2011 Tour de France, Stage 10: Aurillac - Carmaux, 158 km

[dlwssonic]

Great, Thor can lead out Adam Blythe and Kristoff.

Thor and blythe will have to bow down to the almighty TGAK

 

[spalco]

lol seriously thor. I wont really like that as they already have ballan or hincapie for the cobbled classics and thor wheelsucks for life.
he isnt getting any younger anyway.

lol, whut? Hushovd is any DS's dream - nice guy, versatile and strong, you would have to be insane not to want him on your team.

 

[Jamsque]

Farrar dropped before Cav! His form has not seemed great since he won his stage.

 

[sublimit]

Rumour that the driver of the car which hit Johnny was Nicole from the Renault Clio ad.

Lol yeah, the equivalent of a reckless white van man driver but wearing a dress and high heels.

 

[just some guy]

lol, whut? Hushovd is any DS's dream - nice guy, versatile and strong, you would have to be insane not to want him on your team.

And older and a great lead out guy for the kids and Ballan will not be riding next year I would bet

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Farrar dropped before Cav! His form has not seemed great since he won his stage.

too small base after not training for a month after WW died. He then trained hard to be in shape, but the base form is gone

 

[MartinGT]

Ive just take this from another forum I go on. They were saying the wattages that are being produced today was silly and:

I've heard that on a flat stage if you stay in the peloton you only output an average of ~80 watts. So nearly any club cyclist could comfortably stay in the bunch.

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Morale must be very high in BMC - Cadel has never had that before - interesting . . ..

 

[VeloCity]

lol seriously thor. I wont really like that as they already have ballan or hincapie for the cobbled classics and thor wheelsucks for life.

Hincapie's retiring at the end of this season, no? And after all the troubles, I'd be surprised if Ballan was still racing with BMC next season.

 

[just some guy]

Hincapie's retiring at the end of this season, no?

No riding 2012

 

[Archibald]

The gap keeps on coming down, with HTC-Highroad pulling the peloton along, followed by BMC.

wtf for?? madness, the should let the other sprint teams do this. They really will run out of steam well before the end...

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Well the race is going exactly how the tea-leaves predicted . .. .

 

[Ferminal]

Any DNFs so far today?

 

[just some guy]

wtf for?? madness, the should let the other sprint teams do this. They really will run out of steam well before the end...

Exactly being dumb now - you can hear ACF screaming at the TV

 

[just some guy]

Any DNFs so far today?

Not that I have seen

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Farrar odds - 35:1 from 15:1

 

[Jamsque]

Ive just take this from another forum I go on. They were saying the wattages that are being produced today was silly and:

That is kind of like the Cavendish vs Cancellara thread we had a while ago. In theory, yes. If you had a straight, wide, flat road, and you let a club rider sit in the middle of the pack while it slowly sped up to 45/50kmph then they could probably hang on for a good few hours. If, however, you did that on a real course with things like corners and small rolling hills, the club cyclist would be burned off in a matter of minutes.

 

[AussieGoddess]

Love Hoogerlands bike!!!

 

[Fight.The.Power]

If I was Director Sportif of HTC i would not want to catch the break until after this final CAT 4

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Ferminal - I think the title of 'moderator' implies you are draconian. People do need to realise your authority of course but maybe a title of 'Guru' or something similar would be a bit fluffier ??

 

[momomomo]

lol seriously thor. I wont really like that as they already have ballan or hincapie for the cobbled classics and thor wheelsucks for life.
he isnt getting any younger anyway.

Can you please provide any visual documentation of his wheelsucking? Not this years P-R as he was locked down by his own team...

 

[Eyeballs Out]

So assuming this finishes in a bunch sprint with all the sprinters including Cavendish in there ... if you're Omega Pharma Lotto .... do you have Greipel leading out Gilbert or do you let Greipel do his own sprint ?

Personally I'd let Greipel do his own thing

 

[AussieGoddess]

Why are they talking about dropping pettachi? He can climb pretty well as he proved in the giro this year

 

[spalco]

If Cavendish is up there in the end it could be a pointless question, but I think Greipel is the better bet.

 

[El Pistolero]

Lol, 34% of the peopel who voted on the Sporza poll think Evans will win the Tour. Some people are going to be sooo disappointed on Thursday.