One of the Most IMPRESSIVE Saves I've Seen 

Ben looked good. Even his sprint was impressive. 💪🦋👊

Yes, very interesting.

I’m keeping my fingers 🤞🏻!

go our Aussie

I hope he wins, it's the best chance he will have, but anything can happen at this race, that's why it's so interesting.

I love my txapelas. 👊🦋🙏

@@ChrisHornerCycling Aren’t you like a Cat 3 rider? 😂 Seriously though, I second OP’s sentiment. You pro guys are insane.

I thought for sure Mas wasn’t going to be able to get that chain back on 🦋👊

Man had Mas turn up MY heartrate at that moment... What a save! I made an almost similar move earlier that day when I was surprised by a cyclist coming from my right who I didn't see. I braked too hard with my front brake and did a stoppie (back wheel came up) I got a huge cramp in my quad trying not to fall over which I had to walk off for a few minutes. Luckily I was going very slowly.. I can not imagine what it must have been like going 75+ km/h

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If Mas were to really hit the railing, it could have been disastrous and possibly lost his life if he were to be thrown forward. He is really lucky.

@@chinpinhon It doesn't bare thinking about. Cyclists are warriors, with all the crashes they have and near misses, one mistake and it could be curtains.

​@@NightShooter87, IF Premoz back takes him out, I'm pulling for Mas, the most under rated cyclist in racing, nobody pulls for!

Why did he slide in the first place ? Braking so hard on the front that his rear wheel goes into the air, seems like panic breaking on too strong disc brakes. Probably would have been fine on rim brake.

@@S9999FrankI heard there were heavy wind gusts, could have thrown him sideways

@@S9999Frank Disc brakes on road bikes seems insane to an ordinary recreational rider like me. Also, the fastest I ever rode down hill or down mountain was about 45 mph, these guys are going close to 60. They have circus act skills but the slightest mistake and you see what happens.

Exciting stage and impressive rides by Yates and Carapaz! I was pleased to see O'Connor's hunger at the finish. Grabbing bonus seconds and showing he's there to fight. Love it!

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“...lose” and “losing”. When it’s double “o”, it’s a soft “s” sound instead of the “z” sound. Just FYI.

@@keirfarnum6811 Thanks, I am not a native English writer, so it helps with some help :)

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Agreed. I like the straight up interviews. 👊🦋

@@ChrisHornerCycling 11 years ago !!!!🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

Very classless, but then again is uae and they are a bunch of knuckleheads. Did you see any uae guy go up to hm? Nope. That team is in disarray.

​@@donquique1 you are joking right? ru-vid.comUgkx_92nA_UmNdRlKrLJwChwXqLKB5u-nYn8?feature=shared

and a new pair of knicks... I changed mine

He has already used that luck for saving himself and no luck for lotto ticket. :)

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Agreed. He can almost be a Carapazism from time to time but then somehow it works often enough that I just can’t do that to him. 😜🦋👊

mignon carapaz !

they made huge mistakes in the earlier stages - but today I think it's another story... I think Roglic had a bad day and could not ride any faster. One mistake of course was that Lipowitz rode Roglic off his wheel, so everybody could see that he is at his limit; that's lack of experience, Lipowitz is very young

@@fiddleronthebike Agree, hence why I said Bora and not just The Rog.

I wish we got to see the begining of the race. So much easier piecing the whole race together if we can see the beginning of it also . 🤔🦋🤞

I was thinking Primoz / Red Bull Bora were tanking a bit. Seems like a tighter race might suit them. More guys chasing BOC means less work for Bora. Is it crazy to think that? Sure is gonna be exciting, however you look at it. 👊🦋🙌

​@@fiddleronthebikeIn his interview he said that it was the back issue he still has after his crash at TdF. Let's hope the rest day helps him to come back to form, so we get an interesting race.

Mas has not had a bad day yet. 👊🦋💪

Love the drama. 👊🦋🔥

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Ouch! Crits are sketchy! I mostly raced XC in Alaska, but did occasional road races and wouldn’t you know it, the one crit I did, I got taken out by a friend who was a noob because he thought crit racing was about “slicing and dicing”. 🤦🏻‍♂️. I gave him a piece of my mind about holding his line and to stop racing like an idiot. There’s no “slicing and dicing” in bike racing. Straight is fast and fast wins the race.

@@keirfarnum6811Fast is smooth, smooth is fast. That was always my approach.

The Vuelta is always the best watch!

I still ride rim brakes also. So maybe I’m a bad person to ask. But I would think it’s the slippery roads here in the south of Spain which seems to cause this issue often. 🤔🦋😳👍

Yep. UAE team effort. 👊🦋💪

😂❄️ Not the little guys. But the big guys surely would have. 😂🦋👊❄️

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Good thing he’s got them. 😱🦋👊

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Yes, and no kidding, he's now at Bora :)

Agreed. Focused with a plan in place. 👊🦋

Good question. The chain drops more often because of the aggressive riding the pros are putting on the bike during the race. Our bikes never have an issue at home either. If you go out and drive your car super fast you will see how the brakes need to be replaced very soon and the tires are worn out and the transmission won’t last 200k. 🦋👊

I love mine. 👊🦋

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I kind of hope Roglic doesn’t reach 100% form to soon. 😂🦋👊😜

1) Pogi 2) Van der Poel ...

Roglic always has a bad day. If Roglic is not a 100%, it’s going to get interesting out there. 😱🦋👊💪

As far as yesterday goes. At the moment and at that time when Ben has been officially having problems in two of the two mountain stages and getting dropped by a lot of the riders, I’m still ok with it. But you are correct, anything could have happened to Ben mechanically. But let’s say today was before yesterday, then I would have complained and agreed with you on this. 😜🤔🦋👊

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Actually I did originally but it was edited out of the video later because of an error on my part. 🦋👊

Body is adjusting to the heat. Fitness was there from the beginning. Similar trend to Caripas and a few others.

Its how both brothers always race hot one day and cold the next must be their genetic makeup

To much rest after the TdF. Now the fitness is going back up with some racing. Hopefully he continues to get better 🤔🦋👊🤞

Mas said he hit a gust of wind.

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Almeida abandoned today, it was the day Almeida didn't appear at the start. If Almeida had started today he'd have been so far behind the start he'd have been no threat as he lost all his time yesterday due to having COVID. I think what you're trying to say is if yesterday hadn't the way it did and Almeida was healthy and if he had been able to go with the attacks he'd be in a great position. A lot of ifs there!!!

Yates crashed on one stage also. That would hide a bit of his form. 🤔🦋👍

Nope 😂🦋🌌🪐🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🪐👊

@@ChrisHornerCycling 😄

I hated that time issue. If you go to cyclingstats.com you can follow the race with time gaps that are updated pretty often. That’s how I survived today. 😜🦋👊

I followed the time gaps on La Vuelta website... following the "live" race. That's also how I knew what was going on once the cameras switched on.

@@user-tb7rk2nb6s Sure you can do that, but over never watched a stage where they just didn't have the gaps on the screen at all. I get it was a mountains stage, and may have been difficult but they did have cameras with the peleton and those at the front of the race so even if they'd just had those 2, which on the Vuelta is sometimes all you get, I'd have been fine. If the times were available though why weren't they on the screen as usual?

@@ChrisHornerCycling Thanks for this Chris, I did think that this would be possible but it's a pain in the ass and takes away from the enjoyment of watching the action doing that I feel. If the times were available, and I can only assume with the permission of the Vuelta, why couldn't they use this. Maybe it was a technical issue, some system crashed and couldn't be resurrected on the day, but I've often seen the Vuelta not having the time gaps to the important riders in the race on a stage. This time they went one step further and didn't have any, except from time to time, which was equally odd and the time gaps given, especially to Carapaz were questioned by the commentators. Even if they'd just had an explanation for why this was, maybe a number of the motorbike riders were sick due to COVID and they just didn't have the manpower to be able to do it, it'd still not have been great but I'd have been happier, these things happen. I've often wondered about the way they calculate the time gaps and I think they did talk about this once on the Breakaway, that a motorcyclist stops from the group in front and times it with a stopwatch, which seems awfully old school to me. Surely each rider, unless they change bikes, had a transponder on the bike and it should be able to be calculated from this. That said in a mountain stage like this one doing it using this method might not work, although there must be a way around this. Either way it was a bizarre experience, even if the racing was great. Felt a bit bad for Mas, he made the break, got a minute up the road, but with that near disastrous, potentially race ending incident, he may have gained time on Roglic. I was wondering if you were going to call him a knucklehead for this move considering the distance from the final climb to the finish and the likelihood that he'd not have anyone to help him pull to the line and ask this time would evaporate as it did, even if not to the extent it did. The GC group did seem to bring back a lot of time over Yates, Carapaz, and Mas in that final 10-20km.

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That is brilliant, but surely some woke wanker will find it offensive.