Teams & Riders Chris Froome Discussion Thread.

[dacooley]

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Nah, this is respect for Cuddles' opinion here

ah, come on Red Rick, you never suffered from excessive respect for froome. for sure it's better to see him not winning big races.

 

[Red Rick]

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Nah, this is respect for Cuddles' opinion here

ah, come on Red Rick, you never suffered from excessive respect for froome. for sure it's better to see him not winning big races.

I respect his ability. I don't root for him. But I don't really think this has much to do with that.

 

[Alexandre B.]

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In pretty sure Evans spoke about the Alpe d' Huez stage, but just got it mixed up.
Regardless, its funny how many saw the great talent coming...

It's likely this stage, yes.

 

[rick james]

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Flo posted this in the AC thread. I think it's relevant here. Here's how the Tour is gonna play out.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BO7fHCbjc3K/

Bertie at home playing games with his dog?

seems about right

 

[Hugo Koblet]

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Flo posted this in the AC thread. I think it's relevant here. Here's how the Tour is gonna play out.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BO7fHCbjc3K/

Bertie at home playing games with his dog?

seems about right

Lol

 

[Jspear]

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Flo posted this in the AC thread. I think it's relevant here. Here's how the Tour is gonna play out.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BO7fHCbjc3K/

Bertie out playing games with the dawg?

seems about right

 

[dutchdescent]

So quiet here...

 

[rick james]

The dawg is a fair weather cyclist...

 

[deValtos]

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The dawg is a fair weather cyclist...

Inb4 Chris wins in a blizzard.

 

[movingtarget]

Cadel got confused with the stage. Ho hum. He always seemed to have a lot on his mind what with journalists stepping on his bike, his dog, his toes, even the bodyguard probably bothered him. But Cadel was too wary with the media while his old team mate Horner always had something interesting to say. Evans always wanted to be a team leader but with the media presence of a domestique. He seems much happier now.

 

[dacooley]

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Cadel got confused with the stage. Ho hum. He always seemed to have a lot on his mind what with journalists stepping on his bike, his dog, his toes, even the bodyguard probably bothered him. But Cadel was too wary with the media while his old team mate Horner always had something interesting to say. Evans always wanted to be a team leader but with the media presence of a domestique. He seems much happier now.

you hit the nail. couldn't agree more. over the whole career Evans was trying to seem a calm and focused guy, but at the peak of pressure this mask vanished in a flash.

 

[dacooley]

with the tour-vuelta double in mind, froome is probably come into this season even more smoothly. top 15 in catalunya top 10 in romandie wouldn't be so bad.

 

[Poursuivant]

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with the tour-vuelta double in mind, froome is probably come into this season even more smoothly. top 15 in catalunya top 10 in romandie wouldn't be so bad.

I am not sure he is even doing Romandie. If not, he is taking Tour - Vuelta double very seriously.

 

[DBotero]

His shape should be really good judging by what Thomas showed in Tirreno after the safari.But i don't think he'll show his cards in Catalunya already.
The selfie he took on Paris-Nice was pretty good,I'm surprised nobody posted it.https://twitter.com/chrisfroome/status/840934885384699904

 

[rick james]

I'm not expecting too much from him at Catalunya

 

[dacooley]

So quiet here...

It will soon start flooding with accusations once he starts whipping the forums blue eyed boy! lol

Who's that supposed to be, Marcel Kittel?

PS accusations go in the clinic subforum

OK, flooding with affiction due to froome doing well, let's put it this way.

 

[wheresmybrakes]

So quiet here...

It will soon start flooding with accusations once he starts whipping the forums blue eyed boy! lol

Who's that supposed to be, Marcel Kittel?

PS accusations go in the clinic subforum

Sorry, wrong word to use, I meant excuses. I wasn't meaning any clinic stuff.

 

[dutchdescent]

So quiet here...

It will soon start flooding with accusations once he starts whipping the forums blue eyed boy! lol

Who's that supposed to be, Marcel Kittel?

PS accusations go in the clinic subforum

Sorry, wrong word to use, I meant excuses. I wasn't meaning any clinic stuff.

What a single post can do

 

[silvergrenade]

Looks like Froome wont be contending on the GC. 120th today. Had he GC aspirations, he would've been up there.
Hope he takes some 600 W pulls on the front though.

 

[dacooley]

i'll settle for it too. finishing 130th doesn't necessarily say a lot as there no sprinter trains and the likelihood of split is far less than in the tour.

 

[rick james]

Aye the Dawg when feeling good top 10s in sprints like yesterday

 

[CTQ]

Or he wanted to let us questionning his form??? not only Froome who was in the back, ,Landa, ,Vasil, , Nieve. saving energy for today

 

[DFA123]

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Or he wanted to let us questionning his form??? not only Froome who was in the back, ,Landa, ,Vasil, , Nieve. saving energy for today

I think when Bouhanni is favourite for a sprint, the back - as far away from the action as possible - is probably the best place to be for GC riders.

 

[GraftPunk]

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Or he wanted to let us questionning his form??? not only Froome who was in the back, ,Landa, ,Vasil, , Nieve. saving energy for today

I think when Bouhanni is favourite for a sprint, the back - as far away from the action as possible - is probably the best place to be for GC riders.

Lol, this.

 

[movingtarget]

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Or he wanted to let us questionning his form??? not only Froome who was in the back, ,Landa, ,Vasil, , Nieve. saving energy for today

I think when Bouhanni is favourite for a sprint, the back - as far away from the action as possible - is probably the best place to be for GC riders.

He just thinks that there are many different interpretations for sprinting in a straight line.