2012 Tour Down Under Stage 5: McLaren Vale - Old Willunga Hill 151.5km

[wirral]

Yippee, gap coming down.

 

[craig1985]

I saw three emus while riding on Sunday. If we can have emus in America then there should be camels in Australia.

If the race did a detour to the Northern Territory and outback Western Australia, then yes there will be camels.

 

[PCutter]

Easy solution: plant trees along the road.

Does the winner get a kangeroo or a crocodile?

Yes, apparently they do....

http://www.cyclingnews.com/tourdownunder/stage-3/photos/203794

I've seen on with Piti as well, just couldn't find the photo

And they tend to cut the trees back from the roadside in Australia due to the distances between towns, and boring straight roads, causing a lot of people to fall asleep at the wheel. Sleeping car drivers and big roadside trees aren't a great combination

 

[BroDeal]

If the race did a detour to the Northern Territory and outback Western Australia, then yes there will be camels.

Wild ones? Like they were brought to Australia and escaped like hairy cane toads?

 

[PCutter]

First time ive seen the kits on the road.

Saxo looks even better on the road than in the pictures.
Greenedge is seriously fugly
and garmin, looked really good in the pictures, but on the road seems to have lost something. not nearly as good onscreen as it is in pictures

GreenEdge's lime green is at least easy to pick them out from overhead shots (and also from rear shots).

Could be worse, they could be dressed like Cav will this year with the black shorts, white socks, black shoes...he looks like a mis-behaving kid sitting out the front of the head masters office

 

[Squire]

Can somebody who can speak Norwegian confirm that it is not "Edvald BOY-sson Hagen". [and tell Phil]

http://www.forvo.com/word/boasson_hagen/

 

[craig1985]

Santos confirming their sponsorship for another 3 years.

 

[Anonymous]

Can somebody who can speak Norwegian confirm that it is not "Edvald BOY-sson Hagen". [and tell Phil]

its bwoyson so im told

 

[swuzzlebubble]

Wild ones? Like they were brought to Australia and escaped like hairy cane toads?

Yes wild ones. Descendants of the ones let go after camels were replaced by trains etc.

 

[El Imbatido]

Can somebody who can speak Norwegian confirm that it is not "Edvald BOY-sson Hagen". [and tell Phil]

Last year Paul was calling Edvald.....Edward Boasson Hagen during the TdF.......LOL i remember it really well because it was the stage into Pinerolo were Johnathon Hivert crashed on the descent and Phil shouts 'Olano's crashed' and i almost pissed myself laughing

 

[craig1985]

Wild ones? Like they were brought to Australia and escaped like hairy cane toads?

Yeah they can be considered a pest, like wild pigs can be, especially up in the National Parks in North Queensland, but carrying firearms into a NP to hunt wild pigs is not a good idea unless you want to spend many years in prison.

 

[wirral]

http://www.forvo.com/word/boasson_hagen/

Excellent, thanks.

I just sat there pressing play for about a minute, it was quite hypnotic.

What a great website.

 

[The Hitch]

km left?...

 

[PCutter]

Wild ones? Like they were brought to Australia and escaped like hairy cane toads?

This is what happens when a silly american journalist has PETA in their ears without doing any research

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...killer-launching-camel-culling-operation.html

Camels were an introduced species used to - surprise, surprise - to travel across the vast central desert. Now they are a wild pest with numbers blowing out and eating the food sources of native animals, causing some extinction threat to native animals in central Australia. And one thing she does have correct, is that they launch air strikes - professional shooters in Helicopters (which are normally used for herding cattle), its the most efficient way to cull.

 

[wirral]

km left?...

Approx 60 km

 

[wirral]

Approx 60 km

Count the Lance mentions. We could be up to 100.

 

[AntonioRossi]

Approx 60 km

so 30-35 km before the real action starts?

 

[BroDeal]

Food bags at the hydration station.

Those are some serious crowds.

 

[The Barb]

Gap at the hairpin bend (by my watch) was 4:40

 

[Spare Tyre]

First time ive seen the kits on the road.

Saxo looks even better on the road than in the pictures.
Greenedge is seriously fugly
and garmin, looked really good in the pictures, but on the road seems to have lost something. not nearly as good onscreen as it is in pictures

I don't mind the GreenEdge kit, but agree on the others. Garmin was my favourite kit this year, but it looks pretty ordinary on the road.

I thought I'd miss Movistar's "film spool" down the side, but I like this year's kit much more. And I really like the colour of Omega Quickstep (or whatever they're called.

On another note, I wish Channel 9 had been told to put a 'km to go' graphic on screen.

 

[craig1985]

Gap down to 4'50.

 

[BroDeal]

What this race needs is longer and straighter roads.

 

[diggercuz]

First time ive seen the kits on the road.

Saxo looks even better on the road than in the pictures.
Greenedge is seriously fugly
and garmin, looked really good in the pictures, but on the road seems to have lost something. not nearly as good onscreen as it is in pictures

Greenedge kit fugly? No way, it encapsulated our national colours... Yup fluro yellow and green... Pretty sure the kit was designed by leaving a black kit on the ground and a 5 yr old found some zinc cream and got colouring...

 

[Parrulo]

how long till the first ascent of the willunga hill?

 

[Anonymous]

This is what happens when a silly american journalist has PETA in their ears without doing any research

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...killer-launching-camel-culling-operation.html

Camels were an introduced species used to - surprise, surprise - to travel across the vast central desert. Now they are a wild pest with numbers blowing out and eating the food sources of native animals, causing some extinction threat to native animals in central Australia. And one thing she does have correct, is that they launch air strikes - professional shooters in Helicopters (which are normally used for herding cattle), its the most efficient way to cull.

im not sure the daily fail is a good reference point for anything mind you.