Teams & Riders Geraint Thomas

[tobydawq]

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Thomas' is a horrible bike handler. If it's raining in the Alps & Pyrenees he's got a big problem!

Horrible, no less? I think top tens in PR and Flanders and a victory in E3 proves otherwise.

He is no Richie Porte.

No Sagan or Alaphilippe, either, granted.

 

[Midnightfright]

Re: Re:

Thomas' is a horrible bike handler. If it's raining in the Alps & Pyrenees he's got a big problem!

Horrible, no less? I think top tens in PR and Flanders and a victory in E3 proves otherwise.

He is no Richie Porte.

No Sagan or Alaphilippe, either, granted.

I agree with this but he does seem to fall a lot

 

[Tonton]

Until he loses 1'30" in the mountains, Geraint is the favorite. By far the best ITT specialist of all the GC contenders.

 

[staubsauger]

Re: Re:

Thomas' is a horrible bike handler. If it's raining in the Alps & Pyrenees he's got a big problem!

Horrible, no less? I think top tens in PR and Flanders and a victory in E3 proves otherwise.

He is no Richie Porte.

No Sagan or Alaphilippe, either, granted.

I agree with this but he does seem to fall a lot

Doesn't even need the Alps & Pyrenees to confirm my statement.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Re: Re:

Thomas' is a horrible bike handler. If it's raining in the Alps & Pyrenees he's got a big problem!

Horrible, no less? I think top tens in PR and Flanders and a victory in E3 proves otherwise.

He is no Richie Porte.

No Sagan or Alaphilippe, either, granted.

I agree with this but he does seem to fall a lot

Doesn't even need the Alps & Pyrenees to confirm my statement.

Looking at the replays again it seems the EF rider goes down first and catches the few riders directly behind him, which so happened to be all Ineos.

 

[staubsauger]

Re: Re:

Thomas' is a horrible bike handler. If it's raining in the Alps & Pyrenees he's got a big problem!

Horrible, no less? I think top tens in PR and Flanders and a victory in E3 proves otherwise.

He is no Richie Porte.

No Sagan or Alaphilippe, either, granted.

I agree with this but he does seem to fall a lot

Doesn't even need the Alps & Pyrenees to confirm my statement.

Looking at the replays again it seems the EF rider goes down first and catches the few riders directly behind him, which so happened to be all Ineos.

Okay. If so I'm gonna reject the harshment of my statements!

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

Insane form confirmed.

 

[scapewalker]

Re: Re:

Thomas' is a horrible bike handler. If it's raining in the Alps & Pyrenees he's got a big problem!

Horrible, no less? I think top tens in PR and Flanders and a victory in E3 proves otherwise.

He is no Richie Porte.

No Sagan or Alaphilippe, either, granted.

I agree with this but he does seem to fall a lot

Doesn't even need the Alps & Pyrenees to confirm my statement.

Looking at the replays again it seems the EF rider goes down first and catches the few riders directly behind him, which so happened to be all Ineos.

Other teams have to start suicide bombing now :lol:

 

[del1962]

All this garbage about G being a bad bike handler is pretty tiresome, you don't get the cobbled results he has by being a bad bike handler

What he does need to learn though is which riders to be away from while descending, Woods, Barguil , Pinot and Zakarin would be a start

 

[tobydawq]

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All this garbage about G being a bad bike handler is pretty tiresome, you don't get the cobbled results he has by being a bad bike handler

What he does need to learn though is which riders to be away from while descending, Woods, Barguil , Pinot and Zakarin would be a start

Yeah, good point, especially when he could have chosen people like Sagan and Alaphilippe

Moscon managed to lose 24 minutes from the crash. I wonder how.

 

[Midnightfright]

Re: Re:

All this garbage about G being a bad bike handler is pretty tiresome, you don't get the cobbled results he has by being a bad bike handler

What he does need to learn though is which riders to be away from while descending, Woods, Barguil , Pinot and Zakarin would be a start

Yeah, good point, especially when he could have chosen people like Sagan and Alaphilippe

Moscon managed to lose 24 minutes from the crash. I wonder how.

I think he might have been taping the two halfs of his bike together again. Seriously though you think he might be injured?

 

[Rollthedice]

Re: Re:

All this garbage about G being a bad bike handler is pretty tiresome, you don't get the cobbled results he has by being a bad bike handler

What he does need to learn though is which riders to be away from while descending, Woods, Barguil , Pinot and Zakarin would be a start

Yeah, good point, especially when he could have chosen people like Sagan and Alaphilippe

Moscon managed to lose 24 minutes from the crash. I wonder how.

 

[del1962]

Not a good advert for Pinarello

 

[tobydawq]

I wonder whose phone that is...

 

[tobydawq]

Re: Re:

All this garbage about G being a bad bike handler is pretty tiresome, you don't get the cobbled results he has by being a bad bike handler

What he does need to learn though is which riders to be away from while descending, Woods, Barguil , Pinot and Zakarin would be a start

Yeah, good point, especially when he could have chosen people like Sagan and Alaphilippe

Moscon managed to lose 24 minutes from the crash. I wonder how.

I think he might have been taping the two halfs of his bike together again. Seriously though you think he might be injured?

Yeah, if it's not the first thing you suggested, that could be. His bike did take a massive hit.

 

[Midnightfright]

Re: Re:

All this garbage about G being a bad bike handler is pretty tiresome, you don't get the cobbled results he has by being a bad bike handler

What he does need to learn though is which riders to be away from while descending, Woods, Barguil , Pinot and Zakarin would be a start

Yeah, good point, especially when he could have chosen people like Sagan and Alaphilippe

Moscon managed to lose 24 minutes from the crash. I wonder how.

I think he might have been taping the two halfs of his bike together again. Seriously though you think he might be injured?

Yeah, if it's not the first thing you suggested, that could be. His bike did take a massive hit.

Would make a difference him having to bow out due to hitting the tarmac as opposed to because of hitting another cyclist

 

[tobydawq]

Re: Re:

All this garbage about G being a bad bike handler is pretty tiresome, you don't get the cobbled results he has by being a bad bike handler

What he does need to learn though is which riders to be away from while descending, Woods, Barguil , Pinot and Zakarin would be a start

Yeah, good point, especially when he could have chosen people like Sagan and Alaphilippe

Moscon managed to lose 24 minutes from the crash. I wonder how.

I think he might have been taping the two halfs of his bike together again. Seriously though you think he might be injured?

Yeah, if it's not the first thing you suggested, that could be. His bike did take a massive hit.

Would make a difference him having to bow out due to hitting the tarmac as opposed to because of hitting another cyclist

Maybe the tarmac files a complaint.

 

[macbindle]

Not sure if this has been posted somewhere, but here's another angle on the crash. Turns out Moscon's bike was not damaged by the crash, but by Thomas landing on it

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/tour-de-france/spoke-person-took-picture-geraint-thomas-tour-de-france-crash-431075

 

[Merckx index]

So who's the team leader now? Thomas still has a minute on Bernal, but that could change tomorrow. If the ITT had been scheduled near the end of the Tour, as is usually the case, Bernal would have established himself as the leader today. As it is, it seems ambiguous.

 

[Colombianfan]

They should let Bernal ride for himself, he is the future. A podium will be superb for Bernal, Thomas can go back his rightful job. Froome winning the Giro in the way he did was good for his legacy but he would have beat Thomas in the TDF with a proper prep.

 

[AlexNYC]

Hard to tell right now. After an ITT, it’s sort of normal to have a bad day sometimes. Difficult to know if this is just that. If you look at today’s results in isolation, Egan seems to be the the obvious choice to fight it out in the mountains.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Correct decision to let Bernal ride for himself, Thomas didn’t seem good after the TT and again after today’s stage when warming down, maybe just disappointment, but he doesn’t appear to quite have it.

 

[glassmoon]

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Correct decision to let Bernal ride for himself, Thomas didn’t seem good after the TT and again after today’s stage when warming down, maybe just disappointment, but he doesn’t appear to quite have it.

Tomorrow will tell, I guess.

 

[TMP402]

Look, maybe I'm being dramatic here but maybe his TDF win will seem like kind of a fluke in 10 years' time.

 

[lartiste]

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Look, maybe I'm being dramatic here but maybe his TDF win will seem like kind of a fluke in 10 years' time.

It was fluke indeed, third (second) British rider coming from nowhere winning the Tour in row. :lol:

But let's stay on topic. Bigger problem for Thomas than his poor performance today was, that all top domestics of the team were dropped so early on without doing anything eventhough their target until now was conserving energy. This is huge problem for him. He cannot rely on Sky train any more.