Tour build up 2019

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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    thegreatdivide wrote:
    Yates A and S for the Tour.

    That's a bit surprising. No Vuelta defence for Simon then.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,860
    All in from MST nice.
    "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: 16,860
    thegreatdivide wrote:

    Bardet was riding the Galibier on Sunday practicing the descent. He never managed to catch me in the last km from the top, but to be fair to him, he’d been up one side, down the other and was on the home leg by the time I’d neared the top :lol:

    The man is skin and bones!!!

    Lotto Jumbo were also out on a recon.

    Tanned whippets
    "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
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,803
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    thegreatdivide wrote:
    Yates A and S for the Tour.

    That's a bit surprising. No Vuelta defence for Simon then.

    Yorkshire Worlds I reckon.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Anyone going to be up the Galibier on stage 18?

    I can't decide if I ride up there to watch proceedings go by or stay close to home (and a loo) and watch them come up the silly hill in Briançon.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Thomas and Bernal joint leaders according to Sky
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Thomas and Bernal joint leaders according to Sky
    Yer like Froome and Thomas last year.....
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Thomas and Bernal joint leaders according to Sky
    Yer like Froome and Thomas last year.....
    Did they announce them as joint leaders before the tour? I dont think they did?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Thomas and Bernal joint leaders according to Sky
    Yer like Froome and Thomas last year.....
    I think that they think that Bernal is their man this year.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,786
    Swift and Stannard looking strong but no Tour fir them. Dowsett also though he faded in the RR. Should get more chance to shine this year.
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  • twotoebenny
    twotoebenny Posts: 1,436
    Pierre Latour not riding Tour
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    Thomas has made a beer with Brains brewery, called G :)https://www.sabrain.com/our-story/news/2019/brains-launch-new-beer-with-geraint-thomas/

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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,091
    awavey wrote:
    Thomas has made a beer with Brains brewery, called G :)https://www.sabrain.com/our-story/news/2019/brains-launch-new-beer-with-geraint-thomas/

    Goes down a little too easily?
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,091
    Meanwhile, good to see Alaphilippe taking some time out from his lucrative gurning career to start an official Twitter account...

    https://twitter.com/alafpolak1/status/1 ... 5981003776

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  • josame
    josame Posts: 1,141
    Is it conceivable that Cav will not be picked by DD?
    'Do not compare your bike to others, for always there will be greater and lesser bikes'
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,091
    josame wrote:
    Is it conceivable that Cav will not be picked by DD?

    I think so. He's not shown any signs of being up at the sharp end of sprints this year as far as I can recall, even allowing for his habit of sitting up if he thinks he doesn't have a chance. Someone will be along to correct me shortly though - I'm usually as accurate as Kirby...
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    josame wrote:
    Is it conceivable that Cav will not be picked by DD?
    The only thing that might save him is the lack of anyone else to get behind. At worst he's still a genuine 'Hall of Fame' rider so worth some publicity.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    Are we nearly there yet?
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,112
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    awavey wrote:
    Thomas has made a beer with Brains brewery, called G :)https://www.sabrain.com/our-story/news/2019/brains-launch-new-beer-with-geraint-thomas/

    Goes down a little too easily?

    Hat!
  • poweredbyidris
    poweredbyidris Posts: 848
    DD have just announced their line-up.... and no Cav
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,707
    No Cav, but Valverde, as regular as clockwork, on the eve of the Tour...."My weight is 58 kilos, I've never been so skinny. I've gained a kilo since the Route de Sud, but I'm not going for GC. I will help Nairo and Landa."

    Sure, mate.
    _
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    No Cav, but Valverde, as regular as clockwork, on the eve of the Tour...."My weight is 58 kilos, I've never been so skinny. I've gained a kilo since the Route de Sud, but I'm not going for GC. I will help Nairo and Landa."

    Sure, mate.

    Quite right. When all the GC guys except for Valverde fall on the cobbles he'll win it easily :lol:
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,712
    Alejandrosdog wrote:
    hands down an ineos win barring more crash catastrophes
    I am still going out on a limb and saying no Ineos rider will win the race.
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  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,602
    PoweredByIdris wrote:
    DD have just announced their line-up.... and no Cav

    Cummings in though.
    2020/2021/2022 Metric Century Challenge Winner
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,091
    Breaking news: "Is Cav finished?" meme to miss 2019 tour.

    The world of cycling was rocked this morning when it emerged that the perennial question of whether Mark Cavendish was finished has, in fact, finished. Fans had previously speculated that "Is Cav finished?" could have set an all time record for Tour wins but it now appears to be unlikely to overtake "Is Armstrong taking the p!ss or what?"

    Dimension Data have requested that "Is Cav finished?" be given privacy at a difficult time.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,941
    It's 3 years since Mark Cavendish won a race outside of the Middle East
    It's a year and five months since he won a race anywhere
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • bm5
    bm5 Posts: 530
    andyp wrote:
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    awavey wrote:
    Thomas has made a beer with Brains brewery, called G :)https://www.sabrain.com/our-story/news/2019/brains-launch-new-beer-with-geraint-thomas/

    Goes down a little too easily?

    Hat!
    :D
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    Is Cav finished?
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  • bm5
    bm5 Posts: 530
    PoweredByIdris wrote:
    DD have just announced their line-up.... and no Cav
    Sad to hear this personally.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,091
    More sensibly, I think the writing has been on the wall for a while. I think Cavendish has always suffered a little bit from not being as good as he was - he's always felt in decline despite having stayed at the top for a phenomenal length of time and it colours the way he's seen. Just that one tour where he came back to get four victories would seal a career for many sprinters.
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