Originally Posted by Paniolo

Careful ... your bias is showing Things have not changed, there will be courageous breakaways on every individual stage during this years tour ... both flat and mtn. The peloton has always been very adept at tracking the majority of these breaks down before the end. The reason breaks are more rare to succeed today has nothing to do with the evil Lance and everything to do with race radio and gps telemetrics in every team car. All of the teams have the exact distance and speed calculations available to map out exactly how fast they need to ride to catch the breaks and radio them up to their riders.