Kris Flatlander

First of all just to bring down the level of intelligence that seems to have already been lacking in the above quoted post it would be "leech" not "leach". As for Levi being "scum sucking" and a freeloader, how much more off the mark can you get, you must have only watched the last 5-7 km of the stage where Landis started taking pulls to tighten his lead on the yellow jersey due in part to the fact that he'd been sitting off the last while before. Not saying Landis didn't do his work just saying he did it at a different time. Levi played his tactics almost perfect in todays stage (except for his final corner exit, but whatever) and it's petty that a guy like you wants to try to take that away from him simply because you can't seem to pay attention to an entire stage. It was Rasmussen and Boogerd who did most of the work today and they deserve some major props, thumbs up to Menchov for dedicating the win to them.

adamastor

Wrong. Leipheimer attacked in the last climb. it was not his job to "lead" the top 5 group. He's not after GC at the moment...

I was anti-Leipheimer, but he made a very clever race yesterday...could become the trouble maker in the Alps, because if he goes off for a mountain stage, T-Mobile Phonak and CO will be forced to work to catch him...

Nice perspective, very nice...

adamastor

Who's Horner?

Sorry, but didn't see him in stage 11, Evans always looked totally his own.

adamastor

True

adamastor

That would be new...who says? OLN?

meb

21%

roadwarrior

Victor Hugo Pena.

Hitchy

....& that would be because it wasn't legal!......Geez, dunno what you seppo' s learn as junior racers, obviously not much about the rules. Any half competent junior will be able to tell you that your TT bars have to be on the same 'plain' as your seat......I'm staggered that Phonak thought they could get away with, perhaps they thought no-one would notice....what?...at TDF...who are they kiddin'....why do you think Floyd hasn't kicked up much of a fuss?...cos he knew it was illegal, thats why......you guys would probably think he was being 'picked on' if they weighed his bike & it came in at 6.6KG???

Hitchy

only about half those that inhabit this forum.......the other half have a clue

Hitchy

yeah....most blokes pretend to be suffering after losing 6 minutes in the ITT.....you're hilarious

meb

Anyone know why Rabobank had Rassmussen pull first then Boogerd? I would have thought the other way around so the Chicken could get more KOM points.

paednoch

Kris Flatlander...I meant leach as is sucking the energy or to emty or drain. Sorta like this........ "living in canada is like living in a world leached of pleasure" Or "kris flatlander is the grammer police and apprears to be someone leached of all modesty".


Attacking is not the same as taking a pull at the front. No doubt Levi was trying to leach energy out of the other riders.

adamastor

Aha, what about Julich, is he Australian?

Hitchy

Nope...he's not good enough to be an Oztralian

adamastor

Aaaaah, good ol' days with true Ozzie Phil Anderson. i miss him, snif... what's he up to? Commenting down under???

Have a nice day

Hitchy

nope...he'll be at the tour....takes buses full of rich fat seppo's & makes them ride up ridiculous hills...mate of mine works for him doing daily 'logistics' etc...actually, I'm hoping for a 'gig' myself next year

meb

No-he never was a stage winner.

merlinextraligh

Jeff Pierce.

adamastor

That was not the question. Out of the following list, Julich was obviously missing
Bob Roll
Jonathon Vaughters
Fred Rodriguez (won a Giro stage)
Christian Van de Velde
Chris Horner
Ron Keifel (won a Giro stage)
Andy Bishop
Norman Alvis
Chann McRae

meb

Yes it was. Take a look again-Dail_Tones' assertion was that he had the complete list of 7 American TDF winners, which he did.

He acknowledged he did not have the complete list of non-winners. As the answer was presented as an exception taken to Dial_tones’statement (rather than as a supplement of information), the exception has to be in contrast to his statement. As the only assertion Dial_Tone had on the table to which an exception could be take was the assertion of completeness of winners, that was the pending question.


If the answer was presented as these American Tour riders failed to win a stage:
ANDREU Frankie
BOYER Jonathan
BOYER Jonathan
BRADLEY Jeff
CARMICHAEL Chris
CARTER Mike
GREWAL Alexis
HEIDEN Eric
HORNER Christopher
JEMISON Marty
Julich, Bobby
KNICKMAN Roy
LIVINGSTON Kevin
PIERCE Jeff
SHAPIRO Doug
TRENTI Guido

The response would have been properly directed to the list of non-stage winners.

acorn_user

Let me quote Mr. T:
"SHUT UP FOOL!"
The french are probably still disappointed that they didn't manage a stage win yesterday. And the world cup final thing too.

reef58

I am not sure what his teamboss said, but saying he lost only 6 seconds is insane. I just saw a picture of him standing on the road waiting for a bike, probably more than 6 seconds just for that.

Imagine you are crusing on your TT bike at 30mph. You have to slow down to 0 mph, get another bike, get clipped in, and get back up to 30mph. If you can do that in 6 seconds you are the man!! I doubt Floyd can go from 0 to 30 alone in 6 seconds, especially during a time trial. That would burn up a huge amount of energy.

Richard

maalea

Great list. Some names I forgot and some I don't quite remember. One thing, was Trenti a *true* american?
Wasn't he born in Italy with one parent american, raised italian and it was easier to make the olympics as an american, so he went with that side of his heritage.

Kris Flatlander

Oh, well that's my mistake I guess. So you mean leach as in something along the lines of "I wish America was leached of all intolerant bigots who reinforce untrue stereotypes of neanderthals on the American people"?

Alekhine

Doppelgangers spoiling the race! (Please ignore this ridiculous post. Thanks.)