Pais Vasco Stage 4 - Amurrio - Eibar (Arrate)

[Cobblestoned]

Great crowd.

1 stage of Pais Vasco has always more passion and bigger crowds than 3 weeks of Vuelta.

 

[Ferminal]

USPS doing a good job on the front.

 

[Ney the Viking]

yikes, croweded for such a big peleton.

 

[Ferminal]

Gap just over 3 minutes at the top, break will be lucky to make the bottom of the final climb at this rate.

 

[woodburn]

Is it me or does Harmon always call the top of the climb prematurely?

 

[Ney the Viking]

I am surprised at how big the bunch still is. They can't have gone too fast up that last climb, no?

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Is it me or does Harmon always call the top of the climb prematurely?

he seems to be comopletely clueless in anything involving cycling. he even said tony martin is an experienced rider.

 

[The Hitch]

How long (time wise approximately) to the main climb. Its a hot day (and over here even in summer you dont know how many months you may have to wait for another such day) so im trying to avoid watching all but the main bits.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

I am surprised at how big the bunch still is. They can't have gone too fast up that last climb, no?

they did, they are just trying to hold on when pro riders try to hold on they usually can as long as climbs aren't too long. reason you see them drop on final climbs is because riders let go easier as it's closer to finish, now still many want to work.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

There's still a cat 2 climb, then flat then the final climb

the last climb is about 7km long and the top is 1.5km before the finish
so final 10km, be there

 

[Ferminal]

How long (time wise approximately) to the main climb. Its a hot day (and over here even in summer you dont know how many months you may have to wait for another such day) so im trying to avoid watching all but the main bits.

20-25mins.

 

[The Hitch]

20-25mins.

Cheers.

I just rewinded back to the crowds bit you guys were talking about and the words

Amets
Txurruka

are repeated all the way up the climb.

THat explains Libertine Seguros's absence then.

Cant wait for the crowds as the Vuelta goes into Vasco this year.

 

[Jamsque]

Euskaltel upping the pace and stretching out the bunch now

 

[Cobblestoned]

What was about Klöden ?

I was making coffee and just heard basque commentators saying Klöden 10 times in a row

 

[Francois the Postman]

There's still a cat 2 climb, then flat then the final climb

the last climb is about 7km long and the top is 1.5km before the finish
so final 10km, be there

Cool, indeed. And there was me thinking that that was the long flat already, a bit earlier. This screen is way too small to make heads or tails of the profiles.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

lol wat a a bunch of anglophone imbeciles these announcers are saying thomas is better atm than flecha in the cobbles.

 

[Jamsque]

lol wat a a bunch of anglophone imbeciles these announcers are saying thomas is better atm than flecha in the cobbles.

Chill the eff out Ryo, did you even watch De Ronde? Thomas has been a beast on the cobbles this season, he might not be better than Flecha right now but he's not far off.

 

[Ney the Viking]

break down to one minute, and its deader than dead

 

[theyoungest]

lol wat a a bunch of anglophone imbeciles these announcers are saying thomas is better atm than flecha in the cobbles.

He certainly was better than Flecha in the Ronde, but in Roubaix it will probably be the other way around.

 

[Jamsque]

I hope you guys are ready for a Shack Attack on the final climb.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Samuel Sanchez wants a real hard race by the looks of it. Suits him better than a full pack full of fresh puncheurs obviously

 

[Sasquatch]

I hope you guys are ready for a Shack Attack on the final climb.

And Movistar

Movistar will go with Intxausti first
Then Tondo
Then Lopez

Lopez is far better than Tondo at the moment.

Shack probably won't use the same tactic. They will want Kloden and Horner as close to the top as possible without sacrificing one of them. That way if one fails in the time trial, they have backup. With that said, one of them will attack. Probably Horner. Kloden will stay in the peloton. If Horner's attack doesn't work he'll hang on with the others - well try to.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I hope you guys are ready for a Shack Attack on the final climb.

Apart from Horner, the Shack tactic is usually to sit back and wait for the ITT... more like the ShackDefend

 

[Jamsque]

Was that Duarte going on the attack already?

 

[The Sheep]

Was that Duarte going on the attack already?

Don't think so looked like someone bigger