The Cycling Thread

[Fighter]

Sagan and Froome out-smarting all the other cyclists out there...

 

[Dr Johnny Fever]

That was probably the most amazing finish to a "sprint" stage I've seen. The green and yellow jerseys drop the peloton with 15K to go. WoW!

 

[The Imp]

I thoroughly dislike Froome, I gotta say. However, I have to grudgingly admit that I respect, and even admire, the new skills he has shown this year. Descending like he did a few stages ago, and then doing what he did with Sagan yesterday. Chapeau.

 

[Fighter]

I don't like Froome as well, but after the grotesque situation happened today, I want him to win it all!

Tour is a gongshow, the motorbikes cannot be this dangerous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dr Johnny Fever]

The motorbikes have been awful this year, but I honestly don't think this one was their fault. The road is filled with some absolute morons. I'm surprised something like that doesn't happen every year.

 

[Fighter]

Congrats to Froome, but this Tour de France has been the most boring I can recall since I started watching cycling when I was a little kid. No rivals at all, Quintana has been a GHOST and should be ashamed of himself being on the podium. I give Aru a free pass, he tried something but he's not up there yet with the best of the best and in the last real stage he paid the price.
Highlight of this Tour was Froom RUNNING uphill after crashing his bike. Nuff said.
Hopefully next year it will be (way) better, it will not take much though.

 

[Knave]

Any place I can go for good (relatively long) highlights of the mountain stages and the mountain portions?

I've been really busy and forgot to tape them.

 

[Dr Johnny Fever]

Any place I can go for good (relatively long) highlights of the mountain stages and the mountain portions?

I've been really busy and forgot to tape them.

http://www.steephill.tv/tour-de-france/

If you scroll back through the stages there are always highlight clips and interviews each day. Always the last K, and many times as much as the last 20k-30k will be shown. Multiple languages too. I don't think you are going to find long clips of all the mountains. Not that you need to. As has been said, it was a boring tour. Nobody attacked anywhere. No team made any effort to even try and attack Froome. Boring race.

 

[Vasilevskiy]

I would say the activity on this thread reflects the quality of the tour, which was one of the lowest I can remember.

Except Sagan, the resolution of some of the breakaways and two or three moments from Froome this tour has been garbage... ratings showed that and I hope changes are coming.

Also, I can't help but laugh at the super climber Wout Poels is turning on

 

[Dr Johnny Fever]

There's something about a Sky kit that turns everybody into Superman.

 

[Fighter]

There's something about a Sky kit that turns everybody into Superman.

US postal-esque

 

[Fighter]

Back to back world champ, beating Cavendish in a sprint. Sagan rulez the cycling world

 

[Vasilevskiy]

what a champion.
I MUST get a photo with him somehow, he's an idol

 

[Jack Straw]

Sagan handles a minor inconvenience at Tirreno-Adriatico with style

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/03/16/errant-dog-walker-nearly-causes-crash-at-italian-bike-race/?utm_term=.686522f84879

 

[Fighter]

Goodbye Tom Boonen, hello Van Avermaet! Paris Roubaix was great as usual, but what Gilbert did in the Tour of Flanders was epic.

 

[Vasilevskiy]

Goodbye Tom Boonen, hello Van Avermaet! Paris Roubaix was great as usual, but what Gilbert did in the Tour of Flanders was epic.

yep, that was an amazing performance.

 

[Fighter]

Rest in Peace Michele Scarponi, no words...

 

[Dr Johnny Fever]

Sorry to hear that. Locally a cyclist was hit by police car the other day. You can never be too safe.

 

[Fighter]

Anybody but Froome. Please.

Sorry for Valverde, his 2017 is basically gone...

 

[Dr Johnny Fever]

Congrats to today's winner....

Photo from this year's Tour of California ITT.

 

[Jack Straw]

Great ride by Taylor Phinney, just not quite enough to stay away to the end.

 

[Dr Johnny Fever]

It's hard to be surprised by Sagan anymore. So today he unclips on his sprint to the finish, clips back in and still wins. UFB.

 

[Sotty]

Sagan has been rightfully disqualified from the Tour de France for his ellbow against Cavendish.

 

[Cruor]

Sagan has been rightfully disqualified from the Tour de France for his ellbow against Cavendish.

Seems awfully harsh to me, Cavendish had already initiated contact and was going down regardless. The elbow looked more to me like Sagan trying to keep his balance.

 

[Sotty]

His ellbow might be not the only reason why he was disqualified. If you look at the overhead images from the first crash you can see Sagan trying to squeeze between two riders causing the crash as a result.

https://u.nya.is/jdkpym.mp4