2011 Tour of Utah 2.1 August 9-14

[Benotti69]

It seems like Gobernacion did very well today. Aside from getting the win, Radio Shack disintegrated. I heard that two Shack riders were eliminated, but cyclingnews shows them as finishing thirty minutes down. Were the rules bent to keep them in the race?

Probably for the first time ever i saw a team car being allowed to go to the front of the peloton to its riders, none other than the RS car. within the rules?

 

[hrotha]

http://www.tourofutah.com/images/results_stage4.pdf

It's not the first time CN doesn't mark HD'd riders in any way. Maybe you guys should wait to see if those four guys start today before throwing accusations.

 

[Ferminal]

What time does the coverage start? Might wake up for this epic MTF.

 

[jsem94]

The coverage starts in 2hrs 11min I believe.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Race and coverage both start at 11am local time.

Here is the anticipated time table for the stage:

http://www.tourofutah.com/images/stories/stage 5 timetable.pdf

 

[Boeing]

Good race. following the results here is it amazing the number of great bike riders there are all over the world this year. A lot of fit fit guys out there. I dont mean this to be a generic statement. But there are are so many so called no names just pinning it. Wow

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Race has started.

Already strung out in a single line. This is going to be a race!

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Looks like Hinapie driving an attempt to get a break. Peloton is having none of it.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

This part is one of the most popular winter-time riding routes. We ride this all the time.

Lots of climbing options, though most of them are limited because of snow in the winter.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Peloton still refusing to let anything go.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

They will take a left here, a quick downhill, then a 3k uphill at 7%. That climb is not categorized, but it's there.

 

[ItsWitz]

Tracker & announcer

The coverage has improved a LOT ...and today's announcer is .... about 1000% better than the Monster Truck announcers from the TT.

btw; temperatures here in Moab are a LOT cooler than in SLC ... and humidity is way less ... today, its cloudy and cool!!!

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

The coverage has improved a LOT ...and today's announcer is .... about 1000% better than the Monster Truck announcers from the TT.

btw; temperatures here in Moab are a LOT cooler than in SLC ... and humidity is way less ... today, its cloudy and cool!!!

It's freaking hot here. I was hoping for a cool down today, but no such luck.

Looks as though they are going down Brown's Canyon, so I was wrong. They are not doing the climb up Jordanelle on the highway.

 

[Parrulo]

when will the live stream be up? i was going on a ride instead of watching this but it just started raining heavily so . . .

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

The announcer today is one of my friends, actually.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

when will the live stream be up? i was going on a ride instead of watching this but it just started raining heavily so . . .

It's been up for half an hour.

http://ec2.tourofutah.com/tourtracker/

 

[Mellow Velo]

It's been up for half an hour.

http://ec2.tourofutah.com/tourtracker/

and all is looking good.
A mere 160kms left with a commentator and a couple or three big climbs to cap off the race.
Lovely!

Edit: Tracker is off. Make that 130kms.

 

[Parrulo]

It's been up for half an hour.

http://ec2.tourofutah.com/tourtracker/

ty moose

10 char

 

[Mellow Velo]

Eeerrrr, now there's 150kms to go!

 

[Mellow Velo]

Dave Zee fancies doing a Vuelta?

 

[Jamsque]

DZ brought back and another Garmin counters.

 

[Lupetto]

@Moose McKnuckles. Hot day again?

 

[Jamsque]

Ahahahahaha, it sounds like DZ told the commentator that he dislocates his shoulders to get a better position on his ITT bike and the guy bought it hook, line and sinker.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

@Moose McKnuckles. Hot day again?

Yeah. I'm not super excited about riding up to Snowbird to watch the race in this heat.

 

[fatandfast]

Congrats to the race director. You really read the resumes!! The Colombians are really kicking some a$$. From day one Gobernacion has been drilling it. These guys are really well prepared for the race. Stage 4 ,Acevedo just had an extra gear or maybe 2 more speeds that nobody had, really impressive. Even if they don't walk with the GC they caused lots of damage