twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
The OPQS line is that they were whacked closing down the break. Been a good week up to now but Kwiatowski is out of yellow in Romandie.
The Bicycle Racing Thread 2014
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The OPQS line is that they were whacked closing down the break. Been a good week up to now but Kwiatowski is out of yellow in Romandie.
Will be on Eurosport. ITV4 show le Tour live so might be on there? Also pretty sure I read somewhere about the BBC covering the Irish stages though may have made that up.
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
So looking forward to this. Could be awesome.
Has everyone seen the Armstrong Lie film (available at all good torrent sites). Such an epic piss taking bastard (coming from someone that only really got into cycling about 2 years ago (and even later to understand road race cycling) so never quite saw the scale of his actions etc. What a hateable wanker!
Eurosport player can be subscribed to for, iirc, £3.00/month. Haven't used it so no idea about if it's worth it so would have a look about for reviews if you're thinking about it.
Failing that, check out steephill.tv and cyclingfans - they always have pretty comprehensive directories of available streams. Quality can obviously be poor on an illegal stream though.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Eurosport Player for £5.99 a month allows HD streaming through an Xbox. It's how I watch cycling.
How is it? Picture quality any good? An buffering problems, or connection dropping out or whatever?
Been thinking about getting it when I'm able to ditch Virgin telly but having spent a year watching cycling on choppy pirate streams I'm loathe to go back to anything even close.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Very, very good. Not quite Sky HD quality, but not far off. No buffering or connection issues so far.
Interesting. Will probably sign up for a month at some point to check it out.
Predictions for the next three weeks, then?
I've backed Arredondo (151.00), Evans (11.00) and Uran (16.00) e/w for the overall. I've also got Arredondo (7.50) and Geniez (9.00) to finish in the top-10, Evans to podium @ 3.00 and a comedy bet on AG2R to win the team classification @ 41.00.
Oh, and Movistar to win TTT @ 9.00.
I've backed Arredondo (151.00), Evans (11.00) and Uran (16.00) e/w for the overall. I've also got Arredondo (7.50) and Geniez (9.00) to finish in the top-10, Evans to podium @ 3.00 and a comedy bet on AG2R to win the team classification @ 41.00.
Oh, and Movistar to win TTT @ 9.00.
Sigmund Fraud
893 all the way.
Blimey - does Dan Martin have a 'Schleck' type bike handling problem do you think? This was on dead straight road and the LBL blunder was reportedly a pedal strike to the ground. In the old days they would send you on a winter season of cross racing to cure these problems.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
All I did so far was fivers on OPQS in the TTT and Petacchi on stage 2 and 3, which is unlikely but OPQS have been pretty kind to me this year.
No idea, but I transferred him out of my fantasy cycling team just this morning in a last-minute re-jig. Normally it goes the other way.
edit: having seen the crash, I'm prepared to give him some sort of benefit of the doubt. There are a couple of slightly sunken manhole covers on my commute that are treacherous - especially in the wet, or if you aren't cycling dead straight.
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DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
You're not (as far as I know!) a pro on a World Tour team though. Awesome bike handling skills should be a given at that level. Pro cycling's "Mr Sex" has had too many accidents for it to be just bad luck.
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
I though the guy in front of him fell first?. Bad luck though.
I'm also not generally unsighted by four other riders. Afaict, first manhole cover knocked Martin and whoever was behind him in the chain off balance, second one brought hi down - I assume due to wet metal/bikist in an unstable riding position trying to recover balance combo.
I'm sure it has to go down as a mistake, but not quite the "omg Dan Martin crashed going in a straight line" hyperbole that some quarters of the internet have been going in for. After all, it wasn't Schleck or Wiggins going downhill in the wet, imo. Or Bouhanni going round a corner in the dry for that matter.
It really did, didn't it? I though Bouhanni had managed to get the jump on him by going early, but turned out to be the other way round. Absolute monster.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
It wasn't really an uphill finish. You would barely notice the slight incline walking along the street.
Great crowds out for the race, but dogshit stage design. Although I suppose stages that might in theory produce echelons are usually boring when they don't.
Great crowds out for the race, but dogshit stage design. Although I suppose stages that might in theory produce echelons are usually boring when they don't.
That'll teach me to listen to EUrosprt comms
. Though I did also take into account the fact that Swift and EBH got involved.Also: good to see so many out by the roads, and in pretty awful weather.
