Vuelta a Burgos 2.HC 03/08 - 07/08

[Bumeington]

11.6km in 9'54" is 70.3kph/43.7mph, wonder where the 66.6kph came from on this report?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/vuelta-a-burgos-2-hc/stage-3/results

Just watched it on Spanish telly - that was F-F-F-FAST!

Course distance not 11.6 km???

 

[LaFleur]

11.6km in 9'54" is 70.3kph/43.7mph, wonder where the 66.6kph came from on this report?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/vuelta-a-burgos-2-hc/stage-3/results

Just watched it on Spanish telly - that was F-F-F-FAST!

I paid even more attention to the fact that a spanish DS used the word "lads". (Cavendish to Movistar, surely?)

 

[icefire]

Live feed is on:
http://ciclismo.it2.com/index.htm

 

[jens_attacks]

cross-winds!

 

[Mellow Velo]

Oooohhh, we have cross winds. The peloton explodes!
Pah! Movistar and Katusha take their foot off the gas, else we'd have had mashed carrots.

 

[icefire]

Either the wind is not strong enough, or those riders don't know who to break the field

 

[LaFleur]

If I wouldn't know better, then some of these shots reminded me of Tour of Qatar or Tour of Oman

 

[Mellow Velo]

Big crash...........
............that certainly split it up.
All the leaders in group 1.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Any live stream?

 

[hrotha]

Big crash...........
............that certainly split it up.
All the leaders in group 1.

Not Pardilla.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Magic Karpets!

 

[jens_attacks]

wow katusha that was awesome from purito!

 

[trevim]

Rodriguez lead out Moreno for the win!

 

[Mellow Velo]

Moreno, Samo, Purito Ventoso, Cobo, Blanco, ho ho.
(OK, poetic licence with Lastras)

 

[trevim]

Blanco, Garzelli, Cobo and Menchov in the top-10. +1s

 

[hrotha]

Felline best neo pro. Seriously, this "you're a neo pro for the first two years" thing doesn't fly.

 

[Descender]

Who's the organiser of this race? They're doing a hell of a job. Those Roman ruins are gorgeous.

 

[Carols]

Who's the organiser of this race? They're doing a hell of a job. Those Roman ruins are gorgeous.

Podium venue is truly awesome. Shame it's so sparsely attended

 

[55by11]

Great venue. And the dark-haired podium girl is a real cutie, but shouldn't they use ones that are shorter than the riders?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Who's the organiser of this race? They're doing a hell of a job. Those Roman ruins are gorgeous.

This race is pretty much inevitably awesome. One of the best on the calendar. Shows off the area, well-paced race, keeps everything interesting pretty much every day, good startlist, interesting parcours.

 

[Fetisoff]

Damn, I missed it, sounds like it was an awesome stage. Please tell me someone's gonna have the replay for it.

<fanboy mode on>
Sounds like Purito did a great job paying Moreno back for an awesome leadout on stage two. These two seem to be well on track for the Vuelta, should be a great 1-2 punch there, especially now since DiLuca's not riding
</fanboy mode off>

 

[jens_attacks]

who said di luca won't ride?

 

[Mellow Velo]

Most important landmark.
"Free" Cobo just hit his century of CQ points!

 

[Fetisoff]

Well it's not certain, of course, but I saw this

http://www.cyclingstartlists.com/2011/08Aug2011/05PoitouCharentes2011.htm

And judging from his failures at both Swiss and Poland, when his lieutenant consistently out-performed him, it kinda makes sense, at least it would not be the least of a surprise to me

 

[jens_attacks]

actually tcmill said a long time ago that di luca will have a free role in vuelta.he looked good in walonnie,good in suisse,in poland he was just making km.no doubt he will be in vuelta,he said it's his big objective of the year.