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D. Pecher replied to the thread Tour de France Tour De France 2025, Stage 17: Bollène - Valence(160.4K).Yep, another Cofidis master piece. -
D. Pecher replied to the thread Tour de France Tour De France 2025, Stage 17: Bollène - Valence(160.4K).You could choose any route you want. The usual jockeying for position on a wet road will almost inevitably lead to people face-planting...
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D. Pecher replied to the thread Tour de France Tour De France 2025, Stage 17: Bollène - Valence(160.4K).Well, that crash comes about as surprisingly as someone saying Amen in church. Such a pandemonium on wet roads was an accident waiting...
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D. Pecher replied to the thread Tour de France Tour De France 2025, Stage 17: Bollène - Valence(160.4K).Have to have the right flag next to your name. It's called Tour de France for a reason.
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D. Pecher replied to the thread Tour de France Tour De France 2025, Stage 17: Bollène - Valence(160.4K).Those four riders wasted a perfectly usable day of their life. Not that it wasn't foreseeable.
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D. Pecher replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2025, Stage 16: Montpellier to Mont Ventoux, 171.5 km.That's why he is the record holder in the first place. Had he worked upfront he would have had to expend much more energy. And frankly...
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Pogacar is really tiny though. I know you can't tell from this forum, where everyone goes on about him like he's an elephant compared to... -
D. Pecher replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2025, Stage 16: Montpellier to Mont Ventoux, 171.5 km.Have you ever raced a bike? I'm a 50+ year old who will never threaten to get invited to the Olympics, but even I can tell that I can...
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D. Pecher replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2025, Stage 16: Montpellier to Mont Ventoux, 171.5 km.The point is that the weight back in the day came at a cost in other places. Someone said earlier they had to change it every other day...
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D. Pecher replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2025, Stage 16: Montpellier to Mont Ventoux, 171.5 km.The idea that a 1998 bike was anywhere near as good as a contemporary one is frankly laughable. Let's assume it was below 7kg back then...
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D. Pecher replied to the thread Teams & Riders Everybody needs a little bit of Roglstomp in their lives.Yep, that's exactly what they did. Roglic tried to follow Vingegaards initial attack but soon noticed he didn't have the legs. He went...
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D. Pecher replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2025, Stage 16: Montpellier to Mont Ventoux, 171.5 km.I think it is a mixture of several things. UAE shut down any attempts quite consequentially, probably because they had plans to win with...
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D. Pecher replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2025, Stage 16: Montpellier to Mont Ventoux, 171.5 km.Technical progress over 10 years should make you a few percentage points faster to begin with. If you see just how much money they dump...
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D. Pecher replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2025, Stage 16: Montpellier to Mont Ventoux, 171.5 km.It's hard to let 10 guys go if thirty are trying. The trouble was that simply too many tried to get away and at some point UAE were...
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D. Pecher replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2025, Stage 16: Montpellier to Mont Ventoux, 171.5 km.If I recall correctly, bikes in the Pantani era weighed something like 9 kilos. They weigh 6.8 kilos these days, and that only because...
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