S*** Small Races Thread - 2021

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Screws up the Scarponi memorial win.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    Bilbo Baggins descending like a demon to catch Yates and Vlasov then beat them in the sprint.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    Pross said:

    Bilbo Baggins descending like a demon to catch Yates and Vlasov then beat them in the sprint.

    I was going to ask "what's in its pocketsesss?", but of course that's Remco, right?

    Amazing descending though - when commentators resort to just making noises you know someone's pushing it hard.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Pello Bilbao sets a new high in the Zubeldia award.
    They can’t even find him on the GC. :D
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    Been good racing, this.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,718
    edited April 2021
    Bilb-wow!

    (What a road to descend too...)
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Besides Sivakov who crashed yesterday, the big losers on GC were today's crash casualties, Jai Hindley and Dan Martin.
    They gave up 2'-19" and 2-53" respectively and are both now outside the top 10.
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,270
    Just watched on the catch up. Good race. Found myself clenching at times on that final descent. Love that terrain.
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,183
    Did Dan Martin lose his bottle after his trip to the lay-by? Lost a lot of time in a few km.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Mad_Malx said:

    Did Dan Martin lose his bottle after his trip to the lay-by? Lost a lot of time in a few km.

    Yup.
    He had a second taste of Trentino tarmac.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    edited April 2021
    Those climbers battling it out was old skool .
    "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
  • womack
    womack Posts: 566
    mididoctors said:

    Those climbers battling it out was old skool .

    Don't know if anyone noticed (the commentators didn't) but at one point one of the Bardiani riders actually turned full circle to go back down to collect a struggling team mate.
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,183
    womack said:

    mididoctors said:

    Those climbers battling it out was old skool .

    Don't know if anyone noticed (the commentators didn't) but at one point one of the Bardiani riders actually turned full circle to go back down to collect a struggling team mate.
    Is that legal?
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    Mad_Malx said:

    womack said:

    mididoctors said:

    Those climbers battling it out was old skool .

    Don't know if anyone noticed (the commentators didn't) but at one point one of the Bardiani riders actually turned full circle to go back down to collect a struggling team mate.
    Is that legal?
    Don't think so
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953
    womack said:

    mididoctors said:

    Those climbers battling it out was old skool .

    Don't know if anyone noticed (the commentators didn't) but at one point one of the Bardiani riders actually turned full circle to go back down to collect a struggling team mate.
    Yeah I noticed that. He was in the main group as well. Never seen that happen before.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Today's stage is another of those short, punchy stages that are flavour of the month.





    The final climb isn't as hard as yesterday, but more regular. They do it twice on the finishing circuits.




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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    Just realised I've ridden some of this. Ballino is a pain in the arse for us mortals, but should nothing much to them. Three ramps with flat in between that just gets annoying.

    The descent from there to Garda down the road they're using is stunning. Should be a good finish, especially if Bilbao does the same again.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    Putting this here as I can't think of anywhere else it would go (we don't have a thread marked "alarming and baffling production decisions"), but mostly because I've heard this and think everyone else needs to suffer too.

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    This stage is just going to depress me and remind me of the holiday I didn't get to go on last summer.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    Lanterne_Rogue said:

    Putting this here as I can't think of anywhere else it would go (we don't have a thread marked "alarming and baffling production decisions"), but mostly because I've heard this and think everyone else needs to suffer too.

    Well Bilbao won yesterday, so fair enough.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    kingstongraham said:

    Just realised I've ridden some of this. Ballino is a pain in the censored for us mortals, but should nothing much to them. Three ramps with flat in between that just gets annoying.

    The descent from there to Garda down the road they're using is stunning. Should be a good finish, especially if Bilbao does the same again.

    Certainly should be an entertaining finish given where they have put it! :#
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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,127
    super bike handling from Gianluca... new shorts for his next race I think
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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,183
    AG2R brown shorts joke from Lloyd.
    After that it was very dull.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Mad_Malx said:

    womack said:

    mididoctors said:

    Those climbers battling it out was old skool .

    Don't know if anyone noticed (the commentators didn't) but at one point one of the Bardiani riders actually turned full circle to go back down to collect a struggling team mate.
    Is that legal?
    No . You can wait but not go back
    "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
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    edited April 2021
    Mad_Malx said:

    AG2R brown shorts joke from Lloyd.
    After that it was very dull.

    Ah, was pretty but not interesting.

    Except that weird crash that brought down most of the tiny peloton going uphill.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    The Tour of Romandie starts tomorrow. Ineos talking a strong team, but they are the exception, rather than the norm.
    GC contenders seem thin on the ground, but time trialists in abundance, as the race follows the usual formula of having both a prologue and an individual time trial stage.
    However, this year the route does seem tougher, with some short, but steep climbs. It also includes a really difficult Queen stage with a monster mountain finish.

    Prologue.


    Stage 1.


    Stage 2.



    Stage 3.


    Stage 4.





    Stage 5.


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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575
    Noteworthy that Superman Lopez will make his debut for Movistar at Romandie. Will be bring tactical nous to them?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,504
    edited April 2021
    Noteworthy that on stage 2, there's another bloody circuit.
    Seems to be as catching as C19.

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Thyon 2000. Ridiculous name, ridiculous climb.
    _
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,718
    far from a beautiful place either...

    Very un-swiss ski resort.
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