Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2023, stage 2: Mataró - Barcelona, 181.8k

[noob]

Did Remco help Jumbo to make peleton wait for Roglic?

Edit: Yes he did. Props to him! The integrity!

 

[SafeBet]

Surely DSM can't be happy about this?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Looking forward to the first Tour where it rains throughout the first week. I imagine this kind of behaviour for a whole week will do viewership numbers a world of good. Pandora's box is being opened today.

 

[Ricco']

you'll see crashes, not a race.

Intrinsic part of road cycling.

And of any other part of cycling.

A few km's away from Barcelona there is a World Cup for another discipline taking place in Andorra in identical conditions, no one is making a fuss about riding steep drop-offs and technical rock gardens there.

 

[tobydawq]

This is fun.

 

[Red Rick]

Red Rick, Izzyviel and Hellodolly must be salivating. The city parcours and rounadabouts are coming, and GC riders can suddenly break a collarbone and game over. That's what they want, no?

I love this moral high ground stuff when all you can do is misrepresent someone elses position 7 ways from sunday

 

[QueenStagiaire]

You can't do anything about this tho? Apart from completely cancelling the stage.

Yes, so the neutralisation is useless.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

I was in shower, did roglic have a bad crash or very light one?


Now roglic fans can say 'but roglic is injured form his stage 2 crash' when he doesn't attack in the mountains once.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Jonas you lil sissy

 

[Salvarani]

Boo Jumbo.

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

I was in shower, did roglic have a bad crash or very light one?


Now roglic fans can say 'but roglic is injured form his stage 2 crash' when he doesn't attack in the mountains once.

Light I would say.

 

[Ricco']

Roglic's crash shouldn't be so bad as Jumbo was more intent in going to the front of the group instead of dropping some engines to put him back there.

 

[postmanhat]

Break looks doomed after all that.

 

[JosefK]

I was in shower, did roglic have a bad crash or very light one?


Now roglic fans can say 'but roglic is injured form his stage 2 crash' when he doesn't attack in the mountains once.

It looked like a light crash, but it's hard to know how he feels.

 

[samhocking]

Was it Thomas that Roglic slid into? Looks like both just made it back to the peloton so I assume it was.

 

[dgodave]

Intrinsic part of road cycling.

And of any other part of cycling.

A few km's away from Barcelona there is a World Cup for another discipline taking place in Andorra in identical conditions, no one is making a fuss about riding steep drop-offs and technical rock gardens there.

Were GTs always so crashy in olden times, like in the previous century?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Was it Thomas that Roglic slid into? Looks like both just made it back to the peloton so I assume it was.

If there were two GC riders you could bank on to get involved in a crash...

 

[Volderke]

I love this moral high ground stuff when all you can do is misrepresent someone elses position 7 ways from sunday

Some sides of the road. There's hours left for the road to dry

I take notes, yes.

 

[RedheadDane]

Did Storer and the Intermarche guy get their bikes tangled?

 

[tobydawq]

Were GTs always so crashy in olden times, like in the previous century?

Yes.

 

[samhocking]

If there were two GC riders you could bank on to get involved in a crash...

Seems like that but all riders are crashing, just Jumbo & Ineos crashes all get spoken about is all.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Were GTs always so crashy in olden times, like in the previous century?

The péloton wasn't as large in older times, because the difference in quality between the best and worst rider in the bunch was bigger. So while there may have been no fewer crashes (although there may have been because people would have more room to pick their own lines), fewer people would typically be involved.

 

[Didinho]

Milesi wrong time for mechanical.

 

[noob]

So many crashes already

 

[Volderke]

A city parcours looked fine when designed on a dry winter day in Spain, but it's looking like something to forget asap with the rain, slippery roundabouts and forum members advocating for holding races like in the good old days when men had beards and dinosaurs where thriving, and there were approx. 20% of cars (and oil) on the road, and 0.01% of roundabouts and speedbumps compared to in 2023.