I want to hear people's stories about the strangest result they have had for a stage in PCM ever. Although this is in the pcm 08 forum, thats only because this has the most traffic, a story from any pcm will do. Also, only played races, there are a lot of glitches in simulated races that make strange results, so only races you played in 3D.
Mine is that in PCM 07, with the PCM spain DB, I was doing an individual Vuelta a Espana, and was GCE. Valverde was leading the race, with Periero close behind, and when an early break went on one of the mountain stages, I didn't want to chase, and neither did anyone else. By the end of the day, Dave Zabriske won by 12 minutes over the next breakaway rider, and 25 on Periero who was first out of the pack, so by the end of the day the standings were something along the lines of
1: Valverde
2: Zabriskie +1:30
3: Periero +3:00
Periero would eventually pass Zabriskie, but still big Dave Z was on the podium in Madrid.
The 94DB, with the 2007 Vuelta stages. The first mountain stage i go on a breakaway with Indurain's best mountain helper (cant remember his name). Holds a 14 minute lead to the pack with 15kms and a mountain to go. WTF, he was an outside favorite to take the Vuelta if Indurain wasn't here, so why let him go and get such a huge lead.
I know i simulated the rest of the Vuelta and he eventually won with 7 minutes to Indurain. But that he won the stage was strange enough.
Been reading the forum for a couple of months but i'm not a person that replies to threads.
Anyways, strangest win for me was in a lowly 2.1 race with 3 stages.
I was using the db from pepsi, team Acqua e Sapone, 1st season.
In the first stage the favorite, Ignatiev (sp?) from Tinkoff decided to stop and help his sprinter who was struggling in a hilly stage. I won making the 1-2 in the stage and Ignatiev lost 9mins 30scs.
In the 2nd hilly stage of the same race Ignatiev went in the attack after only 2-3kms from the start. I lead the peloton with a fast relay and caught up with him in a downhill section. Then i sat in the front of the group keeping up the pace and watching the sprinters that couldnt keep up with the pace drop back. About 50kms Tinkoff took over the relay trying to secure a win for Ignatiev on a steep hill finish followed by half a kilometer of flat. Energy gel + charge the hill secured me all top 8 finish places with a 30+ seconds advantage.
Havent played the final stage of the race yet but I think I'll let Tinkoff's sprinter win that one
i was running a seperate TDF with silence to check out the new bars etc. only included the mountainstages so it was a really hard tour. most of the favorites didnt participate though so evans was, along with valverde and cunego, the only big rider in the pack. however when ballan and karpets got tired valverde and cunego dropped back to help them, basicly securing me the victory preatty easily
In the Gent-Wevelgem (PCM06) I was playing with Quickstep. Boonen went on the attack in the second lap of cobbled cimbs. But 15 km from the line (:lol he was chased down by Van Petegem(Lotto) and Ballan (Lampre). Then instantly, Van Petegem counterattacked, left me for dead, rode into a corner and fell This allowed to win, as Boonen easily outsprinted Ballan.
Playing with Landbouwkrediet I had a strange win in one of the smaller Belgian races with cobbled hills (bad weather too). Large breakaway went early (10+ riders) including my David Boucher and Kevin Neirynck.
With breakaway some 2-3 minutes ahead less than halfway to the race, I used my captain Bert de Waele to drive an insanely fast pace (at 99 in "long relay"-mode) over a long, demanding cobble section (probably Oude Kwaremont) which resulted peloton to almost catch the breakaway. However, he stopped pulling right there and with all the non-cobble-specialist helpers in arrears and on red, there was not to be any chase and breakaway quickly gained unreachable advantage.
Inside a break I was letting my better sprinter (Neirynck) to rest while Boucher (best cobblist and strongest rider of whole bunch) accelerated on every hill & cobble section to destroy the others in the break. He also was covering the possible attacks.
However, every time Boucher got away in a smaller group (and at one point, he + Tim Klessa were about two minuted ahead of diminished main breakaway incl. Neirynck), he stopped pulling or smooth-pedalled at around 35 % to let the rest of the breakaway to again regain ground.
On penultimate cobble-section, completely rested Neirynck made his 1st acceleration and only two riders were able to stay with him.
So we had Boucher & Klessa in front with Neirynck + 2 others about minute back.
Both Boucher & Neirynck were trailing and did not pull.
Klessa finally completely blew in very last, short, steep hill with 40 km of flat remaining. Neirynck attacked, dropped his companions and passed Klessa by small margin, caught a waitin Boucher at the top and they dual time-trialled away.
In the end, two green-clad riders (who are definitely not amongst the strongest riders in the game) were minutes ahead of everybody and when Neirynck crashed in a corner with 8 km to go, I was even able to have Boucher to wait for him so that they could have victory parade hands aloft coming in without need to sprint. As a thanks for waiting, Neirynck let Boucher take the victory.
Some other breakaway riders also crashed in same corner as Neirynck and in the end only two others had the strength to evade peloton taking the 3rd and 4th spot some 4 minutes behind. Peloton sprinted for 5th spot at 5 minutes back having still been at 10 minutes before Neirynck's fall.
I think the race was Vlaamse Pijl, but I am not sure.
Playing with Duja-Tavira, season 2007 - Eternal DB
Race : La Roue Tourangelle, Category 1.2 race in France.
Only 9 teams of 6 riders so very small field indeed.
My team was :
Martin Garrido (captain)
+ 5 really average/bad helpers
Luis Bartolomeu
Samuel Caldeira
David Livramento
Jose Mendes
Luis Filipe Silva
Well, competition wasn't much either. There were the French "junior" teams Roubaix-Lille Metropole, Vendee U, Cyclo Nugent-sur-Oise, Belgian Jo Poels and Storez Ledecq teams, Symmetrics from Canada, DFL-Cyclingnews and Amore Vita.
So, actually, my Martin Garrido was #1 favourite in sprinter-heavy field.
At 22 km, Kevin Reza from Vendee initiated the breakaway taking 6 other riders with him. However, Symmetrics' guy (Zach Bell) never made it up to the others and as I commanded Livramento-Mendes-Silva trio to drive tempo, we caught him 13 km later. Boys continued to chase and minimised the gap to 20+ secs before
At that point, effort was ceased although afore-mentioned trio kept the control in the front of peloton. However, effort was 1st downscaled to 55ish, then high-40s and finally to 41-42 range.
So gap started to grow. See here
With my no-good Caldeira being the superior sprinter in the breakaway and as he was mostly not working and started freshest (drinking the 1st bottle 15 km later than others), I felt absolutely happy when it came obvious that peloton won't see 'em again.
Shockingly, no other team wanted to chase either - not even Amore&Vita or Symmetrics who had missed the break. So look at km left in this simultaneous photos when breakaway was closing on the finale in Tours.
In the end, Caldeira's low fitness (70), bad form (-4) and very low ability cost me the victory.He had no strength to position himself for a sprint and had to start from the last spot. Possessed enough speed to pass five, but not Baiolet of Storez Ledecq
"Some" time later the peloton got ready to sprint for the eighth spot!
Well, apparently the race organisers were already in banquet as they found the last km to be opened for the regular traffic and closed from racing...
Team results are surely unique - hard to say who won though : Edited by seldon71 on 24-07-2008 19:48
he was chased down by Van Petegem(Lotto) and Ballan (Lampre). Then instantly, Van Petegem counterattacked, left me for dead, rode into a corner and fell 
This allowed to win, as Boonen easily outsprinted Ballan. 
