71st Tour de Romandie - April 25th-30th

[WheelofGear]

Simon Yates 3rd best of the favorites so far. Better than everyone but Jungels and Roglic. Pretty impressive.

 

[May0maniac]

Reichenbach starts, I think I'll have to switch to an Eurosport stream.

 

[Scarponi]

Reichenbach sighting by Kirkby

 

[WheelofGear]

Re: Re:

If Felline can get enough bonus seconds in the coming stages, he might win the race. He has a great chance with the upcoming lumpy stages and the hilly TT.

Felline also has a shot on the easy mountain stages, he was 5th on the Col de l'Ospedale in the Criterium International in 2015, the guy can climb. Is his climbing shape on point after racing a ton of classics? That's the big question.

Yeah. I hope the team will ride in support of him. He should at least give it a try.

He is a super-allrounder.

 

[deValtos]

I wonder if a road bike would actually be faster on this type of course as you could take the corners at a greater speed.

 

[May0maniac]

Bananito with the same time as Froome at the finish, nice.

 

[WheelofGear]

Michael Schwarzmann 3rd at the intermediate time.

 

[Irondan]

Face fungus? lol

"He's got the same face fungus that belongs on a Harley Davidson"...

 

[Laplaz]

Re:

Michael Schwarzmann 3rd at the intermediate time.

At finish 1min back... crash?

 

[HelloDolly]

Re:

Bananito with the same time as Froome at the finish, nice.

time to put money on him for a top 10 at the Giro

 

[WheelofGear]

Re: Re:

Michael Schwarzmann 3rd at the intermediate time.

At finish 1min back... crash?

Yeah, he was 3rd at the intermediate but ended up as 3rd last. Something went wrong. Must have been as crash, puncture or mechanical.

 

[WheelofGear]

Jesus Herrada 10th. Great time for him. Could be a challenger to podium.

 

[WheelofGear]

Ian Boswell in worst time so far. ;P

 

[WheelofGear]

Dion Smith with the best intermediate. :surprised:

 

[HelloDolly]

Kirby saying Swift is the principle for UAE ....just cos he has no 1 bib....Kirby talking thru his ass as per

 

[HelloDolly]

Kangert going well

 

[WheelofGear]

Good time for Maximilian Schachmann taking 3rd.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Re:

Dion Smith with the best intermediate. :surprised:

Obviously something is wrong with the intermediate times. He's far behind

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Has Castroviejo ridden yet?

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Re:

Has Castroviejo ridden yet?

Currently in 14th place, +14 seconds back on Fabio

 

[WheelofGear]

Kangert going really really well. 5 secs better than Felline so far.

But let's see if it can stick.

 

[HelloDolly]

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Has Castroviejo ridden yet?

yes...14th place so far

 

[HelloDolly]

Izagirre , Frank & Albasini only ones who could make a differece

 

[WheelofGear]

Something wrong with tissottiming. Kangert +29 behind Felline.

 

[WheelofGear]

Ion 6 seconds behind Felline so far. Not bad, but I don't think he can beat him.