2012 Tour of California May 13 Stage 2: San Francisco - Santa Cruz County 188.5 km

[Christian]

So that is how you pronounce Matthew "Bouché", what do you know

 

[cocteau_ireland]

Isn,t it great having live cycling at this time. Wife just off to bed and beer just opened. Beats surreptitious watching in work.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Sagan falls uphill
With ofcourse Ten Dam

 

[Mellow Velo]

Sagan down!
Rabo crash?
Maybe someone fell asleep.....

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Garmin thinks: "Sagan down?" let's go.

Great sportivity

 

[Don Johnson]

Sagan, done for the day, unless he keeps getting mechanical help and bottle tows.....

 

[Mellow Velo]

Sagan, done for the day, unless he keeps getting mechanical help and bottle tows.....

Errr, he's already back in the bunch.
Rabo should ride up the left hand side of the road, everybody else, on the right.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Garmin thinks: "Sagan down?" let's go.

Great sportivity

They had gone to the front before the crash and aren't exactly hammering the pace.

 

[Froome19]

Sagan, done for the day, unless he keeps getting mechanical help and bottle tows.....

Did you see the expression on that Bissel rider's face when he was passed by Sagan.

There is no way Sagan wont make it back, if Nibali is ill then I would consider Sagan a better contender than TJVG.

Look his is back already.

 

[FabulousCandelabra]

Sagan is the next eddy mercxx.. climbs and sprints daaaamn.

GO GENIEZ!!

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Overall, I'd say that Sagan and Liquigas are pretty happy that Garmin have been climbing fast enough on the first two stages to get rid of the out and out sprinters, because they aren't going to ride so hard that they put Haussler in trouble.

The thing is, if they aren't going fast enough to drop Haussler, they're never going to be going fast enough to put Sagan in any difficulty. It's a free ride for Liquigas.

 

[FabulousCandelabra]

god these announcers need to retire.. so daft! "geniez got away in the break because he wasn't much of a threat to the GC, being way way down at 34 seconds behind the yellow jersey"

 

[GazelleFormula]

god these announcers need to retire.. so daft! "geniez got away in the break because he wasn't much of a threat to the GC, being way way down at 34 seconds behind the yellow jersey"

Yeah, at first I thought the guy was being sarcastic when he said that. Apparently not.

 

[ElChingon]

Is orange just bad luck in cycling now?

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Bit of a poor show by the break today, apart from Geniez.

 

[Froome19]

Cant see Vennell and White surviving much longer and then how long will it be until other riders attack from the peloton?

 

[FabulousCandelabra]

Jamison creek descent is insane

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Geniez almost took a short cut down the mountain

 

[DominicDecoco]

Crashing in 3...2...1...

To much sugar?!... Ease the f*** down!

 

[ElChingon]

The roads are looking more realistic of back roads in Cali.
Road surface that is.

 

[washoezephyr1]

Road ID add

Luv the tongue in cheek with Liggett on never missing a call...
on the new Road ID add

 

[cocteau_ireland]

Maybe im being slow but the official site has various placement and timing differences to those issued on cyclingnews site,no?

 

[Froome19]

Garmin tactics are pretty obvious: 1)Keep the race together until TT, 2)take time out of all the other GC riders at TT, 3)keep the race together again on MT Baldy.


They have really been assisted by Leipheimer's seeming "lack" of fitness, as otherwise such a tactic wouldnt have worked.

 

[Froome19]

Maybe im being slow but the official site has various placement and timing differences to those issued on cyclingnews site,no?

Yeh its wrong, the ones on the TV/cyclingnews are right.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Is that Peterson who just accidentally dropped the peloton on the descent?