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by tcurtbike on Sun Apr 27, 2014 10:39 am

Bit of argy-bargy in the sprint
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by djconnel on Sun Apr 27, 2014 11:05 am

My picks for top riders in LBL: 1. Gilbert, 2. Kwiatowski, 3. Valverde, 4. Martin, 5. Gerrins, 6. Iglinski, 7. Cunego

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by emorydptt on Sun Apr 27, 2014 11:24 am

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by xena on Sun Apr 27, 2014 11:36 am

Valverde for LBL. I think Martin needs to go a bit earlier and try and take some of the sting out of Valverde if he wants to beat him this time.
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by efeballi on Sun Apr 27, 2014 2:09 pm

Cavendish wins first stage of Tour of Turkey.
Oddly, Greipel was leading the Lotto train.


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by MarkGiardini on Sun Apr 27, 2014 4:06 pm

Well done Gerro
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by btompkins0112 on Sun Apr 27, 2014 4:26 pm

Poor luck.....Martin looked good for the repeat.

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by djconnel on Sun Apr 27, 2014 4:55 pm

If the Garmin Vectorizer was on Speedplay, Dan Martin may well have won Liege-Bastogne-Liege. Click!
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by hna on Sun Apr 27, 2014 5:01 pm

It seems to me that his rear wheel slipped. Both his feet were in the pedals when he was on the way down.
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by djconnel on Sun Apr 27, 2014 5:39 pm

Here's the moment of impact. I don't see his lean as being greater than Caruso's at this point considering the different points in the corner, except Caruso apexed the corner pedal-up.
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by tharmor on Sun Apr 27, 2014 5:42 pm

Could it really have been the fault of the garmin vector pedal??
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by tymon_tm on Sun Apr 27, 2014 6:15 pm

Kwiatkowski 3rd again. boy he's consistent. i like how smart he rides - always at the front , despite having almost no help from his team. and now he's moved up to 5th in the UCI World Tour ranks :thumbup:
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by Rick on Sun Apr 27, 2014 6:33 pm

Martin was pedal-down right at the apex of the turn and it looks very much like he caught his pedal, unweighting the wheell and causing the slip/crash.
Should have been on Speedplay ! :smartass:



(I am kidding; I don't ride speedplay any more; but I will have to admit that you never catch pedals with them!)
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by xena on Sun Apr 27, 2014 8:06 pm

xena wrote:Valverde for LBL. I think Martin needs to go a bit earlier and try and take some of the sting out of Valverde if he wants to beat him this time.


I was so close.
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by tymon_tm on Sun Apr 27, 2014 8:14 pm

Dan Maritn wrote: It’s one thing to make a mistake or know what you’ve done but we figure that there’s a patch of oil or something


as Rick stated above, from the video it looks like he caught his pedal. plus, no one else fell on that corner but Martin
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