Doping joke coming in 3...2...1...

Been using "the Queen" for three seasons now. The only downside is that it can bleed through a thin chamois and grease up the seat a bit. This is only a problem riding no-hands on a TT bike with a nose down seat during a hot summer day.

I slid off. Yes I did.

dang. that's it, my secret to getting 27th place in cat4 crits is out! I really need to hide all of my EPO suppositories better.

No I saw the race correctly...the question was asked "what was the point of putting Popo up the road" and I answered it. The point was to have him ready and waiting when the main group (that should have included Levi) caught them. Levi then would have had some help to get him to the last few kilometers. The plan fell apart when Levi failed to make the break.

True that Popo was pretty far up the road but at the point that Levi flatted the call should have gone out for Popo to get ready to come back to help. Popo buried himself yesterday and will be needed tomorrow if Levi has any chance to gain back some time...will he have any thing left? He looked shattered when Sastre passed him..utterly defeated. It seems to me that going for a stage win when your main GC threat is faltering is pretty pisspoor tactics. Astana, for all the talk of them being the best stage race team on the planet, sure hasn't demonstrated that kind of brilliance in the Giro. They are looking more Ferrari without Braun and Schumacher than the all conquering stage racing team of old.

You realize statements to the press don't always reflect reality. The fact remains that levi got dropped and lance didn't help him for quite a while. Just because members of the team are trying to pretend that everything is runnnig smoothly in astana doesn't make it so. Neither JB nor levi are lying lance did help him all the way to the finish but he didn't drop back until levi had lost a lot of time. Why?

how does that cocoa butter hold up on hot days at over 3 hours? That is when mine needs refreshing.

did you see that stage? Friere could have won it easily.

pure gold.

Because Elvis and JFK told him not to, obviously.

'BF Credibility' has to be the Oxymoron of 2009, and it's only May.

Excellent. Stuff is persistent. Just rinsing in water won't get rid of it, and it's so bleeping inexpensive that you don't blanche at big glops when needed.

See, you're wrong again...er...wait.

Nope, can't argue with that.

You'll have to excuse me now, I have to go fill an order for snow shovels in Hades.

I'm pretty sure the D.S. knew how people were feeling. Levi had two teammates with him at the base of that final climb. Lance had the legs, and the other either didn't, or chose to let things go. I'm pretty sure all concerned thought that Popovych had the stage in the bag and told him to go for it. In hindsight, it looked just as bad as Cervelo's choice the previous day, and I wouldn't be surprised if we were to learn that Astana were trying to avoid potentially stealing the same sort of defeat from the jaws of victory on this one. Who knows - if it were 5 degrees cooler, it might have worked.

I bought two tubs from Amazon on your recommendation. Been using it for 2.5 seasons now and, even with my liberal application, I still haven't gone through my supply.

+1 to the stuff lasting a long time, too. I can't just rinse it off my hands once I'm finished applying the product... I wipe my hands off on the dog's towel.

Try the dog instead. Mine seem to like the flavor.

Um, what do you use cocoa butter for?

According to botto, it never really snows there.

it's his hillbilly chamois butter.

Might have to give it a try.

I can only presume this means you won't be coming to my BBQ.

don't. next thing you know, you'll start referring to yourself in the third person.

Pcad says go for it.

Gotta be better than nothin' right?

We prefer redneck butt butter. Hillbilly would indicate the presence of hills (like Palin, I can see Russia from here), and a word like chamois would indicate a public school system based on something other than football.

If I don't come, what will I do with all this coleslaw?

Ex believes the benefits of the product in question outweigh the presumed pomposity of third person singular references.

the tingling is quite refereshing.
http://www.manekineko.us/catalog/ima...rs_enlarge.jpg

http://www.livestrong.com/lance-arms...-2602d9d33a92/

http://www.cervelo.com/news.aspx?t=T...=TeamNews#1575

Technically, Pauwels didn't stop on the final climb, he stopped after the descent but he was asked to stop while leading the climb on a solo breakaway. This could have been his only stage win ever in a GT. But he gave it up...