Vuelta a España - Stage 1 August 28, TTT Sevilla 16.5km

[Anonymous]

Bashing is a very strong word Dim! I thought with there team they could of done better. not a prologue dim. They have 3 young guys but the rest are old.

When did i say bashing? you need some transitions mate..

 

[Mellow Velo]

Of course, I picked Garmin for the win.
The car headlights are enough to give anyone a migraine.

 

[auscyclefan94]

The best TTer for Sky was probably Lofkvist. I think that tells you all you need to know about the strength of Sky's team for the TTT. People have hyped them up for this stage assumign they'd have the strong roluers like at the Giro. If people had bothered to look in any detail they'dknow that wasn't the case.

htc don't have anyone who is a tt rider, lampre has nobdy that is close to being called a tt'er.

 

[Anonymous]

yeah and htc have none of their super time trialers.

Former 3 time word champion mick rogers- not here
Former word champion Bert Grabsch- not here
5 time italian champion Pinnoti - not here
Future word champion and 2nd in world TOny Martin - not here

they still managed to put about 4 or 5 former national/junior time trial champs or pursuiters on the team though

 

[The Sheep]

lol Stuart

 

[auscyclefan94]

When did i say bashing? you need some transitions mate..

*puts glasses on*, now i can see! sorry, i woke up at 5:45am to watch this and have not had any coffee yet to get me going so i am only running on 3 cylinders.

 

[The Hitch]

lol, who was that sprinting for saxo as the rest of the team came in 4 seconds behind?

Edit:

lol Stuart

thought so.
Probably really wanted the leadership jersey and thought they were leading

 

[Sneekes]

ACF

Are you saying - that looking at the 9 Sky riders - that you think that they are of sufficient quality to have contended for the win here?

 

[Reverend_T_Preedy]

htc don't have anyone who is a tt rider, lampre has nobdy that is close to being called a tt'er.

Yeah but they have a team of strong riders. The likes of Roulsten, the Velits brothers, Sivtsov etc power their way around in a TTT. Sky are made up of less powerfull riders that HTC and, to be fair, most other teams. I'm sure they'd have expected to beat Xacebo.

A place between 10 and 5 would have been a great result.

 

[rxgqgxnyfz]

lol Stuart

You said it.

Team rift?
________
HOME MADE VAPORIZER

 

[The Sheep]

Cervelo look good

 

[Hartog]

NOS also found out the Vuelta started

The NOS live stream was already up a while, though. http://nos.nl/dossier/177979-wielrennen--vuelta-2010/tab/76/live/wmv/ for future reference (should only work for Dutchies, unfortunately).

 

[Moondance]

Rabo look dire... Menchov will take an early hit.

 

[Francois the Postman]

lol, who was that sprinting for saxo as the rest of the team came in 4 seconds behind?

Saxobank team splitting up in 2 a few months early.

 

[roundabout]

Yeah, it'll be a bad time for Rabo

 

[The Hitch]

Rabo look dire... Menchov will take an early hit.

a 50km straight flat time trial will make up for that

 

[Mellow Velo]

Rubberbank. Don't buy Dutch condoms.

 

[The Hitch]

Saxobank team splitting up in 2 a few months early.

nice.

........

 

[Moondance]

Ouch... Rabo 3rd from last.

Pretty horrific for a team that thinks they want to win the overall. Doesn't bode well for the strength of their team as a whole.

 

[Frosty]

Is a good TTTer simply the same as a good TTer though? In the TTT you have to be at the front for 10 seconds, say, and then recover for 80 seconds. Its not quite the same as maintaining a steady pace,

 

[theyoungest]

What an awful TT by Rabo. Disappointing.

 

[Sneekes]

oops, I had Rabo down for a top 6 result!

 

[theyoungest]

Ouch... Rabo 3rd from last.

Pretty horrific for a team that thinks they want to win the overall. Doesn't bode well for the strength of their team as a whole.

It's surprising, because with almost the same team, except for Menchov and Freire, they got 3d in the Burgos TTT.

 

[auscyclefan94]

ACF

Are you saying - that looking at the 9 Sky riders - that you think that they are of sufficient quality to have contended for the win here?

I am just calling how i see it. I was making the point htc have little experince but they still put in a very good time. Sky maybe a bit less renowned in the ttt but I thought they could of done better. I'll compliment sky when I see them do a stron performance also.

 

[The Hitch]

Is a good TTTer simply the same as a good TTer though? In the TTT you have to be at the front for 10 seconds, say, and then recover for 80 seconds. Its not quite the same as maintaining a steady pace,

I always said that. But that wont stop the Contador fanboys from going on about how Contador and Cancellara, the 2 greatest time trialers of all time will 2 man it during the tdf ttt and beat everyone by 10 minutes.

warning: hyperboles included