Road Cycling 2017 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 15,145]

Meanwhile the Tour of Turkey has started yesterday, probably by far the worst of all World Tour races in terms of organization and participation, but much like the Tour of Portugal it's always a fun race to see who magically destroys the field suddenly  

 

Just thinking back to the likes of Mustafa Sayar #NeverForget 

[heywoodu 15,145]

Oh and both Torku Sekerspor and Funvic/Soul Brasil Pro Cycling are in the race, so, yeah, you know...that's interesting  

 

 

 

[heywoodu 15,145]

Mirco Maestri of Bardiani and Onur Balkan of the Turkish team in the lead 

[heywoodu 15,145]

@MHSN What happened to the top Iranians/Iranian teams? I see the Tour of Iran is going on and suddenly Rob Ruijgh of all people has taken over the lead jersey after another Dutchman who's name I already forgot and who rides for an amateur team won the 1st stage  

 

http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/Tour_of_Iran_(Azarbaijan)_2017_Stage_4

 

I thought these were the races were some Iranians destroyed everyone and teams like Pishgaman (?) went on a full-team breakaway to take the first 6+ places  

 

Edited October 11, 2017 by heywoodu

[frantic13poland 55]

[hckošice 14,835]

The future of our cycling look very well Congrats to the parents and Welcome Marlon Sagan

 

 

[Dunadan 1,103]

Giro d'Italia 2018 stage profiles http://www.cicloweb.it/2017/11/29/anteprima-altimetrie-giro-2018/

Froome confirmed that he is going to participate.

 

[heywoodu 15,145]

16 hours ago, Dunadan said:

Giro d'Italia 2018 stage profiles http://www.cicloweb.it/2017/11/29/anteprima-altimetrie-giro-2018/

Froome confirmed that he is going to participate.

 

Stage 1:

 

Spoiler

 

 

And that, right there, is why Israel is now mad as fuck 

 

In their minds, it should be just called 'Jerusalem' (even though apparently the international community doesn't really accept it like that, since the East is apparently one of the many occupied Palestine areas), and because the Giro organizers named it as 'West Jerusalem' (which they did to stay away from political stuff) the Israeli government is now threatening to withdraw all support 

 

In the Netherlands, we would call this 'Calimero-behaviour', after a popular children's series. I just saw it is a Japanese/Italian series originally, so maybe you know it  

[Henry_Leon 1,398]

4 hours ago, heywoodu said:

 

And that, right there, is why Israel is now mad as fuck 

 

In their minds, it should be just called 'Jerusalem' (even though apparently the international community doesn't really accept it like that, since the East is apparently one of the many occupied Palestine areas), and because the Giro organizers named it as 'West Jerusalem' (which they did to stay away from political stuff) the Israeli government is now threatening to withdraw all support 

 

In the Netherlands, we would call this 'Calimero-behaviour', after a popular children's series. I just saw it is a Japanese/Italian series originally, so maybe you know it  

 

It's a joke!!!! What does it means start GIRO from Israel?

OK..... need open at the new markets for improve the investments (for GIRO d'ITALIA), OK.... for the money; but Israel is really interested at cycling?

Don't like the starting places out of Italy!!!!!!

 

PS: Yes, "Calimero" was very famous also in Italy.

[heywoodu 15,145]

1 minute ago, Henry_Leon said:

 

It's a joke!!!! What does it means start GIRO from Israel?

OK..... need open at the new markets for improve the investments (for GIRO d'ITALIA), OK.... for the money; but Israel is really interested at cycling?

Don't like the starting places out of Italy!!!!!!

 

PS: Yes, "Calimero" was very famous also in Italy.

 

Well it's not new that they start in Israel, that has been known for quite a while already  

 

There is an Israel Cycling Team in the ProConti level, so there's...something