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jens_attacks

jens_attacks

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18-Valve. (pithy) said:
Don't think so, seeing as the queen stage is proper hard. The Col de la Croix doesn't suit Martin at all.
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i can see him surviving if there isn't a great pace until the last 3 kms
but with rujanito going ballistic from the foot of it, no chance for martin:cool:
 
Bavarianrider

Bavarianrider

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Nice to hear that Tony keeps his ambitions up.
I hope he'll be lucky this time and can show his real potential.
By the way, do you guys think they will use TT bikes or road bikes today?
 
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theyoungest

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Bavarianrider said:
Nice to hear that Tony keeps his ambitions up.
I hope he'll be lucky this time and can show his real potential.
By the way, do you guys think they will use TT bikes or road bikes today?
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Road bikes, probably. Maybe with TT bars. There's no use for a TT bike, it's just extra weight.

Tony's real potential doesn't lie in 20 k climbs. That's just too hard for a rider built like him.
 
Bavarianrider

Bavarianrider

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Shouldn't it be possible to built 6,8kg TT bikes these days?
I mean road bikes could already be much lighter than 6,8 kg, so i wonder why it is not possible to built TT bikes with 6,8kg.
 
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RHRH19861986

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@tludvigsson 8m

Oh this Will be a hard prolog #climbing#roadbike
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Nothing against him, but:

Klöden is born 1975, in German Democratic Republic, they had Russian instead of English in school. He gets paid for pedalling fast, so his bad English is acceptable.

When I read this post by Ludvigsson, or read posts for example by Björn Thurau, I have to smile a little bit. Thurau´s English, for example, is really, really bad, I wouldn´t have imagined that this could be possible. There are MANY 14-yr-olds in Germany that have a better English than him.

Jaksche once quoted Saiz for having said, "You get paid for riding fast, not for thinking intelligently", and that doesn´t seem to have changed, at all.

:eek:
 
gizzajob

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Marco Pinotti ‏@marcopinotti on twitter...

"Reco TT this morning. First 4 k ideal with TT bike, then 3.4 k real climb. ~20% more time climbing. Difficult to choose which bike.

But ultimately the legs do the talking no matter which bike you are going to ride. "
 
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theyoungest

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RHRH19861986 said:
Nothing against him, but:

Klöden is born 1975, in German Democratic Republic, they had Russian instead of English in school. He gets paid for pedalling fast, so his bad English is acceptable.

When I read this post by Ludvigsson, or read posts for example by Björn Thurau, I have to smile a little bit. Thurau´s English, for example, is really, really bad, I wouldn´t have imagined that this could be possible. There are MANY 14-yr-olds in Germany that have a better English than him.

Jaksche once quoted Saiz for having said, "You get paid for riding fast, not for thinking intelligently", and that doesn´t seem to have changed, at all.

:eek:
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Jesus, he used prolog instead of prologue and immediately he's a dumba$$?

It's perfectly possible to be very intelligent, and yet to have no language skills.
 
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Ferminal

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RHRH19861986 said:
Nothing against him, but:

Klöden is born 1975, in German Democratic Republic, they had Russian instead of English in school. He gets paid for pedalling fast, so his bad English is acceptable.

When I read this post by Ludvigsson, or read posts for example by Björn Thurau, I have to smile a little bit. Thurau´s English, for example, is really, really bad, I wouldn´t have imagined that this could be possible. There are MANY 14-yr-olds in Germany that have a better English than him.

Jaksche once quoted Saiz for having said, "You get paid for riding fast, not for thinking intelligently", and that doesn´t seem to have changed, at all.

:eek:
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Bit hard to be critical of someone posting in a medium which requires a bit of language butchering, and probably typing at haste on a phone. There are plenty of 20 year old native English speakers who would do a lot worse.

Plus they are spending their formative years riding their bikes every day, not a lot of time for perfecting their language on English-speaking websites. Not everyone can be as good as the Dutch!
 
taiwan

taiwan

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Bavarianrider said:
Shouldn't it be possible to built 6,8kg TT bikes these days?
I mean road bikes could already be much lighter than 6,8 kg, so i wonder why it is not possible to built TT bikes with 6,8kg.
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Good point. I suppose it would be possible, but aerodynamics may be compromised. I suppose on a flat course it doesn't matter so it's a small niche but maybe one a manufacturer could fill.
 
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theyoungest

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Bavarianrider said:
Shouldn't it be possible to built 6,8kg TT bikes these days?
I mean road bikes could already be much lighter than 6,8 kg, so i wonder why it is not possible to built TT bikes with 6,8kg.
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On a flatter course, a lighter bike isn't necessarily better. I suppose an aero road bike would fit your description.
 
Ryo Hazuki

Ryo Hazuki

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I may be wrong about Froome but Machado has big chance of winning this
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you always say that and it's getting very tiresome. but pls coutn the wins he's had the past 2 years for me :rolleyes:
 
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