Tour de France Stage 12 - Alpe d'Huez - SPOILERS - Page 6

simpsonn · #76 07-19-2018, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by GregL

And a sad goodbye to Vince Nibbles: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/vinc...our-de-france/

Maybe ASO will start to take rider safety more seriously in the future? I doubt it...

Greg

That's too bad. He has some major cojones for getting up and finishing the ride.

fignon's barber · #77 07-19-2018, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by GregL

And a sad goodbye to Vince Nibbles: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/vinc...our-de-france/

Maybe ASO will start to take rider safety more seriously in the future? I doubt it...

Greg

The a-holes with the smoke flairs are not fans of cycling. They're just a-holes. From about 8km to 5km to go on Alpe D'Huez seems to be the global gathering spot for these people.

jruhlen1980 · #78 07-19-2018, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by GregL

And a sad goodbye to Vince Nibbles: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/vinc...our-de-france/

Maybe ASO will start to take rider safety more seriously in the future? I doubt it...

Greg

I know this comes up every tour but is it really that hard to send a few motorbikes up ahead of the leader and the chase groups to clear back the crowds? Maybe with a bucket of water to put out the flares?

saab2000 · #79 07-19-2018, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by jruhlen1980

I know this comes up every tour but is it really that hard to send a few motorbikes up ahead of the leader and the chase groups to clear back the crowds? Maybe with a bucket of water to put out the flares?

Barricades much further down the slopes. I know it's a PITA and logistically tough, but given what we see every year, in every Grand Tour on these final climbs it would seem to make some sense.

Too bad because it's the 1% of hooligans who cause 99% of the trouble for the riders. The overwhelming majority are respectful.

ultraman6970 · #80 07-19-2018, 04:01 PM

I do not know if its just me or not, but I did not notice that large amount of people as previous years in the last climb. I heard a lot of booos tho

I dont know, the next 3 "flat" stages are ideal to perform a Contador, as martin said, the teams are afraid.

Remember years ago when contador split sky and pretty much half of the peloton went out of time and should had been off the race?? Right now this thing needs to be full on teams attacks to time trial (the leader in the back not pulling) just to force sky to pull and get them in split groups. If they dont do that they are coursed.

Doubt it will happen tho, but would be nice to see... whole teams attacking, you die or i die type of thing.

BTW if nothing weird happen IMO Dumoulin will end up in second. G can tt went he wants to.

Bad nibali is out he looked better today, Quintana is not the same rider than a couple of years ago, maybe he needs to go to sky to get stronger, sure they will figure it out

Cheering for Bardet and Dumoulin.

sib · #81 07-19-2018, 06:13 PM

Also gutted about Nibali; he was looking pretty strong today.

Dumoulin also looking good. He would be a little ahead of Froome without the 20-second penalty for drafting..!

Macadamia · #82 07-19-2018, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by sib

Dumoulin also looking good. He would be a little ahead of Froome without the 20-second penalty for drafting..!

made the mistake of not being french

bikinchris · #83 07-19-2018, 07:52 PM

I'll say it again. Hog tie these idiots who run in the street, burn flares and crush into the street. Leave them on the side of the road after the race is picked up.

Oh, and No body gives a damn about the green jersey except Sagan. No body.

This race without sprinters is a big yawn.

wc1934 · #84 07-19-2018, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by sib

Also gutted about Nibali; he was looking pretty strong today...!

Damn. Totally bummed - kudos to the shark for even getting back on his bike.

Jaybee · #85 07-19-2018, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by wc1934

Damn. Totally bummed - kudos to the shark for even getting back on his bike.

He got back on and pulled back about 20 seconds over 2.5km. Baller.

Climb01742 · #86 07-19-2018, 08:37 PM

Wish NBCSN would hire at least one non-fanboy. Hearing Phil say, ‘I can’t understand why they’re booing Froome’ is crap. Phil can say he doesn’t like it but come on, don’t insult viewers. Sky is doing what even Postal didn’t, having two guys fighting it out for yellow. If a team is doing what the dirtiest team ever couldn’t do, seems like that might merit, oh, a comment or two. At least note that the folks booing_might_have an argument.

jlwdm · #87 07-19-2018, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by bikinchris

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This race without sprinters is a big yawn.

There are only three more sprinters stages - Friday, one day next week and Paris. My guess is a number of the sprinters were glad to leave instead of having to finish so many climbing stages this year.

Jeff

ultraman6970 · #88 07-19-2018, 08:50 PM

The 5 guys at front stopped riding like for a minute looking to each other, thats why he got super close, same happened to landa and thats why he was able to catch up with them at the top.

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Originally Posted by Jaybee

He got back on and pulled back about 20 seconds over 2.5km. Baller.

jlwdm · #89 07-19-2018, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Jaybee

Is running into the police motorbike that slowed due to smoke not "interference"?

Nibali deserves his time back.

EDIT: Unfortunately, looks like he might have a fractured vertebra - probably done.

Reports now are that a camera strap hooked his handlebars.

Jeff

ultraman6970 · #90 07-20-2018, 12:22 AM

If you see the videos he got caught into something, similar to what happened to LA years back.