Recent content by Buninyong Bunny

I question the wisdom that says that everyone will be super close. Surely Sky and Quick Step will be most movtivated by far, so even though there is nothing else going on that would make big differences, that it itself will be the difference. I will also add Garmin as an important team, simply...

As a Melbourian, I can say that we already have a good muilt-day race in Victoria. The Herald Sun Tour goes over more interesting terrain at a better time of year than the TDU, and it normally results in more interesting racing. Even this years pancake flat version with one dominant team...

I can't figure out why Bonnen always attacks this race as much as he does, but his dominance is well known. I wonder if the TTT to start will kill off the race, with Team Sky holding the ability to anoint the winner. I guess when we know the whole Quick Step team we will know for sure if this is...

Seriously, Gesink it STILL trying to win, why haven't Rabobank put him in the shed for surgery to get ready for 2010?

Well that excatly the thing - he made rogers and hansen look silly...not because he is better than them, but because one of them should have beaten him easily. If you look at riders like Sulzburger and Walker, who dominate locally, get big contacts in Europe, and then disappear for a couple of...

Surely Vansancoli will want to pull it back to increase Bozic chances in the points competition?

That's all great in theory, but the reality is waiting for Evans - which would be quite hard on a descent anyway - would have mainly played into the hand of Sanchez, who had nothing to do with the mechanical anyway...indeed Valverde couldn't really wait for Evans when it would probably mean...

IMO, Evans ITT ability is actually extermely overrated. Sure, before he became a top class GC rider, he was able to beat all comers convincingly, but nowadays he is only as good as the rest of the guys in the disicpline. Indeed if we got the current time gaps into this year ITT I would still put...

You know I think Evans will need to follow every attack made by Gesink and Gunego on the lower slopes today - in order to the get rid of this Caisse train for the Sirrea Nevada. If he lets Caisse do all the chasing than they will be able to conserve there efforts until the last moment...

We may also want to note that Columbia have taken in quite a lot of very young riders, so older riders are automatially going to be pushed out in that process.

oops, just hooked onto the coverage and saw Millar's time after I posted. I had assumed he hadn't finished yet, which was silly of me.

Millar is beating Sanchez half way though...that is interesting. They both look like posting sub 37's and gaining at least half a minute on Vino et al

berty, I was more refering to the fact that Adeialde itself has no real testing hills to test the major hill climbers even if the TDU was held in peak season. I understand that you never are going to get a major battle royale occuring in January, but it can't be a good adversitment for...

I don't believe so, since the name Graeme Brown would mean absolutely nothing to any more than the very small number of cycling fanatics in Australia - so they wouldn't be doing it for the media exporuse. Maybe they are changing goals and just aiming for getting any expourse at all ;)

Having now watched that sprint, I would like to say that Davis is a massive softcock. I mean fair enough Griepel sprinted irregually, but surely Davis could have continued and probably got himself in front of Roelandts. I mean if Hagen was able to stay out in front of Greipel, the sprint must...