Minor races 2021...**SPOILERS**

[matticus]

What a whopper 🙄

View: https://twitter.com/AlexandreMignot/status/1388503032825094152?s=19

Sorry Adam, didn't see your post 🤦‍♀️ 😄

 

[Adam4868]

Sorry Adam, didn't see your post 🤦‍♀️ 😄

No need to apologize.
As for the gloves...when it was just the two of them (him and Rusty) the team car was more than likely to far back.Mistake ? Possibly but I'm pretty sure Woods didn't have more than mitts on either.Hindsight and all that,or schoolboy error.
He won in the end anyway 😁

 

[matticus]

It was a 20km climb, and the stage had already been neutralised for bad weather earlier. I hear they have weather forecasts in Romandie these days too! If they can carry rain-jackets, I'm pretty sure they can carry gloves. Anyway, that's my opinion!

 

[Chislenko]

Volta ao Algarve starts today, is on Eurosport.

My local team Tavira, who were sponsored by Sporting Lisbon, now sponsored by General Tuna!!

It just doesn't have the same ring to it!!

 

[Adam4868]

It was a 20km climb, and the stage had already been neutralised for bad weather earlier. I hear they have weather forecasts in Romandie these days too! If they can carry rain-jackets, I'm pretty sure they can carry gloves. Anyway, that's my opinion!

You won't get many riders finishing a race in big gloves...besides the marginal gains crap they'll dump most things before a final climb.Like I said Woodsy finished the race in mitts.Did you see the earlier part of the race and Cort Nielson struggling to get in his pockets for a gel because of heavy gloves ?

 

[matticus]

I would bet that almost all riders finished in mitts. Doesn't make it sensible. It lost G the stage, QED :P

(IIRC in Paul Kimmage's book he talks about descending the Dolomites in sleet and being unable to brake. But I guess if all the other domestiques were in the same boat, it made sense! )

This is all part of the hard-man traditions in sport, and I won't be persuading anyone there is a better way ...

 

[Adam4868]

I would bet that almost all riders finished in mitts. Doesn't make it sensible. It lost G the stage, QED :P

(IIRC in Paul Kimmage's book he talks about descending the Dolomites in sleet and being unable to brake. But I guess if all the other domestiques were in the same boat, it made sense! )

This is all part of the hard-man traditions in sport, and I won't be persuading anyone there is a better way ...

Guess that's why your not the team coach 😁

 

[Adam4868]

Sam Bennet takes the first stage of the Volta Algarve.

 

[Adam4868]

Volta Algaeve.Ethan Hayter wins stage 2,classy finish by him,set up by Sosa.

 

[rich p]

Volta Algaeve.Ethan Hayter wins stage 2,classy finish by him,set up by Sosa.

He looked impressive in an admittedly less than stellar field.

 

[Adam4868]

Sam Bennett wins stage 3 of the Volta ao Algarve.Clearly the fastest out there at the moment.

 

[bitsandbobs]

MvdP back on the MTB and wins.

 

[Adam4868]

MvdP back on the MTB and wins.

View: https://twitter.com/OutOfCycling/status/1390720114425749506?s=19

 

[matticus]

CAPTION CONTEST: The Nose-Peepers Roller World Championships!

 

[Chislenko]

Fair play to Hayter today.