La Course 2017: Stage 1 Briancon - Izoard ***Spoilers****

slowbike

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Richmond Racer 2

Linda Villumsen is one heck of a rider

Richmond Racer 2

why is that twat riding on the course

knob

N0bodyOfTheGoat

So the men get the stage closed to the public, but the women have to pass a random cyclist with a rucksack on their back? :shock: :?

Richmond Racer 2

seriously, few riders of either gender look better on a bike than Lizzie Deignan IMO

imatfaal

philwint wrote:

Boels trying to do a Sky and 4 off the front (not in a single group)

edit - i'm watching with no sound, so don't know who they are

But that is Lizzie Deignan doing the pace work - ex-worldChamp as super-super-domestique; or is she just pacing herself

No_Ta_Doctor

Richmond Racer 2 wrote:

seriously, few riders of either gender look better on a bike than Lizzie Deignan IMO

Yep. And the GB jersey looks great on her.

above_the_cows

The Canyon Sram kits this year are a bit rubbish compared to last year.

Richmond Racer 2

imatfaal wrote:

philwint wrote:

Boels trying to do a Sky and 4 off the front (not in a single group)

edit - i'm watching with no sound, so don't know who they are

But that is Lizzie Deignan doing the pace work - ex-worldChamp as super-super-domestique; or is she just pacing herself

Riding for Guarnier, I suspect?

(not listening to the commentary)

N0bodyOfTheGoat

Have I been watching durianrider and taking some of his opinion as gospel, or are loads of the women here using a cadence well below ~90rpm, which will be catastrophic for metabolites in their legs on this ~14km col?

above_the_cows

No tA Doctor wrote:

Richmond Racer 2 wrote:

seriously, few riders of either gender look better on a bike than Lizzie Deignan IMO

Yep. And the GB jersey looks great on her.

She's class.

Richmond Racer 2

No tA Doctor wrote:

Richmond Racer 2 wrote:

seriously, few riders of either gender look better on a bike than Lizzie Deignan IMO

Yep. And the GB jersey looks great on her.

The rainbows will also look good on her (again) in Bergen...hopefully

bobmcstuff

Guarnier dropped?

Good roadside support - sounded like people were worried there would be no-one there yet before the stage.

imatfaal

Richmond Racer 2 wrote:

imatfaal wrote:

philwint wrote:

Boels trying to do a Sky and 4 off the front (not in a single group)

edit - i'm watching with no sound, so don't know who they are

But that is Lizzie Deignan doing the pace work - ex-worldChamp as super-super-domestique; or is she just pacing herself

Riding for Guarnier, I suspect?

(not listening to the commentary)

I thought that was correct - cannot see Lizzie being able to win on Izoard. Megan just got dropped and lizzie dropped off the pae

And the Sky parallel is so strong - Kwia/Lizzie; get one of the best riders in the world to set up your climbers

Richmond Racer 2

Lizzie's killed off Megan!

Richmond Racer 2

imatfaal wrote:

Richmond Racer 2 wrote:

imatfaal wrote:

philwint wrote:

Boels trying to do a Sky and 4 off the front (not in a single group)

edit - i'm watching with no sound, so don't know who they are

But that is Lizzie Deignan doing the pace work - ex-worldChamp as super-super-domestique; or is she just pacing herself

Riding for Guarnier, I suspect?

(not listening to the commentary)

I thought that was correct - cannot see Lizzie being able to win on Izoard. Megan just got dropped and lizzie dropped off the pae

And the Sky parallel is so strong - Kwia/Lizzie; get one of the best riders in the world to set up your climbers

I wouldn't repeat that in front of Lizzie any time soon

Richmond Racer 2

Cmon Lizzie, go for it

Pross

Very surprised to see Lizzie up there, not only holding her own but just put in a bit of a dig. They'll need to distance her before the top I should think.

above_the_cows

Some hilarious person has painted a knob on the road.

Richmond Racer 2

Jo R-S going a decent job on comms

dolan_driver

Great ride here from Lizzie D. Be amazing if she can win this. Seems to have great legs.

DD,

Richmond Racer 2

Above The Cows wrote:

Some hilarious person has painted a knob on the road.

Evergreen post

Pross

Above The Cows wrote:

Some hilarious person has painted a knob on the road.

What is the French (presumably) obsession with that?

imatfaal

Van Vleutan attacks

Pross

Orica rider attacks and Lizzie closes no problem at all. 4.5k remaining.x

dolan_driver

Van Vleuten has a gap, slowly pulling away on her own.

above_the_cows

Annemiek is on the attack (and I really don't like skinsuits can I just say)

Anyway, roadside attractions.

slowbike

NitrousOxide wrote:

So the men get the stage closed to the public, but the women have to pass a random cyclist with a rucksack on their back? :shock: :?

Problem is you've got limited time to get spectators up the road - unless they've got vans or are prepared to camp, they've got to get up during the day.
Close the roads = no spectators - unless the organisers arrange transport.

The police outriders should've stopped him though - at least he could wait for the race to go past on a rolling block.

We went up to the first MTF this year - wanted to take our van to somewhere between the 10 and 6km to go mark - roads were closed - no motor traffic !! Didn't seem handy considering we had a 2yo and 2 OAPs who can't walk far ... but the organisers had arranged massive carparking (free) and coached spectators up the road to the 6km to go mark - again no cost to the spectator ...
I can see why they didn't want us driving up - the team busses were taking up the parking spaces and there was limited roadside parking - so whilst it wasn't ideal (we could've done with the van) - it was pretty good - and got us into a good position to see the tour ...
My 2yo son LOVED the caravan ... "more", "More", "MORE" !!

bobmcstuff

Above The Cows wrote:

Annemiek is on the attack (and I really don't like skinsuits can I just say)

Anyway, roadside attractions.

I saw the man riding a unicorn .

Race is all over the road now.

Pross

Van Vleuten goes again and opens a big gap. Lizzie and FDJ rider behind with another small gap to Borgini. Looks between those 4 but don't forget this is just setting things up for the pursuit on Saturday so Lizzie looking good for the overall.