Velon just gave power outputs for the last 10 Km of todays stage.
Nibs, NQ 315 Watts
TD 391 Watts
TD takes the win easy
Nibs, NQ 315 Watts
TD 391 Watts
TD takes the win easy
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He's practising for the TDFstaubsauger said:Mollema certainly has been a better super-domestique in the last 2 days than Levi Leipheimer has been in his whole career.
And LL wasn't THAT bad actually!-
Orbit501 said:It would actually be quite funny if Tom D's trash talk came true and Nibs and Quintana both got shoved off the podium.
It's certainly not beyond the realms of possibility to see Pinot and Zakarin claim the podium spots.
staubsauger said:Mollema certainly has been a better super-domestique in the last 2 days than Levi Leipheimer has been in his whole career.
And LL wasn't THAT bad actually!-
Dekker_Tifosi said:Dumoulin was 23 in 2014. What's this with the historic comparisons when it's not the same rider.
2015 Vuelta Tom would've lost 2 minutes today and 4 minutes yesterday It's not the same
Dazed and Confused said:Gigs_98 said:I think this last week is a perfect example for how a bad route can influence the racing. This is the third stage in a row where riders were all over the road extremely early on but at the end nothing happens before the final climb. We just had a climb where the peloton was reduced to 8 riders 8 (!!!) kilometers from the top of the climb but it was not possible to use that situation for an attack. If they had used the southern side of the Grappa the race would probably look completely differently right now.
Rubbish. We have one of the weakest GC fields in memory. Riders with very little panache or will. Placement boys all over the place.
staubsauger said:Romain Bardet looks like the sugarsweet frontman of an indierock group or a shy boygroup star. There ain't no contest in sexappeal at all, really!Jolene said:Carols said:meat puppet said:Pinot easily the most handsome gc boyo in our era. No contest at all.
I think the ladies should decide these things .
Contador = Most Handsome
Nibali = Sexiest
Pinot = Kind of cute
Chavez = cutie pie
BM Tom = attractive except for that chin!
Narito = no appeal
Bala = 2nd sexiest
Froome = not at all attractive
Any GC types I'm, missing?
EDIT: Landa = Very Attractive!
Back to racing.......
Contador=Spanish Fred Astaire (but those eyes!!)
Nibali=too high strung
Chaves= too young looking
Quintana=like dating your granddad
Froome= god no
Bala=used car salesman
Tom=the long lost lovechild of Gregory Peck and Montgomery Clift
Landa=mommy's boy (but again...those eyes!!)
Pinot=those white bibs!!
Jungels=very pretty
Gigs_98 said:But if riders wouldn't want to attack from far away how is it possible that the race was blown apart so far from the finish for the third time in a row. The problem is that on stage 18 and yesterday as soon as Dumoulin had caught the front group there was no terrain go get away again and today an attack before the last 8 km of that climb would have been complete suicide.KGB said:I think this more about how good riders are and how they race each stage.What exciting you could expect from Quintana?Nibali is just not who was a few yrs ago etc.Gigs_98 said:I think this last week is a perfect example for how a bad route can influence the racing. This is the third stage in a row where riders were all over the road extremely early on but at the end nothing happens before the final climb. We just had a climb where the peloton was reduced to 8 riders 8 (!!!) kilometers from the top of the climb but it was not possible to use that situation for an attack. If they had used the southern side of the Grappa the race would probably look completely differently right now.
just slightly more white would be a big improvement. Same for Froome.lenric said:Not to mention that Bardet needs to fix his teeth.
Yeah, he always laughs so shyly because of his retainer. The girls love it!lenric said:staubsauger said:Romain Bardet looks like the sugarsweet frontman of an indierock group or a shy boygroup star. There ain't no contest in sexappeal at all, really!Jolene said:Carols said:meat puppet said:Pinot easily the most handsome gc boyo in our era. No contest at all.
I think the ladies should decide these things .
Contador = Most Handsome
Nibali = Sexiest
Pinot = Kind of cute
Chavez = cutie pie
BM Tom = attractive except for that chin!
Narito = no appeal
Bala = 2nd sexiest
Froome = not at all attractive
Any GC types I'm, missing?
EDIT: Landa = Very Attractive!
Back to racing.......
Contador=Spanish Fred Astaire (but those eyes!!)
Nibali=too high strung
Chaves= too young looking
Quintana=like dating your granddad
Froome= god no
Bala=used car salesman
Tom=the long lost lovechild of Gregory Peck and Montgomery Clift
Landa=mommy's boy (but again...those eyes!!)
Pinot=those white bibs!!
Jungels=very pretty
Not to mention that Bardet needs to fix his teeth.
masking_agent said:Quintana tomorrow is going to have the same fate as Fignon and Schleck did on the last day of a Grand Tour.. Tom will take the jersey off him on the last day. Oh well.. Maybe Nairo can speak to his doctor about a better program when back training in colombia.
bigcog said:masking_agent said:Quintana tomorrow is going to have the same fate as Fignon and Schleck did on the last day of a Grand Tour.. Tom will take the jersey off him on the last day. Oh well.. Maybe Nairo can speak to his doctor about a better program when back training in colombia.
Is it harder to turn a good TT'er into a good climber or a good climber into a good TT'er, if you know what I mean ?
This has absolutely nothing to do with what I wrote. Stage 18 even was a stage which was up and down for the whole day but the last serious pass was over 50 kilometers from the finish. Riders even tried to make long range attacks there but after that didn't work there just wasn't terrain to attack again before the final climb, so everything came back together. The exact same happened on stage 19 and 20, just that there the penultimate climb was even further away from the finish.yaco said:Gigs_98 said:But if riders wouldn't want to attack from far away how is it possible that the race was blown apart so far from the finish for the third time in a row. The problem is that on stage 18 and yesterday as soon as Dumoulin had caught the front group there was no terrain go get away again and today an attack before the last 8 km of that climb would have been complete suicide.KGB said:I think this more about how good riders are and how they race each stage.What exciting you could expect from Quintana?Nibali is just not who was a few yrs ago etc.Gigs_98 said:I think this last week is a perfect example for how a bad route can influence the racing. This is the third stage in a row where riders were all over the road extremely early on but at the end nothing happens before the final climb. We just had a climb where the peloton was reduced to 8 riders 8 (!!!) kilometers from the top of the climb but it was not possible to use that situation for an attack. If they had used the southern side of the Grappa the race would probably look completely differently right now.
Do you expect 100 to 120kms of pure climbing in a mountain stage.
excellent, could just imagine the outcry if men were to start rating the women cyclist on their looks, think you're in the wrong centuryCarols said:meat puppet said:Pinot easily the most handsome gc boyo in our era. No contest at all.
I think the ladies should decide these things .
Contador = Most Handsome
Nibali = Sexiest
Pinot = Kind of cute
Chavez = cutie pie
BM Tom = attractive except for that chin!
Narito = no appeal
Bala = 2nd sexiest
Froome = not at all attractive
Any GC types I'm, missing?
EDIT: Landa = Very Attractive!
Back to racing.......
HelloDolly said:Quintana may not have the legs but he is afraid to try ...you can see that ...he follows others attacks or he goes and stops ...he is afraid of something
He needs to attack and then go beyond himself
maybe its becasue he is a natural climber that he has not had to fight so deep in himself
I remember hearing about landa not understanding when his legs hurt on climbs as he was not used to it
Quintana is not used of going beyond himself imo
Nah, as long as you pretend to be Italian sexism doesn't even exist! :lol: :twisted:rick james said:excellent, could just imagine the outcry if men were to start rating the women cyclist on their looks, think you're in the wrong centuryCarols said:meat puppet said:Pinot easily the most handsome gc boyo in our era. No contest at all.
I think the ladies should decide these things .
Contador = Most Handsome
Nibali = Sexiest
Pinot = Kind of cute
Chavez = cutie pie
BM Tom = attractive except for that chin!
Narito = no appeal
Bala = 2nd sexiest
Froome = not at all attractive
Any GC types I'm, missing?
EDIT: Landa = Very Attractive!
Back to racing.......
Gigs_98 said:This has absolutely nothing to do with what I wrote. Stage 18 even was a stage which was up and down for the whole day but the last serious pass was over 50 kilometers from the finish. Riders even tried to make long range attacks there but after that didn't work there just wasn't terrain to attack again before the final climb, so everything came back together. The exact same happened on stage 19 and 20, just that there the penultimate climb was even further away from the finish.yaco said:Gigs_98 said:But if riders wouldn't want to attack from far away how is it possible that the race was blown apart so far from the finish for the third time in a row. The problem is that on stage 18 and yesterday as soon as Dumoulin had caught the front group there was no terrain go get away again and today an attack before the last 8 km of that climb would have been complete suicide.KGB said:I think this more about how good riders are and how they race each stage.What exciting you could expect from Quintana?Nibali is just not who was a few yrs ago etc.Gigs_98 said:I think this last week is a perfect example for how a bad route can influence the racing. This is the third stage in a row where riders were all over the road extremely early on but at the end nothing happens before the final climb. We just had a climb where the peloton was reduced to 8 riders 8 (!!!) kilometers from the top of the climb but it was not possible to use that situation for an attack. If they had used the southern side of the Grappa the race would probably look completely differently right now.
Do you expect 100 to 120kms of pure climbing in a mountain stage.
The problem I have with this route is that there were riders willing to attack far away from the finish but not one of these attack worked. This was a good giro but not a superb one, and I think it could have been a superb one if the last three mountain stages had a slightly better design.
are you upset cause your boy Dawg doesn't make even make it into the top-100 of most attractive cyclists?rick james said:excellent, could just imagine the outcry if men were to start rating the women cyclist on their looks, think you're in the wrong century
Why? It's always funny when someone bully other one and eventually nails it? I know You now.Orbit501 said:It would actually be quite funny if Tom D's trash talk came true and Nibs and Quintana both got shoved off the podium.