|
Not stalking you or anything. Paddyb posted:Stybar is becoming what Sagan was supposed to have become. Truth. Sagan is massively overrated and gets sackridden like 1000% too much, Stybar is grouse as. Paddyb posted:List of sprinters, lol Mtn Qhubekca Fuckin love how they dont even bother including Matt Goss on their sprinters lol Oh and something about doping goes here.
|
#
¿
Mar 9, 2015 06:11
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 10, 2024 06:05 |
|
|
I feel better about the times Porte has blown past me on local roads, every time he wins something. Also without mile after mile of fat TT action Indurain would have less TdF's than Andy Schleck. Or Oscar Pereiro.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 16, 2015 04:05
|
|
|
Ive a suspicion Matthews may be a bit of a knob, but I reckon hes about where Sagan was 4 years or so ago. Hes quick enough outright to win some pure sprints, but also good enough over those middle range lumps to win things where most other sprinters get flicked off. I dont know if OGE plan on running him on cobbles or more of the Ardennes side of things, or maybe neither. IDK, but I hes probably got a classic in him somewhere.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 23, 2015 07:35
|
|
|
So whos EQS strategy guy? Coz he better be updating his resume. I hope that ferrari guy who got flicked for making one wrong pitstop call for Alonso doesnt watch cycling because hed be having a month long brain aneurysm.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 30, 2015 06:11
|
|
|
That was one of the slowest, wobbliest, most knackeredest 'sprints' Ive seen in a while. Top 4 looked like places 1001-1004 finishing an ironman triathlon. Obligatory 'Sagan is overrated'. Complimentary 'Lol wiggo'.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 6, 2015 05:56
|
|
|
gently caress yeah purito. Shame he's never gonna win a GT tho  Edit: my bullshit work starts at 5am on Mondays which means I can't watch any live cycling on Sunday's. Or euro F1. It makes me sad
Box Hill Strangler fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Apr 11, 2015 |
|
#
¿
Apr 11, 2015 23:54
|
|
|
serious gaylord posted:As expected, the riders that jumped the level crossing have been given a pass because there were so many of them and not all of them were possible to be identified. same as with doping
|
|
#
¿
Apr 13, 2015 06:40
|
|
|
10 km after a lump just gives us another Milan-San remo. Amstel is ok coz it's basically a non cobbled race for sprinters who can get up hills. LBL is ok coz it's a longer climb but still leaves it open to hilly sprinters as well as puncheurs. The problem with la flèche is that it's the same but with a hill too hard for sprinters so it's basically a climbing sprint (which is ok coz it's different, but dull to watch). But if you want a climbing classic just have a 1 day race that finishes on top of Mont Ventoux and be done with it.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 23, 2015 23:10
|
|
|
Loved romandie carrying on the latest craze of 'cars killing cyclists' except cranking it up a notch with the loving medical car dooring a guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seOOdwuerC0 
|
|
#
¿
Apr 30, 2015 06:48
|
|
|
Gibbo posted:What's wrong with you? The GTs are the worst time of the year. I. for one, am looking forward to SKY Pro Cycling Team strangling the gently caress out of at least 2 GTs this year through innovations such as 'marginal gains', and techniques such as 'not using the seat at all when the gradient is above 6%'. But to answer the question. Astana: still dodgy. SKY: still boring. Froome: still dumb as a box of hammers. Wiggins and Evans: dead or something idk. Valverde: still winning stuff thats not a GT. Contador and Qintana: still our only hopes. Frenchmen: still overrated. Rodriguez: Still cool as gently caress and I will fight you if you disagree, but still wont win a GT because he is purito Rodriguez.
|
|
#
¿
May 2, 2015 08:19
|
|
|
Viviani is alright. He was better when he wasn't with Sky tho.
|
|
#
¿
May 11, 2015 07:14
|
|
|
I got a very Wout Weylandts when I forst saw that and how he was ragdollish when that dude literally scooped him up off the ground. Glad hes not dead.Gibbo posted:Goddamn. I thought the Giro was supposed to be the safer of the GTs lol the giro was the one where they were gonna send them down a soft edged dirt road mountain decent with alpine ski style catch fencing because there were no barriers between the riders and 1 million foot drop off a cliff. EDIT: oh in regards to idiots, well then itd be the vuelta because theres only ever 2 guys and a dog in the middle of a semi-desert that watch that GT. The giro is and always has been the maddest of them all. Its also why it rules. gently caress idiots on fixies though. Its always an idiot on a fixie that causes problems.
|
|
#
¿
May 12, 2015 04:47
|
|
|
That arm break. Im sitting here looking at him on the ground and the initial angle just couldnt be computed by my brain. Oh, hes just propped up on his elbow, might be winded. But something doesnt look right. Why is his right elbow on his left arm because it cant work any other way unl... 
|
|
#
¿
May 15, 2015 01:00
|
|
|
Remember when Jens crashed and had to ride a bike 15 sizes too small for him that a small babby child donated to him roadside, so as he could finish that stage in the Tour? Im pretty sure there will be a ruling to Retrospectively Execute Jens based on this precedent.
|
|
#
¿
May 20, 2015 02:16
|
|
|
Giro fuckin stinks this year.
|
|
#
¿
May 24, 2015 02:50
|
|
|
the last weekend was kinda ok but this GT seemed 3 months long and nothing happened. 4.5/10 which includes an extra 1.5 for bert winning. We must be due for a decent TdF, its been what? 4 years since anything that wasnt a foregone conclusion. Preemptive 'gently caress sky'.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 1, 2015 07:44
|
|
|
SKY also use jaguars as team cars which tells you all you really need to know. hour record attempts are like watching nascar only more boring and with less chance of death.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 8, 2015 04:56
|
|
|
idk why but im finding it hard to get hyped about the tour for the first time in ages (even when we knew wigs and froome were gonna win). Nibbles had his turn, quintana is really just the 'enemy of my enemy' pick and not much else, gently caress froome and if bert wins it will be a massive piss rip. i guess what im saying is is that we need another oscar pereiro deal, including a landis style meltdown from someone (froome lol). Also, 10 days to hit proper mountains? wtf. and hitting up the massif central and no ventoux? wtf Finaly 870 euro for that cancellara scrap LMAO
|
|
#
¿
Jun 22, 2015 07:10
|
|
|
reminder: chris froome won a tour without learning how to piss on a bike. infact i bet he does, just triathlon style the dirty fucker
|
|
#
¿
Jul 3, 2015 04:22
|
|
|
lol if you think tommy would survive a proper festina style raid. remember when he stuck with evans and bert through the alps and wore yellow for 11 days, yeah... hes cool though so im ok with that. i still want a pereiro style winner, so idk maybe, oh ok yeah lets have tom win it.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 4, 2015 08:29
|
|
|
never fails to surprise me how 'professional' gc riders ALWAYS lose dumb time in crosswinds. without fail. the only other common theme is that it never happens to bert. he didnt get caught out in that belkin v movistar handbag slapfight in 13, and im pretty sure he caused the breaks/loses in that stage in 09(?)
|
|
#
¿
Jul 6, 2015 06:34
|
|
|
ah poo poo i remembered it back to front with bert/lance. proves my point even better though!
|
|
#
¿
Jul 6, 2015 07:11
|
|
|
LordPants posted:This sentence does not make sense. not empty quotin
|
|
#
¿
Jul 7, 2015 05:21
|
|
|
so when froome wins will 19 days in yellow be a record or was that nibbles did last year?
|
|
#
¿
Jul 7, 2015 05:26
|
|
|
as far as first weeks go its ok. shame about the froomening.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 9, 2015 06:21
|
|
|
Skarsnik posted:As hilarious as this is, I can't see how on earth he thought it was froomes fault. tbf if youre laying on the ground in a pile with other cyclists and one of them is froome its a pretty logical conclusion to jump to. also today i learned that if a cow is sitting down its a sign of rain. thanks tdf coverage!
|
|
#
¿
Jul 10, 2015 05:46
|
|
|
gently caress froome
|
|
#
¿
Jul 13, 2015 00:55
|
|
|
paperwind posted:I would not drat someone based on HR data alone. My HRM sometimes inexplicably holds at too high or too low a number without changing for like up to 30 minutes, before it finally starts accurately recording me. It's plausible enough an explanation that you can't nail Froome to the cross for suspect HR data. same but mine is a garmin edge and not whatever the gently caress sky have. with all their marginal gains poo poo im sure theyve got HR spikes/freezes covered. edit: seems i need posting PEDs, or atleast learn to refresh after being AWOL what im saying is with their stuff i doubt a lack of HR change is due to equipment Box Hill Strangler fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Jul 14, 2015 |
|
#
¿
Jul 14, 2015 08:30
|
|
|
just watched the stage lol what really pisses me off (coz really, you cant help but just laugh at most of it) is that we sat through 10 'transitional' days to start the loving tour and the first day out BOOM over. FFS man, if youd at least leave it till like stage 18 or something you prick. Aussie post stage talking heads saying sky have the best 'sports science' LOL. well yeah, chemistry and biology are science i spose. Box Hill Strangler fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Jul 15, 2015 |
|
#
¿
Jul 15, 2015 03:35
|
|
|
sagans finish looked like a betting fix was in. ive given up and am watching this like its classics season with a race every day. skys poo poo irks me less that way. also purito 
|
|
#
¿
Jul 18, 2015 06:43
|
|
|
last night robbie mcewan got soooo close to putting his finger on it then veered off like a cavendish sprint. he was all "the reason sky got drenched in piss was coz people lived through and remember the armstrong era........... and the french hate it when foreigners come in and dominate le tour"
|
|
#
¿
Jul 20, 2015 08:15
|
|
|
sagan might go down hill fast but hes still a fuckhead who gets sack ridden way to hard and still cant win anything (races in america dont count). oh, well, unless you count green jerseys since they decided it was boring and changed the point setup so all sagan has to do is get over some hills occasionally and hoover up 25 points at a pop and stroll in to paris with a 100 point lead. Froome/sagan yellow/green combos is about what cycling deserves atm.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 21, 2015 05:12
|
|
|
moser is, indeed, pretty cool. as is viviani. cannondale only had enough coolness for 2 young dudes which is why sagan missed out. as for sagan being better than my favuorite rider, thats impossible because my favourite rider is purito. sigh. dark times ahead coz he cant be far off retirement.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 22, 2015 06:39
|
|
|
gently caress Froome
|
|
#
¿
Jul 26, 2015 05:01
|
|
|
Ill probably watch the chicks race it out and then watch the most boring F1 race of the year than watch the froome nobgobbling tonight. Vuelta is probably gonna be poo poo too. Im trying to work out whos in it. Froome wont, ports done the 2 gt's, bert is cooked... I guess weve got purito, maybe quintana and nibbles. Did valverde do the giro? Maybe uran (lol remember how he went in equal fave for the giro last year and has done sweet FA since?). Is pozzivivos face fixed yet? Aru. Thats all pretty uninspiring, a mix of oldies and people half cooked. Maybe itll give us a good race because of it but im not hopeful. edit: also Adam Hansen vs beer Part 2 https://twitter.com/HansenAdam/status/625054998087487488 Box Hill Strangler fucked around with this message at 06:12 on Jul 26, 2015 |
|
#
¿
Jul 26, 2015 06:08
|
|
|
best time of the year.... 342 days till we need to worry about froome winning something. idk how you can disagree with the fact this race was dull as piss. there was ZERO chance of an actual race after the first mountain stage. wth is that if not boring. same for green. individual stages might have been ok but the RACE sucked. Box Hill Strangler fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Jul 27, 2015 |
|
#
¿
Jul 27, 2015 06:44
|
|
|
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.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 29, 2015 06:34
|
|
|
yeah you often have a single team doing multiple overlapping events. Doesnt the ToC still directly clash with the giro? in fact didnt they move it into a clash? always seemed dumb to me but wtf do i know (not much)
|
|
#
¿
Jul 30, 2015 05:05
|
|
|
gabensraum posted:I don't know how interested you all are in track cycling, but I have to share this with someone who might enjoy it. I grew up hearing about how Danny Clark won my home-town's annual marquee event from scratch after being half a lap behind at the bell. I always presumed it was exaggerated and have looked for the footage for years and it has recently been put on youtube. Also in the race is Bradley Wiggins' father, Gary. lol i can see my old house in this vid god burnie was (is?) a shithole
|
|
#
¿
Aug 6, 2015 09:17
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 10, 2024 06:05 |
|
|
if teejay so good then why bmc porte?
|
|
#
¿
Sep 1, 2015 07:11
|
|