La Vuelta 2017 **SPOILERS**

[mjr]

Get yourself Eurosport and watch the whole thing - the Vuelta's been an excellent tour the past couple of years.

There's currently second-hand HD-ready DIY kit which will receive German Eurosport for £60 click-and-collect at https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/used-hd-camping-and-caravanning-satellite-system-b44qu

 

[400bhp]

There's a climb around here with a stretch of similar gradient, and more importantly, the same rutted concrete surface. Mercifully it's only a few hundred metres. I can just about keep going. Will be interesting to see how the pros handle the real thing

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Where's that?

 

[mjr]

Where's that?

http://instantstreetview.com/s/Cock+Brow,+Hyde it says.

 

[SWSteve]

HANSEN IS BACK IN THE SQUAD

 

[brommers]

Will be interesting to see how Julian Alaphilippe fares - not GC I suspect, particularly after being out for so long, but probably targeting stage wins.

 

[SWSteve]

I cannot wait to see the Race with the brothers Yates as well as Chavez all in the squad.

If Chavez has managed to build on the tour, and has some semblance of previous form it could be a really exciting prospect to see the three of them working together.

I would also love one of the Yates to be in the Young Rider jersey, whilst the other wins a stage, just to hear the stories of confusion from the race organisers...

 

[brommers]

I cannot wait to see the Race with the brothers Yates as well as Chavez all in the squad.

If Chavez has managed to build on the tour, and has some semblance of previous form it could be a really exciting prospect to see the three of them working together.

I would also love one of the Yates to be in the Young Rider jersey, whilst the other wins a stage, just to hear the stories of confusion from the race organisers...

I don't think that there is a young riders' jersey

 

[SWSteve]

I don't think that there is a young riders' jersey

News to me

 

[SWSteve]

I don't think that there is a young riders' jersey

You're not wrong, they have that combined jersey. Ta a disgrace it isn't multi coloured/designs

 

[mjr]

You're not wrong, they have that combined jersey. Ta a disgrace it isn't multi coloured/designs

Not really. Who wants to wear a Frankenjersey?

It confused a few people when the decidedly-not-young Chris Horner was wearing the white jersey for a while a few years back...

 

[brommers]

I don't know why they bother with the points jersey - there's nothing in it for sprinters, as most of the intermediate sprints are towards the end of the stage. Likewise most of the breakaways will have been caught by then.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I don't think that there is a young riders' jersey

There's a young riders award (for riders born after 1 January 1992) but no jersey

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I don't know why they bother with the points jersey - there's nothing in it for sprinters, as most of the intermediate sprints are towards the end of the stage. Likewise most of the breakaways will have been caught by then.

The winner of the Points jersey last year did not win a stage.
Neither did the winner of the KOM.
The winner of the GC won 1 stage.

 

[smutchin]

I'm slightly surprised that Purito never won the points jersey in the Vuelta. I thought he had done at least once, but I must have been thinking of the Giro. He did win the Combination jersey in the Vuelta though.

 

[brommers]

Landa not riding the Vuelta