S*** Small Races 2023

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,791
    4.3 k to go .... 2 left
    "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: 27,760
    Are you watching with a delay? 2.6km to go - three left.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,325
    mididoctors said:

    mrb123 said:

    Mount Babadag - sounds a bit Tolkienesque

    One does not simply ride up Babadag

    Looking at the odd team car pulling up at the side of the road, broken, one does not simply drive up it either.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 27,760
    It's a right stinker this climb.

    Lutsenko "attacks" in the last km.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,791
    Game of thrones set energy at the top
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,791
    Oufffff
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,791
    edited October 2023
    Lutsenko... slayer of babadag
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,791
    Well that was ridiculous
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,791
    Insane looking mountain road
    "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
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,325
    Bear in mind that most really, really steep climbs don't look that bad on TV. It tends to flatten them.

    Then look at this.


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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,791
    kingstongraham said:

    Are you watching with a delay? 2.6km to go - three left.

    Casting from phone to TV...always messes it up

    "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: 27,760
    I did enjoy Brian Smith confidently telling Carlton Kirby that he was wrong and that Vine was actually going really well right up to the second he got dropped. Eventually rolled in 12 minutes down.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,158
    Does this mean we can expect Lutsenko to get a doping ban soon as it feels that is what normally happens to riders who win the big mountain stage in Turkey.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,704
    I have just watched that.
    Totally bananas climb.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    edited October 2023
    Cav made it up within the time limit btw

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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,398
    TheBigBean said:

    Has the Gravel World Championship been discussed somewhere? Valverde managed 4th and beat WvA.




    Results
    1 Mohoric Matej Bahrain Victorious 04:53:56
    2 Vermeersch Florian Lotto Dstny + 43
    3 Swift Connor INEOS Grenadiers + 03:40
    4 Valverde Alejandro + 06:48
    5 Swenson Keegan + 06:48
    6 Hermans Quinten Alpecin-Deceuninck + 07:24
    7 Velasco Simone Astana Qazaqstan Team + 07:52
    8 van Aert Wout Jumbo-Visma + 08:24
    9 De Marchi Alessandro Team Jayco-AlUla + 09:08
    10 Schönberger Sebastian Human Powered Health

    Keegan Swenson up there with the WT boys is good to see.
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,382
    bobmcstuff said:

    TheBigBean said:

    Has the Gravel World Championship been discussed somewhere? Valverde managed 4th and beat WvA.




    Results
    1 Mohoric Matej Bahrain Victorious 04:53:56
    2 Vermeersch Florian Lotto Dstny + 43
    3 Swift Connor INEOS Grenadiers + 03:40
    4 Valverde Alejandro + 06:48
    5 Swenson Keegan + 06:48
    6 Hermans Quinten Alpecin-Deceuninck + 07:24
    7 Velasco Simone Astana Qazaqstan Team + 07:52
    8 van Aert Wout Jumbo-Visma + 08:24
    9 De Marchi Alessandro Team Jayco-AlUla + 09:08
    10 Schönberger Sebastian Human Powered Health

    Keegan Swenson up there with the WT boys is good to see.
    He was beaten by a 40-45 year age grouper though
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,398
    edited October 2023
    r0bh said:

    bobmcstuff said:

    TheBigBean said:

    Has the Gravel World Championship been discussed somewhere? Valverde managed 4th and beat WvA.




    Results
    1 Mohoric Matej Bahrain Victorious 04:53:56
    2 Vermeersch Florian Lotto Dstny + 43
    3 Swift Connor INEOS Grenadiers + 03:40
    4 Valverde Alejandro + 06:48
    5 Swenson Keegan + 06:48
    6 Hermans Quinten Alpecin-Deceuninck + 07:24
    7 Velasco Simone Astana Qazaqstan Team + 07:52
    8 van Aert Wout Jumbo-Visma + 08:24
    9 De Marchi Alessandro Team Jayco-AlUla + 09:08
    10 Schönberger Sebastian Human Powered Health

    Keegan Swenson up there with the WT boys is good to see.
    He was beaten by a 40-45 year age grouper though
    Whose name happened to be Alejandro Valverde... He had a couple of crashes or I think he would have beaten Valverde.

    https://www.globalcyclingnetwork.com/racing/news/gravel-worlds-keegan-swenson-brushes-off-crashes-and-goes-toe-to-toe-with-worldtour-pros
  • jdee84
    jdee84 Posts: 288
    If Pinot hadn't hit his knee in the 2019 tour I think he could have beaten Bernal.

    If he hadn't crashed in 2014 and ridden the Giro in 2018 I think Chris Froome would have 6 Tours.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 27,760
    edited October 2023
    Apparently sketchy finish coming in Turkey if anyone's a fan of unsuitable sprint run ins.

    All downhill from 2.4km
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,791
    Denz pulled off a win in Turkey
    ....hell of a pull
    "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: 27,760
    Downhill, through turns and narrowing streets. Denz just stayed on the front because there was no way for anyone to go any faster seemingly. Walls just let him take it and stayed in second.

    Only a few crashes.
  • wakemalcolm
    wakemalcolm Posts: 825
    Anyone any idea why not all of the World Tour teams are at the Tour of the Guangxi 2.UWT race.
    Do some teams have the option to sit some races out?
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,449
    wakemalcolm said:

    Anyone any idea why not all of the World Tour teams are at the Tour of the Guangxi 2.UWT race.
    Do some teams have the option to sit some races out?

    The rules used to allow them to skip one race per season so unless they've changed I imagine the missing WT teams have decided Guangxi is the race to miss.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 27,760
    wakemalcolm said:

    Anyone any idea why not all of the World Tour teams are at the Tour of the Guangxi 2.UWT race.
    Do some teams have the option to sit some races out?

    All WT teams have to compete in all events that were on the WT calendar before the 2017 expansion. For the others, it's voluntary. I think this year that's Cadel Evans, UAE Tour, OHN, DDV, Strade Bianche, De Panne, Eschborn-Frankfurt and Guangxi.
  • wakemalcolm
    wakemalcolm Posts: 825
    @andyp @kingstongraham thankyou!
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    Cake is just weakness entering the body
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,535
    Bit of afters in the Japan Cup crit

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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,449
  • wakemalcolm
    wakemalcolm Posts: 825
    WT Peloton: Yay! Jumbo Visma have pitched up to a WT stage race with only 5 men, a sprinter and no GC hitter
    Milan Vader: hold my beer.
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    Cake is just weakness entering the body
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,095
    Dorset_Boy said:

    davidof said:

    TheBigBean said:

    Has the Gravel World Championship been discussed somewhere? Valverde managed 4th and beat WvA.




    Results
    1 Mohoric Matej Bahrain Victorious 04:53:56
    2 Vermeersch Florian Lotto Dstny + 43
    3 Swift Connor INEOS Grenadiers + 03:40
    4 Valverde Alejandro + 06:48
    5 Swenson Keegan + 06:48
    6 Hermans Quinten Alpecin-Deceuninck + 07:24
    7 Velasco Simone Astana Qazaqstan Team + 07:52
    8 van Aert Wout Jumbo-Visma + 08:24
    9 De Marchi Alessandro Team Jayco-AlUla + 09:08
    10 Schönberger Sebastian Human Powered Health

    anyone ride a gravel bike?
    Yes, Mohoric, and Kasia in the womens, so both winners.
    it was interesting, they actually had some gravel sections in the race
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