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Specialized really do make the best bikes!
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Russian Bear posted:Il Lombardia tomorrow, my favorite one day race. Would love to see Kwiatowski take the stripes to the line. I'm really digging what they did with the WCS colors on his bike, wish there was a bigger resolution pic: Amazing what the turnaround time for something like this is.
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kimbo305 posted:Amazing what the turnaround time for something like this is. Keep this in mind the next time they say it takes a month to get a frame out to you.
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I'm pretty sure the free promotional images in ~every magazine that carries bicycle news in the world~ far outweighs the cost of paying their top ranking special design hand painter the triple time for one nights work.
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Imagine all the yellow Specialized Venges and Cavendish branded components that had to be put back in their boxes last year in Corsica when Cav didn't get yellow. I wonder if it was the same stuff they had to put away again this year.
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This is getting pretty chaotic. Also, what's Kwiatkowski even doing?
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omg what a bunch of retards. Everyone except Dan Martin that is
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I prefer the long solo attacks in this race
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Talk about salvaging your session at the last second.
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I can't find any interviews yet but I really want to hear the group of chasers whine about no one putting in any effort to catch Martin.
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Same. I was actually yelling at my TV when that happened. Also, to answer my own question from earlier, Kwiatkowski got a cramp in his right leg but wanted to finish anyway. That makes more sense than my previous theory of "he's being passive-aggressive about having crashed".
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"Are you gonna go? I'm not going"
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Was going to say that was a bit of a disappointing and slightly wierd end to the season, then I remembered the Tour of Beijing which is infinitely wierder and more disappointing. Shame this season generally sucked once Roubaix was over.
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So glad that the Giro is starting with a 17.6km Team Time Trial. Pause. Not.
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More on the Giro route. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/giro-ditalia-2015-route-unveiled Mortirolo is back.
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serious gaylord posted:So glad that the Giro is starting with a 17.6km Team Time Trial. Pause. Not. You sound like everyone else that is bad at time trialing.
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serious gaylord posted:Astana have pulled out of the Tour of Beijing as they have to follow the MPCC rules that state they need to be suspended if 2 riders test positive within a 12 month period.
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The whole timing of the announcements was to allow them to race the weekend but skip Beijing. Rather questionable way of handling it.
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Gibbo posted:You sound like everyone else that is bad at time trialing. A 17km team time trial is pointless. At least make it 30+ and have it actually be worth anything.
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Russian Bear posted:30+ would leave too many big gaps to start the race out. Good. Incredibly short TTT's mean teams of the favourites can get away with loading their squad with skinny climbing domestiques and only 1-2 really powerful guys to pull the peloton on the flat. If they had to contend with possibly being 5 minutes down after the first stage they might not do that and then you wouldn't have 5 riders on the front on the mountain finishes.
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My, what I think is, original idea: have a TTT very late in a GT (middle to end of 3rd week).
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Russian Bear posted:My, what I think is, original idea: have a TTT very late in a GT (middle to end of 3rd week). Too many guys inevitably drop out by the third week that it's really not workable. The entire point is to have it early enough so teams don't get screwed by only having 5~ guys left to start with
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That's the point.
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All the grand tours should have 2 or 3 40k ITTs. gently caress the w/kg contest, give the big guys a chance.
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Astana are going to get fined by the UCI for pulling out the tour of beijing. And Oleg is offering £1m to Quintana, Nibali and Froome to ride in all 3 Grand tours with Contador. serious gaylord fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Oct 8, 2014 |
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Withnail posted:gently caress the w/kg contest, give the big guys a chance. But the current GC guys minimize losses more than well enough to keep TT specialists from gaining real ground.
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One of my team's sponsor was stomachofanger.com and I had to explain the the whole chaingate incident to someone the other day. He was a boring rider really unless he was doing something stupid, like him and Franck losing to Gilbert at LBL.
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I didn't think he was all that boring tbh, but then again I do have a bit of a soft spot for climbers who can't time trial  In the LBL he won he went at about 20 k out after Gilbert who had escaped earlier, and Gilbert just could not follow him. The tour of 2010 with him and Contador was fun to watch too, as was 2011 with Evans: lose time in wet descent, attack with 60k to go to get yellow and lose it the day after by losing over 2 minutes in the final time trial. If he had a better head to go with his legs we'd probably think that Contador was a boring, consolidating rider by now.
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Andy Schleck retires. "Since my crash in the U.K. there has hardly been any progress. While the ligaments have healed, the damaged cartilage is another story. I’m obviously disappointed to end my career like this."
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Andy went clean and got another 2 years of paychecks without being able to finish a race. Wonder if a passport ban is coming for him.
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Retire at 29? Win the game of life...
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Withnail posted:Retire at 29? Not many bike races though
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African AIDS cum posted:Andy went clean and got another 2 years of paychecks without being able to finish a race. Wonder if a passport ban is coming for him. I thought I'd read that he'd already gone pop. Must have imagined it though.
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