King Biscuit Time
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Anyone know if there's anywhere you can watch the Tour of Oman highlights online?
Bicycle Racing Thread 2013
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King Biscuit, steephill.tv might be worth a look, as might cyclingtorrents.nl
In other news, UCI are to experiment with 6 rider teams this season. Not sure which two races are to be used for this experiment but it sounds like a good idea to me. A good 8 or 9 rider team can control most races quite easily these days, so anything that brings a bit of unpredictability is good in my eyes.
In other news, UCI are to experiment with 6 rider teams this season. Not sure which two races are to be used for this experiment but it sounds like a good idea to me. A good 8 or 9 rider team can control most races quite easily these days, so anything that brings a bit of unpredictability is good in my eyes.
artyfarty
A shed on a ditch.
Interesting that Bertie suddenly cant keep up. God I hope it's an even playing field.
King Biscuit Time
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CAS orders UCI to issue Katusha a WorldTour licence. Remains to be seen if UCI will simply add them as a World Tour team, or if they will have to remove the licence from one of the other teams. Or indeed if Wild Card entries will be withdrawn as a result.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
It's going to be a fucking mess. Either some other WT gets shafted, or the ProConti teams who've got wildcards to races like the Giro get shafted. My money is on the latter.
I agree. I was thinking the UCI might expand their experiment of reduced teams to include all WT races and just add an extra team to the mix. That would be far too sensible though.
OK, so it's the start of the season proper this weekend. Omloop and K-B-K. First meeting of OPQS and Lotto sprint trains at the latter, assuming it isn't cancelled due to the weather.
So umm, yeah. Hills. And cobbles. And possibly snow.
Juergen Roelandts to win Omloop. Cav to win KBK.
So umm, yeah. Hills. And cobbles. And possibly snow.
Juergen Roelandts to win Omloop. Cav to win KBK.
Cyril Guimard reckons Andy should go to FDJ 
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http://www.wort.lu/fr/view/cyrille-...et-pour-andy-schleck-51238a3ee4b0db48addbea61
My predictions for Omloop were a bit off, so will try and make amends by touting Sagan for Strade Bianchi this weekend.
edit: Although I reserve the right to change my predictions depending on what happens in the GP Camaiore this afternoon.
.http://www.wort.lu/fr/view/cyrille-...et-pour-andy-schleck-51238a3ee4b0db48addbea61
My predictions for Omloop were a bit off, so will try and make amends by touting Sagan for Strade Bianchi this weekend.
edit: Although I reserve the right to change my predictions depending on what happens in the GP Camaiore this afternoon.
Not sure if this deserves it's own thread, but figured here would do for now.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-...said-to-discuss-breakaway-cycling-series.html
It would seem BSkyB are in talks with the organisers of the oft-touted World Series of Cycling. Last I saw this was going to be a series of four day races - one flat stage, one hilly, one TT etc. Load of bollocks basically. And ASO aren't involved according the article, but can't see that being a problem if Sky are aiming it at newer cycling nations. Could be horrible, frankly.
edit: Although obviously things like teams getting a share of TV money etc is a good move.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-...said-to-discuss-breakaway-cycling-series.html
It would seem BSkyB are in talks with the organisers of the oft-touted World Series of Cycling. Last I saw this was going to be a series of four day races - one flat stage, one hilly, one TT etc. Load of bollocks basically. And ASO aren't involved according the article, but can't see that being a problem if Sky are aiming it at newer cycling nations. Could be horrible, frankly.
edit: Although obviously things like teams getting a share of TV money etc is a good move.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
BSkyB are just about the only people I'd like to see controlling professional cycling less than the UCI top brass.
Sagan rode for Moser in Strade Bianchi today. Nice little one-two.
Paris-Nice starts tomorrow. TJVG, Gesink, Talansky and Porte will be fighting it out for GC imo. Interesting prologue though - only 3km long and quite technical. Have put a few sprinters in my fantasy team as I reckon they could be in amongst the TT specialists.
Paris-Nice starts tomorrow. TJVG, Gesink, Talansky and Porte will be fighting it out for GC imo. Interesting prologue though - only 3km long and quite technical. Have put a few sprinters in my fantasy team as I reckon they could be in amongst the TT specialists.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Or he could crash out of the race.@ my predictions.
That looked like it hurt. A proper face-rearranging wallop.
Quite an odd crash too - he seemed to just lose control of his bike going around a pretty unremarkable corner. The kind of crash I'd expect from someone with my dismal bike handling skills rather than a top pro sprinter.
was just about to post a reply before your edit saying much the same thing. I used to do that all the time as a kid, although my hands and arms took the brunt rather than my face.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
That makes sense.
Finished with some pace as well, the big German.
Yeah, managed to convince myself that the ramp would take the sting out of his sprint but he deffo showed me
. Still, little Sam Dumoulin did well for me.
