2018 PRO thread

[djcharlou]

Team Sunweb on disc bike, Dumoulin is taking a risk maybe with this idea

[LeDuke]

Team Sunweb on disc bike, Dumoulin is taking a risk maybe with this idea

I’m still waiting to see these guys run tubeless tires with a proper sealant. Punctures, and wheel changes, would be far less of an issue.


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[Jugi]

Goodness... I can't wait to see how Trek talk themselves out of this one!

He spun the crank (out of frame) to get the chain back on the right cog to get going again.

[Nefarious86]

Sky crash everyone waits, everyone crashes Sky winds it on....

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[spartan]

sky team built for climbing yet they have the balls/discipline to ride at the front over the cobbles. why no other team with classics/sprinters go to the front and make it hard race. another boring snoozefest.

[IchDien]

Goodness... I can't wait to see how Trek talk themselves out of this one!

He spun the crank (out of frame) to get the chain back on the right cog to get going again.

This x 1 million...so obvious.

[AJS914]

sky team built for climbing yet they have the balls/discipline to ride at the front over the cobbles. why no other team with classics/sprinters go to the front and make it hard race. another boring snoozefest.

Sky is giving a master class on how to ferry GC riders over the cobbles. I expected Quickstep to dominate the front of this stage.

[micky]

Until they crashed.

[AJS914]

And they were quickly back in formation.

Landa just crashed hard while taking a drink and then Dumoulin went down.

[Nefarious86]

Expensive day out....

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[Rondje]

And they were quickly back in formation.

Landa just crashed hard while taking a drink and then Dumoulin went down.

That was Theuns
I think Naessen saved Landa for some time loss. Poor Bardet with so many flats.

[tymon_tm]

Sky crash everyone waits, everyone crashes Sky winds it on....

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this x 100000

this Tour is Froome's to lose given how other teams neglect to act even when him or his most important domestique gets in trouble.

I'm really fond of Big Tom for staying up front, even pulling for quite some time, and especially Bardet - dude chased like most of the race, then kinda sorta attacked, then chased again... I also wonder how many bikes they took to this stage, haven't seen a van driving in the car column?

[bikewithnoname]

Very entertaining stage! AG2R need to find a new tub supplier

[tymon_tm]

it's more or less official by now:

a press conference is said to be scheduled for tomorrow - with Jim Ochowicz and CCC owner Dariusz Miłek



from left: Ochowicz, Miłek, GVA, ???, Wadecki (current CCC DS)

[themidge]

Great win by Degenkolb, he cried on the podium . Also impressed by Martin and Quintana today, they did very well to stay upright and in the front group.
It's just as well Sky had such a strong team, it was just Froome and Thomas in the front group at the end, so goodness knows how they would have fared without their teammates to sacrifice themselves (or just fall off in their place).
Bardet had the worst luck, but at least he got on the favourites group at the end, unlike Uran, another big rider who's now a long way down on GC.