Recent content by Oldman

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    Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread

    He needs to ride the Tour on a good team to know what it takes to win. Pogacar being absent would help.
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    Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread

    Agree and the two middle paragraphs emphasize the level of mismanagement and preparation he was exposed to. It's hard to say he is to blame for the choices made when he was a hyped 18 year old. Too much pressure to make a huge jump. Now he's gotten a great, fresh start. It's not an indication...
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    Teams & Riders The "MVP" Mathieu Van der Poel Road Discussion Thread

    Road and MtB are too close for events and he's taking enough risk with CX domination with a slight break before serious road season. He rode flawlessly today, even when the downpour made the track hyper-slick.
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    National Football League

    Hopefully he'll be at this best. On the other hand, they could be met with the reception the Bronc's received the last time they played the Seahawks in a SB. View: https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1qsokuw/highlight_kam_chancellor_huge_hit_on_demaryius/ That was followed by great...
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    Teams & Riders The "MVP" Mathieu Van der Poel Road Discussion Thread

    Just watched the complete Belgian race. Seeing MvP seeking revenge after a flat tire was impressive. Everyone in front of him, save for his teammate dropped the hammer in hopes of leaving him behind. It only made his response worse and his buddy was a great help.
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    Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread

    Visma decided to leave Primoz; who was leading on the PR pave' stage of that Tour by a considerable margin...on the road edge to reset his own shoulder and ride to the finish. Then he worked with what assets he had left to assist his team to get the win. JV decided in the car and probably...
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    Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread

    Easier to have predictable long-sleeved suits for aero metrics. Plus....we don't have to look at the Mantis forearms of climbers in direct comparison to other teammates.
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    National Football League

    How could they place importance on it. Ask Caitlin Jenner how far that takes you in life...
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    Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread

    The whole team looked good although in the Tour they'll need to keep the principal climbers in their echelon. GC depends on more than 4 finishers.
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    National Football League

    So, of the 11 naysaying voters do you think they'll find 1 or 2 selectors from NFL market teams destroyed by NE? Year after year of losing? Whining, cringing and complaining to their faithful readers within the market? I haven't read the bylaws but it seems the statement suggests they plan...
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    National Football League

    I live in a really cold place and I can attest that it's true.
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    Teams & Riders Jonas Vingegaard thread: Love in Iberia

    The contractual insistence that they wear team colors when they ride, for promotional purposes; doesn't help. That, and legit racers that post their Strava routes and training itinerary on their SM accounts.
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    Teams & Riders Jonas Vingegaard thread: Love in Iberia

    Not at all. I'd question your sense of proximate security if that famous person is bigger than you and their posture suggests they don't appreciate your skeezy fixation. Do you know many people that wouldn't feel uncomfortable? It's certain common sense that seems absent. That, and the...
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    National Football League

    Belichick won, unapologetically. His cheating tactics were also explored by virtually every other team and avoided, not because they were unsporting but because they didn't work well enough to risk getting caught. The deep-seated grudges carried by some sports fans will be shown to be the...
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    Crashes, what can be done?

    IMO, the single element impacting actual use will be heat management. It's surely possible they could make a breathable jersey liner that can be inflated via motion monitors like the helmet crash sensors. The "deflation" could also be a product of the liner's breathability as pressure could...