European U23 Men's RR - Live

LeoD

This was linked on Stickybottle but if you didn't see it, you can follow the race live here - http://roadec2015.ee/en/homepage

rochefan

LeoD wrote: »

This was linked on Stickybottle but if you didn't see it, you can follow the race live here - http://roadec2015.ee/en/homepage

watching this, Dubar in a 2 man break just now.

Subpopulus

Eddie and a Polish rider are 48 seconds up on the peleton with about 100km.

Bambaata

Gowan the Eddie! Sounds like David McSavage (in his German guise) is doing commentary

Subpopulus

Yeah, the commentator is unintentionally funny as he makes such dry mechanical comments about the race.

It can't be easy commentating on 150km of a circuit race of largely unknown riders on your own.

Bambaata

Subpopulus wrote: »

Yeah, the commentator is unintentionally funny as he makes such dry mechanical comments about the race.

It can't be easy commentating on 150km of a circuit race of largely unknown riders on your own.

Particularly when you happen to be german :pac:

I cant see there being many Eurosport'esque fun facts and countryside shots

Good to see it covered though

Subpopulus

*Eddie and the Pole dodge around a truck that somehow appeared in the middle of the course*

Commentator:

Oop oop oop oop!

Where did that truck come from?

That truck should not be on the road.

That was very.

Lucky.

This is the danger.

Of not being in a.

Controlled environment.

You are out in the real.

World.

And face all the dangers of the real world.

Bambaata

Comedy gold :P Seems its getting stretched out now, hopefully Eddie can recover and go again.

Subpopulus

So Eddies break got caught and there's a few other lads up the road now.

Subpopulus

After 40km hanging off the back of the peleton, Eddie's back in the attack group. That man is irrepressible.

rochefan

Damm that bloody map they keep showing

Subpopulus

Ended in a bunch sprint with Eddie Dunbar finishing in 26th.

rochefan

I noticed no GB riders in it

wirelessdude01

Would it not make more sense for Eddie to try and hold the efforts until the last hour? At this level he cannot do what he did at A3 level in Ireland and just ride lads off his wheel all the time.

zurbfoundation

it up to the DS to set the tactics - Im guessing Kurt is in the car?

Subpopulus

wirelessdude01 wrote: »

Would it not make more sense for Eddie to try and hold the efforts until the last hour? At this level he cannot do what he did at A3 level in Ireland and just ride lads off his wheel all the time.

The course meant that it was pretty much always going to be a bunch sprint so it probably made more sense to try and get into the break early on and hope that an attack stuck rather than sit it out in the peloton. I think the first break he made was too early, but the second was better, and might have held off on another day. Then again perhaps Eddie knew that the breakaways were going to fail today and went with them anyway, as part of the learning experience...

This quote is about Eddie's 100k solo break in the La Côte Picarde race earlier this year. The final line probably says the most about his attacks today.

The Irishman had been in the breakaway for 140km of the 180km race, and for a hundred of those he was alone. The race, part of the UCI U23 Nation’s Cup, ended in a bunch sprint with Dunbar down in 42nd place, but he’s pragmatic about his brave bid for glory.

“Even if I stayed with the group and attacked, the bunch would still be fifty-strong at the finish,” he says. “Anyway, with the size of me, I’m not going to win a sprint. So I think there was a method in my madness – it was a way to get my name out there and show how strong I can be.”

http://rouleur.cc/journal/riders/eddie-dunbar-interview