Pro Cycling Discussion 2017

From JLT Condor who had a belter of a prologue at the Sun Tour over night....

UK Viewers can follow the team at the #SunTour with televised coverage on Eurosport 2.
The TV highlights schedule is below:

Prologue - Wednesday 1 Feb - 2.00pm-2.30pm
Stage - 1 Thursday 2 Feb - 3.30pm-4.30pm
Stage - 2 Fri 3 Feb - 3.30pm-4.30pm
Stage - 3 Sat 4 Feb - 12.30pm -1.30pm
Stage - 4 Sun 5 Feb - 11.15am-12.00pm
 
Does anyone care about the Dubai Tour so far? The last 2kms are sort of interested if you like bunch sprints. And even the Hatta Dam stage will be only worth watching for Fleche Wallone style heave up the last climb
 
GSVBagpuss said:
Does anyone care about the Dubai Tour so far? The last 2kms are sort of interested if you like bunch sprints. And even the Hatta Dam stage will be only worth watching for Fleche Wallone style heave up the last climb
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Just generally find it so boring, I like a good sprint stage with some challenges on the lead up, but 99% of the stage is dull up to the sprints in Dubai.
 
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/kittel-calls-for-grivko-to-face-six-month-ban-for-punching-sprinter/

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Good run in to todays stage in Spain, good breakaway win for big Tony! :D Looking very lean! Saturday should be a good stage with few categorised climbs.
 
GSVBagpuss said:
Does anyone care about the Dubai Tour so far? The last 2kms are sort of interested if you like bunch sprints. And even the Hatta Dam stage will be only worth watching for Fleche Wallone style heave up the last climb
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booyaka said:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/kittel-calls-for-grivko-to-face-six-month-ban-for-punching-sprinter/

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They must have heard me! Anyone seen the actual punch? Kittle moody on Twitter afterwards too "I won't accept an apology"
 
Kittel taking to Twitter like a right keyboard warrior pansy. Meant to be a big hard man sprinter. Apparently it was an elbow delivered to the head and the Astana bloke blamed his shades for creating the cut.... ha!

Tony M is the man. I despise seeing him in that Katusha jersey though :( If you let Tony Martin away when there is 15km of flat/downhill remaining, you (the entire peloton) is in for a bad time.

Edit, for more ranting.... When Nibali was a total douche and lost the plot with Froome, after the stage, Froome went straight to the Astana bus and went on it to "have a word" and sorted the situation like a normal bloke. He's a skinny bugger and couldn't fight a cold. Yet all these big hardy muscle men take to social media and post insults and videos of someone pulling over their wheel in a sprint then cry about it. Can't be doing with it. They are all ego/talk and drama.
 
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Yet all these big hardy muscle men take to social media and post insults and videos of someone pulling over their wheel in a sprint then cry about it. Can't be doing with it. They are all ego/talk and drama.
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Have to agree, most of the sprinters come across as real drama queens!

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/grivko-and-astana-apologise-for-kittel-bust-up/

Sure I read somewhere yesterday about Kittel saying he was trying to join the echelon they were in and Grivko's young teammate 'seemed to be unsteady'. Yet reading the bit from Grivko there it's made me think that if Kittel thought the one guy was unsteady, why would he try and push in next to him? If Grivko was shepherding a twitchy teammate then surely any normal person would keep away from said teammate and try to get in a gap the other side of Grivko?

Like the fact Kittel could laugh about it with a meme on twitter "And I just googled Grivko and it said he is 70kg. Dude, know your limits!!", but then also disappointed he felt that Grivko 'should be banned for 6 months or something'. :rolleyes:
 
The Kittel thing is laughable.

I've heard his interview and read articles online.

Basically, crosswinds, Kittel tries to push between Grivko and one of Grivkos team mates infront of him.

Bit of shoulder rubbing, maybe some abuse from Kittel thinking he should be let in. He's not Sagan, Cancellera or Boonen who might get let in. Grivko has enough of it and waves his arm or punches him and his broken glasses cut him.

Big cry baby, he shouldn't have been punched but should have sorted it out there and then on the day, people don't get punched for nothing.
 
Berger;30484457 said:
The Kittel thing is laughable.

I've heard his interview and read articles online.

Basically, crosswinds, Kittel tries to push between Grivko and one of Grivkos team mates infront of him.

Bit of shoulder rubbing, maybe some abuse from Kittel thinking he should be let in. He's not Sagan, Cancellera or Boonen who might get let in. Grivko has enough of it and waves his arm or punches him and his broken glasses cut him.

Big cry baby, he shouldn't have been punched but should have sorted it out there and then on the day, people don't get punched for nothing.
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I agree.
The stuff I read said he was educating young riders who weren't riding well. So if this ties in with him trying to assert his authority as a "someone" in the peloton it is hilarious that he has tried to do so after an incident by moaning on the Internet.... He will never be a big man of the peloton now like the guys you mentioned for me, forever a cry baby :p
 
Nice odds, but personally don't think he's got a strong enough team around him. If he couldn't do it with EQS...!

My money would be on Boonen/Terpstra. Maybe Degenkolb, if it had to be a German! ;)
 
Roady;30487377 said:
Nice odds, but personally don't think he's got a strong enough team around him. If he couldn't do it with EQS...!
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I dont think he's ever had a team around him though. He has always been the team and supporting the big names.
How many times have we seen him pulling hard on the front with 60k+ still to go and causing splits all over the place.

He's got more of a chance where he is now IMO, but still is likely to be riding in a team role.
 
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