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My inky-dinky parlay deutsch is nicht so gut. Is there anyone who would like to translate these two vids from the Awesome for us? http://www.skoda-velothon-berlin.de/index.php/en/rasender-baer I don't see any related threads here, which is surprising considering these were put online...

As soon as I saw the question, I thought of this bike and said "Cannondale": Though it could be a coincidence, since that wasn't official pro-race gear.

He would if he let Cav suck his wheel for 200k. So what he'd do is drop him early, TT off until he had a several-minute lead, then rest until he had a short lead (no draft and no rest for Cav), then TT off, and so on. Turn it into a 200-km ITT where Cav is working full-bore the whole way and...

I have no doubt he could. Fabs can just take off from the line at top speed. After 1-2 km Cav would be hanging on for dear life, and would be screwed if he fell back even a few inches. One good pop by Cancellara and Cavendish would be battling wind instead of sucking wheel. If he tried to...

"I'd prefer to win Lombardy and Liège than Flanders three times." - F. Cancellara, in CycleSport, August, 2010 Has he made any more predictions for 2011? Again I hope he tries for the hour record. He certainly had the form for it this year, but I haven't seen him talk about it since last...

Andy and Contador would have summited together and marked each other on the descent. The others who broke with Contador would have gained 39 seconds if they still broke, and it wouldn't make a difference, but they'd be pilloried in the press. On the mountaintop finish Schleck would have...

Because he never seems to take advantage of people athletically, he always seems to take advantage of people sneakily. He attacked his own team in 2009, and attacked the MJ in a traditionally neutralized situation in 2010. In 2007 he backed into the win. Personally I think he should have...

What? he shifted from 4th to 3-1/2th and forgot he'd removed his 18.4-tooth cog to save 31 grams? I didn't know SRAM ders could handle fractional gearing. I gotta get me one of those.

You do realize the only reason Contador tried the 2008 Giro and Vuelta is that his entire team was banned from the 2008 Tour for doping. Something he of course never engaged in. No sir. Nuh-uh. No way. Couldn't have. Never.

But that's the tactic. Being at the front gives you more options, more open space around you, and less chance of being caught behind someone else's eff-up or deliberate interference, and it keeps you close if someone you're worried about decides to break. When you're The Man, you need to...

Nobody on Shack has been helping Levi up the hills. Ditto for Saxo and Schleck. Strategy is still in play on this tour. Saving some gas builds advantage for tactical moves. It's not critical yet. If Armstrong isn't injured, he'll make a difference at some point. Still a little knob...

Indurain has lungs the size of weather balloons. He's not really a good benchmark for anything.

Recent interview in CycleSport America (probably also in the regular CycleSport with the funny $-signs in the ads) has Cancellara set on trying for the hour record. Didn't say when, though.

I doubt it. Two-wheeled vehicles are counter-steered, and waiting for the bike to figure out that you leaned your head over is way slower than torquing the handlebars to aim the front wheel outside the line of balance and flick the bike into the lean. And way, way, WAY less stable. A...