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One of the rational reasons to hate Sky is because the SkyTrain made the racing comparatively boring for two years. But hey, any reason is good enough.
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Jun 29, 2015 21:27
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Lung snails can't melt steel spokes or something
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Jun 29, 2015 21:38
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Anyone else get sweaty watching stage finishes?
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Jun 29, 2015 21:48
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I sleep through sprint stages and ask the missus to wake me up for the mountains/cobbles/etc.
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Jun 29, 2015 21:50
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Premature ejacula- posted:One of the rational reasons to hate Sky is because the SkyTrain made the racing comparatively boring for two years. Good thing another team has stepped up and we've got the Sky Blue train now.
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Jun 29, 2015 21:51
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please win the tour Thibault Pinot
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Jun 29, 2015 21:54
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Romain Bardet would be better, actually.
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Jun 29, 2015 22:31
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nationalism demands that i root for bmc, trek factory, and cannondale-garmin, so being on the poop-on-sky bandwagon is fine with me
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Macasaurus posted:he's 5'9" according to his wiki page Phinney officially 6'5" with the afro 6'9"
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Jun 30, 2015 00:17
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he1ixx posted:New to watching pro cycling and confused as to why people hate so badly on Froome. Plz advise. No good reason. Chris Froome is a generally likable guy who grew up with a bunch of black people in Africa. He has a very ugly, but effective riding style. He is not a great bike handler and seems to crash a lot. But this only adds to his charm. If you are gonna be a hater, there are better places to start. Namely: 
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Jun 30, 2015 00:23
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I don't get the outright hate for the guy. That said I don't particularly like him - his riding style is boring as hell. Even with his past I would rather watch Contador all day attacking like a crazy person and animating the race, or Nibali tearing rear end down a descent to gap the competition. Those guys make races exciting.
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Jun 30, 2015 00:46
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Jamsque posted:That team selection just seems weird to me. After how the Giro went you would expect them to bring more mountain helpers for Contador but instead they brought Bennati to lead out Sagan, which seems pointless since he'll be against Cav, Kristoff and Greipel in the flat sprints and Bennati won't make it to the final with Sagan on the tougher days. On top of that five of their nine riders (i.e. all of their climbers including Contador) did the Giro this year. Sagan is gonna be an awesome domestique for Bertie, he can climb and do it all
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Jun 30, 2015 01:04
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VacaGrande posted:I don't get the outright hate for the guy. That said I don't particularly like him - his riding style is boring as hell. Even with his past I would rather watch Contador all day attacking like a crazy person and animating the race, or Nibali tearing rear end down a descent to gap the competition. Those guys make races exciting. Lead rider for team named after a Murdoch propaganda mouthpiece. Good enough reason right there.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Lead rider for team named after a Murdoch propaganda mouthpiece. Good enough reason right there. You can go around and around with that though. I love the Greenedge boys and they're just greenwashing for an environmental disaster of a company. Oleg Tinkov is a complete nut job, lotteries are just taxes on stupid, and don't even get me started on Kazakhstan...
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so when are we getting a thread that isn't for last year's race or at least a title change to 102th
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Jun 30, 2015 02:19
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102rd.
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he1ixx posted:New to watching pro cycling and confused as to why people hate so badly on Froome. Plz advise. 1) He's an ugly gently caress with no bike handling skills and flagrantly went from "barely passable as a pro" to "demolishing hill climbing records set by proven dopers" while maintaining his innocence. 2) He can't ride a loving bike. Watch him bitch about anything with a bump on it. Compare to glorious 3) He's from South Africa. And rides for a british company with infinite money. -Brits don't like South Africa, South Africans don't like brits, especially ones with money. So he has no home ground to cheer for him. Wiggo had the decency to be british enough to poo poo the queen.
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African AIDS cum posted:Sagan is gonna be an awesome domestique for Bertie, he can climb and do it all Sagan will be 10 minutes back when poo poo gets real
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Withnail posted:No good reason. Chris Froome is a generally likable guy who grew up with a bunch of black people in Africa. Oh some of his best friends are black? instant like
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Pimp Cauldron posted:Oh some of his best friends are black? instant like I've wanted to punch every White South African I've met through school within ten minutes of meeting them. "Uhuh. You're from halfway across the world and paying international tuition fees to study English in Canada. Tell me about your social equality and black friends back home." (No I'm not an English student, but every South African I've met has been)
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Gibbo posted:3) He's from South Africa. And rides for a british company with infinite money. -Brits don't like South Africa, South Africans don't like brits, especially ones with money. So he has no home ground to cheer for him. Wiggo had the decency to be british enough to poo poo the queen. Well, at least he's got the Kenyan market cornered.
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Withnail posted:Sagan will be 10 minutes back when poo poo gets real He will be good on the flats, great on cobbles and can do medium mountains with ease. Great bike handler too.
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Jun 30, 2015 04:43
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Do people honestly rate Quintana as a possible winner?
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Xabi posted:Do people honestly rate Quintana as a possible winner? There's an enormous amount of climbing and his time trialling has got better.
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Xabi posted:Do people honestly rate Quintana as a possible winner? I'd say hes the best climber out there at the moment and if hes on a good day he can dick over them all and get enough of a buffer that he wont lose too much. Hes got a decent team for the TTT and hes gotten better at the individual time trialling too. I would say it will come down to Quintana and Contador, but who knows what Nibali will pull out his arse.
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I'd say Quintana will have an advantage on the hard mountains as the tour goes on, especially with no final ITT. Nibali and Contador will probably make life hard for Froome on the descents/any time the race gets technical. If Froome doesn't lose time to one of them in the first 10 days I'll be surprised. As much as I want to see Contador do the double, fending three strong, fresh rivals with an extra GT in his legs will be tough. I really hope Quintana and Contador don't let the Tour become a drag race up between Sky and Astana on every col. I don't really care who wins as long as it's exciting.
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Quintana has also been hiding out from testers in Colombia most of the season while Froome and Contador have been racing in Europe
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Froome hosed off to altitude and didn't race for like 2 months.
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Pocket posted:Froome hosed off to altitude and didn't race for like 2 months. True but wasnt Quintana MIA for most of the season? Not that I'm not rooting for him, or anyone but Froome really
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Gibbo posted:went from "barely passable as a pro" to "demolishing hill climbing records set by proven dopers" while maintaining his innocence.
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African AIDS cum posted:Quintana has also been hiding out from testers in Colombia most of the season while Froome and Contador have been racing in Europe "hiding out" because the whereabouts system isn't a thing you know.
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Gibbo posted:"hiding out" Weren't there articles complaining how it was extra expensive to send people to Tenerife, so they basically didn't do it?
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I am pulling for Quintana this year. gently caress Froome, gently caress Sky.
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Gibbo posted:"hiding out" -Michael Rasmussen
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kimbo305 posted:Weren't there articles complaining how it was extra expensive to send people to Tenerife, so they basically didn't do it? Oh? I never saw any of those but that makes sense I guess. "Well, we could fly to buttfuck nowhere to stick him... Or we could fly to Las Cabos and take a vacation with the same money.... Gentlemen, start your livers."
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Interesting. While waiting for replies earlier I downloaded his biography on Audible and listened to about half of it. Had no idea he was actually born and raised in Kenya. I don't really root for anyone but I do enjoy watching pro cycling -- something I never thought I'd say in my life. Tinkoff seems like a Russian Donald Trump though. That much seems obvious. I procured stages 1-9 from last year's Tour de France so I might take a peek at them this weekend. I hear the cobbles in stage 5 was a fun time for everybody.
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he1ixx posted:
Nibali bossed it. It was the moment I stopped disliking him.
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Paddyb posted:Nibali bossed it. It was the moment I stopped disliking him.  still, gently caress Froome gently caress Sky
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