2014 Tour Down Under Stage 6: Adelaide Circuit Race

[auscyclefan94]

Start time: 12.30pm*

Finish time: 2.30pm* approximately

Adam Internet Sprint locations: Laps 6, 12 and 18.

Powerade Hydration Station: Bartels Road.

Race distance: 18 laps, 4.75km circuit, totaling 85.5km.

 

[Afrank]

Hmm...flat circuit around adelaide...most likely a bunch sprint between Greipel and Kittel...probably will be a pretty dull final stage...



F*ck it, Evans to go on the attack and rip the race apart taking back the overall through bonus seconds!

 

[BigMac]

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F*ck it, Evans to go on the attack and rip the race apart taking back the overall through bonus seconds!

Actually, that seems reasonable.

 

[manafana]

Kittel takes it wonder will ewan be back in action and grab 3rd

 

[greenedge]

Kittel to take it. Gerrans to win.

 

[wirral]

Final GC

1. Gerrans
2. Ulissi
3. Evans
4. Porte

 

[Trev_S]

Kittel to win the stage and the GC order will remain as it is.

The bonus seconds mean nothing to anybody bar those few guys in the top 4 of the GC. Greenedge have a far better leadout and sprinters to let Evans, Ulissi or Porte get any.

I don't think the Intermediate time bonuses should exist in this race (anymore) given it's no longer a sprinters race.
Increase the points value at the int sprints and put more emphasis on the sprint jersey instead.

 

[wirral]

that map is not right about the laps and sprint points.

 

[manafana]

id feel that time bonuses encourage attacks at the least and positive racing the climbs in tdu arn't that diffcult the time gaps have been very small

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Liggett is convinced that Ulissi can win this stage.

 

[Captain Serious]

Has Greipel tanned at all since he's been here?

 

[Afrank]

Gorilla again.

 

[Captain Serious]

too easy.

sdfsdfsdf

 

[Afrank]

1. Greipel
2. Renshaw
3. Fenn
4. De Kort
5. Cantwell
6. Goss
7. Haas
8. Roelandts
9. Kolar
10. Hayman

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

I hope Kittel enjoyed his holiday this week...

 

[Tragic]

zzzzzzzzzzz---

 

[wirral]

Renshaw led out Fenn and then beat him easily. Renshaw - Cavendish double act is going to own the big sprints this year.

What happened to Kittel there by the way, just disappeared?

 

[stefank]

I hope Kittel enjoyed his holiday this week...

A little odd, as he seemed to start the week with some sort of form. Maybe it's San Luis for him next year!

 

[The Hitch]

Liggett is convinced that Ulissi can win this stage.

I'm impressed ligget knows who that is.

 

[movingtarget]

Dull end to a good race. Can't really complain about the hilly stages. But only a couple of pages of comments on here tell the story. It is what it is and Gerrans was the hot favourite before the race started. Three TDU victories for him now. With a bit of tweaking this could be a much better race. See what the future brings. But good to see that Porte and Evans came out to play as well and Ulissi. Probably the best edition so far.

 

[Velosport]

Tour Down Under Stage 6 highlights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9OA9mvTQts

 

[theyoungest]

I'm impressed ligget knows who that is.

He's the voice of cycling. The brain of cycling, however...

 

[DirtTurtle]

Liggett is convinced that Ulissi can win this stage.

Well his info showed him that Ulissi had won 2 under 23 word champs, so it qualifies him for 1500+ watts on the flat because he out sprinted the others twice "uphill".

 

[search]

He's the voice of cycling. The brain of cycling, however...

I honestly was pretty impressed he did manage to recognize every single rider in the sprints this week, even the likes of Geschke, Fenn and so on

 

[Trev_S]

They'll always talk it up to try an make it more exciting to the general audience who simply don't know.