Re: S*** small race thread 2019

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  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    mididoctors wrote:
    ShutupJens wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Ineos for the 2022 Tour could be: Bernal, Sosa, Sivakov, TGH, Moscon, Kwiatkowski, Narvaez, Halversen, Current average age: 23

    Good luck the rest of cycling.

    That's an absurd line up. In the best way. Fair play to them, these young lads are showing they've got something about them. Good race that, Nibali's form seems to bode well for the giro as you know he's going to turn up to race

    You need to come good in the third to win the giro

    I didn't say he was going to win - seeing him looking like he wants to take races on is good for the race in general though no? The race needs people who want to turn up and take risks
  • Wayne Plunger
    Wayne Plunger Posts: 444
    Good race for Androni, two stage wins and two high up the GC.
  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,473
    RichN95 wrote:
    Ineos for the 2022 Tour could be: Bernal, Sosa, Sivakov, TGH, Moscon, Kwiatkowski, Narvaez, Halversen, Current average age: 23

    Good luck the rest of cycling.
    Possibly Filippo Ganna for Halvorsen or Narvaez maybe too.
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    ShutupJens wrote:
    mididoctors wrote:
    ShutupJens wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Ineos for the 2022 Tour could be: Bernal, Sosa, Sivakov, TGH, Moscon, Kwiatkowski, Narvaez, Halversen, Current average age: 23

    Good luck the rest of cycling.

    That's an absurd line up. In the best way. Fair play to them, these young lads are showing they've got something about them. Good race that, Nibali's form seems to bode well for the giro as you know he's going to turn up to race

    You need to come good in the third to win the giro

    I didn't say he was going to win - seeing him looking like he wants to take races on is good for the race in general though no? The race needs people who want to turn up and take risks
    who knows? Maybe he will win.
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    RichN95 wrote:
    Ineos for the 2022 Tour could be: Bernal, Sosa, Sivakov, TGH, Moscon, Kwiatkowski, Narvaez, Halversen, Current average age: 23

    Good luck the rest of cycling.

    Those 5 are already heading for this Giro...

    Somewhere along the line, they'll need to sign Pogačar.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    Real life is intruding on my cycling viewing so it's a somewhat belated fist pump for my man Sivakov.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    You can set your calendar by this race. Formally the Henniger Turm, now the Frankfurt loop thingy, but always raced on May 1st.

    Eschborn-Frankfurt-2019-profile-4f87cd4df6.jpg

    Just like Yorkshire, live from gun to tape, starting at 11pm, here:

    https://www.hessenschau.de/sport/mehr-s ... r-100.html

    Also there are 90 minutes highlights on Eurosport, after Romandie, at 4-30pm.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Kittel pulls out of ToC
    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.
  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,473
    He is finished. :?
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    M.R.M. wrote:
    He is finished. :?

    Hair today, gone tomorrow.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,557
    Wonder if Kittel has something like Epstein Barr?
  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,473
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    M.R.M. wrote:
    He is finished. :?

    Hair today, gone tomorrow.
    Chapeau! :wink:
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Dorset Boy wrote:
    Wonder if Kittel has something like Epstein Barr?
    Wine Bar and Mars Bar more like
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    RichN95 wrote:
    Dorset Boy wrote:
    Wonder if Kittel has something like Epstein Barr?
    Wine Bar and Mars Bar more like
    Bet you feel mean now....hope you finds happiness outside the sport or comes back in better shape mentally.
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  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,784
    Sagan wins Stage One of TOC.
    2020/2021/2022 Metric Century Challenge Winner
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    CarbonClem wrote:
    Sagan wins Stage One of TOC.
    S*** small race specialists

    Peter Sagan: 16 stage wins at Tour of California
    Andre Greipel: 18 stage wins at Tour Down Under
    Tom Boonen: 21 stage wins at Tour of Qatar
    Andrea Guardini: 24 stage wins at Tour of Langkawi
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Tracker doesn't have live video anymore.. I miss us advertising.
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    mididoctors wrote:
    Tracker doesn't have live video anymore.. I miss us advertising.

    This stage is starting to make today's Giro stage look like a crit. 29.9kph average over 4 hours in.

    Les 4 Jours de Dunkerque starts tomorrow, meaning Eurosport will be covering 3 stage races each day this week.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    It's grind up to altitude on this stage to lake Tahoe. Total grovel. Mass training effort
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Basically a lumpy plateau 2000m up
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Decent racing at the TOC
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    Pogačar. Another impressive performance from the 20 year old. Is he the most likely rival to Bernal as the 'next big thing' in GTs?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Mt Hamilton is quite the descent
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,332
    Anyone who viewed Rasmussen's time trialling as one of the all time great cycling moments ought to check out Cavagna's descending today in the Tour of Cali as another minor classic in the same genre. I don't know if the road surface had freaked him out or if he thought an apex was something cryptozoological, but it certainly didn't look comfortable - especially when he ran u the dirt wall berm at the side like a filthy mountain biker...

    Looking good for the stage win though, bafflingly.
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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Konychev junior gets a second in Limpopo

    I could rap that but can't get a second line
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    SpecialGuestStar wrote:
    Konychev junior gets a second in Limpopo

    I could rap that but can't get a second line
    konyshev....the greatest contract blagger ever


    TJV is looking slim at the TOC
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,332
    Today's highlight of the Tour of California: Lawson Craddock trying desperately to tempt someone to take a banana off his hands.
    Twitter: @canocola @thedreadships
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    TJV concussed and confused after crash dangerous as ffff
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Scary finale at TOC. TJV crashing and looked half conscious on bike.
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Some sketchy roads in the finale. Some of them were as little as 10 metres wide. That's just too narrow for US riders.
    Twitter: @RichN95

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