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  • February 10, 2012 at 10:35 am #15051
    veseunr

    The same 16 teams have been invited to Tour of Oman as participated in Tour of Qatar.

    Expect quite a few team changes though; there is the odd hill in Oman and despite 4 sprint stages, there will be the odd hardman stage. Boasson Hagen back in for Sky and punchier climbers like Rodriguez and Gilbert might be more obvious.

    I don’t think the out and out sprinters will stand a chance of the overall so transfers are going to be important.

    Thoughts comrades?

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  • February 13, 2012 at 12:08 pm #664799
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    veseunr

    You say that, but Stage 4 has
    You say that, but Stage 4 has been deemed “flat”. Have a look at the profile …. if I was cycling it, I wouldn’t call it flat!! 😕

    Who is good on stages like this? Hushovd, Goss, Tiernan, Schlek?!

    February 13, 2012 at 10:56 am #664797
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    ray silvester

    So sprinters at the start
    So sprinters at the start then make no transfers for stage 3 so you can use 4 transfers to get the climbers in for stage 4 and another 2 to beef it up with punchy domestiques for stage 5?

    February 13, 2012 at 10:41 am #664795
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    Stumps

    It goes up 80 metres over the
    It goes up 80 metres over the last 30kms so not really much of a rise and i think the last 5 is completely flat.

    February 13, 2012 at 9:56 am #664793
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    rjl

    It seeems that the first
    It seeems that the first stage is a uphill finish, light and easy but uphill, isn’t it? maybe Goss time??? I’ve many doubts with my team, expecially with the stars…

    February 13, 2012 at 6:56 am #664791
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    cherrypicked

    JAndrewHill wrote:I must

    JAndrewHill wrote:
    I must leave enough dosh in the bank to be able to bring Cav in for Fridays stage. Looking at the sky photos on Facebook, he seems to have his climbing legs on, leading his team up the training climbs.
    :^o :^o

    Truths in the climbing legs aside, I’m more worried that given his injuries he’ll be more “miss” than “missile”

    February 12, 2012 at 10:05 pm #664789
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    JAndrewHill

    …there again, Jon Tiernan
    …there again, Jon Tiernan Locke is looking like he knows how to go uphill.
    http://www.cyclingfever.com/stage.html?etappe_idd=MjcwNzA=&_ap=video
    Might pick him for the uphill stages in Oman.
    :^o :^o :^o

    February 12, 2012 at 9:56 pm #664787
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    JAndrewHill

    I must leave enough dosh in
    I must leave enough dosh in the bank to be able to bring Cav in for Fridays stage. Looking at the sky photos on Facebook, he seems to have his climbing legs on, leading his team up the training climbs.
    :^o :^o

    February 12, 2012 at 7:45 pm #664785
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    Gkam84

    So on rest days we could have
    So on rest days we could have upto 6?

    I was just pointing out what it would be for the tour of Oman

    February 12, 2012 at 4:18 pm #664783
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    dave atkinson

    Gkam84 wrote:You can roll

    Gkam84 wrote:
    You can roll over 2, so if after the first stage, you make no transfers, you will have 4 the next day, if you use only 2, you will still have 2 rolling over, but the most you will ever have is 4

    unless there’s more than two available, like in the classics or on a rest day of the tour. basically two rollovers max, plus however many free transfers are allowed on the stage

    February 12, 2012 at 3:56 pm #664781
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    Gkam84

    You can roll over 2, so if
    You can roll over 2, so if after the first stage, you make no transfers, you will have 4 the next day, if you use only 2, you will still have 2 rolling over, but the most you will ever have is 4

    February 12, 2012 at 3:24 pm #664779
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    veseunr

    You get unlimited until first
    You get unlimited until first stage then two per day after that.

    February 12, 2012 at 2:30 pm #664777
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    bubby016

    I forgot, how many transfers
    I forgot, how many transfers can you roll over?

    February 12, 2012 at 9:04 am #664775
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    Stumps

    JAndrewHill wrote:stumps

    JAndrewHill wrote:
    stumps wrote:
    JAndrewHill wrote:
    Sohrabi is a must again . . . its his ‘home’ tour after all.
    and he is cheap so I can afford to buy a decent climber like nibali

    Thought he was from Iran ?

    I am not aware of a tour d’Iran so I put ‘home’ in quotes, cos I thought Oman was probably the hearest place to Iran. . . . and it’s only 2 letters different. 🙂 🙂

    Now if Ali Al Habsi could ride a bike, I would definitely pick him for the Tour d’Oman

    Aye point taken. The way Iran is at the mo half the UK and USA competitors would get locked up for spying. 😀

    February 11, 2012 at 11:26 pm #664773
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    JAndrewHill

    stumps wrote:JAndrewHill

    stumps wrote:
    JAndrewHill wrote:
    Sohrabi is a must again . . . its his ‘home’ tour after all.
    and he is cheap so I can afford to buy a decent climber like nibali

    Thought he was from Iran ?

    I am not aware of a tour d’Iran so I put ‘home’ in quotes, cos I thought Oman was probably the hearest place to Iran. . . . and it’s only 2 letters different. 🙂 🙂

    Now if Ali Al Habsi could ride a bike, I would definitely pick him for the Tour d’Oman

    February 11, 2012 at 11:21 pm #664771
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    thefatcyclist

    Gkam84 wrote:Sky only have a

    Gkam84 wrote:
    Sky only have a couple of changes, Sutton and Hunt in and Barry will be out, So Rowe, Dowsett or Puccio are the reserves

    Full list here http://www.letour.fr/2012/TOO/RIDERS/us/engages.html

    No EBH, Flecha or Gilbert

    BUT there will be Kittel, Sagan and Millar for your climbing and Cav, Farrar, Galimzyanov and Greipel for your sprints with a few other names i’ll keep to myself :evil:

    Kittel for climbing, does your disinformation run that deep 😀

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