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Skarsnik posted:Honestly if you've found this tour boring, and consider cycling 'ruined', I feel really sorry for you I don't think it's a stretch to say it was the least memorable tour of the last ten years or so.
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People also talk about things when they're bad instead of good? Weird. I guess you could make the argument that it was memorable in how marginal it was. The only way this storyline could get more boring is if next year Froome hands the crown off to Porte.
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Pimp Cauldron posted:People also talk about things when they're bad instead of good? Weird Uh huh Except you said memorable Try a bit harder to find something to complain about next time yeah? I'll just carry on enjoying the cycling if that's ok with you :nice edit there.. Skarsnik fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Jul 27, 2015 |
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Pimp Cauldron posted:I don't think it's a stretch to say it was the least memorable tour of the last ten years or so. This years shat all loving over last years. At least there was an attempt at a competition. Last year was just Nibali ripping the piss out of Bardet and Pinot and cycling away from them at will.
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I loved how the French commentators expecting the boys in blue to contest the podium were genuinely surprised when they got dropped almost immediately every drat day there was a climb.
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Pimp Cauldron posted:I don't think it's a stretch to say it was the least memorable tour of the last ten years or so. You think this tour was worse to watch than 2012? The first week alone was more exciting than that entire race. Hell, one stage of this first week was better than that race.
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Perhaps stage racing isn't the right sort of competition for some of you to watch. I watched all three tours last year and both the Giro and Tour this year and they've all been worth watching. I'd seen stages of previous TdFs before that, and it's always been interesting on some level. Stick to the classics season if that's more your thing, perhaps?
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Pimp Cauldron posted:The only way this storyline could get more boring is if next year Froome hands the crown off to Porte. Which he wont because Lol BMC.
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Skarsnik posted:Uh huh I am sorry I have a nuanced opinion about a bicycle race. VacaGrande posted:You think this tour was worse to watch than 2012? The first week alone was more exciting than that entire race. Hell, one stage of this first week was better than that race. I honestly don't remember much of that year so you might be right.
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Skarsnik posted:Yeah I guess that's why no one has been talking about it much Attendance was way down too. Only British Freds care about the Tour now lol
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Xir posted:Perhaps stage racing isn't the right sort of competition for some of you to watch. I watched all three tours last year and both the Giro and Tour this year and they've all been worth watching. I'd seen stages of previous TdFs before that, and it's always been interesting on some level. I'd unironically rather watch every Indurain Giro and Tour again than most of the grand tours from 2012 on.
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what happens now do we just keep bickering and clenching our buttholes until cyclocross season
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I dunno, the last two Vuelta's have been pretty great. Mostly because riders show up trying to salvage a season or simply don't give a gently caress by that point, you get a much less controlled race.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:what happens now Well the Classica San Sebastian is on Saturday, the Tour of Poland (World Tour race) starts on Sunday, the Tour of Utah starts on Monday, and the Vuelta a Burgos and the Post Danmark Rundt both start on Tuesday. After that it's the Eneco tour and then it's basically time for the Vuelta and Worlds.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:what happens now We wait to see if the anti-doping techs have made any advances this year, then share a good hearty laugh because they haven't got a hope. Then we watch and bitch about the next race and everyone watching it.
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Watch weird derny racing videos. It's a nice palate cleanser.
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Jamsque posted:Well the Classica San Sebastian is on Saturday, the Tour of Poland (World Tour race) starts on Sunday, the Tour of Utah starts on Monday, and the Vuelta a Burgos and the Post Danmark Rundt both start on Tuesday. After that it's the Eneco tour and then it's basically time for the Vuelta and Worlds. And there is a race in Colorado 
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Let's all analyze and debate the fixed criterium races happening this week in Europe!!
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Iron Beagle posted:Let's all analyze and debate the fixed criterium races happening this week in Europe!! https://twitter.com/KlaasVdSchueren/status/625760161345466368
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Jamsque posted:Well the Classica San Sebastian is on Saturday, the Tour of Poland (World Tour race) starts on Sunday, the Tour of Utah starts on Monday, and the Vuelta a Burgos and the Post Danmark Rundt both start on Tuesday. After that it's the Eneco tour and then it's basically time for the Vuelta and Worlds. whoa thats a lot of bikes i poked around the info for some of these races and i think my new favorite team name comes from the Tour of Utah: Team Budget Forklifts
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OMGVBFLOL posted:what happens now Only until the vuelta!
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Pocket posted:I loved how the French commentators expecting the boys in blue to contest the podium were genuinely surprised when they got dropped almost immediately every drat day there was a climb. Well given the cameras would never move away from them, there wasn't much else for them to talk about.
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Some great GoPro clips of the TdF in here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2gXpuNR0Pc
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i dont even know why porte would want to go to BMC or why BMC would want him. guess that means it makes perfect sense.
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Box Hill Strangler posted:i dont even know why porte would want to go to BMC or why BMC would want him. guess that means it makes perfect sense. Porte because Money and BMC because BMC be BMC
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BMC love inconsistent riders and clearly want to replace Cadel. Dennis won't do because he seems to be good at winning.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYey3PI3gqM to give us something else to talk about, here's a video.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:do teams have multiple lineups, or is the whole of BMC moving on to the Tour of Utah a week after the Tour de France ends? Only a week to jump eight timezones and recover from a three week tour sounds brutal. Multiple line ups.
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World Tour rosters tend to be in the 25-30 rider range, Pro Continental teams have fewer.
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Box Hill Strangler posted:yeah you often have a single team doing multiple overlapping events. Giro is too hard for TdF prep for the real contendors (see: A. Contador), so Tour of California is trying to slide into the slot of 'warm up race' for the tour (which we all know is really the Dauphine and Tour de Suisse)
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Article in the NYTimes about a new drug on the market that affects red blood cell counts and how it can increase EPO in the body. Says someone has been caught using it in cycling even though it's only in the research phase right now of production. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/s...earch.html?_r=0
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Contador apparently done for the season due to illness https://twitter.com/albertocontador/status/626321696304271360
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Hawkline posted:Contador apparently done for the season due to illness Perhaps racing the Giro, Route de Sud, and then the Tour was a little too much.
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Box Hill Strangler posted:yeah you often have a single team doing multiple overlapping events. It's actually in a better spot now relative to where it was before despite the clash with the Giro, when it was in February the big teams just treated it as a warm weather pre-season training camp and the racing was not very serious for non-American squads.
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