2017 UCI Road World Champs Bergen 16-24 September

[kosmonooit]

Well when previous champs / monument winners have hidden in the bunch all day, only to follow other wheels & pop their faces into the wind in the last 10 m fresh as a daisy, they were condemned as wheel suckers. Just saying,

 

ie Simon Gerrans, Thor Hushovd

[pe3nguin]

Well when previous champs / monument winners have hidden in the bunch all day, only to follow other wheels & pop their faces into the wind in the last 10 m fresh as a daisy, they were condemned as wheel suckers. Just saying,

 

ie Simon Gerrans, Thor Hushovd

And the people who did the condemning then were just as odd

 

[Edit]: Condemning isn't even the right word. How can you call a professional bike racer who is paid to win bike races, a wheel sucker. This logic hurts my tiny brain.

[kosmonooit]

Can't you have a conversation without personal insults?

[J Wakefield]

Well when previous champs / monument winners have hidden in the bunch all day, only to follow other wheels & pop their faces into the wind in the last 10 m fresh as a daisy, they were condemned as wheel suckers. Just saying,

 

ie Simon Gerrans, Thor Hushovd

 

Those winners would have a complete team working for them during the race to make sure they arrive in that spot in the best position and condition possible. 

 

Sagan's win shows its even more impressive as he didnt have a team like France, Belgium, Norway etc to control the race and fetch bottles, push him when he needs to pee and and and.

[Gen]

Those winners would have a complete team working for them during the race to make sure they arrive in that spot in the best position and condition possible.

 

Sagan's win shows its even more impressive as he didnt have a team like France, Belgium, Norway etc to control the race and fetch bottles, push him when he needs to pee and and and.

Well he kinda did have the whole Czech team controlling the race for him[emoji6] his national team mates keeping him out of danger during the race while he was parking off at the back.

 

He has learnt to change his tactics and good for him a few years ago it would've been him making an attack like what Alaphillipe did..and it wouldn't have worked because the field was just too strong..too many numbers at that stage of the race.. the rest have had far too many conformable victories jumping on his wheel.. at any given time had he made a move. .the other favourites would've jumped on his wheel and refused to contribute to anything. .as we've seen many many times in the past.. Sags rode a smart race. .

 

3 world champs 3 different kinds of routes..3 continents.

 

 

 

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[J Wakefield]

Well he kinda did have the whole Czech team controlling the race for him[emoji6] his national team mates keeping him out of danger during the race while he was parking off at the back.

 

He has learnt to change his tactics and good for him a few years ago it would've been him making an attack like what Alaphillipe did..and it wouldn't have worked because the field was just too strong..too many numbers at that stage of the race.. the rest have had far too many conformable victories jumping on his wheel.. at any given time had he made a move. .the other favourites would've jumped on his wheel and refused to contribute to anything. .as we've seen many many times in the past.. Sags rode a smart race. .

 

3 world champs 3 different kinds of routes..3 continents.

 

 

 

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That would be the same as saying Kristoff had the Czech team controlling for him. 

Sagan is like the old Robbie McEwen but only better. Both were and are masters of using other teams leadoffs and strengths to their own benefit. Both are tactical geniuses and know how to read a sprint stage in the final 5km.

[Gen]

That would be the same as saying Kristoff had the Czech team controlling for him.

Sagan is like the old Robbie McEwen but only better. Both were and are masters of using other teams leadoffs and strengths to their own benefit. Both are tactical geniuses and know how to read a sprint stage in the final 5km.

It was really to tongue in cheek though.. Sagan has friends in the peloton and he thanked those friends afterwards [emoji23] [emoji23]

 

In a race like yesterday he didn't need to do anything but be in the right position at the right time..and he did that.

 

But yip.. tactically he is pretty darn good and improving on that every year.

 

 

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[Gen]

And now the realisation that the road season is coming to and end.. also no more Sagan on our screens for the rest of the year .. next Sagan news we will hear will the birth of baby Sagan..which apparently could be any day now..he already left Norway this morning.. so min dae think. .aaaw.

 

Some cyclocross to keep us entertained.. the world cup season already in full flight.

 

And of course the anxious wait to hear some #willieleaks

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZd_-m-DNOK/

 

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[shaper]

Then the rest of us can have some relief from the sagan mania

['Dale]

Then the rest of us can have some relief from the sagan mania

Never

You'll have to exit Hubland for a break

 

@Gen

Send on those baby pics here ????????

[shaper]

Never

You'll have to exit Hubland for a break

@Gen

Send on those baby pics here

I believe there is a Sagan appreciation thread already

 

@Gen post there

[Gen]

Then the rest of us can have some relief from the sagan mania

You had 2.5 weeks off in July.. enough for one season[emoji12]

 

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[shaper]

You had 2.5 weeks off in July.. enough for one season[emoji12]

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2.5 weeks of not seeing him cycling, but in that time there was still plenty of running cometary... The fall out, the shock horror, other races he did.... so not quite

[Gen]

I believe there is a Sagan appreciation thread already

 

@Gen post there

Aaah.. I suspect as with the post of his wife being pregnant we would have to wait a long time before we hear or see anything..they'll keep it pvt as they should..[emoji39]

 

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[Patchelicious]

Then the rest of us can have some relief from the sagan mania

Is that code for The Gen and Dale Echo Chamber?

[Gen]

2.5 weeks of not seeing him cycling, but in that time there was still plenty of running cometary... The fall out, the shock horror, other races he did.... so not quite

[emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23]

 

I only vented for a day or 2.. (if memory serves)... okay maybe a few days longer

 

And he only started racing again after the TDF was over...and I kept those updates to his own thread.. well mostly [emoji5]

 

Ag I am sorry. He just makes me happy man.[emoji111]

 

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