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General Category => Freewheeling => Racing => Topic started by: bobb on 31 July, 2013, 09:38:45 pm

Title: Tour de Pologne
Post by: bobb on 31 July, 2013, 09:38:45 pm

So today, young Taylor Phinney launched a late, solo attack. In the closing kilometres, with the bunch chasing him down like a swarm of angry bees, the only question was - could he hold on?

Find out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Af8qs38-K4

 :)

Title: Re: Tour de Pologne
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 31 July, 2013, 09:44:51 pm

The thread title is wrong - this year it's the Giro di Polonia!

Title: Re: Tour de Pologne
Post by: Peter on 01 August, 2013, 08:20:10 pm

What a great win.  It looked a bit dangerous for the bunch at the end, there - very narrow.

Title: Re: Tour de Pologne
Post by: Ewan Houzami on 01 August, 2013, 08:49:33 pm

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 31 July, 2013, 09:44:51 pm

The thread title is wrong - this year it's the Giro di Polonia!

Or, taking a cue from the latest trendy diet - it's the 5:2 Bicycle Race!

Title: Re: Tour de Pologne
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 August, 2013, 08:39:36 am

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3832/9418865293_61f55a8fe7_c.jpg)
A few days old now...

Title: Re: Tour de Pologne
Post by: Riggers on 02 August, 2013, 09:13:55 am

Thanks for posting Bobbers. Had sweaty palms watching that, and I don't need it on such a humid day as this.

Title: Re: Tour de Pologne
Post by: Ewan Houzami on 02 August, 2013, 10:42:27 am

What was Bradders' original plan in this little jaunt? To stand on the podium at the end or to get some race miles in his legs before the TT WCs ? I hope it wasn't the former.