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At least with the banning of the TT position we won't have to listen to Carlton Kirby's endless references to "puppy paws"...

My main thought when struggling up the south side of Gavia from Ponte di Legno is that I wouldn't want to be descending this! The north side descent is pretty straightforward in comparison. Gavia south is a super hard climb, shame we don't see it more often in a decisive role or it ends up being...

What about Zomegnan Approves?

You have surpassed yourself with the Yugoslav race Libertine! Great route and very interesting to read about the history of this region

I voted Miguel Ángel Lopez, as others have said the only one I can feel confident will win a GT. He was so impressive on more diesel type climbs in la Vuelta and his time trial doesn't seem as bad as others (Chaves, Bardet). Have we ever seen Landa ride as GC leader yet? Giro '15 he was super...

La Vuelta was best for me, Giro had some well designed stages but had it not been for Dumoulin's "incident" the GC battle would have been much less tense. Was so looking forward to Stelvio stage and it didn't really deliver. Quintana was great on Blockhaus but faded thereafter. Still both were...

9/10 for me, easily the best GT of the year. Always difficult to think what might have been but if Contador hadn't been ill in Andorra and lost all that time it could have been truly spectacular. Most have outlined the good points well but highlights for me were: - Properly designed...

Kirby on any mountainous Vuelta stage - "could be a good one for Louis Meintjes to attack here". Last year in le Tour IIRC Kirby started on about wild boar and then proceeded to sing "wild boar, wild boar" to the tune of a Duran Duran song. Bizarre.

What a stage, would be great to see this climb in the Giro. Chapeau to Špilak and set up well by Taaramäe, Pozzovivo just blew after all his efforts yesterday and in the Giro. Both Dauphiné and Suisse have provided some enthralling racing this year. Always concerned le Tour may be a snoozefest...

Great win for Pozzovivo - could hardly watch those wet hairpins on the descent, just glad everyone stayed upright :surprised: He looks on excellent form, will need to be aggressive on the Tiefenbachferner today so should make for great racing. Špilak exemplified how hard he was riding to...

Fair enough, I think that Vuelta ITT was the exception that proved the rule. I probably wouldn't have remembered it had the result not been so outlandish :surprised: Really nice win for Warbasse yesterday, clearly meant a lot!

Re: Re: Vuelta 2013 disagrees... http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=24063

According to Kirby's recent Dauphiné commentary he has now been informed that Clarke doesn't like to be referred to as "Si" so he spent hours going on about that... At least we didn't have to sit through endless Reichenbach hype in the Giro

Re: Re: Yeah, according to CQ ranking he was riding for AG2R until the end of last year, didn't even realise he had retired.