That photo there he looks one of the most awful amateur bike riders ever. He looks like a sportive chopper out for a ride who's about to bonk.zlev11 said:any idea what he's pressing (with 600 meters to go on stage 19)?
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here's a video someone just tweeted:
https://twitter.com/DeniseBayliss/status/1001207828370087937
Well i guess i can only really speak for my self... but yep, i'm sure that's what i do.aphronesis said:Really? I go hours without moving my hands. You sure about this?
Readjusting his hand position with sweaty hands. Lifting off and on until he finds a good grip.zlev11 said:any idea what he's pressing (with 600 meters to go on stage 19)?
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here's a video someone just tweeted:
https://twitter.com/DeniseBayliss/status/1001207828370087937
You mean you don't lock yourself away in a basement for days, studying footage frame by frame, to find stuff like this :lol:macbindle said:I'm pretty sure if we all tried we could find video clips of Dumoulin, Pinot, Pozzovivo and all the others moving their hands in a 'suspicious' manner.
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He's clearly pressing the Salbutamol dosing button.aphronesis said:Really? I go hours without moving my hands. You sure about this?
Maybe not waiting, but certainly not chasing either. Dumoulin himself said he didn't bother trying to stay with Froome on Finestre because he was confident that if he was within a minute going over the top with a group he would be able to close that down on the Descent. Turns out he made a mistake, and admitted as much.rata de sentina said:You are kind of shooting yourself in the foot there because that didn't happen. The only waiting on the Finestre (not Zoncolan) which may or may not have happened was when Pinot had his mechanical near the top Dumoulin may have eased off a bit.hazaran said:Because anybody watching the stage clearly saw the gap suddenly go out from 20s to 40s on the Zoncolan because they were waiting on Reichenbach, who obviously didn't catch them on the descent.
:lol:brownbobby said:Well i guess i can only really speak for my self... but yep, i'm sure that's what i do.aphronesis said:Really? I go hours without moving my hands. You sure about this?
Yeah... not with that performance.Bolder said:. Isn't it MORE likely that the AAF has scared him straight, and he rode...well, I won't say clean, but well within the normal pharmacological parameters?
Two remarks to make on this.Bolder said:He's clearly pressing the Salbutamol dosing button.aphronesis said:Really? I go hours without moving my hands. You sure about this?
I constantly move my hands around when I ride.
I'm with those who say his Finestre epic was not alien level. Look, everyone pisses and moans that no one will try a long range attack. "Why didn't he go on the Finestre when it was clear that ... never get another chance like that...always follows wheels...just like Cadel Evans...bla bla bla."
Froome tries a long range attack, through a combination of luck and form it sticks. Ergo, he must have injected reconstituted mummy dust that morning. Isn't it MORE likely that the AAF has scared him straight, and he rode...well, I won't say clean, but well within the normal pharmacological parameters? And the idea of a motor...![]()
How insane was that performance tho? I don't think it was really, Finestre is the perfect place for such an attack, the warm weather, the later peaking and 3rd week freshness, the bad chasing group. Dumo and Pinot where knackered after Finestre, people were cooked, including Froome, but you can pull that stuff off without motors and whatever on such a stage.LaFlorecita said:Yeah... not with that performance.Bolder said:. Isn't it MORE likely that the AAF has scared him straight, and he rode...well, I won't say clean, but well within the normal pharmacological parameters?
I tend to agree here. Weak competition, mental advantage (he had nothing to lose), it was mano-a-mano. Only his climbing style with that absurd cadence is pretty odd.Valv.Piti said:How insane was that performance tho? I don't think it was really, Finestre is the perfect place for such an attack, the warm weather, the later peaking and 3rd week freshness, the bad chasing group. Dumo and Pinot where knackered after Finestre, people were cooked, including Froome, but you can pull that stuff off without motors and whatever on such a stage.LaFlorecita said:Yeah... not with that performance.Bolder said:. Isn't it MORE likely that the AAF has scared him straight, and he rode...well, I won't say clean, but well within the normal pharmacological parameters?
Sure, when you see 80 km solo and Froome in the same sentence it rings all the alarm bells, but once you dig a bit deeper into it, I actually don't think its that ridicolous.
unwillingness to see froome a giro winner is too big. when it rings all the alarm bells, the last thing you want to do is digging really deep into something.Valv.Piti said:How insane was that performance tho? I don't think it was really, Finestre is the perfect place for such an attack, the warm weather, the later peaking and 3rd week freshness, the bad chasing group. Dumo and Pinot where knackered after Finestre, people were cooked, including Froome, but you can pull that stuff off without motors and whatever on such a stage.LaFlorecita said:Yeah... not with that performance.Bolder said:. Isn't it MORE likely that the AAF has scared him straight, and he rode...well, I won't say clean, but well within the normal pharmacological parameters?
Sure, when you see 80 km solo and Froome in the same sentence it rings all the alarm bells, but once you dig a bit deeper into it, I actually don't think its that ridicolous.
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Scared straight? Isn't that an admission of guilt? Can you be scared straight in the era of the ABP or do you have to keep everything the same as it was before in order not to be busted?Bolder said:Isn't it MORE likely that the AAF has scared him straight, and he rode...well, I won't say clean, but well within the normal pharmacological parameters?
Its been a while but IIRC.....didn't Landis go from 120k out, single handedly bridging over to, and then riding straight over several groups from early breaks, at one point putting well over 10 minutes into the yellow jersey group, having conceded similar amounts of time the day before?TourOfSardinia said:ExcellentScienceIsCool said:Whatever the numbers, his ride that day was simply out-Landis-h...
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That weak competition beat him whenever road went uphill.Pennino said:I tend to agree here. Weak competition, mental advantage (he had nothing to lose), it was mano-a-mano. Only his climbing style with that absurd cadence is pretty odd.Valv.Piti said:How insane was that performance tho? I don't think it was really, Finestre is the perfect place for such an attack, the warm weather, the later peaking and 3rd week freshness, the bad chasing group. Dumo and Pinot where knackered after Finestre, people were cooked, including Froome, but you can pull that stuff off without motors and whatever on such a stage.LaFlorecita said:Yeah... not with that performance.Bolder said:. Isn't it MORE likely that the AAF has scared him straight, and he rode...well, I won't say clean, but well within the normal pharmacological parameters?
Sure, when you see 80 km solo and Froome in the same sentence it rings all the alarm bells, but once you dig a bit deeper into it, I actually don't think its that ridicolous.
Well that’s liesaphronesis said:Really? I go hours without moving my hands. You sure about this?
Aye but where is the button for the flux capacitorCycle Chic said:I dont know any other rider who rides on the top of the bars like Froome does. Especially when he does his seated attacks. Arent his shifters on the hoods ?