The productivity at the office is about to go to hell.

Both Alberto and Andy are very likable kids, I don't think Alberto has a bad bone in his body, ditto for Andy. Somewhat refreshing after TdF champs like Lance who were more barracuda-like.

I really don't know who to root for. I like Andy. And I've come to admire Alberto's demeanor and personality. He really put up with a lot of crap from Lance and Johann last year. I wouldn't have been as nice about it as he was. Please note that he is smart enough now to only say glowing and nice things about Lance in the media. He's not so dumb.

The fact that Alberto and Andy get along so well is refreshing for such fierce on the bike rivals. Makes the sport warmer and fuzzier. It sure could use some of that.

my favorite comment from pcad's article is "she came and she went"

i havent followed it but why is lance such a non story this year?

i remember last year BFers were ging on about how contador will be smacked down without a team and how he shot hmself in the foot by being such an arse to king lance. he'll regret it. you'll see. you'll all see.

I don't think they treated him too badly in that thread. I've seen worse.

:hug:

thats hilarious. you tell someone who knows you in real world to come in here? mighty silly. no one in the real world knows of my online nonsense.

He's 30 mins down on GC and not exactly lighting it up at the TdF. Respectable enough ride, but by the standards of a rider of his caliber, rather disappointing. Bad luck, crashes, etc. in the first week put him behind the 8 ball and I'm not sure even a 32 year old Lance would have bounced back from all that. Lance hung it up after that, tried to save something to go for a stage win. Got in the break the other day, but there were too many guys at the end, he doesn't have the snap in his sprint he once had, he only got 6th. He did appear to have the overall form, he finished 4th in the prolog TT, and in today's stage he finished considerably ahead of Levi on the Tourmalet, despite not exactly having the motivation to suffer a GC contender has.

I'm hoping he crushes that last TT and gets top 3, or at least top 5 or 10.

I'm still impressed. He may not have had enough to finish it off the other day, but he pushed. He has a lot of miles on that body, been through a lot, and he still rides with all but the top guys. Wonder how many of these younger guys will be able to do that at his age.

sounds like he just had bad luck at the beginning otherwise he would be up there as a contendor like last year.

What would Lance do? Get a good lawyer of course.

Hey pcad, can you post a photo of your joule set up? I installed one today on a (stationary) bike and couldn't see why/how you would put that on your bike without it getting in the way.

that reminds me. do most people have wired cadence? i bought a wireless computer and just assumed that meant the cadence would be wored too but it has a wire and i hate all that wiring making a mess everywhere. also make washing the bike more of a pain.

Not to mention they stole some of the technology for the Prius: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/07...rinsky-toyota/

I don't use cadence on any bike (have 2 wireless bikes, 1 wired bike).

In fact, the only function I really care about is the clock because my neighborhood Italian deli closes at 3PM on weekends and I like to get some eggplant parm. after my weekend rides.

All the other stuff isn't anything I don't know already (too fat for this sports, too slow for this sport).

Hey pCad, why are you so old?

my garmin 305 has a wireless cadence on both bikes, prior to that I had a double wired cateye.

Cadence specifically I find the most useful on the trainer. I do cadence intervals (1 min @ 80, 1 min @ 110 etc etc.)


As far as knowing people on BF. I regularly ride with one guy from the forums (steelycan?) He is on road but not in this thread. And have met/seen some of the 33ers at races. If Doomstock ever happens we will see Pcad in all his delusional glory.

Would they think less of you?

Big case to sign.

The Joule 2.0 is 1/3 the size of the Joule 3.0 that goes on stationary bikes. Google it.

Because I never got hit by the bus. I doubt most of you will be so friggin lucky.

I dislike him now, but I'd love to see him crush the TT and get on the podium. It's confusing. Like when Jordan put on the 45.

I think the treatment of Contador last year revealed the dark side of Lance. That sucked. Hard.

Oh well. Only my dog Sam is perfect.

Armstong came back when sastre won...He could beat those guys. The AS and AC show up and it all went downhill...too bad.

It actually would have been really interesting if there were no crashes and AC and AS were out. The competition would have been huge.

That Strickland books tells an innerrsting, albeit biased version of that. Although he does have moments of sanity when he (strickland) admits it must be hard to trust your team when it leaks they're all leaving