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  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 54,742 Lives Here
    Not sure how unpopular but I still maintain they should remove the distance limit on GTs and make a good third to half of all stages over 250km, including a bunch of mountain stages.
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  • TheBigBeanTheBigBean Posts: 12,571
    rick_chasey said:

    Not sure how unpopular but I still maintain they should remove the distance limit on GTs and make a good third to half of all stages over 250km, including a bunch of mountain stages.

    And not bother with those ridiculous short stages. I think there should be a minimum stage length.
  • bobmcstuffbobmcstuff Posts: 9,726
    I don't mind a short stage, but only if there are still long stages too. Short explosive stages after long stages seems to produce interesting results. But I agree if the whole race was short stages, that would be dumb.

    I agree with Rick's suggestion...
  • FreddieVonRostFreddieVonRost Posts: 261
    mididoctors said:

    Pross said:

    Matching shorts and bikes with leader's jerseys is a really good look, especially the Tour polka dots.

    That's beyond trolling
    Living dangerously, midi.
    Not a Giro Hero!
  • DeadCalmDeadCalm Posts: 3,759
    AG2R have the best looking kit in the peloton.
    Team My Man 2021:

    Thymen Arensman, Remco Evenepoel, Mauri Vansevenant, Simon Carr, Pavel Sivakov, Tom Pidcock, Mark Cavendish, Benoit Cosnefroy, Romain Bardet
  • salsiccia1salsiccia1 Posts: 3,618
    Dorset_Boy said:

    Cycling is a team sport. The team competition is therefore the most important competition at any Grand Tour.

    You are Eusebio Unzue and I claim my five pounds.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • kingstongrahamkingstongraham Posts: 15,824
    DeadCalm said:

    AG2R have the best looking kit in the peloton.

    I thought this was ridiculous, but actually there's only two that might be better. There's a lot of pretty bad kits out there this year.
  • DeadCalmDeadCalm Posts: 3,759
    kingstongraham said:

    DeadCalm said:

    AG2R have the best looking kit in the peloton.

    I thought this was ridiculous, but actually there's only two that might be better. There's a lot of pretty bad kits out there this year.
    Interesting. Which do you consider to be better?
    Team My Man 2021:

    Thymen Arensman, Remco Evenepoel, Mauri Vansevenant, Simon Carr, Pavel Sivakov, Tom Pidcock, Mark Cavendish, Benoit Cosnefroy, Romain Bardet
  • kingstongrahamkingstongraham Posts: 15,824
    DeadCalm said:

    kingstongraham said:

    DeadCalm said:

    AG2R have the best looking kit in the peloton.

    I thought this was ridiculous, but actually there's only two that might be better. There's a lot of pretty bad kits out there this year.
    Interesting. Which do you consider to be better?
    Movistar and Trek Segafredo.

    Close run thing for worst, but Cofidis.
  • bobmcstuffbobmcstuff Posts: 9,726
    I like EF's kit
  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 54,742 Lives Here
    Drives me nuts the Samsic jersey looks almost identical to the ineos jersey from the heli.
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  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 17,327
    rick_chasey said:

    Drives me nuts Nairo Quintana's jersey looks almost identical to the ineos jersey from the heli.

    Fixed that for you.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 54,742 Lives Here
    It is annoying right?

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  • RichN95.RichN95. Posts: 24,877
    rick_chasey said:

    It is annoying right?


    Whoever is lower in the team competition should be made to wear bibs
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  • m.r.m.m.r.m. Posts: 2,217
    To tie into the Barolo discussion elsewhere,

    dessert wine is better than regular wine. There I said it! :p
    PTP Champion 2019
  • RichN95.RichN95. Posts: 24,877
    m.r.m. said:

    To tie into the Barolo discussion elsewhere,

    dessert wine is better than regular wine. There I said it! :p


    In the same way as Mersey Trout is better than regular Trout
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • twotoebennytwotoebenny Posts: 1,000
    m.r.m. said:

    To tie into the Barolo discussion elsewhere,

    dessert wine is better than regular wine. There I said it! :p

    I'm particularly fond of dessert wines
  • No_Ta_DoctorNo_Ta_Doctor Posts: 10,368
    I like a Muscat every now and again.
    “Road racing was over and the UCI had banned my riding positions on the track, so it was like ‘Jings, crivvens, help ma Boab, what do I do now? I know, I’ll go away and be depressed for 10 years’.”

    @DrHeadgear

    The Vikings are coming!
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 17,327
    I think Froome will be riding the Tour, but purely as a domestique.
    I believe his real goal is to go for another Vuelta title.
    I also think that despite it being the most mountainous tour in decades, it will also turn out to be the most boring.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • RichN95.RichN95. Posts: 24,877
    edited August 2020
    blazing_saddles said:

    I think Froome will be riding the Tour, but purely as a domestique.


    Here's an idea. He rides into form to do the Third Week Wout role, and then just keeps on going into a soft Giro, maybe via a suitable Worlds.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 54,742 Lives Here
    Worlds are cancelled but if you fancy
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  • RichN95.RichN95. Posts: 24,877
    rick_chasey said:

    Worlds are cancelled but if you fancy


    I know, but aren't they trying to find an alternative venue? In the old clinche of 'We'll do the show right here'
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • RichN95.RichN95. Posts: 24,877
    I'll come up with another left field prediction. No-one from Ineos or Jumbo will win the Tour. Only one will be on the podium. This is not really the right thread for this.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • m.r.m.m.r.m. Posts: 2,217
    edited August 2020
    RichN95. said:

    I'll come up with another left field prediction. No-one from Ineos or Jumbo will win the Tour. Only one will be on the podium. This is not really the right thread for this.

    This is juicy... keep going...
    PTP Champion 2019
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 17,327
    RichN95. said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    I think Froome will be riding the Tour, but purely as a domestique.


    Here's an idea. He rides into form to do the Third Week Wout role, and then just keeps on going into a soft Giro, maybe via a suitable Worlds.
    You are right, it is an idea.
    I think it's the one Jumbo have in mind for Dumoulin, minus the soft bit.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • TheBigBeanTheBigBean Posts: 12,571
    Prologues are a good way to start a GT.
  • bobmcstuffbobmcstuff Posts: 9,726
    Not unpopular with me!
  • gsk82gsk82 Posts: 2,906
    Having a dominant team makes the tour more interesting
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • RichN95.RichN95. Posts: 24,877
    The Move is the best English language Tour de France podcast
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  • ProssPross Posts: 27,006
    The best Tour stages in recent years have been flat 'sprinters' stages where there has been a cross wind and the organisers should have fewer mountain stages to concentrate on riding around the coastal areas.
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