Cycling Thread

[Martino Knockavelli]

cycling, bloody hell

 

[Super_horns]

Tough on Thomas and Porte.

Hope they are ok.

Mixed news for Froome - a rival gone but his right hand man as well.

 

[TimeyWimey]

Shall we all just ignore Froome and pretend 2nd place wins? That'd make a great last two weeks.

 

[TimeyWimey]

But still, what an incredible day. Pretty much a whole Grand Tour in one stage. AG2R's tactics, cor. Astana and Movistar being utter bastards (again). Froome being an utter bastard back to Aru. Porte, poor sod. The rest, poor sods. FDJ, poor sods. Barguil, poor sod. Uran winning it on a single gear, hero.

Cycling Podcast time.

 

[TimeyWimey]

Yo Marcel Imma let you finish but can we get back to racing now?

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

I'm usually quite keen to defend the appeal of cycling's zen like rhythms and the pleasure of spending a few hours looking at landscape and wotnot whilst nothing in particular happens... but the flag to flag coverage of these endless fucking forgone conclusion sprint stages.......

 

[Veggie Legs]

Today was the last sprint stage before Paris, wasn't it?

 

[Super_horns]

Well that will shake things up.

Froome got caught out there.

 

[TimeyWimey]

Landa ftw

 

[Veggie Legs]

Has Froome ever lost the yellow jersey before? He certainly doesn't look as strong this year as in the past.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Lost it to Martin (T) in 2015, but that was a willing ceding to non GC threat. So yes, but not like this.

 

[TimeyWimey]

If Sky didn't piss about backing wobbly Geraint cos he's British Landa would have got them at least one Grand Tour this year.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

He finished the Giro like 40 mins down...

 

[TimeyWimey]

He crashed into a motorbike with "shared" leader Thomas tbf before going for KoM for rest of Giro.

 

[Super_horns]

French having a decent time of it..

 

[Veggie Legs]

Aru
Doesn't he care about my fantasy team?

 

[TimeyWimey]

 

[Super_horns]

Dan Martin is doing well considering he can hardly stand up at the end of a stage due to a back injury.

 

[Super_horns]

Froome has pretty much won another Tour hasn't he?

 

[Veggie Legs]

Yep, should be sewn up now.

 

[lordofthepies]

I see Contador won the Cycling Podcast's Pédaleur de Charme award, which is the first thing he's won in years. Rumours are that Krazy8 had to set up several hundred Twitter accounts for Bertie to get enough votes to top that poll.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Is Froome going to get booed to absolutely fuckery in this stadium?

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Bloke having a piss in the background over Imlach's shoulder as ITV came on air!

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

I see Contador won the Cycling Podcast's Pédaleur de Charme award, which is the first thing he's won in years. Rumours are that Krazy8 had to set up several hundred Twitter accounts for Bertie to get enough votes to top that poll.

Seen this photo of Krazy8 meeting his hero?

La Course part II a bit of a farce. Dunno why they feel the need to reinvent the wheel...

 

[Stagat]

Bloke having a piss in the background over Imlach's shoulder as ITV came on air!

Not seen it but sounds impressive to get that trajectory and pressure behind it.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

 

[Super_horns]

Another Tour almost over - another win for Froome.

Counts as one of ours doesn't he..

 

[TimeyWimey]

Tom Dumoulin choosing to not ride the Vuelta. Gutted. Way to ruin my August.

Eddy Boss tomoz.

 

[Veggie Legs]

La Course part II a bit of a farce. Dunno why they feel the need to reinvent the wheel...

I guess they were hoping for smaller time gaps to make it more exciting, but it just seemed pointless and didn't add anything to Thursday's stage.

 

[TimeyWimey]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/40692045

The press have mauled Brailsford this tour (and for the last 18 months) but then can't fathom why people aren't taken by Froome.

Comments are a hoot tho.