boomcie said:
Is that really an issue on here? I've not been around for too long, but I haven't noticed a lack of respect yet. I feel like most people respect each other as fellow cycling fans. I might be wrong.
It's common to find that in the Clinic but rarely outside of it.
In all my nine hundred posts, I only got savaged twice, by two users who still post here today. One of them (who is currently temporarily banned), we sorted it out by PM. The other was intransigent but since he/she came back after a long break, he/she has clearly had a personality transplant and started being quite courteous.
It's like society in general. There's a wide spectrum on here. I'd say that the mods do a great job in general. Now certain people have retired, things can focus on today's racing.
I don't think there were any
obviously poor shows over the weekend that I could think of. In fact, I actually thought that made it a level playing field.
I think we all expected something from Flecha and he was very unlucky in the end, but equally I thought he shouldn't have left it that long. For me, either Langeveld was faking it or he looked wrecked with about 10km to go. I said to myself, if this comes down to a sprint, Flecha will lose. I thought Langeveld seemed
bien cuit but he got too much time to take a breath and his adrenaline to kick in.