CN Tour
Stage 7
CQ RANKING to CAPTION THIS
Stage details: The stage has 4 medium mountains before the stage ends with 50 km with flat, an ideal stage for a winning breakaway.
Previous Stages:
Stage 1 --
Stage 2 --
Stage 3 --
Stage 4 --
Stage 5 --
Stage 6
Pre Race Comments:
Waterloo surprise: Those kangaroos are like dominos, you push one they all fall.
Libertine: Today I will conquer the peloton, Bob Stapleton style!
Cinteq: There once lived a troll, With a very scary smile, He had only one eye, And a breath, That you could smell it for a mile.
The Stage:
The stage started out on the foot of the avatars bet climb, immediately the familiar protagonists got away from a lazy peloton. Within the group luckyboy was present hoping to retake his climber’s jersey. Also present was aussiegoddess who still hoped for the climber’s jersey but also hoped to further her lead with the polka dot apron; naturally redheaddane, LaFlorecita and thirteen also followed aussiegoddess clearly seeing the break as dangerous in regards to top woman. Mewmewmew however with her other compatriots decided not to respond. Also present in the group martin, greenedge, kwibus, Zam, knewcleardaze, el pickle (whom had a disaster on Monte CQ), elchingon and cobblestoned.
Back in the peloton it was very quiet; almost asif an annoying and persistent presence was no longer amongst their ranks. They were riding slowly up the first climb, apparently unfazed by the events up front and using the stage as a chance to recuperate. Back at the front the leaders have gone over the top, luckyboy comfortably taking maximum points followed by aussiegoddess and kwibus.
Suddenly back in the peloton the race organizer’s car has pulled ahead of the peloton and out of the sunroof… the cn officials are holding advertisement boards. “13 free software alternatives to save you money” -- “Mr funny-fake out panties” – “50 best bikini celebs”. The peloton looks confused, unsure how to react… while some are rejoicing (TFF can be chanting ‘***!”) In these developments other riders look deeply disturbed. Krebs has gotten off his bike in protest!! A sad day for the cn tour. Meanwhile –unsurprisingly- Scootsocal has joined TFF with the TITTIES chanting! Back at the front Luckyboy has again gone over the top of the second climb in first place, and again followed by Aussiegoddess and kwibus. The entire group however is still together and working well together. Two more climbs to go for the day…
Uneventfully the following two climbs proceeded in a similar manner with both summits being topped by luckyboy who has again ridden himself into the kom jersey. The group is still strong with only two riders dropped thus far… Elchingon who was clearly still suffering from efforts from the monte cq (one of the few who didn’t end up walking) and knewcleardaze whom suffered a mechanical on the final climb; both riders in no man’s land. Meanwhile the peloton have taking a staggering 17 minutes to reach the final climb summit after the leads. The winner will come from the break.
Just 20km to go and it’s greenedge who attacks!! Although he hasn’t managed to drop everyone he has in the process put a few riders in difficulty. In particular luckyboy and aussiegoddess who are paying for the efforts on the day’s climbs. As a result thirteen and redheaddane have come to the front and are trying to eat into aussiegoddess’s polka dot apron lead. Laflorecita has also been unlatched from the back, clearly still struggling with the mental factors involved with the great one’s case. Kwibus, Zam, Cobblestoned and elpickle also amongst the leaders... AND THIRTEEN ATTACKS (w/ 10 km remaining)… big attack from the world champ who has labeled the race organizer TLR a no-good-promise-breaking-liar, el pickle has responded on the left and is slowly bridging, he is taking redheaddane and cobblestoned with him.. The Danish Viking has attacked and has passed thirteen he is struggling on the opposite of the side of the road, the world champ wings to the left and gets behind cobblestoned. Behind zam, martin and kwibus are desperately trying to rejoin.
Redheaddane has gone under the 1km banner and barely has 20m on the two pursuers (incredibly thirteen has run out of legs, cramping and unable to keep up with cobblestoned and el pickle). Just 600m left and the two have finally caught redheaddane, she immediately jumps on elpickle’s wheel who is intelligently (too farfetched maybe?) Sitting on cobblestoned’s wheel. Redheaddane goes at 300m surprising the other two, but she is unable to generate any real speed paying for her earlier effort... cobblestoned starts his sprint powering hard on the right side (easily passing redheaddane who will settle for third) of the road. El pickle is trying to come around... But he doesn’t have the speed… AND COBBLESTONED WINS EASY, TWO BIKE LENGTHS!! The German is overcome with joy jumping up and down like a 5yr old with a new toy.
Behind kwibus, zam, martin and thirteen rolled in together about 30 seconds behind, with the rest of the group slowly crossing the line with disappointment clearly on their face. Aussie goddess passes the line almost 2 minutes behind, just barely hanging onto the lead of the apron (matter of seconds between the top 3) After about 10 more minutes the peloton rounded the final corner and the bunch sprint was on. Craig is there!! Libertine of course in the small autobus further down in the race… and parullo is leading out craig!! Absurd, the young Portuguese is clearly sending a message to his ‘team leader’ Libertine. Craig easily crosses the line and takes what little points remain for the sprint jersey. Mewmewmew just behind Craig disappointed with losing so much time to four other contenders of the apron.
Stage Results:
1. cobblestoned 2. el pickle 3. redheaddane 4. martin 5. zam 6. thirteen 7. Kwibus 8. Greenedge 9. AussieGoddess 10. LaFlorecita
Overall:
1) Ferminal 2) Havetts 3) Ryo 4) Hitch 5) Youngest 6) Parullo 7) Hrotha 8) Boomcie 9) DT 10) TFF 11) ACF 12) Brodeal 13) MVDB 14) Mellowvelo 15) Roundabout
KOM:
1) Luckyboy 2) Ferminal 3) Ryo 4) Havetts 5) Aussie Goddess
Spint:
1. Craig 2. Libertine 3. Ferminal 4. Zam 5. Ryo
POLKA DOT APRON:
1) Aussiegoddess 2)redheaddane 3)thirteen 4)Laflorecita 5)Mewmewmew
Young Leader: who knows
Team: Mafioso
POST RACE COMMENTS:
Cobblestoned: Golden, Ripe, Boneless Bananas, 39 Cents A Pound!
Kwibus: He pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue...that's the Mafioso way...
Krebs: I support the TITTIES, but THEY are biting the hand that feeds them.
Craig: Let’s just say me and parullo have an agreement.
Parullo: Libertine is not the god he thinks he is, he is the chump of this tour.
El Pickle: gilbert gilbert gilbert gilbert gilbert!