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Posts on training, testing, cycling science or just plain interesting stuff.2014 Tour de France Highlights and Analysis Stage 15
Thank you Jack Bauer for an awesome stage... What a fantastic two man breakaway from the gun today for Jack Bauer and Swiss champion Martin Elmiger. For two men, on such a long stage to gain and hold off the bunch so well, shows their strength. For a look at the type...
2014 Tour de France Highlights and Analysis Stage 13 & 14
Ok, so a lot of action in the mountains over the pst two days. Nibali is just on another level to the rest. It would have been great to see him against Froome and Contador. They are all quite similar riders who like to intersperse steady long climbing efforts with...
2014 Tour de France Highlights and Analysis Stage 12
Another great rolling day with a break going early...the tactical genius of the day was from Europcar. Awesome Europcar Tactics Europcar put two men on the front at about 40km to go to reduce the break's lead. At about the 33km mark with their two guys still on the...
2014 Tour de France Highlights and Analysis Stage 11
...the two Tonys feature again! This time Tony Martin sets up Michal Kwiatkowski for the end of the stage and Tony Gallopin shows everyone how it's done. Gallopin has such great technique and position on the bike when going solo (in contrast to say...the other French...
2014 Tour de France Highlights and Analysis Stage 9
The race of the two Tonys... Interesting scenario today with 2 men off the front, followed by a large group chasing, then the bunch. Having such a hilly course tends to negate the benefit of riding in the group to some degree - less time utilizing the slipstream due...
2014 Tour de France Highlights and Analysis Stage 8
Another long breakaway, but this time it sticks! At least for one rider. This may well be the biggest time gap we see for a break this year since the move consisted of some very strong riders. Unfortunately all the coverage seems to start once the stage has been...
