Tour Day Cali 2008
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Additional thoughts I forgot to mention:
High Road has the lamest team kit.
They need to show tattoo dude Clinger more
High Road has the lamest team kit.
They need to show tattoo dude Clinger more
Hell yeah.
Plus, "High Road" for a team that had serious doping issues last year? Riiiigh.
Hahaha, funny, I was thinking the high road kit came out looking like a lame-ass retro Zoom t-shirt from the 70's.
Would have been sweet to see Hincapie take the stage and maybe the jersey but it looked like he just doesn't have the form yet.
Would have been sweet to see Hincapie take the stage and maybe the jersey but it looked like he just doesn't have the form yet.
Yeah, and 7 hours in the saddle no less!
Caught the from the second group on whizzing by by commanding my carpool to drive the wrong way, then jumping out of the car and sprinting down the street in work clothes + backpack in the rain. Then ran a mile home (in the rain of course). Best end of a day ever. Thought there was no way I was going to catch any of it, but got a call that they were coming into town. The section of coast they rode is freakin' miserable in wet weather, but it's a great ride otherwise.
Very cool!
Guys were dropping out from hypothermia.
I've gotten caught out in the cold/wet a few times. I now keep a folded up piece of wax paper in my saddle bag. Place it under your jersey and it can keep the wind from tearing you apart even when wet.
I've gotten caught out in the cold/wet a few times. I now keep a folded up piece of wax paper in my saddle bag. Place it under your jersey and it can keep the wind from tearing you apart even when wet.
Great idea.
For me tho, I have to carry everything for possible instantly changing conditions.
As for yesterday, if memory servers correctly, the winner would take his jacket OFF in windier conditions to reduce drag. Talk about willingness to suffer. gzus.
What a crappy weather race! I hate riding in wet shorts, let alone for 7 hours.
About every other year or so I do a century ride from Carmel to Cambria. (For those who don't know, that is most of the really tasty parts of yesterday's stage.) It is truly one the sweetest stretches of asphalt anywhere.
Interesting little story I came across. I thought you guys would enjoy it.
http://forum.slowtwitch.com/Slowtwitch_Forums_C1/Triathlon_Forum_F1/Crazy_ToC_Story%3A_I_Finally_own_a_Zipp_Wheel%85_P1678871/
http://forum.slowtwitch.com/Slowtwitch_Forums_C1/Triathlon_Forum_F1/Crazy_ToC_Story%3A_I_Finally_own_a_Zipp_Wheel%85_P1678871/
Conditions are usually very stable here but I did do a long climb once and the temp went from 75 to 40 at the top.
yikes!
they weren't bare legged. they had sports balm or something like it on their legs. even if they had leg warmers on.
Congrats to Levi! He really smoked 'em in the time trial. I guess maybe he knew he could uncork a huge TT and for that reason didn't attack so hard in that climbing stage. Pretty risky but it worked eh?
And it was great to see Hincapie get the stage win, especially after Cavendish's relegation.
And it was great to see Hincapie get the stage win, especially after Cavendish's relegation.
Great weekend of racing. I was uber impressed with Zirbel even though it just took some solid effort from Hincapie to chase him. Still, that guy gave it his all and I love to see that.
Screw Levi. Don't get me wrong, he is a nice guy and a great rider but he is boring. He will always just sit on someone elses wheel, a smart way to ride but no fun to watch. I want to be entertained, I want to see a guy who takes chances win.
Um......I normally keep up with all this stuff, but I didn't read up on jack in the offseason.
The last I heard last year was that Hincapie signed with T-mobile.
So, is High Road the new name of the old T-mobile team?
Irony x 10 if it is.
The last I heard last year was that Hincapie signed with T-mobile.
So, is High Road the new name of the old T-mobile team?
Irony x 10 if it is.
Like David Millar's aggressive move that almost took Astana by surprise?!
Yup, Levi's great at defending, so the key is to get a lead that he can't overcome in the TT and then sit on his wheel
Does anyone else miss the TTT in TdF?
Yes, it's basically the same team. High road my ass.Um......I normally keep up with all this stuff, but I didn't read up on jack in the offseason.
The last I heard last year was that Hincapie signed with T-mobile.
So, is High Road the new name of the old T-mobile team?
Irony x 10 if it is.
Anybody remember that interview from the Tour where he's all "attacking really isn't my style, blah blah," meanwhile Contador was jumping at every move by the Chicken...
They need to clone Eddie Merkx. Never seen him race of course but the stories sound good. He would be leading a stage race with a good margin and would go out on 70 mile solo breakaways simply because he could.
I agree that Levi's style is not that entertaining. I've been saying for years that the guy needs to be more aggressive and would win more races if he took more chances. Still, gotta give the guy credit for steadily improving each year. At the end of the day a win is a win. He doesn't have Lance's 1-2 punch of attacking in the hills AND riding great TT's, but few people do. If he can continue to hang in the hills and do the impressive TT's, he'll be up there in every stage race they let him enter.
Didn't he actually say that during last year's tour?
I remember him saying that he does not have the acceleration like guys like Lance and Basso, and climbs better at a steady tempo.
Ulrich was the king of this though, always powering away in the saddle.
Has he been getting stronger or does he just now have a stronger team to sit behind?
Paris-Nice is on Mach 9 @4PM ETand 16th @3PMET
I am not his biggest fan but I don't think that's really fair. He wasn't following anyone when he spanked the field in the TT was he? He rode away from Cancellara the day before in the hills, and then crushed him in the TT - I think that's pretty good evidence that he is getting stronger. And following someone up a climb is not like getting pulled on the flats. There is much less advantage when drafting at slower speeds.
I was thinking more about his TDF results. As far as the TOC he was hands down the best rider there, it is his race, he really prepares for it.
Hell, he lives so close that on one stage, he could've gone home for a quickie and still kept pace.
Living there has to be a serious advantage.
Also, serious props to Gov. Schwarznegger for his support. Plus, the dude can ski as shown in the tourism commercials.
From Bike Snob NYC's blog on the Let Levi Ride campaign
Hey, he wasn't sitting on wheels in the TT
Yesterday was sweet. We rode 35ish miles to the race start, checked some stuff out, saw Boonen walking along, then we set rode the first 8 miles of the course. We stopped on a climb to watch them go by, then rode an alternate route to the finish(without as much climbing), and got there in time to see them come into Pasadena, and partied in the our team RV.
Kinda funny, but when we wer riding the course, people were cheering us along...I wondered if they thought we were a break or something.
What's Mach 9?
Typo? March 9th?