Whenever I bonk I'm not so flash the next day. How come he can ride out of his skin?

Hope Flansid wins by 15 minutes. Cadels a cat.

Did you see how dopey the peleton were going down the hill. Thank gawd Voight hopped on the front to get them going. :rolleyes:

He should stop again and change to his yellow bike

I only started watching it full on when 24 finished. A mate rang up and said Flandis changed a bike at the top of one of the climbs? Said the commentators said he might be grabbing a heavier bike. Is that allowed? If so why not have funny decending bikes with 125cc GP bike tires on them to rail the downhills then swap out to a climbing bike at the bottom of the hills?

Cadels GAWN....No podium this year :(

Seppos unpwn3d.

Woo hoo. Yeah. Yeehah. Wooo Woooooo. Go Lanc...Landis. Sorry, caught in the moment.

That yellow bike jinxed Landis.

Evans dropped back that fast back to Periero and co. I thought he was George Hincrapie for a second.

I know, I exaggerate.

Guess the suitcase wasn't quite empty was it now?

Ned Flanders is not Floyd, Ned is that Doc Ray or Doc Oc guy who is crazy
for Cervelo and had the what would Ivan basso do sig. he's a cannuck to boot.

Euro has been served up a nice big plate of crow after his
cackling yesterday, for dessert he needs a nice big ol' slice of humble pie
(like that's gonna happen).

As for the sunglass breakage ugly photo's stuff, they tried to
post the same shiite here but it got removed to the bin.

have a nice day,

marty

Floyd must have still had some courage from his carry on luggage.

tyvm....:D

Nah, I reckon he was over at Bjaarn's place for dinner the nite before ;)

The only thing I can say in FLandis' behalf is if as
reported he didn't bonk (not good to do that the
nite before a big race either), ok hit the wall,
but he was suffering heat exhaustion or heat stroke
than recovery from that is pretty rapid with IVs
( I did NOT say peds) and lots of water/fluid intake.

Bjarne wasn't too happy today, guess Flandis won't be
over for a barbie (Braii Vlais) tonight.

marty

as muhc as i still dont like the guy, top ride. if the peloton is stupid enough to let him get back that much time they deserve to get beaten.

I still think cadels a chance for a podium. hes not that far off Kloden.

and with news from compact - crank gate i checked last night and its a 39 small ring so at least i manage to mantain some shred of dignity..... dont it? :o

this is certainly one crazy tdf.
I guess it all goes down to the time trial.
Why did they let Landis get such an advantage?

Yer fair dinkum dreaming though.

so were all the lance, i mean bandwagon, i mean go use oh i mean landis supporters befor eyesterda.y hes a chance, not a certainty.

Respect to Landis for a gutsy ride.

Thought the peleton was pretty shabby in not getting a chase organised earlier tho. Props to O'Grady too for hanging in the break for so long - even when Landis joined them and upper the pace.

one insane ride by Ned, bloody awesome to watch !! He's fave for yellow for sure now. He can TT like a mother****er.

I still dont get how it was allowed to happen..?

No Tour patron.....first time since 1999. Lots of looking at each other, by both riders and team DS's.

Everyone assumed he would crack and just marked time with the main objective - knocking off the yellow jersey.

Pereiro's team wasn't strong enough to counter Floyds break if they wanted too.

It only became obvious that Floyd was likely to carry on when everyone reached the last climb, and then it was far too late.

Dundee: 'that's not a suitcase...'
that's an atomic dustbin of courage

and I couldn't have been more wrong about Sastre

The whole race so far has been a litany of failure by various teams to capitalise on advantages and of poor tactical decisions.

Pretty amazing stage, though. Caught an interview with Landis on Eurosportnews this morning - if anyone gets Foxtel, have a look and check out the guy's eyes, they are seriously scary.

When I said late 80s early 90s guru I was talking about your clothes and haircut:p

Just read the whole Stage 17 thread. There's chunks all over my screens and keyboard.

Do yers think if Cadel was doing what Landis did today we'd be so pathetic?

Not in quite the same vomit inducing style, I think.