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Are people fighting in the cycling thread? Don't fight in the cycling thread.
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Andy Dufresne posted:I was trying to avoid spoilers today until I get home from work, but out at lunch I saw Chris Froome sprinting uphill on ESPN so I just had to read. loving lol. Same. I'll rewatch it tonight after work though. Froome has been very entertaining this tour, I watched that 4-man breakaway with Sagan last night and that was rad as hell.
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That was pretty funny, good show for the french national day. Could have been even more crazy if they hadn't cancelled the last 6km, can't imagine the judges not letting the results stand then. It would have been unfair for Froomey, he's been a good lad this year
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Hand Knit posted:Are people fighting in the cycling thread? Don't fight in the cycling thread. That depends. It's just posters that only come out during grand tours so I'd use the term "people" sparingly
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Lose: Mavic for not having every pedal / size combo mounted on their car Lose: Pinarello for having a frame snap even though a moto fell on it Win: Sidi for shoes that maximize your climb in, out, and off the saddle 
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Gibbo posted:That depends. It's just posters that only come out during grand tours so I'd use the term "people" sparingly How dare you 
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It does seem odd the mavic bikes don't have a selection, or just use flat pedals with clips Makes them kinda useless
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The thing that is truly sullying this sport are people who may not post on Internet forums when they watch a spring classic.
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Skarsnik posted:It does seem odd the mavic bikes don't have a selection, or just use flat pedals with clips I saw a thing a while back on the Mavic cars and apparently almost all the bikes don't have pedals fitted, they fit them as required. The bike they gave Froome was probably one of the pre-prepped ones as they didn't spend time loving with it, and that didn't have the right pedals. Also likely that when the Mavic bike passed Froome and had a brief chat, that would have been them asking what pedals he uses.
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From what I can find the prefitted ones this year are mavic clipless, but I've also seen a picture with flat+straps too from a year or two back e: There we go, from 2015 - mavic clipless, plus flat + straps http://www.bikerumor.com/2015/07/05/tdf2015-tech-whats-on-those-mavic-neutral-support-bikes/ Skarsnik fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Jul 14, 2016 |
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You'd think the mavic neutral service would have a bike ready for the yellow jersey on a stage like that.
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Jul 14, 2016 20:31
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The UCI need to throw these gap-toothed sans-culottes off the mountains. Especially when an Englishman deigns to climb them.
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King Hong Kong posted:I don't really want to continue this line of discussion more than what is necessary but you've moved the goal posts about what can and cannot be considered and framed it in a way that is toxic for discussion when you could simply have argued that the application is inconsistent but that that, too, is racing. The application was perfectly consistent with what we've seen in this edition of the tour. The example you gave was not the same as what happened today. In 2011 an idiot team mate decided to ride in the gutter and he hit a spectator causing the crash. Entirely the fault of the rider in the gutter. Stop having a cry because it was a rider you don't like.
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Pls change thread name to "Pro Cuking: Totally believable!"
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Kilmers Elbow posted:Especially when an Englishman deigns to climb them. Racist Frenchmen not letting a proud Kenyan run up their mountains.
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Hand Knit posted:Are people fighting in the cycling thread? Don't fight in the cycling thread. Cycling needs some good 'ol Canadian boys on every team to fight each other to keep the race clean. I don't think you can really argue with the decision either way. On one side, if anyone else won the yellow jersey, it'd be a hollow win, on the other, would they done the same if it was Mollema instead of Froome?
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Anders posted:Cycling needs some good 'ol Canadian boys on every team to fight each other to keep the race clean. Literally the only reason Yates is in 2nd is because they did the same thing for him at the start of the tour.
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I doubt they'd have come to the same verdict if it hadn't been Froome, but that's just the way it is - the yellow jersey gets more leeway. It's embarrassing for the Tour to have the leader knocker out of contention by the organiser's gently caress ups. And it was consistent with what they did for Yates. But I'm disappointed they didn't let the times stand just because Froome being a minute down would probably lead to a firecracker final week.
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Skarsnik posted:He just got stuck with platforms then Neutral support lying or misintepreted: 
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Porte would be on the podium if his team hadn't abandoned him to that puncture.
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https://youtu.be/q0BmPStxGWY This just seems like a complete whitewash... 'The three men had to get off their bikes'
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Quintana is lucky. He was shipping big time there - could've been over a minute without the moto incident. At least the commissaires' decision was consistent within the context of this tour - given what they did for Yates I think that this was the only decision they could make. The GC is still very close and if Quintana has his usual third week resurgence it could be very interesting.
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It's just really lovely that this stage ended up being a big fart in the wind when it could have been really exciting. Weather sucks, fans suck.
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Crystael posted:Quintana is lucky. He was shipping big time there - could've been over a minute without the moto incident. At least the commissaires' decision was consistent within the context of this tour - given what they did for Yates I think that this was the only decision they could make. The GC is still very close and if Quintana has his usual third week resurgence it could be very interesting. Alternatively the ITT is tomorrow and Quintana looked empty already.
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Do any of the teams in the race even use Mavic pedals?
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Slimchandi posted:https://youtu.be/q0BmPStxGWY Haha she even stumbles while saying that as if someone just put a gun to her head. But to be fair it's only consistent. Like serious gaylord said a couple of pages back, the #1 priority that went into the decision today was to avert further embarrassment from the Tour. On paper the crash didn't happen, so it'd be dumb to feature it prominently in the recap. I just hope that at some point some ASO heads will roll over this, or the Yates incident, or the shambolic TTT in the Vuelta last year, or...
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poty posted:That was pretty funny, good show for the french national day. Could have been even more crazy if they hadn't cancelled the last 6km, can't imagine the judges not letting the results stand then. The fact that the last 6km was cancelled probably contributed to the crash. There were an extra 6km worth of fans crammed into the last few kms.
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Motos need cow catchers and more Froome-style vigilante justice for rowdy spectators imo.
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Kilmers Elbow posted:26 yrs old TdF riders are some of the most unhealthy looking athletes.
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Neutral bikes should just have soft rubber bricks for pedals - grip for every type of cleat.
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Crystael posted:Quintana is lucky. He was shipping big time there - could've been over a minute without the moto incident. At least the commissaires' decision was consistent within the context of this tour - given what they did for Yates I think that this was the only decision they could make. The GC is still very close and if Quintana has his usual third week resurgence it could be very interesting. Quintana looked like poo poo as soon as things got hot. I'm pretty poo poo at following pro racing and all but if he was expected to contend for the GC and waited until the race is half over to make any moves and then got absolutely roasted on this climb that wouldn't seem to bode terribly well for him having any chances to contest Froome. That said, again, don't follow pro racing very much (trying to change that this year) and yeah if the GC stays close and he gets his legs back under him I guess he's still in it, but drat that looked bad today. I assume they didn't penalize Froome for running without a bike basically because they erased everything that resulted from the crash anyways?
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