Haha! I'm so glad Schumacher is the second one. Serves him right if he gets banned for life now, the cunt.
― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link
if you were on gsteiner and knew you needed a new k, i guess the pressure was high? or were they always cheats?
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Is any US TV showing the Giro or have it online?
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Sunday, 10 May 2009 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
No worries: http://www.universalsports.com/
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Sunday, 10 May 2009 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Spectacularly well timed launch of the sprint by Pettachi, just the right moment to block Cavendish against the barriers. However second day in Pink for him so it isn't all bad.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Sunday, 10 May 2009 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
and Boonen gets caught on the gak again....
― problem chimp (Porkpie), Sunday, 10 May 2009 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I think he must like having july off.
Anyone know if the Tour is doing bonus seconds for stage wins this year?
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Monday, 11 May 2009 12:57 (fifteen years ago) link
dunno - but the route sucks, they need to be going through north east France some more so we can go see it with free accomodation, they haven't been in 4 years or so.
― problem chimp (Porkpie), Monday, 11 May 2009 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Next year is your year then, grand depart in holland and lots of flat through belgium and luxembourg.
this is my year though, Finish in Perpignan and Barcelona on consecutive days and that's where I can get free accommodation. (Also trying to get school to pay for the flights as I am going to a conference in Barcelona on the preceding weekend).
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Monday, 11 May 2009 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Also for this year, Valverde out because of the one stage that passes through italy where CONI have banned him.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Monday, 11 May 2009 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/indepth/landis/instantmessage.html
remember when? ha, good times yall good times.
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 05:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I am eternally amused by the block of cheese riders get with their spumante for a stage win.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I loved scarponi's slow down to the line and cheeky grin as he looked behind for the chasing group.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Thursday, 14 May 2009 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.theurbanshop.co.uk/multimedia/catalogue/images/OTHER/ynm0031.jpg
^crazy. in the wet too
― wilter, Saturday, 16 May 2009 13:03 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cyclingnews.com/photos/2009/giro09/?id=/photos/2009/giro09/giro097/2_0038632_1_thumb2
lol meant that
― wilter, Saturday, 16 May 2009 13:04 (fifteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8053657.stm
His bike was reportedly found around 60m away as paramedics recovered him from deep in a ravine.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Saturday, 16 May 2009 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Bradley Wiggins is still hanging on in there.
― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cycleto.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=973
i still think this is the best anglophone rider out there for race assessment.
im interested in hearing who's better tho.
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Monday, 18 May 2009 01:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Not pro, but pretty shitty:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8054215.stm
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Monday, 18 May 2009 02:19 (fifteen years ago) link
i love chris horner
― cutty, Monday, 18 May 2009 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.livestrong.com/lance-armstrong/video/lance-and-levi-talk-to-dave-zabriskie/bef12e89-651a-48fb-875a-ebbfe0b03389/rms/
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Saturday, 23 May 2009 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link
juan pelota has better sense of humor about it than i figgered
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Sunday, 24 May 2009 01:42 (fifteen years ago) link
di luca trying to break away from menchov here on the vesuvius climb is pretty entertaining!
― sous les paves, Friday, 29 May 2009 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Menchov looked pretty chuffed at the end there.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Friday, 29 May 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I normally find Cadel Evans to be the Prince of Boredom in the mountains, just defensively grinding his way up at a steady pace, following wheels and limiting his losses, but he was fantastically aggressive and attacking in the last two stages of the Dauphine Libere (trying to shake off soon-to-be-banned Valverde).
― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 15 June 2009 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah he's looking good hey.
happy moncoutie got that stage, always liked him.
― wilter, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 08:02 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i44.tinypic.com/j5gy01.jpg
― wilter, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 08:03 (fifteen years ago) link
everyone is expecting moncoutie to be nailed real soon
― cutty, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 11:27 (fifteen years ago) link
do ur sources say millar is back on the sauce because garmin needs a gc rider?
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
has VDV not recovered?
― cutty, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
ive a hard time believing he'll be ready in time, but maybe. dude sounded like a train wreck.
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
columbia high road is srsly unstoppable this year
― cutty, Sunday, 21 June 2009 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
serious bullshit right here:
http://blog.oregonlive.com/horner/2009/06/astanas_chris_horner_explains.html
― cutty, Friday, 26 June 2009 19:12 (fifteen years ago) link
mmm. i like horner, he's a PRO. he does as ordered and spends 100% as asked. if contador wanted the strongest team with a guy who follows management's orders, he'd demand horner. i think horner's take is right--and contador doesn't trust bruyneel. with paulinho, ac will have a guy who'll follow his own commands. and if ac jumps teams, he'll take his flunky too, anyway.
cant help but believe that if youre serious about winning gc, you take a team to back one guy 100% to win gc, no concessions.
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Saturday, 27 June 2009 04:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I've started this:Tour de France 2009As it's the one race a year that people who don't look at this board might actually want to post about.
― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i'd venture to say anyone that cares about the tour, except ned, already reads and posts here!
― cutty, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
why was dekker doping in december? is that like the auto doping layaway plan? if he were to bag blood in january, how long would it keep, doc gbx?
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
that's a good question, actually. i'm sure google could answer this, but: if he's banking blood, it's usually because the banked blood has a higher hematocrit (more RBCs), right? like from training at altitude or a course of EPO or something, yeah?
so basically the question is how well do RBCs age? their oxygen binding ability will degrade with time, as the hemoglobin denatures, which may be retarded by refrigeration (blood banks work, after all), but i dunno about 8 months. and freezing ~shouldn't~ work because the cells would lyse, i'm guessing. flash freezing, maybe?
basically i have no idea
― i want to marry a pizza (gbx), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
getting caught aside, i can't believe these guys are ok with putting blood that's been frozen for so long back into their bodies \(O_O)/
― wilter, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link
it's just blood
― i want to marry a pizza (gbx), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 23:40 (fifteen years ago) link
yuh true. do these dodge doctors typically have "commercial" (or whatev) grade storage for these guys' blood tho?
― wilter, Thursday, 2 July 2009 00:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm guessing that if you are providing an illicit service to professional athletes with money or sponsor's money to spend then yes you have institutional grade storage available.
― i want to marry a pizza (gbx), Thursday, 2 July 2009 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah and i think it was Kohl amongst others who was putting up his own cash for a centrifuge
― wilter, Thursday, 2 July 2009 00:41 (fifteen years ago) link
from what ive heard, the coaches will ask their riders to buy their own spinners so they can monitor easily. no facility needed for that.
― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Thursday, 2 July 2009 01:11 (fifteen years ago) link
serious bullshit right here:http://blog.oregonlive.com/horner/2009/06/astanas_chris_horner_explains.html― cutty, Friday, June 26, 2009 12:12 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalinkmmm. i like horner, he's a PRO. he does as ordered and spends 100% as asked. if contador wanted the strongest team with a guy who follows management's orders, he'd demand horner. i think horner's take is right--and contador doesn't trust bruyneel. with paulinho, ac will have a guy who'll follow his own commands. and if ac jumps teams, he'll take his flunky too, anyway.cant help but believe that if youre serious about winning gc, you take a team to back one guy 100% to win gc, no concessions.― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Friday, June 26, 2009 9:31 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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― iro with the brown bag (Hunt3r), Friday, June 26, 2009 9:31 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
can't believe that horner was dropped for a dude that probably won't finish the tour (scroll way down):
http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/LIVE/us/400/classement/index.html
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Watching Cancellara do his TT run at the worlds and he is in a completely different league from everyone else 38s in front at the first split.
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Thursday, 24 September 2009 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Wiggins looks done, I think he just had cancellara and Larsson come past in quick sucession.
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Thursday, 24 September 2009 14:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Although that still puts him in a fight for third with Tony Martin. the fact that cancellara is a minute ahead of a guy who is a minute ahead of everyone else is staggering.
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Thursday, 24 September 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
And that's it for Wiggins, bonked.
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Thursday, 24 September 2009 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, not him the bike, damn the lack of commentary on the universal feed.
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Thursday, 24 September 2009 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link