Tour of Utah, August 17-22

[never-nude]

Moose (and anyone else in town for the race): I just posted in another thread about the outstanding Utah microbrews on tap. Head down to Squatters sometime soon and have some sweet potato fries and an Emmigration Amber for me. Pics please. God i miss that stuff.

Or if the whiskey is your thing, i recommend visiting High West distillery in Park City. I don't think you can watch the crit from there tho and that's a shame.

 

[DAOTEC]

your welcome mr. tibbs

No TT needed mr. tibbs got our winner already lol

Ha anybody seen this one from yesterday gosh

and any comment on this ?

Here raw Footage of them Phinney shack getting ready for the oldmanshouse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feS6lbptNlQ

 

[mr. tibbs]

Or if the whiskey is your thing, i recommend visiting High West distillery in Park City. I don't think you can watch the crit from there tho and that's a shame.

I didn't think they were selling their own whiskey yet (still aging the first barrels!). I think the vodka's their own, though. This may have changed since I left Salt Lake a few years ago--not sure when they began aging their spirits.

DAOTEC, three things are obvious from your pics:

1- Utah has beautiful mountains,
2- Utah has beautiful girls, and
3- Leipheimer made that poster himself.

 

[_yngve_]

I didn't think they were selling their own whiskey yet (still aging the first barrels!). I think the vodka's their own, though. This may have changed since I left Salt Lake a few years ago--not sure when they began aging their spirits.

They're doing blends from other stock right now. Expensive, and award winning just the same...

 

[auscyclefan94]

Jeebus! Leecheimer fanboys are even worse than Armstrong fanboys. Apparently if you don't love Levi then you should not even post. Well, screw that. Leipheimer is a boring racer and a boring guy. No one will pay more attention to the ToU because he is there. In the post stage interview yesterday he proudly called himself Mr. Invisible.

Aside from one of the three big guns on a team who is a member of the Pro Tour spending his time slumming in the U.S. instead of competing with people at his own level, it does not help that two weeks ago the manager of his former team revealed that he was manipulating his blood. What type of message does that send?

Now that is funny!

 

[DAOTEC]

Result

This will be a hard one to win for the defending champ Paco after yesterday's TT but never say never, still two hard stages to go!

Stage Three: Stage Results
1. Taylor PHINNEY Trek-LIVESTRONG TLS USA .16'46" 900
2. Levi LEIPHEIMER Mellow Johnny's MJS USA .16'48" 300 2"
3. Jeremy VENNELL BISSELL PCT BIS NZL .16'57" 900 11"
4. Alex DOWSETT Trek-LIVESTRONG TLS GBR .17'02" 100 16"
5. Brent BOOKWALTER BMC Racing Team BMC USA .17'04" 900 18"
6. Benjamin JACQUES-MAYNES BISSELL PCT BIS USA .17'10" 900 24"
7. Darren LILL V Australia VAU RSA .17'21" 300 35"
8. Philip ZAJICEK V Australia VAU USA .17'21" 600 ...
9. Danny SUMMERHILL Team Holowesko Partners USA .17'27" 500 41"
10. Francisco MANCEBO PEREZ Canyon Bicycles CAN ESP .17'29" 400 43"
11. Caleb FAIRLY Team Holowesko Partners THP USA .17'33" 400 47"
12. Lachlan MORTON Team Holowesko Partners THP AUS .17'38" 700 52"
13. Darren ROLFE V Australia VAU AUS .17'39" 600 53"
14. Andrei KRASILNIKAY Team Holowesko Partners BEL .17'39" 800 ...
15. Andrew BARKER Team Holowesko Partners THP USA .17'39" 900 ...
16. Robert BRITTON BISSELL Pro Cycling Team BIS CAN .17'40" 000 54"
17. Luis ROMERO AMARAN Jamis/Sutter Home p/b Colavita JAM CUB .17'40 "
18. Mike FRIEDMAN KFAN Composite p/b teamgive KFA USA .17'40" 600 "
19. Cesar GRAJALES The Rivet Ion Sports Nutrition OTR COL .17'40" 700 "
20. Taylor SHELDON Team Holowesko Partners USA .17'42" 800 56"

Stage Three: Current GC Results
MORE GC RESULTS >>
Individual
1. Levi LEIPHEIMER Mellow Johnny's MJS USA 6.57'24"
2. 1 Francisco MANCEBO PEREZ Canyon Bicycles CAN ESP 6.59'01" 1'37"
3. Darren LILL V Australia VAU RSA 6.59'13" 1'49"
4. Philip ZAJICEK V Australia VAU USA 6.59'31" 2'07"
5. Ian BOSWELL BISSELL Pro Cycling Team BIS USA 6.59'53" 2'29"
6. Brent BOOKWALTER BMC Racing Team BMC USA 7.00'04" 2'40"
7. Cesar GRAJALES The Rivet Ion Sports Nutrition OTR COL 7.00'29" 3'05"
8. Tim ROE Trek-LIVESTRONG TLS AUS 7.00'41" 3'17"
9. Jonathan MCCARTY Team Rio Grande TRG USA 7.00'51" 3'27"
10. Rory SUTHERLAND UHC Pro Cycling p/b Maxxis UHC AUS 7.00'58" 3'34"
11. Lachlan MORTON Team Holowesko Partners THP AUS 7.01'05" 3'41"
12. Tyler WREN Jamis/Sutter Home Colavita JAM USA 7.01'09" 3'45"
13. Maxim JENKINS UHC Pro Cycling p/b Maxxis UHC USA 7.01'31" 4'07"
14. Jai CRAWFORD V Australia VAU AUS 7.01'37" 4'13"
15. Burke SWINDLEHURST KFAN Composite teamgive USA 7.02'00" 4'36"
16. Alex HAGMAN The Rivet Ion Sports Nutrition OTR USA 7.02'06" 4'42"
17. Jeff LOUDER BMC Racing Team BMC USA 7.02'08" 4'44"
18. Robbie SQUIRE Team Holowesko Partners THP USA 7.02'11" 4'47"
19. Caleb FAIRLY Team Holowesko Partners THP USA 7.02'45" 5'21"
20. Paul MACH BISSELL Pro Cycling Team BIS USA 7.03'04" 5'40"

 

[DAOTEC]

Stage Four | Saturday, August 21, 2010

Downtown Park City - Criterium at altitude 7000 feet high^^ wow and going slightly up (150ft) for about half a mile of every lap 1.06m.
Let's see who got the o2 for that

Pro Race - 4:30 - 6:00pm
Distance - 90 minutes (pro race)
Starting Location - 5th & Main, Park City
Ending Location - 5th & Main, Park City

 

[jaylew]

My kind of crit. If you're gonna have one, make it one with ~4500ft of climbing and at 700ft elevation. I like the parcours of this race. Too bad the ToU and the ToC can't switch fields. Kinda the same way I felt about the Giro and Tour.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Some serious suffering in this crit. Not sure if people followed the live coverage, but it was pretty rough. People were getting shelled big time only 15 minutes into the race.

 

[boardhanger]

Man that looks painful, nasty and the elevation !! Better them than me.

 

[DAOTEC]

Unofficial Results stage 4 | Stage Four results pending

1. Louder
2. Crawford
3. Mancebo


Finish Video from Louder BMC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwVv4DI2cGU&feature=player_embedded


Tomorrow Queen stage - finish on top of the mountain!

 

[mr. tibbs]

Finish Video from Louder BMC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwVv4DI2cGU&feature=player_embedded

That's how ALL crits should end. Wish I coulda seen it...

 

[boardhanger]

Im always amazed at the 5000ft plateau that dominates Utah, Colorado New Mexico etc. To me a sea level born and bred fellow it's crazy. In LeTour and Giro they climb up 6000-9000ft(Hor Cat) but it's usually from a plateau of 2000ft. I want to vist the Western US so much and ride it !!

 

[blaxland]

Louder,Louder,Louder go Team BMC......Maybe my pick for the overall (J.Louder)might actually happen?

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Tomorrow's final climb is a bit deceiving. Not hard starting out but there's a 3-mile stretch that's brutal. Tanner's Flat is the king of misnomers. It hits 13% at that point.

 

[boardhanger]

Tomorrow's final climb is a bit deceiving. Not hard starting out but there's a 3-mile stretch that's brutal. Tanner's Flat is the king of misnomers. It hits 13% at that point.

Looking at the profil it goes from '6500 to '8000 last 5miles. 500ft a mile. This is a good race. The more I see of it the more impressed I am. ENECO my rear. Flat as a pancake!!

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Looking at the profil it goes from '6500 to '8000 last 5miles. 500ft a mile. This is a good race. The more I see of it the more impressed I am. ENECO my rear. Flat as a pancake!!

The start of the climb is exactly 5 miles from my house. I'm going to ride up there tomorrow to watch the race. Pretty stoked since the race passes within a few hundred meters of my house.

It should be noted that tomorrow's climb actually does not go all the way to the top. It stops at Snowbird Resort. The road continues 2 more miles to the ski resort at Alta, then another 1.5 miles or so up to the start of the Catherine's Lake hiking trail.

The views are indeed sublime.

 

[BroDeal]

Louder,Louder,Louder go Team BMC......Maybe my pick for the overall (J.Louder)might actually happen?

He still has a "little" bit of time to make up. I think he burned all his matches today for the stage win knowing that he does not have a shot anymore at the overall. He looked great today.

It was freakin' hot today on the course. The race looked brutal.

 

[blaxland]

He still has a "little" bit of time to make up. I think he burned all his matches today for the stage win knowing that he does not have a shot anymore at the overall. He looked great today.

It was freakin' hot today on the course. The race looked brutal.

Thanks for the insight into stage 4 BroDeal.Awesome win for Louder,very under rated rider,at Team BMC.Do you know the time gaps for stage 4?

 

[BroDeal]

Thanks for the insight into stage 4 BroDeal.Awesome win for Louder,very under rated rider,at Team BMC.Do you know the time gaps for stage 4?

I think Louder came in with about 45 seconds over the pack that included Leipheimer. His lead was holding at about 40 to 50 seconds for what seemed like half the race.

 

[blaxland]

I think Louder came in with about 45 seconds over the pack that included Leipheimer. His lead was holding at about 40 to 50 seconds for what seemed like half the race.

Thnx BroDeal....Seems like a good stage to have watched live.

 

[boardhanger]

The start of the climb is exactly 5 miles from my house. I'm going to ride up there tomorrow to watch the race. Pretty stoked since the race passes within a few hundred meters of my house.

It should be noted that tomorrow's climb actually does not go all the way to the top. It stops at Snowbird Resort. The road continues 2 more miles to the ski resort at Alta, then another 1.5 miles or so up to the start of the Catherine's Lake hiking trail.

The views are indeed sublime.

Your lucky, trust me. Enjoy it tomorrow and I don't want to see you wearing those Borat swimming trunks either

 

[BroDeal]

LOL. Tweet.

Ben Jacques-MaynesHoly crap the Park City crit rates at 8.0 on the pain scale! Course was like a steeper Nevada city, with a plastic bag over your head.

 

[flicker]

racing hills and altitude in utah is like racing underwater with cotton in mouth. Not enough O2 and extremely dry.

 

[hrotha]

Looking at the list of DNFs, this must have been something indeed.