Pro Cycling Discussion 2016

xdcx · 4 Mar 2016 at 14:19

PermaBanned said:
Yeah, I just started doing it on the reddit fantasy league. Seems like there's less "restrictions" than road.cc, just more casual.

Reddit have their league pick thing on the site but also have the /r/peloton league on road.cc

We now have dedidcated fantasy place though

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18721333

madindehead · 5 Mar 2016 at 14:41

Crazy Strade Bianchi. What a race.

xdcx · 5 Mar 2016 at 20:34

Awesome race.
Delighted with the win with it being final year and he gets a dirt road named after him now

I seriously thought Stybar had the measure of him coming over the top of the climb into the finish, I think he was just massively spent coming over the climb he just didn't have that 0.1% left in him to make a go of it. The stronger man won on the day and what a win it was. Brilliant to watch.

SoliD · 5 Mar 2016 at 22:50

xdcx said:
Awesome race.
Delighted with the win with it being final year and he gets a dirt road named after him now I seriously thought Stybar had the measure of him coming over the top of the climb into the finish, I think he was just massively spent coming over the climb he just didn't have that 0.1% left in him to make a go of it. The stronger man won on the day and what a win it was. Brilliant to watch.

Great finish again this year. Well deserved to fabian. Thought stybar had it with galibria up the road but just couldn't dig that little bit extra. Plus very tight finish didn't help.

Looking forward to some stage racing this week!

GSVBagpuss · 6 Mar 2016 at 07:13

Cracking win for Lizzie too, she's dominating the women's events at the moment.

SoliD · 7 Mar 2016 at 20:02

GSVBagpuss said:
Cracking win for Lizzie too, she's dominating the women's events at the moment.

Absolutely. Hope she carries it all thru the year. Altho sort of hope for some challengers as nobody has gotten near her for a while.

Paris Nice was good for a fairly flat stage. Think the gravel sections in the final 20k had something to do with it! :-P

madindehead · 7 Mar 2016 at 20:21

Looking forward to this week. Paris-Nice should be good, and Tireno Adriatico (spelling) starts of Wednesday (I think)

xdcx · 7 Mar 2016 at 21:41

madindehead said:
Looking forward to this week. Paris-Nice should be good, and Tireno Adriatico (spelling) starts of Wednesday (I think)

Paris-Nice is delivering so far, it has been great!
Check out pictures from today

For example -

madindehead · 7 Mar 2016 at 21:42

Ah yeah. I was listening to it at work, but I forgot it was on, so missed a fair chunk of it. Those roads look pretty epic. Those tyres on G's bike look pretty beefy...

xdcx · 7 Mar 2016 at 21:45

Also lol - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cc9JQyuXIAAhUuy.jpg:large

SoliD · 8 Mar 2016 at 20:03

Today's sprint as interesting. How neither of them came down I don't know.

GSVBagpuss · 9 Mar 2016 at 07:57

That was some amazing handling. Not sure Bouhanni should have only been relegated to third though!

xdcx · 9 Mar 2016 at 13:20

GSVBagpuss said:
That was some amazing handling. Not sure Bouhanni should have only been relegated to third though!

Agree. He really is a douche that guy, I cannot stand him or his attitude and would have loved to see a complete DQ for him in all honesty.

xdcx · 9 Mar 2016 at 15:02

They have just cancelled stage 3 of P-N at the feedzone due to the snow.
Points from the int sprint and KOM earlier in the stage are all that will cound and everything else will end as is for today....

booyaka · 10 Mar 2016 at 09:36

xdcx said:
They have just cancelled stage 3 of P-N at the feedzone due to the snow.
Points from the int sprint and KOM earlier in the stage are all that will cound and everything else will end as is for today....

http://pelotonmagazine.com/feedzone/snow-halts-paris-nice-stage-3/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/35767301

Berger · 11 Mar 2016 at 07:38

Cav 20 minutes down with just Renshaw to tow him home yday.

Overdid it at track World Cup maybe or saving it for today's stage?

SoliD · 11 Mar 2016 at 09:09

Berger said:
Cav 20 minutes down with just Renshaw to tow him home yday.

Overdid it at track World Cup maybe or saving it for today's stage?

The latter for sure!

Only real chance for them this week. Great finish to yesterdays stage, perfect timing by Stybar! Was more brutal than they made out that final few k's would be.

GSVBagpuss · 11 Mar 2016 at 18:10

I think it's the former! Gaviria 25-1 for MSR - tempting!

SoliD · 11 Mar 2016 at 19:29

Did you put it on gsv? He smashed it easily. Won the sprint without even using the drops.

SoliD · 12 Mar 2016 at 21:32

Fantastic finish to Paris Nice today. Great to see g going so well. Interested to see what they'll use him for over the year.

Also great win for Steve Cummins in Tirreno-Adriatico! The guy is an animal.