Tirenno Adriatico 2017 ***SPOILERS***

Weepsie

The other big stage race of the week/month kicks off today. Probably no need for a new thread everyday, and there will be spoilers.

It's being shown on Eurosport

Stage 1 is a TTT, pan flat.



I've not much to say on it, but a Sky rider's wheel just failed spectacularly and they've had a fairly miserable TTT

robyntmorton

The wheel failure was really something to see. Glad to see the rider got up from it.

Kaisr Sose

So much for lateral stiffness! Big q mark on those trispokes! Lucky he was not hit or ran over by the team car!

robyntmorton

How to pick yourself up and keep going when it all falls apart...

https://twitter.com/eurosport_uk/status/839502758398963713

Bambaata

what brand wheels do they use?? Will be avoiding them

Just read artile on cyclingnews - http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wheel-failures-decimate-team-skys-tirreno-adriatico-ambitions/

Three wheels failed on them!!! Excuse that they hit holes. Those roads looked better than anything in Ireland! Shimano tri-spokes to be avoided it seems

Eamonnator

Bambaata wrote: »

what brand wheels do they use?? Will be avoiding them/QUOTE]

Shimano

Weepsie

How many people here are honestly using those wheels though

Thud

Bambaata wrote: »

what brand wheels do they use?? Will be avoiding them

Just read artile on cyclingnews - http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wheel-failures-decimate-team-skys-tirreno-adriatico-ambitions/

Three wheels failed on them!!! Excuse that they hit holes. Those roads looked better than anything in Ireland! Shimano tri-spokes to be avoided it seems

Thats ridiculous, "of course it wasnt our sponsors lovely wheels, it was our fault at not being able to ride aroud holes that no other team hit"

pelevin

Seems the cycling gods are angry that the best the Sky riders could do was declare 110% for Dave Brailsford. 110% is hardly even trying ffs.

letape

pelevin wrote: »

Seems the cycling gods are angry that the best the Sky riders could do was declare 110% for Dave Brailsford. 110% is hardly even trying ffs.

Fromme didn't declare though!

neris

werent those minimal spoke wheels banned by the uci years ago when carbon fibre 1st came out cos they were afraid that was what was going to happen

Kaisr Sose

neris wrote: »

werent those minimal spoke wheels banned by the uci years ago when carbon fibre 1st came out cos they were afraid that was what was going to happen

Sky just can't get away from seeking out those marginal gains...

pelevin

letape wrote: »

Fromme didn't declare though!

True, we've no idea of what percentage his support of Brailsford is. Could be anything from 0% up to say 235%. Frustrating not knowing.

Eamonnator

Bambaata wrote: »

what brand wheels do they use?? Will be avoiding them

Just read artile on cyclingnews - http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wheel-failures-decimate-team-skys-tirreno-adriatico-ambitions/

Three wheels failed on them!!! Excuse that they hit holes. Those roads looked better than anything in Ireland! Shimano tri-spokes to be avoided it seems

"Once is nothing,
Twice is coincidence,
Three times is moral certainty"

Weepsie

Happened upon this site which gives live power, cadence, speed and HR data for loads of the cyclists in this race.

http://www.velon.cc/en/races/2017/8a191fee-13de-4bc4-8114-e4b85554e261/tirreno-adriatico

Weepsie

Commentary team sure do love Sky. Lot's of "we shouldn't talk about it"

dahat

Jesus, what a time to go for an advert break!!!

Weepsie

dahat wrote: »

Jesus, what a time to go for an advert break!!!

Are you watching a rerun, it was on live an hour earlier?

dahat

Weepsie wrote: »

Are you watching a rerun, it was on live an hour earlier?

It seems i was as it started back exactly where it left off.

neris

sagan takes the sprint

neris

Katusha rider taking a slide under a barrier and down a hill
Looked nasty

longshanks

He made it look easy in the end

dastardly00

Just watched highlights of Stage 5. The sprint finish was like a man against a group of boys. Sagan made it look so easy. The others simply didn't have a chance!

johny33

Sagan with near miss in time trial:

https:// twitter.com/Eurosport_IT/status/841651790340796417

dastardly00

johny33 wrote: »

Sagan with near miss in time trial:

https:// twitter.com/Eurosport_IT/status/841651790340796417

I had read that there was an incident involving a dog so I presumed a dog had run out on to the road or something like that.... so I can't believe that the owner with a dog on a leash was the issue! :eek:

dastardly00

Stage 6 Results:

1 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:11:18
2 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:00:03
3 Michael Hepburn (Aus) Orica-Scott 0:00:03
4 Stephen Cummings (GBr) Dimension Data 0:00:08
5 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:00:11
6 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:00:15
7 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data 0:00:15
8 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky 0:00:16
9 Ryan Mullen (Irl) Cannondale-Drapac 0:00:17
10 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Movistar Team 0:00:17

^^^
Well done Ryan Mullen

General classification after stage 6:

1 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 25:56:27
2 Rohan Dennis (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:00:25
3 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ 0:00:36
4 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 0:00:45
5 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky 0:00:58
6 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Sunweb 0:01:01
7 Jonathan Castroviejo (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:18
8 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Cannondale-Drapac 0:01:36
9 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:38
10 Simon Spilak (Slo) Katusha-Alpecin 0:01:59