Pro Tour/ Euro/Whatever road thread

haa

that's because you don't race anymore!

i kill on the bike path tho

maybe ill try to shoulder some granny into cherry creek then

Always wondered where they got those small cans of coke on HC mountain passes from.

Oh wait, that was Coca Cola.

The FIX isssss in...

and now the "counter" knows the score.

The reporter asked who is the biggest wheel-sucker, Leipheimer or Cadel Evans?

“Uff, mmm, the truth is, I wouldn’t know what to say …,” Contador said, leaving it with a smile.

kinda of douchey way to say thanks for the memories

Did anybody else watch the Tour of Britain? There's a young rider for the Columbia team called Edvald Boasson Hagen who looks very useful. He won three stages, the most dramatic being his first win which was oddly misreported on the site that Hunter linked to above. They said "...As the remaining nine escapes were about to be caught with around 3km to go, Boasson Hagen jumped, taking Ermeti away with him onto the uphill section leading to Potteries Way, with the peloton in hot pursuit. The two swept down the brief section of by-pass before turning on to the final few hundred meters of uphill to the finish line. As Ermeti led them to the line, Boasson Hagen came the long way round him, pipping him at the line to take his first Tour of Britain stage victory."

It was actually much more exciting than that. It was Ermeti who had leapt clear of the break of 9 with a few miles to go and Lloyd who came with him. These two opened up what looked like a winning gap over the rest of the break. Meanwhile the bunch were bearing down on the break, but were still so far behind the leading two that this wasn't being shown on TV. Ermeti got rid of Lloyd with a kilometre to go and looked absolutely certain to win alone - he had a good 100m lead over Lloyd and the rest were nowhere in sight. Right in the final few seconds Boasson Hagen (who had jumped out of the break just before the break got caught by the bunch) appeared from nowhere, went straight past Lloyd, then caught and passed Ermeti on the final bend about 10m from the line, with the bunch suddenly steaming in and leaving Lloyd in 9th.

lol it's pretty sweet that Armstrong is going to ride the Tour Down Under next year. Even though it's in fucking South Australia..

"I've been off the bike for three years and next summer it will be almost four years. With that is also the fact that I'll be almost 38 years-old at the start of the 2009 Tour, so I don't know," he said about his chances. "I will try and be as prepared as possible. I don't know if that equals victory."

sif he won't be shattered if he doesnt win

Anyone watching the worlds?

I've reading about it. They've been talking up the Australian lad who came third in the u23 tt for a while, good on him.

Emma Pooley could only manage 8th in the TT after and olympic silver and decided not to race cavendish saying he was too tired after the tour of missouri, so British hopes are not great.

Spaniards will prob own everyone again :D

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Sport/Pix/pictures/2008/09/27/NicoleCooke460
Great win for Cooke on Saturday

the only bit of it I saw was the last 10k or so of the women's race and it was awesome. I really good tactical battle with an excellent result at the end of it.

She's a total freak

she is a pro cyclist so of course she is a freak, it is in the job description.

Armstrong looks fit

http://i35.tinypic.com/dwe7fc.jpg

Schumacher pops. Like, one of the least surprising positives of the year.

Piepoli was pretty much a given as well.

Is Frank Schleck going to be next?

i already had piepoli as positive

lol

I didn't pick Schleck to be positive

O_o

Drug Testing Laws bent to allow for Armstrong's Return:

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/cycling/news/story?id=3632327&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines

I didn't pick Schleck to be positive

well, not that particular schleck.

when they stopped schleck pere in july i figured that there had been a tip-off from the vampires regarding abnormal values of some kind.

of course no schleck has tested positive yet anyway. unless im behind in the news

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/7668224.stm

Now Old King (of the Mountains) Kohl has been caught too.

wheeeeeee! lets kick cycling out of the olympics.

yeah that tt LOHL pulled was ridiculous in retrospect.

US National Team member Taylor Phinney shattered the American national record in the men's 4,000m individual pursuit on Friday at the UCI Track World Cup in Denmark. Phinney, clocked a time of 4:15.223 in the qualifying round, surpassing the previous mark of 4:19.800 set by Mariano Friedick in 1996.

Currently, the Olympic record stands at 4:15.031, set by Great Britain's Bradley Wiggins last year in Beijing, while the world record is 4:11.114 – a mark set by Great Britain's Chris Boardman in 1996 using an aerodynamic position now banned by the UCI.

how good will he be

A year ago, the kid didn't know the individual pursuit from Trivial Pursuit. But Connie explained it to him -- she's a former world champion in the discipline -- and he decided to give it a whirl. He won the U.S. national championship. In his first race. His fourth race was a World Cup event in Carson, Calif. He won. He qualified for the Olympics, then set a junior world record in the 3,000-meter pursuit.

^^^^^^ O_O

http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/2009/02/019590.html

lance's TT bike got stolen:

http://twitpic.com/1i8t1

http://www.velonews.com/article/87850/lance-armstrong-trek-staffers-report-that-astana-time-trial

looked pretty grim out there today

some more cool photos: http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/2009/02/019642.html

^^^

HI IT'S ME LEVI... LATER BRO!

Kimmage vs Lance

cav again, apparently!

http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/tourracesm/tourrace16.jpg

15 mile TT today through Solvang which is like this "Little Copenhagen" of the Central Coast of California.

basso = out (knee into bar)
lance is ready to go atm

http://blog.trainingpeaks.com/2009/02/

Aw no, poor Dave (from Twitter):

dzabriskie My house was broken into while at TOC. They took everything, a lot of bikes,cars, and you name it they got it.

dzabriskie If anyone out there sees anything you think might be mine, let me know. Thanks...DZ

http://www.velonews.com/article/89159/vande-velde-wins-stage-4-chavanel-retains-overall-lead

well its the first week of march, but thats a beautiful win

any win where you are alone in the picture is beautiful

It was fantastic following that stage live on cyclingnews.com! And since I follow VDV's Twitter too it felt like a friend was winning :)

ive been waiting for a win from farrar like forever. a guy i knew who raced with farrar coming up always said he was the best he ever saw. for whatever thats worth.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2009/mar09/tirreno09/index.php?id=/photos/2009/mar09/tirreno09/tirreno093/PIC10831673

hah *corna*

al capone charged with tax evasion.

I <3 Ivan Basso

http://road.cc/content/news/27304-remember-your-first-bike-ivan-basso-does-and-he-wants-his-back

Mario Cipollini thinks the current peleton is full of girly men.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/cipollini-decries-modern-cyclings-lack-of-machismo