Hi guys,anyone else following this,i know you like your cycling pieter but not sure if your into road or just mtb?Getting ready for stage 4 now with a tin of Toque Lavender beside me. Simon
Hi Simon, I love all cycling although I mostly take part in mtb events. I do 2 or 3 road events in a year and about 12 mtb’s. Training is 90% mtb and 10% road. My road bike is a hybrid which is more mtb than road - GT ZUM - Zaskar Urban Machine. I’ve received an invitation from our Pedal Power Association to attend this year’s TdF and I’m seriously considering it! Results for the Giro D’Italia is, to me, a big indication of what to expect in the TdF and I always pick “my man” after the Italian race. Do you snuff while riding? I’m always a bit uneasy about doing so, I might end up with some tobacco juice spilling from my nose without me knowing about it!!! I will check out the Giro now. Cheers Pieter
Great post pieter,i have a road bike and a hybrid,take the hybrid out when it’s poor weather.Both my bikes are fairly low entry machines to match my skill level lol. The hybrid is a claud butler legend and the roadie is a claud butler san remo both 2008 models.I do on avg 25-30miles a day and i dont snuff while riding but i do have several large pinches before i leave out. Did you see stage 4 today,poor jens,out in the break all day and was caught with about 3km to go,thans jens for you and he will do it again lol.I think liquigas were setting it up for basso but he never went for it. Simon
I have cannondale mtb, but i dont follow cycling all that much… Although i thought it was cool Lance came back for the tdf and i hope he does well at this Italian tour… Do you chaps think he has a chance to win this race?
My money is on Levi Leipheimer!! ibild, do you have the canondale “lefty”?
Thats a brilliant picture kanugaa,thanks,i have followed the CSC team (sorry,saxobank)for years now and jens is one of my fav riders. Simon
IMHO lance has zero chance of winning the giro,i cant even see him taking a stage victory,for todays stage 5 i fancy Tom danielson to do something big.Watch out for carlos sastre too,not done anything of note so far but still in 10th in the Gc just 49secs behind. Simon
In today’s stage there is a lot of downhill riding which will result in some fast riding ( hope no crashes ) but that last bit will surely separate the men from the boys. I agree you Simon, Lance won’t make it in this race. I’m not a Lance fan, so I don’t mind about him. My all time favourite, despite what happened, remains Floyd Landis. I hope he will ride in the TdF this year and beat Lance!!!
Im not a lance fan either pieter,i think his reasons for the come back are other than for the sport,likely for publicity/financial/Trek bikes etc.Gonna stick with my hunch for Tom Danielson today with ivan basso close 2nd or 3rd. Now to choose todays stage snuff lol.Enjoy the stage pieter. Simon
Everyone loves Jens! Have you seen Overcoming? Jens is great in that, whilst everyone else is moping around and looking (understandably) miserable he is almost infuriatingly chipper the whole time. Did you see him with his Mars bars yesterday? There is a good section about him in the bonus footage from Overcoming…Part 1Part 2
No, Pieter didn’t buy the lefty, i thought about it however i would not have been able to mount a front rack on it… So I bought the F-4 as it had the only color i liked… Any of you hard core riders have a brooks saddle and what do you think of them?
Never had one myself ibild but never heard any complaints about them.From what i have read up on them they can take a few miles to break in but once done they are superb. Simon
ibild, I’ve never been on a Brooks but as a youngster, all our bikes were fitted with leather saddles. If you are serious about a Brooks, I will whisper you a friend of mine’s e-mail address and you can talk to him about it. He did some serious cycle racing, he’s 72 years old, an expert on Brooks saddles and lives in the UK. But, I can tell you now, when I asked him whether I should invest in a Brooks he asked me when I started hating my behind!!!
nice videos, Kunugaa!!! Since i know very little about cycling, i wonder is it more a team sport or an individual sports? Second what team do you think has the best chance of having one of its riders win this race? plus if any of you might like to educate me on how cycling is won and the strategy behind it… That would be cool…
btw Pieter, i forgot to say that i hope Levi wins myself, i think he surrounded by enough seasoned vets to help him win… Plus i am a flawed american rooting for Lance to win a stage or two, i think can do it… Just hanging with the peloton and at some point i think he will do his thing…
I love cycling. I was hoping to have a good biking summer, but that’s not going to happen now. Oh well, there’s always next year. I try to ride about 1,000 miles each year from May to Sept.
Just been reading this thread. Here I am in my younger days:-
Cool pic snuffhead,ever get mistaken for Fausto Coppi? Simon
WOW, my friend!!! I love it. You really look set for a win. What is the black knob sitting at the point of the righthand drop? And the cable or pipe in your right hand. That must be the biggest gear blade I’ve ever seen. Looks like it can be a 60? What make bike is it?