Stage 1 ladies and gents
are we rolling!? lets go
Andy once told me
"If I rode for quickstep I would tell people its my nickname. I just love to dance"
ohh andy
Good point, basso used to be helped by a dog. No he’s taken down by one. Oh irony, do you always win?
True fact, Zab dosent wear bib shirts. Just old school shorts. No go impress your friends with that triva.
Thats a turn that will cause problems in the pack
I’m goin to let everyone in on a another little secret. Bike racing is boring if you not in it.
Wow, no cop at that traffic island.
There was a great little prank a rider ataught me growing up. It was a fairly big race in colorado, with a KOM in the first % miles. It was for 1k, so while nobody wanted to throw everything away for it. People still wouldn’t mind a quick 1k. So my teammate clark sheehan attacks at a good spot, gets a gap. And the pack lets him pick up, figuring he’ll stop at the top and let the pack catch him. When we get the top of the climb, what was a 20 second gap must be 2min now, because we can’t see clark. So the rival team goes to the front and starts chasing way to hard for 80miles left. They chase and chase. and still no clark. The team starts blowing up, and guys start going backward. One of the riders who shit the bed and went to the back, comes sprtinting back to the front. He starts screaming "he’s at the back!" You see clark won the KOM then hid behind a tree when the pack when by. As soon as the rival team stopped chasing, Clark attacked and got a 1 min gap almost instantly.
I don’t think Cav is as hated as everyone makes out. Jealous, tired of some of his shit? sure. But not hated? no
Belgian secret service is less than scary. Schmalz could whopp the guys ass.
Can’t wait to wear my new footen shorts out on the ride today
Oh footloose, Why do that to the break?
Footloose has broke lose.
The overhead shot is the best. I like seeing the guys fight for position.
Hanson is convinced he broke his collarbone, yet he’s still racing? he’s making tyler look not to tough.
Bike racing cracks me up. If you didn’t know bike racing at all why would you watch this? It looks like guys just ridding down the road.
20k to go. Since I"m American. I have no idea how far that is. When you cut me I bleed red. THATS HOW AMERICAN I AM!
I swear,If Robbie Mcewen loses, I’ll eat my luch.
Ditto with pettaci
Mullet, still alive and well in the eastern block
my pick for today. cav, farrar, thor in this order. Also, I have a edit button. So I will guess the top 3 correctly no matter what..
Its all coming back
Phil just asked for a moment of scilence for the breakway, did I miss something?
Always a scary part of the race. Everyone wants to be at the front, but nobody want to be ON the front.
5k, omg omg omg
very interesting to see how late the teams are leaving the leadout.
The finish is one a hill?
He didnt even attempt to turn!!!
BET IS OFF BET IS OFF!
yellow is down
WOW
I think floyd caused that crash. I blame floyd
Nice, I like the side by side shot.
Well robbie didnt win so I guess I have to eat my lunch
ok folks. If you have any other questions contact me on twitter at michael_creed
I’ve heard reports that it was Trooper that caused Millar and Basso to crash. The trained Chihuahua was no “motorized doping” rumor.
Who do you like for the win?
If I’m putting money down, its on cav. Who wants a piece of that action?
Where’s all the snarky chatter? Are we mesmerized by Phil’s assessment that Hansen is “getting over that broken collarbone?”
I’ll take Farrar. What’re we betting on?
$5 on a Farrar-Cav exacta box.
Neu, is that your real name? lets do 20!
has there ever been a rider that the whole field just hated? (like Cav is on the way to being)
with 45 k to go it looks like a THOR THOR THOR, finish
so here it is
1 Thor
2 Tyler
3 Oscar.
9 or 10 the Cav.
That’s my real name. Hah, unless OTB wants to get in the TdF game, I don’t have odds on that exacta box.
Will go $20 on Farrar-Cav (either order. Andy, is he good for it?
20 it is. If cav crashes or has a good excuse, then the bet is annulled.
Not a chance.
sneaky fucking russian.
Hansen’s not milking the collarbone for all it’s worth. What a rookie.
looked like a park race
solid gold. If you could bottle this you could sell a million bottles. Hopefully you’d have different size bottles or bottles with different labels or something to make people want to buy even way more bottles than they need.
Know what else is gold? Dudes standing in the road because they can’t get by cuz someone fell in front of them. Who cares if Alexi Podrogi wins a sprint? Let’s look where Lance is standing, and ooo Cancellara is laying there RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. And they’re both not going anywhere!!!! OMG they’re in the ads in magazines ALL THE TIME.
Bummer on Z’s shorts. He must be able to handle some bunching. Or maybe needs #2 on the road. I guess #2 gets ugly with bibs.
Once again this is great, thank you I hope it continues.
how could you get solid gold into a bottle? and if you are using a standard large water bottle, that’s only 22 ounces, which is around $26,646 at the latest price. I think you would have to sell around 37 bottles. I’m an excellent driver.
Who would have guessed there would have been so many crashes leading up to the finish. First some schmuck in white decides to go straight instead of turning right. then about 20 riders back the whole front of the peleton goes down like dominoes completely blocking the road. Then of the 20 or so guys who were in the front and avoided the crash, one lays his bike down and it locks it onto Farrar’s bike. You can see Farrar staying up and trying to kick the bike off of his. He then takes it off his bike and tosses it.
what the hell? Floyd is a common thief who stole millions from people for a defense he knew was a lie, and profited from a book he knew was a lie. “nothing left to lose??!!!” that’s been true for a long time, and is also known by another word “desperate”
IMO floyd isn’t very common. So shit. I just blew your theory to hell.
OK, I just got up (really)–what happened?
I never understand the point of bibs except:
a) sweaty tummy
b) need to get more or less naked to sh1t
This is the best coverage of any sporting event I have ever read. At the end of each Tour it should be compiled into a souvenir book.
Bibs are cozy, regular shorts bind at the waist, panty waist city, yuck. If you collect sweat at your belly you need to lose some weight or do some crunches, my sweat collects at the bush where it can be soaked up properly, keeps things moist for the on the ride quicky if it ever arises, which it hasn’t…
The picture with Ronald McDonald is kinda creepy…
Um, kinda?
Where’s Ronald’s right hand?
Seriously though, podcast this awesomeness and hit mute on Phil n Paul.
is he referring to the gun or the gum?
should have given Cav the heads up that theres a friggen 45 deg. turn coming up. Seriously, the dude looked lost trying to put a shoulder on that rider he was next to. It was like he didnt know what the f*ck was going on. Stapleton comes off like he’s all business but his team structure f’d up a sprint pretty good. Oscar looked pisssed!!