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Tubehunter

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  1. That swing left with a narrower road at 200m to go is gonna cause chaos in the sprint as it's 200m to the line when all the chaps are jockeying for position. No way to expect the guys to hold lines to the letter with the finish line that close after! Yes, the run up to this roundabout will make the previous one even more important! No way for any teams to come from behind on this course finish without doing something absolutely extraordinary!
  2. The red triangle above the previous roundabout is the 1km to go mark, so the last roundabout is literally a little over a 100m or so from the finish! P-Poor planning.... Gonna be hard for the peloton to come through there unscathed with all the jostling and funnelling into that finish stretch. (Wonder what the UCI will be compelled to get up to at the end of this stage!)
  3. Indeed the High Tower LT will be my first choice!!!! Now just to figure out which of the colours... Mmmmmm
  4. I was most surprised with how Froome attacked and then shut it down after shaking NQ, AC, SY and the rest of the elite peloton in the final climb BUT before trying to ride onto Aru. That was telling for me yesterday. Clearly not a stage where he and Porte wanted to put everything on the table, or the legs aren't there on the short steep stuff....
  5. You would think after Cavendish cleared all the barriers for them... (Too soon?)
  6. It's cool Patch. We both know you can't have a judgement here, without someone playing the man (or woman for that matter) at some point. There's a moving scale of objectivity and subjectivity that keeps dynamically altering in this here world!
  7. Haha! Sagz tramp stamp! Just need to pick an artist for the application and I'll post the finished piece back ekse....
  8. Patch, I think everyone who saw it at real world speed first time round, had to have thought it was a douche move by PS. The co-incidence of the movements all appeared to make it look deliberate. I was shouting at the TV when I first saw it myself. Had to slow everything down to get some better views and work out how it all went down. Imagine that was the case for everyone except those who have personally lived the highly charged sprint finish at this level!
  9. Sagz doesn't take wheels where he would get so easily boxed out and prefers positioning further forward in the run up to the line with maybe one or two riders to overhaul for the line to claim victory. That's his MO.
  10. You guys do realise you are 'Andre' brothers eh?
  11. Eishhh, did someone else have to hold it to help him point at the bottle? You gotta love how poorly timed these WADA peeps can be at times!
  12. (edit: italics added to explicitly indicate my intent to make a joke... no letters please) Comic Sans is your font of choice on bikehub when deliberately showing a particular portion of post is indeed jest!
  13. The perfect place to ramp over or T-bone a bike or a body and land on your head. Sitting on the back you're a passenger and if the bus arrives at a wipeout, you are going down! (unless you have disc brakes of course....)
  14. Yep, you get specialized skills as an extra!
  15. Finally! You are right Savage! Sagan getting DG'd is all CSA's bloody fault! Somewhere, somehow, they are involved. This kind of fork-up smells of their doing.
  16. MOVE ON??????????????? ON THE HUB???????????????????????? ARE YOU MAD????????????????????????????????????????? #wouldGenevenallowthat?
  17. This possibly the best piece of commentary to come out of the whole saga.. Current sports director of Silber Pro Cycling, Gord Fraser was a sprinter for Motorola and Mercury-Viatel during his career and also took to Facebook to share his opinion. "It's clear that when when Demare launched he'd be the one to beat and Sagan was simply desperate to hitch on. Cav had already gambled up barrier side and had momentum but that half bike length he left behind demare was all the peripheral space Sagan went for. I'm sure PS had zero clue Cav was even there until they made contact and did well to stay upright. Lesson? When you go up the narrow barrier side be prepared for the door to close. Gaviria won taking this risk in the Giro. Sometimes you hit jackpot despite the odds. Unfortunately for Cav it was craps. No foul and certainly no DQ merited. I'd say demare chopping over Bouhani's front wheel was a more conscious and risky move but still within sprinting limitations. "Here's my beef. Why can't the UCI find some ex pros to take the comms course and insist on one at all times on the race jury? I'm constantly frustrated by officials quoting a rule book with zero practical race experience. A former bunch sprinter on the panel for flat stages and climber for the mountains."
  18. How crazy to think the 2017 TdF only had 4 stages too it....
  19. Poor Maradonna. He only got the hand of GOD, whilst Sagan got the upgraded Elbow. An elbow with such force that it can topple a leading bike rider without ever touching him....
  20. "Neeeeeeeeighhhhhhh" It's not moving, it's still making noises! Let the flogging continue.....
  21. After reviewing the events at the TdF and realising I should have stuck with what I originally wanted to select as my team rather than my final pick in the fantasy league, I will have to apply that lesson here and explore the colour options of the Bronson... hehe
  22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WALUWNH2W8o
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