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The attack from the Dawg plausible? Spinning at 120RPM+ and pulling away from the World TT Champ like he was a Cat 5 Chipper? Plausible?
Did you see the full descent from the others or are you just going on hear say? The TV mostly watched the Dawg. He did take some risks the Dawg and he did descend well. Kirby was in a bath of his own jyices at the end of it, but lets be honest. It wasnt like a Nibbles or Sagan attacking descent.
Why are so many people now down playing the day? So many commentators, reactions from ex riders, current riders, DS's on the day were gobsmacked, jizzed to their eye balls or just stunned. To me, the initial reaction says everything. I saw comments in the thread on the day in the main forum from people who never mention doping, never come in here etc. They were also stunned. But according to the Bots and sycophants they are the ones in the wrong because Dawg was racing against Fish & Chippers eh?
ad9898 said:Apart from the watts, W/kg is pure speculation, we don't know his weight (no one here has seen him stand on a set of scales), we don't know atmospheric pressure on the day (no one was there with a barometer), we don't know the wind direction on the climb (no one was there to measure that). So we we know one parameter out of at least four. Absolutely zero facts can be stated as anywhere near true with so little info.
He pulled 38 secs on Tom on the climb with almost exactly the same watts and a few kg's lighter. That part at least is totally plausible. The descent from Froome was awesome, from the others ? Mediocre at best, due in part to Pinot's team mate being shite at descending. The last climb Froome lost time to all except Tom who cracked a few hundred metres from the top.
That leaves the valley part. Pinot had at least the start of pneumonia, his team mate was just a domestique who had managed to get over the Finestre, the white jersey guys did f**k all which just left Tom who was pretty tired by his own admission. Not that implausible that a guy who has won five GT's and is on a super day could pull that off really
The attack from the Dawg plausible? Spinning at 120RPM+ and pulling away from the World TT Champ like he was a Cat 5 Chipper? Plausible?
Did you see the full descent from the others or are you just going on hear say? The TV mostly watched the Dawg. He did take some risks the Dawg and he did descend well. Kirby was in a bath of his own jyices at the end of it, but lets be honest. It wasnt like a Nibbles or Sagan attacking descent.
Why are so many people now down playing the day? So many commentators, reactions from ex riders, current riders, DS's on the day were gobsmacked, jizzed to their eye balls or just stunned. To me, the initial reaction says everything. I saw comments in the thread on the day in the main forum from people who never mention doping, never come in here etc. They were also stunned. But according to the Bots and sycophants they are the ones in the wrong because Dawg was racing against Fish & Chippers eh?