2015 Vuelta Stage 17 : Burgos - Burgos ITT 39 km

[GuyIncognito]

Mind you, from the start to the first check is the part that doesn't suit Dumoulin as well as the rest...

 

[l.Harm]

He's smashing it. Amazing.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Re:

TD is killing it! 1st by 9s at 17k

no nooooo noooooooooooo.
Might as well turn of the telly now, unless Aru has something nice up his sleeve

 

[DFA123]

Aru has a nice position nowadays; he's obviously been working really hard on it. Paying off so far.

 

[damian13ster]

Dumoulin a Vuelta champion!
Majka absolutely horrible :/

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Majka was already 20/30 seconds behind under that banner

 

[Sophistic]

nieve +1:37 ouch

 

[Carols]

In horse racing we say 'he's moving like a winner'. He is indeed!

 

[infeXio]

Majka 1 minute down on Dumoulin

 

[Rollthedice]

Tom DuMachine.

 

[Bumeington]

Nieve will be caught soon

 

[LaFlorecita]

Let's see if Dumoulin manages to keep that lead, so far everyone lost major time to Bodnar on the second part.

 

[Carols]

OMG Nieve going down.......

 

[DFA123]

Re:

Majka was already 20/30 seconds behind under that banner

Hopefully will put to bed the myth that he is a decent time triallist on the flat; despite never having had a decent result on such a course.

 

[The Blues]

Aru was 30 seconds slower than Dumoulin under the red and blue banner. Probably around 45 seconds at the first intermediate.
Majka has lost one minute already.

 

[BigMac]

I'd rather Purito in the end, but oh well.

Gratz Tom!

 

[Billie]

that overtaking was not very clean

 

[vedrafjord]

Re: Re:

Time trials in grand tours really need something like a virtual head to head using GPS, or at very least more intermediate time checks than there are currently. The last charity run I did in my local park had the same number of intermediate time checks as a GT time trial.

Individual starts in cross coutry skiing are indeed nicer to follow as there are intermediate checks roughly every 8-10 minutes shown and every 3-5 minutes available. But it's obviously easier with 5 km loop.

With the transponders they trialled in the Tour (I know they're only on the bikes of some teams), you could have:
* a virtual map showing where rider A (who started first) was when he had the same time elapsed as rider B has now
* live time gaps between any riders at any point they've all covered
* other useful stuff

With the above or with a lot more intermediate splits you could have something like the graphs that were going around after the hour record attempts, showing the relative pacing of different riders on different sections (vs different laps for the hour record) showing if riders were speeding up or slowing down relative to others.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Majka already loses 1 minute!!!!

CRUSHING

 

[sir fly]

And Dumoulin should be accelerating as the course progresses.

 

[Gigs_98]

Holy s***, that speed difference

 

[GuyIncognito]

Nieve on the bike hurts to watch. It's like he's trying to find its resonance frequency...

 

[TMP402]

Stéphane Rossetto having a bit of a breakthrough this Vuelta.

 

[Rollthedice]

Ha, he already passed Nieve. Chavez next.

 

[Afrank]

Dumoulin's not gonna be pulling any punches today, that's for sure.