13/05 - 19/05: Tour of California

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Kinda miss Groenewegen here. LottoNL brought their complete C-team. Wth some young guns as leaders as Powless, De Tier and Kuss

 

[WheelofGear]

This could be the first time Sagan doesn't win a stage (when he participates). Does he have a chance to win stage 3?

On paper, stage 3 looks more like a Yates vs. Bernal battle but Sagan tend to surprise.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Re:

Are to going over the circuit as well in Laguna Seca?

Nobody knows?

 

[DNP-Old]

Re: Re:

Are to going over the circuit as well in Laguna Seca?

Nobody knows?

 

[zlev11]

yep, same finish as 2016. yesterday they finished on the main straight of the Long Beach IndyCar circuit as well.

 

[SKSemtex]

This could be the first time Sagan doesn't win a stage (when he participates). Does he have a chance to win stage 3?

On paper, stage 3 looks more like a Yates vs. Bernal battle but Sagan tend to surprise.

1,1 km 11% ? :surprised: easy peasy

Probably Dylan Teuns can beat him but I doubt about Yates or Bernal

One more thing. Sagan will be fresh after "Sunday riding" tomorrow while for climbers tomorrow is the day D.

 

[krakenKE]

This could be the first time Sagan doesn't win a stage (when he participates). Does he have a chance to win stage 3?

On paper, stage 3 looks more like a Yates vs. Bernal battle but Sagan tend to surprise.

1,1 km 11% ? :surprised: easy peasy

Probably Dylan Teuns can beat him but I doubt about Yates or Bernal

One more thing. Sagan will be fresh after "Sunday riding" tomorrow while for climbers tomorrow is the day D.

I agree that Sagan should be fresh on Tuesday. He managed to win in Laguna Seca in 2016 so he should be able to repeat it if he has any sort of form. If I remember correctly that stage featured same last two climbs as Stage 3 of this edition but I do not recall if the rest of the stage was similar or not.

 

[mojomonkey]

Phil and Paul doing commentary, ads for some George Hincapie ride - those good old days are still rolling in California! Can't be long before official race ambassador Jens Voigt pops on for color commentary

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Anyone got a stream with commentary for me?

 

[ngent41]

http://tracker.amgentourofcalifornia.com/

not sure if that is geo restricted etc, but thats the official web stream

its on tiz as well with commentary, http://tiz-cycling.stream/

 

[Cance > TheRest]

This could be the first time Sagan doesn't win a stage (when he participates). Does he have a chance to win stage 3?

On paper, stage 3 looks more like a Yates vs. Bernal battle but Sagan tend to surprise.

1,1 km 11% ? :surprised: easy peasy

Probably Dylan Teuns can beat him but I doubt about Yates or Bernal

One more thing. Sagan will be fresh after "Sunday riding" tomorrow while for climbers tomorrow is the day D.

I agree that Sagan should be fresh on Tuesday. He managed to win in Laguna Seca in 2016 so he should be able to repeat it if he has any sort of form. If I remember correctly that stage featured same last two climbs as Stage 3 of this edition but I do not recall if the rest of the stage was similar or not.

He had to battle GVA and Alaphilippe for the stage win that year (and made it look easy, may I add), and it's not like the apparent competition is harder than that this year. So yeah, an in-form Sagan should definitely be the favourite for Laguna Seca

 

[GraftPunk]

Powless cooked. Booooo.

 

[May0maniac]

Powless feeling the Rabofail jersey and Morton already dropped in an US stage race, that's a surprise.

 

[May0maniac]

Fabbro looking better than Boswell ATM.

 

[Sestriere]

Yates looks sharp.

 

[GuyIncognito]

Not a bad race to see youngsters rising to the challenge

 

[May0maniac]

Ravasi and Durasek still there, Conci just lost contact.

 

[GuyIncognito]

McNulty, Tolhoek, Guerreiro, Hart, all there.

 

[DNP-Old]

Geoghegan Hart really becoming the trust person of Bernal within Team Sky.

 

[GraftPunk]

Hart is a beast.

 

[DNP-Old]

Vamos Egan, lets go!

 

[luckyboy]

Shame that Bernal is stuck in this Sky train for the forseeable future. He can tear this up from much further than 2km to go

 

[May0maniac]

Jesus Christ, those so called fans are annoying.

 

[Red Rick]

Never thought Tolhoek could do this lol.

 

[mojomonkey]

Counted at least 15 second gap even though they say 5 so far.