TDF 2019: Stage 9, Saint-Étienne > Brioude 14/07/2019 - 170,5 km *Spoilers*

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    DeadCalm wrote:
    Nice moment with Offredo and Alaphilippe.
    the French have this tour surrounded
    "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: 22,730
    Which is that harder?
    1.9kms at 7.9%,(yesterday) or 3.6kms at 7.2%, (today) cos Michael Hutchinson reckons it isn't hard enough to spark any GC action, even though it tops out at exactly the same distance from the finish and it's all downhill until inside the final km.....
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    DQS decided quite early that the peloton were to have a Bastille Day holiday. Never seen a bunch go so slowly up a climb, it actually gave the guys at the back a problem in places. Rui Costa must be feeling a bit stupid. Should be some fairly fresh GC legs by the end of the stage though so it could get frisky.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Which is that harder?
    1.9kms at 7.9%,(yesterday) or 3.6kms at 7.2%, (today) cos Michael Hutchinson reckons it isn't hard enough to spark any GC action, even though it tops out at exactly the same distance from the finish and it's all downhill until inside the final km.....

    I am not a fan of the hutch. he is ok but not a steller pundit. sort of didn't get it that there may be a gc races even if the big break rolls in.

    pedestrian insights which fall short of the demands of today's more knowledgable followers

    be odd if someone didn't try to clip off and try and get a few seconds
    "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: 18,912
    it's like hutch is stuck in the 1990s
    "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
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    mididoctors wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Which is that harder?
    1.9kms at 7.9%,(yesterday) or 3.6kms at 7.2%, (today) cos Michael Hutchinson reckons it isn't hard enough to spark any GC action, even though it tops out at exactly the same distance from the finish and it's all downhill until inside the final km.....

    I am not a fan of the hutch. he is ok but not a steller pundit. sort of didn't get it that there may be a gc races even if the big break rolls in.

    pedestrian insights which fall short of the demands of today's more knowledgable followers

    be odd if someone didn't try to clip off and try and get a few seconds

    He hasn't really got the experience in top flight road racing to really be a pundit on a day like today. He'd be more in his element on a TT day talking about aerodynamics etc.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Pross wrote:

    He hasn't really got the experience in top flight road racing to really be a pundit on a day like today. He'd be more in his element on a TT day talking about aerodynamics etc.

    is he even that current on TT still?
    "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: 22,730
    Pross wrote:
    mididoctors wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Which is that harder?
    1.9kms at 7.9%,(yesterday) or 3.6kms at 7.2%, (today) cos Michael Hutchinson reckons it isn't hard enough to spark any GC action, even though it tops out at exactly the same distance from the finish and it's all downhill until inside the final km.....

    I am not a fan of the hutch. he is ok but not a steller pundit. sort of didn't get it that there may be a gc races even if the big break rolls in.

    pedestrian insights which fall short of the demands of today's more knowledgable followers

    be odd if someone didn't try to clip off and try and get a few seconds

    He hasn't really got the experience in top flight road racing to really be a pundit on a day like today. He'd be more in his element on a TT day talking about aerodynamics etc.

    Apparently, Rolf Sorensen reckons it's more like a 2nd cat, so I'll go with somebody who would know.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    everyone is talking motos


    Pinot and alaphillipe were the only riders strong enough to crest and take advantage? needs to be minimised but is it just part of the terrain?
    "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: 18,912
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    mididoctors wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Which is that harder?
    1.9kms at 7.9%,(yesterday) or 3.6kms at 7.2%, (today) cos Michael Hutchinson reckons it isn't hard enough to spark any GC action, even though it tops out at exactly the same distance from the finish and it's all downhill until inside the final km.....

    I am not a fan of the hutch. he is ok but not a steller pundit. sort of didn't get it that there may be a gc races even if the big break rolls in.

    pedestrian insights which fall short of the demands of today's more knowledgable followers

    be odd if someone didn't try to clip off and try and get a few seconds

    He hasn't really got the experience in top flight road racing to really be a pundit on a day like today. He'd be more in his element on a TT day talking about aerodynamics etc.

    Apparently, Rolf Sorensen reckons it's more like a 2nd cat, so I'll go with somebody who would know.

    they might just have a day off and let dqs ride it at a high tempo? but it won't be because the climb isn't hard enough.
    "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
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    I go and run some errands and come back to the break with 10 mins.

    Peloton on a pre-rest day rest day.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    so when does this group get split? and who is going to make the split happen?
    "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: 18,912
    Above The Cows wrote:
    I go and run some errands and come back to the break with 10 mins.

    Peloton on a pre-rest day rest day.

    rest day tuesday no?
    "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
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,576
    mididoctors wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    I go and run some errands and come back to the break with 10 mins.

    Peloton on a pre-rest day rest day.

    rest day tuesday no?

    Yes, which is why Above The Cows phrased it as such, they are having a pre-rest day rest day today, i.e. tomorrow is the pre-rest day.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    mididoctors wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    I go and run some errands and come back to the break with 10 mins.

    Peloton on a pre-rest day rest day.

    rest day tuesday no?

    A pre-pre-rest day rest day.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    i 'm confused now
    "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: 22,730
    Riders currently enjoying a Sunday afternoon toodle, but anything could happen at the back end.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Riders currently enjoying a Sunday afternoon toodle, but anything could happen at the back end.

    Just ask Tom Dumoulin.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • twotoebenny
    twotoebenny Posts: 1,542
    I go out the room for a few mins and return to hear Hatch talking about "pulling off a big one" ...
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Ned, it is not a surprise EBH is swinging.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Tony Martin is not going to win the stage, Ned
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited July 2019
    Postlberger sneaks off the front away from the cameras and without much effort made a 20s gap on the descent and has grown it to 45s.
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  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,066
    Has the Ragga Tip missile been launched yet? ;)
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  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Tony Martin is not going to win the stage, Ned

    not beginning to go all Kirby on us is he ? Ned got terribly excited when Simon Yates dropped off the main group of riders the other day and Millar had to remind him thats what we are expecting from him at this stage of the race
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    mididoctors wrote:
    Pross wrote:

    He hasn't really got the experience in top flight road racing to really be a pundit on a day like today. He'd be more in his element on a TT day talking about aerodynamics etc.

    is he even that current on TT still?
    He knows his onions for TT stuff I think. He's still riding, and writing in the area, and he's smart enough to stay on top of technical changes and stuff.

    You'd think they might be able to get someone more recent pro experience - but the race is 3 weeks and I've enjoyed the variety going through the ITV studio, you can't expect to like all of them I guess.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Group has split with the obvious riders at the front.

    Roche makes a move and Stuyven gets there with consummate ease.

    Postlberger caught and dropped
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Stuyven falls back and Benoot and Roche go away together.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    I said yesterday's stage was one that I would have been picking Roche or EBH for a few years ago. Looks like they still enjoy these medium mountain days though EBH's climbing legs have deserted him.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited July 2019
    Benoot riding an Ullrich sized gear

    Impey bridges
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    Impey looking very strong and tactically astute.

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