2016 Österreich Rundfahrt (2-9 july)

[Kazistuta]

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Something's puzzling me for some time... The name of this race...
Are they farting in rounds or what?

Don't really know if you're trying to be funny or just don't know the German word for "Tour"?

There's also Bayern Rundfahrt, and formerly Deutschland-Tour was known as Deutschland-Rundfahrt.

 

[sir fly]

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Something's puzzling me for some time... The name of this race...
Are they farting in rounds or what?

You know, there are other languages than English in the world

Really?!
Thought my understanding of this race was pretty convenient.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Btw. good performance by Rutkiewicz. Good to see he is not done after being dropped by CCC. What a wasted talent he is. I still remember how he dropped Sagan and Nibali on a downhill during Tour de Pologne once.

While I agree he's been putting in good performances in central and eastern Europe for a decade now, he did kind of make himself unemployable to the top teams after his run-in with the gendarmerie.

 

[BigMac]

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Something's puzzling me for some time... The name of this race...
Are they farting in rounds or what?

 

[sir fly]

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Something's puzzling me for some time... The name of this race...
Are they farting in rounds or what?

Aaaahhh... Now I get it!
Ostriches are farting around!

No hard feelings, fellow Austrian/German/Germanic members.
Just my silly nature.

 

[May0maniac]

Hermann Pernsteiner is doing pretty well, he's a Mountainbiker (Marathon, 12th at the last WC) and now 6th on gc after finishing 7th toay and 4th yesterday. it's his 2nd road race as a pro after the Tour de Slovénie where he fnished 17th on gc.
It's a great result for smeone who hasn't that muc experience on the road, but some of those Marathon guys have monster engines, you should never underestimate them.

 

[Anderis]

While I agree he's been putting in good performances in central and eastern Europe for a decade now, he did kind of make himself unemployable to the top teams after his run-in with the gendarmerie.

That's why I call him wasted talent.

 

[StryderHells]

Slightly disappointed by Canty today. I surely expected him to finish higher after yesterday's victory. I'm still not sure what type of rider he exactly is, does he prefer shorter climbs over longer? Based on his result on that big climb in Tour of Oman I assumed he is a pure climber rather than kind of puncheur.

He went deep yesterday for the stage win and simply didn't recover well enough for today's stage. As to what type of rider he is, well everything I've seen of him suggests the longer climbs are his go more than the shorter punchy climbs but that's in training so possibly race day is a different story, I think it's still to early to tell what type he will be but as for today it was certainly was more of a recovery issue.

 

[plooton]

Well done by Hirt, haven't expected such a brilliant performance, hasn't shown much this year so far. Stage summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9voOtNsAg4

 

[StryderHells]

Well we don't have a strong field of climbers here so Hirt really had his chance to shine on a finish like that, impressive performance nonetheless

 

[roundabout]

Stage 6 ends with 110/114 riders finishing s.t.

And yesterday 13 riders finished within 15 seconds on a legitimately tough climb.

Hope the TV ratings are good, because the action doesn't seem to be.

 

[May0maniac]

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Stage 6 ends with 110/114 riders finishing s.t.

And yesterday 13 riders finished within 15 seconds on a legitimately tough climb.

Hope the TV ratings are good, because the action doesn't seem to be.

Dobratsch is a hard climb, but it was an unipublic sag right after te queenstage when HIrt demolished the rest of the field, so there wasn't much action.
The race really lacks a hilly stage and an ITT, it's just sprints and uphill finishes.

 

[Koba80]

I did the second 2/3 of today's stage yesterday and can confirm that without the last few cobbled km up KBerg this is indeed possibly the world's most boring cycle route. It is indeed so dull it is a wonder how ASO have not yet found a way to use it after using one HC an hour into a TdF stage.

 

[Gigs_98]

I did the second 2/3 of today's stage yesterday and can confirm that without the last few cobbled km up KBerg this is indeed possibly the world's most boring cycle route. It is indeed so dull it is a wonder how ASO have not yet found a way to use it after using one HC an hour into a TdF stage.

It's just a shame. They don't even ride through the beautiful part of vienna, no they take the easiest way they could find and ride on the freaking Handelskai for kilometers which is probably the ugliest street of the whole city. I also decided to not visit the finish although I live very near to it, but I lost all my interest in the race and anyway I don't really know how I should get there since there are probably no parking places and I can't get to the Kahlenberg by bus.

Edit: And guys, watch the livestream. It's so bad that it's funny

 

[Koba80]

Well, that may just have been the most boring race I ever watched.
Frederik Backaert won the stage, Hirt the overall.

 

[Kokoso]

Great result for him. What WT team will he end up in?

 

[May0maniac]

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Great result for him. What WT team will he end up in?

Bora, Lapmre or the team that signs König culd be a good fit for him.

 

[argyllflyer]

Eurosport picked this up for 30 min highlights. Picture quality was awful and a complete lack of onscreen graphics to give the pictures any context whatsoever.

 

[Koba80]

There was not a single redeeming feature of this entire tour. What has happened to this race? It should potentially be the second tier race of the season.

 

[Kokoso]

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There was not a single redeeming feature of this entire tour. What has happened to this race? It should potentially be the second tier race of the season.

It was. And if you are fan of Hirt, than it was very nice race :razz: