OT: Cycling; Tour of California (for Dominique)

[Cazzie]

In case you do not have the satellite station VERSUS in Europe, go here to follow the tour stages as they are happening. You will need the latest Flashplayer 10 (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/).

This is Lance's first stage race in his comeback year. All finished a minute behind Mancebo yesterday in horrid rainy conditions. Lance is in 5th at 1:05, with Lipheimer at 1:02 in 2nd.

http://tracker.amgentourofcalifornia.com/

Caz

 

[dominique]

I needed a little fresh air today, thank Caz :trophy:. I know the place, lived there for awhile in the 90's ... This aint the Tourmalet but there are some nice climbs here and there, north and south of the city.

BTW Bonnie Doon is a very nice strip to fly from/to in the Bay Area.

The feed is a little slow so back to reading

http://fry.cyclingnews.com/road/2009/feb09/california09/?id=/news/2009/feb09/feb16news3

and

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/02/16/Armstrongs_one-of-a-kind_bike_stolen/UPI-17961234811083/

 

[Daveroo]

i live about 35 miles from sacramento..the news focused alot on the amgen tour...im not at all into bikes.....but sure looked like alot of fun to me

 

[cheezyflier]

lance is cool and all, don't get me wrong. i would never want to make less of anything he has acomplished. however, when it comes to bicycle heroes the only race worth considering is this one:
http://www.raceacrossamerica.org/subwebraam/default.php?N_webcat_id=1

i needed to add, that next to raam, battle mountain rules, and of course, it is ruled by streamlined recumbents.

http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/whpsc2008/speedchallenge-2008.htm

 

[demorier]

On our early morning sports news in oz they talked about a news media journalist at an interview that called Armstong "a cancer of the sport". I don't know how much lower some of these jouno's can go. It was an incredibly dumb and stupid thing to say. I think it is associated with this latest Californian event.

 

[Cazzie]

On our early morning sports news in oz they talked about a news media journalist at an interview that called Armstong "a cancer of the sport". I don't know how much lower some of these jouno's can go. It was an incredibly dumb and stupid thing to say. I think it is associated with this latest Californian event.

Sounds like sour grapes to me, maybe he's sore that Lance will be back in the TdF this year and Robbie McEwen's chances will be slim and none.

Caz

 

[dominique]

Sounds like sour grapes to me, maybe he's sore that Lance will be back in the TdF this year and Robbie McEwen's chances will be slim and none.

Caz

kind words Caz, I find these comments nauseating. I'm personally NOT looking forward to see the Lance Amstrong machine in the next TdF but he is one of the great name of this sport and deserves admiration for what he has achieved.