General News Thread

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Alaphilippe stays with DQS

https://sporza.be/nl/2019/06/01/alaphilippe-verlengt-bij-quick-step/

 

[fuiers]

Talk about having some bad karma after that San Juan thing https://twitter.com/IljoKeisse/status/1135463851871416320

 

[rick james]

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When I first saw that map, I thought it was a map of Westeros...

a lot of game of thrones is based on the history of the UK, The red wedding got inspiration from an event that happened in Scotland except what really happened was more brutal

 

[rick james]

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Tour of Britain Route out

again missing out the best parts of scotland :lol:

 

[Robert5091]

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Alaphilippe stays with DQS

https://sporza.be/nl/2019/06/01/alaphilippe-verlengt-bij-quick-step/

So does this make it more likely that Mas will move?

 

[Red Rick]

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Alaphilippe stays with DQS

https://sporza.be/nl/2019/06/01/alaphilippe-verlengt-bij-quick-step/

So does this make it more likely that Mas will move?

Lefevre to say 'No Mas"?

 

[topcat]

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Alaphilippe stays with DQS

https://sporza.be/nl/2019/06/01/alaphilippe-verlengt-bij-quick-step/

So does this make it more likely that Mas will move?

Lefevre to say 'No Mas"?

Uno mas

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

https://www.facebook.com/veloclubvaulxenvelin/posts/1071112246610994

Car hits three junior riders after ignoring signal in the Tour Paca.

 

[RedheadDane]

And so soon after what happened in Denmark!

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

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And so soon after what happened in Denmark!

Two or three months ago three U23 riders were hit by a car in Belgium, with one fatality (former team mate of Evenepoel died), after the organization failed to signal directions to the riders, and they went off-course.
viewtopic.php?p=2340068#p2340068

 

[RedheadDane]

For me the biggest difference is between:

1. A human error (Stef Loos)
2. Someone being an *** (Andreas Byskov Sarbo, and this)

 

[Red Rick]

Lol, Binkbanck Tour route is out.

Ardennes stage is under 100km.

 

[Alexandre B.]

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Lol, Binkbanck Tour route is out.

Ardennes stage is under 100km.

At least there is one this year.

 

[Robert5091]

Details of BincBank Tour at
http://www.binckbanktour.com/2019/en/wedstrijd/ - in English!

 

[Nirvana]

The icon of the climbs there is only in the last stage but there is the icon of cobbles in the first two, anyway for them providing profiles is always something apparently impossible to do.

 

[search]

the profile on la-flamme-rouge are better than any of those Eneco/Binckbanck has come up with over all the years though - and they are up already:

https://www.la-flamme-rouge.eu/maps/races/view/2019/37

it looks unlikely to be an overly thrilling edition of the race though...

 

[Breh]

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the profile on la-flamme-rouge are better than any of those Eneco/Binckbanck has come up with over all the years though - and they are up already:

https://www.la-flamme-rouge.eu/maps/races/view/2019/37

it looks unlikely to be an overly thrilling edition of the race though...

EnecoBinckBankTour is usually a pretty good race. Route-wise, this is far from a terrible edition.

 

[fauniera]

The Arctic Tour of Norway 2019 will feature this murito as a summit finish:

 

[RedheadDane]

I'm assuming they're going to go up from another angle, because there doesn't seem to be a road (or I'm blind...)
If this is the way they're going up - and there really is a road - then my money is on VDP.

 

[fauniera]

Too hard for MvdP, i would say. This is for a real climber.

You can see the "road" if you look closely. They probably paved it by now.

See also here and here.

 

[Red Rick]

God forbid the hype if VdP wins there

 

[Squire]

Finally a real climb in a Norwegian race. There are so many mountains in the country, but the races organizers are constantly doing their best to avoid all of them.

 

[search]

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the profile on la-flamme-rouge are better than any of those Eneco/Binckbanck has come up with over all the years though - and they are up already:

https://www.la-flamme-rouge.eu/maps/races/view/2019/37

it looks unlikely to be an overly thrilling edition of the race though...

EnecoBinckBankTour is usually a pretty good race. Route-wise, this is far from a terrible edition.

usually it is, but it looks like they got rid of both the Ardennes- as well as the Amstel kind of stage now

 

[Valv.Piti]

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Finally a real climb in a Norwegian race. There are so many mountains in the country, but the races organizers are constantly doing their best to avoid all of them.

But, but, but....... we need to please Kristoff and Boasson Hagen. :razz:

 

[Max Rockatansky]

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Finally a real climb in a Norwegian race. There are so many mountains in the country, but the races organizers are constantly doing their best to avoid all of them.

It looks like a goat track with an antenna on top.