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  • July 6, 2012 at 8:00 am #16259
    chrisdstripes

    Starts on Tuesday – Profile looks not a million miles away from Tour of California minus TT (first 4 stages could all be sprint finishes but a couple do have hills, 5 is craggy, 6 is a brute, 7 short and flat). I just picked my team and had 43.4 credits left over! Who’s going for this? Or is it just an unwelcome distraction?

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  • July 9, 2012 at 10:17 pm #690179
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    livestrongnick

    Bit of hair puller this one
    Bit of hair puller this one ~X( hoping i’ve picked the right Polish riders for the breaks! 😕

    Boonen
    Bakelants
    Henao
    Haussler
    Stybar
    Pozzovivo
    Niemiec
    Bodnar
    Marczynski

    Sprint stages should be a bit more straight forward….. 😕

    July 9, 2012 at 9:54 pm #690177
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    Gkam84

    I want Ballan, I just cant
    I want Ballan, I just cant fit him in anywhere 😕

    July 9, 2012 at 9:41 pm #690175
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    JAndrewHill

    No one seems to have my man
    No one seems to have my man who is reazching for the sky. Allez lp

    July 9, 2012 at 7:36 pm #690173
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    frankiejay

    This is an absolute shot in
    This is an absolute shot in the dark…

    Uran
    Boonen
    Ventoso
    Degenkolb
    Gavazzi
    Machado
    Kristoff
    Golas
    Demare

    July 9, 2012 at 5:22 pm #690171
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    TERatcliffe26

    simon F wrote:TERatcliffe26

    simon F wrote:
    TERatcliffe26 wrote:
    Simon giving away one of my riders ;)

    Is Szmyd coming home from France then? If my psychic powers were that good, I wouldn’t be so consistently behind you in the West Mids overall (for two years) :(

    Nope I have Niemiec…

    Theres always time to catch me with my awful TdF showing so far

    July 9, 2012 at 4:54 pm #690169
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    Stumps

    Treating this race as a bit
    Treating this race as a bit of fun and picked my team for purist:

    Rigoberto Uran (SKY)
    Tom Boonen (OPQ)
    Jan Bakelants (RSN)
    Sergio Luis Henao (SKY)
    Paolo Tiralongo (AST)
    Domenico Pozzovivo (COG) (weather supposed to be really sunny)
    Ignatas Konovalovas (MOV)
    Andrew Talansky (GRM)
    Alexander Kristoff (KAT)

    July 9, 2012 at 4:40 pm #690167
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    chrisdstripes

    Hmm, maybe I’ve
    Hmm, maybe I’ve underestimated a couple of these stages – oh well, I’m sticking with it. Will have a good team for stage 2 if nothing else!

    July 9, 2012 at 4:26 pm #690165
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    simon F

    TERatcliffe26 wrote:Simon

    TERatcliffe26 wrote:
    Simon giving away one of my riders ;)

    Is Szmyd coming home from France then? If my psychic powers were that good, I wouldn’t be so consistently behind you in the West Mids overall (for two years) 🙁

    July 9, 2012 at 2:52 pm #690163
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    TERatcliffe26

    Simon giving away one of my
    Simon giving away one of my riders 😉

    July 9, 2012 at 10:51 am #690161
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    silas chime

    Thanks for the resource Simon
    Thanks for the resource Simon F

    July 9, 2012 at 9:56 am #690159
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    simon F

    Quote:Anyone know who the

    Anyone know who the best Polish Climber is?

    Szmyd? Niemiec? cqranking.com is the place for this sort of info.

    July 9, 2012 at 9:52 am #690157
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    simon F

    Stage 1 – lumpy with last 1km
    Stage 1 – lumpy with last 1km at 2.5% uphill

    Stage 2,4,7 – flat

    Stage 3 – 2 climbs (actually 1 repeated – looks like cat ears on the profile) then 3.5 100 vert meter (max 13.5%) lumps in a crit. Uphill finish (500m at 4.6%)

    Stage 5 – nasty. first cat and second cat climbed 3 times. last 1km at 3.1%

    Stage 6 – worse. 2 cat 1’s and an evil looking uncategorised climb repeated 5 times. Last 3km – 1km at 8.1% (max 11.5%) then 1km at 2.6% finishing with 1km at 3.6%

    This is mostly for my benefit but maybe someone else will find it useful. I’m a bit stuck for who should be in my team at the moment.

    July 9, 2012 at 8:46 am #690155
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    silas chime

    I’m thinking along the lines
    I’m thinking along the lines of:

    Gasparotto
    Uran
    Teklehaymanot
    Arroyo
    Tiralongo
    Dekker
    Gerdemann
    + 2 Polish guys.

    Boonen/Haussler/Degenkolb/Swift for the sprint stages?

    Anyone know who the best Polish Climber is? Restricted to WIKI research I’m afraid on this one!!

    July 8, 2012 at 11:14 am #690153
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    Stumps

    going to enter as purist. I
    going to enter as purist. I dont think there will be an awful lot of sprint finishes going by the profiles.

    July 8, 2012 at 10:52 am #690151
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    ray silvester

    Picking the hometown DS’ who
    Picking the hometown DS’ who go on the breaks will decide it for sure.

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