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The thing is that following wheels is different on a climb. Wheelsucking on a climb is far more mental, about keeping your opponent in front of you and knowing what change of pace is beyond your physical ability to handle. But if Gerrans can't take a hard pull with 2k to go on a descent and...

Loved it, they did an excellent job of portraying the principal parties pov's on the events. Kochli, in all his sniveling tones and hesistant answers, comes off as a charicature of a second tier cartoon villain. I'd never seen the Lemond/Hinault interview with Hinault saying 'he could...

this is my first thought. armstrong would have been close-ish on the climbs, probably superior in the tt, and would have mind f---ed pantani to death in between.

Ha, agreed. I don't mind extroverts and goofballs being themselves (though I'd love to hear Jens give a candid account of some of the cloaks and daggers stuff he's seen), but i have such a strong Pavlovian response to Phil and Paul that I'm starting to resent Jens out of anticipation of what's...

di luca is clearly spewing falsehoods, he claims to have never used viagra. who does he think he is, cipo?

Hush hush. According to the cyclingnews forum, he went from no one to someone. It's not like in the ONE GIRO STAGE EVERYONE REFERS TO, he was in the break the whole day, attacked the break on the final (10% +) climb, got a major gap on the break and the field, including GC contenders and then...

Does he also Tebow after winning races? It would make an awkward victory salute, but somehow still preferable to pistolero.

actually, i would love to chris enter a cbr masters crit and catch out someone like kayle leogrande ala hincapie on champs elysees. cool blog though, never read it before.

Yeah, it's always fishy when a bodybuilding supplement company builds a cycling team around a few ex-dopers and some other fishy characters. The monster kids (and weisel's team specialized kids) are flat-out fast, and it would be pretty depressing to hear any rumors. That velonews article has...

Levi will jump in the break from the side of the road and solo in for the win. Not really, but does anyone question whether this idea went through his head?

Wiggo threw it away with such insouciant disgust that it's hard not to admire his form. Plus it came to rest against upright, which earns automatic style points. but riis wins. 3 weeks (and probably much longer) of pent up anger all channeled into heaving one poor pinarello as far as possible.

it's a long way from being dead last/DNF at the tour down under to riding comfortably in the group in an ardennes classic. it's also a long way to from there to gt contender, however.

I don't agree with this opinion, but the HTC/2011 worlds Team Britain style of racing isn't the most exciting. Impressive, even virtuosic, but not exciting. weren't people saying a few years ago that gilbert made cycling boring when he was on his tear through every hilly race in cycling?

this is about the only thing that makes p & p tolerable. cycling in hd is >>>>> than just about anything. phil mentioned fab's crash last year in flanders and claimed he was a poor bike handler. not the biggest spartacus fan, but it was so ridiculous i almost threw something at the tv.

this story, and the associated products, might be entirely innocuous, but it's a funny coincidence that one mri's more notable riders is mr ink himself, kayle leogrande. interesting that wiesel races for the specialized masters team, i know a few of the juniors, i would hate to think that any...