2014 Tour of California May 11-18

[red_flanders]

I love watching them ride through the state. Such amazing scenery.

 

[Aristarchus]

Is this breakaway going to survive? It's looking good.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Is this breakaway going to survive? It's looking good.

So who will win in the break? Any good sprinters?

 

[Scott SoCal]

Gonna be close. The guys in the break are riding.

 

[Scott SoCal]

So who will win in the break? Any good sprinters?

Two UHC guys. Gonna be hell to pay if they screw it up.

 

[Vino's Mum]

Is this breakaway going to survive?

Yup. Flat road, 12km, 2.25 gap, they got this.

 

[trevim]

Nice one from the WT teams; missed the break and will miss the sprint

 

[Aristarchus]

The break is attacking one another, but they're close enough to the end that it probably doesn't matter.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Two UHC guys. Gonna be hell to pay if they screw it up.

Right, but you still need to be a bit fast.

 

[Vino's Mum]

wtf, at least 5km seems to have disappeared??

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Love it, an old fashion sprint from the front.

 

[Aristarchus]

Routley with the long sprint win.

 

[Scott SoCal]

Right, but you still need to be a bit fast.

True, but nobody was fast there AND they screwed it up.

Well done Routley.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Here comes Cav, a placement in a sh!t small race.....

 

[Aristarchus]

Camera fail, misses Cav's epic sprint for 7th.

 

[T-Nielsen]

The worlds greatest race seems to have some production issues.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Damn, I though Novo Nordisk were going to get a win.

 

[burning]

Wiggo gained 4 seconds according to procyclingstats.coms result

 

[yespatterns]

That was a ****e stage for sure. I guess the only one's who wanted to win were the boys upfront. Kudos to the breakaway.

 

[willbick]

was that the 'let the american have-a-go-heroes battle out a stage', a ToC sequel to the 'let Jensie win solo stage'?

 

[CycloAndy]

As much as I like breakaway wins, it's a shame this one seems tainted by the lack of information in the peleton. Was it the lack of race radios or did the peleton think they had more km's left like the rest of us?

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

As much as I like breakaway wins, it's a shame this one seems tainted by the lack of information in the peleton. Was it the lack of race radios or did the peleton think they had more km's left like the rest of us?

It seems WT riders don't understand how a strong tailwind works. Same thing happened in Catalunya this year.

 

[trevim]

I imagine Cav is ****ed off with his team mates; a team without a GC rider and packed with some of the best roulers in the world can't let a break like this go all the way in this sort of stage.
Two reasons why Giant gets a pass in my book: 1. GC, 2. Not their A sprint team, far from it.

 

[postmanhat]

I love watching them ride through the state. Such amazing scenery.

Some really nice spots today, but hasn't it mostly just been scrubby desert overall? One of the least aesthetically pleasing tours for me

 

[Dazed and Confused]

As much as I like breakaway wins, it's a shame this one seems tainted by the lack of information in the peleton. Was it the lack of race radios or did the peleton think they had more km's left like the rest of us?

lol, absolutely Andy. These guys are all clueless.