Recent content by tokenron

Re: Re: No point in arguing. This forum's hate for Gerrans is too deep and irrational to hear sense. PS MSR he was marking attacks for Goss. OGE were covering all bases, he played his role perfectly, won a monument (but is still cycling's version of Satan).

Nice to see Stetina at the start-line, but by his own admission he's only had 2.5 weeks training after major reconstructive patella surgery. At best, he'll make one or two grupettos before abandoning. What's the point? Why keep another rider out of the race, and why risk developing a host of...

Cavendish has won 40+ GT stages, a WC, a monument, a heap of other races. He's only just hit 30 and doesn't appear to be carrying any lingering injuries. I doubt he'll ever dominate the sprints like he did during his hey-day, but then precious few sprinters ever have. People should write him off...

Rolland Porte Peraud Talansky Van Garderen The big 4 will lose too much time from penalties meted out for swapping wheels with Tony Martin at the start of Stage 2 after he fails to win in Utrecht due to falling into a manhole, the cover of which had been removed by one of Team Sky's...

Re: No spring chicken, either. Not sure if he had the form for it, but would have been interesting to see whether he could have matched PhilGil yesterday.

Re: 2015 Giro d'Italia, Stage 13: Montecchio Maggiore - Jeso Ale-Jet to put an exclamation mark on his Giro career by hitting the Ventolin™ just prior to the second roundabout and storming home to win by 5 lengths ahead of a fast-finishing Eugenio Alafaci

Looks like a cool stage. It might not be tough enough to shake up the top 5 but if Astana go Formula One it is easily hard enough to leave the bunch strewn out over the circuit. Astana and Tinkoff should be too strong for Porte to try anything today. My money is on a PhilGil style rider from...

Re: Re: :D Excellent point

Apples and oranges. Although FWIW, I found the "too many riders broke the rule, we couldn't have DQ'ed them all" excuse to be particularly pathetic. Seeing a rider almost take his head off ducking under the lowering boom and then seeing another ride their way across the tracks handful of seconds...

Re: Re: wow - having a bad day?

Re: Porte Penalised 2 minutes for getting Clarkes Wheel -Fai I am so jack of GTs and classics being ruined by unavoidable injuries and in this case, obscure rule violations. Is it just me, or does this stuff always seem to happen to race favourites? Dear Gods of Cycling, can we please have one...

I am certain in this day and age, companies who construct barriers used in sprint finishes can find a way to force a greater separation between riders and fans. This is where the racing is fastest and riders take the most risks. Hopefully Colli's injury can give this the impetus it deserves...

Regarding the Conti-Aru discussion, for the life of me I can't understand why people always try to view these things through their own moral frameworks. Just appreciate the facts, that they worked together to distance Uran and that Conti was peeved that Aru subsequently sprinted at the line for...

Re: Re: Not to mention that Gerrans' win in LBL was from a reduced bunch rather than a breakaway...basically, exactly what sprinters are lauded for on a daily basis. His win in MSR was more 'questionable', if you can call it that, although I don't think many people in his position actually...

Re: Re: I agree with you. You might take some of the danger posed by the sprint trains out of the equation by taking GC at 3kms, but you'd be adding a whole new element of nervousness at that point. Racers will always find something to fight over. Not to mention damaging the spectacle of a...