Bicycle Racing Thread 2013
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Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Nibali is the most entertaining GC rider in the peloton.
. Shame I had to go back to work 
.Hang on. I thought Froome was a heck of a lot closer than 34 secs, and the TT was 19km rather than 9. Nibbles has it, no doubt.
ferrelhadley
There is no love between us anymore.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
What a great race.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Fair play to Wiggins for having a go on the descent today. I'm not usually a fan, but if he were to ride like that more often I'd rapidly become more favourably disposed. There was a great moment where he dropped his own team mates and then sort of sat up looking exasperated.
The most interesting bit about it was the proof that he can descend well.
The most interesting bit about it was the proof that he can descend well.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
The Queen stage of the Tour of Catalunya was fantastic today. If you have Eurosport watch the highlights later.
(No groups larger than four riders arrived in the first 75!).
(No groups larger than four riders arrived in the first 75!).
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Having just watched that again:
I still don't know what Sky/Movistar/Katusha thought they were doing letting a 23 man break including some top quality climbers off up the road. That introduced an element of randomness that none of them needed.
It looks like the "Skyborg" tactic has its problems, not least the immediate assumption by all of the other leader's teams that they can simply sit on the back of the train all day contributing nothing. With more than 6 kms left and only Uran still there for Wiggins, it should have been obvious that Sky weren't able to control the break.
Nice to see big names attacking in earnest during this race. Gesink, JVDB, JRod, Quintana and even Wiggins! Quintana looks like a huge climbing talent. Also, well done to Dan Martin, who went out and made up for a disappointing stage yesterday in spectacular fashion.
Should be a bit of fun yet to come. While Martin is very good on "classics" style hilly courses, I suspect that JRod will have him on Montjuic, which would let hm snatch the overall on time bonuses.
I still don't know what Sky/Movistar/Katusha thought they were doing letting a 23 man break including some top quality climbers off up the road. That introduced an element of randomness that none of them needed.
It looks like the "Skyborg" tactic has its problems, not least the immediate assumption by all of the other leader's teams that they can simply sit on the back of the train all day contributing nothing. With more than 6 kms left and only Uran still there for Wiggins, it should have been obvious that Sky weren't able to control the break.
Nice to see big names attacking in earnest during this race. Gesink, JVDB, JRod, Quintana and even Wiggins! Quintana looks like a huge climbing talent. Also, well done to Dan Martin, who went out and made up for a disappointing stage yesterday in spectacular fashion.
Should be a bit of fun yet to come. While Martin is very good on "classics" style hilly courses, I suspect that JRod will have him on Montjuic, which would let hm snatch the overall on time bonuses.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
He's a strange rider really. His form seems very unpredictable. One day he has nothing, the next he wins.
Does he still suffer badly from hay fever? Could go some way to explaining it I suppose, though not really in the sort of weather we've seen Catalunya.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Yes, hay fever still randomly screws up parts of his season until after the Giro, which is why most of his best results tend to be in the later part of the season.
There's something pretty funny about bunch sprints with almost no sprinters left. Very sloppy by JRod and Quintana to lose a few seconds at the finish. Martin also beat JRod to the bonus second earlier. 14 seconds isn't a lot, but it looks a lot stronger than 10 with 10 second time bonuses available.
