Foome and Thomas non Tour selection

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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Oh well, they can buy a vintage Triumph and look super fly instead...

    https://www.teamineos.com/article/belstaff-announces-partnership-with-ineos-grenadiers

    Guess Barbour went a different direction
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,149
    ddraver said:

    Oh well, they can buy a vintage Triumph and look super fly instead...

    https://www.teamineos.com/article/belstaff-announces-partnership-with-ineos-grenadiers

    Guess Barbour went a different direction

    That is odd.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    ddraver said:

    Oh well, they can buy a vintage Triumph and look super fly instead...

    https://www.teamineos.com/article/belstaff-announces-partnership-with-ineos-grenadiers

    Guess Barbour went a different direction



    I don't know the brand. By your comment is it a bit 'classic Top Gear'?
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Hey! Belstaff Made a product for a cyclist once you know!!! 😋

    (I must confess that my teasing is little more than rank jealousy, rather liking, as I do, the idea of a wax cotton jacket and a Triumph 😶
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  • zest28
    zest28 Posts: 403
    I have been taking a deeper look at the 2020 Tour De France and it looks like the 2020 Tour de france will be the tour of the climbers. You will not benefit much for being good in the time trails (which is Bernal his biggest weakness, so he is a lucky boy).

    So there is no point for bringing all-round GC riders like Froome and Thomas (even if they are in shape), you need climbers. So Bernal is indeed the best for this job (even if Froome and Thomas were in shape).

    You really have to hate Team Ineos / Sky. If the Tour De France this year will be Tour De Climbers, then we just replace our GC riders with the best climbers in the world (Carapez is pretty good too). Team Ineos is the team with the deepest of pockets really.

    Jumbo-Visma has some strong climbers and Roglic looks unbeatable at this moment, but Ineos does not look so bad with Bernal and Carapez if it is all about climbing this year.

    Nobody seems to be talking about Quintana this year. I know he is old and past his peak, but given that this year edition is where pure climbers will shine, he can get some good results (top 5 finish maybe?)
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    zest28 said:



    Nobody seems to be talking about Quintana this year. I know he is old and past his peak, but given that this year edition is where pure climbers will shine, he can get some good results (top 5 finish maybe?)


    A quick reminder here that Nairo Quintana is younger than Primoz Roglic
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  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,056
    It's a shame that sport is dominated by business and money, because for the sporting spectacle, it would be far more intresting to annually (or perhaps even more frequently) "draft" riders into teams. Consequently, in theory, the top riders would be spread throughout the teams and increase the odds of more top name riders duking it out.

    But sadly, money usually buys sporting success.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436
    edited August 2020
    Pross said:

    Is Dunbar scheduled for any of the GT squads? He seems a bit of a forgotten entity on the Ineos squad but I could see him doing well at the Vuelta given a chance.

    They can't tell him he's on the team too early in case he attacks.

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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,599
    zest28 said:


    You really have to hate Team Ineos / Sky. If the Tour De France this year will be Tour De Climbers, then we just replace our GC riders with the best climbers in the world (Carapez is pretty good too). Team Ineos is the team with the deepest of pockets really.

    Chris froome has been the best climber in the world over the past 10 years. Thomas was also the best climber in the tour when he won it in 2018.
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  • flasher
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    ddraver said:

    Oh well, they can buy a vintage Triumph and look super fly instead...

    https://www.teamineos.com/article/belstaff-announces-partnership-with-ineos-grenadiers

    Guess Barbour went a different direction

    Belstaff is owned by Ineos.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belstaff
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited August 2020
    ddraver said:

    Hey! Belstaff Made a product for a cyclist once you know!!! 😋

    (I must confess that my teasing is little more than rank jealousy, rather liking, as I do, the idea of a wax cotton jacket and a Triumph 😶

    This photo.


    They've got him to sit down because his trousers are too big/long and those shoes look so loose they'll fall off the second he walks off.

    Bigger picture here: https://www.teamineos.com/article/belstaff-announces-partnership-with-ineos-grenadiers
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,149




    They were ahead of their time with TT helmets.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    flasher said:

    ddraver said:

    Oh well, they can buy a vintage Triumph and look super fly instead...

    https://www.teamineos.com/article/belstaff-announces-partnership-with-ineos-grenadiers

    Guess Barbour went a different direction

    Belstaff is owned by Ineos.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belstaff
    Ahhhh, I did t know that...

    It must be said that as much as Egan and Richard seem like lovely boys, the marketing for Belstaff and Grenadier probably wasn't supposed to look like this...

    Oh Si Si, I love the grenadeeer, is a seeembol of Breetish Country.... 😋
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,149
    Yeah, I mean not to have sports personality of the year Thomas along for the Tour, very odd decision for me. I know winning is important, but so is a name the general
    British public recognise. The UK must be a key market for the Grenadier.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,320
    focuszing723 said:

    Yeah, I mean not to have sports personality of the year Thomas along for the Tour, very odd decision for me. I know winning is important, but so is a name the general
    British public recognise. The UK must be a key market for the Grenadier.

    Current evidence would point to the opposite.
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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    This continual discovery of the extent of the Ineos empire is quite entertaining.

    In the same vein as Patrick Vieira congratulating surDave for his decisions.

    https://twitter.com/ogcnice_eng/status/1296113816758030336
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    edited August 2020
    Makes me think AOC may have a point about billionaires... ;)
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    dish_dash said:

    This continual discovery of the extent of the Ineos empire is quite entertaining.

    In the same vein as Patrick Vieira congratulating surDave for his decisions.

    https://twitter.com/ogcnice_eng/status/1296113816758030336


    Have Lewis Hamilton or Ben Ainslie commented yet?
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    (Lewis Hamilton would look good in Belstaff...)
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  • dabber
    dabber Posts: 1,978
    It will be quite nice to watch it without really caring who wins for a change.
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  • Pross
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    RichN95. said:

    zest28 said:



    Nobody seems to be talking about Quintana this year. I know he is old and past his peak, but given that this year edition is where pure climbers will shine, he can get some good results (top 5 finish maybe?)


    A quick reminder here that Nairo Quintana is younger than Primoz Roglic
    And that was probably one of the less stupid observations in their post.
  • davidof
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    brundonbianchi said:

    His mind is with Israel Start-Up Nation, so that’s that as far as Intravenous and Froome are concerned.

    Judging by the Tirrano maybe he should have joined UK firesale nation !
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