The Lone Break is DEAD

[jens_attacks]

Who could forget Floyd Landis' lone 120 kilometre breakaway in the 2006 Tour de France where he won by more than 5 minutes!

I was new to cycling, completely ignorant about clinical racing preparation but I learned something that day.

i've learned something too.everything is possible if you want to.just fuccin go for it.the video of that day should be material for all the schools in the world,that's motivation at its peak.

 

[jsem94]

My first exposure to cycling was the 06 tour. Rasmussen break win was epic.

But the Flandis breakaway was just beyond anything ever.

 

[Altitude]

Rasmussen.

 

[ManInFull]

Who could forget Floyd Landis' lone 120 kilometre breakaway in the 2006 Tour de France where he won by more than 5 minutes!

I was new to cycling, completely ignorant about clinical racing preparation but I learned something that day.

Regardless of the doping charges to come, Landis' ride was simply incredible. I felt so bad before him in the previous stage where he experienced a massive melt down. I think he was in yellow during that meltdown.

 

[benpounder]

Who could forget Floyd Landis' lone 120 kilometre breakaway in the 2006 Tour de France where he won by more than 5 minutes!

I was new to cycling, completely ignorant about clinical racing preparation but I learned something that day.

An epic stage! What sits in my mind most is the shots of Floyd taking bottles of water from neutral support and drenching himself...

 

[FignonLeGrand]

Its another symptom of modern racing, in the good ol' days we would also have the top GC guys attacking each other on hills and actually trying to win. The modern lets win by 30 seconds after having all our team mates tow us till the last moment is boring, and I am not referring to sprint trains but the Bruyneel method that worked so well for lance.

Too many stages are now too formulaic. Group goes, get a lead, gets 50 km from finish, gets chased, gets swallowed.

If it carries on like this we will mirror Formula One where its the person who can park most quickly for a tyre change who wins. Win by parking!

 

[FignonLeGrand]

Another thread fail as a sprinter wins a mountain stage via breakaway.

Maybe its the exception that proves the rule. How great was it to see Thor break the formula go for it and show a bit of panache and balls can get you a win.

And all those who said he was a flop this year can well and truly shut up. Isn't that 6 straight tours now with a stage win, done in the world champions stripes. Chapeaux!

 

[9speed]

Wiggins had a crack at it in 2007 (about 200km on his own)

He was aiming to create a break but found himself out front on his own. He hung around hoping some would join him but when no-one did he went for it rather than sit up (team orders?) And got caught in the run-in just like nearly all of them do in these days of radios.

 

[Parrulo]

the thread starter needs to watch stage 15 of this years giro. it was lone break vs lone break battling it out for 70k. 2 guys doing a ITT each till the line. i don't see any stage this year getting even close to that in terms of excitement.

the way nieve all by himself slowly closed the gap to garzeli over 2 climbs to caught him at the bottom of the the last climb of the day and then dropped him was amazing. even more amazing the fact that he barely had strength to lift up his arm as he crossed the line.

 

[42x16ss]

the thread starter needs to watch stage 15 of this years giro. it was lone break vs lone break battling it out for 70k. 2 guys doing a ITT each till the line. i don't see any stage this year getting even close to that in terms of excitement.

the way nieve all by himself slowly closed the gap to garzeli over 2 climbs to caught him at the bottom of the the last climb of the day and then dropped him was amazing. even more amazing the fact that he barely had strength to lift up his arm as he crossed the line.

That was epic! One of the coolest stages in years.

Also, if the lone break truly is dead someone obviously forgot to tell Jeremy Roy....

 

[the asian]

Cleaner peloton , Sprint trains and more Tv coverage means lone breakaways are very rare now, but not completely dead. With the French teams it's also impossible to have a lone breakaway. They all want to go in it!!

 

[greenedge]

Other teams are willing to go into break's. Best break was FL

 

[B_Ugli]

The flat stages and even semi flat stages are so inevitable now that I tend to fast forward the highlights program until the last 20k.

Watching this years tour the real race winner will be Mark Cavendish as the race for yellow has decended into a stagnated farce of psyching out, waiting, indecisision and race radios.

Maybe they should have an all rounders jersey like the one Jean Francois Bernard won all those years back or shake up the yellow competition by awarding time bonuses for exciting racing?