[James]

Wow! NOT a good start for Der Kieser today, that's got to be one of the worst hits that your moral can take, and it's not even stage 1 yet! (***edit, so yeah, ok, it was stage 1, damn I'm dumb... ***) Jeez...
I have a feeling that within the next week or so, the guy leading the team will be Vino, not Jan. I don't know if that horrible crash yesterday had anything to do with it, I hope for his sake it did, but wow...

It's gonna be a great tour this year I think.
Also, BIG ups to Dave Z. for his incredible ride today! Glad to see a repeat of his Giro stage win...
T-Mobile is gonna wish they'd brought Zabel I think too.
Also, good for Floyd! Great to see my old favorite MTB pro right up there with the top guys, I really hope he has a great race...

So stoked the Tour is finally here!

JJames


*Images from Cyclingnews.com...

 

[chicodude]

and it's not even stage 1 yet!

I thought that was stage one and the prologue was dropped for this year.





Anywho........Jan ain't going to do so well this year, but he is a complete badass now because of the sheer "badass-ness" of his crash

 

[James]

I thought that was stage one and the prologue was dropped for this year.





Anywho........Jan ain't going to do so well this year, but he is a complete badass now because of the sheer "badass-ness" of his crash

D'oh!
Long day @ work.
Me dumb...
Anyway, still sucks for Jan, I stand by at least that statement!

 

[DBR X6 RIDER]

Yeah, he pretty much took out the entire rear window of the team car. Something like that is either going to spark a rider or mess their head up. Curious to see what the cut on his neck looks like.
I'm still shocked that he was passed by Lance. Zabriske must have been just annihilating his pedals to take the stage.

To say the TTT tomorrow isn't huge would be a massive understatement. I think CSC has a legit shot at keeping Zabriske in yellow for a few more days, but will be curious to see what other teams can step it up. We'll know alot more in 6 or so hours.

 

[DRB]

Look no farther than Davis Phinney going thru the rear window of a car and you can see how lucky Ullrich.

 

[Westy]

You always hear about the wind tunnel work done for Lance, "moved a seam on his skin suit and should save 3 seconds" and so on. I wonder how much of Lance's advantage on a TT is actually due to the R&D time he puts in? Do other riders do as much stuff like that?

 

[firetoole]

not to many riders have the resources