Tour de Suisse Stage 5 **SPOILER**

mididoctors
mididoctors Posts: 18,908
edited June 2010 in Pro race
no idea what's going on... stage start protest by the bunch vs Cavs attitude
"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/t ... test-26610
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    90km to go - five with 3.30 lead - Burghardt, Oss, Maaskant, Furlan and Aramendia
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  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    i hope the riders are going to protest about that slippery white line that brought down a rider just at 42km to go. lethal
  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    bloody hell, rider in the crowd!
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Spectators taken out, big time! Lotto man hurt bad.
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Missed that. Any news on who?
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  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    oh my what has happened?
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) has just indicated to the television. He pointed to his Swiss national champion's jersey and then indicated 1-0. He's heard that Switzerland is leading Spain 1-0 at the world cup match in South Africa.

    :lol:
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    jimmythecuckoo wrote:
    oh my what has happened?
    No news. ES "still waiting on the rider".
    Nothing on the tcker which is in German. Worse than useless.

    I notice the Shack come to the front and slow the tempo down at every potential attacking spot.
    What's that all about, I wonder?
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Good move by Burghardt
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    some sort of pseudo patron thing

    Burghardt in the breakaway wins from Masskant as the peloton shuts down for the day
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    mididoctors wrote:
    some sort of pseudo patron thing

    Burghardt in the breakaway wins from Masskant as the peloton shuts down for the day

    Are you suggesting they were punishing Cav, or was he not in the Peloton by then?
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    calvjones wrote:
    mididoctors wrote:
    some sort of pseudo patron thing

    Burghardt in the breakaway wins from Masskant as the peloton shuts down for the day

    Are you suggesting they were punishing Cav, or was he not in the Peloton by then?

    more to do with the weather

    plus bringing it back for the sprint required HTC to do their thing..which they seemed unwilling to do


    uphill sprint

    cav in bad books

    cav probably aching all over

    could add up from a multitude of factors to having a day off
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    cav did seem to spend the day trying to apologies to cervelo...he took out one of their star riders

    not going to be popular
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    mididoctors wrote:
    cav did seem to spend the day trying to apologies to cervelo...he took out one of their star riders

    not going to be popular

    I think when you are such a prolific winner as Cavendish is, you don't expect to be that popular anyway....
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    mididoctors wrote:

    plus bringing it back for the sprint required HTC to do their thing..which they seemed unwilling to do

    uphill sprint

    cav in bad books

    cav probably aching all over

    could add up from a multitude of factors to having a day off

    HTC saving themselves to help Martin tomorrow is my guess (plus a few of them are good friends with Burghardt).
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    A few injuries for Lowik and none for the spectators fortunately.

    Pretty nightmare scenario to have your breaks malfunction.

    The video here shows it very well:

    http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/4562/ ... uisse.aspx
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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Thanks for the vid FF.

    Just out of interest is the Martin in your sig line Dan or Tony?
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Haha, it is actually both. I really like Dan Martin and want him to do very well, just as I do Sicard. He hasn't come that close to winning although he has put in good performances and shows.

    The win is for Tony in Cali TT yet, although I like him, I probably don't like him enough for him to be on the sig. So I may remove the win and leave the name for Dan.
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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    I see. If it was Dan I was going to ask what he had won this year as I don't remember him winning anything. I like him too, would like to see him get a big win, in fact I made a prediction to my girlfriend a year or so ago that he was going to be a big star of the future. My only concern is quite what sort of rider he wants to become, clearly he can climb but not sure if he's a fleche/lombardy type or alps/pyrenees type.
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