s14phoenix Posted April 10, 2019 Posted April 10, 2019 Quintana is supposedly in a different league to LM as a Grand Tour winner/touted to win more.... so the wheel sucking leave a much bigger foul taste than when LM does..... LM suck wheel to seemingly just hang onto the group currently… very sad to see. Make no mistake he is still a fantastic bike rider - Just being able to be there is awesome - I just wish he had more success and wins to help build his confidence as that will do wonders for his showing of form. On another note... I have been thinking of how Froomey has been riding the last 1-2years... he has changed his approach from only responding to attacks and taking time by not letting anyone get away (seeing him win by law of averages and TT performance) to trying to put time into others and attacking on stages that is not the ITT (within what he is allowed to do at Sky) Is this change in style perhaps not as suitable for him and hence just falling short last year? (apart from the consecutive wins in GTs and the amount of fatigue it had to have caused)
s14phoenix Posted April 10, 2019 Posted April 10, 2019 (edited) Agreed. But Quintana has been know to attack too. only when he has sucked the others dry? And because the Sky tanks don't run dry much he hardly attacks. This is where I can at least give Nibali some credit - he does not attack only when he has wheelsucked everyone dry - he waits till the yellow jersey has a mechanical. (gosh I got to remember its not Friday yet) Edited April 10, 2019 by s14phoenix Patchelicious, Fat Boab and Nibali 3
Patchelicious Posted April 10, 2019 Posted April 10, 2019 only when he has sucked the others dry? And because the Sky tanks don't run dry much he hardly attacks. This is where I can at least give Nibali some credit - he does not attack only when he has wheelsucked everyone dry - he waits till the yellow jersey has a mechanical. (gosh I got to remember its not Friday yet)Or pink crashes like at Giro Nibali and s14phoenix 2
Shebeen Posted April 10, 2019 Posted April 10, 2019 It's the same as the reason I don't like Nibali or Quitana or Valverde - I just don't like them and personally feel sick when I see Quintana win anything. The others I can still handle.Nairo is not that exciting, to watch or in personality.Just compare to the other end of the scale with Esteban chavez who could probably even make Sir Alex Fergusen smile. BUT, he has come a bloody long way from very humble background. Check out this journalist who went on a Nairo pilgrimage (the small town even has a Nairo store) https://seecolombia.travel/blog/2016/09/visit-nairo-quintana-parents-combita-boyaca/ his old man seems like a hoot!
Patchelicious Posted April 10, 2019 Posted April 10, 2019 Hey now You are a savvy bike racer, but you are a slimey bastard Nibali 1
Nibali Posted April 10, 2019 Posted April 10, 2019 You are a savvy bike racer, but you are a slimey bastard Thanks Patchelicious 1
dave303e Posted June 13, 2019 Posted June 13, 2019 snot rocketting 101? Underachiever and Dexter-morgan 2
dave303e Posted June 13, 2019 Posted June 13, 2019 To be fair we have all fallen off our bikes under stupid reasons. Sucks for Froome that it ended so badly. Long Wheel Base 1
Underachiever Posted June 13, 2019 Posted June 13, 2019 To be fair we have all fallen off our bikes under stupid reasons. Sucks for Froome that it ended so badly.This is really bad news, but he seems to be falling off quite regularly, esp on his TT bike. He is even worse than me falling every year at the Sani!!
SwissVan Posted June 13, 2019 Posted June 13, 2019 This is really bad news, but he seems to be falling off quite regularly, esp on his TT bike. He is even worse than me falling every year at the Sani!!Used to be a saying:If you’re not falling off then you are not trying hard enough Meh... nowadays I seem to fall off without trying to hard ???? Underachiever 1
DieselnDust Posted June 13, 2019 Posted June 13, 2019 Chris is just hapless. remember the TT champs where he bolted from the start gate straight into a barrier?or he's multiple crashes at the TdF he eventually had to abandon. Hope he has a smooth and trouble free recovery but yirre please Chris stop crashing quintonb, Gen and Underachiever 3
DJR Posted June 13, 2019 Posted June 13, 2019 So, it seems I'm at least as good as Chris Froome...........well, when it comes to crashing. I feel for the guy! In fact, I feel for everyone who break bones falling off their bicycles. DieselnDust, Spoke101, Opc_danny and 2 others 5
Long Wheel Base Posted June 14, 2019 Posted June 14, 2019 So while lying in hospital in 2019, Froomey wins the 2011 Vuelta. Chuck Norris must be jealous. Matthew.K, Wayne pudding Mol, geomark and 8 others 11
shaper Posted June 14, 2019 Posted June 14, 2019 A day after the horror crash at the Criterium du Dauphine which left the British rider with fractures to his femur, ribs and elbow, it emerged that Juan Jose Cobo, winner of the 2011 Vuelta a Espana, had been disqualified for doping. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cycling/2019/06/13/chris-froome-awarded-2011-vuelta-espana-title-juan-jose-cobo/ Vetplant and Opc_danny 2
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