Eneco Tour 2014 (2.WT), 11.08 - 17/08

[rehy90]

its funny that Ullrich had the best time trial of his life on Bianchi tt bike...

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

its funny that Ullrich had the best time trial of his life on Bianchi tt bike...

Bring back the TT bikes 2003

 

[Arredondo]

its funny that Ullrich had the best time trial of his life on Bianchi tt bike...

Did he rode on a Bianchi back in 1997?

 

[rehy90]

Did he rode on a Bianchi back in 1997?

it was Pinarello back then...i meant the TT where he won over Armstrong with more than 1 min advantage...

 

[screaming fist]

it was Pinarello back then...i meant the TT where he won over Armstrong with more than 1 min advantage...

That was a Walser frame with Bianchi stickers

 

[Arredondo]

it was Pinarello back then...i meant the TT where he won over Armstrong with more than 1 min advantage...

Pinarello i knew. It was more the fact i found it discutable to name that TT as the best of his life. I think Virenque in 1997 disagrees with that

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Boom: 11'14 - ahead of T.Dumoulin
Stybar: 11'7 - behind T. Dumoulin

Boom new leader
Dumoulin/Quinziato 2nd/3rd
then Stybar?

 

[Arredondo]

Well, that was the Eneco Tour for Boom. He will lose his jersey for sure in the stage to Redoute.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[aarnold517]

Favorite part of the stage: kirby goes on and on for about five minutes about how vanmarcke at 500-1 odds was an outrage. After listening to it for five minutes, brian smith replies: "tour of romandie, 9.4 km prologue, vanmarcke was 108th" hahaha

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Well, that was the Eneco Tour for Boom. He will lose his jersey for sure in the stage to Redoute.

Yep. Dumoulin has done a very good job however

 

[Netserk]

Dumoulin, Stybar or Gilbert for the overall then.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Well, that was the Eneco Tour for Boom. He will lose his jersey for sure in the stage to Redoute.

He still has stage 5.

 

[Arredondo]

Yep. Dumoulin has done a very good job however

Stybar vs. Dumoulin then. Gilbert is 17 seconds back, don't think he's gonna make it.

 

[Arredondo]

He still has stage 5.

No wet Paris-Roubaix cobbles then

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Boom rode the ITT on his road frame (with tt wheels and tt steer) so much confidence in the new bike..

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Hopefully Boom climbs better than last year in the Ardennes!

Geraardsbergen stage will be nice with Styby, Boom and Dumoulin still contending the GC.

Good for Dumoulin he's not leading btw, otherwise his team would have to try to control the Geraardsbergen stage again which they're not capable of. Now Stybar/OPQS and Boom/Belkin can wreak havoc in the Vlaamse Ardennen and Dumoulin can just try not to lose time and get his lead in the Ardennes.

 

[Echoes]

The point of my comment actually had little to do with Dumoulin. I'll edit it to "an unfair disadvantage to Fabs" and leave Dumoulin out of it, okay?

It still is silly.

 

[Bushman]

Cancellara also in decent shape, will probably go well in the cobbled stage.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

How good is Dumoulin on cobbles? I don't recall ever seeing him do something worth noticing in a classics race except a top 20 once in Giro di Lombardia or similar

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

How good is Dumoulin on cobbles? I don't recall ever seeing him do something worth noticing in a classics race except a top 10 once in LBL or similar

Last year he couldn't follow Stybar, but up until that point he was doing just fine.
He can limit the damage better this year since he is stronger overall this year. I hope.

 

[Bushman]

How good is Dumoulin on cobbles? I don't recall ever seeing him do something worth noticing in a classics race except a top 10 once in LBL or similar

He had a good ride in Amstel this year, not LBL.

 

[Jagartrott]

Cut the crap, he hardly had any car drafting there. From 2 images you conclude that. Also, he had a flat at the worst time possible, how is that fair

Have you ever heard of anyone jumping away from the peloton in the last 10 km and winning by a 50 second margin? I wouldn't think so. There is NO WAY anyone can make up nearly a minute on a peloton that is going for a sprint.

 

[Coat-O]

So it's a two-horse race between Štybar and Thomas now?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Have you ever heard of anyone jumping away from the peloton in the last 10 km and winning by a 50 second margin? I wouldn't think so. There is NO WAY anyone can make up nearly a minute on a peloton that is going for a sprint.

The thing is he never closed 50 seconds to the front of the group. The peloton was strung out. The time gap is measured to the 1st in the peloton, not the last. This is where 90% of the people go wrong because they forget this.

So while he was 1 minute behind after the flat, he was maybe only 20/30 seconds behind, MAX, after the LAST in the peloton.
After that the peloton got strung out even more and a group got away with the first few.. Dumoulin only made it back in the back/middle of the peloton. So he closed maybe 20 seconds max..