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KWalker
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by KWalker

We must watch different races because Amstel is often an attack-fest especially with the finish on the Cauberg. This year's race was exciting and no one would have thought the move that won it would have stuck.

FW is basically a 1 min hill interval. You can not watch anything but the last 30s and get all the action.
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DanW
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by DanW

Sucks to be Sagan. World champ, strolling to Green jerseys without really needing to win a stage, national RR and TT wins, multiple stage race wins, one day wins... not to mention a healthy salary. I'm sure he'd love to leave all that to race a couple of days a year at MTB WC's for next to no wages ;) I wonder if he'll love the road more without Oleg in his ear :)

dereksmalls
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by dereksmalls

Rondje wrote:Kruijswijk broken collarbone by the looks of it. As what happened? The UCI and organisers in general not learning from previous mistakes (surprise surprise) as it seems.
Pais Vasco 2015: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/riders- ... try-crash/ and later "investigated" by the UCI: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-to- ... s-surgery/
Vuelta today: https://twitter.com/ReneKruithof/status ... 0232678400 Those 3 images give you a good idea of what happened.


Video linked from his twitter feed from someone elses twitter feed of it https://twitter.com/SaraGarciaGmez/status/768563272845058048

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HammerTime2
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by HammerTime2

He's lucky he didn't become a soprano.

pastronef
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by pastronef

former Pro cycling discussion :mrgreen:

Lance on a Cannondale, and with Sram (I dont remember if Sram too stopped sponsoring him when the shit hit the fan...)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BJfqamShx7_/

tmr5555
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by tmr5555

Sagan has a negative boner for GVA. :D Being mugged so many times by the Belgian has obviously got on his nerves. On not liking road cycling, fair enough but nobody is putting a gun to his head and forcing him into a contract (maybe the brother lol)

If I could do only one thing to make road cycling more interesting, I'd cut down stage lengths. No idiotic 230 km stages, 130-140 km max. Full gas from the get go! A more criterium attitude.
(Excluding Milan-San Remo like races that make the distance part of the narrative)

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micky
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by micky

Sagan is 26 years old, and although he seems a pretty smart person for his age, Im sure it can happen to say something that you could regret later on.

Remember when Boonen said he would stop at 30 years old?
I think he was 25 or so, around his World Championship victory.

ultyguy
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by ultyguy

pastronef wrote:former Pro cycling discussion :mrgreen:

Lance on a Cannondale, and with Sram (I dont remember if Sram too stopped sponsoring him when the shit hit the fan...)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BJfqamShx7_/


LA OWNED SRAM when it all went down.

Anyone know what glasses Machado was rockin' yesterday?

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Sacke
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by Sacke

^^ Looks like an Adidas logo?

The Bouhanni brothers being gentlemen again.

Look at last video in article to see a little temper again. Cofidis can't be getting much love in the peloton at the moment. This isn't an isolated incident any longer.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tempers ... ish-crash/

ultyguy
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by ultyguy

Sacke- yeah I kinda made out the logo too but not seen the model before. Also, on Bouhanni, I was willing to give him a bit of a pass on some stuff but that's def come to an end, it's obv his problem not just one incident.

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by Bogan

http://cycling-today.com/video-nacer-bouhanni-is-disqualified-again-after-he-wins-hamburg-cyclassics/

Bouhanni is not winning friends anywhere. This is Hamburg August 21st.
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by Rondje

That last one in Hamburg was more because he has made a name for himself I think. He didn't do that much wrong in my opinion, or at least, this was almost identical to the move of Meersman in Vuelta yesterday.

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Sacke
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by Sacke

Rondje wrote:That last one in Hamburg was more because he has made a name for himself I think. He didn't do that much wrong in my opinion, or at least, this was almost identical to the move of Meersman in Vuelta yesterday.


As it should be. Someone repeatedly displaying dangerous behaviour should be "held on a tight leash".

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LeDuke
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by LeDuke

I wonder if the Bouhanni brothers have ever considered the fact that, someday, someone could put them into the barriers or a bollard, and they might never ride again.

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by pinoymamba

LeDuke wrote:I wonder if the Bouhanni brothers have ever considered the fact that, someday, someone could put them into the barriers or a bollard, and they might never ride again.


If you thought like that you wouldn't be contesting any sprints.

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