Tour de France 2011 talk

[pll]

Read on twitter about Cav & Thor being DQ'd in a sprint today. Anyone know why.

Also Johan was fined because of an unprofessional comment. USI just decided for this tour to change the seat position. A brand new rule. Didn't apply to other races and all the wind tunnel testing and training with the original seat position is thrown out the window. What gives with the UCI. Are they trying to be disliked?

~ JoAnn

I'd be surprised if Johan was the only one fined. It seems many of the teams were very upset and rightly so. The rule about the seats appears to be a bit vague, it had not been interpreted in that fashion the entire season... and then you force last minute adjustments that cold even injure a cyclist. Not logical.

[ny biker]

I'd be surprised if Johan was the only one fined. It seems many of the teams were very upset and rightly so. The rule about the seats appears to be a bit vague, it had not been interpreted in that fashion the entire season... and then you force last minute adjustments that cold even injure a cyclist. Not logical.

Riis was also fined.

http://johanbruyneel.com/blog/2011tdfblog3.html

[KnottedYet]

[beccaB]

I love the commercials.

[ny biker]

The really bad song in the Izod commercials is annoying me, as is the Cadillac commercial with the little boy riding his tricycle like a madman with no adult supervision. But I really like the Road ID commercials. Poor Bobke.

This is a nice article about CVV:

http://espn.go.com/blog/olympics/pos...-after-ttt-win

Also Chris Horner's blog is always a good read:

http://www.cascadegranfondo.com/blog...tting-it-close

[denda]

I love tour time!

[pll]

The really bad song in the Izod commercials is annoying me, as is the Cadillac commercial with the little boy riding his tricycle like a madman with no adult supervision. But I really like the Road ID commercials. Poor Bobke.

I will confess that I enter each year's giveaway for a a trip for the subsequent year's tour. In previous years, you had to 'spin' a wheel of fortune where you could win a yellow jersey. This year it is a "Clean Bottle" -- this is the first time I really don't want to win!

[malkin]

Thor de France!

(Because Thor is a god and McHugh pronounces "Tour" like "Thor" unless you think Thor is pronouced like "thorn" without the "n.")

[blue_angel]

This is completely awesome!

I've never watched the Tour before, and have always wondered what people liked about watching others ride bikes. But after skimming through the enthusiastic comments on this thread yesterday, I decided to watch the 8 pm Stage 5 broadcast. GRIPPING! Seriously, I am now obsessed. I'm preparing to turn the TV on in a few minutes to catch the live morning broadcast. You all have created a monster!

[Mako]

This is completely awesome!

I've never watched the Tour before, and have always wondered what people liked about watching others ride bikes.

I didn't get it either....I used to be like 'how can you watch three hours of this?'

Then I started riding and watching last year, and because of the tour endured one of the most 'unproductive' three weeks of my life!

[KatzPajamas]

This is completely awesome!

I've never watched the Tour before, and have always wondered what people liked about watching others ride bikes. But after skimming through the enthusiastic comments on this thread yesterday, I decided to watch the 8 pm Stage 5 broadcast. GRIPPING! Seriously, I am now obsessed. I'm preparing to turn the TV on in a few minutes to catch the live morning broadcast. You all have created a monster!

Never really understood what the hoopla was either until I began riding and found out how difficult it is.Talk about monsters...my husband takes a week vacation to watch the Tour, we buy the Versus access so we can watch it again at our whim...This year I am right there with him! Completely awesome!

[Trek420]

Go Norway! Thor will smash.

[rubysoho]

I was finally able to watch last night. The first thing I saw was each cyclist grabbing a bag of food and whatever else they had then a few proceeded to ride with no hands, staying ahead of others, and rearrange their goodies into their back pockets. How the heck do that do that?!?!? I am so jealous. I still wobble a bit when I drink my water and I definitely don't keep the same speed when I drink.