Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. Stage 1. *Spoiler*

frenchfighter

So far we have:

José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Caisse d'Epargne): 16'12"59.
William Bonnet (Bbox Bouygues Telecom)
Sebastian Lang (Silence Lotto)
Lars Ytting Bak (Saxo Bank)

Gesink got: 16'38''

75 or so riders have started.

Most of the big guns don't start until after 5.

frenchfighter

Rosseler in first: 16'09''62

frenchfighter

Boonen is off, 1min behind Rabon. Millar in 9 mins, Evans in 13, Contador in 14, Basso in 16, Grabsch in 18 and Valverde in 20.

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Top ten seperated by only a bunch of seconds.

frenchfighter

Millar is on a road bike for some reason...first I've seen.

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Nibali 0.46 secs off 1st

frenchfighter

CONTADOR'S BIKE IS SICK!!!! Custom black and white pattern.

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Rabon 3rd, Milliseconds.

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Top 10 seperated by 9 secs.

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Boonen 58th.

frenchfighter

Contador's bike is unreal. Pure style even down to matching stem and white handlebars.

frenchfighter

Evans first on KOM. 3 secs up on Contador at that marker. Basso going well.

frenchfighter

Millar 7th. A TT bike would have made the difference...

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Wow...Grabsch nearly hit the deck due to high speed wobble but controlled it well.

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EVANS 33 SECS FASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Beats Contador by 7 secs!!!

Must be the Walser...

They are a class apart to put that much time into everyone else though.

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Basso a minute off.

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Grabsch 55 secs off.

blazing_saddles

A one man posting frenzy?
Ho-hum. This training lark is far better than racing.
Eurosport: "Cadel Evans looks overweight,"
"Cadel Evans has been out of competition for over a month,"
"Cadel Evans needs this race to get into shape,"
"Look at this, Cadel Evans blows the leading time to pieces."

Where's he been hiding?

frenchfighter

EVANS @ 15.36

CONTADOR @ 8

VALVERDE @ 23

ROSSELER @ 33

NIBALIi @ 34

RABON @ 34

KNEES @ 34

VAUGRENARD @ 36

GUTIERREZ @ 33

MILLAR @ 37

iainf72

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Where's he been hiding?

Cuddles weighs 2kg more than Bertie according to Wikipedia.

Does this mean it's ok for him to hand everyone their asses in TT without suspicion?

blazing_saddles

iainf72 wrote:

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Where's he been hiding?

Cuddles weighs 2kg more than Bertie according to Wikipedia.

Does this mean it's ok for him to hand everyone their asses in TT without suspicion?

Just 12kms and with a 4th cat climb. Yet Basso, fresh from the Giro, loses over a minute!
Most around here, still think he's dubious.

Obviously, Lotto's crap season has been a cunning plan to hide where they've spent all that money they saved on Quasimodo Kohl.......

FOAD

Valverde forgot to "top up"?

pottssteve

Evans must have elevated wheel sucking to a new level; chasing the guy who started a minute earlier...

Either that or he WAS NOT WHEEL SUCKING :shock:

Nice ride for the squeeky one.

flattythehurdler

I'd send him off first. He'd get lost.
Good ride though.

The Dr

Blazing Saddles wrote:

iainf72 wrote:

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Where's he been hiding?

Cuddles weighs 2kg more than Bertie according to Wikipedia.

Does this mean it's ok for him to hand everyone their asses in TT without suspicion?

Just 12kms and with a 4th cat climb. Yet Basso, fresh from the Giro, loses over a minute!
Most around here, still think he's dubious.

Obviously, Lotto's crap season has been a cunning plan to hide where they've spent all that money they saved on Quasimodo Kohl.......

WTF?? Ahh my bad...of course if someone wins a race then they MUST be dirty
Basso?....Just finished a very tough Giro. Do you think he might be just a little tired and lacking in motivation? How about credit where it's due. Contador and Evans road great races. Simple as that. Nothing more nothing less.

iainf72

Basso had to change bikes twice in the TT, which is why he lost so much time

moray_gub

iainf72 wrote:

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Where's he been hiding?

Cuddles weighs 2kg more than Bertie according to Wikipedia.

Does this mean it's ok for him to hand everyone their asses in TT without suspicion?

Has DaveyL been on yet to fling some Paris -Nice style mud at him yet , if so must have missed it..

DaveyL

As has already been stated, the parcours was far from flat, hence you'd expect those who can climb to be near the top on this one, unlike the pan flat Paris-Nice prologue.

MG, if you want to fling mud, why not go back to the last time we brought this up and answer the points I made, or would you rather just stick to taking smart-arse little pot shots on every prologue thread that comes up?

frenchfighter

Damn! There is me thinking Contador has a custom TT bike then I see that Lance is riding what looks to be an identical design: http://twitpic.com/6y7z8

Can't tell so much and it could be in yellow but the design looks pretty similar. That is just rubbish.

moray_gub

DaveyL wrote:

As has already been stated, the parcours was far from flat, hence you'd expect those who can climb to be near the top on this one, unlike the pan flat Paris-Nice prologue.

MG, if you want to fling mud, why not go back to the last time we brought this up and answer the points I made, or would you rather just stick to taking smart-ars* little pot shots on every prologue thread that comes up?

One cat 4 climb my old granny (god rest her soul) could have blatsed up in the big ring .Id have expected you to be commenting on a few of the chunkier riders failure to have done better given how you dont seem take any factor into account expect size. Anyway subsequent races have shown how ridiculous and slanted your comments regarding the Paris Nice prologue really were.