57th Vuelta al Pais Vasco 3-8 April 2017

[Arredondo]

Berto can't stay on his bike anymore

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Unsurprisingly Navarro and Cummings dnf

Atapuma also dnf

 

[Scarponi]

Contador shoulder torn up

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Re:

Berto can't stay on his bike anymore

Nothing to do with bike handling today.

 

[HelloDolly]

I dont understand why this race always has a problem with road furniture...have they not learnt any lessons from a few years ago ...loads of riders down and out

 

[Scarponi]

6-7 riders gone

 

[TommyGun]

oh nooooo

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

What a stupid, disastrous accident. Quite a few riders are going to miss a chunk of the season.

 

[DFA123]

Re:

Berto can't stay on his bike anymore

It's getting ridiculous now. If he wants to finish the TdF this year, he really needs to learn how to ride up near the front all day like Movistar and Sky do.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Alaphillipe behind again. Doesn't look like he hit the deck though.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Re:

What a pain AC battle-scarred again

I'm more surprised these days when there's a crash and Berto isn't involved

 

[glassmoon]

Re:

Contador also fell.

That's obligatory.

 

[HelloDolly]

There were poles stuck in the middel of the road

Allaphillipe down too but back up...maybe retiring though

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Those green bollards would have been completely invisible to riders as they are only knee height

 

[Valv.Piti]

Re: Re:

Berto can't stay on his bike anymore

It's getting ridiculous now. If he wants to finish the TdF this year, he really needs to learn how to ride up near the front all day like Movistar and Sky do.

Yes, its not bad luck. Riders such as Quintana and Valverde literally never crashes (or when they do, they don't let the whole world know).

 

[LaFlorecita]

Re: Re:

Berto can't stay on his bike anymore

It's getting ridiculous now. If he wants to finish the TdF this year, he really needs to learn how to ride up near the front all day like Movistar and Sky do.

Yeah will be much saver with another team trying to be within the first 20 riders He's crashed quite a few times while near the front as well.

 

[glassmoon]

Re:

Alaphillipe behind again. Doesn't look like he hit the deck though.

I thought he was considering to abandon when he was back at the car hour ago... Seems like he isn't well.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Re: Re:

Berto can't stay on his bike anymore

It's getting ridiculous now. If he wants to finish the TdF this year, he really needs to learn how to ride up near the front all day like Movistar and Sky do.

Yes, its not bad luck. Riders such as Quintana and Valverde literally never crashes (or when they do, they don't let the whole world know).

What does this even mean lol, they crash secretly?

Quintana crashed out of the Vuelta while in the leader's jersey a few years ago.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Yeah Mayo, thats almost 3 years ago.

He also crashed when they went up to Covadonga, so thats maybe a bad example.

 

[DFA123]

Re: Re:

Berto can't stay on his bike anymore

It's getting ridiculous now. If he wants to finish the TdF this year, he really needs to learn how to ride up near the front all day like Movistar and Sky do.

Yeah will be much saver with another team trying to be within the first 20 riders He's crashed quite a few times while near the front as well.

Of course he can still crash at the front, be he would still be a lot safer overall. And wouldn't get caught in pretty much every spill. Why do you think a lot of other GC riders spend a lot of energy and fight for position at the front all day? Its just common sense; the fewer riders in front of you, the lower probability that one will crash and bring you down.

 

[Arredondo]

Re: Re:

Berto can't stay on his bike anymore

It's getting ridiculous now. If he wants to finish the TdF this year, he really needs to learn how to ride up near the front all day like Movistar and Sky do.

Yeah will be much saver with another team trying to be within the first 20 riders He's crashed quite a few times while near the front as well.

So he can't navigate anymore

 

[lenric]

Re: Re:

Berto can't stay on his bike anymore

It's getting ridiculous now. If he wants to finish the TdF this year, he really needs to learn how to ride up near the front all day like Movistar and Sky do.

Yes, its not bad luck. Riders such as Quintana and Valverde literally never crashes (or when they do, they don't let the whole world know).

Even Froome, who is regarded as a terrible bike handler, doesn't fall near as much as Contador. In fact, Contador falls as much as Froome, Valverde, Quintana and Nibali combined. Bad luck doesn't explain 3/4/5 falls a year.

 

[Scarponi]

Contador mechanical

 

[May0maniac]

Jesus now also a mechanical for Contador.

 

[Irondan]

Kirby: That's Rigaburto Uran, no wait it's Simon Clarke! lol