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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    82 kms to go and Pinot is having another crack.
    In a group of 15 that have 50 seconds as they arrive at the foot of the Bannberg.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    Really weak coverage. 2 minutes of the break failing to form, then live coverage with 43km to go.

    Horrible weather.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    The problem with climbing the easier side of the Bannberg is they next have to descend the steep side in the wet.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Squeaky bum time as Pinot lets de La Cruz ride away….
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Weather is pretty appalling . Don't think anyone wants to risk it
    "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
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,620
    bm5 said:

    Hopefully Bardet will make this interesting today.

    Bardet only does anything on his training roads. Its a myth that he's exciting.
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    This road is horrible, all those joints that seemed designed specifically to catch a bike wheel. Pinot going for it but can't get a gap.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Can't shake him
    "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: 28,227
    Come on peanut! This time!
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Got him ...needs a big gap thou
    "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
  • feelgoodlost
    feelgoodlost Posts: 342
    Come on!
    https://www.strava.com/athletes/442763
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Has a decent gap now but looks out on his feet.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    Bastard of a climb this one. Very nicely placed.
  • feelgoodlost
    feelgoodlost Posts: 342
    He'll be caught on the descent, I think.
    https://www.strava.com/athletes/442763
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Looks tougher than the profile was suggesting, absolutely vicious.

    For some reason I didn't realise Porte was still at Ineos.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    I think Porte has forgotten he rides for Ineos too.
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,620
    Pross said:

    I think Porte has forgotten he rides for Ineos too.

    What's he doing? Why has he gone back? 😖

    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • feelgoodlost
    feelgoodlost Posts: 342
    Yessss lad!
    https://www.strava.com/athletes/442763
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Good finish by pinot
    "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
  • 50x11
    50x11 Posts: 408
    Pinot wins!
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    You little beauty
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Only one winner there.
    Pinot has a kick, de La Cruz doesn’t
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Hatch has graduated from announcing everything in duplicate to doing it in triplicate.

    Nice win for Pinot, not sure why de la Cruz left it for an uphill sprint but probably had nothing left.
  • 50x11
    50x11 Posts: 408
    Pross said:

    I think Porte has forgotten he rides for Ineos too.

    Was real post Froome Classic Ineos today, Porte drove it, dropped his team mates then didn't follow attack.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    Now if Bardet can take the GC, it's like stepping into a french time machine
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    It’s become a podium battle between these 3
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    DSM actually win something
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    In praise of the TV coverage - if that stage had been in the Giro d'Italia, we'd have seen nothing until the finishing line.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Well what to you know
    "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: 10,575
    gsk82 said:

    bm5 said:

    Hopefully Bardet will make this interesting today.

    Bardet only does anything on his training roads. Its a myth that he's exciting.
    This aged well.

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