Is that an issue with a relatively large small chain ring and a relatively small large sprocket?
Giro d'Italia 2017 **spoilers**
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Flick of the Elbow
Guru
- Location
- Pentlands & West Lothian
I notice that many nouveau cyclists don't seem to be aware of this convention. I often want to tell them but I know I won't be thanked.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Somebody should have told ex-pro and world-class climber Robert Millar - he turned up at one of the training camp holidays I did in Spain and I noticed that his chain never left the big ring, no matter what we were climbing.
Mind you, RM isn't the kind of person who you tell what to do!
Archie
Errrr.....
Cheers Smuch. Really pleased for Fraile; it was part sentimental and part form based. He looked really strong in that brutal stage in Tour de Yorkshire. I thought could have won but played his role in supporting his leader that day.
themosquitoking
Guru
- Location
- Spain
He's in proper form at the moment, picked him in velogames because of it.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
There was a point yesterday when the commentators were completely taken by surprise by a series of recap shots of the KOM points, and were struggling to make their blather match the pictures. Now, these things happen in live broadcasting. But why on earth include it in the highlights?
In other news I really enjoyed yesterday's stage.
Those recap shots made my eyes go funny. I thought it was an advert, at first, for Tylar Farrar's glasses...
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I am watching 'video' highlights rather than scheduled highlights. I watched over 2 hours of one stage only for the video to stop with about 80 km to go. I watched stages 1 and 3 of the Tour of California but they seemed to forget to make stage 2 available!
Anyway, back to the Giro. I am enjoying it, but I don't feel fully engaged with it yet.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Because it's cheaper just to slice-and-dice the live coverage and not use the commentary booth and uplink for any longer than absolutely necessary to rerecord the bloopers?
The Transitions ones that require you to wear your hat with a loosely-dangling chinstrap and let you ride out into the road without looking?
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=800M1P855K4
dragon72
Guru
- Location
- Mexico City
Sky need to courier over another Jiffy bag for G in time for the next big hills. I think he used up all of the last one on the ITT. He was well off the pace yesterday.
Eurosport (And it seems Quest) don't really do a "highlights show" - do they? Mostly they just choose a point near the end that is the right length they need for the broadcast time and start there! The best we get is a few earlier points of interest. They dont waste any money on making it coherent or anyother finesse.
Wow, that bridge they are just going over is awesome ...
I am more engaged with it this year than I have been in the past. The last few days have been really interesting.
roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
go gaviria..........again
dragon72
Guru
- Location
- Mexico City
I expected more from Gorilla Greipel this Giro. He's not getting good delivery from his team and can't quite get the good positions.
(Apart from Stage 2 of course)
(Apart from Stage 2 of course)
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
I'm to blame. I picked him in my fantasy team.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Staying completely OT there was an article on this recently with quotes from manufacturers here
I quite happily ride big-big if I feel like it. I'm a rebel, me.
