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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Not sure how unpopular but I still maintain they should remove the distance limit on GTs and make a good third to half of all stages over 250km, including a bunch of mountain stages.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,031
    rick_chasey said:

    Not sure how unpopular but I still maintain they should remove the distance limit on GTs and make a good third to half of all stages over 250km, including a bunch of mountain stages.

    And not bother with those ridiculous short stages. I think there should be a minimum stage length.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    I don't mind a short stage, but only if there are still long stages too. Short explosive stages after long stages seems to produce interesting results. But I agree if the whole race was short stages, that would be dumb.

    I agree with Rick's suggestion...
  • FreddieVonRost
    FreddieVonRost Posts: 261
    mididoctors said:

    Pross said:

    Matching shorts and bikes with leader's jerseys is a really good look, especially the Tour polka dots.

    That's beyond trolling
    Living dangerously, midi.
    Not a Giro Hero!
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    AG2R have the best looking kit in the peloton.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Dorset_Boy said:

    Cycling is a team sport. The team competition is therefore the most important competition at any Grand Tour.

    You are Eusebio Unzue and I claim my five pounds.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    DeadCalm said:

    AG2R have the best looking kit in the peloton.

    I thought this was ridiculous, but actually there's only two that might be better. There's a lot of pretty bad kits out there this year.
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    kingstongraham said:

    DeadCalm said:

    AG2R have the best looking kit in the peloton.

    I thought this was ridiculous, but actually there's only two that might be better. There's a lot of pretty bad kits out there this year.
    Interesting. Which do you consider to be better?
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    DeadCalm said:

    kingstongraham said:

    DeadCalm said:

    AG2R have the best looking kit in the peloton.

    I thought this was ridiculous, but actually there's only two that might be better. There's a lot of pretty bad kits out there this year.
    Interesting. Which do you consider to be better?
    Movistar and Trek Segafredo.

    Close run thing for worst, but Cofidis.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    I like EF's kit
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Drives me nuts the Samsic jersey looks almost identical to the ineos jersey from the heli.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,731
    rick_chasey said:

    Drives me nuts Nairo Quintana's jersey looks almost identical to the ineos jersey from the heli.

    Fixed that for you.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    It is annoying right?

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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    rick_chasey said:

    It is annoying right?


    Whoever is lower in the team competition should be made to wear bibs
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,488
    To tie into the Barolo discussion elsewhere,

    dessert wine is better than regular wine. There I said it! :p
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    m.r.m. said:

    To tie into the Barolo discussion elsewhere,

    dessert wine is better than regular wine. There I said it! :p


    In the same way as Mersey Trout is better than regular Trout
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • twotoebenny
    twotoebenny Posts: 1,542
    m.r.m. said:

    To tie into the Barolo discussion elsewhere,

    dessert wine is better than regular wine. There I said it! :p

    I'm particularly fond of dessert wines
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    I like a Muscat every now and again.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,731
    I think Froome will be riding the Tour, but purely as a domestique.
    I believe his real goal is to go for another Vuelta title.
    I also think that despite it being the most mountainous tour in decades, it will also turn out to be the most boring.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    edited August 2020
    blazing_saddles said:

    I think Froome will be riding the Tour, but purely as a domestique.


    Here's an idea. He rides into form to do the Third Week Wout role, and then just keeps on going into a soft Giro, maybe via a suitable Worlds.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Worlds are cancelled but if you fancy
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    rick_chasey said:

    Worlds are cancelled but if you fancy


    I know, but aren't they trying to find an alternative venue? In the old clinche of 'We'll do the show right here'
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    I'll come up with another left field prediction. No-one from Ineos or Jumbo will win the Tour. Only one will be on the podium. This is not really the right thread for this.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,488
    edited August 2020
    RichN95. said:

    I'll come up with another left field prediction. No-one from Ineos or Jumbo will win the Tour. Only one will be on the podium. This is not really the right thread for this.

    This is juicy... keep going...
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,731
    RichN95. said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    I think Froome will be riding the Tour, but purely as a domestique.


    Here's an idea. He rides into form to do the Third Week Wout role, and then just keeps on going into a soft Giro, maybe via a suitable Worlds.
    You are right, it is an idea.
    I think it's the one Jumbo have in mind for Dumoulin, minus the soft bit.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,031
    Prologues are a good way to start a GT.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Not unpopular with me!
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,620
    Having a dominant team makes the tour more interesting
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    The Move is the best English language Tour de France podcast
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,613
    The best Tour stages in recent years have been flat 'sprinters' stages where there has been a cross wind and the organisers should have fewer mountain stages to concentrate on riding around the coastal areas.

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