Pro Tour/ Euro/Whatever road thread

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*

http://www.steephill.tv/players/youtube/?title=ta-09-st3-last-km&id=NYZ15iIdnKM

that scream after the finish is great.

A double whammy from Eurosports: Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico. Contador was amazingly destroyed today on the final climb - dropped from the break and then caught and dropped by the bunch.

;_; (that this yank has no eurosport)

good on Contador for attacking on the last stage. he must have been ruined.

http://www.steephill.tv/2009/tirreno-adriatico/photos/stage-07/315-PIC11468696.jpg

revenge.

Cavendish has won the Milan-San Remo!

That was so exciting. I didn't think he'd have a chance. I started watching it live on Eurosport as they approached the Cipressa and was surprised to find he was still there. Then it all got a bit split up and he was still in the front bunch of about 60 with Hincapie for company. Then it stayed together on the Poggio despite a couple of little digs and he was nicely placed in about 10th spot as they came into the town. Haussler shot off the front in the sprint and looked to have it sewn up but Cavendish put in a phenomenal burst and took him right on the line (both well clear of the pack). I was jumping up and down shouting 'yes!', while the idiot Eurosport commentators were calling it for Haussler (even though Cavendish was celebrating and Haussler was lying abject on the ground).

"haaaaaaaahhhh fotofinish.....fotofinish!" loooooooooooolz

http://images.gazzetta.it/Media/Foto/2009/03/21/100-Milano-Sanremo-arrivo--346x212.jpg

Is it just me, or does Haussler appear to be twice the size of Cavendish in this photo?

"Kohl also admitted to having been a customer of Humanplasma, a Vienna blood bank."

wasnt humanplasma was a band on those 1981 comps?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2009/apr09/apr01news2

http://www.humanplasma.at/

Two wins for Cavendish and one for Wiggins in the 3 Days of De Panne.

pity i cant watch tour of flanders even though i've got every fucking sports channel on australian pay tv :\

can i watch it on internet anywhere?

it's on eurosport here (http://yahoo.eurosport.co.uk/tvschedule_clng2_day0.shtml), which you might be able to find on http://www.justin.tv/ while it's being broadcast.

THANKING U

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5117566087950548906&postID=1187293647335124967

wow bike riders are more fragile than i thot based on the comments.

(i raced as blake's teammate for a bunch of years when he was a junior- even when he was 15 he went through us lower cats like a hot knife through butter)

it might be my favorite race of the year tomorrow, whos it gonna be?

cancellara

http://nyvelocity.com/files/u18/flanders_flyer1.jpg
http://nyvelocity.com/files/u18/flanders_flyer2_0.jpg

looks fun

lolz at that crash, no way was first guy down making that hole given how fast that swerve was on. the whole thing was pretty sad lookin

Is Heinrich Haussler going to come second in every classic this year?

whew, that move by devolder.

whatta animal

ysi?

Some stuff here

no footage of a 'move'....yow @ that crash, tho

yeah. this is a pretty tight photo imo

http://i43.tinypic.com/154ytjd.jpg

on video you could see the precise moment quinziato dialed it back to avoid blowing up. that picture looks pretty much like that moment--he pulled over to the right as he dropped off.

(how is martijn maaskant on garmin, and for how much longer?)

too bad farrar seems always hurting

^From baot 1:30

Not road related but 2003 Kierin world champ Jobie Dajka found dead

it's a pretty fucking sad story

Ghent Wevelgem - Edvald Boasson-Hagen (who took the Tour of Britain by storm last summer) has just won it in a two-man break.

Which station carries the Tour De France in the states and do they stream it? Should be good watching it at work in the mornings.

i think the channel i watched it on was Versus?? pretty sure. it was at a bar, tho. no idea if it's streamed

it's versus and yes i believe they do stream it

This is good news although it looks like I will be in Europe for Le Grand Depart and be able to watch 3 stages in person. (Cap d'Agde-Perpignan, Girona-Barcelona and the first mountain stage). (Real number of stages may vary due to testing the patience of E w.r.t. chasing cyclists about the french and spanish countryside).

it's pictures like these that make cycling the greatest sport ever:

http://www.velonews.com/files/images/kirchenfleche_0.jpg

nah its video clips like ^^^ at 3:40. "you think YOU play hardball with me against the barriers? no, THIS is hardball!"

The reactions to the crash in the Tour of Turkey are no laughing matter. On Youtube you can see how I seem to intentionally cause a crash. Even Lance Armstrong makes it known that I should be suspended for a long time. A reaction which I fully understand after seeing the images and hearing the accompanying commentary.

Of course I also watched them myself, over and over. It is difficult to see in the view from above, it seems as though I pull him off his bike. However, I am completely boxed in there while being pushed into the barriers on the left and, as a reflex, the one thing I do is to make an ultimate attempt trying to keep him away from me. At that moment the only option, precisely to prevent the crash. I think I then hit a barrier foot with my front wheel and go crashing down immediately, together with Impey.

I feel like shit for having become headline news in this way. As a sportsman, I want to show that I am a different man. This is bugging me. I hope that there is more footage. Perhaps those videos can be viewed side by side and analysed frame by frame. I would give everything to prove that this was not my fault. It was never my intention. Not even in the heat of the battle. I will have to convince everyone that I win my sprints differently. I love this sport. Sport is on the cutting edge. Fair play is part of that in every way. It is never worth going beyond that!

yeah, the blogs are crazy about this---almost certain, myself, that it's an accident. he'd literally have to be crazy to do something like that on purpose

http://cyclocosm.com/2009/04/the-bos-impey-crash/

having handled a few asses while getting pinched, dude is mostly right ^^^^. and what usually happens when push someone away hard is that they automatically lean back to you, or even swerve back into you. so you want to push steadily and not too hard ime.

what im less clear on (and this may be a track thing and the right thing to do) was bos' first touch on impey. he puts his arm around him. ive never seen that done in that situation. he quickly changes to a shoulder snatch and the rest is clear to see.

bos has forgotten 100x more than i'll know about handling a tight sprint, but i have a harder time believing his explanation. to me it looked like he knew he was fucked and wasnt going alone. (by the way, if you ever crash on top of someone--it can be surprisingly soft and easy.)