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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 21:48
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The question is: Would he still be good if he leave's Sky? |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 21:49
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Miguel98 wrote:
He's the best stage currently yes. I would pay 1.000000000000 to him to leave Sky and see if he get's results.
No matter how many 0's you put there, it's still 1. 
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 21:49
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cio93 wrote:
Miguel98 wrote:
He's the best stage currently yes. I would pay 1.000000000000 to him to leave Sky and see if he get's results.
No matter how many 0's you put there, it's still 1.
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 15-05-2013 21:55
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Daggen wrote:
Nin1388 wrote:
Daggen wrote:
The tour will be a battle between Froomey and Conta.
Don't rule out Joaquim Rodrigues. Katusa is focusing totally on TdF. They even rested Daniel Moreno, so that he could help JRod in mountains. Plus Menchov will help too. And JRod has been working on his TT a lot, which he has not done in past. He was using Mercedes F1 GP wind tunnel, last month for aerodynamic position testing.
If you look at Nibali, who worked very hard with his positioning and recon of the TT stage in the Giro, he was still 11 seconds behind Wiggins who had a bike problem.
The fact that talks against JRod is he was a worse TTer than Nibali. Froome and Conta have almost a identical TT which is slightly worse than Wiggins.
But maybe if he gets a big gap of about 1.5 minutes he can defend himself in the TT
Guido Mukk wrote:
I have heard so many stories about riders who will try to improve a TT skill. Nothing sensetional that far. Only pink-yellow shirt seems to get extra 15% for poor TT rider
Nah, there's really room for substantial improvements in TT at many pros. I'm still perplex at how many of them, actually, especially given the involvement and commitment that pro cycling requires from cyclists.
Compare true TT riders (Cancellara, T.Martin, Wiggins), to more average ones (Froome, Nibali, Contador), or to make it more blatant : to poor ones (A. Schleck).
What's the big difference ? Position on the bike, aerodynamics. It's far from being only a matter of sheer power.
That's why it makes a lot of sense that Nibali and J-Rod have been working in wind tunnels lately.
(And if somebody is interested in the formula linking power to speed and frontal surface, here it is :
P = 0,5 x (rau) x S.Cx x V^3
rau characterizes air density
S.Cx is the frontal surface (on a frontal (x) axis)
V is air speed, which is the rider's speed when there's no wind
That takes about 90 % of the whole power on the flat, the remaining 10 are for rolling resistance)
When there's little room to improve power, there's probably still room to improve S.Cx at most riders. And if you wonder, the bike alone represents about 1/3 of the whole S.Cx.
edit : meh, a dozen of messages have been posted while I was writing
Edited by Aquarius on 15-05-2013 21:57
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| cio93 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 22:35
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Hey, that rewind bar I talked about earlier seems to work live now as well 
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 22:51
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cio93 wrote:
Hey, that rewind bar I talked about earlier seems to work live now as well
They must be reading our comments.
(If they are)
They should really fix the issue I talked about yesterday where I paused, then came back and was watching it, happy as can be, when the "live" broadcast ended so did my delayed stream.
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| lluuiiggii |
Posted on 15-05-2013 22:57
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I guess that's what the "replay has been fixed in v1.4" message is about 
valverde321 wrote:
They should really fix the issue I talked about yesterday where I paused, then came back and was watching it, happy as can be, when the "live" broadcast ended so did my delayed stream.
I have a feeling that if this issue got/gets to them they'd have it fixed before the race is over
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| cio93 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 22:58
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valverde321 wrote:
cio93 wrote:
Hey, that rewind bar I talked about earlier seems to work live now as well
They must be reading our comments.
(If they are)
They should really fix the issue I talked about yesterday where I paused, then came back and was watching it, happy as can be, when the "live" broadcast ended so did my delayed stream.
Yeah, especially as this would make that addition a bit useless, because if you wanted to watch from an earlier part on, you'd be lost the same way again.
So only if you just look up a KoM or such and go back live afterwards, that helps at all. If they didn't read ALL and fixed that as well. 
Anyone fancy to give it a try?
lluuiiggii wrote:
I guess that's what the "replay has been fixed in v1.4" message is about
They get that version number up faster than SimCity
Edited by cio93 on 15-05-2013 23:01
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 23:09
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I knew Nathan Brown would try something.
I almost posted it before, but it was going to break the conversation about Froome. He's great on the hills.
@ luigi - Damn. I saw that pop up. Of course if i closed the window I'd lose my paused place (yesterday).
This calls for someone to tweet them
Edited by valverde321 on 15-05-2013 23:10
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 23:25
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Radioshack trying to create some echelons
Not really succesfull
Phil, No way they're doing 40 miles/hour untill the finsh
Edited by Spilak23 on 15-05-2013 23:29
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 23:38
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That is Sagan himself
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| 547984 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 23:40
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Why isn't the tour tracker working? Only the logo shows up for me.
EDIT: Works now.
Edited by 547984 on 15-05-2013 23:42
baseballlover312, 06-03-14 : "Nuke Moscow...Don't worry Russia, we've got plenty of love to go around your cities"
Sarah Palin, 08-03-14 (CPAC, on Russian aggression) : "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke"
Big thanks to jdog for making this AMAZING userbar! |
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 23:41
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refresh
Watch out for Chavanel
Edited by Spilak23 on 15-05-2013 23:42
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| wogsrus |
Posted on 15-05-2013 23:43
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Good attacking racing. Profile doesn't give the route justice as to how up and down the roads are. Should be a fast finish coming up. |
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| admirschleck |
Posted on 15-05-2013 23:45
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Sagan to take this.
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| 547984 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 23:48
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admirschleck wrote:
Sagan to take this.
ofc.
baseballlover312, 06-03-14 : "Nuke Moscow...Don't worry Russia, we've got plenty of love to go around your cities"
Sarah Palin, 08-03-14 (CPAC, on Russian aggression) : "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke"
Big thanks to jdog for making this AMAZING userbar! |
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 23:51
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Awesome move by Brammeier
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| 547984 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 23:52
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Spilak23 wrote:
Awesome move by Brammeier
caught.
baseballlover312, 06-03-14 : "Nuke Moscow...Don't worry Russia, we've got plenty of love to go around your cities"
Sarah Palin, 08-03-14 (CPAC, on Russian aggression) : "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke"
Big thanks to jdog for making this AMAZING userbar! |
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| Schleck96 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 23:52
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Farrar. Finally for god sake!! |
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 15-05-2013 23:52
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Farrar!!!! He's back.
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy |
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