wouter poels!
― matte prick (haitch), Sunday, 4 September 2011 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
48s Poels, Menchov, Froome
― Prejudice Capsule Hamster (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 4 September 2011 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
1:20 Wiggins, Anton
geox looking surprisingly solid - duarte wasn't that far back, sastre, menchov can all offer support. bit different to how they were at the giro.
― matte prick (haitch), Sunday, 4 September 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow. That was brutal. Is Cobo assumed to be clean or not? (I ask because the only time I can remember him doing anything before was when him and (team mate) Piepoli flew off the front together in the Tour, shortly before Piepoli and Ricco were booted out)
― Prejudice Capsule Hamster (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 4 September 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
This one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dk1KC9DDBQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=328s
It will be interesting to see how this one plays out now. It could get very tactical with Sky still having 2nd and 3rd.
― Prejudice Capsule Hamster (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 4 September 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
...and Geox having 1st and 6th (but I don't see the winner coming from outside of the current top four now, unless there's a major fuck up)
― Prejudice Capsule Hamster (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 4 September 2011 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Is Cobo assumed to be clean or not?
smdh
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 4 September 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Steve is that a:
-smdh at your naivety - of course he's not clean!
or
-smdh at a Brit casting aspersions on someone taking the red jersey off a British rider while assuming the Brits are clean
?
― Prejudice Capsule Hamster (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 4 September 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
haha... column a + column b
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 4 September 2011 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Wiggins I'm 99% sure is clean - he's always been outspoken about doping and Sky wouldn't have touched him with a bargepole if they'd had any doubts. Froome - I honestly couldn't say. He's always been a climber, and has suffered from illness/poor form for a while but now seems better, so it's not *completely* impossible what he's doing, but it does look suspicious - especially suddenly coming second in the time trial. Cobo I've literally only come across as part of that shameful Saunier Duval debacle at the Tour in 2008, but as far as I know he's never been banned (it was Ricco and Piepoli who tested positive, but then maybe only those two (as stage winners) were tested from the team) which is why I was wondering if he was one of those riders that everyone assumes is doped, or was a good guy on a bad team at the wrong time.
― Prejudice Capsule Hamster (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 4 September 2011 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Cobo has always excelled in the mountains, esp on his "home turf" (Northern Spain, not necessarily Cantabria).
The suggestion that Cobo (proven TT/climber specialist) could drop Wiggins (tracky, converting to all-arounder) as preposterous is just a little shrug-worthy.
Give Cobo some credit though. He was unaffected by those 15-23% ramps which had the GC contenders wobbly and weaving. A+ ride today.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 4 September 2011 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
gilsimongil Gilles Simon Chez leopard, 11 coureurs, dont Brice Feillu, savent déjà qu'ils doivent chercher une autre équipe. Dans L'Equipe, demain.1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply
gilsimongil Gilles Simon Leopard-Trek n'existera plus la saison prochaine. Comme prévu, Flavio Becca fait association avec RadioShack.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 4 September 2011 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
via googletrans:
gilsimongil Gilles Simon In Leopard, 11 riders, including Brice Feillu, already know they should seek another team. In the team tomorrow.1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply
gilsimongil Gilles Simon Leopard-Trek will no longer exist next season. As expected, Flavio Becca is associated with RadioShack.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 4 September 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Apparently Cobo had a 36-32 setup and wiggins only had 38-32
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 4 September 2011 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
speaking of Giles Simon
gilsimongil Gilles Simon Juan José Cobo leader de la Vuelta: un nuage noir dans le ciel du cyclisme. Qu'en pense Riccardo Ricco?
A black cloud in the sky of cycling. A pun and an accusation.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 4 September 2011 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, September 4, 2011 2:35 PM (8 minutes ago)
mechanical doping, how unmacho.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 4 September 2011 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Wiggins I'm 99% sure is clean - he's always been outspoken about doping and Sky wouldn't have touched him with a bargepole if they'd had any doubts.
― Prejudice Capsule Hamster (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, September 4, 2011 12:20 PM (2 hours ago)
http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/8426/Doping-UCI-Index-of-Suspicion-leaked-from-2010-Tour-de-France.aspx
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 4 September 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
just to add insult to injury. bit of a dick move to have the TT champs in the middle of a grand tour!
― matte prick (haitch), Monday, 5 September 2011 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
how are all these shimano teams fitting a 32 at the back, i'd like to know.
― matte prick (haitch), Monday, 5 September 2011 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link
What does David Millar use? As on the tour he got his mechanic to put a top of the range hybrid rear mech on his bike when things got particularly upwards from what I remember.
― problem chimp (Porkpie), Monday, 5 September 2011 07:23 (thirteen years ago) link
ah, Sram by the looks of it.
― problem chimp (Porkpie), Monday, 5 September 2011 07:24 (thirteen years ago) link
― matte prick (haitch), Sunday, September 4, 2011 6:49 PM (Yesterday)
MTB RDs iirc
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 5 September 2011 07:42 (thirteen years ago) link
It's not looking good if teams as successful as HTC and as high-profile as Leopard-Trek are going under.
― Prejudice Capsule Hamster (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 5 September 2011 09:39 (thirteen years ago) link
just to add insult to injury. bit of a dick move to have the TT champs in the middle of a grand tour!― matte prick (haitch), Sunday, 4 September 2011 20:45 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― matte prick (haitch), Sunday, 4 September 2011 20:45 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
IIRC it's always been at this time it's the vuelta that moved.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 5 September 2011 10:33 (thirteen years ago) link
To be honest, it's never normally contested by proper continental pros. In Britain there are two different national bodies for road racing and for time trials, and the body in charge of time trials is very old-fashioned and parochial. The top British time trialers nearly all just ride time trials, setting off at stupid o'clock to grind up and down a dual-carriageway somewhere every Sunday morning. They don't do road races, they work during the week, it's a different world. A guy called Michael Hutchinson wins nearly everything every year (10 miles, 25 miles, 50 miles, 100 miles, but not the 12-hour events), but in 2009 Bradley Wiggins decided to take him on in the national championships and won comfortably, then the following year he brought along Thomas and Froome as well and they took the top three spots. He probably would have defended it this year as well, as he's only doing the Vuelta because of the crash in the Tour.
― Prejudice Capsule Hamster (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 5 September 2011 11:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Radioshack- Nissan - Trek http://leopardtrek.createsend3.com/t/ViewEmail/r/9336888E0462C091/419D4CA59AEE007DF039C523302FD418
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 5 September 2011 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Crazy roundabout just 300 metres from the end of the stage today - sprinters hitting it at high speed and having no idea which way they were supposed to go round it - chaos.
― Prejudice Capsule Hamster (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Cavendish tweets:With regards to today's #Vuelta finish, that's why EVERY rider should read the race-booklet. There's no excuse when the finish is AS IT SAYS
― Prejudice Capsule Hamster (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
cav otm
― spitting, shirtless man in lawyer's wig (haitch), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Fuck me - that last kilometre was brilliant!
― Prejudice Capsule Hamster (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
out fucking standing, best racing i've watched this year
― traumatic jarts injury hotline (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Soundtrack to the final km:
Harmon in full-fapthroes of ecstasycatholic guilt/regretrecovers for a miracle sequel.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
best racing i've watched this year
so like should i torrent this or something
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Thursday, 8 September 2011 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.steephill.tv/players/720/dailymotion/?title=Full+Final+Climb+from+Stage+17&dashboard=vuelta-a-espana&id=xkxha6&yr=2011
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 8 September 2011 04:14 (thirteen years ago) link
(warning: questionable aussie pronunciation abounds.)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 8 September 2011 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link
if you do spanish, that feed from the steephill board is ok too. tell a schleck to watch froome btw- that's spending it all.
i've never seen anyone appear to blow up so hard as cobo, then recover in time to contest the finish. anyone?
― traumatic jarts injury hotline (Hunt3r), Thursday, 8 September 2011 04:42 (thirteen years ago) link
teamskyfans will have got the last 30km or so on their site without having to download.
I think it may have been the best bit of racing I've seen in a long time, the last move by Froome was just great. But his initial sprint, so balls out.
― problem chimp (Porkpie), Thursday, 8 September 2011 08:00 (thirteen years ago) link
right there on front page:
http://teamskyfans.com/
― problem chimp (Porkpie), Thursday, 8 September 2011 08:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Cavendish wins in the pouring Scottish rain in the first stage of the Tour of Britain. Apparently Jens Voigt has already crashed out.
― Prejudice Capsule Hamster (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 11 September 2011 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Voigt has crashed IN. He needs a serious accident to focus.
― Mark C, Monday, 12 September 2011 09:46 (thirteen years ago) link
took some photos at the ToB:http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6160/6166954685_b04608862d_z.jpghttp://farm7.static.flickr.com/6163/6166944305_2e2ed68b2b_z.jpghttp://farm7.static.flickr.com/6164/6167470238_b8be5e3612_z.jpg
― problem chimp (Porkpie), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
nice shots!
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
those are great!
― yeah, niche-y, that's what i meant (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, those are amazingly sharp
― Mister Potato shares Manchester United’s commitment to (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:02 (thirteen years ago) link
A kid I parked next to at a race last year will be racing the UCI Worlds TT today if you can believe that. His name is Andrew Talansky and he's from Napa, CA. I think he goes off around 1:30 Copenhagen time. He's racing for Garmin-Cervelo.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:05 (thirteen years ago) link
1:30 = 13:30
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:06 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks guys, I was machine gunning a bit so was lucky-ish to get some of them (the one in the line was just before I took my camera away from the barrier I was holding it over so it didn't get knocked out of my hand).
Here's Cav looking sad (or bored, I like to think he's pining in advance of being separated from Renshaw), and I'll see if I can put up the video that Vic took with my phone:http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6014/6166949375_4f506f98d2_z.jpg
― problem chimp (Porkpie), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:26 (thirteen years ago) link
welp, Spartacus' reign is over. Adieu adieu.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, September 21, 2011 12:05 AM (9 hours ago)
He got 16th, just behind the heavily hyped Taylor Phinney. Not bad for his first year as a professional!
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link