Vuelta 2017: Stage 18: Suances - Santo Toribio de Liébana 169KM *Spoilers*

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  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    edited September 2017
    dish_dash wrote:
    yourpaceormine wrote:
    Get the camera bikes out of the way.

    What would we watch then?

    They are too close at times, particularly around Contador. I realise that there is massive national interest in him but they are honing in on him too much. And yes, at times he is effectively being motopaced by camera bikes, intentional or not.
    That recent acceleration (before the ad break) a Katusha rider had to brake because the camera bike was in the wrong place. Yesterday camera bike got a good talking too by a Sky rider as it was in the wrong place.
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Folks continue to drone on about the 5 camera bikes.
    If they are so, so bad, what about the other 60 motorbikes that we don't see because they don't have cameras?
    Out of sight, out of mind, no doubt.
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  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Any time gaps for Aru?
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Folks continue to drone on about the 5 camera bikes.
    If they are so, so bad, what about the other 60 motorbikes that we don't see because they don't have cameras?
    Out of sight, out of mind, no doubt.

    Some of those are guilty too, but we only see them from Heli shots.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    yourpaceormine wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Folks continue to drone on about the 5 camera bikes.
    If they are so, so bad, what about the other 60 motorbikes that we don't see because they don't have cameras?
    Out of sight, out of mind, no doubt.

    Some of those are guilty too, but we only see them from Heli shots.

    True.
    Which very nicely proves the point.
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  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,194
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    yourpaceormine wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Folks continue to drone on about the 5 camera bikes.
    If they are so, so bad, what about the other 60 motorbikes that we don't see because they don't have cameras?
    Out of sight, out of mind, no doubt.

    Some of those are guilty too, but we only see them from Heli shots.

    True.
    Which very nicely proves the point.

    Proves what point? That because there are bikes we can't see we should ignore the ones we can see that interfere with the racing?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Aru certainly isn't riding for Lopez, that's for sure.
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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,560
    Lutsenko for another stage win? Thought about him for PTP and then went for LL... damn it....
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,560
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Aru certainly isn't riding for Lopez, that's for sure.

    Riding like he's got a point to prove. Apparently the team forgot to fit him with appropriate gearing yesterday...
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,560
    Lutsenko and Armee drop Alaphilippe...
  • Bo Duke
    Bo Duke Posts: 1,058
    Where's this killer climb supposed to be?!
    'Performance analysis and Froome not being clean was a media driven story. I haven’t heard one guy in the peloton say a negative thing about Froome, and I haven’t heard a single person in the peloton suggest Froome isn’t clean.' TSP
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Armee victorious.
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  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,474
    dish_dash wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Aru certainly isn't riding for Lopez, that's for sure.

    Riding like he's got a point to prove. Apparently the team forgot to fit him with appropriate gearing yesterday...
    Ooh, that would be unforgiveable on yesterday's climb!
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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    dish_dash wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Aru certainly isn't riding for Lopez, that's for sure.

    Riding like he's got a point to prove. Apparently the team forgot to fit him with appropriate gearing yesterday...

    What? That's scandalous.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    It's a bit testy, this finish.
    Somebody could come a cropper.
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  • norvernrob
    norvernrob Posts: 1,447
    Froome attacks
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,622
    Lopez slipping back as Aru is winning the Astana battle.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Vroom. :lol:
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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,560
    It's a struggle to the finish eh? Aru might be caught
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    booom booom frooome shame for Aru, another lesson being dished out
  • norvernrob
    norvernrob Posts: 1,447
    Nibali dropped
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    GO ON CONTADOR
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,560
    Woods doing well..
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Nibali more carp than shark today
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  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    Now that was an EPIC stage This Vuelta is AWESOME
  • norvernrob
    norvernrob Posts: 1,447
    Nibali loses 35s or so?
  • Bo Duke
    Bo Duke Posts: 1,058
    Nibbles got spanked !
    'Performance analysis and Froome not being clean was a media driven story. I haven’t heard one guy in the peloton say a negative thing about Froome, and I haven’t heard a single person in the peloton suggest Froome isn’t clean.' TSP
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,565
    I make that about 24s down for Nibali....from Froome.
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,474
    That's a very good day for Froome I reckon off the back of yesterday
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