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Cycling on an Island in Southeast Asia
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 10-08-2007 16:04
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Jelejah Malaysia
Stage 4, Jeli - Gerik
The only mountain stage of this tour and probably our only chance of a stage victory. We would probably have to attack to get a gap to the pack, and the downhill sections towards the end of the stage would surely aid the breakaway.That is what Suparman thought and he attacked!!
Suparman, Zargari, Mori, Fukushima, Jakovlev create a gap on the first climb.
They attacked with 31kms gone of the stage and the pack didn't seem bothered. These 5 riders worked well together, especially Iman who wanted a stage win badly.
Suparman takes 16 points at the top ahead of Jakolev and Zargari. They are now eying up the next KOM point in the distance.
They reached they top of the first climb with 80kms left to ride, 5'20" ahead of the peleton and show no signs of speeding up.
Superman takes another 16 points from the 2nd climb.
Suparman takes another 16 point but he had to work hard for it, putting in extra turns, longer turns. The top of the climb marks 70kms to the finish and the gap has started to decrease and is now at 4'17. The next few kilometers and Suparman notices that Jakovlev looks extremley strong and it's in his mind that he isn't the best sprinter or climber in the group, but he is the best downhiller and there is now quite a long descent, so he attacks!!
Iman goes solo
Suparman instantly creates a gap due to his excellent descending skills and with 58kms to the finish the gap back to the pack is 3'15" and back to the chasers is 30". Unfortunatley for Iman there is another climb before the finish, but if he can get over that solo then he knows he can increase the gap back to Jakovlev and Zargari, who have now dropped Mori and Fukushima.
Suparman is cuaght
Iman gets caught at the start of the climb, but all he needs to do now is hang on because with 40kms to go the gap back to the pack has increased slightly and is now and 3'20" surely that's enough.
He does hang on and over the top Jakovlev takes the maximum 10 points, Suparman goes through 2nd and Zargari 3rd.
With 20 kms to go it is official, the break will stay away with a lead of 3'10" over the pack. Then disaster strikes!!! With 10kms left of the stage Iman gets dropped
He used all his effort in going solo, but he isn't worried all he has to do now is stay clear of the 2 riders chasing behind, Mori and Fukushima. The 2 up front will fight for the win and with Jakovlev leading out and Zargari being the better sprinter, it seemed like a definate outcome.
It wasn't Jakovlev shows how strong he was today by winning the sprint and the stage, but where is Iman????????
There he is, and he comes in 3rd, justB)B)B)
A podium for Benteng, great news but the sponsors want a stage win from this tour and there are rumours that if we don't get one, they will fire me and hire an Indonesian manager, only time will tell.
I forgot to mention Iman took the Mountains jersey with ease today so we will have something to take home, I hope that satisfise that board enough to not sack me.
Stage
Rank Name Team Time
1 Evgeni Jakovlev POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM 3h33'07
2 Amir Zargari ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
3 Iman Suparman BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG + 1'10 
4 Koji Fukushima NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
5 Kazuhiro Mori AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
6 Bart Brentjens DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM + 2'42
7 Anuar Manan LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
8 Hassan Maleki ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
9 Kuan-hua Lai GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
10 Edmund Hollands DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
11 Hossein Askari GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
12 Mahdi Sohrabi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
13 Robin Reid DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
14 Jamsran Ulzii-Orshikh DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
15 Viatcheslav Dyadichkin POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
16 Takashi Miyazawa NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
17 Wan Mohammad Wan Ahmad LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
18 Abbass Saeidi Tanha ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
19 Bradley White DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
20 Joseph Cooper DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
21 Hari Fitrianto POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
22 Shafari Malik LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
23 Jai Crawford GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
24 Siros Hashemzadeh ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
25 Ahmad Haidar Anuawar LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
26 Seyed Rezaei Khormizi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
27 Reza Pahlevy POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
28 Yasuharu Nakajima NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
29 Shinichi Fukushima NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
30 Yusuf Kibar Tanos BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
31 Thijs Zonneveld DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
32 Yukiya Arashiro NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
33 Dwi Haryanto BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
34 Farshad Salehian ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
35 Budi Santoso POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
36 Ariyanto Ariyanto BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
37 Amin Suryana BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
38 Junya Sano NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
39 Mohammad Zaki Nasir LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
40 Tonton Susanto LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
41 Kazuya Okazaki NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA s.t.
42 Mohammad Khairul Rosseli LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
43 Ryan Connor GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
44 Amin Saryana LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
45 Paul Griffin GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
46 Kuei-hsiang Peng GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
47 Wei Zhang DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM s.t.
48 Chun-te Chiang GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
49 Andika Riyanto POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
50 Artjom Timofeev POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
51 Herwin Jaya POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM s.t.
52 Po-shen Chiu GIANT ASIA RACING TEAM s.t.
53 Taiji Nishitani AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
54 Tetsuya Ishida AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
55 Kenichi Suzuki AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
56 Satoshi Hirose AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
57 Takeaki Ayabe AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
58 Hideya Akiyama AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
59 Muhamad Radius Ginting BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG s.t.
60 Achmad Husni Afandi BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG + 3'45
61 Takumi Beppu AISAN RACING TEAM + 4'22
62 Michael Vingerling BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG + 8'08
63 Faridi Koviy Mahdi ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM s.t.
64 Yoshiyuki Shimuzu NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA + 8'33
GC
Rank Name Team Time
1 Evgeni Jakovlev POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM 16h46'36
2 Amir Zargari ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM + 8
3 Iman Suparman BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG + 1'22
4 Koji Fukushima NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA + 1'30
5 Kazuhiro Mori AISAN RACING TEAM s.t.
6 Anuar Manan LETUA CYCLING TEAM + 1'48
7 Joseph Cooper DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM + 2'20
8 Takashi Miyazawa NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA + 2'28
9 Hari Fitrianto POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM + 2'50
10 Ahmad Haidar Anuawar LETUA CYCLING TEAM s.t.
Points
Rank Name Team Points General
1 Anuar Manan LETUA CYCLING TEAM 9 101
2 Takashi Miyazawa NIPPO CORPORATION - MEITAN HOMPO CO. LTD - ASADA 0 64
3 Joseph Cooper DISCOVERY CHANNEL MARCO POLO CYCLING TEAM 0 61
Mountain
Rank Name Team Mountain General
1 Iman Suparman BENTENG MUDA - TANGERANG 40 40
2 Evgeni Jakovlev POLYGON SWEET NICE TEAM 34 34
3 Amir Zargari ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM 26 26
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| Crommy |
Posted on 10-08-2007 16:09
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Great 3rd spot 
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 11-08-2007 14:37
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story dead after lack of interest both me and everyone else, i may start a new story in the future with a slightly better team, but only when my story writing skills have got better, may be a while then
i had played the last 3 stages but there's no need to say who won
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| issoisso |
Posted on 11-08-2007 14:41
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everyone else?  you're not speaking of me, surely
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 11-08-2007 14:45
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no not just you
i posted the exact same thing on PPDB, there was just a distinct lack of interest, maybe i'm just not a story writer, i'll quite happily read them instead
Edited by Addy291 on 11-08-2007 14:47
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| issoisso |
Posted on 11-08-2007 14:49
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that's not what I meant. I'm interested. I just avoid posting them because I myself when reading don't like other posts interrupting. Ideally stories for me would just be the stories themselves.
that's just me, call me a strange person  |
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 11-08-2007 14:52
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you see i like it when people post as it is obvious people are reading the story and enjoying it, unless they're saying 'this story's crap'
but even then that's good because if you know it isn't liked then you can stop
but hey, i might try again sometime in the future
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| issoisso |
Posted on 11-08-2007 14:54
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it's your call. whatever it is you enjoy
It's just sad that another story doesn't make it |
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 11-08-2007 14:58
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i am also dissapointed another story ends but there was no-one giving me motivation so it ended
anyway this can now be locked/deleted
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| JustinWK |
Posted on 11-08-2007 16:08
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sometimes ppl also dont post for a while in my story but still i continue cos I know that ppl are reading it looking at the amount of views my story has but like isso said its ur call
Dwight K. Schrute: 'I'm not a hero. Im just a mere defender of the office. You know who is a hero? Hiro from Heroes. That's a hero. And Bono'.
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 11-08-2007 16:14
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oh yeah forgot about the view count anyway i was waaay too hasty in deleting my savegame however i have just found this team with awesome season goals, one of these mountains goes off the profileB)B)
I may start a story with them, just a quick check, would anyone be interested in reading a story about a Columbian team in the mountains??
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| issoisso |
Posted on 11-08-2007 16:16
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shut up and post it  (that's means yes) |
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 11-08-2007 16:23
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well it'll keep me away from my business coursework, so i will have another go
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| Crommy |
Posted on 11-08-2007 20:30
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Business studies never was an important subject
And Addy, I can confirm what Justin's saying - people don't always post, but if you plough on through the times where there seems to be little interest, you'll get a lot at some points
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 11-08-2007 20:32
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thanks for the encouragment Crommy, and everyone else i shall stick at this career for as long as possible
Edited by Addy291 on 11-08-2007 20:32
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| Guido Mukk |
Posted on 11-08-2007 22:13
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Addy291 wrote:
no not just you
i posted the exact same thing on PPDB, there was just a distinct lack of interest, maybe i'm just not a story writer, i'll quite happily read them instead
You are to hard against himself... I'm never posted any story in PPDB and wont to that eather in the future. Best way quaranty replys if you winning...
I dont care about that...when season is intresting I can be happy with 10th. place. Main goal is keep the story live and on.... |
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| samtheman |
Posted on 12-08-2007 10:14
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I played with Loteria de Boyaca once, only playing the mountain stages and simming the rest, but it got boring as I was playing on easy...
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 17-08-2007 21:37
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Aww, I missed your Asian story 
Nice 3rd place with Iman btw. I just dont bother posting stories on PPDB, only the ones by the people who have thousands of posts get much interest.
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 18-08-2007 10:14
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yes i noticed, but my other story got a bit more interest (stress on BIT)
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