Tour de Romandie, Stage 1: Martigny - Leysin, 172.6km

[Moondance]

Linus Gerdemann on maneuvers.

 

[Jukebox]

You can always count on Linus to attack on a wet downhill.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Gerdemann is alive?

 

[Christian]

Go get 'em Liney

 

[Jamsque]

Gap back out to 3'40" as the peloton regroups. Someone is going to have to FLY up this last climb to steal it from the breakaway.

 

[Moondance]

Bodridge on '42 from Brutt and Samoilau? Did anyone else catch that?

Linus has 30 secs on the peloton.

 

[Christian]

Gerdemann is alive?

He attacked in two P-N stages and did a good MSR as well, after that he didn't race much anymore until now

 

[auscyclefan94]

Going to have to be a really fast tempo for it to come back...even then I doubt it will come back.

 

[Ferminal]

They are home.

 

[Jukebox]

I love watching Brutt ride. So, so smooth.

The break will surely take this now, right?

 

[Mellow Velo]

Still going downhill with under 6kms to go.
Bye bye Bruttie.

 

[hrotha]

The break will surely take the GC.

 

[auscyclefan94]

5 BMC's on the frontt and teaching Euskatel how to chase.

#epicfaileuskatel

 

[jobiwan]

Is the rest of the race selective enough to get back 3 minutes? If not, big mistake by the peleton.

 

[Ferminal]

Up they go.

 

[Mrs John Murphy]

Any news on who the crash involved?

Brutt with his Russian Mullet.

Phonak II looking good.

 

[Jamsque]

The French commentators just pointed out that Samoilau was national ITT champ last year.

 

[Jukebox]

BMC still pretending it's RVV on the front.

 

[Bavarianrider]

If the safe 2 minutes to the summit this Tour is over!

 

[Mellow Velo]

There we have it. 3.9km at 6.7%.
What a race.

 

[Ferminal]

Awesome bridge.

 

[Moondance]

Okay, climb start at the exact place where Contador brilliantly attacked in 06. I know, I was there.

 

[More Strides than Rides]

Looks like the climbing starts at 5k, a bit off from the profile. The peloton will make up time as they are still going down hill, and the time indicators are always a little deceptive anyway.

I'll hedge a bet that the break gets caught

 

[jobiwan]

Awesome bridge.

Was thinking that myself.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

The belgian idiots call Castroviejo a sprinter