Vuelta stage 20. Corvera → Alto de El Angliru - 119km

[Ataraxus]

Bertie wants to distance Zaka.
Podium smell

 

[Forever The Best]

Pantano too slow?

 

[portugal11]

Re: Re:

Who is considered best descender nowadays?

Bardet?

Huh? Sagan, kwia are way better

How would you know? They're hardly ever descending the same roads together with the same objectives.

C'mon man, it is like saying bardet is better sprinter thsn sagan or kwia... how do you know if they never faced each other in a sprint?

 

[rune1107]

Prepare for the legend's final attack

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Astana boys also gone. No Lopez or Aru

 

[Irondan]

Re: Re:

Who is considered best descender nowadays?

Bardet?

Huh? Sagan, kwia are way better

How would you know? They're hardly ever descending the same roads together with the same objectives.

You don't need Bardet and Sagan to descend together to know who's better. You just need eyes.

Sagan is a heavier rider, going downhill that makes him obviously faster than bardet, but does that diminish Bardet's descending skills? I don't think so.

Anyway, I'm not going to argue this, I didn't even think of Sagan because he's not in the race. Sagan's probably the best descender in the Peloton.

Both Sagan and Bardet are insane when they ride descend with a stage on the line.

 

[TMP402]

Re: Re:

of the favorites maybe. Of the whole peloton hell no. There are probably at least 20 sprinters who can descend faster

Among the GC guys? Or overall?
Cause Sagan and Kwiat would like to have a word.

Probably one of the guys in the grupetto. Among the contenders Nibali is by far the best.

Yes, among the contenders. But it would be good to compare with Bardet if they ever aim for the same race.

 

[cipurian]

Re: Re:

Who is considered best descender nowadays?

Don Vincenzo still I think.

Among the GC guys? Or overall?
Cause Sagan and Kwiat would like to have a word.

Overall. Watching these guys I just can't help, but appreciate their skills. Especially someone like Taylor Phinney. I took a few minor tumbles few years back and my confidence was never there anymore. Do riders go all out on training rides as well or they leave just for races?

 

[ice&fire]

Re:

Where is the rest of the peloton???

Was there a crash we missed or something.

No crash in the main group reported by the SpanishTV guy in the moto

 

[Gigs_98]

Sky down to 6 riders. They seem to have a bad day

 

[Frankschleck]

Re:

Who is considered best descender nowadays?

I would say mohoric is the best descender in the peloton

 

[Rollthedice]

Nibali did an intensive descending workshop with his teammates.

 

[bob.a.feet]

If Contador attacks before Angliru it would probably be bad for him but great for the race

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Lopez, Zakarin and Aru dropped.

 

[portugal11]

Vuelta is over. Mountain skyborgs are all there

 

[deValtos]

That was like a magic trick, 80% of the group just disappeared without being shown at all.

 

[jsem94]

Soler the Diesel is at it.

 

[Inquitus]

Re:

That was like a magic trick, 80% of the group just disappeared without being shown at all.

Did they just slip off the back on the descent?

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Re:

Lopez, Zakarin and Aru dropped.

+ Woods, I think.

 

[Climbing]

Oh noes! Flecha recon!

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Please not Flecha again......

 

[shalgo]

Woods dropped?

 

[TMP402]

Now we have to endure Flecha's incoherent nonsense.

 

[Forever The Best]

Last "Flecha's Recon"

 

[Sciocco]

*** FLECHA

FIRE HIM