Originally Posted by Grasschopper

I just got the latest Velonews in the mail and they have a little thing in the back talking about the Tour of CA. They tell a story about stage one where a bunch of the PT riders stopped for a nature break shortly before a mid stage sprint, did their buisness and then just casually grouped together and rode back to the peleton. They also gave an example of...Fast Freddie I think it was, having a mechanical...stopping to get it fixed and then casually rode back to the peleton. Then they went on to tell how domestic riders in the same situations were killing themselves to get back on and some couldn't do it.

To me it just goes to show the massive difference between even the domestic pros and the Euro pros. Those guys really are that much faster...or their drugs are better.