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HowardR | 5 years ago
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Re: “Glad that Condor live on and in their original address” – As I first remember it, back when some of us still lived in black & white and Madame Thatcher was in her grisly pomp…Condor Cycles used to be on the other side of Grays Inn Road, I can then remember them moving to a larger address a couple of doors along – before they moved to their current location.

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burtthebike replied to HowardR | 5 years ago
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HowardR wrote:

<pedantry_alert>

Re: “Glad that Condor live on and in their original address” – As I first remember it, back when some of us still lived in black & white and Madame Thatcher was in her grisly pomp…Condor Cycles used to be on the other side of Grays Inn Road, I can then remember them moving to a larger address a couple of doors along – before they moved to their current location.

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You may be right, but whatever, Condors always were, and still are quality*, wherever the exact location of their shop was.

*For the definition of quality, please read "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance"

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fenix | 5 years ago
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You say that but the phone videos are the best shots we have of the Nibali crash.

Enjoy the racing and maybe set your phone on video but try and take it all in. Whenever I've been on the Alpe it's been a great day but you need the TV coverage to show you what actually happened. Live sport is all too fast.

And yes anyone with a flare needs to be arrested. You'd think that would be pretty easy.

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iandusud replied to fenix | 5 years ago
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fenix wrote:

And yes anyone with a flare needs to be arrested. You'd think that would be pretty easy.

You are quite right. Unfortunately (I speak from experience having lived in France for over 20 years) the way the Gendarmerie opperates is to nothing to prevent offences being commited, and often stand around and watch them happening, and then act afterwards if they decide to act, ie are directed to. 

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BehindTheBikesheds | 5 years ago
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Seeing the Dutch fans letting flares off in the faces of the lead rider on Wednesday and again on D'huez,  this is an assault and those letting them off should be arrested and heavily fined.

RIP to Monty Young, yet another of the old guard to pass away, there are so few left now from those heady days of the late 40s/50s/60s. Glad that Condor live on and in their original address.

As for the Kiwi druggie, sounds like the judge is another wet through type, yeah remorseful my arese, remoreseful that he was caught. Should have got a far heavier sentence, don't want skanks like that 'reconnecting' with cycling thank you very much!

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HarrogateSpa | 5 years ago
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Good work Watlina, I only saw that Nibali was out of shot when he actually fell. Your still frame looks like a flag getting caught in his back wheel.

The person dragging Nibali to his feet was certainly well-intentioned, and maybe it was necessary to get him out of the road for his own safety. It's not the ideal procedure where there's a back injury, though.

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watlina replied to HarrogateSpa | 5 years ago
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HarrogateSpa wrote:

The person dragging Nibali to his feet was certainly well-intentioned, and maybe it was necessary to get him out of the road for his own safety. It's not the ideal procedure where there's a back injury, though.

It looks nasty when he goes down. Because of his slow speed he just falls straight down sideways on to the road. You can see the pain as he puts his hand straight on to his back. Can't belive he actually carried on.

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Karbon Kev | 5 years ago
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When these Grand Tour organisers going to supervise the crowds on these stages is when hell freezes over probably, now that they have partly caused a top rider to retire! Wtf? 

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watlina | 5 years ago
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Stepping through the video it appears Nibali either got caught on something dangling from the crowd or was directly pushed. He was not that close to the motorbikes or other riders.

He falls a fraction of a second after this frame. 

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psling | 5 years ago
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Trying to pick my way through that footage above it looks like Nibali's bars may have caught on a camera strap flapping around loosely rather than out of the way around someone's neck! Feel for him, shit way to leave the event.

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SteveAustin | 5 years ago
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cant really see the crash, but what it does show is how much of a complete of time videoing anything on a mobile phone is.

enjoy the moment, dont waste your time getting a few flashy images of very little..

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don simon fbpe | 5 years ago
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Well that's cleared that one up then...

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Canyon48 | 5 years ago
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These "fans" are a disgrace  I can only assume these are the same fans who accuse Team Sky of ruining the sport.

Sometimes I wonder if the French would be happier with a Tour de France with only French riders. Though, I'm sure they'd still be unhappy if a Frenchman from a different département won.

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don simon fbpe replied to Canyon48 | 5 years ago
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Canyon48 wrote:

These "fans" are a disgrace  I can only assume these are the same fans who accuse Team Sky of ruining the sport.

Sometimes I wonder if the French would be happier with a Tour de France with only French riders. Though, I'm sure they'd still be unhappy if a Frenchman from a different département won.

I expect the one who pushed Froomedog was, but the one who took out Nibali wasn't. I assume you didn't think through that one properly.

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Canyon48 replied to don simon fbpe | 5 years ago
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don simon wrote:

Canyon48 wrote:

These "fans" are a disgrace  I can only assume these are the same fans who accuse Team Sky of ruining the sport.

Sometimes I wonder if the French would be happier with a Tour de France with only French riders. Though, I'm sure they'd still be unhappy if a Frenchman from a different département won.

I expect the one who pushed Froomedog was, but the one who took out Nibali wasn't. I assume you didn't think through that one properly.

That was the one I was referring to  10

I'm not sure what was going on with all the flags though, Bardet was having a pretty tough time with flags on long poles being draped in his face quite a few times.

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srchar | 5 years ago
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Same goes for the twat in the green shorts who gave Froome a sideways push as he rode past.

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Natrix replied to srchar | 5 years ago
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srchar wrote:

Same goes for the twat in the green shorts who gave Froome a sideways push as he rode past.

 

He got busted! https://as.com/ciclismo/2018/07/19/tour_francia/1532020428_071632.html

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don simon fbpe | 5 years ago
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That Nibali incident is outrageous. How can so called fans sleep at night knowing that they've caused the retirement of a GC contender? These are not fans, they're animals.

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