2014 Tour de France, Stage 11: Besançon - Oyonnax (187.5 km)

[willbick]

no room in the car

:d:d:d:d:d

 

[petiagos]

Roche pulling hard ... to the last mountain ... Rogers attack

 

[winkybiker]

Nice road. Looks a great place to ride.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Isn't it Roche though ?

Ah yes, Belgian commentators said Rogers. Wasn't really watching

 

[Rollthedice]

no room in the car

Some sad stuff going on. Talansky is dead and alone and the Garming guys let or force him ride. Why?

 

[JimPanzen]

Predicttion: Slagter winning stage, rest of his team out of time limit.

 

[winkybiker]

OK, Garmin, we've all seen enough of the "ironic ugly" glasses. We all get the joke. You can move on to glasses that don't look absolutely ridiculous now.

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Don't think Garmin are doing themselves any favours here.

They attack the peloton then persuade Talansky to carry on ?? Shouldn't they have made those decisions in the reverse order ?

Surely Talansky is in a huge amount of pain which won't just disappear !

And the amount of effort he will need to put in today would surely rule him out of any stage wins too?

Seems crazy to me . . . .

 

[willbick]

Some sad stuff going on. Talansky is dead and alone and the Garming guys let or force him ride. Why?

because its the biggest race in the world?

 

[Arredondo]

A really nice stage so far!

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Slagter gone. That was stupid. He was right there but refused to close a little gap.. and now gone. Well done Garmin

 

[maxmartin]

Some sad stuff going on. Talansky is dead and alone and the Garming guys let or force him ride. Why?

because it is Garmin, they are famous for their idiotic tactics, welcome to vent in the Garmin Disaster thread

 

[classicomano]

Slagter gone. That was stupid. He was right there but refused to close a little gap.. and now gone. Well done Garmin

Just not good enough, tiny engine.

 

[Jerkovin]

All this moaning. We should be thanking the Garmin guys for at least making something interesting happen in an otherwise uninteresting first 120kms.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Just not good enough, tiny engine.

tiny engine that finished 6th in LBL?? Right.

Just not good enough today I think

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Slagter gone. That was stupid. He was right there but refused to close a little gap.. and now gone. Well done Garmin

Yeah, yet you just spent like 10 posts telling everyone how stupid they are for not understanding that genius strategy. Maybe you should go DS for Garmin.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Slagter already caught by the peloton

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Yeah, yet you just spent like 10 posts telling everyone how stupid they are for not understanding that genius strategy. Maybe you should go DS for Garmin.

The tactic was logical to ride for Slagter what wasn't logical is why they burned through the team so fast. And Slagter not being good enough, that's a risk you have

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Garmin has now adopted the tactic of working for other random teams.

 

[hmpower]

Garmin clusterf...

 

[TourOfSardinia]

they shoot horses don't they?

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

The tactic was logical to ride for Slagter what wasn't logical is why they burned through the team so fast. And Slagter not being good enough, that's a risk you have

But...but...he won 2 P-N stages!

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

They did the right thing. They couldn't know Slagter was this bad. He is way worse than few stages ago

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

But...but...he won 2 P-N stages!

You can be like that all you want. The tactic was correct. You cannot predict if he is on a good day or not Who's the *** now?

 

[Warhawk]

I hear Garmin's new strategy is to leash a tiger to the team car, make Talansky wear a bacon jersey, and drive along behind him.