trek is so laughable. How can you lose almost 3 minutes in 25km with your team fully chasing
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it looks like somehow de Bondt ended up with the pineapple in the end - and Oldani with a megaphone. What the heck happened there?!
It isisnt the 3 km rule used to protect against gaps created by crashes leading to the sprint? You still could be gaped for another reason, why is a mechanical under that rule?
voodoo failHindley is s.t to the rest on the Tissot page
Not sure why, exactly--maybe so a rider with a flat won't impede the charging peloton while trying to get the tire or biked changed in the sprint chaos. Also possibly a rule in the "fair play" principles of competition. A flat further out is possible to recover from, but a flat in the final 3km is almost impossible to recover from.isnt the 3 km rule used to protect against gaps created by crashes leading to the sprint? You still could be gaped for another reason, why is a mechanical under that rule?
isnt the 3 km rule used to protect against gaps created by crashes leading to the sprint? You still could be gaped for another reason, why is a mechanical under that rule?
Yes, article 20 in rule bookBecause the 3-K rule things that are outside a rider's control, like crashing, or indeed mechanicals?
I’m so sick of riders getting pineapple knives outDid he get dropped and then stab his tyre with his pineapple knife? It wasn't caught on camera or was it?
Better said than my long-winded musing.Because the 3-K rule things that are outside a rider's control, like crashing, or indeed mechanicals?
isnt the 3 km rule used to protect against gaps created by crashes leading to the sprint? You still could be gaped for another reason, why is a mechanical under that rule?
that is the rule but i would hardly say its things out of a riders control!Because the 3-K rule things that are outside a rider's control, like crashing, or indeed mechanicals?
When I view it just now, the stage result is not there anymore.Hindley is s.t to the rest on the Tissot page
yeah, he somehow moved up to 42nd with s.t., which definitely was the wrong position. I think he finished with Gamper?! Seems like they are adjusting this nowWhen I view it just now, the stage result is not there anymore.
that is the rule but i would hardly say its things out of a riders control!
When I view it just now, the stage result is not there anymore.
Wasn't he even taking pulls at the front of the peloton shortly before? If so idiotic. Could've taken an eye on the white jersey otherwise.Arensman was also in the Lopez group, so Buitrago moves up to second in the youth classification, but he's still 5 minutes behind.
Wasn't he even taking pulls at the front of the peloton shortly before? If so idiotic. Could've taken an eye on the white jersey otherwise.
he may not plan to go full out over the weekend anyway, and save himself for the ITT, I guessHe probably also could have lost less time yesterday, but he obviously didn't know Almeida would be out today. But the team has other priorities, of course.
at the risk of a pointless debate there is a non-zero percentage of flat tires that are the riders fault.What else would you consider a flat tire? I think rider's don't generally go around stabbing their tires with pineapple knives...