the duct tape is gone today
would have cost too many seconds on the ride to work
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
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?
we should start a new thread for all fantasy team bollocks
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.
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
he wants to do it in 2014
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