Yes Cancellara was defenitly the strongest yesterdayEldrack said:They won because they had the strongest man.......
Yes Cancellara was defenitly the strongest yesterdayEldrack said:They won because they had the strongest man.......
davidbod said:As far as I know the only way alluminum snaps is by first being stressed beyond its resiliance point and then being re-stressed.
Well, yes, but given the forces involved it makes much more sense that it was stressed first to be fatigued and then it failed. In other words I just can't imagine that a single incidental force in a bike race, even P-R, took a perfectly good al steerer from full integrity to snapping off.DiabloScott said:Nonsense. Just complete hooey.
davidbod said:Well, yes, but given the forces involved it makes much more sense that it was stressed first to be fatigued and then it failed. In other words I just can't imagine that a single incidental force in a bike race, even P-R, took a perfectly good al steerer from full integrity to snapping off.
That sounds a bit like the "I train harder than anybody else" statement of a certain Mr Armstrong... I'm pretty sure other teams had a similar (good) failure record in P-R but CSC got the result cause it was meticulous AND had the better talent.whiteboytrash said:results speak louder than words... CSC won the day the others didn't...
...although it appears that if they extra bikes en-route like CSC Hincapie could of swapped it and not ended up in a ditch.... afteralll from below it appears he knew there was a problem..... diabolical.davidbod said:Ummm. The fork breaking at the stem is not a wheel problem per say, and it wouldn't have mattered if he had an 18 wheeler full of bikes and equipment following him. He wasn't getting back on a bike yesterday period.
No not really, i saw an interview with PVP and he is blaming the UCI and the race organisation. But yes he is really angry!whiteboytrash said:Seems that PVP is blaming Hoste for going through the railtrack.....
"I know but too well that you have to stop when you are in front of a closed red-light railway crossing," said the veteran rider to Belgian newspaper De Morgen. "I myself hit the brakes, but Hoste kept on going, Gusev followed and what does one do in a situation like that but follow? What if Cancellara had been in front of the closed railway passage and lost the race because of it?" he asked.
cyclingheroes said:Jean-François Pescheux, the director of Paris-Roubaix (Leblanc retires) said today that next year's route will pass the railway again at exactly the same spot. They don't have an alternative: there is a small bridge but the team cars can't drive over that bridge. The alternative is to ride another route which would take 25 kilometers extra and the Carrefour de l'Arbre would be 40 kilometrs from the finish, the A.S.O. doesn't want that. So it looks like the problem could happen more often....
Rabobank probebly financed that train...Dead Star said:surely that problem wouldn't occur if they weren't riding so fast?
I reckon the real reason Flecha attacked so much was because he knew about the train!
cyclingheroes said:Jean-François Pescheux, the director of Paris-Roubaix (Leblanc retires) said today that next year's route will pass the railway again at exactly the same spot. They don't have an alternative: there is a small bridge but the team cars can't drive over that bridge. The alternative is to ride another route which would take 25 kilometers extra and the Carrefour de l'Arbre would be 40 kilometrs from the finish, the A.S.O. doesn't want that. So it looks like the problem could happen more often....
As it turns out this train came from Belgium...cyclingheroes said:Rabobank probebly financed that train...
lizwi said:As it turns out this train came from Belgium...
limerickman said:.....driven by Dirk Demols alterego.
tcklyde said:It was supposed to block George Hincapie!
I guess the train conductor didnt hear G crashed and tried to block Hoste instead. Thats why they had to resort to DQ the riders when Hoste slipped through. To make it look believable and cover up the plot. The plot to divert attention away from the plot to make G crash etc etcmitosis said:You mean like a back up in case sawing half way through his stem didn't work?
Its all so obvious now.bobke said:I guess the train conductor didnt hear G crashed and tried to block Hoste instead. Thats why they had to resort to DQ the riders when Hoste slipped through. To make it look believable and cover up the plot. The plot to divert attention away from the plot to make G crash etc etc
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