hfer07 said:honestly - who foresaw Gasparoto as winner of AGR at all?
glad he did win though
I did.
Very glad for both gaspa and valgren.
Yes the route need to be changed back
Any from the forum on cauberg or the tradition was lost?
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hfer07 said:honestly - who foresaw Gasparoto as winner of AGR at all?
glad he did win though
jens_attacks said:hfer07 said:honestly - who foresaw Gasparoto as winner of AGR at all?
glad he did win though
I did.
Very glad for both gaspa and valgren.
Yes the route need to be changed back
Any from the forum on cauberg or the tradition was lost?
I and someone else did in a prediction game on another forum bragging rightshfer07 said:honestly - who foresaw Gasparoto as winner of AGR at all?
glad he did win though
dirkprovin said:yaco said:It was very obvious when OGE had four riders in a line in front of the peloton but yet Gerrans was at the back of the peloton nowhere near his teammates. And Matthews and Gerrans will ride the TDF together when OGE will be hunting stage victories.
Whilst I agree that OGE management SHOULD have spelt out that Matthews was "the man" for today; it's actually plain sense for your option B not to be riding in close proximity to option A so as to not have both wiped out by the one accident.
Matthews DOES go off contract at the end of this year and whilst the money from other teams may be comparable or better; its hard to see where else he will have the "precedence" that he has at OGE. As for the Gerrans situation; it will be interesting to see if anything is said after this race but Gerrans goes off contract at the end of 2017 and it may well be that he calls it quits given his age.
No surprise,the guys wheelsucks in every single small Aussie Crit.classicomano said:WHO WOULDVE GUESSEDblackmamba said:Anyone surprised Gerrans didnt lift a finger after Cauberg ?
LaFlorecita said:I and someone else did in a prediction game on another forum bragging rightshfer07 said:honestly - who foresaw Gasparoto as winner of AGR at all?
glad he did win though
Fleche nextdel1962 said:Forgot to put my predictions in, anyway would not have chosen any of top 5 so that ok
Eneco Tour tops my list.Kwibus said:Also this overreacting regarding not worthy of WT is silly. There are lots of races not worthy of WT.
CheckMyPecs said:Eneco Tour tops my list.Kwibus said:Also this overreacting regarding not worthy of WT is silly. There are lots of races not worthy of WT.
If it were any good they wouldn't need silly gimmicks like the "golden kilometre".Ricco' said:Eneco was one of the best stage races in the WT in the last 3 or 4 years.
Red Rick said:I think the problem is that so many riders are so close to each other in level. The climbs aren't long enough to make the difference between good or great riders, but they're numerous enough to tire everyone. So I guess we should do the following
Make the first 100km easier
Make the part from 50-20km from the race as hard as possible
Get rid of the extra loop anyway
Finish at least 5km after the last hill. The 2km loop now just sucks, people wait even longer on the Cauberg itself. Maybe even get rid of Cauberg as last hill entirely
6 man teams. Can't be repeated enough, even though it's not specific to the AGR
Dude, did you even watch the race? Because I can hardly believe someone who saw the stage Wellens won, would say this is a bad race.CheckMyPecs said:If it were any good they wouldn't need silly gimmicks like the "golden kilometre".Ricco' said:Eneco was one of the best stage races in the WT in the last 3 or 4 years.
Well if you had more guys in attack taking turns at front maybe there would be chance. Kreuziger had some advantage when he attacked of groups of attackers, had bigger advantage than Wellens and peloton wasn't going so hard back then. Plus he was really good TTer back in 2013. Plus maybe headwind, nice weather (good for Kreuziger)...roundabout said:Red Rick said:I think the problem is that so many riders are so close to each other in level. The climbs aren't long enough to make the difference between good or great riders, but they're numerous enough to tire everyone. So I guess we should do the following
Make the first 100km easier
Make the part from 50-20km from the race as hard as possible
Get rid of the extra loop anyway
Finish at least 5km after the last hill. The 2km loop now just sucks, people wait even longer on the Cauberg itself. Maybe even get rid of Cauberg as last hill entirely
6 man teams. Can't be repeated enough, even though it's not specific to the AGR
Yes, get rid of Cauberg. Or at least work on changing the last 20k or so.
It seems right now that the last lap is too easy for any chase to keep a reasonable gap while the Cauberg is hard enough for an attacker to lose considerable time to people who waited for it.
How Kreuziger pulled his win off remains a mystery.
del1962 said:LaFlorecita said:I and someone else did in a prediction game on another forum bragging rightshfer07 said:honestly - who foresaw Gasparoto as winner of AGR at all?
glad he did win though
Forgot to put my predictions in, anyway would not have chosen any of top 5 so that ok
SafeBet said:This is last year Sonny Colbrelli rides for a pct team I hope. It remains a mystery why a team like Lottonl went after Battaglin instead of him.
CheckMyPecs said:Eneco Tour tops my list.Kwibus said:Also this overreacting regarding not worthy of WT is silly. There are lots of races not worthy of WT.