Simoni to Cunego

Robert Chung said:

"*That*'s how you lead someone out for the win."

I had to think just a little bit before I got it, but then you had me
rolling on the floor, really good one 😉))
It was also really cool to see how Cunego didn't challenge Cioni for the
last KOM points thus paying back Wegman for his efforts the other day.

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Perre

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Per Elmsäter said:

Robert Chung said:

"*That*'s how you lead someone out for the win."

I had to think just a little bit before I got it, but then you had me
rolling on the floor, really good one 😉))
It was also really cool to see how Cunego didn't challenge Cioni for
the last KOM points thus paying back Wegman for his efforts the other
day.

That and the fact that Cioni pulled him up the mountain. Having someone pull
for many K's and then steal the bonus from them in a sprint (when those
seconds won't mean anything for you or your team but will for him) leaves a
bad taste in the mouth. makes me think of Mayo, staying on Ullrich's wheel
up Luz Ardiden last year and then taking the bonus when Ullrich was 15
seconds behind Armstrong while Mayo was somethink like 3 minutes behind Vino
and 3 minutes ahead of Basso).

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"*That*'s how you lead someone out for the win."

HA! POM!

Bob C.

Robert Chung said:

"*That*'s how you lead someone out for the win."

I was away today, in the Ardennes around but not the cyclotouriste
T-B-T, so I don't get it (at least I hope that's the reason). Whaddaya
mean, Velo and Petacchi?

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Quoted message said:

Robert Chung said:

"*That*'s how you lead someone out for the win."

I was away today, in the Ardennes around but not the cyclotouriste
T-B-T, so I don't get it (at least I hope that's the reason). Whaddaya
mean, Velo and Petacchi?

Stage 19, where Gibo led out Garzelli (it could be argued for the last 85
km)

Jeff Jones said:

Stage 19, where Gibo led out Garzelli (it could be argued for the last 85
km)

Oh ok, yeah funny. Although it wasn't even as much of a leadout as it
should have been. I think someone said it before (in rbr), but Simoni
should of course have kept riding, in stead of pretending to play for
the sprint. Unless he bought it, he would never ever stay ahead of
Garzelli in a sprint, who is a decent hard race sprinter, while Simoni
is one of the biggest strijkijzers around.

Ewoud Dronkert said:

Jeff Jones said:

Stage 19, where Gibo led out Garzelli (it could be argued for the last 85
km)

Oh ok, yeah funny. Although it wasn't even as much of a leadout as it
should have been. I think someone said it before (in rbr), but Simoni
should of course have kept riding, in stead of pretending to play for
the sprint. Unless he bought it, he would never ever stay ahead of
Garzelli in a sprint, who is a decent hard race sprinter, while Simoni
is one of the biggest strijkijzers around.

Strijkijzer? When I Google this I get listings for steam irons. Does
this have some other meaning?

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Ewoud Dronkert said:

Jeff Jones said:

Stage 19, where Gibo led out Garzelli (it could be argued for the last 85
km)

Oh ok, yeah funny. Although it wasn't even as much of a leadout as it
should have been. I think someone said it before (in rbr), but Simoni
should of course have kept riding, in stead of pretending to play for
the sprint. Unless he bought it, he would never ever stay ahead of
Garzelli in a sprint, who is a decent hard race sprinter, while Simoni
is one of the biggest strijkijzers around.

Strijkijzer? When I Google this I get listings for steam irons. Does
this have some other meaning?

It's a term that entered common RBR usage during the spring classics
period this year when Rebellin beat Boogerd twice in the space of a
week, but it first appeared on the newsgroup in 2000, below:

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Theodore Heise said:

Ewoud Dronkert said:

Boogerd. [...] he sprints like a strijkijzer.

Okay, I gotta ask. What's a strijkijzer?

Flat-iron. (it's doesn't accelerate very well).
Also hear http://www.xs4all.nl/~ewoud/cycling/strijkijzers.mp3 (66 kB),
Mark Uytterhoeven on Flemish TV describing Tafi, Wauters and Serpellini
in a breakaway in the 2000 Ronde van Vlaanderen as a 'shop of
flat-irons'.

ED

Also:

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I'm not so sure that Armstrong can beat Pantani in the sprint. Pantani is
a better sprinter than people think, and Armstrong is probably the only
racer in the world who ever lost a sprint to Michael Boogerd.

Perhaps Lance would have had more in his sprint at the Amstel (or Boogerd a
bit less) if Boogerd had taken a pull or 2 instead of sucking Lance's wheel
to the end.

Sure, but we're talking about Boogerd, the prototype of what in Dutch is
called a `strijkijzer' (flat-iron), which means the type of rider which
every average sprinter can beat, even after having towed him for 50
miles.

Benjo Maso