Pro Tour/ Euro/Whatever road thread

u just kno he is a big brit pop fan

Good to see the Style Council have got back together again.

Wiggo is the most offensively rockist tool I've ever come across when it comes to music. Makes Geir seem charming and enlightened.

I think he gets the joke, myself.

i guess there was not enough fashion room in garmin for him and vaughters together

This is a good read:
http://nyvelocity.com/content/interviews/2009/david-millar-interview

his description of barcelona was so excellent. even if youre a scrub, being off the front alone coming into a finish is magic. i cant imagine how that was for him. sometimes i just assume pros are past that.

The Ben Swift situation seems pretty dodgy.

sky have rather amusingly submitted him as one of their riders for the tour down under, despite not having done the deal yet! lol.

We might get a Sky Ladies team led by nicole cooke

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/cooke-looks-to-sky-to-help-team-survive

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/sports/cycling/22iht-BIKE.html?hpw

http://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2009/12/23/astana-aurait-commis-une-infraction-penale-pendant-le-tour-2009_1284426_3242.html

would love to know the bruyneel secret - how do his riders keep dodging bullets??

preferential treatment by the UCI

blowjobs

cache of pix showing UCI staff in compromising positions

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/french-agency-targets-astana-for-illegal-transfusion-kit

Is this a bad enough infraction to result in a Schleck Wiggins Schleck podium?

(I think not, but still)

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/mens-leader-brown-loses-yellow-jersey-and-his-cool-20100104-lq3e.html

^shit gettin mad heated at the bay crits - best 'oh u bitch' moment thus far probably robbie mcewen's "brown tends to leave his best form in australia in january" diss after stage one. shame i can't get to the finale today, i'm expecting a punch-up at some point!

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/01/news/louisville-awarded-2013-%E2%80%99cross-worlds_103288

damn, i was stoked when i saw this because i thought it was louisville colorado.

i was never mocked as hard or with such hostility for lycra as i was the week i spent training in louisville, ky, circa 1993. also, aggressive driving.

still, great to have worlds in usa

yeah this is really cool! wish I was in chi cuz ky is in striking distance

Now Ricco's other half has tested positive as well

the ricco comeback is gonna be so lolzy

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/di-luca-given-two-year-suspension-for-giro-cera-doping

http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/photos/2001/apr01/parisroubaix/FSballerinifinish.shtml

merci ballerini

http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/photos/2001/apr01/parisroubaix/FSballerinifinish.jpg

Ballerini at Paris-Roubaix
34th (1989)
19th (1990)
5th (1991)
11th (1992)
2nd (1993)
3rd (1994)
1st (1995)
5th (1996)
24th (1997)
1st (1998)
11th (1999)
8th (2000)
32nd (2001)

this is a new twist:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/cycling/8517006.stm

f10yd the 133t h4><0r

http://www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/photos/only-god-can-judge-me/106548

lol, nice to see it's only taken the UCI half a year to decide if the bike is legal or not

http://www.dutchuncle.co.uk/system/pictures/266/large/Tavis_Coburn_Hincapie.jpg?1241798038

Day one in the Criterium International sets up a nice showdown between Cadel Evans and David Millar in the time Trial with Contador having to make up a minute.

E3 Prijs - Fabian Cancellara again shows what a remarkable rider he is, dropping Boonan and Flecha in the last 2 km.

cadel looking good for that shot at the giro.

yess go Cadel!

wow Fedrigo's got some pins on him... http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/criterium-international-2-hc/stage-1/photos/112266

and a schnoz too apparently

http://www.nalair.fr/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/pierrick-fedrigo-350x450.jpg

Crikey. Russell Downing takes the second stage of Criterium International.

...and David Millar wins the time trial, 2 seconds ahead of Contador, to finish 5th overall.

Gent Wevelgem is great right now, attack and counter attack. watch with flemmish commentary

TDF: all the fancied wild card teams are in - sux 2 be vacansoleil

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-de-france-organiser-announces-22-teams-for-2010-race

and apparently rasmussen is in talks to join one of the protour teams in the next week??

dont see how they could have stiffed any of those wildcards except katusha.

Prudhomme fears this:

http://www.dancewithshadows.com/nuts/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/darth-vader-putin.jpg

David Millar wins the Three Days of De Panne. Yay!

Ronde Van Vlaanderen today, I fancy Fabian Cancellara for this. (Saxo bank running the peleton right now as well)

Cancellara is just looking so good, leading Boonen out and looking so calm on the climb. David Millar trying to bridge as well.

Enough time to show the cameraman his penis angel, pick up a swiss flag and pedal slowly over the line.

That was incredible. When Cancellara made his move on the Muur the camera shot was from the front so you couldn't tell who was leading (they were side by side) and it actually looked like Boonen was launching an attack as he was out of the saddle and giving it everything. Then we saw the side-on view and Cancellara was just smoothly riding away from him, still in the saddle, not even looking like he was making any effort. He had a gap of about 200m in no time at all.

i was riding with a small group yesterday in boulder when taylor p's dad rode up to my buddy/ride host and announced "taylor ha vinto." then his mom told us that he had crashed out of the tt while way up, so getting the road stage was a little revenge. the crash itself at the very end is pretty cool, check out his passage under the barrier--

http://www.youtube.com/user/USACyclingOrg#p/u/5/2wOEPkse_PI

yikes. both of those stages were super wet.

“To attack on the Muur and leave Boonen behind is amazing. When I get old, to be able to say to young riders, ‘At the Ronde I attacked on the Muur, left Boonen behind and won alone,’ not in a sprint, or dropped and came back, but alone … it was the perfect scenario. The gladiator won the battle.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn-oHTCgR84

teh attack