http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: No velogames tdF 2019 en Tue, 26 May 2026 06:04:29 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311643 Tue, 30 Jul 2019 08:07:34 +0000 gembo 311643@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>PaddyIrish must be in with a shout of winning the entire Purist League. He scored more points than many people who changed their team each day </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311589 Sun, 28 Jul 2019 21:58:02 +0000 gembo 311589@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ok, I take it back, up to second - miles behind paddyirish, assuming Calvin fae Crammond does not reveal himself.</p> <p>Interesting difference between winning virtual game where I am guessing you needed to have Sagan and Alaphilippe? And winning the actual race. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311587 Sun, 28 Jul 2019 20:25:24 +0000 gembo 311587@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My sprinter won. Also I think EBH5th. And Gorilla 6th. Plus I have winner and second, and KOM and yet the injustice persists :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311561 Sun, 28 Jul 2019 08:37:33 +0000 gembo 311561@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well played mini-Greenroofer. I thought it was the best tour for a while but I notice moans on other forums about how the speeds on the ascents were slower than previously. I assume because there were so many climbs?</p> <p>If Froome had been fit would Bernal have been a domestique?</p> <p>Alaphilippe with a stronger team would maybe have made it?</p> <p>Pinot does tend to blow at the stage he went at, but apparently injured himself by his thigh hitting the handlebar?</p> <p>My favourite bit of commentary was David Millar listing types of tree - the area is noted for maple, oak, spruce and hornbeam.</p> <p>Mini-Greenroofer needs to graduate to wasting whole days.watching le tour.</p> <p>Did anyone else spot the mad beefeaters atop le Galibier leading the crowd in communal dancing and singing? They give their hats to the kids and then a large dinosaur appears. All true.</p> <p>On the road......cc game I had first second and KOM and yet finished mid table.</p> <p>Sagan person to pick and of course Alaphilippe to win the game but not the actual event where it only changed in last couple of stages. Tactics etc </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311559 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 23:12:12 +0000 Greenroofer 311559@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well that was fun.</p> <p>I realised last night that we've been taking it too seriously at Greenroofer Towers when I idly asked who the chap on the screen was and mini-Greenroofer (age 10) immediately said "Kruijswijk". He was right.</p> <p>It then transpired that he had watched <em>every single one</em> of the ITV4 evening highlights for three weeks...</p> <p>Even I haven't managed that. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311556 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 22:16:58 +0000 gembo 311556@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Passed motor home on M74 tonight</p> <p>Slogan on back</p> <p>Going on an adventure<br /> Before Dementia </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311552 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 20:48:33 +0000 minus six 311552@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>would like to say that was the most entertaining tour edition in recent memory</p> <p>but realistically i can barely remember what happened last week</p> <p>pure gen x retrograde amnesia</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL998ajnjN4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL998ajnjN4</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311551 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 19:53:14 +0000 I were right about that saddle 311551@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just thought of snooker when an opponent is beaten but the play continues for a high break. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311550 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 19:29:17 +0000 Frenchy 311550@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good question. Do any of these count?</p> <p>Athletes in qualifying rounds easing off once they're sure of advancing.</p> <p>High jumpers opting not to jump at low heights.</p> <p>Badminton players in the round robin stage at the Olympics deliberately losing.</p> <p>Footballers not competing for a dropped-ball in order to let the other team have possession (I just learned that the laws changed this year, so there aren't competitive dropped-balls any more).</p> <p>The keirin starts with several laps of non-competitive cycling.</p> <p>Grouse shooting. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311549 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 18:51:58 +0000 I were right about that saddle 311549@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Are there other sports with periods of non-competitive play? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311548 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 17:28:24 +0000 stiltskin 311548@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>They don’t race a: because tradition.<br /> b: it is a flat stage. The only winner will be s sprinter. They couldn’t drop the GC leader even if they tried </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311547 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 17:02:22 +0000 I were right about that saddle 311547@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Do some of them remove their teeth to save weight? That's committed. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311545 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 16:53:17 +0000 wingpig 311545@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IWRATS Apparently (I asked a few years ago) it's not a real race anyway - some of the people in each team are only there to shield others from the wind, or act as pacemakers. Take the wee Isle of Man guy with the teeth for example: as far as I can gather, his entire team is only there to let him win the sprint at the end of the procession on the final day. One year he seemed to get disqualified for not being fast enough in a non-sprint stage going up lots of hills, whereas in Wimbledrome they can fine people if they don't play at the required standard. I didn't see if the rest of his team got to race properly once he was out of the event. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311541 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 15:43:45 +0000 I were right about that saddle 311541@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>OK I'm going to look stupid but why don't they race properly on stage 21? Why let the guy cruise home drinking fizz? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311536 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 11:40:58 +0000 I were right about that saddle 311536@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I am a big fan of French ski towns in summer. Had a great couple of weeks going by coach between them and walking the best routes of each. Tartiflette and rough reds. </p> <p>Keen to cycle a few cols. Was invited by a mate of a mate years ago but declined to my great regret. Had opporchancity to ride Ventoux on a borrowed commuter but took my motorcycle and will never regret that choice. Touched a toe down going past the Simpson memorial. Spirited for me.</p> <p>Will watch out for the guy in Brown. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311535 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 10:52:43 +0000 gembo 311535@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cormet de Roselend was impassable in early June when I was there a few years back, we went up and then took a right up to the toilet block at the start of Mont Blanc route, we sheltered there as was like glencoe in the winter</p> <p>We hurled back down to the auberge which was not yet open to customers (transition from skiing to walking) and they let us in sold us inexpensive coffees and turned two massive big blower heaters upon us.</p> <p>Next day very wet so went to market in Bourg on foot. Attacked by massive Mastiff. We had a stick and my buddy had no fear,</p> <p>Day after glorious sunshine and we went upon to La Rosiere. Col de petit St. Bernard closed but passable. I wanted to push on to Italy as flat at top but my buddy not scared of mastiff, was scared of being squashed by the ice sheets if they moved.</p> <p>Ski towns in summer always look like cowboy movie towns but with much more Cuprinol. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311533 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 10:23:54 +0000 gembo 311533@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Team Sky now Ineos wot I call SkIneos have a maroon jersey. They look to control the pace - ie go like rockets to weaken the other squads. So yesterday despite there being many light blue of Movistar assembling SkIneos took control.</p> <p>Bernal will sit at the back of the Maroon lead out and he will be in yellow, he is smallest team SkIneos member. Alaphilippe has a weaker team so he sits behind SkIneos, today in a blue jersey. </p> <p>Kruijswijk is in yellow and black.</p> <p>Uran is in good form in pink</p> <p>Landa is best of Movistar in Light Blue</p> <p>Buchmann is the favoured German hope for the future </p> <p>Kruijswijk and Buchmann could challenge for the podium??</p> <p>All tired legs but you have to give it a go. Bardet looks to be KOM but again there is a contest. He is in Brown, yes Brown</p> <p>Sagan in Green as ever he has the points jersey.</p> <p>Bernal would be in white as he is best young rider but he is already in yellow.</p> <p>David Millar on ITV4 or Sean Kelly on Eurosport</p> <p>With it being curtailed again JAph illippe will probably hang on</p> <p>I hope for puncher type attacks as you can blow up but still hang on if distance is shorter.</p> <p>Hope not a procession like tomorrow </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311531 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 09:45:17 +0000 I were right about that saddle 311531@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>OK will watch today as 59km is a reasonable distance to ride a bicycle in the Alps and I'm typing this with a candle stuck to the peak of my cap so deep is the gloom of the weather.</p> <p>What should I watch out for? (Use simple language such as 'the space whippet in pink' 'the drug-crazed freak in blue on the steep hill' etc) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311530 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 09:23:29 +0000 gembo 311530@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@cyclingmollie, Mais oui.</p> <p>At one point during the neutralising there was a suggestion that as no official Tissot times at top of the Col d’Iseran.......</p> <p>We filled in the ..... with we will just cancel today and let Julian try again tomorrow.</p> <p>A certain brutal inevitability when JA cracked, though he has been superb, slimmed down, on the good meds etc</p> <p>Then an even greater inevitability with the weather gods.</p> <p>Today Kruijswijk might have a go? Movistar had so many ducks lined up yesterday but all turned out lame. SkIneos did not even have Moscon nor Kwiakotski in their final lead out but still set the blistering pace.</p> <p>SkIneos have Bernal on 10 year deal? </p> <p>Alaphilippe with a better team? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311529 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 09:15:52 +0000 Cyclingmollie 311529@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"You went full comments section, man. Never go full comments section". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311521 Fri, 26 Jul 2019 21:08:46 +0000 gembo 311521@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>WTAF</p> <p>I had Egan and he won and my points are tiny </p> <p>This is a stitch up</p> <p>My guy makes all that effort</p> <p>There is a small hail storm</p> <p>I get no points</p> <p>Others who have philllippe get thousands of points</p> <p>Pure fix </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311512 Fri, 26 Jul 2019 18:04:52 +0000 gembo 311512@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ac, nobody will ever know. He could have made up time on G but G could have used K to bridge back to E.</p> <p>G ALSO good in bad weather. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311511 Fri, 26 Jul 2019 17:23:12 +0000 acsimpson 311511@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've not been actively following the race this year but what a drama.I can't decide if JA unlucky to loose yellow this way or Luck to stay in second place. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311505 Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:31:45 +0000 paulmilne 311505@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I thought I wouldn't have to watch the highlights tonight, but no definitive results yet. Pinot out and JA at best in 2nd place. Quel dommage. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=3#post-311504 Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:30:43 +0000 gembo 311504@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Still not confirmed but agree was tough for them </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=2#post-311503 Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:30:00 +0000 gembo 311503@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Still not confirmed but agree was tough for them </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=2#post-311501 Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:24:25 +0000 paulmilne 311501@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not a great day for the French GC riders. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=2#post-311500 Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:20:17 +0000 amir 311500@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Seismic </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=2#post-311498 Fri, 26 Jul 2019 15:58:06 +0000 gembo 311498@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Drama today not quite predictable</p> <p>C’est perdu </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19693&page=2#post-311473 Fri, 26 Jul 2019 10:38:19 +0000 jonty 311473@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>stains on nairo's shirt were energy gel apparently. fair, i struggle with them on casual rides let alone descending Galibier at stage winning speeds </p>