La Vuelta 2019: Salinas de Torrevieja > Torrevieja 24/08/2019 - 13,4 km TTT *Spoilers*

davieb78

UAE down on the same corner.

https://twitter.com/fabioaru1/status/11 ... 05091?s=21

ddraver

#ClassicVueltaBantz

blazing_saddles

twotoebenny

Ooft, good luck sleeping with that

Pross

Just in case anyone was hoping to find the results in the spoiler thread

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/vuelta-a-espana/2019/stage-1

awavey

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Above The Cows wrote:

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Euskadi car crashes!


https://twitter.com/renaudb31/status/11 ... 3796583424

Was that during the race or the recce?

The recce, given the posting time.
Shiite driving though.

Yep it was during the recce, but it must have broken an oil line or something as it dumped alot of oil/fluid on that corner as a result and led to frantic cement dust application and sweeping to get it cleaned up in time. I've said before on cases like that where a driver of any course vehicle 'crashes', they should be kicked off the race/barred from team driving responsibility for a period of time

Lanterne_Rogue

Just watched the ITV4 highlights with the benefit of a load of beer and the course doesn't look sensible even in my addled state. Will try more beer and watch +1 and see if it looks any more sane...

(Spoiler: No)

PS: Because old habits die hard, Troia, 5 minutes lost on a 15 minute stage. That's quite... something.

Alejandrosdog

awavey wrote:

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Above The Cows wrote:

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Euskadi car crashes!


https://twitter.com/renaudb31/status/11 ... 3796583424

Was that during the race or the recce?

The recce, given the posting time.
Shiite driving though.

Yep it was during the recce, but it must have broken an oil line or something as it dumped alot of oil/fluid on that corner as a result and led to frantic cement dust application and sweeping to get it cleaned up in time. I've said before on cases like that where a driver of any course vehicle 'crashes', they should be kicked off the race/barred from team driving responsibility for a period of time

He’s written his car off and the bikes on the roof, Everyone makes mistakes but that was appalling judgement. Agree get him away from the race

Alejandrosdog

I thought that was a good opening ttt, enough drama to stir it all up and nobody seriously injured.

cq20

I don't really like these short "for show" TTTs, albeit some large and unexpected time gaps materialised but at least it is underway now.

The Eurosport post race coverage was disappointing. Neither Wiggins nor Smith seemed to have seen the volume of water on the course and were attributing it to someone in the crowd dropping a drinks bottle. If they are paid to analyse the race they should pay more attention. With that out of the way, I'm hoping that it gets back to the high (IMO) standard set during the TdF coverage.

above_the_cows

The water on the road was caused by a burst kiddies paddling pool thing 500m up the hill.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2298843-ploegleider-engels-achterhaalt-oorzaak-valpartij-kinderzwembad-is-stukgegaan.html?fbclid=IwAR0G6s74k-ocFfCDAv0s3LW457mx5Gfpc_4e_e6OsVeazjTGgaagII_5_zs

TheBigBean

Above The Cows wrote:

The water on the road was caused by a burst kiddies paddling pool thing 500m up the hill.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2298843-ploegleider-engels-achterhaalt-oorzaak-valpartij-kinderzwembad-is-stukgegaan.html?fbclid=IwAR0G6s74k-ocFfCDAv0s3LW457mx5Gfpc_4e_e6OsVeazjTGgaagII_5_zs

That was an important point of clarification on ITV highlights of stage 2. Previously they had suggested it was a stray hosepipe.

RideOnTime

All that salt made me weary, or may be it's because it's not on until 10.00 pm! :roll: Note to self also, that the ads still occassionally refer to TdF....

larkim

Just as an aside, if treaded tyres on bikes are unnecessary to deal with wet surfaces, why do TT bikes fall over when a race surface gets a bit of a paddling pool spilled on it?

dish_dash

larkim wrote:

Just as an aside, if treaded tyres on bikes are unnecessary to deal with wet surfaces, why do TT bikes fall over when a race surface gets a bit of a paddling pool spilled on it?

Think it was partly due to riders heading full pelt into a corner and not anticipating a small stream running across the road as well as the slipperiness of hot weather roads when they get wet... plus in a TTT it just takes the guy on the front to wobble and the whole train ploughs into the back of them.