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| Should the Konplatz climb have gone ahead? |
| Yes, make the lycra lepricorns suffer |
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| No, the poor dears have a tough enough time as it is |
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chrisd
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 Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 2:49 pm Post subject: Should the Kronplatz climb have gone ahead? |
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well, what you think boyz?
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Harmon
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| Damn right it should |
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Tony Bell
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You're a sadist you are, Harmon.  |
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Harmon
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Give 'em fat tires with knobbles |
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Steve D-T
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| Havnt seen it today - anyone care to post a picture? |
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Tom Butcher
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Definitely - once they set the route they should ride it unless it's dangerous. |
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Zippy
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No way - it would have been just perguatory for the riders. Survival not racing. With the events is spain such suffering only makes it harder. That's when the temptation to take 'gear'must come into the equation. Let's keep our sport realistic.
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chrisd
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they weren't gonna get any colder and wetter going up another 5k. maybe muddier but then again that is their job...
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officer bob
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If it had gone up the cyclo-cross bit,do you think Gadret might have taken a shock stage win 
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Tony Bell
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| If it had gone up the cyclo-cross bit,do you think Gadret might have taken a shock stage win |
Bug9er. You've just nicked me idea for the 'Ask Tony' column for next week.   |
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officer bob
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Tony Bell wrote: |
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| If it had gone up the cyclo-cross bit,do you think Gadret might have taken a shock stage win |
Bug9er. You've just nicked me idea for the 'Ask Tony' column for next week. |
Soz mate,must be the first time I've beaten you since about 1879 
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seve88
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From the close up I didn't think the so called "dirt road" looked that bad. In fact it wasn't far off our normal roads.
I'm also not convinced by the arguement regarding you could only get one car per team up there. How many do they want? Sport is about making decisions and judging risk. The main contenders could have had a car with them. Bad luck is part of sport.
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chrisd
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and they were only riding for 3hours 20mins. i've had sh*ts that have lasted longer than that.
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rothers
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Was today the one the one with the so called ski jump ramp made of Gravel ..... ????????????
If so then yes they should have done it.... Would have been a great spectacle and may have forced the race in ways we might not have thout of.....
Let the so called hard men show how tough they really are.... Or did so many of them DS's cry off to the organisers threatening to pull their teams if they did not shorten it that it was a forced call...
Let events take their turn i say, and you might get a little more interest in our sport from tose outside of it...... |
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Ventoux110700
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