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Took Roglic out and put Yates back in today.
Did the same thing Steve, I’ve got 3 left and I’ve gone full GC with Cicone and Sosa. I’ll only make transfers now if someone abandons.
I haven’t been impressed with Roglic in the mountains so far and suspect he is going to crack in the next few days.
A big day after a rest day can often bring a downfall for someone. Who though?
I sat on my hands which means that I am exposed on Yates who I dropped a couple of stages ago. Still got 12 transfers though. I doubt I will use them though and maybe should have been more adventurous earlier.
Don’t understand this Giro at all. What on earth is going on? No problem with a big break today…almost expected…but 14 mins?GC riders….what on earth are they doing?
This is exactly what I expected today although I didn’t anticipate Polanc being in the break.
It was always going to be a came of call my bluff with the GC teams. At some stage I hope Mitchelton Scott have to chase and nobody does anything to help them.
Polanc is a very big surprise….as is the time thay’ve given him. What I don’t understand is why the peleton din’t just close the door at about 6 minutes. They seem he’ll bent on making things difficult for themselves like when they let Bilbao and Formolo go.
None of the GC teams want to work.
If it wasn’t for Trek helping out UAE Formolo & Bilbao would have gained even more time.
I think Mitcehelton cause the problem by completely refusing to work.
At some stage I can see someone gaining a hell of a lot of time and no-one doing anything about it.
Aye. We have to remember the numbers being quoted for Polanc is the lead he will have over Roglic….a lot of the others are a big chunk behind that. As I said last night there really isn’t much wiggle room left for the like of Yates and Lopez. After today they’re faced with maybe getting back 10 mins on Polanc and 3 mins on Roglic. I have no idea who’s making the decisions for some of these teams but they might want to revise their strategies.
Working beautifully for UAE though. A day when Conti could be really challenged for pink and by getting Polanc into the break they will not only keep the jersey today, but gives them a better chance of holding it for a few days.
I saw that. Did you know it was quite an early deadline compared to the day before?…I nearly missed it because of that.Just checked and my transfers were made at 17:07
The deadline today is around 18:00
I think it was 16:15 yesterday.
At one stage Viviani was 4th in the points classification with the 18 points he scored on Stage 2.However it now appears that these points taken off him as an additional punishment.
That’s what I’m assuming too, but I was trying to find confirmation of his punishment.
I think he will be on minus points
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/giro-ditalia-viviani-unrepentant-after-sprint-punishment/
Start times for tomorrow are
Start times for tomorrow are interesting. All the big names up first, except Simon Yates who is last to go for MIS. Always interesting when one team goes against the others on strategy.
If you buy a bike through C2W
If you buy a bike through C2W the scheme takes a cut. It looks like Dolan are passing this on to the consumer in this case.
Last time I bought a cycle to work bike I was offered a discount on the bike when I asked for a quote. Unfortunately the retailer backtracked quickly when I mentioned I was going to use C2W. It didn’t upset me as I just recognised he couldn’t afford to give away much of his profit marging to me when he is giving some of it to the scheme.
You regularly see sale bikes excluded from C2W offerings.
Valverde out of the Giro!That’s a shame…any reason why?….Have they announced their team?
He was injured last week in a training crash.
Chasing shadows all week.bring Vlasov in he has a dad day, take him out he has a good day, bring him in again he has a bad day
bring Thalman in he has a bad day, take him out he has a good day
leave Masnada in he has a bad day, take Masnada out he wins the next stage
Shame that Nibali attacking helped Sivakov cut the gap to Masnada and if Masnada had zipped his jacket up earlier he would have won it.
I have done similar things. It is a function of all the spare transfers we had. With the stages being similar we have had spares to gamble with and I am sure many, like me, will have some unused ones.
Matthews was one of my nagging doubts. His 6th last year was a surprise, but I was interested to see if he’d do it again. I plumped for no, and I’ve been proved wrong again. I also wrote off Lambrecht and Vanendert, had no idea Martin was ill which gave Ulissi the lead, and Mollema looks to be in good form.Moving onto Sunday, the finish is back in Liege. It’s a flat finish and guys like Sagan and Matthews might want it. Also, the weather looks a little inclement.
Fuglsang, why didn’t I go for Fuglsang? Form great, been at the front of lots classics recently. Why?
Playing safe today –ALAPHILIPPE
VALVERDE
YATES A.
MARTIN D.
FUGLSANG
VANENDERT
LAMBRECHT
KREUZIGER
I was tempted to go for Kwiatowski & Schachmann in place of Valverde & Vanendert but decided to play safe.
I went for:
ALAPHILIPPE
VALVERDE
MARTIN D.
FUGLSANG
POELS
SCHACHMANN
BARDET
GEBREMEDHINOkay, that last one was a random 3 pointer from Israel Cycling Academy I thought might fancy the break. Wasn’t sure about Yates, he’s untested on this finish. I wanted Teuns, but decided he was too pricy, same with Kwiato.
ALAPHILIPPE
MARTIN D
FUGLSANG
YATES A
KWIATKOWSKI
SCHACHMANN
MADUOUS
LUTSENKO
Always have Valverde for these but decided was too expensive and would have better team without him. possibly going to regret that decision.
I have Valverde, it is Kwiatowski that I worry about having left him out.
Julian Alaphilippe (QST)
Alejandro Valverde (MOV)
Daniel Martin (UAD)
Maximillian Schachmann (BOH)
Adam Yates (MIS)
Michael Woods (EFE
Bjorg Lambrecht (LTS)
Oscar Rodriguez (EUS)
Lots of teams did better in Purist than Stzndard today.LOL.
152 points in my purist team. 52 in my standard.
Even given my usual ability to tinker with the standard team enough to wreck it, that’s impressive!
It struck me that I had a good Standard day testerday, 2nd on the stage, and then looked at my Purist team which scored better and found that I was 20 places lower in the standings and realised that many of us should just have entered our Purist team.
I think the reson I did OK on Standard was I had so little idea how the first stage that the riders I thought would do OK acrosee the week were picked rather than trying to finesse a team for the first stage.
Lots of teams did better in
Lots of teams did better in Purist than Stzndard today.
janusz0 wrote:
We had quiet empty roads *back in the ’70s. Drivers knew how to overtake. People seemed genuinely ashamed when they made a sub par driving manoeuvre. Local newspapers used to list the small number of motoring convictions every week. Hitch-hiking was very easy – what does that tell you about car driver’s attitudes? Life without a car or bicycle was much easier as buses and trains took you wherever you needed to go. (However, if you had mobility issues, life was very bleak.) The 1970s was when I got into cycling, utility and leisure – I had been a motorcycle pilot and car driver before then, but problems with the environment, including global warming, were important to me. Anyway, drivers were tolerant, the only sort of aggression would be the occasional driver putting their foot down for no apparent reason. There was plenty of carelessness: I was subject to two SMIDSYs in the 1970s, but I now cycle defensively and have only had one since then (in the 1980s). * I’ll admit that the centre of London was busy – but not choked like today. For example, much of the traffic along the Mile End/Whitechapel Road, during the day, would be moving at 50 mph! Outside the rush hour, it was much quicker to drive through the centre of London than to go around London, if you were a good navigator.I wasn’t a cyclist back then (in the ’70s); was driver aggression to cyclists just as rampant?
Drink driving was rife. More people killed. Yes car ownership was lower so roads were quieter in the 1970s, but it was hardly a ‘ better time to be alive’ than today.
My team for today –ALAPHILIPPE
MATTHEWS
GILBERT
WELLENS
FUGLSANG
VAN AERT
BETTIOL
VAN DER POELNot 100% happy. I would have arranged things differently if I had known Izagirre wasn’t racing.
I wasn’t brave enough to take a punt on Madouas, I think he could surprise today.
Think there will be a significant spread of choices today
I would have gone Izagirre too. Strongly considered Madouas, but went Lambrecht instead.
I spent the budget on Alaphillipe, Valverde and Sagan so that limited of my options, hence I have
Julian Alaphilippe (QST)
Alejandro Valverde (MOV)
Michal Kwiatkowski (SKY)
Alberto Bettiol (EFE)
Peter Sagan (BOH)
Mathieu van der Poel (COC)
Bjorg Lambrecht (LTS)
Marc Hirschi (SUN)
When was this wonderful time
When was this wonderful time that we look back on with rose tinted nostalgia?
