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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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
xs4all.nlstrijkijzers.mp3Open ↗ (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

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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