Crazy day

Crazy stage today - things got sorted out a bit

But it's sad to see that some of the lads got some pretty severe
injuries

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Davey Crockett
Got a job for Lance Who
They need lots of suicide bombers in the ME

On 06/07/2012 21:02, Davey Crockett wrote:
Crazy stage today - things got sorted out a bit


Yeah, some pretty careless parking happening, at one time towards the end after
the second major stack there can't have been many more than 25 riders remaining
in the main bunch.


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atriage wrote:
On 06/07/2012 21:02, Davey Crockett wrote:
Crazy stage today - things got sorted out a bit


Yeah, some pretty careless parking happening, at one time towards the
end after the second major stack there can't have been many more than
25 riders remaining in the main bunch.

Rather like one of the local group rides in my area, just faster. Bike
handling skills - at least sufficiently high levels of bike handling
skills for those roads, that sized group, and those speeds - seem in
short supply.

Maybe they should start the TdF in the mountains - no hope of a high
placement after the mountains seems to calm a lot of nerves.

-S-

On 07/07/2012 14:39, Steve Freides wrote:
atriage wrote:
On 06/07/2012 21:02, Davey Crockett wrote:
Crazy stage today - things got sorted out a bit


Yeah, some pretty careless parking happening, at one time towards the
end after the second major stack there can't have been many more than
25 riders remaining in the main bunch.

Rather like one of the local group rides in my area, just faster. Bike
handling skills - at least sufficiently high levels of bike handling
skills for those roads, that sized group, and those speeds - seem in
short supply.


Another perspective on it from Voeckler, he's got a point.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/voec...for-metz-crash

Maybe they should start the TdF in the mountains - no hope of a high
placement after the mountains seems to calm a lot of nerves.

Maybe, I don't know why ASO always follow much the same stage format.


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atriage wrote:
Maybe, I don't know why ASO always follow much the same stage format.

A couple of years ago I seem to recall the giro or the vuelta planning
to change the format to multiple shorter stages but the plan seems to
have sunk without a trace.

atriage wrote:
On 07/07/2012 14:39, Steve Freides wrote:
atriage wrote:
On 06/07/2012 21:02, Davey Crockett wrote:
Crazy stage today - things got sorted out a bit


Yeah, some pretty careless parking happening, at one time towards
the end after the second major stack there can't have been many
more than 25 riders remaining in the main bunch.

Rather like one of the local group rides in my area, just faster.
Bike handling skills - at least sufficiently high levels of bike
handling skills for those roads, that sized group, and those speeds
- seem in short supply.


Another perspective on it from Voeckler, he's got a point.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/voec...for-metz-crash

Yup, sounds right to me. One could argue whether or not it's the main
cause but it's certainly a contributing factor.

Maybe they should start the TdF in the mountains - no hope of a high
placement after the mountains seems to calm a lot of nerves.

Maybe, I don't know why ASO always follow much the same stage format.

Tried and true, I guess, but a single flat stage or maybe two and then
off to the mountains might save a lot of crashes. Then again, so might
a smaller race field to start with.

-S-