Recent content by BigShoes

Re: Re: If anyone can do it Sosa could! His ITT results as absolutely dreadful, whether its flat or hilly he manages to loses minutes in any TT he undertakes, his excels in long climbs and is most likely the best of the four I mention.

What will be most interesting as the young pups are unleashed is which of the four (TGH, Sivakov, Sosa Dunbar) are placed after the first week. Day 1 includes a tough partially steep uphill ITT which may leave Sosa exposed and trailing his three team mates by 1.30 mins (Dunbar) and 2 mins (TGH...

Phenomenally stupid idea. Expect to see some of the riders pull sickies to avoid participation in this PR stroke for the Israeli government. Israel, like it or not, is a toxic brand and is seen, particularly in Europe, as the South Africa of this millennium. Literally no good will come of this...

A very telling moment in today ES coverage. Up popped a table of "contenders" and the gaps. It had the riders listed as 1,2,4,5,6,9, 11, 21 and 38 (something like that) but no 3rd placed rider and one of those with the best records in the Vuelta listed namely Señor Roche. Hopefully his...

Re: Absolutely incredible. Hope it gets a decent rest and recovery and can return to race competitely for the autumn classics. Amazingly braze and tough rider to continue. But questions must be asked of the team not getting this diagnosed before they let him cycle another couple of thousands...

TT past results is not always a good predictor for future results. The main reason is that in a multi stage tour the only people giving it 100% are the rather small number of GC contenders and an roughly equal number of TT specialist. So for example when looking at Uran results the only ones...

It was Sytbar that was tracking Gilbert. Martin stayed with alongside Froome from about 1k out all the way to the finish and on the opposite side of the road from Gilbert and Stybar.

Very impressive ride today and tactially quite brilliant. I was seriously concerned today that his crash injuries would catch up to him and he would loose minutes. It seems fairly obvious that the reason he took up the pace on the final climb was that his back pain from the crash has basically...

Three hunches confirmed today. 1. Mentijes adds nothing to GC races. Talented enough to tag along with a bunch of GC favourites but so so so so conservative. He is the ultimate 'backbencher' of a cycling elite. 2. Landa is riding for himself and himself only. Froome knows it hence his chase...

I think ASO must have forgot to categorise that second climb that peaks at Morlaas. It rises almost 150 metres over 44km, and reportedly has gradients of almost 2% in places, such a pity Valverde isn't still here to launch a long distance solo attack on these steeper bits. In all seriousness...

This is a phenomenally bad idea. There is no way the Giro can go to Israel without it becoming highly politicised. The following things will occur politically if the plan proceeds. The Government of Israel will hail the decision claiming it 'proves' that the BDS movement is on its last legs...

Almost perfect start, to put it in perspective after the first short ITT and first hill finish (Huy) in TdF 2015 DM was 2.06 down on Froome and sitting in 20th position.

Buchmann is let go by the GC favs and wins

Re: Re: I have just joined after 3 years of enjoyably reading this forum to say I am equally amazed. I had a tenner on DM today (unfortunately not e/w) due to the ludicrous price he was available at - 50/1 on Paddy Power (an Irish owned company). Its not just this forum or the bookies, look...