Posted in Road Racing, tagged chris horner, cycling, cycling fans, lance armstrong on February 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
You’ve all seen or heard about Lance Armstrong taking out the goofball with the fake syringe on stage 4 of the Tour of California. If you haven’t here’s the first picture:
I guess that is some sort of Livestrong/Bee/Devil outfit. My favorite part is the next picture. If you look in the background you see Horner [...]
Posted in Road Racing, tagged cycling, Mark Cavendish, tom boonen, tour of california on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Remember this picture from the Scheldeprijs Vlaanderen last year? Tom Boonen started celebrating too early and Cavendish pipped him at the line. It was one of my favorite shots last year. I like it almost as much as the one of Erki Zabel striking a pose at the 2004 Milan San-Remo. Only to get beat [...]
Posted in Road Racing, tagged cycling, tour of california on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cavendish doesn’t look like he’s having fun.
Freire’s face is classic. He’s wishing he had the leadout train.
Posted in Road Racing, tagged cycling, George hincapie, Mark Cavendish, Road Racing, tour of california on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thor Hushovd takes it! What a great leadout by Cervelo, textbook. I can’t say the same for Columbia. Big George thought he was dragging Mark Cavendish to the line, only to find Cav was nowhere to be found. Ooops. Great win for Thor. I know Columbia will not allow that sort of mistake to happen [...]
Posted in Road Racing, tagged cycling, Levi Leipheimer, tour of california on February 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My only complaint about Levi in the past has been what appears (to me anyway) be his “grinding away” style of racing. There has never been any doubt about his abilities, he just hasn’t been overly exciting to watch outside of a time trial. Today he changed all of that by putting on a climbing [...]
Posted in Road Racing, tagged cycling, Road Racing, tour of california on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Did you know that Jurgen van de Walle and Vincenzo Nibali, the riders that finished 2nd and 3rd respectively in yesterday’s stage, were not credited with the 1 minute gap they had on the chasing group? Apparently only the winner gets the time? I know there was controversy last year when there was a crash [...]
Posted in Road Racing, tagged cycling, mancebo, Road Racing, tour of california on February 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What a great finish to what seemed to be an epic stage. I had no feelings for Mancebo as a cycling fan before today, but it was awesome to see him pull out the win after being out front for so long. I have no clue (okay maybe a small one) if Rock Racing has the mojo [...]
Posted in City of Santa Clarita, Road Racing, tagged cycling, George hincapie, lance armstrong, tour of california on February 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well the prologue was pretty fun to watch, even with the hour of “pre-race” /non-race coverage. You can’t count Cancellara out of any time trial, regardless of distance and Saturday was no different (Apparently he was sick too!). Although, when I saw Levi in the start house, I figured he’d win it for sure. He [...]
Posted in Road Racing, tagged cycling, lance armstrong, Road Racing on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I know Armstrong isn’t a huge guy, but he looks downright small in this picture with his U23 team. I think Armstrong is about 5′ 10″, and he is taller than a lot of pros out there.
Are the days of the “slight” pro cyclist over? If these kids can climb, forget about it.
