ENECO Tour August 17 - 24

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I have no reason to assume that EBH was the stronger rider on the day. Absolutely no reason whatsoever. When two time trial powerhouses attack on a climb in the final of the stage, you better make sure you're on their wheel.

And Hagen couldnt stay in front of the chase group either... While Martin and Moerenhout only kept improving their lead.
Moerenhout said they were only riding at 80% until the lead was 1 minute...

 

[theyoungest]

And Hagen couldnt stay in front of the chase group either... While Martin and Moerenhout only kept improving their lead.
Moerenhout said they were only riding at 80% until the lead was 1 minute...

Well, that's not very surprising, considering it was 2 against 1. But really EBH was the best of the rest.

BTW, Cyclingnews, what's up with this:

Koos Moerenhout (Rabobank) takes his first road win since his 2007 national title.

He wore the red, white, and blue until just two months ago, because of his second national title in 2009.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

He won an ITT in Austria a month ago but that's ofcourse not a road win. It's off-road?

Or am I misunderstanding the meaning of "road win"

 

[theyoungest]

He won an ITT in Austria a month ago but that's ofcourse not a road win. It's off-road?

Or am I misunderstanding the meaning of "road win"

A month ago Moerenhout was riding the Tour. Posthuma (FAIL of the day BTW) won that Austria TT. Moerenhout won it last year, but yeah, that was actually his latest win before today.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Sorry, I'm mixing up badly here

 

[meandmygitane]

that doesn't even make any sense, as almost everyone from iceland originally came from norway

OT: Actually, only "60-80%" (wiki) were of nordic origin (not all norwegians at that), rest gaelic. I wouldn't call that almost everyone. Norwegians are genetically much closer to swedes than icelanders. See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1287529/figure/FG2/

 

[Moondance]

KOOS!!!

Damn. I was away all day, would love to have seen this live. Please please please please let Koosie win this race now. Would be sooooooo amazing.

 

[Moondance]

A month ago Moerenhout was riding the Tour. Posthuma (FAIL of the day BTW) won that Austria TT. Moerenhout won it last year, but yeah, that was actually his latest win before today.

Fail of the day goes to Davis, i'd say.

EDIT: Actually Devolder might be.... Was 16 mins down...

 

[tgsgirl]

Fail of the day goes to Davis, i'd say.

He was a good sport about it though

Yes I thought I won but there was 2 riders up the road! After 9 years Pro it was my first time #takingitonthechin practiced my salute but

 

[Libertine Seguros]

And Peter Sagan

I think the most embarrassing has to be Benoît Vaugrenard in stage 4 of Tirreno-Adriatico. Why? Because Scarponi only finished about 7 seconds ahead of him and was more or less in eyesight.

 

[theyoungest]

Fail of the day goes to Davis, i'd say.

EDIT: Actually Devolder might be.... Was 16 mins down...

What's it with Devolder... either he's surprisingly good, or surprisingly bad.

 

[maltiv]

I think the most embarrassing has to be Benoît Vaugrenard in stage 4 of Tirreno-Adriatico. Why? Because Scarponi only finished about 7 seconds ahead of him and was more or less in eyesight.

Neh, the most embarrassing was Liuwe Westra in Tour of Oman, who basically thought he had won a bunch sprint, although no one else was sprinting

 

[insideout leadout]

Neh, the most embarrassing was Liuwe Westra in Tour of Oman, who basically thought he had won a bunch sprint, although no one else was sprinting

All these fails almost deserves an own thread but here they are:

Tour of Oman: st.2 Liuewe Westra
Tirreno-Adriatco: st.4 Benoit Vaugrenard
Tour de Romandie: st.4 Peter Sagan
Giro d'Italia: st.6 Danilo Hondo
Tour of Pologne: st.4 Marco Marcato
Eneco Tour: st.3 Allan Davis

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

@last picture

lol you can see the guys behind him smiling / laughing

 

[hrotha]

Totally bummed out that the one with Westra appears to be undocumented. I wanted a video

 

[insideout leadout]

Totally bummed out that the one with Westra appears to be undocumented. I wanted a video

It's updated...thanks to Francois the Postman who posted the link earlier in this thread.

Westra

 

[hrotha]

It's updated...thanks to Francois the Postman who posted the link earlier in this thread.

Westra

Thanks!
He looks back quite a bit and yet he doesn't figure it out. Poor guy.

 

[craig1985]

Since Koos Moerenhout won, I'll go listen to There It Goes (for Koos) by The Gasoline Brothers.

 

[tgsgirl]

What's it with Devolder... either he's surprisingly good, or surprisingly bad.

Says he lost time because his shoes were too small. Idiot. If your shoes are too small, wear bigger ones.

 

[insideout leadout]

Just blame the shoes Devolder....perhaps his feet swelled a bit when he was dropped.

 

[hrotha]

Says he lost time because his shoes were too small. Idiot. If your shoes are too small, wear bigger ones.

Another prospect for Geox?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Another prospect for Geox?

Excellent humor!

 

[sublimit]

What an idiot, His mother probably bought his shoes for him and he couldn't figure out how to loosen them.

 

[Cobblestoned]

Says he lost time because his shoes were too small. Idiot. If your shoes are too small, wear bigger ones.

At the first look I can´t see any blood in the socks.
So couldn´t have been that painful, that there really was a need to change his shoes.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Saturday - a live feed

feed

but there doesn't seem to be a fullscreen mode - and I can't read the captions nor understand the dutch(?)