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Old 07-06-11, 12:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Jay-W
not talking about Tour form obviously.

of course we have to wait until the mountains to see GC riders.
Uh, pretty sure 'Tour form' is the only kind of form Andy has.

Well he did show up for the Ardennes.
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Spoiler:

Contadoosh just hit the deck!
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Lots of crashes... El Pistolero goes down once again... Brajkovic is out for Radioshack.
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Old 07-06-11, 07:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Soloist Assassin
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Contadoosh just hit the deck!
And throws his Specialized to the ground. I wish I could afford to do that with my bike.
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Originally Posted by Da Sherm
And throws his Specialized to the ground. I wish I could afford to do that with my bike.
If someone else gave you a bike, you would treat it that way too.
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Old 07-06-11, 07:39 AM
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Was having streaming problems. What caused the crash?
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Originally Posted by ErichM
Was having streaming problems. What caused the crash?
It's not clear... There is not much footage of any of the crashes...
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trees were in the way.
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It's incredible how these guys crash, lose minutes off the peloton and regain them in no time... Look at Evans yesterday, he had some problems and lost a couple of minutes, then came back to win the stage...
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Looks like Contadork is back in it. He sure is having issues though with this tour though. Starting to remind me of Lance's last tour.
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WTH was that motorcycle doing there... The driver got the itch of being part of the peloton??
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Originally Posted by Shuagster
It's incredible how these guys crash, lose minutes off the peloton and regain them in no time... Look at Evans yesterday, he had some problems and lost a couple of minutes, then came back to win the stage...

Being with others most certainly helps. That being said, I don't get how these break away groups don't fare better than they do. The peloton will almost always catch them it seems. Almost like they break away too early in the stage
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Originally Posted by Shuagster
WTH was that motorcycle doing there... The driver got the itch of being part of the peloton??
It's much easier to be a part of that group of riders on a motorcycle than actually training for the TdF
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Originally Posted by ravenmore
Looks like Contadork is back in it. He sure is having issues though with this tour though. Starting to remind me of Lance's last tour.
With any luck maybe this will be Contadoosh's last tour. Wouldn't that be grand.
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Originally Posted by Da Sherm
Being with others most certainly helps. That being said, I don't get how these break away groups don't fare better than they do. The peloton will almost always catch them it seems. Almost like they break away too early in the stage
Yeah, looks like this one will get caught pretty early on...
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Originally Posted by surgeonstone
Funny s-p-a-z was edited.
I'd bet those that have epilepsy, MS, Parkinson's, etc. would understand.
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Originally Posted by Da Sherm
It's much easier to be a part of that group of riders on a motorcycle than actually training for the TdF
Unless you are riding up Mt. Zonocolon. I seem to remember motorcycles blowing up in the Giro trying to reach the summit this year, as the cyclists rode on past.
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Uh, pretty sure 'Tour form' is the only kind of form Andy has.
That's all you need.
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Contadoosh?

This is why it was smart when the mods nuked all the freaking pro cycling threads to the 217. Idiotic.
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Contadoosh?

This is why it was smart when the mods nuked all the freaking pro cycling threads to the 217. Idiotic.

Apparently some people cannot appreciate the pure genius that is PCAD. Actually I confused it. It is Cavendoosh, and Contadoper. My bad.

So what about that intermediate sprint? While I like Boonen, and his coke binging ways that sprint was ugly, and he should be relegated. Especially after Thor was relegated a few days back.
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Never mind looks like he went down, and broke his collar bone. WTF, is this a bike race, or a demolition derby?
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And unfortunately I think there are more crashes in the near future...
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Originally Posted by Soloist Assassin
Never mind looks like he went down, and broke his collar bone. WTF, is this a bike race, or a demolition derby?
A little from column A a little from column B
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Originally Posted by Soloist Assassin
Never mind looks like he went down, and broke his collar bone. WTF, is this a bike race, or a demolition derby?
I think of the sadistic course designers sitting in their nice air-conditioned trailer or tent at the finish watching the pain out on the road cackling in sheer delight...
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There we go, now we have some breakaway action closer to the end
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