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Fabian rode like a champ. Constant pushes, snapping elastics everything. It was such a shame he didn't win. Also, Geraint Thomas has been brilliant this year. Everywhere you look, he is there, working like a trojan.

The A 9 does not need to be dual carriageway for the amount of traffic using it, and by observation since the start of 2011 the amount of motor traffic on the road has noticeably reduced.

I've been driving around 800 miles every other weekend - a very sad domestic issue - and roads like the A1 which used to be relatively active on a sunny Sunday afternoon are almost deserted. Sunday traffic queues on the Edinburgh by-pass are shorter or almost non-existent.

Now what would be an improvement, is the delivery of better driver 'behaviour' especially in the speed/observation area.

At Crubenmore, there will need to be a number of culverts to feed water from the hills in to the Truim. THese have to be substantially 'oversized' to deal with meltwater surges and the rocks brought down with this. Elsewhere, probably when roads were designed and built by Highland Council (local) engineers, the huge culverts double as road crossing points to all who want a less hazardous road crossing. True in full spate the paths here will be underwater but when this happens very few people will be wanting to cross the road and very few people will be drivind - several crossings like this on A95

Well, he's been getting decent points due to being in the top 20. But he's so expensive! Even more so than Cancellara for the Ronde.

Looks like this guy got it right about a local fella -hope he picked him, 'cos I never .

unless he comes back in of course

Thought I had both Chavanel & Boonen in the points and was heading for a major score and a hike up the table... sadly, SEBASTIEN Chavanel didn't finish on the podium. D'OH

Even though I only ended up with 6 riders competing, I'm amazed that four of them scored decent points! Thanks for saving me Mondory, Ballan, Hincapie and Thomas is all I can say!

Oh yeah, i got myself confused there aswell

Yeah with their stance just now it doesn't look likely, but they should still put the camera's in the car and let us see

Specially after the "sticky bottle" i saw where the driver was struggling to hold onto the rider as high speed

That wasn't an experiment for the UCI, they dont own or run the tour of Flanders, nothing to do with them so the race can do what they like

Or so Eurosport told me today

David Harmon and Sean Kelly on Eurosport are pretty good at calling a race, but to hear Jonathan Vaughters actually tell Farrar and Hushovd to sit in the group and not attack was interesting.

Definitely added an extra dimension being able to hear the team managers etc, and it was one of the 10 points Vaughters put forward to improve cycling. Given the UCI wants to ban radios at all races (only World Calendar events have them now) I can't see them being behind any repeat of the experiment.

Cyclisme - Chavanel was like a limpet to Cancellara after he'd passed him, I think the handshake between the two ahead of the closing couple of km was a kind of 'may the best man win' after the efforts both had put in at the head of the race.

Also, anyone else watch it live?

I loved the radio and in car video from some of the teams, shame the UCI dont do something like that for the tours