Cycling Forum / General / Racing / March 2009

Don't you asshats read anything besides the Penthouse Forum? Put your
caloused choad back in your Fruit of the Looms and click on this
(after wiping your hand off on the chair):
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123811112300753043.html

Until Boonen get his act together, what's the proper protocol for the
Flanders flag we have flying in our shop? It's premature to burn it (and
there *are* some other Belgian riders, after all). But in the
meantime...

The only thing that would get my interest back in pro-racing is if the
fat drug addicted Clinger with the face paint, shows up with the weight
off, the tatts removed, and straight as an arrow.

according to
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2009/mar09/mar27news
ulrich
ulrich may join rock racing as an advisor... how to ruin talent/

I'm a little surprised at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRH7dJru-Bk

That's a damn fast average for a standing 500 meters, male or female
http://www.cyclingnews.com/track/2009/mar09/wtc09/?id=results/wtc091
It would be really interesting to see a speed-distance graph of that
ride, to see how quickly she got above the average speed, how well she

Has Astana announced which of the remaining classics Contador is gonna
ride in?

"I would have liked to win again after the first stage," said
Napolitano, "but unfortunately we did a strange final sprint and the
speed was too low for my characteristics. Starting so slow
Metluschenko was more explosive and won. I was fast in the finale but

Four-dimensional Rotation of the Universe.
On the gif-animated picture you can see the example of the densest
packing in the 4d space
http://darkenergy.narod.ru/4rotat.html

Makes me wonder about the (over) sensitivity of drug tests (I have no
idea how this may be relevant, really)
http://mwinkelmann.com/2009/03/the-heilbronn-dna-mixup/
Linked from Slashdot yesterday.

Can anyone name another event in the Olympics - besides road cycling -
where in a team competition the medal is only given to the team members
who place in the top 3, but where the other teammates get NOTHING, but
claim they have a motive to help their teammates win a medal?

re LA; if he's out due to broken collarbone, how long on avg. would it
be before he can race again ?

http://velonews.com/photo/89897
Magilla

http://www.cyclingnews.com/cross/2009/jan09/CXworlds09/index.php?id=/photos/2009
/jan09/CXworlds09/CXworlds093/awomen103
How come whenever an American wins the national championships they go
apeshit and paint everything under the sun with stars & stripes
livery?   Haven't people ...

Changes in stage 5 compared to stage 4
Biggest gainers by position :
      +9   Jose Enrique Gutierrez
      +9   Igor Abakoumov