Recent content by lebbegehtweider

From my point its a mediocre route. The lack of TT kilometers and even more the lack of hard multi mountain stages doens't allow a good rating. Also some less sprint stages would be also ok. However I don't think the route is that bad. There are many positives: ++ Mont du Chat stage is...

It is not such unlickly that none of the big 4 starts at the Vuelta, since all of them plan to ride the Tour. Even if one of them starts after riding the Tour he will be not in top form and thus beatable (like Froome 2012). In this case Aru and Valverde will be the main favorites. However it...

MSR: Degenkolb RVV: Sagan PR: Vanmarcke LBL: Kwiatkowski GDL: Kwiatkowski WRR: Sagan Giro: Contador - Aru - Uran Tour: Quintana - Froome - Nibali Vuelta: Aru - Valverde - Rodriguez

Ok its discussable whether a cobblestone stage is neccessary every year. But from my opinion it's ok that it appears more often now (3 times from 2010 to 2015). And for sure the route was not "defined" by the cobbles in any of that races. There were always enough mountains and/or TTs. The time...

Yes, Contador could be further forward, thus it was partly his own fault. But it was also bad luck, since you cannot ride on the front all day and he crashed not himself but was affected by a crash of a teammate of Andy. However as you said its fully ok for me when other riders take an advantage...

Arghhhhh, don't remember me on this. :mad: I jumped from the couch and screamed to the tv "go, go, go, go, you f... idiot, don't wait, just go". Bitter memories. :D

I really don't understand Andy and his fanboys in this chaingate issue. Let's remeber the questionable stages in that tour: Stage 2: Andy chrashed and would have lost several minutes. Cancellara tried to neutralize he stage and the GC contenders (including) accepted to wait for Andy. He would...

Schleck gained 10s in Avoriaz and lost 10s in Mende. In all other mountain stages they finished in the same time (except for the Bales stage where Schleck lost some time according to his mechanical). Why do you think Schleck was better in the mountains?

I just answered to the statement below.

This is probably correct. But this is not correct. There were only 2 mountain stages where Nibali finished alone. In the other stages he finished together with a group or at least one rival (Peraud). Thus the others maybe ignored Nibali but for sure tried to loose as little time as possible...

Yes, for sure. And it could have been some minutes more easily if Nibali had wanted. I just want to make the point that if you want to rate Nibali in the 14 tour, you have to consider both the strength of the field and time differences made.

I can't resist to reuse an old joke: Was does Wiggens after finishing above Froome in a MTF? He closes the Cycling Manager and shut done his computer. :D

I fully agree that 2014 was a mediocre field. However the second was 7:30 behind and the fifth 11:30. If you look at the guys so far behind in the GTs you mentioned and in the other Tours Contador won, this would be also a mediocre field.

For sure Wiggins is not the best stage racer but he isn't that bad as some of you make him. Even if two or three HC mountain finishes were added to the 2012 tour, do you really think Nibali had gained 6 minutes on Wiggins? Please remember Wiggins didn't loose any time in the mountains against...

:eek: I tried it but I failed.