http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Vuelta en Tue, 19 May 2026 20:27:46 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025&page=2#post-291250 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 19:33:03 +0000 gembo 291250@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not bitter as has been a great race, full of boom and bust and 39 year olds fuelled on fairy dust. Some dilettante called Herbie Sykes dissing it on Rapha news. I invoke ths Blessed Polly Styrene and ask her to play Bondage Up Yours to Herbie.</p> <p>Anyway, how come I picked First and Third ( no way anyone picked Enric The Teeth Mas by the way?) yet still finished Last in the Dial? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025&page=2#post-290929 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:08:54 +0000 minus six 290929@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Proper cycling hero </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025&page=2#post-290917 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:35:54 +0000 gembo 290917@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well said Oscar </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025&page=2#post-290901 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:49:50 +0000 paddyirish 290901@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Today's stage finishes in Torrelavega, home of the triple world champion Oscar Freire. The Spaniard, winner of the Worlds in Verona in 1999 and 2004 and in Lisbon in 2001, was the main speaker at a demonstration in Torrelavega calling for more stringent road safety laws. “This campaign is for all the victims of accidents, whether they’re cyclists, pedestrians or in vehicles,” Freire said in his speech. “It’s no longer enough simply to get upset or angry when we see how easy it is to kill in this country when the weapon is some kind of motorised vehicle.” Alasdair Fotheringham was in attendance and has more <a href="http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/freire-leads-demonstration-for-tougher-spanish-road-safety-laws/">here</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-290894 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:17:42 +0000 Edinburgh Cycle Training 290894@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I left the ToB league, only to find I also seem to have left the Vuelta league!</p> <p>I presume a Velogames glitch.</p> <p>I doubt it will affect the top 10. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-290852 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 09:40:19 +0000 acsimpson 290852@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The top three look to be in a group of their own now. I'm sitting in 4th but only by a small margin so this may be as high as I get.</p> <p>Meanwhile I seem to have done very badly in the TOB, thanks in part to selecting a pair of reigning grand tour champions. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-290659 Sun, 09 Sep 2018 10:23:06 +0000 gembo 290659@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Should be referring to the 2018 thread but I found the older one.</p> <p>It is quite a tight race at the top of our league.</p> <p>I am currently last but hoping for second last.</p> <p>In my other league the winner is 49th in the whole universal shebang. Unassailable I think but today is probably the pivot with Covadonga stretching them out. And still three more hill stages next week so it is maybe not over.</p> <p>Yates has gone early again, the boy can't help it. Quintana won from here two years ago and might be fit. Impossible to read him. Lopez has been biding his time but had a weird ride a couple of days back that was put down to a mechanical. Valverde has been having an unbelievable time for a 39 year old unrepentant doper. Wilco is getting a lot of attention. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257868 Tue, 22 Aug 2017 16:04:50 +0000 amir 257868@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The live bit of La Vuelta website is good<br /> <a href="http://racecenter.lavuelta.es" rel="nofollow">http://racecenter.lavuelta.es</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257832 Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:08:45 +0000 gembo 257832@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I won my other TdF league without Froome.</p> <p>In the Vuelta listings Froome cost 26 points and Nibs 20</p> <p>They appear to be the form players. However the trace finishes on the goat path and David Millar took his ball home there. Wee Chaves will spring up it and take me from zero to hero? Maybe yes Maybe No </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257784 Tue, 22 Aug 2017 08:17:29 +0000 minus six 257784@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>dunno about that, gembo</p> <p>nibs is always a gamble and froome will have bad days</p> <p>plenty other contenders on offer, there was a lot to weigh up </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257764 Mon, 21 Aug 2017 20:39:19 +0000 gembo 257764@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>He nailed it. </p> <p>I liked when my wee laddie Chaves was able to go with the big boy when the others could not. Bodes well for the hilltop finishes though this stage was nullified by the technical descent.</p> <p>Lots of people who have picked favourite and second favourite now have lots of points. But really, where is the fun in that? I much prefer propping up the league than taking the obvious route. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257762 Mon, 21 Aug 2017 20:30:04 +0000 minus six 257762@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>ach well there's always ToB eh, soon come</p> <p>only one shark in action today...</p> <p>the man himself, at the finish line </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257759 Mon, 21 Aug 2017 20:08:46 +0000 SRD 257759@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bax I totally failed to get a team together. luckily the shark-like junior members of the family have let me join them.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257711 Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:26:50 +0000 Cyclingmollie 257711@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Coto Bello CC seem to be half asleep. Like I was when I chose them. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257648 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 19:57:45 +0000 amir 257648@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Que suerte! I've got the other Sánchez. Que mal suerte, I've lost Villegas </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257642 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 18:30:44 +0000 gembo 257642@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ooooft, down to 8 before the start with Sanchez out for doping </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257614 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 13:07:24 +0000 Cyclingmollie 257614@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Penso che il tuo Spagnolo potrebbe essere migliorato. </em></p> <p>We're an Italian team. That's my excuse anyway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257602 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 10:00:34 +0000 gembo 257602@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hope it is hilly as I appear to have picked only climbers? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257592 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 07:27:23 +0000 Frenchy 257592@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Forza Ciclismollie - Cameriere, piu' champagna per i mie compagni di squadra! </em></p> <p>Penso che il tuo Spagnolo potrebbe essere migliorato. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257585 Fri, 18 Aug 2017 23:34:20 +0000 Cyclingmollie 257585@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Forza Ciclismollie - Cameriere, piu' champagna per i mie compagni di squadra! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257561 Fri, 18 Aug 2017 15:54:58 +0000 gembo 257561@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Shame, he was my favourite. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257557 Fri, 18 Aug 2017 15:49:04 +0000 paddyirish 257557@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo<br /> Landa was never in - he rode the Giro (KOM) and Tour (4th). Nobody does 3 GTs in a year unless their name is Adam Hansen... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257551 Fri, 18 Aug 2017 15:26:43 +0000 gembo 257551@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is Mikel Landa out? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257547 Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:53:35 +0000 acsimpson 257547@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A Spanish Name it is then. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257492 Thu, 17 Aug 2017 21:49:11 +0000 gembo 257492@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Dem's de breaks </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257488 Thu, 17 Aug 2017 21:39:08 +0000 minus six 257488@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>srd swooped in at the death as usual, gembo</p> <p>you can't fight city hall </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257487 Thu, 17 Aug 2017 21:36:41 +0000 gembo 257487@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bax San, I forget what happened again with fantasy Tour de France ? :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257471 Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:00:17 +0000 minus six 257471@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>was off grid and a few thousand miles from home for the final fortnight of the tour btw, to explain my omerta on the fantasy league front</p> <p>had absolutely no idea how it was all playing out </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257462 Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:12:16 +0000 gembo 257462@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>De nada Senor PaddyIrelandesa (fails to know what Spanish for Irish is) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18025#post-257447 Thu, 17 Aug 2017 13:09:36 +0000 paddyirish 257447@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Gracias gembo. Me he unido a la liga </p>