UCI Road World Championships 21st-29th September 2019 - Yorkshire - Race Thread.

[ppanther92]

Also, the Merida bike really comes off looking very, very bad.

So its official now - Nibali and Caruso would have dominated the Giro ITTs

Gold Dennis
Silver Evenepoel
Bronze Ganna or Oliveira

Barring any crashes or mechanicals.

 

[Red Rick]

Roglic stabilising a tiny bit it seems

 

[sir fly]

Rogla's one tired Slowenian.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

With Campernarts down Evenepocan get a medal

He was always gonna get a medal, even if Campenaerts was faster.

 

[tobydawq]

What?? He's cruising towards silver.

Yeah, and he gained plenty of time on Ganna. Strange comment.

 

[GuntherL]

The battle for third is tense.

 

[Red Rick]

I think the main takeaway is that Nibali would've won the Giro with 2 stage wins on a BMC TT bike

 

[spalco]

Remco #1, 46 seconds on Ganna.

 

[King Boonen]

Dennis is such a beast. Can the bicycle really make such a difference or is it mostly in his head?

I mean, even if he lost a minute on a slower bike, he could still win this race it looks like.

Unlikely it makes that big a difference but yeah, psychologically it can be big.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Dennis is destroying them all!

 

[Vroome.exe]

Evenepoel is fading, Dennis will probably win by a minute

Correction, two minutes

 

[spalco]

Crazy time by Dennis, wow.

 

[Red Rick]

I worked so hard to buy a Ferrari, but my crush instead dated a guy with a BMC TT bike

 

[DNP-Old]

Campenaerts needs to hurry to get eligibility for the Olympics.

 

[GuntherL]

Campenaerts only 13 seconds behind third place at the second intermediate.

 

[SafeBet]

I never believed the complaints about the Merida bikes but I gotta admit I was wrong.
Probably not the most stable person out there, probably his head played a role too, but man... Dennis is destroying everybody here. Amazing.

 

[ppanther92]

I think the main takeaway is that Nibali would've won the Giro with 2 stage wins on a BMC TT bike

If you really can conclude this, yes. But I am sceptical. Cause if you go by Dennis' performances, the bike makes a difference of minutes.

But it may have been a combination of the Merida bike not quite as good and Dennis obsessing over it.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Poor Campenaerts.

 

[GuntherL]

I don't think Campenaerts will allow his dad in the team car in the future.

 

[Gigs_98]

Hard to rank Dennis' performance. Aside from him I don't think this is a particularly good field, I mean his biggest rival won in the junior ranks last season. This would look a lot less dominant with someone like dumoulin or froome in top shape as well or Martin, wiggins and cancellara from a few years ago. Phenomenal performance nontheless of course

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Roglic overtaken by a guy that started 3 minutes earlier.

 

[RedheadDane]

This is not Campenaerts' day!

And for a moment I feared he was going to try and repeat his stunt from the Giro...

 

[Red Rick]

Dennis telling Roglic he should spend the next 5 weeks on a beach

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Rogla embarrasingly passed