Down Under 15h

[Robyklebt]

Promises to be a strange race... only 5 teams so far.

The ape will start with Conti and Karli. Karli will retire this month or early next month, depending on when I need the money, makes no sense having him if he never rides, so fuck it, I take both. And because I'm nice I'll bring some flat riders too... not only Bakthiyar and MOri as usual, this time Uzielli and Iordan will be there too. 4 riders with 80+! Unheard of. Plus Haryono who will get 80 in the next training! Then good old Feng...

Of course having Karli there too won't help me at all getting the sprints, but we'll try anyway.

[Zentaron]

You ride first, i'll chase Falke later - baaaaaam sprint. Everything is easy.

[Falkenbier]

There's just one stage where you have to chase me... hmmm should I buy a second sprinter now to earn some Kohlinge?

- Hargi
- Cherkovskiy
- Heinze
- Minguez
- Prokopenko
- Randala
- Ritzmann
- Wenger

378k, bah!! Maybe one of Ritzmann/Wenger stays at home...

[Zentaron]

lIneup:

Honorez
Caltapang
Attapattu
Kaltapang
Bewley
Tikilitani
Eickendreyer
Bruyninckx

382k! So don't cry, Falke, the king's team is always more expensive on flat tours/stages.^^

[Robyklebt]

394k stop crying!

2 new Teams, Killers with 95 and Sandow "I sprint like a girl" with 96!

[Lizard]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeah, I see Dick again!!! First time riding against him.
So here's my losers:

Tom van Amstel 72-79-74-50-64, 35 Reg
Jamal Jemomo 57-75-56-49-56, 35 Reg
Michael Murphy 50-75-51-47-48, 46 Reg
Nico de Neeuw 48-62-48-47-48, 55 Reg
Ernie Oysters 56-75-61-49-56, 58 Reg
Vincent Soneau 49-76-73-52-48, 46 Reg
Andrew Stockdale 74-55-66-58-54, 58 Reg
Peter de Vlamingh 48-55-52-51-84, 40 Reg

Salary: 315.856 Credits

It's an australian tour, so this time with Stockdale, not Eickendreyer.

[Zentaron]

Bad Falke stole my win (and after that insulted me). Without his attack Collin would have kicked all your asses because everybody slept behind. However, didn't thought that the attack would go like that. Thought nobody would be able to escape.

[Robyklebt]

I thought you would get away, but then be caught. And was on the wrong rider with Bakthiyar too. Bah.

In the end though clear mistake by Sandow-Ape-Killers... Sandow who as far as I saw didn't use Sugar, no guarantee though, used him for the sprint then... Ape who killed Uzielli for 2" in the GC. Well, killed, weakened. And Killers who put in his monster one Km too late. Result..... Falke wins... bah.

Let's see if we manage to get a sprint tomorrow....

[Falkenbier]

Heinze in pink, never thought that at the beginning of this stage, but ok. Much better than a 6th place of Hargi (even beaten by Honorez, bah...). Tomorrow sprint so, we'll help to hold the Marzahns in the end. Ok, Gabriel in Caltapangs wheel of course, but the others...

The jersey colors are so beautiful

[Robyklebt]

Honorez, bah, Fabrizio is very unhappy today!!! Now he wants to win all the remaining stages... Ok, the ones that end in a sprint.. Which could be 3, but could be only one as well.

Especially tomorrow interesting, who controls, is anybody even interested in controlling? If we get to the last km all together, the favorite has to be Stringer. Stringer or Razif, never sure how the +4 works, Razif could be able to follow? No clue. Blocking? Hard to impossible, Razif together with the Falkes the best chance. Then maybe since it's the last km it works?

In the end only 2 teams might have interest in blocking (of the ones that actually can do something, unlike the ape with Uzielli) Killers and Falke. Killers for the GC, not sure if Razif can follow (the ape says yes, but only after a coin toss) doesn't want to lose time on Bell. Falke, so that Bell doesn't gain time on Hargi. Is that enough? Not sure... So should be really intersting tomorrow, who controls the early phases? Falke for rosa and Hargi? Paris for Stringer? The sprinters hoping for help by Killers/Falke in the end? Nobody?

[Falkenbier]

We all miss Iatiknululu, he wasn't that strong than this belgian guy. But ok, think it was the revenge of yesterday. Stole me stage and green now, unfair! Maybe I should have gone for Heinze again instead of blocking the BSE attacks. On the other side, 10s for Hargi not so bad, could be important in the end.

What to do tomorrow? Ride for Hargi? Go for bonus seconds/pink with Heinze or a late attack with Wenger?
The ape seems to be not that willing to ride for a sprint, Killers we all don't know. Marzahn this strange guy (must be a new person since Hargi dominated him in the desert...) always there for some surprises. Sandow is Sandow... the others will fight for the intermediate points as usual?

Let's do some chaos tomorrow

[Robyklebt]

Grr Hargi. And Conti too. Ok, yesterday was to be expected, Minguez Wenger Ritzmann just too strong, plus with the complete lack of dangerous attacks in our tour was easy to be fit at the end for the Falkeboys. So all ok basically. And even beat Honorez ones with Conti. By 7 bikelenghts or something...

Today last day, let's see if Conti+Karli manage to do something today.

[Lizard]

Soooo.. now I'll do my little comment for this tour .. missed first stage because of a seminar, second because I fell asleep haha. Third day then Paris on the way for seconds.. thought it's no problem, I don't win the tour anyways - the Falke's too strong on the way to Willunga anyways and two ascents on the last kilometre make possible Hargi earns some extra seconds... so let Paris ride, then he'll cooperate on stage 5. Happened this way, Killers was the only variable I couldn't guess. That Stockdale ended in the group of course was a good thing since we didn't have a gap to do tactics too much. But he could've gone out of tempo for maybe 1-2 kms more or hang on van Amstel's wheel to have a chance to win... so Stockdale made it possible, I knew it was good to take the australian to Down Under!

[Robyklebt]

Bah, last day off, missed the sprint by nothing, barely 3 hours.. .too bad, last chance for a win, follow Bergelmir and hope, but wasn't to be. Killers winning is the second best outcome finally, he deserved it for all his work during these 6 days.

In the end a fairly boring tour, we just didn't have enough attackers. And no Singe wins, as everybody knows a lack of Singe wins makes RSF boring.