nibali blowing evans away. nibali over 2 minutes up on this stage alone with about 10 minutes of riding to go.
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nibali blowing evans away. nibali over 2 minutes up on this stage alone with about 10 minutes of riding to go.
Fantini rider busted for doping overnight. good. glad they're catching them more often these days.
-3 degrees at the top of the mountain, looks to be about 4m of snow. glad i'm at home watching it rather than riding it.
fantini jersey is so great
adam hansen in the break monnnnnnnnn
hardman extraordinaire
As long as people think the riders are to blame for drugs in cycling the problem is never going to go away.Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
what drugs? what problem? it aint going away eitherQuote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
cheating is alright if you've got some verve, i.e. pantani
armstrong, landis, frank schleck, hamilton zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
why are euskaltel chasing so hard? could be interesting.
break with 7 minutes
Attn bike lads:
So is Cadels 3rd in the Giro any sort of form guide for TDF?
for a bloke that has not had much racing, third is a strong showing in the giro. the fact that a couple of stages got binned, and he got a mechanical problem on tre cime didn't help him to hold on to second either. get a lobster on him, you'll get decent odds.
this years giro was tough, and evans looked alright at the end of it. nibali is in top form, and the parcours suited uran to a T. neither evans or uran got much help either, they did most of their work in the mountains alone.
wiggins is toast, froome is good i reckon people might have figured sky out. you've got to work super hard on them to break up their rhythm, you could see it in the giro, people trying to change the tempo as much as possible. if froome can roll with it and stay with the attacks he will be in with a shot. sky without rogers, in my opinion, won't be as dangerous. he and porte won the tour for wiggo last year.
qdoodle - you in newy for the long weekend? wanna ride the fernleigh track yeah?
i'll be in new york chief
that's a pretty good excuse
pfft.
If he was any sort of mate he'd come home for the ride.
dude at work rides this in as his daily commute bike
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/4429/imag0588w.jpg
yep, that back wheel is what it looks like
yep, bit of a wanker
bit?
had a guy that i used to work with who went semi-pro/pro for a year. wife supported him but didn't work out. but hell, good on him for chasing the dream. total douche though. was telling me one day how the rear wheel on his bike was worth $8,000 and was slightly asymmetrical to account for the torque coming through the pedal crank. the chain apparently twists the rear wheel slightly and the asymmetry pulls it into symmetry. you probably ride 0.000001% faster, but that probably counts when you are trying to go pro.
like the elliptical crankset you see on some timetrial bikes
wankset more like
does he do triathlons?
it's definitely a triathlon bike so I reckon he probably does - I'd ask him about it but.... you know....
it's got a new zipp front wheel on this morning
probably one of the blokes that hammers down every bike track in the world way too fast, slurping on some energy boosting gels while frantically dodging children and dogs with one hand on his aero bars, the other on his cawk
what's up with the duct tape on the seat post to hold the light on? totally not aero
the duct tape is gone today
would have cost too many seconds on the ride to work
boyz
i have opened up a fantasy TDF league on SBS cycling central, join in
http://www.sbs.com.au/cyclingcentral/home/fantasy
league name: newcastlefootball.net
password: newyboys
bring ur own EPO
year
let me in q-mon please.
like all fantasy competitions i join, that will be the only time i look at it throughout the tour.
Team name: numpties
BMC
Froome
Porte
Evans
Renshaw
Van Garderen
O'Grady
Gerrans
Burghardt
pretty much picked the names i knew, fitted a team around them. :)
done
team name: m8pls
team: saxobank
contador
voeckler
voigt
degenkolb
porte
rogers
turgot
sagan
o'grady
for great justice
I'm doing Tour De Lounge during the tour this year. 1000km on the trainer while watching the tour to raise funds for the Leukaemia Foundation.
http://tourdelounge.gofundraise.com.au/page/fat_lenny
Its going to be mind numbingly boring, but I figure its a good cause, I'll eat and drink less than usual and hopefully I will be fit again at the end of it. When Gabrielle Gate starts talking food and wine I will be pedalling hard to get to the TV to punch him.
I'll have to sign up to the Fantasy TDF League, despite the fact I suck at any form of fantasy league.
Signed up as fat_lenny
Team: Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank
Froome
Van Garderen
Cavendish
Hoogerland
Renshaw
Voecler
Gerrans
Rasmussen
Porte
Team Xrayjets:
Evans
Froome
Porte
Voeckler
Rogers
Kloden
Casar
Chaoufi
Meyer
welcome m8s
porte & rogers proving popular
wonder if they will be doing the business on separate teams this year
yo Q-man.
Why is Contador getting all the big ones from the experts as being the only chance to stop Froome?
Is he back to his best? and is his team any good?
porte
sagan
gerrans
van garderen
hesjedal
tony martin
rogers
jon izagirre
o'grady
astana
we should start a new thread for all fantasy team bollocks
she'll be right. just give mfks a 3 day ban if it bothers you so much.Quote:
Originally Posted by boz-monaut
you know how to cheer me up
come here, give us a cuddle
get ur team in boz
yes and yes, he was brilliant in the vuelta last year - blowing away purito on stage 17 with a withering solo victory. he is still one of the greatest climbers ever, and can attack when others simply can't go with him. see his attack on alp d huez in 2011 when cadel won it, soloing out off the front, he's mental. he got blown out on a couple of stages in the lead up races but he's won all three grand tours remember, he loves this shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
saxo have picked up michael rogers, who was wiggos road captain last year and is a brutally effective leader - he knows all the numbers of what everyone else can do, see what sky did last year, watch the attacks and just wear them down.
that being said, it is a pretty open field for mine - purito, evans, and froome can all win it
quintana is my outside chance
why did nibali bail this year?
he wants to do it in 2014
why not just do it this year?
Usually it is physically impossible to do the Giro and TDF and win both.
The last bloke to do it died prematurely from drugs. So even that achievement has a lot of ???? to it
Most of the leading TDF contenders use the Giro as a training program rather than look to win it or bypass it altogether.
Even Contador won the Giro and couldn't back up and win the TDF that year and that was around the time he got done for drugs.
The Giro and TDF are usually about 6 weeks apart so the recovery and training time isn't there to be in peak form for that long.
Nibali done and won the Giro and will probably have a serious lash at the Vuelta later this year when he should have recovered enough to have a chance. The TDF would have most likely been a bridge too far particularly with this years course requiring certain types of training with its complexities