13/05 - 19/05: Tour of California

[Cance > TheRest]

That's good news, if Tejay can keep it up

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Re:

Egan at 48s.

Then he is losing his jersey to Van Garderen. That will make the final hard stage fun

 

[mojomonkey]

Tejay in at 40:47 - new 1st

 

[70kmph]

TJVG ! whippin boy

 

[Bot. Sky_Bot]

@Dekker

"You are..", go on, welcome.
Please, focus on Saturday and next Thu-Sat.
EoT. Thank you.

 

[GraftPunk]

Yikes, I guess Bernal can kiss the jersey goodbye today.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Yates is going to catch Tolhoek, and that while Yates is not even doing a great TT

 

[DNP-Old]

Re: Re:

Egan at 48s.

Then he is losing his jersey to Van Garderen. That will make the final hard stage fun

The talk of Egan being some second coming of Leipheimer in the TT can quiet down for a while too.

 

[May0maniac]

The final Mountain stage should suit TJVG more than the MTF, he's good on moderate gradients at altitude.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Re: Re:

Egan at 48s.

Then he is losing his jersey to Van Garderen. That will make the final hard stage fun

The talk of Egan being some second coming of Leipheimer in the TT can quiet down for a while too.

Why Leipheimer?

 

[GraftPunk]

Looks like a hard reshuffle of GC

 

[Red Rick]

With such a long ITT, it was pretty dumb of Sky to not blow up the MTF earlier.

 

[DNP-Old]

Re: Re:

Egan at 48s.

Then he is losing his jersey to Van Garderen. That will make the final hard stage fun

The talk of Egan being some second coming of Leipheimer in the TT can quiet down for a while too.

Why Leipheimer?

He was an alright timetrialist in back in the day.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Re: Re:

Egan at 48s.

Then he is losing his jersey to Van Garderen. That will make the final hard stage fun

The talk of Egan being some second coming of Leipheimer in the TT can quiet down for a while too.

It's still a good TT of him relative to Majka and Yates

 

[DNP-Old]

Dani Martinez 10th! He's having an extremely good season.

 

[Sestriere]

Re:

With such a long ITT, it was pretty dumb of Sky to not blow up the MTF earlier.

Tao was riding really hard early on, that's why there weren't any attacks. Bernal was 40s faster than Alaphilippe in 2016.

 

[DNP-Old]

Re: Re:

Egan at 48s.

Then he is losing his jersey to Van Garderen. That will make the final hard stage fun

The talk of Egan being some second coming of Leipheimer in the TT can quiet down for a while too.

It's still a good TT of him relative to Majka and Yates

It is, it really is. Only his second time making use of his new position, materials, etc in competition as well.

 

[perico]

It’s been years since TJVG has ridden this strong in a TT.

 

[GraftPunk]

Dang

 

[More Strides than Rides]

There we have it.

 

[webvan]

TVG shows who's boss ! So maybe he is going to win a WT stage race before the TDF after all.
23" isn't a lot though but there's nothing very steep left so he can probably hang on...

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Nice win for Tejay. It clearly means a lot to him

 

[70kmph]

TJ can win the race

 

[Red Rick]

Re: Re:

With such a long ITT, it was pretty dumb of Sky to not blow up the MTF earlier.

Tao was riding really hard early on, that's why there weren't any attacks. Bernal was 40s faster than Alaphilippe in 2016.

Riding tempo until 2km to go doesn't create the big gaps typically. Riding way too hard and have everyone explode early one does.

That's why some uniclimb stages that have insane pace in the first few climbs lead to insane time differences.

 

[More Strides than Rides]

Re:

TVG shows who's boss ! So maybe he is going to win a WT stage race before the TDF after all.
23" isn't a lot though but there's nothing very steep left so he can probably hang on...

But 10 seconds on the line for the winner, Bernal only needs a little bit to get it back.