UCI Road World Championships Bergen 2017 **No Spoilers Now**

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Adam4868

Guru
It looks pretty certain that the riders will be changing bikes in the mens ITT

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bike-change-could-be-key-to-worlds-tt-success/
Seen that,i hope those that change bikes arent getting a push off.
 
The atmosphere here is not all that friendly, guys, even if I did commit an accidental faux pas.
It's worth remembering that behind the screens there are just normal people with feelings. Anyways, sorry to have been a pain.. I'm going to roll up my ignorance and trudge off in search of friendlier territory (:
Stick around, just take the time to get a feel of the place. New contributions always welcome.
 

mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
Location
Midlands
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A gorgeous day in Bergen - For Bergen that is

Thanks for posting that
 

mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
Fair enough.. I'll never to link to anything I've done again.
I think it's fine to link it sometimes but you should give a bit of a summary here too. Someone posting links with pretty much no contribution to the discussion is annoying and the "Forum Guidelines and Rules" (which you should have read during sign-up, so in a way "new here" isn't an excuse) are pretty clear that naked self-promotion is unwelcome, whether or not you're directly profiting from it.

I'm going to roll up my ignorance and trudge off in search of friendlier territory (:
Flouncing would be a bit of an overreaction and I doubt you'll find many forums that tolerate linkspam well.
 

smutchin

Cat 6 Racer
Location
The Red Enclave
Previous TdF winners from the mid.late 80s on, like Fignon, Lemond, Riis (yes, I know), Ulrich (yes, I know), Armstrong (yes, I know), Contador, Evans, Wiggins, Nibali - all climb well and TT well. In fact, it's difficult to win a grand tour without having a talent for both, for obvious reasons. Froome is the current man in form in GT/GC terms, but he is no different to any previous winners, in that respect.

Thinking about this, Cuddles* was arguably even more of a genuine all-rounder than Froome - he was strong in time trials and mountain stages, and was even competitive in the punchy stages against one-day specialists like Gilbert. Who knows what he could have achieved if he'd ever had a really strong team to back him like Froome does...

Also, which is particularly relevant to this thread, he was World Road Race Champion too.

I'd love to see Froome really going for it in the road race this year. With that final climb, it's not beyond the realms of possibility - he's got the chops for a punchy finish, as he showed on the Mur de Huy stage in the 2015 Tour when he was pipped on the line by Rodriguez.

*only using his nickname to avoid having it autoconverted into a link
 

screenman

Legendary Member
Have I missed the bit about us having a new world champion. What a result, just shows that cross is good training.
 

S-Express

Guest
Have I missed the bit about us having a new world champion. What a result, just shows that cross is good training.

I posted the same yesterday - and was immediately pounced upon by people who didn't want to know the result. Which is baffling. A bit like supporting a football team and then not caring what the score is.
 
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