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  • August 21, 2018 at 2:08 am #28865
    tony kappler

    My reading of the Vuelta rules is that there is a daily award for the best young rider in the GC classification, but not a young rider classification as such. So there would be no YR classification points scored in road.cc.  Can anyone clarify?

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  • August 31, 2018 at 8:38 pm #925851
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    Dr Winston

    Just seen that Archie..

    Just seen that Archie…thanks. Stil got my sprinters and I’m gonna sit on my hands again. Too hard to pick a puncheurs outside of Kwia Valverde and Sagan (Fraille?).  Once again so much “sprinter” advice on line that I can’t think too many will sell them again…so plenty of teams will all be on the wrong horses. 

    Further into this race transfers will become precious with plenty of turn arounds between sprinters and Summit finishes. 

    August 31, 2018 at 8:06 pm #925849
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    Condor Andy wrote:
    Tomorrow is definitely not a sprinters stage. The final climb isn’t that hard, but it’s narrow, poor surface, and a steady gradient between 5-6%. It’s a classics finish. Sagan v Valverde punch up again. Or maybe some others fancy it. Similar line-up to today’s top finishers plus a couple more GC men.

     

    Just looked at Stg 8 run in. With that full roundabout at 500m to go if they ain’t in the top ten then forget it because after that it’s single track to the line. Looks like the roundabout could be chaos if anyone goes down.

    Oh a vid of the final 5k is on Velorooms in the stage preview. If that helps anyone.

    August 31, 2018 at 7:43 pm #925847
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    Dr Winston
    Mark 60 wrote:
    While I am here,  what are some of the best preview sites out there that people are using. 

    I basically check Cycling Weekly, Ciclisimino (?) and C-Cycling but beyond that Haven’t found good stuff.

    Anyone want to share?

    mytwospokesworth is a nice blog. Just a chap who writes up his opinion on the next days stage with his thoughts on the best “outsider picks” for that day. He does it with a view to finding good odds for betting folk but  he has a good handle on the state of play. Check him out.

    August 31, 2018 at 5:20 pm #925845
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    Condor Andy

    Tomorrow is definitely not a

    Tomorrow is definitely not a sprinters stage. The final climb isn’t that hard, but it’s narrow, poor surface, and a steady gradient between 5-6%. It’s a classics finish. Sagan v Valverde punch up again. Or maybe some others fancy it. Similar line-up to today’s top finishers plus a couple more GC men.

    August 31, 2018 at 4:48 pm #925843
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    Dr Winston

    I’ll settle for that. A

    I’ll settle for that. A conscious decision to sit on my hand due to the unknown and the fact most other would be in the same boat. Only dropped two places. Having said that if I’d known what that stage was actually like there wouldn’t have been a hop in hell I’d have kept my sprinters.

    I’ve looked at tomorrow’s stage on cyclingstages and it looks like they may have done the same again..or have they?….Doesn’t look much like a sprinters finish to me.

    August 31, 2018 at 1:32 pm #925841
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    Sniffer
    JohnnyRemo wrote:
    Mark 60 wrote:
    While I am here,  what are some of the best preview sites out there that people are using. 

    I basically check Cycling Weekly, Ciclisimino (?) and C-Cycling but beyond that Haven’t found good stuff.

    Anyone want to share?

    The bookies are rarely wrong, so worth checking oddschecker and the like. Cycling Quotes is a Danish site that does pretty in-depth previews for the day’s big races.

    *BUT*  – you’re taking advice from the Forum Scorum perennial lanterne rouge…

    I think the English language Cyclingquotes gave up, although you can still something from the same people if your Danish is good enough.

    August 31, 2018 at 12:33 pm #925839
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    JohnnyRemo
    Mark 60 wrote:
    While I am here,  what are some of the best preview sites out there that people are using. 

    I basically check Cycling Weekly, Ciclisimino (?) and C-Cycling but beyond that Haven’t found good stuff.

    Anyone want to share?

    The bookies are rarely wrong, so worth checking oddschecker and the like. Cycling Quotes is a Danish site that does pretty in-depth previews for the day’s big races.

    *BUT*  – you’re taking advice from the Forum Scorum perennial lanterne rouge…

    August 31, 2018 at 8:30 am #925837
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    Dr Winston

    Agreed sniffer. Chasing

    Agreed sniffer. Chasing Rolleurs  can be a mugs way of playing and a way to burn transfers fast…too fast. Either stick with the sprinters or bring in something like Yates and Buchmann for at least some guaranteed points over the next two days and have them ready for Sunday. 

    I’m only in a two man league with my brother. He’s 6th and I’m 4th but he’s used four more transfers than me…so I doubt he’ll burn anymore and so will stick with a sprinter heavy team. In that respect sitting on my hands should be ok. 

    August 31, 2018 at 8:26 am #925835
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    Condor Andy

    I can’t see anywhere that the

    I can’t see anywhere that the course has been changed. Tbh, I have no idea why everyone is saying this was ever going to be a straight forward sprint stage.  The cat 3 kicker and drag up to the finish aren’t that hard, but several teams will need to work together to ensure it. All it takes are a few puncheurs or a couple of GC teams putting the hammer down (maybe a strong breakaway) and the sprinters will be toast.

    If Sagan is fully fit, then the stage is ideal for him. Trentin might be a good bet too.  After that it’s the puncheurs and GC men. Even Valverde might fancy it or Kwiatkowski.

    I can’t call it so I’m saving my transfers. Dr Winston, I suspect a lot of people will just see ‘Flat’ and go sprinters.

    Mark 60, I’m on r/peloton on Reddit a lot. Plenty of opinion and prediction theories are discussed. I tend to trust these guys more than anyone else because the discussions are always more thorough. CyclingWeekly and the others tend to be a bit threadbare.  I could start putting a little something on here to give people ideas.

    August 31, 2018 at 8:04 am #925833
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    Sniffer

    No idea what the best thing

    No idea what the best thing to do today is.  My team feels a bit all over the place for a stage like this after being sprint heavy yesterday. 

    It is days like this where big gains / losses can be made, but they are a bit stressful.  Simple GC and sprinter days are easier to predict and the differences in teams are therefore much smaller.

    August 31, 2018 at 4:38 am #925831
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    Mark 60

    While I am here,  what are

    While I am here,  what are some of the best preview sites out there that people are using. 

    I basically check Cycling Weekly, Ciclisimino (?) and C-Cycling but beyond that Haven’t found good stuff.

    Anyone want to share?

    August 31, 2018 at 4:34 am #925829
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    Mark 60
    Dr Winston wrote:
    Fancied riders for stage 7 seem to have changed markedly in the past few hours. Has the course been tweaked or just folk taking a proper look?

    I tend to agree. I’m sure yesterday they were still talking sprinters and today it’s GC. 

    I thought it looked too hard for the sprinters but figured the experts were right. I’ve been chewing through the transfers so I’m not changing again.

    Cheering heavily now for the breakaway of no names. 

    August 30, 2018 at 11:07 pm #925827
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    Dr Winston

    Fancied riders for stage 7

    Fancied riders for stage 7 seem to have changed markedly in the past few hours. Has the course been tweaked or just folk taking a proper look?

    August 30, 2018 at 10:37 pm #925825
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    Condor Andy

    Update keeps crashing, we’re

    Update keeps crashing, we’re working on it.

    August 30, 2018 at 8:56 pm #925823
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    Moist von Lipwig

    Any reason why the scores are
    Any reason why the scores are in but the leagues aren’t updating?

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