2014 best procycling youtube clips

rick_chasey
rick_chasey Posts: 72,243
edited December 2014 in Pro race
So Christmas is drawing in, and you'll probably want to sneak off away from the family and waste some time surfing the internet.

Only, it's the middle of winter, and there's no cycling other than bizarre novelty cyclocross which is for perverts and the truly desperate.

So, what you should do, is fill your time reminiscing about the 2014 cycling season, and watching your favourite clips.

Don't mind what it is, how long or short it is, but let's see the vids from 2014 that will keep you going through the fallow months.

I'll start with the last 30 mins of this year's Flanders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAbldr9tENg

Comments

  • You are good - but judging the best clips from next year - that is too good
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,243
    Baha, will correct.
  • Do they have to be recognised channels or tv grabs people have uploaded?
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    When does the Sporza highlights package land?

    That's always about as good as it gets
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,878
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8DnSwZySO4

    Strade Bianche 2014

    I don't recall Sagan and Kwiatkowski going head to head before
    This was certainly a convincing round 1 victory to the Little Flower
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,243
    iainf72 wrote:
    When does the Sporza highlights package land?

    That's always about as good as it gets

    Normally 30th or 31st
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,878
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Cracking watch.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,243
    Good stuff.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,878
    Feels strange watching on the computer, in foreignish, in December - should be Spring
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • mr_poll
    mr_poll Posts: 1,547
    Don't for one minute believe that on bike cameras are "the future" but enjoyed this sprint by Giant - amazing to see it in full flight, the elbows the communication.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13BENuYp19w
  • Thread prompted me to revisit a very wet day I had sitting by the roadside in Northern France. A spectacular day but one in retrospect which should not have been allowed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJXlVadFUCs
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,243
    oneof1982 wrote:
    A spectacular day but one in retrospect which should not have been allowed.


    WHAT?????????

    Borderline bannable offence that one.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMFyOw5EKw4

    Finish of the year by rider of the year
    @JaunePeril

    Winner of the Bike Radar Pro Race Wiggins Hour Prediction Competition
  • Are folks still moaning about Stage 5? There were more crashes in Yorkshire (likely)

    RVV and P-R extended highlights are on ES2 this morning which is a nice surprise.
    Life is unfair, kill yourself or get over it.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    type:epyt wrote:
    Are folks still moaning about Stage 5? There were more crashes in Yorkshire (likely)
    there were hardly any crashes in Yorkshire; very few major ones apart from Cav
  • FJS wrote:
    type:epyt wrote:
    Are folks still moaning about Stage 5? There were more crashes in Yorkshire (likely)
    there were hardly any crashes in Yorkshire; very few major ones apart from Cav

    The guys in the dole office in Luxembourg might disagree.
    Life is unfair, kill yourself or get over it.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    FJS wrote:
    type:epyt wrote:
    Are folks still moaning about Stage 5? There were more crashes in Yorkshire (likely)
    there were hardly any crashes in Yorkshire; very few major ones apart from Cav

    Happy memories of the free entertainment offered by listening to a good few people by the bar articulating how upset they were when Cav planted (including one woman saying she nearly cried! - incredible).
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    type:epyt wrote:
    FJS wrote:
    type:epyt wrote:
    Are folks still moaning about Stage 5? There were more crashes in Yorkshire (likely)
    there were hardly any crashes in Yorkshire; very few major ones apart from Cav

    The guys in the dole office in Luxembourg might disagree.
    You mean Andy Schleck? He crashed on the London stage. Anyway, many people commented how while lots of riders complained about the dangerous crowds, there were actually fewer crashes in the opening stages than most recent years
  • ^ so it was (oops) ... still, none of the riders who mattered abandoned (solely) because of stage 5.
    Life is unfair, kill yourself or get over it.
  • oneof1982 wrote:
    A spectacular day but one in retrospect which should not have been allowed.


    WHAT?????????

    Borderline bannable offence that one.

    Ha! to be fair. I missed most of the TdF postings this year as I was at the roadside so wasn't sure how the arguments had played out. Stage 5 was my second most memorable sporting event of the year, just behind Leicester City beating Man U 5-3.

    (Football reference probably invites a second yellow and therefore a three match ban...oops)
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    BTW the Pantani film is now on Netflix.
  • http://vimeo.com/101415601

    stage 16 tour de france

    have a sherry and watch that decent !

    Team work by Jeannesson to get Pinot up the climb - Roy does the ride of his life to pull Pinot to the finish

    Voekler sucking in the pyrenees air- Rogers goes on one and takes it - Ag2R get the team for the day Dumolin does a great job for a tiring Bardert. Nibali ...easy

    the mighty whites take 12th and 13th and Reza makes the top 15

    Oh and SKY go mental putting up their domestiques for a showing :?

    ride of the day was Gautier though - a stage he may have got

    nice summers day :)

    6 french riders in the top 15 - and not even GC contenders

    1. AUSROGERS Michael 38 TINKOFF-SAXO 06h 07' 10''
    2. FRAVOECKLER Thomas 159 TEAM EUROPCAR 06h 07' 19'' + 00' 09''
    3. BLRKIRYIENKA Vasili 3 TEAM SKY 06h 07' 19'' + 00' 09''
    4. COLSERPA José 118 LAMPRE - MERIDA 06h 07' 19'' + 00' 09''
    5. FRAGAUTIER Cyril 154 TEAM EUROPCAR 06h 07' 19'' + 00' 09''
    6. BELVAN AVERMAET Greg 148 BMC RACING TEAM 06h 07' 23'' + 00' 13''
    7. POLKWIATKOWSKI Michal 74 OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP 06h 07' 46'' + 00' 36''
    8. ITAMONTAGUTI Matteo 88 AG2R LA MONDIALE 06h 08' 00'' + 00' 50''
    9. NEDSLAGTER Tom Jelte 98 GARMIN - SHARP 06h 09' 21'' + 02' 11''
    10. FRAGALLOPIN Tony 134 LOTTO-BELISOL 06h 09' 21'' + 02' 11''
    11. BELBAKELANTS Jan 72 OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP 06h 10' 43'' + 03' 33''
    12. FRAVACHON Florian 219 BRETAGNE - SECHE ENVIRONNEMENT 06h 10' 55'' + 03' 45''
    13. FRADELAPLACE Anthony 213 BRETAGNE - SECHE ENVIRONNEMENT 06h 11' 57'' + 04' 47''
    14. FRAREZA Kévin 158 TEAM EUROPCAR 06h 11' 57'' + 04' 47''
    15. AUTEISEL Bernhard 2 TEAM SKY 06h 15' 24'' + 08' 14'
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,878
    type:epyt wrote:
    RVV and P-R extended highlights are on ES2 this morning which is a nice surprise.

    My enjoyment of these is being enhanced by having a memory like a sieve
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!