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Tactics for Stage 1 Vuelta

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  • August 16, 2011 at 4:41 pm #14049
    londonplayer

    As the first stage of the Vuelta is a Team Time Trial, my theory is to choose 9 riders for stage 2. Whatever points you score in the first stage will be a complete guess. Anyone agree?

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  • August 20, 2011 at 4:52 pm #651465
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    Wig_Billy

    Terrible TTT for me, only 27
    Terrible TTT for me, only 27 points I think.

    August 20, 2011 at 3:02 pm #651463
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    JAndrewHill

    Bradley WIGGINS For his
    Bradley WIGGINS For his climbing power
    Mark CAVENDISH Cos he has 3 legs
    Bauke MOLLEMA As he was the only climber with a team half decent at TTT
    Bert GRABSCH Cos THR are good at TTT
    Taylor PHINNEY Cos he is a good sprinter
    Markel IRIZAR ARANBURU Cos I have no idea
    Steven KRUIJSWIJK He did well reently in another race Tiago MACHADO Need more RSH riders
    Ian STANNARD In case SKY do ok at TTT

    :B

    August 20, 2011 at 2:34 pm #651461
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    londonplayer

    Bradley WIGGINS
    Bradley WIGGINS SKY 25.0 GC
    Mark CAVENDISH THR 38.0 PC
    David DE LA FUENTE RASILLA GEO 11.0 KM
    Christophe LE MEVEL GRM 20.0 AR
    Tony MARTIN THR 36.0 AR
    Murilo Antonio FISCHER GRM 4.0 DS
    Martin KOHLER BMC 4.0 DS
    Karsten KROON BMC 15.0 DS
    Xabier ZANDIO ECHAIDE SKY 5.0 DS

    17 points left for transfers.

    August 20, 2011 at 11:08 am #651459
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    Gkam84

    Bradley WIGGINS Could win
    Bradley WIGGINS Could win GC
    Mark CAVENDISH Sprints
    Bauke MOLLEMA Climbs that aint to steep
    Stijn DEVOLDER Breaks
    Taylor PHINNEY Coming off the back of a good Eneco
    Enrico GASPAROTTO Sprints
    Pablo LASTRAS GARCIA Breaks/Climbs/Sprints whatever mood he’s in
    Konstantin SIVTSOV GC contender
    Ian STANNARD Decent work horse for Wiggo and breaks

    175 credits with sh*t all left for transfers, thats a fairly balanced team, but now i’ve picked them they will all crash or get get ill 👿

    August 20, 2011 at 10:19 am #651457
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    thefatcyclist

    Bradley WIGGINS SKY TTT,
    Bradley WIGGINS SKY TTT, overall, stage4
    Mark CAVENDISH THR HTC hate this course,stages 2/3
    Bauke MOLLEMA RAB Good cheap climber TTT +stage 4
    Christophe LE MEVEL GRM TTT plus stage 4
    Luis Leon SANCHEZ GIL RAB TTT plus stage 4
    Matthew BUSCHE RSH RSH love this TTT course
    Marcel KITTEL SKS New kid on the block stages 2/3
    Andrew TALANSKY GRM TTT+ cheap good tour romandie
    Xabier ZANDIO ECHAIDE SKY TTT ponts

    I was going to boycott Garmin beacause of their treatment of Thor.

    25 points in bag for transfers.

    August 20, 2011 at 10:06 am #651455
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    LabMonkey

    Wiggins
    Cavendish
    Mollema
    Fug
    Wiggins
    Cavendish
    Mollema
    Fuglsang
    Phinney
    Degenkolb
    Krujiswijk
    Machedo
    Talansky

    All good TT riders for this course – all on the ‘right’ teams – some will stay for the sprint stages – some will be transferred with an eye to stages 3 and 4.

    The best laid plans never work out though.

    August 19, 2011 at 8:07 pm #651453
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    thefatcyclist

    Threw a few names in just to
    Threw a few names in just to get started. This could be a train wreck. This is the plan of defeat said French chiropodist.

    August 19, 2011 at 6:15 pm #651451
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    Gkam84

    Froome yes, but Xandio not
    Froome yes, but Xandio not really, although his is a bit of a climber and the TTT starts with a little climb

    August 19, 2011 at 6:00 pm #651449
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    JAndrewHill

    I’m just wondering if the
    I’m just wondering if the likes of SKY will do well in the TTT when a lot of their best pursuiters, BW excepted, are not there. Can Froome and Xandio do a TTT?

    August 19, 2011 at 10:14 am #651447
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    londonplayer

    Ah, interesting. Thanks for
    Ah, interesting. Thanks for the comments.

    I’ve completely redesigned my team on the strategy of trying to score well in the TTT. Feel the risk I’ve taken though is that I will need to immediately reshuffle my team for stage 2 and 3. Working on the basis that 2 lots of 2 transfers will be enough to put my chosen riders back in the team. We’ll just have to see what happens.

    In the Tour de France, I had Contador as my GC and he came 88th in the first stage. I think the opening few days are very difficult to guess who may be in the top 20.

    August 18, 2011 at 9:24 am #651445
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    Squiggle

    I’ve made 3 changes to my
    I’ve made 3 changes to my provisional lineup of 3 weeks ago. I’ve got a strong base which should score good points right the way through the first week. I expect to get between 50 and 60 points from TTT with a core of 7 riders all in the strongest TTT teams but also some of the strongest bunch and group sprinters. I’ve got 2 guys who have the potential to not score anything during TTT but I might be lucky and get a point or 2. One of those is a points compromise who I’ll change through week 1 but the other is going to finish very high up on stage 2.

    Feeling confident… probably a bad sign! B-)

    August 16, 2011 at 7:29 pm #651443
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    thefatcyclist

    I’d just be happy to find a
    I’d just be happy to find a really decent roster list, Tuesday and still too many ds. I hate team time trials at the start of races. This year the winning team probably HTC, will dominate the top 10 till stage 3, stage 4 will split things up a bit. But you can only pick 2 riders from a team. Trying to work a compromise, but failing badly

    August 16, 2011 at 6:13 pm #651441
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    Gkam84

    Kinda the same as
    Kinda the same as Teratcliffe, picked my team without to much worry about the TTT but i’ve kept an eye on who is in the good TTT teams :B

    August 16, 2011 at 4:51 pm #651439
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    TERatcliffe26

    ive gone abit of both, people
    ive gone abit of both, people in teams that should do well in the TTT but will also be up in the sprint on stage 2

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