snowychap Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 (edited) Cracking stage today at La Vuelta.Big ride from Dumoulin to get back up and beat Froome. Edited August 30, 2015 by snowychap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Dumoulin's performances have been special so far. Even better because I picked him up for 6 in my velogames team. Obviously it will all fall apart for him and Chaves on Wednesday though, possibly the most brutal day of Grand Tour riding I've ever seen: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Anybody watching today? Totally nuts. Motorcyclists ruin Froome's tour? Our the audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 19 minutes ago, NoelVilla said: Anybody watching today? Totally nuts. Motorcyclists ruin Froome's tour? Our the audience. Someone should tell Chris Froome it's a bike race not a foot race! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 He really was in total panic mode. Why didn't he just stop and wait for a bike? Now 53 seconds after Adam Yates after it looked like he almost had it locked today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Truly bizarre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 And look at this, the fans get the blame when yet again it's the motocam idiots screwing up the race. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Terrible decision in Tdf today. They fall for Sky's pressure I guess. Bauke Mollema sums it up: "What's going on? Seems like everybody gets time bonuses. I wonder what would have happened if I would have been the only one to go down…" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 I was saying it at work that I would have thrown my water bottle at those motorbikes yesterday , the groups lined up in echelons to cover from the wind and 4 bike beeping to get past a rider trying to focus on the climb ...I would have **** the bottle at them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larscapaldi Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 19 minutes ago, NoelVilla said: Terrible decision in Tdf today. They fall for Sky's pressure I guess. Bauke Mollema sums it up: "What's going on? Seems like everybody gets time bonuses. I wonder what would have happened if I would have been the only one to go down…" He's probably right too. If it had been him who went down, I'm not so sure anything would have happened... Anyway, today the Belgians showed once again who the strongest riders are ;-) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 2 hours ago, NoelVilla said: Terrible decision in Tdf today. They fall for Sky's pressure I guess. Bauke Mollema sums it up: "What's going on? Seems like everybody gets time bonuses. I wonder what would have happened if I would have been the only one to go down…" It wasn't a terrible decision at all. It was about the only possible sensible decision. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Yes, if the race can be decided by the actions of fans bringing down riders we might end up with fans of rival teams deliberately bringing down a competitor to take them out of the running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 I wonder if they'll delay or cancel the race due to events in Nice tonight.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Yeah, I don't know what they'll do really. Horrible choice to have to make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 9 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: It wasn't a terrible decision at all. It was about the only possible sensible decision. agreed. Some ill informed comments on this page IMO. It was the spectators (and the tour organisers) who caused that crash, not the bikes. The stage was shortened due to high winds by several km's. Therefore, the spectators, who crowd around the cyclists at the best of times up a steep mountain, were even more squashed together in the final few k's. Many of them apparently pissed up too, and blocking the motorbikes from getting through. Basically, the motorbikes either had to stop suddenly, or basically ride into/over the crowd, possibly causing fatalities. Porte said as much. There should have been more barriers erected to prevent this. Yes, the motorbikes have caused a lot of problems recently, in other tours/races especially. But this one was not down to them. Had it not been the m-bikes having to stop suddenly, it would have been the riders themselves. Crowd control should have been better. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 This ^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Yes, exactly. Surprising how off-base some of the comments on here are on this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 So every time a stage is shortened the rules of cycling should not apply anymore and the organisers could make up new rules? Seems great for the integrity of the sport. It's a racing incident and should be treated as such. When does this exceptions end? Will it be applied if something happens to a breakaway? (Flecha a few years back springs to mind) or it is just for the yellow jersey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 It is absolute nonsense to blame the spectators. The reason the motorbikes had no space was because they were unprepared for the spectators with the re-jigged stage and as such got caught having a large number of motorbikes in the crowd tunnel. This is why they typically ride behind the cyclists or farther in advance. When the crowd got large, that particular motorbike should have stopped and pulled over to let the competitors pass, instead they carried on until disaster. Not the spectators fault, this is on ASO 100%. I assume that if Porte had fell and taken Froome down, and then he went off running that he would also get a free pass also? As it was close to the end some re-normalization was warranted in this case, but Froome should have been punished for running sans-bike in contravention of the rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 The fact that the organisers can apply common sense, instead of blindly sticking to rules that nobody wants, is frankly one of the best things about the sport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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