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  • April 27, 2011 at 9:27 am #13350
    Sexy dex

    Alberto CONTADOR VELASCO Mark CAVENDISH Jérôme PINEAL Thomas LÖVKVIST Marco PINOTTI Philip DEIGNAN Russell DOWNING Ben HERMANS Bram TANKINK this is my team for the TTT is this good as im new to biking so help wood be nice to get me rolling thanks

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  • May 7, 2011 at 1:14 pm #642973
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    JC

    Against all my principles and
    Against all my principles and better judgement I’ve gone for Contador. He just better win!
    I think I have picked a classic ‘purists’ line up – not planning to change anyone.
    Road CC what is the purist prize for the Giro?

    May 6, 2011 at 5:34 pm #642971
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    TERatcliffe26

    Nibali for me, thats who i
    Nibali for me, thats who i have gone for

    May 6, 2011 at 12:02 pm #642969
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    italiafirenze

    I didn’t want to put in
    I didn’t want to put in Contador either, but it’s hard to look past him for the GC isn’t it.

    May 5, 2011 at 2:50 pm #642967
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    Gregoire500

    I’m too obstinate to put
    I’m too obstinate to put Contador in my team so am going for Menchov instead.

    Does this make me a totally unrealistic fool?

    May 1, 2011 at 8:11 pm #642965
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    JAndrewHill

    . . . and do you want good
    . . . and do you want good individual time triallists if the rest of their team are sprinters? Surely you need a good all round team . . . Katusha did well last year

    May 1, 2011 at 8:10 pm #642963
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    JAndrewHill

    Don’t make the same mistake
    Don’t make the same mistake as me and take Pettachi – he’s italian and unlikely to be up for the giro :^o . . . and could not beat Cav in the tdf :^o . . .

    May 1, 2011 at 11:59 am #642961
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    Sexy dex

    ok so we lose cav but how
    ok so we lose cav but how wood you get in his plas

    May 1, 2011 at 11:27 am #642959
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    Simon_MacMichael

    TERatcliffe26 wrote:yeh, that

    TERatcliffe26 wrote:
    yeh, that may be cav’s plan but if he wins all the so called flat stages and has enough points, surely he will stay till the end if he has a chance of winning the points classification?

    Afraid not. Unlike the Tour de France, the Giro doesn’t now weigh the points classification in favour of the sprinters by allocating more points to flat stages.

    So even if Cav were leading the classification when the race reaches Ravenna, he’d have pretty much zero chance of wearing it all the way to Milan.

    Sprinters have won it in the past of course – Cipollini springs to mind – but changes introduced in 2009, as well as the current focus of the race on mountain and medium mountain stages, means its’s almost certain to be an all rounder who can climb a bit too, and probably someone high up on GC.

    That’s illustrated by the fact that the last two winners are Denis Menchov and Cadel Evans.

    May 1, 2011 at 10:44 am #642957
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    TERatcliffe26

    yeh, that may be cav’s plan
    yeh, that may be cav’s plan but if he wins all the so called flat stages and has enough points, surely he will stay till the end if he has a chance of winning the points classification?

    yeh looked at the stage profiles and the 3rd one supposedly flat looks hillier than one that has moderate hills

    April 28, 2011 at 11:35 pm #642955
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    Simon_MacMichael

    I’ve read that Cav’s racing
    I’ve read that Cav’s racing up to Stage 12 into Ravenna before heading off (the race is really no place for sprinters after that). Officially, five of the stages up till then are ‘flat’ but a look at the profiles suggests that bunch finishes are certainly not guaranteed in Stages 3 and 6.

    April 28, 2011 at 8:47 pm #642953
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    TERatcliffe26

    cav should be good for the
    cav should be good for the first couple of stages as i have him, then gonna take him out

    April 28, 2011 at 1:06 pm #642951
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    Sexy dex

    ye but cav will be good for
    ye but cav will be good for the next racers

    April 28, 2011 at 10:39 am #642949
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    Tony Farrelly

    The other thing to remember
    The other thing to remember is that you’ve only got two transfers per stage so you may need to also pick your team with an eye to what’s coming up and who you are going to want to move out and who you’ll want to replace them.

    April 28, 2011 at 10:37 am #642947
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    Tony Farrelly

    Millar might be a good bet
    Millar might be a good bet though

    April 28, 2011 at 10:34 am #642945
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    Tony Farrelly

    no, you’re right don’t think
    no, you’re right don’t think he is – saving himself for later

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