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BabyFur Denny posted:Let me guess, quintana just attacked valverde? Nah that's about Marc Soler. Neither of those guys are kids.
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been watching a few old races on the weekend they were supposed to run. 1985 Ronde Lemond Phil Anderson Planckaert Criquielion Kelly punches thrown on the koppenberg, super nasty weather, dudes falling over sideways on the muur, top tube shifting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R3wUu49n6U
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What if this would've been a wet Roubaix year
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I'm watching a virtual Tour of Flanders on Belgian television and it's great.
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paddyboat posted:been watching a few old races on the weekend they were supposed to run. it whips rear end that everyone was fine with 42/21 being the lowest gear on a bicycle for like decades
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malder posted:I'm watching a virtual Tour of Flanders on Belgian television and it's great. Man we have different definitions of great. I couldn't stand watching the bad bike fits of the creepy avatars.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:it whips rear end that everyone was fine with 42/21 being the lowest gear on a bicycle for like decades it’s weird, I won’t watch 80’s football because it’s so clunky but this felt as fast as any race nowdays watching 2012 now (the new route) tyler farrar in the break cancellara died hincapie :pippo: boonen getting pushed up the kreusberg crazy astana guy attacking up the sidewalk with a gel hanging out of his mouth ballan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlAumDsniko
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I don't think it's *that* much slower than nowadays, it's not like running 53/11 on a high end 80s steel/alloy/composite frame is going to be like a cargo bike, the bigger difference is the lack of modern lower-range gearing meaning you don't see the high cadence grinding up walls you see more of nowadays things get significantly faster around the 1991 mark for Some Reason I usually take the "everyone was on some poo poo" view and my hatred for Big Tex is more for him using political influence like a psycho, but the early EPO years where a few teams were ahead of the rest and suddenly Gewiss is the greatest team in the world and Berzin is the next Merckx are legitimately sketchy. I think by '96 or so things were kind of even, though. E) obligatory video of the infamous 1994 La Fleche Wallonne where a rocket fueled Gewiss team rode away from everyone else, featuring a clueless Phil Ligget https://youtu.be/vsgpMoo7fr0 Pitor Urgamov's hemocrit was recorded as jumping from 32 to 61 within a year. Lmao. Feels Villeneuve fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Apr 6, 2020 |
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Heh, I remember the jokes about Italian orange juice being the the best.
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incidentally i love the late 90s (VDB-era) classics because it's where you get by far the coolest mix of tech in the peloton with some teams still running steel frames, some teams using carbon/carbon lugged stuff, Cannondale alloy frames with giant tubes, and titanium. Also GT supplying a WT team. What a sad story GT was, they should have been as big as Specialized or Trek.  ONCE showing up with the original TCRs was wild (depending on who you ask, the first sloping-tube racing frame) too, it's like they're suddenly using bikes which look ten years more modern than anything around them. I think they even tried running these with 650s for a bit. 
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I had an old GT Outpost in dark green. I loved that bike. If it ever pops on CL I am buying it in a heartbeat.
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Some of the latter day Schwinn mountain bikes from when GT briefly owned them, prior to them becoming a department store bike, were really cool too. The top-of-the-line Homegrown line was really well-regarded in particular. Speaking of "before they became department store bikes", someone popped this Mongoose IBOC Team Issue on CL for like $250 and I was so wanting to get it if not for the whole "everyone is quarantined" thing  It's really sad to see these, so many iconic brands back then were swallowed up by the cheapo department store MTB boom, and giant companies buying the brands and sucking all the value out of them. Mongoose, Diamondback, Schwinn, Raleigh, GT. Cannondale just barely avoided the same fate. Feels Villeneuve fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Apr 6, 2020 |
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Some of the latter day Schwinn mountain bikes from when GT briefly owned them, prior to them becoming a department store bike, were really cool too. The top-of-the-line Homegrown line was really well-regarded in particular. Some are back though right? Like DB and Raleigh?
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kinda, they don't really have any connection to the original brands and are in that kind of "budget premium" area, rather than being actual junk bikes. Same thing with Fuji and Masi. They're good, but kind of generic. Speaking of old races, putting on LBL '99 because there's never enough VDB content on Youtube [img-crying-belgian-flag] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yZAJDeeMZA
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laste Ronde post This series is great, i’d forgotten how bonkers 2017 was already. Behind the scenes style but really following the race. classic Quickstep clown car poo poo and they still won https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNpvsJ3_OJo
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Who is gonna win Roubaix tomorrow?
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It's a good weather year, I think a team would do it rather than an individual performance. Had anyone actually confirmed their attendance?
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Just watched Ineos race up Alpe du Zwift. Gimmicky? Yes. Not as good as the real thing? Of course not. Somewhat entertaining? You bet.
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Dangerllama posted:Just watched Ineos race up Alpe du Zwift. Gimmicky? Yes. Not as good as the real thing? Of course not. Somewhat entertaining? You bet. The production was pretty bad - putting the live stream of the rider the same size as the zwift screen, meaning that most of the screen has a static background? Not great.
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Big fan of Dennis just doing 6.5w/kg for 40 minutes.
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TdF at the end of August. gently caress your ordinary schedule.
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Giro in October. Vuelta November. Paris roubaix, Flanders and the world's in there too.
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Might as well stick in some absolute bastard mountain stages toward the end then. e - Actually, I never read past the headline, are they keeping the exact same route and just telling everyone along the way to suck it up?
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goatface posted:Might as well stick in some absolute bastard mountain stages toward the end then. I would expect so, unless some of the high mountains are impassable at that time of year. My expectation is they'll just be loving cold, not covered in snow though.
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https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16...8831201280?s=19 Chaos reigns
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clean ayers act posted:Anyone watching the Least Expected Day on netflix? I watched it, it solidified that I don’t like Nairo
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clean ayers act posted:Anyone watching the Least Expected Day on netflix? Yeah, we talked about it some on the last page I think. It's good imo, loved getting to see more about the team directors.
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I'm watching the Movistar netflix thing right now and just got to the part where Nairo commits suicide-by-non-communication on the Tourmalet, and I'm glad that it all was exactly as dumb as I thought at the time. Like, no extenuating circumstances whatsoever, just a team finding out that Nairo is complete garbage in real time, as a documentary team is filming them. I love it e: I also enjoy how completely  Landa is 100% of the time
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I watched a bunch of Amstel Gold editions and the highlight was seeing US Postal Star, Floyd Landis do a dumb attack in 2004. Seriously though, watch 2010 again it’s awesome.
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paddyboat posted:I watched a bunch of Amstel Gold editions and the highlight was seeing US Postal Star, Floyd Landis do a dumb attack in 2004. The old Amstel finish before the Cauberg one owned because Lance Armstrong lost like a million sprints in a row
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Only time Froome ever had to face Nairo was when he was riding back down after a mountain finish.
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*hugging Quintana cutout* Well always have stage 10, 2016 Vuelta
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y'all are mean. It's true, they were an astonishingly dysfunctional team for more than 2/3 of the season, but do those best team awards mean nothing to you monsters? I can't bring myself to hate any of them as individuals but holy poo poo did whoever was in charge of team chemistry do a bad job.
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