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The Finnish twitter guy just posted some stats about the final climb of the 16th stage of the Vuelta: "Alto Ermita de Alba (6.65 km, 11.22 %, 746 m, max 30 %)" and also a video of someone going up there and getting stuck behind some horses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vRP-IxqjP8 Kind of ridiculous honestly, but I'm still looking forward to it.
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Tbh that unpaved road looked perfectly fine to go further on a road bike.  I hate those climbs where they stick a sign saying on the side of the road telling you the avg. gradient over the next km, say it says 11% but your Garmin is only reporting a 6% gradient currently, well you know that thing has to average out eventually.
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Pocket posted:Tbh that unpaved road looked perfectly fine to go further on a road bike. On a bike trip i worked on i lied and told people that was the max gradient for the section 
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Aug 11, 2015 22:27
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I think we'd get on well together.
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:On a bike trip i worked on i lied and told people that was the max gradient for the section I'm hoping you did that to minimize their suffering. Did you tell them the truth afterwards?
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Aug 12, 2015 13:45
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Lotto Soudal train fell apart today.
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Aug 12, 2015 16:40
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Tom Boonen did a thing
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Aug 13, 2015 02:54
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Withnail posted:Tom Boonen did a thing A line?
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Aug 13, 2015 04:41
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Luca didn't snort alone 
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Aug 13, 2015 10:51
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FDJ have booted Boucher from the Eneco tour because he refused to support Demare and instead got into the breakaway against team orders. I'd like to imagine its because Boucher thinks Demare is a twat.
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Aug 13, 2015 10:57
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See that a lot at these end of season races, riders who are out of contract just do whatever to try to get themselves UCI points so they can get a contract somewhere.
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Aug 13, 2015 11:02
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for all you Froome fans http://chrisfroomelookingatstems.tumblr.com
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Pocket posted:This some crazy fishtailing drat he looked way hot out of that other corner and had no line for their hairpin, too fast, and then locked up his wheel/hit something
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:for all you Froome fans I spent far too long looking at that.
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Aug 13, 2015 17:04
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MptF0-tr-oQ todays stage
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Gibbo posted:A line? I thought he got busted for ecstasy Pocket posted:Luca didn't snort alone I suspect Pozatto live on a steady diet of cocaine and prosecco Withnail fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Aug 13, 2015 |
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Aug 13, 2015 23:08
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Withnail posted:I thought he got busted for ecstasy Well, You can snort MDMA if you really want, but I thought it was Coke, E and Weed? Just general party drugs. Quick google says it was just coke. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/5303509/Tom-Boonen-admits-drink-and-drug-problem-after-testing-for-cocaine.html
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Aug 14, 2015 00:18
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Some things never change. Poulidor almost getting killed on the Puy de Dome in '64. 
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Aug 14, 2015 01:13
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My friend / former teammate got picked up by a domestic team to guest ride the pro challenge with them! Super stoked for him and excited that I've got a reason to bother watching bike racing again.
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Aug 14, 2015 05:21
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Let's hope the TV coverage isn't all jacked up like it usually is.
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Yeah, I'll be lucky to see a blurry race number and maybe a half second of him nestled in the back of the group. But still, ~real pro bike racing~. It's right there in the name of the race.
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Today's Eneco tour was a beautifully entertaining race. Greipel putting it all out on the line in attempt to catch the break was fantastic. And the downpour of epic proportions didn't hurt.
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Iron Beagle posted:Today's Eneco tour was a beautifully entertaining race. Greipel putting it all out on the line in attempt to catch the break was fantastic. And the downpour of epic proportions didn't hurt. Thanks for mentioning this, I went back and watched it and it was great
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Aug 15, 2015 21:07
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New Secret Pro is out on Cycling Tips FYI.
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Here's the link if anyone wants it http://cyclingtips.com.au/2015/08/the-secret-pro-post-tour-crits-worlds-and-the-farce-that-is-the-iaaf/
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I'm increasingly sceptical there's actually a pro writing that column tbh. Apart from maybe the thing about Cannondale-Garmin not inviting someone to their post-Tour dinner it's all just a bunch of rehashed rumours we've already heard and maybe some more bluntly expressed opinions than you'd get in a normal column.
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peanut- posted:I'm increasingly sceptical there's actually a pro writing that column tbh. Apart from maybe the thing about Cannondale-Garmin not inviting someone to their post-Tour dinner it's all just a bunch of rehashed rumours we've already heard and maybe some more bluntly expressed opinions than you'd get in a normal column. Yeah its pretty dumb
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Froome has begun the physiological testing he promised earlier. If only this had been done before 2011.
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King Hong Kong posted:Froome has begun the physiological testing he promised earlier. It won't settle anything. Unless it proves he had a motor he'll put a freakishly large number for v02 max which some people will say is a sign he's doping and other a sign of how hard he works. What would be nice and perhaps would answer his critics is some of his power data over a long period of time including pre-11 to show his progression
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:It won't settle anything. Unless it proves he had a motor he'll put a freakishly large number for v02 max which some people will say is a sign he's doping and other a sign of how hard he works. What would be nice and perhaps would answer his critics is some of his power data over a long period of time including pre-11 to show his progression A part of me wants Sky to have actually developed a working cyborg program.
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Aug 18, 2015 00:28
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Taylor Phinney won today.
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Just watched the last 13k, Rohan Dennis and some Canadian (Boivin?) were in a break and it was fun watching Dennis slowly asphyxiate the poor guy. Dude actually hung in there but drat that had to hurt. They got caught right near the end and Phinney blew everyone away in a totally unorganized sprint.
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Paddyb posted:Taylor Phinney won today. This guy is the best, glad he's bouncing back from that crash https://vine.co/v/MQZJIZb1W6P
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Yeah, that last 5k was quite the cripple fight. Think this speaks well to Phinny's classic chances.
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I can't help but wonder how many future steroids and stuff they pumped into his leg to heal it to a workable level. Actually I'd love to see a writeup on everything that went in to making him work again, from the surgeries to physio to "support meds". I'm a big Phinney fan and glad he's coming back actually functional and not just as a bottle carrier.
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Not that I honestly care, but my gut feeling is that he's a bit of a straight edge. Or at least, he was in the past.
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dema posted:Not that I honestly care, but my gut feeling is that he's a bit of a straight edge. Or at least, he was in the past. I don't mean that as a "He's going to have to dope to keep up". Reconstructive surgery of that level is bound to be accompanied by at least some minor corticos or something. I am just interested in what it took to get someone back to that level after that severe of a wreck. I'm pretty sure anything they might have used falls under fair use medical exemption at that point too. More succinctly: I want to see it from a medical standpoint not a doping control standpoint.
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That said, his leg looks perfectly normal now when compared to Peter Stetina's. JESUS CHRIST>
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Have I mentioned that he came to my birthday party??
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Yet you didn't invite any of us?
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