2015 Vuelta Stage 17 : Burgos - Burgos ITT 39 km

[Billie]

Valverde will podium the timetrial today. maybe even better than Bodnar

 

[Miburo]

haha so hilarious seeing some cheer for dumoulin knowing they were disgusted with sky.

Purito is done, another failure for him, nice.

 

[GuyIncognito]

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Poor-ito :-(

How much has he lost so far?

So far he's just lost the Vuelta.

'Nothing, then' - Cav

 

[damian13ster]

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Wind must have dropped in the last hour

Yeah, favoring those that started later. By far.....
Poor Bodnar

 

[DFA123]

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Valverde will podium the timetrial today. maybe even better than Bodnar

He's an underrated time triallist. Always puts in a decent performance when he is suitably motivated. Probably because his normal riding position is so low, it doesn't take much effort to swith to his TT bike.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

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Majka really looks awful on his bike.

Pretty unprofessional by both him and Purito to have such a poor position on the bike. It's all well and good sprinting to gain 10 seconds on a MTF, but perhaps would have been better to spend a bit more time training for TTs, so you don't lose 4 or 5 minutes on them

Majka is not a bad time trialist. 9th on the flat TdS route indicates that. Mind you, it's 2 months since his last time trial (in the Tour) - he lacks rythm

 

[Miburo]

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Wind must have dropped in the last hour

Yeah, favoring those that started later. By far.....
Poor Bodnar

Tinkoff is cursed with the wind in the ITT this year

 

[Gigs_98]

Quintana is very good. Just a pity that he lost so much time in the Andorra stage

 

[infeXio]

31:41 for Dumoulin

 

[DFA123]

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Majka really looks awful on his bike.

Pretty unprofessional by both him and Purito to have such a poor position on the bike. It's all well and good sprinting to gain 10 seconds on a MTF, but perhaps would have been better to spend a bit more time training for TTs, so you don't lose 4 or 5 minutes on them

Majka is not a bad time trialist. 9th on the flat TdS route indicates that. Mind you, it's 2 months since his last time trial (in the Tour) - he lacks rythm

Don't agree. That time trial wasn't flat, it was mostly up or down. Aerodynamics weren't so important; his position is awful.

 

[sir fly]

Dumoulin upped his cadence.

 

[TomLPC]

1st at the second intermediate, by 'a handful of seconds', thanks Carlton.

 

[Miburo]

LMAO Dumoulin, the best ITT and the best in uphill sprints. This is even better than when horner won.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Dumoulin wins the time trial

 

[Sciatic]

French announcers: "Le TGV Tom Dumoulin"

 

[infeXio]

Re: Re:

Majka really looks awful on his bike.

Pretty unprofessional by both him and Purito to have such a poor position on the bike. It's all well and good sprinting to gain 10 seconds on a MTF, but perhaps would have been better to spend a bit more time training for TTs, so you don't lose 4 or 5 minutes on them

Majka is not a bad time trialist. 9th on the flat TdS route indicates that. Mind you, it's 2 months since his last time trial (in the Tour) - he lacks rythm

Don't agree. That time trial wasn't flat, it was mostly up or down. Aerodynamics weren't so important; his position is awful.

You are well aware that its a fine balance between feeling comfortable and being aerodynamic, right?

 

[LaFlorecita]

Pffff......

 

[damian13ster]

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Majka really looks awful on his bike.

Pretty unprofessional by both him and Purito to have such a poor position on the bike. It's all well and good sprinting to gain 10 seconds on a MTF, but perhaps would have been better to spend a bit more time training for TTs, so you don't lose 4 or 5 minutes on them

Majka is not a bad time trialist. 9th on the flat TdS route indicates that. Mind you, it's 2 months since his last time trial (in the Tour) - he lacks rythm

Don't agree. That time trial wasn't flat, it was mostly up or down. Aerodynamics weren't so important; his position is awful.

Because he didn't train. He looked very good in Giro 2014 on the flat part. Put minutes there into all other contenders. Didn't really train TT since then

 

[The Chicken]

Is Dumoulin out of contract?

 

[Gigs_98]

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Valverde will podium the timetrial today. maybe even better than Bodnar

He's an underrated time triallist. Always puts in a decent performance when he is suitably motivated. Probably because his normal riding position is so low, it doesn't take much effort to swith to his TT bike.

like in last years tour?

 

[May0maniac]

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LMAO Dumoulin, the best ITT and the best in uphill sprints. This is even better than when horner won.

The Dutch Kaiser

 

[DFA123]

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Majka really looks awful on his bike.

Pretty unprofessional by both him and Purito to have such a poor position on the bike. It's all well and good sprinting to gain 10 seconds on a MTF, but perhaps would have been better to spend a bit more time training for TTs, so you don't lose 4 or 5 minutes on them

Majka is not a bad time trialist. 9th on the flat TdS route indicates that. Mind you, it's 2 months since his last time trial (in the Tour) - he lacks rythm

Don't agree. That time trial wasn't flat, it was mostly up or down. Aerodynamics weren't so important; his position is awful.

You are well aware that its a fine balance between feeling comfortable and being aerodynamic, right?

Exactly, which is why it's so important to practice and get used to 'uncomfortable' positions; so that you can sustain them for longer periods. Do you think Tony Martin, Dumoulin or Wiggins were born being able to maintain that position?

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Dumoulin looks like he's racing against Cat 3s in this TT.

 

[TomLPC]

Don Alejandro with a monster of a time, wtf

47.09, 2nd place, 4 off the lead

 

[Miburo]

Imagine if dumoulin came from Russia, this thread would have been way different.