can I just say: lol schlecks
― thetan is cheatin (cozen), Monday, 25 April 2011 12:28 (thirteen years ago) link
bizarre ending yesterday, the schlecks just delivered him to the line
and where were andy's legs on the final climb
great classics season, all in. bring on the tours
― thetan is cheatin (cozen), Monday, 25 April 2011 12:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/04/news/alberto-contador-on-giro-climbs-%e2%80%98hard-to-believe-until-you-see-it%e2%80%99_170127
― the felonious against the corrective (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
http://video.gazzetta.it/contador-crostis-zoncolan/8e30eb22-6f41-11e0-9110-8563364cfd27
thats what i really wanted to link
― the felonious against the corrective (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.climbbybike.com/profile/Monte_Crostis_Comeglians_profile.gif
― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
meanwhile at gila:
And third placed Dombroski admits that even he does not know his limits.
“I was a Cat. 4 last year, this is all new to me,” the Pennsylvanian climber said.
whoa
― the felonious against the corrective (Hunt3r), Thursday, 28 April 2011 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Uh... no:http://www.usacycling.org/results/index.php?compid=259375
― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 28 April 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
to light:
05/30/2010 - Tour of Tucker County | Road Race | Cat 1/2/3 | |1 Joseph Dombrowski 259375 40326.1166509259 454 Haymarket Bicycles/HomeVisit 05/01/2010 - Wintergreen Ascent 2010 | Individual Time Trial | Pro/Cat 1/2 | |1 Joseph Dombrowski 259375 32:16.7 255 Haymarket Bicycles
― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 28 April 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah but he raced in a cat 3/4 race last March.
― Mark C, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 10:18 (thirteen years ago) link
http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/05/news/uci-files-defamation-suit-against-floyd-landis_171011
these ppl are really as dumb as boxes of rocks wtf.
i does not make me feel good to have to root for flandis, but there it is.
― the entire premise of your tweet is incorrect (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
christ
RIP weylandt
― my other username is a finest (cozen), Monday, 9 May 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
One year ago Wouter Weylandt won stage 3 of the Giro. This year, may he rest in peace.
― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Monday, 9 May 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't say anything more RIP Wouter
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 9 May 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
terrible news.
― the entire premise of your tweet is incorrect (Hunt3r), Monday, 9 May 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Not sure how accurate but a journalist friend said WW was OTB and looking back to see who else was there with him to rally back in contact with the peloton, while looking back he clipped his pedal on a low stone guard wall and fell 60 feet over a switchback onto the road below, probably broken neck. His wife is pregnant with their first child. 26 years old. Awful news.
― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Monday, 9 May 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
oh god
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Monday, 9 May 2011 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
just watched the footage on Eurosport, really disturbing. RIP Wouter :((((
― zappi, Monday, 9 May 2011 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
jesus
xps
― my other username is a finest (cozen), Monday, 9 May 2011 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Not good at all - just saw it on Eurosport (which I'd recorded) and his neck might well have been broken (I fast forwarded away from it, tbh)
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 9 May 2011 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't saw I'll be watching the highlights of this.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 9 May 2011 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Millar:“I will wear the pink jersey tomorrow, but it will be in memory of Wouter, there is no celebration or glory, only sadness. I will discuss with Tyler [Farrar], Leopard and the family of Wouter what we as a peloton will do tomorrow.”
I can imagine it will be along the lines of:http://bit.ly/iwVzvQ
― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Monday, 9 May 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
given that ppl say upcoming descents are super scary, will they re-route any?
― the entire premise of your tweet is incorrect (Hunt3r), Monday, 9 May 2011 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I was wondering that, especially for that one before the Zoncolan that somebody (maybe you?) linked to (in a youtube Gazzetto dello Sport clip)
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 9 May 2011 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
velonews reporting confirmation of shastas takehttp://velonews.competitor.com/2011/05/news/crash-witness-‘weylandt-was-catapulted-across-the-road’_172140
― my other username is a finest (cozen), Monday, 9 May 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Clarification: there was not a 60 ft. over the railing fall, he clipped the short wall on the outside and then sharply careened across the narrow road headfirst into the rocky cliff face "very hard" according to all witnesses. Also, GF not wife.
What a loss. Tomorrow will be very heavy.
Official team statement:http://www.leopardtrek.lu/
― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Monday, 9 May 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Garmin-Cervelo’s Tyler Farrar released a statement Monday afternoon about the death of his friend Wouter Weylandt:
I am unbearably saddened by the loss of Wouter today. As many know, he was my friend, training partner, and in many ways, another brother to me.
His death marks an irreparable change in my life but more importantly, in the lives of his family and most loved. Wouter was one of the kindest, funniest, and most admirable people I have ever had the opportunity to know and his death is a tragedy to his family, his friends, and to the sport as a whole.
I can only convey my deepest of sympathies to everyone who cared about him as deeply as I did, especially his family, his friends, his team and his fans – we celebrate his life and morn his death in equal measure.
Wouter was and is the soul of this sport we all love – an athlete who sacrificed himself for the better of many and a champion who celebrated each glory as a victory for his family, his team, and his friends and fans.
I will remember him always, and will always strive to do him proud, as he has always done for the sport and people he loves.
― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Monday, 9 May 2011 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
just terrible, i don't really know what else to say that hasn't been said already.
i can imagine there might be pressure to re-route that zoncolan stage so they don't go up and down the crotsis - apparently they were looking at ski nets for the descent anyway? but then, if it was caused by him looking backwards then it could happen anywhere.
― hootch (haitch), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://twitpic.com/4vtf0p/full
― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 11:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Stage will be neutral.
― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 11:10 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeYMzIk-aHM
― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
That was heartbreaking. Tyler Farrar's face at the end says it all.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
http://twitpic.com/4vzxa1
― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
heard of ppl riding 108miles/km in tribute
― my other username is a finest (cozen), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
way to go world championship sports network
― the entire premise of your tweet is incorrect (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
The original clip was Italian, try this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=VkJw1s0vvek
― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/notes/leopard-trek/leopard-trek-will-leave-giro-ditalia/161538327244198
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
that's leopard-trek withdrawn then
stage 5... this is where the giro heats up this year right?
― LDDDDLWLDDLDL (cozen), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 11:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I lived in Pisa for a couple of years, so a lot of yesterday's stage/procession was on roads I knew. (I appreciate this is not the most important thing about recent events, but just thought I'd mention it)
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
livetext made the stage sound tremendous; looking forward a bunch to the highlights
― LDDDDLWLDDLDL (cozen), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
A moving article:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/jonathan-vaughters/to-live-and-be-alive
― Mark C, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Paypal Donations to support Wouter's family
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
what's the board's take on the crostis descent then? I see they're going to look into it
― LDDDDLWLDDLDL (cozen), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I wouldn't be surprised is the peleton either rides together that day or stops at the top to descend slowly together.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
^ I can't see that happening, to be honest. The climb of the crostis will have split things up too much. The descent does look terrifying, though. But having said that, there were some terrifyingly steep, twisty and wet descents last year - I remember Nibali charging off alone on one of them. The thing is, the descent on Monday wasn't especially steep or tricky - it was relatively straight and fast. The tragic thing is he was looking over his shoulder.
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Today's stage was good, the Strade Bianche made for some great racing again. Millar did very well to chase back on to the leading group, especially considering how cut up he was from his crash, but then blew up on the climb to the finish line.
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
One thing that I think will come in to play...
WW's death came very early in the race before massive time gaps had virtually eliminated the pretenders from the contenders.
By the time Crostis figures large, it will be pretty evident who is in GC contention and thus, who is willing to risk their lives to maintain balls-out speed on the descents versus those who will ride more within their limits.
― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
This potentially gets tied up in the radio issue. The piece in today's guardian about the crotsis has a quote from Sean Yates(I think) about being led down he son plan by a teammate telling him what to expect. Not that the radio issue had anything to do with wouter's death but I think that it's added to an already charged issue relating to rider safety.
Even in the absence of this tragedy I would have been surprised not to see some kind of protest at the giro and the tour over he radio issue.
It's a tough call though. Nibali is an exceptionally talented descender and if coming down off the crotsis could win the giro for him; would you ask him to hold back to make a point?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
They don't have a radio ban in the Giro, do they? I thought it had only been phased in to lower category races so far.
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
No radio ban at world tour, grandtour or HC level yet but it's slated for next year IIRC.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/Kermithimself/226725_10100207719400577_12605091_49433476_1118426_n.jpg
ewwwwww
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link