July 21, Stage 18: Pinerolo - Galibier Serre-Chevalier 189km

Captain Havoc

70kg, that's more than me. I think he should cut out the cake.

D3PO

yep hes looking good. getting a nice bit of help from his former teammate Monfort aswell id guess

AG2R

Captain Havoc wrote: »

70kg, that's more than me. I think he should cut out the cake.

It's one stone lighter than me :pac:

D3PO

Bouet burning past the dropped riders from the lead group. some of those lads look spent already. not long before they are in the groupetto

CramCycle

AG2R wrote: »

It's one stone 6.35kg lighter than me :pac:

FYP

AG2R

Hoogerland blessing himself

mahoo

strange moment to see leopard trek with 2 men driving the break, 2 men driving the peleton and 2 men being dropped by the peleton... nice tactics lads.... and of course 2 men gazing in to each others eyes


nico needs more weight! i find my 89kg ideal for descending ;-p

Pherekydes

Don't look around, Nico, keep it going.

Aoibheann

Andy Schleck on the attack! Finally, a Schleck does something interesting..

ThisRegard

Somethings happening !

D3PO

the fun begins !!!

Bottleopener

Massive attack by AS! He has absolutely noone following him now!

Surprised at how easy that was!

kmart6

Surprised Andy has jumped there!!

Anyone notice Frank smiling at him as he took off?!

obried26

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooo Andy GO!

mahoo

'andy schleck attacks and he's looking in the right direction' - great the action is starting so early!

C3PO

Brilliant ..... maybe he's finally growing some ....!

D3PO

piss poor attempt there by bertie. Andy Shleck your a boring bastard but take a bow

dastardly00

Aoibheann wrote: »

Andy Schleck on the attack! Finally, a Schleck does something interesting..

I think I need a defibrillator! :pac:

ThisRegard

AC has eventually woken up to it, getting interesting now. He doesn't look very comfortable though.

kmart6

John.Icy wrote: »

I found it ineresting when I found out Roches weight..on the ag2r website he's listed as 70kg, so he's gained a little from the Vuelta where he dipped under 70kg and he climbed much better than he ever has before. Compare to a climber such as John Gadret, who weighs 59kg. So Roche is abit heavy this tour to survive with the lighter guys up the mountains. This of course goes out the window if it's a case Ag2r haven't updated their profiles since a long time ago.


Roche looks comfy enough in the break.

There was a close up of him awhile ago and kinda thought to myself he had a bit of a belly on him...obviously doesn't put just bigger than the typical climber I guess!

AG2R

Jasus Schleck got 35 seconds

OldPeculier

kmart6 wrote: »

thought to myself he had a bit of a belly on him...obviously doesn't put just bigger than the typical climber I guess!

I say the same thing to myself every morning as I walk past the mirror pushing my bike out the front door:D

Aoibheann

AG2R wrote: »

Jasus Schleck got 35 seconds

I think he has a minute now! Or close enough to it..

obried26

I think this is a really smart move from Leopard. If Andy can bridge the gap to his team mates in the break away, he could put some serious time in to the other guys.

AstraMonti

It doesn't matter if he fails at this point, at least he fecking tried for once!

JoeyJJ

Yeah the Leopard trek guys up the hill will sacrife themselves once he gets up to them. Stiff neck looking good.

mahoo

could work really nicely.. there in seperate groups now so they could act like stepping stones. posthuma for the descent and monfort for the next climb

petethedrummer

Surely they will catch Andy on the first descent?

CramCycle

He's got 2 minutes up already,

Colonialboy

Andy is hoping the stage will be nullified after he hits the top of the col d'izoard. post race press confererence I predict AS "you see I won the race to the top of the mountain but they caught me on the descent and then left me behind on the Galiber, you see I told you no one wants to see the TDF decided on decents "