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The Bicycle Racing Thread 2014

ouch!

Brailsford is missing a trick - the tension between Wiggins and 'yes I'm British' Froome could be the glue that holds Sky together. Froome could be spurred on to even higher RPMs and and even worse riding style than Jacky Durand in a bid to crush Sir Mod.

I detest Froome. I can't wait for Quintana - a rider who oozes eveything he is not - to turn up next year at the tour and hand him his arse in a cocked hat.
 
incidentally, why hang ASO decided to start the dauphine on a Sunday? seems a waste of a weekend afternoon to me.

This obviously has nothing to do with the fact that I've just spent half an hour trying to figure our how to work my mum's cable TV and wondering why there was no live cycling when the internet assured me that Frances definitely had live coverage
 
Froome takes 8 seconds out of Contador on a 10km TT. Ok, that's believable. I'm just going to check where the best place to catch Bilharzia is.
 
DownwardDog said:
Froome takes 8 seconds out of Contador on a 10km TT. Ok, that's believable. I'm just going to check where the best place to catch Bilharzia is.
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While i'm not one to put my neck on the line for anyone, least of all a rider I've raised questions about in the past, if you remove contador from those results you'd probably just shrug and think it was a weakish tt field.

taking less than a second per km out of Bobby jungles ain't all that, is it? Or am I being to generous?
 
With any Froome win in a big race there's an underlying issue - that a rider with his pre-transformation record wouldn't be expected to win any significant race of any type by any margin, unless he was in a lucky breakaway. But leaving that issue aside, there's little that's eyebrow raising about post-transformation Froome very narrowly beating that field in a TT. It would be more surprising if he hadn't won.
 
The Boy said:
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Even the most timid of my predictions are cursed at the moment!

On another note, Betancur seems to have run into visa issues so he's apparently stuck in Colombia. Hopefully they get it sorted quickly. And hopefully he doesn't come back carrying those extra pounds again.
 
Actually, on closer inspection it's both. Never picked up plane ticket, not answering calls, visa expires shortly (if not used, I guess).
 
I wonder if he's just not cut out for an endurance athlete's lifestyle despite his huge talent.

Ag2r management must be fucking furious. They are a very good team these days but he's their outstanding rider.
 
Nigel Irritable said:
I wonder if he's just not cut out for an endurance athlete's lifestyle despite his huge talent.

Ag2r management must be fucking furious. They are a very good team these days but he's their outstanding rider.
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Not the first time he's gone walkies, iirc. Might just not be suited to the lifestyle as you say, though given how amateurish the team management can still be on other matters there might well be more they can do to help.
 
Nigel Irritable said:
With any Froome win in a big race there's an underlying issue - that a rider with his pre-transformation record wouldn't be expected to win any significant race of any type by any margin, unless he was in a lucky breakaway. But leaving that issue aside, there's little that's eyebrow raising about post-transformation Froome very narrowly beating that field in a TT. It would be more surprising if he hadn't won.
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Froome on that climb yesterday was just ridiculous. Doping has always been around but there have been those who did it with class such as Anquetil, Maertens and so on and then there's Armstrong and on to today's super powered skeletons.

As for Froome in the past I remember him failing to hold off the following group on the short climb to San Michele in Bosco just outside Bologna a few years back when he was still Kenyan and before Brailsford got hold of him. Hope, probably in vain, the French come down like a ton of bricks on the farce this July.
 
quiquaquo said:
. Doping has always been around but there have been those who did it with class such as Anquetil, Maertens and so on and then there's Armstrong and on to today's super powered skeletons.
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I'm normally very bad with the rose tinters but whats classy about ingesting amphetamines? Sure it was more of an enhancement than transformational but Pollentier being caught with a bag of kids piss taped under his arm is just as dirty as anything Armstrong did.
 
quiquaquo said:
Froome on that climb yesterday was just ridiculous. Doping has always been around but there have been those who did it with class such as Anquetil, Maertens and so on and then there's Armstrong and on to today's super powered skeletons.
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The ancien regime doped just as much as they could given the techniques of the day. If Anquetil were riding today he'd be doing everything: testosterone gel caps, blood bags via motoman, epo micro dosing and whatever the fuck it is they're doing to Froome.
 
DownwardDog said:
The ancien regime doped just as much as they could given the techniques of the day. If Anquetil were riding today he'd be doing everything: testosterone gel caps, blood bags via motoman, epo micro dosing and whatever the fuck it is they're doing to Froome.
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Maginal gains that's all, totally clean and normal:

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Sigmund Fraud said:
I'm normally very bad with the rose tinters but whats classy about ingesting amphetamines? Sure it was more of an enhancement than transformational but Pollentier being caught with a bag of kids piss taped under his arm is just as dirty as anything Armstrong did.
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Best you can really say if your feeling generous is that the old methods required a bit more...I hesitate to say panache.

Knowing when was the right right point in the race too down one's finishing bottle and so on. Target than relying on Ferrari or whoever spoonfeeding you with a timetable of what to take and when.
 
AG2R confirm no Betancur for the Tour. He'll apparently be in Italy shortly to begin preparations for la Vuelta/Worlds.
 
The Boy said:
AG2R confirm no Betancur for the Tour. He'll apparently be in Italy shortly to begin preparations for la Vuelta/Worlds.
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Shit I had £5e/w on him.

Big result in the Dauphine - saying no more in case you're all watching the highlights later.
 
Froome presumable struggling a little after his crash the previous day. Nibbles not on form at all really - can't see him playing a major role come July. Cracking ride by Bardet after a disappointing start to the week.

In the other race taking place in Switzerland yesterday, Wiggins either couldn't be arsed or the form from AToC has been exaggerated. Given the strong showing by Dennis I'd go for the former with new team to be announced in August after he misses the Tour.
 
Brilliant stage - probably the best day's (stage) racing all year. Groups of riders here, there and everywhere. Great rides again by Bardet and Yates.
 
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