Minor races 2019 (contains spoilers)

[Adam4868]

Watched a bit of the race last night,some pretty entertaining desending by Cavagna to take the stage win....excuse the commentary,makes you yearn for Carlton.

View: https://twitter.com/kericadair/status/1128479158814666752?s=19

 

[rich p]

excuse the commentary,makes you yearn for Carlton.

It was bad...
... but not that bad.
Cavagna was a masterclass in lack of descending skills only bettered by Wiggo and Pinot recently

 

[Adam4868]

What was his break from 70k ish ? I think he was probally tired enough.A matter of just staying upright.

 

[Crackle]

Watched a bit of the race last night,some pretty entertaining desending by Cavagna to take the stage win....excuse the commentary,makes you yearn for Carlton.

View: https://twitter.com/kericadair/status/1128479158814666752?s=19

Cripes! Was he sleep riding, that was awful stuff.

 

[Adam4868]

Cripes! Was he sleep riding, that was awful stuff.

I was crapping myself when he took his hands of the bars for the victory celebration !

 

[rich p]

Back from the boozer only to find that the stage was over already.
I'm over it now...

 

[rich p]

The Tour of Norway starts today and they don't get much bigger more northern, than that!

Edvald B-H could make it a 4th win and DD could do with it.
Cummings is back after his injury and Ben Swift too.
Should be nice scenery!

 

[rich p]

On a more parochial note, my nephew is DS/general manager of the Aussie squad, Team Bridgelane , and they won the Tour of Japan with Chris Harper recently
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-of-japan/2019/gc

 

[rich p]

Kristoff leads EB-H by one second in Norway. Gripping stuff

 

[Flying_Monkey]

The Tour of Norway exists in case anyone is finding the Giro too exciting.

 

[brommers]

52nd Paris-Roubaix Espoirs (1.2U)
Winner: Tom Pidcock!

 

[rich p]

Halvorsen finally won a race for Ineos in Norway but Kristoff beat EBH for the GC.
Calm down now.

 

[brommers]

The Norwegian Sprint Championships

 

[Flying_Monkey]

It's kind of annoying because Norway has some seriously hard mountain roads and they could make a much more varied parcours. But I guess they figure that all the climbers are in Italy...

 

[brommers]

Apparently Cav is riding in the Tour of Slovenia in a couple of weeks time - not sure why as the stages look hilly and not many opportunities for sprinters.