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OPINION
Bad season for Road.cc favourite
Albert_Timmer,_Rund_um_den_Henninger_Turm_2008.jpgAfter a couple of seasons on a upward trajectory, friend of this website Albert Timmer has had a poor time of it in 2011.
The Dutchman became a favourite after I spent a pleasant afternoon at the side of the road with his family watching him speed by in the Catalunyan stages of the 2009 Tour de France. Regular readers will have enjoyed posts mentioning the great man in the past.
Here is his CQ Ranking, a system that up until the IG Markets Index was born in 2011, was the bible for picking your fantasy cycling team !
As far as I know, Timmer is retained for season 2012 with Skil/Shimano or 1T4i as they are going to be know (before we think Bosch take over sponsorship in April).
The domestique made the break last time the Tour de France went up Mont Ventoux but was a late withdrawal from the Tour of Britain in September... maybe he knew his fanclub was coming to see him !
When this blog names its rider of the year for 2011, Albert might not win it... and that would be a real surprise.
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- quiff 3 sec ago
Interesting. I would have expected someone else (wearing gloves) to handle the swab and administer the test to minimise that sort of contamination....
- Veloism 8 min 14 sec ago
Lol at this article. The only reason Orro are well reviewed by roadcc is because they're all mates. This brand has zero "kudos" or a good...
- eburtthebike 15 min 21 sec ago
No problem: Trump's going to fix it. The same way the tories fixed the NHS, only much, much worse.
- stonojnr 1 hour 12 min ago
Yes, and plenty of people 'drive as correctly' as him on the roads round here, tbh I always expected this outcome, simply because of my experiences...
- the little onion 1 hour 28 min ago
The bus should have been bigger and brighter coloured. How are drivers expected to spot a bright yellow double decker bus on our roads?...
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BBC news article on this implies anyone cycling on the road, rather than using the cycle area, is riding incorrectly! ...
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One thing that definitely doesn't hold up emergency vehicles is the volume of car traffic on the road or the autobesity of cars that has been going...
- slc 4 hours 14 min ago
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This story on its own says that's not true ....
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A bad spell which has continued into 2012 with his crash in Strade Bianchi and broken bones...
I will be celebrating long into the weekend on the basis of that news
For what it's worth (nothing!) he's just won the Dutch National RR in my career mode of PCM 2011.
I like to take in as much information as possible before picking a thoroughly average team for the fantasy league
Just a thought though JTC wouldn't you be better off using the player rankings on the Fantasy Game to pick your Fantasy Team rather than the IG Markets ones?