steephill and the @SkepticCyclist

    Not wanting to be a party pooper or anything, but taking a food item from a random stranger by the side of the road is just the sort of thing that ends up with something unpleasant, or worse still illegal in your system. Imagine if some righteous dude had baked up some hash cookies or some hygiene-phobic manages to pass on a tasty dose of e-coli - surprised Sagan is that naive...
    It wasn't a random stranger. It was Phil Gaimon the ex Cannondale rider
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  • dav1d1
    dav1d1 Posts: 653
    These where made by Phil gaimon who rides for team cannondale

    https://twitter.com/skepticcyclist/stat ... 0242310144

    https://twitter.com/philgaimon/status/8 ... 8221727744
  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,474
    Doh!!!
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  • dav1d1
    dav1d1 Posts: 653
    https://twitter.com/mikeisintyler/statu ... 2924279810

    Sagans No handed uphill round a corner wheely
  • burnthesheep
    burnthesheep Posts: 675
    Dav1d1 wrote:


    Sagans No handed uphill round a corner wheely

    This just made my day. :mrgreen:

    It's also good to see a few fired up fans in the US at a bike race, whether they're Americans or not. Loving the guy with the luchador mask and tube of meat. :lol:
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    General Classification after Stage 5
    1 MAJKA, Rafal (BOH) 19:47:57
    2 BENNETT, George (TLJ) + 6
    3 BOSWELL, Ian (SKY) + 25
    4 TALANSKY, Andrew (CDT) + 44
    5 MORTON, Lachlan (DDD) + 49
    6 BOOKWALTER, Brent (BMC) + 1:02
    7 OOMEN, Sam (SUN) + 1:14
    8 GESINK, Robert (TLJ) + 1:31
    9 GEOGHEGAN HART, Tao (SKY) + 1:34
    10 LAENGEN, Vegard Stake (UAD) + 1:50

    Today sees the 24km ITT stage around Big Bear Lake and Fawnskin. UK Cycling Expert better stay clear of innuendo today.

    Any one of the above will feel their in with a chance, but the course is flat and going to be ft so time gaps aren't going to be huge. Live coverage expected to start at 2200hrs GMT.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,104
    The course really isn't flat. No big elevation changes, but there are a lot of short ramps which will suit a punchy TT rider rather than one who settles into a big gear rhythm.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,104
    Veloviewer tweeted the profile;

    https://twitter.com/VeloViewer/status/8 ... 3099024384
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,786
    Jon Dibben smashed previous best time by 20 seconds
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,150
    Chapeau to Dibben. That's a proper solid neo-pro win. He's better than I thought he was.
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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    GC after S6

    1 BENNETT, George (TLJ) 20:16:48
    2 MAJKA, Rafal (BOH) + 35
    3 TALANSKY, Andrew (CDT) + 36
    4 BOOKWALTER, Brent (BMC) + 45
    5 BOSWELL, Ian (SKY) + 1:00
    6 LAENGEN, Vegard Stake (UAD) + 1:54
    7 GEOGHEGAN HART, Tao (SKY) + 2:12
    8 OOMEN, Sam (SUN) + 2:15
    9 MORTON, Lachlan (DDD) + 2:20
    10 ZUBELDIA AGIRRE, Haimar (TFS) + 3:14
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,104
    RichN95 wrote:
    Chapeau to Dibben. That's a proper solid neo-pro win. He's better than I thought he was.

    One down, four to go.

    (At the start of the year Brailsford set his three neo-pros a target of getting five wins between them).
  • e17blade
    e17blade Posts: 215
    I find it very hard to enjoy watching the ToC due to all the stats and text rolling round the edges of the screen.

    If it was different information popping up occasionally that would be ok, but to have the same stuff rotating constantly is pointless and distracting.

    #grumpyoldman
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,104
    It's all action on the final stage, Lachlan Morton is a minute clear off the rest of the GC contenders with 40 kms to go. He's in a group of 6, the main peloton is down to about 25-30 riders.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    18km to go and the gap is 50s. Lopez won't do any work though - Morton is looking to get back on top of the Best Young rider competition and he's only 8 seconds away from getting the white jersey back from his teammate Tao Geoghegan-Hart
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    5km to go and the gap is just under 40s. Going to be close
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Huffman wins the stage from the breakaway. Sagan brings the reduced peloton across the line just a few seconds later, and in that group is George Bennett, the winner overall.

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