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His best contribution of the race. They should give Mohoric his TT bike.
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Jul 16, 2021 15:31
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Slovenian and again and again
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Jul 16, 2021 15:34
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Mohoric always seems like he's having a great time
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Jul 16, 2021 15:48
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His gap is growing. He could have been freewheeling most of the last 5km.
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Jul 16, 2021 15:48
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The second-place group was a trash fire.
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Half of them refused to work, the rest argued with them rather than ditching.
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Better sprint for 10th or whatever
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His interviews are so good. Someone who talks like Cav except about things other than sprinting.
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Jul 16, 2021 16:02
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Can’t wait for the TT where we see a good time and then some guys chipping away at it by a second or two and then Pogacar comes and dumpsters everybody by 30 seconds
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Ah yes Mohoric, clearly a good way to dispel rumours about your team doping is to celebrate your win with a gesture used by *checks notes* Lance Armstrong?
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I'm secretly pleased cab didn't win today because Sunday is going to be bananas. Hope pog does something mental like ride the TT fixed tomorrow
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https://twitter.com/Movistar_Team/status/1415944579774394368?s=19
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HappyCamperGL posted:It's like a specific statute that criminalises WADC violations. So I assume would cover even OTC stuff that's prohibited by WADA. Isn’t caffeine a controlled substance too though? In my experience France is a lot more lax about prescription drugs than other European countries. Feels Villeneuve posted:Yeah that'll happen when someone beats the field by four minutes or something. It’s exactly like when one team has a player sent off early in a big football match. Ruins it, outcome is obvious. goatface posted:How does he always get the hair poking out of his helmet so perfectly? He actually shaves his head every night, but the side effects enhance hair growth… goatface posted:They should give Mohoric his TT bike. Do they not all have the same spec TT bike?
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Jul 16, 2021 20:24
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Caffeine is allowed
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wooger posted:Sorry, I’m new to serious Tdf watching: Here, have a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84grTYdsgtE Albinator fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Jul 16, 2021 |
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Jul 16, 2021 21:18
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Albinator posted:They all have to be race legal, but they're by no means identical. Why wouldn’t each team have the best bike they can for every competitor though?
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Jul 16, 2021 21:21
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Sponsorship. The teams need the money more than they need the seconds.
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wooger posted:Why wouldn’t each team have the best bike they can for every competitor though? They do? They’re all set up for each rider specifically.
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The original comment wasn't really about the bike, it was about the fact he was obviously going to be solo for the rest of the stage because the rest were being wastermen.
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It's an interesting point though. 'loving sram' aside, has there been a team that has been stuck with absolute dogshit bikes for a tour before and its been obvious? I seem to remember there were issues with exploding carbon wheels a few tours back (and much further back there were concerns about the spinergies but I never saw one explode mid tour). I don't recall entire bikes being swapped out by a team though. Trying to imagine ineos grenadiers on the front riding huffys.
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Aqua Blue had to ride absolute garbage 3T 1x bikes that one year, not in the Tour though
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There were those proper slow Cannondale TT bikes for a bit
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Jumbo modded their heavy rear end Bianchis for grand tours by stripping the paint, but other than the bikes were fine. I've been trying to find out if there are better examples but it's the kind of thing that's hard to search for
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StarkingBarfish posted:It's an interesting point though. 'loving sram' aside, has there been a team that has been stuck with absolute dogshit bikes for a tour before and its been obvious? I seem to remember there were issues with exploding carbon wheels a few tours back (and much further back there were concerns about the spinergies but I never saw one explode mid tour). I don't recall entire bikes being swapped out by a team though. Somewhat related but some of the Conti teams are definitely not running the latest tech. https://www.bikeradar.com/features/pro-bike/2021-pro-bike-tech-trends/
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Belkin (now Jumbo) had such non stiff dogshit bianchi time trial bikes, so much in fact that they converted road bikes for their most demanding time trialists (Lars Boom most prominently). Then during the season bianchi presented new bikes that were more aero and more stiff and then the rear brake rubbed against the rim. That poo poo cost Mollema (seems to be a theme for him) a top position.
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Cav was forced to ride that lovely FSA crankset that kept kicking the chain off when he was sprinting and caused a massive crash. After it cost him at least 2 sprints he had Dura ace chainrings on.
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Rojkir posted:Belkin (now Jumbo) had such non stiff dogshit bianchi time trial bikes, so much in fact that they converted road bikes for their most demanding time trialists (Lars Boom most prominently). Then during the season bianchi presented new bikes that were more aero and more stiff and then the rear brake team against the rim. That poo poo cost Mollema (seems to be a theme for him) a top position. Yesss... this is the kinda thing I was looking for
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Wasn't Rohan Dennis' meltdown at the tour a couple of years back because he thought his Merida TT setup was poo poo?
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Partiallly that and partially because he's rohan dennis. While we are on the topic of delicate flowers https://twitter.com/2sporten/status/1416072635763593217
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StarkingBarfish posted:It's an interesting point though. 'loving sram' aside, has there been a team that has been stuck with absolute dogshit bikes for a tour before and its been obvious? I seem to remember there were issues with exploding carbon wheels a few tours back (and much further back there were concerns about the spinergies but I never saw one explode mid tour). I don't recall entire bikes being swapped out by a team though. Back in the day the big US team failure Mercury-Viatel were still on steel bikes in 2001 which was reeeeeeally late to be running those. I think they had a titanium option too but the titanium Lemonds weren't up to the standard of the actual high end titanium builders and titanium was on its way out as a pro bike material anyway. Also smh at dissing huffy. They won the Giro d'italia!  
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wooger posted:It’s exactly like when one team has a player sent off early in a big football match. Ruins it, outcome is obvious. It's more like that time Germany scored like five goals in ten minutes against Brazil and its fun in the same way
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me when I can’t get that tiny perfect amount of resistance on my headset
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also re: Mercury Viatel there's a great article wkth the team's assistant DS (who was like absurdly young for a DS, like 24, and got the job because he was like the only American they interviewed who knew Flemish) about what a disaster that team was iirc the takeaway was the owner was this massive American cycling nut who basically ran the team like a Velogames team, he spent all the money on riders and nothing on important things like operational costs I did really like the story where as a really young American DS all the American riders were more or less sniggering at him while all the guys from traditional cycling nations like the Belgians (and Pavel Tonkov who was basically Italian) just kind of instantly accepted it
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I think Cav is just confused about the internal cable routing. He's been on autopilot for quite a few years now.
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Albinator posted:Wasn't Rohan Dennis' meltdown at the tour a couple of years back because he thought his Merida TT setup was poo poo? That was the story though apparently on geraint Thomas's podcast he said it was actually more about the helmet than the bike, it was costing him 5-10 watts.
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I miss team time trials. Always enjoyed watching them.
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Whoa, I just saw that the BinckBank Tour will be the Benelux Tour from this year on. Not so much because they added Luxembourg, but because they lost BinckBank as a sponsor.
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Roblo posted:I miss team time trials. Always enjoyed watching them. I was wondering if we might see one come back as an anti Pogacar move
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