2013 Vuelta a España, Stage 3: Vigo - Mirador de Lobeira 184.8 Km

[Carols]

Oh crap Schlanger is back, I was kinda appreciating Young....

 

[murali]

And it's supposedly a recession

rebuilding roads is good in recession. Government spends money on providing jobs for those people. I just hope government can also pay and keep all the good races and teams afloat for a few years.


The route is not rubbish, esp if you compare with certain stages in TdF this year. Half the "flat stages" in tour were nothing but crash-traps. Atleast vuelta organisers haven't planned for a crash in this stage.

 

[roundabout]

rebuilding roads is good in recession. Government spends money on providing jobs for those people. I just hope government can also pay and keep all the good races and teams afloat for a few years.


The route is not rubbish, esp if you compare with certain stages in TdF this year. Half the "flat stages" in tour were nothing but crash-traps. Atleast vuelta organisers haven't planned for a crash in this stage.

Rebuilding a road that goes essentially nowhere is a waste of money.

But ok, that's not the right topic for it.

 

[max_powers]

break riding w hands on hoods, 3rd guy in peloton freewheeling.

I can understand why the vuelta shld be less than 3 weeks. no urgency here.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

rebuilding roads is good in recession. Government spends money on providing jobs for those people. I just hope government can also pay and keep all the good races and teams afloat for a few years.


The route is not rubbish, esp if you compare with certain stages in TdF this year. Half the "flat stages" in tour were nothing but crash-traps. Atleast vuelta organisers haven't planned for a crash in this stage.

This is a completely flat stage with a fast run-in to a ramp finish that every GC rider plus a whole load of stage hunters will trying to get position inside the final 10 km. Plus there's that long bridge to the island that they go over twice

It's dangerous alright

 

[murali]

when will they catch the break?

my gut feeling is that they will let the break hang till 10km left.

 

[murali]

This is a completely flat stage with a fast run-in to a ramp finish that every GC rider plus a whole load of stage hunters will trying to get position inside the final 10 km. Plus there's that long bridge to the island that they go over twice

It's dangerous alright

the only thing i can see is the possible conflict between stage hunters and GC riders.

how is this dangerous? The roads are so wide, the entire peloton can ride through it. Only Sky will be worried about that bridge, fearing echelons getting formed. But the speed at which they should be charging through that bridge, I don't think any crashes will happen there.

I will take back my words, only if there is a crash.

 

[T-Nielsen]

Acording to Rolf Sørensen Betancourt is 5-6 kg to heavy. He has talked with his italian coach (the name eludes me) and Betancourt have had some family issues and thats why the Vuelta is his first start in a long time.

Looks like we will not see him much in this Vuelta.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

how is this dangerous? The roads are so wide, the entire peloton can ride through it. Only Sky will be worried about that bridge, fearing echelons getting formed. But the speed at which they should be charging through that bridge, I don't think any crashes will happen there.

I don't know if those barriers carry on along the whole bridge, but if they do it could be chaos.

 

[Netserk]

Acording to Rolf Sørensen Betancourt is 5-6 kg to heavy. He has talked with his italian coach (the name eludes me) and Betancourt have had some family issues and thats why the Vuelta is his first start in a long time.

Looks like we will not see him much in this Vuelta.

I think Bartoli is his coach.

 

[Descender]

Not one reply so far on how rubbish that profile is?

Waw.

My doctor has forbidden me to get worked up about Unipublic's race designs.

 

[T-Nielsen]

I think Bartoli is his coach.

Thats was the name eluding me.

 

[Arnout]

rebuilding roads is good in recession. Government spends money on providing jobs for those people. I just hope government can also pay and keep all the good races and teams afloat for a few years.

Yeah throwing money to roads and other mostly useless and oversized infrastructure projects like there is no tomorrow will help the economy in ten years time for sure... Spain has been doing a lot of exactly that in the construction sector for the past 15 years and look where that brought them.

Sadly currently there is some sort of consensus that throwing good money after bad money is the thing to do to solve the economy. Rather, it only fills one bubble with another...

 

[T-Nielsen]

Yeah throwing money to roads and other mostly useless and oversized infrastructure projects like there is no tomorrow will help the economy in ten years time for sure... Spain has been doing a lot of exactly that in the construction sector for the past 15 years and look where that brought them.

Sadly currently there is some sort of consensus that throwing good money after bad money is the thing to do to solve the economy. Rather, it only fills one bubble with another...

You cannot lump crazy holiday hotel construction and common sence infastructure together.

Keynes theories are wellproven and solid.

 

[murali]

I don't know if those barriers carry on along the whole bridge, but if they do it could be chaos.

this barrier looks bad.

have to see whether unipublic can elicit a crash in this stage!

 

[roundabout]

I don't know if those barriers carry on along the whole bridge, but if they do it could be chaos.

I think they are. The lap around the island is only 8 km and from the map it seems that it's unlikely that the race is using the full width of the bridge

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

There's a road along a beach in a few kilometres that should give us an idea if the wind is going to do any damage today.

 

[rantanplan]

Lateral wind, a very soon the go to the Arousa island (link with a bridge), dangerous point.

 

[murali]

crash at a 90 deg turn

 

[roundabout]

Doesn't look super windy

 

[will10]

Lot of nervous guys in that bunch.

 

[rantanplan]

Gerrans out, 2 minutes behind

 

[murali]

spotted uran and stybar and fenn among the losers of that crash

 

[Carols]

Crash and crosswinds........action!

 

[Arnout]

You cannot lump crazy holiday hotel construction and common sence infastructure together.

Keynes theories are wellproven and solid.

If it is common sense infrastructure, probably. Google Ciudad Real Airport and decide if projects like that will help the Spanish economy