Etoile de Bessèges - 10 o'clock

[JPS Classics]

Line Up
1 Ryder Hesjedal 63-67-67-52-87-64,3 Reg: 38 Age: 28
2 Prince Caines 41-80-61-47-45-73,1 Reg: 46 Age: 31
3 Park Dong Soo 46-73-64-62-48-68,5 Reg: 46 Age: 21
4 Steven Dulac 73-82-70-50-51-73,0 Reg: 49 Age: 31
5 Mbele Mbaki 71-80-75-50-62-73,1 Reg: 45 Age: 26
6 Vjeko Onishchenko 62-81-76-58-50-71,8 Reg: 47 Age: 28
7 Alderich Pichner 56-78-74-52-53-68,3 Reg: 51 Age: 23
8 Fjodor Shovkovsky 55-87-74-47-43-75,9 Reg: 40 Age: 28
9 Natane Tuihalamaka 61-84-78-50-54-74,1 Reg: 51 Age: 29

[team fl]

Team FL also there at the STELLAR race!

x1 Chuck Bass, VY Canis Majoris
x2 Ronny Beck, VV Cephei A
x3 Daniel Clavadetscher, V838 Monocerotis
x4 Fred Colon, WOH G64
x5 Lorenz Dürr, V354 Cephei
x6 Pedro Garrido, RW Cephei
x7 Frantz Granvorka, KW Sagittarii
x8 Tim Hamberger, KY Cygni
x9 Hugo Marxer, Mu Cephei


There is no goal we cannot miss! Cheers.

[Samurais]

Auch das Team Samurais wird hier Starten .

Aufstellung:

1:Andreas Zahradka 60-64-47-59-70 58 reg 22 Jahre
2:Momoko Nasawa 60-86-56-53-43 49reg 25 Jahre
3:Akihiro Tochimoto 50-88-76-56-49 52reg 30 Jahre
4:Aki Hong 59-77-77-49-52 65 reg 22Jahre
5:Tatsuki Nasawa 60-78-65-54-45 63reg 22Jahre
6:Daiki Nasawa 64-77-57-59-48 48reg 23 Jahre
7:Kazuyoshi Nasawa 55-78-52-52-44 41reg 23 Jahre
8:Kouki Hong
9:Haruki Hong Beides nur wasserträger .

Ich weiß noch kein tolles Team aber bin ja noch in aufbau.Erwartungen gibt es keine , Gehalt ist niedrig also lets fun^^

[team fl]

What a first stage. Fast from the first km, lots of complaining, chase for more than 100 km and a real winner .

Only one (or two) thing to sum it up: Samurais of course again completely wrong. It was not the right backwheel that decided the sprint. It was JPS' very bad sprint. And of course everybody has the chance to win, it is just very very... very... small. Your tempo was still questionable, although the result might tell you something different. In this special case, I even thank you for that . Questionable are also your fairness comments for Warriors and GlamourSpeed. They could not catch the group in the front exactly because they did not try everything! Not because you (the group) was too strong...

Anyway, tomorrow is a new day. Pink of course will not chase groups with non-GC-dangerous riders, especially because Ryder might get the leader's jersey in a sprint. Besides that, hard to tell who is GC-overall-favorite. Mjölnir (or Aurnion, whoever Demuth rides for), Dulac, Jacotey have good chances, but now also Garrido or Bass, to say classic riders with good sprint. We will see. But first, see you tomorrow.


@JPS: This was the poetic justice for Ryders stage win down under agains Dürr

[team fl]

Second stage, Garrido still in Pink. But one mistake: Dürr should have been on Kögerl's Backwheel instead of Ryder's. But the plan was not to let Ryder win and get Bonussecs. Well, could also have been the stage for Dürr.

Have no plan yet for tomorrow, but it will come anyway. Till then.

[Robyklebt]

Poor FL, only one writing here! Keep it up, the Ape reads.

And to make you feel less lonely, I contribute something too:

Sport Director InterviewTeam Warriors (11:29 Uhr):
Toll. Heute der Tagessieg, wann kommt die Weltherrschaft?
Morgen?
Team Warriors, was war heute ihr Rezept?.
Zurückhaltung, wird sehr oft belohnt.
Dann viel Spaß beim Feiern. Party, Palmen, Weiber und n Bier!
Danke sehr, alles dabei heute

[Alkworld]

Unfortunately Ryder was sprinting from 50m one day too early. Maybe we shouldn't have told JPS yesterday to make his own sprint train Tomorrow should be Ryder's stage then, he should have little trouble winning that *buildinguppressure*

[JPS Classics]

i don't find the good backwheels ^^

First Stage on Madero .... bah!
yesterday on Kügerl .... Kügerl on Ryder too ... bah!
today on Garrido ,,,, bah again ^^

I need more luck

[team fl]

you Dürr copycat!

I am really really suprised Garrido still has his leader's jersey. Perhaps more to write later. Now I need some Baldrian drops.

Stage tomorrow another chance for Ryder for a second place?

[JPS Classics]

Ryder will try to will be second ^^

[team fl]

Ryder will try to will be second ^^

behind Garrido I hope...

[Les Bergzieges]

4 of 5 stages done, the Zieges join the forum conversation.

Today another chance for a hillsprint for JPS's Ryder and my Fromlo-guy. 40 km before the finish line we had two km's of 7 and 9 inclination to seperate from the sprinters. This worked, but of course there were others like Alkworld and ByZickl trying to get away from the hillsprinters on these kms.

The +9 km brought surprising results to me: for my team Fromlowitz was still in front along with Jacotey and Castillejo. Ryder and Mbele from JPS were in the back 20 sec behind the first group. Dulac in front. So, here starts my confusion. Alkworld is riding in front, JPS riding behind. Pretty tough for me to manage a sprint for Fromlowitz in the front group. Vargas and others still fit. But it doesn't seem like the second group can come back with the margin growing second by second. So in my confusion (and with a slow site on my laptop) I wait and see what happens. What happens is the following: Alk attacks, Jacotey and Castillejo still in front, Fromlo behind. Ok, still not too bad. Solo and Bordeaux now help JPS behind, but a sprint is pretty unlikely already. In front Alk and ByZickl riding.

A Castillejo attack is countered by Vargas who finally ends up winning the race with an attack of his own. Jacotey ends up 4th behind Burlacu and Dulac, one sec behind the winner.

Hm... maybe we should have had all our guys fall back right after the mountain (incl. Jacotey + Dulac)? I don't know. It's still tough to get them I think. Like this there was still the chance for our guys in front to come through. Well, didn't work out. Congrats Alk!

[Alkworld]

JPS was right yesterday about not feeling well when seeing Pancho in the group leaning back. Once again this was possible only because there was such a big fight for the mountain jersey, while stages and the GC are given away fairly easy But also chasing the group too hard was maybe not such a good idea, Fjodor was used too early. That a stage win was possible afterwards was pretty clear, with or without FL, the only difference without FL was that also the GC was available then.
Vargas 2nd attack was pretty stupid then, didn't really think of losing Madero there and was hoping to get rid of more other riders. But Vargas was still strong and got that lucky win Today it should still be a little open on +3%, with sprint luck everything's possible, but I hope for some traffic on Ryder's wheel. I'm somehow sensing that this is Dürr's day.

[team fl]

Nice tour it was! GW again for all winners. Thanks to the rest for the entertainment.

As I wrote in the Interview for the first stage, it was the seconde middle hard stage that decided the tour. And Vargas is a worthy winner, as well as Alkworld. I sill think it was the right decision not to have offline settings (e.g. hanging on Vargas with Garrido), although it would have saved my butt. But(t) in the end it would have been just another entry in the palmares without having done much for it, mostly because being very lucky in the first stage's sprint.

Just one thing I don't understand. Why has JPS stopped tempo when I came back? Ok, it was my duty, but in the end it could have been Ryder winning the overall GC... Anyway, besides some fancy debating about tempo from who or not, I liked it.

[JPS Classics]

ich antworte FL mal auf deutsch ... zu anstrengend es zu englischen.

Warum ich aufhörte zu fahren ... ganz einfach .... alle helfer Mbaki, Natane und Vjeko waren unter 500 als du ins Tempo kamst, ich hätte also mehr zeit verloren (gebremst) als gewonnen.

[team fl]

Alles klar. Da hätte ich auch aufgehört