Bike madmanRIP.
― my stomach is full of anger. and pie. (Hunt3r), Friday, 24 September 2010 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
The race was only 130km long and Italy fielded by far the biggest and strongest team in the race, but for Pozzato victory was an important signal to their rivals and a moral booster for everyone in the Italian team. The Italian riders rode the 70km from their hotel to the start and then rode back again, to complete a long but very successful day in the saddle.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/herald-sun-world-cycling-classic-ballarat-ne/elite-u23-men/results
ha shasta level mileage
― my stomach is full of anger. and pie. (Hunt3r), Sunday, 26 September 2010 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Edward,
I am tentatively down for the SF stage and maybe an LA stage depending on work schedule.
Huntr3,
For the record: 270km is about 35km longer than I have ever ventured in one go.
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
still time, one more training ride left shasta
― my stomach is full of anger. and pie. (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
phinney, wow. never seen anyone do the aero tuck down over the top tube on a TT bike before!
watching bike racing in daylight hours is a nice change. i am gonna go down there for the l337 TT tomorrow, perhaps i'll take some 'happy snaps'
― astronomy broheems (haitch), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
wish i was in geelong checking this out tbqh
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i didnt ride in geelong, but i almost remember a better than satisfactory cellar door marathon on bellarine peninsula! (complete with accidental drunken run in w/ a penned emu)
― my stomach is full of anger. and pie. (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 04:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Contador claims positive test for Clenbuterol due to food contamination. lol
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Alberto Contador is affected by a doping control at the last Tour de France on July 21, where it was found the substance clenbuterol.
From the time of the first communication from the UCI, August 24, Alberto Contador alleged food contamination as the only possible explanation of what happened and has put it in the hands of the cycling authorities, in the confidence that they can clarify this very serious problem, which is now made public.
The experts consulted so far have agreed also that this is a food contamination case, especially considering the number of tests passed by Alberto Contador during the Tour de France, making it possible to define precisely both the time the emergence of the substance as the tiny amount detected, ruling out any other source or intentionality.
Alberto Contador will offer today, 30 September, at 12.00 hours, a Press Conference at Hotel Las Artes in Pinto (Paseo de las Artes, n ยบ 15), in order to give his version of what happened to the public.
Read more: http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/5836/Alberto-Contador-positive-for-clenbuterol-at-Tour-de-France-team-claiming-food-contamination.aspx#ixzz10xwgYLw6
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Watching worlds TT on jp stream, commentators are horrible:
http://www.justin.tv/d/zura929#/w/428158992/2
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 30 September 2010 05:47 (thirteen years ago) link
are they austrayan commentators? If it's mike fucking tomalaris then yes it would defs be horrible..
― yuoowemeone, Thursday, 30 September 2010 05:49 (thirteen years ago) link
worse, clueless jp dorks with very little cycling background apparently.
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 30 September 2010 06:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Top 10:
1 CANCELLARA 2 MILLAR 3 MARTIN 4 PORTE5 ROGERS6 MOERENHOUT 7 SANCHEZ8 ZABRISKIE 9 BODNAR10 LARSSON
― naus, Thursday, 30 September 2010 09:26 (thirteen years ago) link
awes top ten
― yuoowemeone, Thursday, 30 September 2010 09:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Porte is a hero
Now Mosquera and Garcia busted for doping in the Vuelta:http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/501502/mosquera-and-garcia-positive-at-vuelta.html
― Running the Gantelope (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 30 September 2010 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
thought i heard someone down there saying contador had gone pos, lolol
coincidentally here is spain's ll cool sanchez, possibly my one good photo:
http://i55.tinypic.com/2usajxd.jpg
― astronomy broheems (haitch), Friday, 1 October 2010 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
nice snap!
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Friday, 1 October 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i got kinda caught up with cheering them all on to take properly good pics - lots of pro photographers around there in the way too.
i did get a few that aren't quite as exciting, here's dave z:
http://i52.tinypic.com/2i6yq1x.jpg
― astronomy broheems (haitch), Friday, 1 October 2010 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
millar just leaving start ramp:
http://i52.tinypic.com/2mr787l.jpg
― astronomy broheems (haitch), Friday, 1 October 2010 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
martin
http://i55.tinypic.com/9posgi.jpg
fabian - wish i'd clicked a fraction later, awesome to see him in full flight
http://i55.tinypic.com/28ldemt.jpg
― astronomy broheems (haitch), Friday, 1 October 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
not a fan of the sky kits, but these union jack kits are rad.
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Friday, 1 October 2010 05:42 (thirteen years ago) link
TayPhin is first racer to podium both events at worlds!?!?!
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Friday, 1 October 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Kinda digging this bike:http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/uci-road-world-championships-cm/under-23-men-road-race/photos/143683
Would look dope in white though. :-P
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Friday, 1 October 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i thot one article said he was the 6th racer to do that? xpost
― my stomach is full of anger. and pie. (Hunt3r), Friday, 1 October 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry, first U23 rider.
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Friday, 1 October 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
GOD OF THUNDER
!!!!
― the brostep hump (haitch), Sunday, 3 October 2010 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link
<3
― yuoowemeone, Sunday, 3 October 2010 06:55 (thirteen years ago) link
v exciting finish
Just watched it. I thought Evans was fantastic.
― Running the Gantelope (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 3 October 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
THOR!!!
(just catching up now)
(idiot BBC commentators aided by idiot aussie OB team managed to miss Gilbert being caught)
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 3 October 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
A good comment piece on the Contador clenbuterol thing
― Running the Gantelope (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Amgen Tour of California stage cities announced: http://www.amgentourofcalifornia.com/Route/stages.html
I'll definitely be at the stages within driving range (Solvang, Baldy, Thousand Oaks).
― sous les paves, Thursday, 7 October 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
the funniest thing is the Leipheimer holds a Gran Fondo to help Santa Rosa raise $175k to secure Santa Rosa as a stage in the tour.
registration alone for the event totals $680k which is massive.
so i was quite surprised to see the tour skip Santa Rosa this year, where is that money going exactly?
no sf stage, closest thing is livermore to san jose (no thanks).
are you in the 805 sous les paves?
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 7 October 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I have put thursday through sunday in my calendar and currently flights into Santa Barbara and out of Burbank look reasonable. Might book this on payday.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 7 October 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Question: Is it possible to do this European style and camp out beside the road, at least on the mountain stages?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 7 October 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Of the three SoCal stages, the only mountain stage is the Claremont to Mt. Baldy stage, which appears to be a HC TT as that is only about 12 miles long. That is a pretty remote area so they will more than likely allow camping but I can't guarantee that. Solvang is will be the site of the ITT, leaving the Santa Clarita - Thousand Oaks finale the only proper road stage. There are a couple hills on that route (I assume they'll head out toward the coast along the 126 and then cut through either Moorpark, Fillmore or Santa Rosa Valley to get to TO) but nothing too dramatic.
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 7 October 2010 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm figuring on a nice long weekend of good food, good wine with occasional bursts of cycling. Proper TdF style.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 7 October 2010 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, well, this area is a bit of step down culinarily from France but there is decent wine to be had.
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 7 October 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
step up from Pittsburgh, step up.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 7 October 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Quite frankly I crave the novelty of Trader Joe's two buck chuck and a salad without french fries in.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 7 October 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I bought an amazing bottle of wine in Solvang about 5 years ago. Sorry, that's not much help, is it.
― Mark C, Thursday, 7 October 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Levi has gotta be half happy / sad with the route. On one hand Santa Rosa gets punked, on the other, the course looks very much like it was designed to get Levi the jersey again. Looks like the strategy will be: 1) Win Solvang TT, 2) cover attacks on Baldy the next day, 3) win.
xxp shasta: I'm in North San Diego County so it'll be a long drive, but doable nonetheless.
― sous les paves, Friday, 8 October 2010 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Nice. I spent 3 years in North SD County close to 20 years ago.
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Friday, 8 October 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
when i was growing up, my stepdad would go to solvang to ride in these centurieshttp://www.bikescor.com/solvang/ha, this looks kinda like shastahttp://www.bikescor.com/solvang/images/century-rider5.jpg
went up to santa ynez last year to wine taste and ate at this restaurant. it was pretty amazing.http://www.ballardinn.com/
― jaxon, Friday, 8 October 2010 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Loved the Commonwealth Games road race (men's) - anyone else see it? No spoilerz just in case.
― Mark C, Sunday, 10 October 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Was at the in-laws' this weekend, so I saw about ten minutes of the road race on a TV in a giant Tesco's. I saw Millar in a small leading group and Cavendish leading some others up to them, but frustratingly there was no information on how much further they had to race so I had to call it a day there (otherwise my wife might have become frustrated if I stayed in the supermarket for three hours).
― Running the Gantelope (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 10 October 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i missed it - was entertaining the parents at that point of the evening instead!
― the brostep hump (haitch), Sunday, 10 October 2010 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
local paper has gone with 'alby beats hot dogs to take gold' as the headline. he was looking pretty out of shape earlier in the year, but jeez!
― the brostep hump (haitch), Sunday, 10 October 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ that headline
― yuoowemeone, Monday, 11 October 2010 06:45 (thirteen years ago) link