2012 Vuelta a España: Stage 1: Pamplona → Pamplona (TTT) (16.5km)

[cycladianpirate]

Is it just me or is Caja Rural looking horrid in TTT mode? Struggling to get on wheel, scattered all over the road...

Have you been watching team pursuiting at the Olympics? Always makes the road TTT look dodgy. Cycling indoors on smooth boards is somewhat less troublesome

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

On the Vuelta website, the live times page doesn't work, and the adverts are for PCM 2011

#professional

 

[Ney the Viking]

Garmin 9:29 @ 8km

 

[Ney the Viking]

Garmin huge crash, damn

At least 3 riders down and one dropped

 

[Mellow Velo]

TTT=Garmin's end of Vuelta.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Garmin **** up - at least 2 down + 1 giving up

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Textbook from greenedge...

 

[Publicus]

Finale is REALLY technical.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Incidentally, any idea why the timing seems to be 4 seconds behind the pictures?

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Caja Rural slow, Greenedge messy, Garmin crash. Good start...

 

[SergeDeM]

The whole bullring thing is not only an unfortunate choice imagewise for Spain but also very lame as well entertainmentwise.

 

[Ney the Viking]

Yeah it's not exactly straight wide roads. Garmins safe with 5 riders, but not looking good. No reports on who crashed yet.

 

[Forunculo]

The time is few seconds beyond the 5th rider, but the final 1.5 km is amazing

 

[therealtimshady]

I dont know but Kirby said in SS it will be him for first 2 days then harmonn.

Oh good - harmon is much better than kirby

 

[TourOfSardinia]

The feed I've got working at
http://sports-livez.com/channel/ch-8.php
is too low res to see the timings

Anyone know a better one?

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Garmin have 1 man just sitting on - guessing the wrong people crashed so they're now stuffed.

 

[hrotha]

The whole bullring thing is not only an unfortunate choice imagewise for Spain but also very lame as well entertainmentwise.

It's a Sanfermines thing, not strictly about bullfighting.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Maybe Gilbert will finally get his win today.

 

[Ney the Viking]

Garmin in 20:19 .. really really bad start for them
og and bmc best @ 8m 6 seconds ahead og garmin 7 of orica, liquigas 10 behind

 

[Forunculo]

They fix the time now

http://www.rojadirecta.me/goto/adrenalina-deportes.blogspot.com/p/adrenalina-deportes-1.html

Stream anyone?

 

[T-Nielsen]

Who is actually there for RSNT.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Official timing showing Garmin as 3rd (after 3 riders) but their time is quicker than the time they gave Caja.

Safe to say this is not a classic showing for the organisers.

 

[SergeDeM]

It's a Sanfermines thing, not strictly about bullfighting.

Sanfermines are still bad imagewise in my point of view. Anyway that's not a discussion for this thread at least. The people on the stands barely get what? 2 seconds of viewtime per team? Quite lame.

 

[Ney the Viking]

BMC smashing everything in 19:03 52km/h!!

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Cheeky Phil clearly still grieving his lost national championships.