Le Tour de France 2011 - the big one is coming

[Dekker_Tifosi]

andy schleck is tha best in cockiness.

if andy could, he would kiss his own ***, that's for sure

 

[rides like a girl]

if andy could, he would kiss his own ***, that's for sure

His recent comments about the strength of leOpard Trek remind me of the hot air blown by bottle and The Hog before the tour last year. Radio Shack was stacked and AC had a weak team by their words last year.... Sadly words don't make you go uphill. I for one hope Baby Boy Schleck is taught a lesson by such a weak team.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I know if Andy peaks right (and the chance of that is big) he'll probably finish 2nd at least and maybe even win, but I surely would laugh my *** off if he doesn't manage to finish 2nd at least (disregarding bad luck)

 

[jobiwan]

I know if Andy peaks right (and the chance of that is big) he'll probably finish 2nd at least and maybe even win, but I surely would laugh my *** off if he doesn't manage to finish 2nd at least (disregarding bad luck)

I figure you'll probably laugh even harder then, if it's another chain drop.

 

[drivegreg]

Tour History

I found this sweet little gem on Twitter this morning

http://www.usdish.com/tour-de-france

 

[Libertine Seguros]

the language prolly has some influence in it tho.

anyway neither gilbert nor ricco come close to the master of cockiness. the special one himself, mr. jose mourinho

José Mourinho is to football what Bob Stapleton is to cycling. No matter how much cockiness and entertaining quotes he provides, the fact of the matter is every single team he's run has played boring, boring 1-0 football because 'not losing' is more important than 'winning'.

Cipo was the best at cockiness anyway. Also a fan of Stephen Roche calmly putting his finger to his lips as the crowd bayed for his head in the Giro too. That's an awesome cocky moment.

 

[Ferminal]

Does anyone know where to find the rules etc which have the points system for Green and KoM listed? Can't find it on Letour

 

[rides like a girl]

Does anyone know where to find the rules etc which have the points system for Green and KoM listed? Can't find it on Letour

had this bookmarked from a couple days ago. It has a link in the text to another publication and couldn't translate well enough to use the link. Not sure how official it is....

http://inrng.com/2011/06/tour-de-france-points-kom-competition-newrules/


hope i pasted that right...

 

[Ferminal]

had this bookmarked from a couple days ago. It has a link in the text to another publication and couldn't translate well enough to use the link. Not sure how official it is....

http://inrng.com/2011/06/tour-de-france-points-kom-competition-newrules/


hope i pasted that right...

Looks good... many thanks!

 

[Kwibus]

I figure you'll probably laugh even harder then, if it's another chain drop.

About dropping chains. During a short interview on the dutch tele last night they talked about his dropped chain. About how the world press and all the people that think they know about cycling were flaming Andy that he made a mistake because of poor shifting. According to Andy he didn't even shift when his chain dropped.... He still doesn't know what happened really.

p.s. I find the Andy is cocky comments kinda hypocrite by people who like Gilberts cockiness. Andy is cocky, but imo he takes his own words with a grain of salt as well. I like the guys.. I just don't like Andys attitude towards others races than the TdF and L-B-L.

 

[theyoungest]

About dropping chains. During a short interview on the dutch tele last night they talked about his dropped chain. About how the world press and all the people that think they know about cycling were flaming Andy that he made a mistake because of poor shifting. According to Andy he didn't even shift when his chain dropped.... He still doesn't know what happened really.

p.s. I find the Andy is cocky comments kinda hypocrite by people who like Gilberts cockiness. Andy is cocky, but imo he takes his own words with a grain of salt as well. I like the guys.. I just don't like Andys attitude towards others races than the TdF and L-B-L.

Yes, I saw that as well. Maybe he should learn to shift when accelerating

 

[dlwssonic]

About dropping chains. During a short interview on the dutch tele last night they talked about his dropped chain. About how the world press and all the people that think they know about cycling were flaming Andy that he made a mistake because of poor shifting. According to Andy he didn't even shift when his chain dropped.... He still doesn't know what happened really.

p.s. I find the Andy is cocky comments kinda hypocrite by people who like Gilberts cockiness. Andy is cocky, but imo he takes his own words with a grain of salt as well. I like the guys.. I just don't like Andys attitude towards others races than the TdF and L-B-L.

Its just because gilbert is much more popular on this forum and there is a lot of schleck/ leopard hate on this forum. I personally kinda find andys cockiness pretty funny, it adds to a colorful personality.

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/8895/Andy-Schleck-I-can-follow-him-in-the-mountains-and-even-be-better-than-him.aspx

andy schleck being cocky again over him being better than contador on the mountains.

 

[roundabout]

Nothing cocky there. If he is in top form he can do it.

 

[just some guy]

About dropping chains. During a short interview on the dutch tele last night they talked about his dropped chain. About how the world press and all the people that think they know about cycling were flaming Andy that he made a mistake because of poor shifting. According to Andy he didn't even shift when his chain dropped.... He still doesn't know what happened really.

p.s. I find the Andy is cocky comments kinda hypocrite by people who like Gilberts cockiness. Andy is cocky, but imo he takes his own words with a grain of salt as well. I like the guys.. I just don't like Andys attitude towards others races than the TdF and L-B-L.

If my memory is working not shifting was the 1st story a few days/weeks later he admitted that he was changing gear - it was a dumb mistake

 

[lancaster]

anyone know if team HTC will be using and making available there "MyTracks Live" data?
it was quite cool last year to be able to see just how far back the grupetto was, and was a very early live data source.

 

[boomcie]

Gilbert got a new hair color for the Tour. I'm no too fond of it.


Jersey looks good on him though.

*click images for higher resolution

 

[theyoungest]

Gilbert got a new hair color for the Tour. I'm no too fond of it.

That's terrible. He looks like Annie Lennox.

 

[kanari]

He's more chav than Cav.

 

[roundabout]

Gilbert got a new hair color for the Tour. I'm no too fond of it.

 

[Parrulo]

bleached air. . . . i don't even like it in women in man is just ewwwwwww

will he get shorts to match the jersey? i hope so

 

[Tuarts]

You took the words right out of my mouth

 

[boomcie]

will he get shorts to match the jersey? i hope so

I guess so, this looks a little sloppy.

 

[jens_attacks]

he's that confident he will take yellow on saturday....pfff...no chance for vino...nobody can stop gilbert.

 

[Publicus]

About dropping chains. During a short interview on the dutch tele last night they talked about his dropped chain. About how the world press and all the people that think they know about cycling were flaming Andy that he made a mistake because of poor shifting. According to Andy he didn't even shift when his chain dropped.... He still doesn't know what happened really.

p.s. I find the Andy is cocky comments kinda hypocrite by people who like Gilberts cockiness. Andy is cocky, but imo he takes his own words with a grain of salt as well. I like the guys.. I just don't like Andys attitude towards others races than the TdF and L-B-L.

That's called DENIAL.

 

[ImmaculateKadence]

That's called DENIAL.

I just watched the video and he actually did not shift. He shifted immediately afterward to try and correct it. Both in slow motion and in real time, you can clearly see he didn't touch the shift lever.