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

[roundabout]

Meh, the profile looked different to that...break will definetly stay away now.

In a way I'm hoping for the break to make so that remaining stages will be raced harder than they deserve to.

 

[Moondance]

Brutt going.... going..... gone.

 

[Mellow Velo]

7.8km at 5.3% plus the last bit of the Leysin climb?
Pavel Brutt, I think with still nearly 6 minutes lead.

Oh listen.....Mr Harmoan takes his third or fourth opportunity to talk about Taylor Phinney.

 

[dlwssonic]

gap is dropping and the breakaway is breaking apart, still some hope, very little though

 

[Jamsque]

Brutt goes but gets brought back pretty quickly. It's pretty early for these guys to be attacking each other, they have a big gap but they still need to work together until the final climb.

 

[Jukebox]

Brutt testing legs.

 

[auscyclefan94]

7.8km at 5.3% plus the last bit of the Leysin climb?
Pavel Brutt, I think with still nearly 6 minutes lead.

Oh listen.....Mr Harmoan takes his third or fourth opportunity to talk about Taylor Phinney.

what feed do you have?

 

[auscyclefan94]

Yep, as I predicted, Bobridge has cracked.

Todays final climb is 7km @ 4.4%

 

[Jamsque]

Stick a fork in Bobridge, he is DONE.

 

[Moondance]

Brutt going.... going..... gone.

Spoke too soon.


Gasparotto gives a little dig in the peloton. Don't know whether this is the right strategy for Astana

Also Bobridge cracks in the lead

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Is it okay to mention that I have Samoilau on my CQ team? Or is CQ talk still restricted to the CQ thread?

yeah go away, we don't care

 

[just some guy]

Bye Bye Jacky boy

 

[superconfex]

Oh listen.....Mr Harmoan takes his third or fourth opportunity to talk about Taylor Phinney.

and anyother token english speaker he can cram in

 

[Jukebox]

Bobridge dropped.

 

[roundabout]

Spoke too soon.


Gasparotto gives a little dig in the peloton. Don't know whether this is the right strategy for Astana

Also Bobridge cracks in the lead

The murderous Col du Pillon has it's first (and only) victim.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Spoke too soon.


Gasparotto gives a little dig in the peloton. Don't know whether this is the right strategy for Astana

Also Bobridge cracks in the lead

they want to toughen the race for vino. man I hope he wins this race

 

[goggalor]

Bob dropped. Can he bridge back up again?

 

[Jamsque]

Astana living up to Vino's threats and driving the peloton. Gap nearly down to five minutes.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Yep, as I predicted, Bobridge has cracked.

Todays final climb is 7km @ 4.4%

 

[Moondance]

Jackie boy!

+1 for him.

 

[goggalor]

Bob dropped. Can he bridge back up again?

I guess he can.

 

[Moondance]

Astana living up to Vino's threats and driving the peloton. Gap nearly down to five minutes.

Yeah, but it took them nearly 10km to close the gap by 1 minute. Should expect a good team like Liquigas or Astana to do better than that on a climb.

 

[Ferminal]

Jackie boy!

+1 for him.

IIRC he was "almost" gone several times before he took his ENECO win.

I think this will still be close with the chase.

 

[auscyclefan94]

LETS GO BMC!!! Come on amael and johann, get on the front

 

[Ferminal]

And Bobridge attacks lol?