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07-15-14, 01:17 PM
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You're giving the idiots on the internet way too much credit. The rampant speculation by the trolls would have probably been even worse if Specialized said they weren't commenting until the facts came in. I think Specialized was put in a tough position when immediately following the Contador crash one of the NBC commentators said the crash was a result of the frame failing.
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Good job, OP - you've got all of those crabon apologists gathered in to one thread.
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Maybe because he's trying to recover from a broken tibia and the realization that his tour is over and that's a bigger priority than satisfying a bunch of bike dorks' curiousity.
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Wrong assumption. Contador is being held by Mike Synard's special forces in Guantanamo Bay. He's currently undergoing torture and brainwashing as to avoid negative publicity. When he will be released we don't have a clue, but watch out for an AC clone that will be used as a cover up.
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as Homer Simpson would say OGA BOOGA OOGA OGGA UGGA BOOGA....we can all go to bed now...the bad internet trolls will go away soon...easily bored they are...
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07-15-14, 02:05 PM
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Initial reports on the Tour’s race radio, in French, and by NBC Sports’ Steve Porino, that Contador’s bike was “in pieces,” appear to be correct. “His frame snapped in half. They threw it in a heap in the back of the car,” Porino said, noting that he had arrived shortly after the crash.
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I think the expert quoted in this article has some great points:
So what really happened to Alberto Contador's Specialized Tarmac yesterday at the Tour de France? | road.cc
So what really happened to Alberto Contador's Specialized Tarmac yesterday at the Tour de France? | road.cc
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Not sure if this was posted above and not that I really care (posting for skeptics) but here is the best account I've seen so far ....
Tinkoff Saxo tangle with Belkin bikes identified as cause of snapped Contador frame | CyclingTips
Tinkoff Saxo tangle with Belkin bikes identified as cause of snapped Contador frame | CyclingTips
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I'm game with that conspiracy, 3a. I guess I'm conspiracy minded though....happened when indexing came out and they took my shifters off the downtube.
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Duh! Folks who see a conspiracy everywhere are folks who identify with conspiracies. It's nice when experimental data supports common sense.
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I'll link some stuff about carbon composite materials failure mode if you want ?
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...seems to be that the Velominati, who wrote the rules for this stuff, are actually members of the Illuminati. nttawwt
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Social Psychology = a bunch of simple, common sense theories about how we behave in social situations are confirmed.
Okay, okay - it's not that simple. But through a few graduate courses (etc.), I rarely found myself surprised by study results (but I'm no Shankar Vedantam).
Okay, okay - it's not that simple. But through a few graduate courses (etc.), I rarely found myself surprised by study results (but I'm no Shankar Vedantam).
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This would make a good Dan Brown book
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Wrong assumption. Contador is being held by Mike Synard's special forces in Guantanamo Bay. He's currently undergoing torture and brainwashing as to avoid negative publicity. When he will be released we don't have a clue, but watch out for an AC clone that will be used as a cover up.