2012 Pro-cycling season thread

You've just unified Ireland. Well done on that.

good to see some signs of life from Frank Schleck, although that move never looked like sticking without a someone to help him

Manxester...

was joke...

nevermind ;-)

It's like calling the English, French.

#sorryfrance

I gathered as much, in case I still haven't been able to communicate that properly

You did.

#youwouldn'tletitlie

Naughty Pozzato...

and Fuglsang not included in the Radioshack team for TdF in favour of Horner. Wtf?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/five-team-sky-riders-to-british-national-road-race

Who' favourite for this now?

Sagan.

He's so good he can win other country's national championships.

my respect for him grows

lol

wtf? is that for realz?

Fabian Wegmann has won the German championship race:

Only Garmin starter in the field. A few years ago, with T-Mobile dominance, this sort of victory would probably have been impossible. I've always liked Wegmann as a rider.

Nice one Stannard. Don't know if it's really accurate, but strikes me as one of the hardest working guys in the peleton.

Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda...

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/12206/Sharp-joins-Slipstream-Sports-as-co-sponsor-of-Team-Garmin.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+velonation_pro_cycling+%28Cycling+News+%26+Race+Results+%7C+VeloNation.com%29

Anyone else doing the halfords fantasy TdF? I have no real interest in the prizes, thought it might be a bit of fun just to see how well I do. LFGSS mini-league?

i am doing the velogames.com one and the road.cc one. Velogames one is nice because you just pick a side and then no transfers. I`m too lazy for transfers

I usually do the road.cc one, but now the bugs are ironed out from the last 2 years they've done it they are charging to play 'Premium' where you win the prizes you won before anyway. bare jokes considering it crashes every 2 days anyway...

GTFO. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Is there a velogames league to enter for LFGSS?

Just made one:
name: LFGSS,
code: 25175933

Top 5 Green jersey contenders

Given the absence of Contador and Andy Schleck the green jersey competition may be more interesting than the GC. First Le Tour for Cav with no all-powerful leadout train, and eyes on the gold in London. Can he cuckoo on other trains (like he did to Green Edge at the Worlds) or will Goss or Greipel, with the entirety of their teams backing them for green, be the dominant force?

Sagan has emerged as a wildcard, and there's Rojas, who's girly whining I missed last race, but have had a chuckle over now

I think Goss is a good shout for green, given the objectives of Orica Greenedge

The tour approaches.. The digi box has seen a mass of deleting..

So.. New Skoda advert?? New Sidi advert???