Vuelta Stage 6

pelevin

It's on now.

. . . That's how easy it is to start a stage thread if there is none.

dastardly00

I was just finishing this post when I saw your thread pelevin.

Here it is anyway...

Stage 6 (August 25th 2016): Monforte de Lemos -> Luintra (163.2km)

From the Vuelta Official website:

Mid-mountain stage where no one should let their guard down, between Monforte de Lemos and Luintra, in the Ribeira Sacra, crossing the spectacular canyons of the Sil River, whose last 70 kilometres are very windy, in a succession of climbs and descents all the way to the finish-line. In the final part of the stage, the peloton will come face to face with the Alto de Alenza, a 2nd category climb, that will not necessarily make much of a difference to the general classification, but it may well break the group up and prevent a mass arrival at the end. The road narrows in the final kilometres of the stage, which will be one of the most beautiful landscape discoveries of the 2016 Vuelta.

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dastardly00

Waiting for one bus and then ....

dastardly00

78km remaining from 163.2km.

11-man breakaway with a gap of 2:30.

Laurent Didier (Trek-Segafredo), Kevin Reza (FDJ), Andrey Zeits (Astana), Jan Bakelants (AG2R - La Mondiale), Alberto Losada (Katusha), Gert Dockx (Lotto Soudal), José Mendes and Gregor Muhlberger (Bora-Argon18), Omar Fraile (Dimension Data), Mathias Frank (IAM Cycling) and Valerio Conti (Lampre - Merida).

neris

dastardly00 wrote: »

Waiting for one bus and then ....

Great Minds ......... :D



deleted mine.

Weepsie

I can't see IAM cycling without thinking of the IAMs cat

REBELSAFC

Can anyone summerise what has happened so far this tour. I've been away for a week and there is no coverage in the mainstream media.

dastardly00

REBELSAFC wrote: »

Can anyone summerise what has happened so far this tour. I've been away for a week and there is no coverage in the mainstream media.

• Stage 1: Sky win the TTT from Movistar (+1"), Orica (+6") and BMC (+7"). Contador and Tinkoff lose 52 seconds.
• Stage 2: Gianni Meersmann (Etixx) wins the sprint.
• Stage 3: The stage finishes up a wall. Geniez (FDJ) is the sole rider left from the breakaway and wins. Fernandez from Movistar attacks late on and takes red. Quintana loses 6 seconds to Valverde, Froome, and Chaves. Contador loses a further 22 seconds. Talansky loses nearly a minute and Kruijswijk nearly two.
• Stage 4: Breakaway dominates the stage. Calmejane (FDJ) wins the stage. Atapuma is second, and takes red. Most of the top-GC guys finish with the same time. Kruijswijk loses more time.
• Stage 5: Gianni Meersmann (Etixx) wins the sprint. Kruijswijk gets mangled on a bollard and breaks a collarbone.

Overall, Froome, Chaves, Valverde and Quintana are looking very strong. Contador hasn't been great so far. Meersmann is the dominant sprinter.

neris

yeah carlton great story about alan the spaniard ........Yawn........

At what temps do they look at abandoning the race cause its too hot? remember one of the races out in the camel lands a few years ago cancellara having a verbal with eddy mercxx coz the heat was popping tyres and guys were falling off

pelevin

On most technical descents I've seen. Very narrow winding roads.

dastardly00

neris wrote: »

At what temps do they look at abandoning the race cause its too hot? remember one of the races out in the camel lands a few years ago cancellara having a verbal with eddy mercxx coz the heat was popping tyres and guys were falling off

It was the Tour of Oman or Qatar I think. Nobody was probably too bothered about that race though whereas the Vuelta is more prestigious and riders are willing to suffer a lot more.

pelevin

They really love their camera close-ups of Flecha doing his thing. Next a shot from the chamois.

REBELSAFC

dastardly00 wrote: »

• Stage 1: Sky win the TTT from Movistar (+1"), Orica (+6") and BMC (+7"). Contador and Tinkoff lose 52 seconds.
• Stage 2: Gianni Meersmann (Etixx) wins the sprint.
• Stage 3: The stage finishes up a wall. Geniez (FDJ) is the sole rider left from the breakaway and wins. Fernandez from Movistar attacks late on and takes red. Quintana loses 6 seconds to Valverde, Froome, and Chaves. Contador loses a further 22 seconds. Talansky loses nearly a minute and Kruijswijk nearly two.
• Stage 4: Breakaway dominates the stage. Calmejane (FDJ) wins the stage. Atapuma is second, and takes red. Most of the top-GC guys finish with the same time. Kruijswijk loses more time.
• Stage 5: Gianni Meersmann (Etixx) wins the sprint. Kruijswijk gets mangled on a bollard and breaks a collarbone.

Overall, Froome, Chaves, Valverde and Quintana are looking very strong. Contador hasn't been great so far. Meersmann is the dominant sprinter.

Thanks, that's brilliant.

pelevin

MathI as frank thunders away from rest of break but peleton not far back. Predict text mangling poor frank's name.

neris

lotto soudal rider, 2 lampres and a kaka rooral rider down. lotto guy seems to have gone over the crash barrier into the ditch

neris

fluck sake carlton kirbys some pillock. he was cheerleading for simon clarke to win the stage a few minutes ago now adam yates is going to win it according to him

Miklos

Yates looking very strong here! Also his shades are cool.

Lusk_Doyle

neris wrote: »

lotto soudal rider, 2 lampres and a kaka rooral rider down. lotto guy seems to have gone over the crash barrier into the ditch

Kaka rooral. A poo from the country. Love it.