2012 Tour de France: Stage 11: Albertville → La Toussuire - Les Sybelles (148km)

[classicomano]

Holy **** Europcar got a nice fresh tank of gasoline on the rest day!

 

[Bala Verde]

Is it Kern or Cern.

Some heavy Boasson Higgs particles being created out of nothing

 

[The Chicken]

long story short, lance wanted a bottle of water and didn't want to go fetch himself during a training camp at the start of the season. so he pointed to some new guy whose name he didn't know and said "bottle" that guy was leipheimer.

lol fo real? Baahahahah

 

[iZnoGouD]

i am i the only one that has tried to climb like contador only to get tired extremely fast?

haha i tried that in the beginning it felt faster but after some time i was tired

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

The Kern-reactor goes fast

 

[virandociclista]

long story short, lance wanted a bottle of water and didn't want to go fetch himself during a training camp at the start of the season. so he pointed to some new guy whose name he didn't know and said "bottle" that guy was leipheimer.

And levi did it?

 

[patrick767]

Leipheimer finito.

Too bad for the old guy... he's had a lousy Tour.

 

[Montanus]

VdB lost his pitbull.

 

[The Chicken]

Team Sly looking ET again

 

[webvan]

Leppy, Valve Pitti, Basso can't keep up? Passing of a generation?

 

[Finn84]

If they have less than three then they are out of team competition. But I don't think they think that one too much.

Few years ago I think we had one team finishing some GT with less than three riders (and I don't mean cases like Astana in 2007 or Leopard in 2011 Giro where entire team withdrew (in these cases completely different reasons behind that decision))

Had to find out closer which team it was, Gerolsteiner in Giro 2008 finished with two: Fröhlinger and Krauss. Moletta (doping allegations), Förster, Gatto, Ordowski, Rebellin and Russ withdrew at different points of the race, T.Fothen finished outside time limit.

 

[Climbing]

haha i tried that in the beginning it felt faster but after some time i was tired

Well, I don't understand why so little guys have so much power (Contie, Purito and the likes).
So I'm forced to spin! But I'm not a rodie, so that's different.

 

[stazzy]

so is cadel just gonna sit back whole day?

and nibali?

they must realise that today is basically their only chance..gl dropping sky with a few sprint stages in the legs before one two mountaineeers

 

[The Chicken]

why don't CN get a chatroom thing going on here so we don't have to keep refreshing this ****?

 

[Mellow Velo]

Kern riding solo is taking Rolland away from the Skytrain.

 

[Parrulo]

And levi did it?

yup

lol fo real? Baahahahah

i guess so, he was a young rider back then and lance's god complex was already at full swing at the time . . . .

 

[maxmartin]

Team Sly looking ET again

anybody think they can derail SKY train uphill is delusional

 

[Montanus]

Team Sly looking ET again

Lost almost 2min to the break since the climb started.

 

[Poursuivant]

Team Sly looking ET again

By losing time to the breakaway?

 

[shalgo]

Rolland had better hope that Horner doesn't get dropped; otherwise, RSNT will start setting the pace in the peloton to defend sixth place.

 

[Montanus]

Steep 8k section about to start for the break.

 

[airstream]

Congrats to jens_attacks! Grande Kern is coming out out of the shade.

Vasil, go-go!

 

[patrick767]

Leppy, Valve Pitti, Basso can't keep up? Passing of a generation?

Did you miss the Giro? Basso put in a big effort there. Granted that was only good enough for 5th, but in that form he wouldn't be getting dropped by Kern. Admittedly Basso is past his prime.

 

[Machu Picchu]

why don't CN get a chatroom thing going on here so we don't have to keep refreshing this ****?

You wish to go here

 

[The Chicken]

By losing time to the breakaway?

No I meant they all look a bit like ET. What did you think I meant?