The Classics

[Dirt Tracker]

 

 

Beautiful racing 

 

Just wish we could see more of it. The womens tour is going so well and not only deserve more races covered but better coverage in the race. Most of the moves today were lost unfortunately. 

[Dirt Tracker]

Garcia repping the Cipollini though, lockdown been good to some sponsors...

 

Cipo. Ewww. That oke is dodgy as. Currently on a charm offensive while he deflects from some unsavoury personal stuff by crushing junior riders on the track dressed in WC kit. 

 

['Dale]

Just wish we could see more of it. The womens tour is going so well and not only deserve more races covered but better coverage in the race. Most of the moves today were lost unfortunately. 

 

Better coverage, better income stream / contracts, better multi-stage racing opportunities. Big time. It's 2020, damnit.

 

Who is gonna stop this rainbow jersey?

 

"What is hard is good for me." - AvV

 

Edited August 1, 2020 by 'Dale

[Dirt Tracker]

In Burgos Sosa has cracked Remco to take the stage for Ineos with Landa and Chaves all in the mix until the last 700m. Doesn't change much as Landa can only get 2 secs out of it and the young quickstep'r wraps up the GC nicely. 

Edited August 1, 2020 by Dirt Tracker

[Frosty]

I've got ExpressVNP running for the GCN App on my mobile. Have been trying access Eurosport with my VPN on my desktop but it seems to kill my connection dead and the site just hangs. At this rate I'll just load DSTV and sit back.

This is as far as I get... doesn’t go beyond here once I hit the Buy to Watch button.

[kosmonooit]

So do we have a winner to be able to watch the race today on line? I was thinking of doing the GCN sign up as it's on special for £19 for the year. Eurosport is also on special @ £19.

 

I've been through most of the 'free' options and also the UK channels but hardly anyone is covering them. 

 

I've found that it's not possible to sign up for either here legitimately: for the Eurosport sub if you don't have a UK based credit / debit card you cant proceed to pay, not sure about GCN but without a VPN to the UK from ur phone / tablet you don't even get the option to sign up (app only), and I am sure they will implement the same payment gateway geofencing since its basically Eurosport as well

 

With Getflix you watch Rai, otherwise its pirate streams.

Edited August 1, 2020 by kosmonooit

[Frosty]

That ‘dale (the bike, not the Hubber) looks fantastic... referring to Simon Clarke, of course.

['Dale]

Puncture time for these two.

Chasing but an impossible feat to get back to the sharp end.

 

Go, Bettiol!

 

[WrightJnr]

 

Lucky Eurosport 2 for me ...

[Rowl]

Come on WVA!

[WrightJnr]

Wow! Wout was impressive.

[Vetplant]

So chuffed for WVA!

 

Monstered it!

 

May he have many more.

['Dale]

Beautiful racing. Wow.

One of the talking points of the day is that WvA was on rim brakes.

 

No cramp and crying for Wout today up Siena Wall. What a ride under a hot Italian sun.The decisive final break and winning attack up the final strada sterrato pictured below:

 

"I really fell in love with this race two years ago..." - WvA.

 

Edited August 1, 2020 by 'Dale

[Frosty]

That was a good afternoon, for me, in front the screen.

 

Well done WvA!

So much for the Aussies that I thought would be there.

[Dirt Tracker]

This is as far as I get... doesn’t go beyond here once I hit the Buy to Watch button.

 

I managed to get it working and to be honest I think it did pretty well. I don't know how I bought the pass, just pressed loads of things then the Apple payment thing appeared, took my money and then wouldn't acknowledge it found about an hour.  Oddly it presented the payments to me in Rands even though I was running a VPN to make it look like I was in the UK. So I tuned off the VPN and ran it normally and it was pretty good. 

[Dirt Tracker]

So chuffed for WVA!

 

Monstered it!

 

May he have many more.

 

He looked like he wanted it from the world go today. Really pleased he took it after 2 podiums. MVDP gets a lot of the rockstar coverage but WVA has been building his road craft, while being stupidly talented, quite quietly. The way he rode for Gilbert in the worlds and stuck with him was a real teller about him. Hope this is the first of many. The young guys are doing great things. Remco in Burgos, WVA here. Let's see what the rest of the season brings. It's great to have the season back and opening with such a gem of a race made a real statement.