Tour of California Stage 4: Livermore - San Jose/Sierra Rd, 131.6 KM

[*G*K*S*]

12:20:16 PDT
The first real break has gotten established. It's got 10 riders today and they have claimed a 40-second lead on the peloton.

We've figured out nine of the riders and they are Martin Pedersen (Leopard Trek), Lars Boom (Rabobank Cycling Team), Rubens Bertogliati (Team Type 1-Sanofi Aventis), Will Routley (Team Spidertech Powered By C10), Ben Jacques-Maynes (Bissell Cycling), Jeremy Vennell (Bissell Cycling), Alastair Loutit (Jelly Belly p/b Kenda), Jesse Anthony (Kelly Benefit Strategies-OptumHealth) and James Stemper (Kenda/5-hour Energy Pro Cycling presented by Geargrinder) Thor Hushovd (Team Garmin-Cervelo)



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[benpounder]

...unless they invest a lot of money into making mountain tracks passable for the péloton the same way as RCS has done with places like Kronplatz, the Rifugio Gardeccia and Monte Crostis in recent years.

How true! If only several states converted some of the old mining and fire roads into tarmac, then we would have a bevy of awesome routes.

I'm not keen on giving out HC status on anything other than a crazy hard climb.
[...]
The Tour of Austria (Austria!!!) only gives out 2 HC categorisations - Kitzbüheler Horn and the Großglockner.

Kitzbüheler Horn is only 7.8km long, it is however an average of 12%! Hochtor, at 14.1km, 8.9% is what I would consider closer to a true HC (again, I use Col de la Madeleine as my benchmark).

Nice comparison there. Cant dispute your conclusion.

 

[Anonymous]

13:55 PDT (20:55 GMT)
http://shacktracker.amgentourofcalifornia.com/

thank you.
any other link?

 

[*G*K*S*]

Peloton +02'41"

 

[jobiwan]

Boom wins the first KOM sprint.

 

[just some guy]

with Thor in the group as well.

 

[Anonymous]

live stream???

thank you.
any other link?

coverage starts in about 40 minutes.

Streams here
http://www.teamskyfans.com/live.html

best option is the official feed, but we have a eurosport one if you prefer not to hear liggett and sherwen. (And a spanish feed). We may have a dutch feed nearer the time.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Every break so far has had a Jacques-Maynes in it, right?

 

[*G*K*S*]

Every break so far has had a Jacques-Maynes in it, right?

Correct.

Either Ben or Andy Jacques-Maynes has been in the breakaway each day - now that's teamwork! Ben called his brother his "stunt double" yesterday.

 

[Anonymous]

coverage starts in about 40 minutes.

Streams here
http://www.teamskyfans.com/live.html

best option is the official feed, but we have a eurosport one if you prefer not to hear liggett and sherwen. (And a spanish feed). We may have a dutch feed nearer the time.

thank you very much.

 

[jobiwan]

Shack Tracker up in about 1 minute.

Routley wins 2nd KOM, 3rd KOM in 4 km.

 

[UpTheRoad]

The Shack Tracker is a fantastic site to watch online. Kudos to Amgen/Radioshack/whomever runs the show.

 

[jobiwan]

Jesse Anthony on the front approaching 3rd KOM, Mt. Hamilton begins shortly after.

 

[jobiwan]

RadioShack is doing all of the work.
Horner or Leipheimer FTW.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Man, riders all over the place now.

Those Bissell Dogmas sure are nice.

 

[goggalor]

For ten minutes or so the amgen stream had actual sound from the race: You could hear the riders talking, shifting gears and the helicopter hovering above them... then all of a sudden it goes silent and Phil & Paul take over. WHY DO THEY DO THIS???

 

[jobiwan]

Peleton 2/3 up Mt. Hamilton.

 

[craig1985]

Lol at the dude in the bear suit running alongside the riders.

 

[jobiwan]

For ten minutes or so the amgen stream had actual sound from the race: You could hear the riders talking, shifting gears and the helicopter hovering above them... then all of a sudden it goes silent and Phil & Paul take over. WHY DO THEY DO THIS???

Versus just went to commercial, maybe they have commentary on the tracker when they're not on VS.

 

[meandmygitane]

Please stop saying "damage being done" every two seconds... there got to be some synonyms to that...

 

[goggalor]

That climb look steep as hell. I'm impressed Sagan is still there.

Versus just went to commercial, maybe they have commentary on the tracker when they're not on VS.

But why can't the play the commentary along with the sound from the race? Shouldn't be too hard. The stream would be perfect if they could do this.

 

[craig1985]

I would love to do some long rides in Cali it has to be said.

 

[jobiwan]

But why can't the play the commentary along with the sound from the race? Shouldn't be too hard. The stream would be perfect if they could do this.

Versus back on, tracker just 10 seconds behind, not bad.

 

[Gloin22]

Wow, Swift is still in the leading group

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

That descent looks nasty. Look at that hairpin!