"The 33"-Road Bike Racing - Tour of California- stage 4 (spoilers etc)

Might as well get this one started.. lots of KOM points to be had.

Anyone find an interview with Cav or George yesterday? i wanna know what happened.. last night on the VS recap they seemed to think Cav just didn't have the juice

It's on and it's dry and sunny....... http://tracker.amgentourofcalifornia.com/

what are these colorful jerseys they seem to be wearing today ;) was getting used to the clear and black rain jackets and tryin to identify people by helmets and sides of the bibs

Stuey's in the break!

11:24 PST
The riders are passing by an orange grove. There seem to be a lot of bees - hopefully no one who is allergic will get stung.

To be followed shortly with "Tom Danielson stung by bee, drops out of race"

Flandis.

Go floyd!!!

Stuey's in the break!


11:52 PST
Karl Menzies (OUCH p/b Maxxis) and Floyd Landis (OUCH p/b Maxxis) are next to make the bridging attempt.


Sweeet. :D maybe Floyd will have another huge solo break today?:thumb:

11:24 PST
The riders are passing by an orange grove. There seem to be a lot of bees - hopefully no one who is allergic will get stung.

To be followed shortly with "Tom Danielson stung by bee, drops out of race"

really? where was that from? I'm watching the amgen tracker feed and nothing mentioned.

Hincapie is having a hell of a time getting back to the pack.

man these guys are trying to get a break away started but the peloton is having nothing of it, lot of hard efforts early on in the race...

Chad

Victor Hugo Pena (rock racing) abandons after spending much time at the medical car early today.

the whole peloton is strung out almost single file.

Chad

Strung the F out. These guys are flying!

sorry... second part about tom was a joke.. .should have italicized or something...

is that Christian VdV in the break of 5?

Hincapie's day today.

that break has to be brought back with him and vdv

Guess letting FL get away was too much stupidity to hope for.

is that Christian VdV in the break of 5?


Strung the F out. These guys are flying!

that's an understatement man is this a tough stage so far, look at the splits in the back of the peloton , looks like quite a few riders may get dropped today.

and that was VdV in the break with Hincapie that was brought back by Chechu rubirea (astana)


looks like a breakaway is finally established with landis in the breakaway

jens voight, horner, danielson all trying to chase back the break.

that means danielson didn't drop due to a bee sting lol.

Chad

Wishing for Floyd to just hammer down.....

200m uphill sprint. F that.

well-timed nature break for hamilton and co.

ya think the break will stick with Mancebo in it?

ya think the break will stick with Mancebo in it?

I don't think so with Astana chasing, there is plenty of flat land after the climbs to chase back.

Chad

Serge Pauwels -

In addition to cycling, Pauwels holds a bachelor's degree in Engineering and is working on his master's degree in Applied Economics. A graduate of the University of Antwerp he has always combined racing with studying.

Thats pretty rad !

^^ indeed awesome

wow.. they just voted Mancebo off the island haha BYEEEE

Great commentary:

"Team Astana on the front... continuing to ride."

Wow.

"Riding" means pushing the pace. When a DS sends his guys up to "ride" it means to push things and bring back the break.

In the documentary "Road to Paris", a young Vandevelde comes back to the team car as Johan is ordering Postal to chase down a break and he says to Johan, "So are we gonna ride?"

http://tracker.amgentourofcalifornia.com/

Good audio from the road between the riders and such.

Yea.. the audio off the motorcycles is pretty fun.. i wish the guys would turn their audio down a little bit so it's not so much louder over it or just stfu and listen a bit they might learn something

"Riding" means pushing the pace. When a DS sends his guys up to "ride" it means to push things and bring back the break.

In the documentary "Road to Paris", a young Vandevelde comes back to the team car as Johan is ordering Postal to chase down a break and he says to Johan, "So are we gonna ride?"

Silly me - I thought riding meant riding a bike.

na-na-naaa naaaa

na-na-naaaa naaaaa

heyy heyyy heyyyyyy

gooood-byeeeee

Yea.. the audio off the motorcycles is pretty fun.. i wish the guys would turn their audio down a little bit so it's not so much louder over it or just stfu and listen a bit they might learn something

they were trying to...

Mancebo sits up to rejoin the Peloton....to dangerous to the GC riders.

Chad

OO they did vote him off finally. that's gotta kinda suck for him

You! Get to the back.

Bullsh*t. Can't believe Mancebo left the break.

RR has a better chance of taking a stage without him in the break.

OO they did vote him off finally. that's gotta kinda suck for him

yeah his team told him to drop back, hes already leading the KOM, sprint jersey, and has won a stage....

and its funny that the "play by play" says hes popped:rolleyes:

Chad

it makes sense but ouch

Play-by-play says Mancebo popped :rolleyes:

He got his KOM points, that's all he was out for.

That break is not gonna stay away either way. Mancebo was at least trying to shake up the race.

Are you guys getting live video on the ToC site?

http://tracker.amgentourofcalifornia.com/

http://tracker.amgentourofcalifornia.com/

That is where I am, but the flash live video box shows a breakawayfromcancer.com picture. Maybe I don't have the latest flash player.

Edit: just checked - I have the latest flash player. Why can't I see video!
Edit2: My video just came on. Cool.

i'm getting two live video feeds - cameras 1 and 2

i can't tell from the video for sure, but does hamilton's jersey actually have more red/blue?

i'm getting two live video feeds - cameras 1 and 2

I get cameras 1 and 2 at times, but the whole feed is coming in and out. Probably a firewall issue or something else my company is doing.

i can't tell from the video for sure, but does hamilton's jersey actually have more red/blue?

He has stars and stripes on his jersey and shorts for the Road race champion of US

That is where I am, but the flash live video box shows a breakawayfromcancer.com picture. Maybe I don't have the latest flash player.

Edit: just checked - I have the latest flash player. Why can't I see video!
Edit2: My video just came on. Cool.

it has commercials of that so you must have started watching during the commercial.

wow look at the snow...and over 1,000 ft more of climbing to go.:eek:

Chad

Flandis! OUCH! Like really ouch.