Strathlubnaig
Guru
- Location
- Alberta
the overhead shots in the final 2km really showed up the elbows and jostling very well, great stuff. Bouhanni just left it a bit late, good win by Coquard.
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HF2300
Insanity Prawn Boy
Yes, I liked the long overhead on stage 2 of the TdY for the same reason - you could see just what was going on, the gaps and the moves, who was leaning on who, and so on.
Flying_Monkey
Recyclist
- Location
- Odawa
Not nice: Stage 3 of the Fleche du Sud cancelled because of serious mass-crash on a descent involving 35 or so riders:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/fleche-du-sud-stage-3-cancelled-after-serious-crash/
No real injury details yet.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/fleche-du-sud-stage-3-cancelled-after-serious-crash/
No real injury details yet.
Berk on a Bike
Veteran
- Location
- Yorkshire
What you might call a clusterf*ck at the Four Days of Dunkerque today. Motorbike went wrong way off a roundabout and front of the peloton followed him. Yikes.
http://www.thebikecomesfirst.com/co...k-as-motorbike-leads-riders-off-course-video/
http://www.thebikecomesfirst.com/co...k-as-motorbike-leads-riders-off-course-video/
Flying_Monkey
Recyclist
- Location
- Odawa
What's worse is the farking bikecam, having cause the accident, then continues to film the rider who had crashed into him when he stopped, as he was lying in the road, rather than helping him...
Was it Robert Millar who was directed down the wrong road by a Gendarme pretty close to a summit finish and subsequently lost the stage.
Berk on a Bike
Veteran
- Location
- Yorkshire
I'm afraid I don't know. Close to a summit finish would be pretty gutting.
Yeah it was, just looked it up. Stage 14 of the 1988 TdF, I remember watching it but I can't find it on Youtube. Him and another rider mistook the Gendarme's signals and went the wrong way and the rider in third, Ghirotto, won the stage. Truly gutting.
Strathlubnaig
Guru
- Location
- Alberta
Some TdF Pyrennean stage in the late 80's, I think, he and a Frenchman misread a gendarme flag or a something, lost the chance to win the stage...oops, sorry, missed last post...
oldroadman
Veteran
- Location
- Ubique
I think the gendarme was at the entrance to the deviation (in case anyone is unaware, all the cars and motos except commissaires. direction, radio tour are diverted before the finish), and was trying to send a team car into it, when Millar and another rider mistook the direction. Fortune of war and all that, but a bit of a downer when you are going for the win!
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
The other rider was Phillipe Bouvatier, the stage was won by Massimo Ghirotto and Millar finished second.
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
I still can't find much of an update re injuries and details of the crash, other than this article:
http://www.lequotidien.lu/sports/accident-sur-la-fleche-du-sud-six-cyclistes-gravement-blesses/
brommers
Years beyond my wisdom
- Location
- Clacton-on-Sea
Bryan Coquard must be on the radar of the top World Tour teams
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
Just over 20 miles to go in Tour of California. I have tried to not get annoyed. I really have. But WTAF is Kirby blabbering on about??!! Does he think it's part of his "persona"? Wánker.
I have even tweeted Brian Smith asking if he could kill him. Not big or clever. But...
I have even tweeted Brian Smith asking if he could kill him. Not big or clever. But...
Strathlubnaig
Guru
- Location
- Alberta
what a belter of a win by Sagan, came up hard n fast, obviously not his first rodeo.
