Menchov predicts Tour winner: Menchov!

[Anonymous]

im starting to wonder if maybe menchov was the bull in the china shop..

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Moral in the rabo camp gotta be a little low...
I wouldn't say menchov's performance was a result from fatigue (from giro) I'd sooner suggest the fact he hasn't raced in over a month, made it hard for him to get any rhytm goin, that and i doubht he prepared very well for the stage 1 ITT, is the reason for his poor time.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Moral in the rabo camp gotta be a little low...
I wouldn't say menchov's performance was a result from fatigue (from giro) I'd sooner suggest the fact he hasn't raced in over a month, made it hard for him to get any rhytm goin, that and i doubht he prepared very well for the stage 1 ITT, is the reason for his poor time.

Should menchov go for stage wins because i thought he would feature in the top 10 times today as the course suited himbut he bombed.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

I'm certain he will still top 10 irregardless of his poor time trial, One poor ITT doesn't put him out of the running just yet. There is chaos to come in the mountains this year i feel. I think by stage 7 he will be riding like his normal self, Should be an interesting stage. (edit, just realised you said today's stage, my bad )

the Rabo TTT should be interesting to. After yesterday I'm almost expecting Contador to be at least 2 mins ahead of all his (excluding his team mates, which should add an interesting Astana war aspect on stage 7 also) rivals. It might be a very good thing though (for us, the viewers), at the very least it will result in a very aggresive battle in the mountains

 

[auscyclefan94]

I'm certain he will still top 10 irregardless of his poor time trial, One poor ITT doesn't put him out of the running just yet. There is chaos to come in the mountains this year i feel. I think by stage 7 he will be riding like his normal self, Should be an interesting stage. (edit, just realised you said today's stage, my bad )

the Rabo TTT should be interesting to. After yesterday I'm almost expecting Contador to be at least 2 mins ahead of all his (excluding his team mates, which should add an interesting Astana war aspect on stage 7 also) rivals. It might be a very good thing though (for us, the viewers), at the very least it will result in a very aggresive battle in the mountains

I think evans, sastre and menchov should try to be ambitiouson stage 7 due to their teams will most likely lose big time to Astana and Saxo Bank (Unless both Astana and Saxo have mass pileups ...hope). Should be a big war between Astana and Saxo so could be advantageous to gc riders with lesser teams.

 

[Kittel]

Don't write of Garmin. I'd say Wiggins has a better chance than Fabs to be the man in yellow after the TTT. Contador being favourite number 1.