Recent content by colmenarejo

this is not ASO's fault. He fell yesterday and today before the cobbles.

Well done Cav!

dumb peloton!

OK, I'll stick my neck on the block and say the break will make it.

Seems like Orica have pegged it at 12 mins

Somebody better start working soon, the gap > 10mins, otherwise Arashiro = Óscar Pereiro :)

I don't know what they'll do, I guess much depends on the rider's style and the weather, but it will be very important to get the right gears and possibly different tires? I'd be thinking of ways to allow the rider to stand because that would be a massive advanatage over a short distance...

Knowing the last 3ks will be very useful but I'm not sure that he will know it, afaik Contador's first ascent to the Bola was for the magazine article, roadies wouldn't normally go up there. Anyway, to help Eze he has to arrive at the base in the lead group which by then will have been whittled...

I rode up the Bola del Mundo yesterday and it could be absolute carnage come Saturday. If the weather stays wet then grip may be a major problem, the surface for the 3k is concrete slabs embedded with pebbles. It was only a little bit damp yesterday and my back wheel spun a few times (and I'm 80...