2013 Pro-cycling season thread

Sagan... he "handles" bikes as well then?

Canc has a tendency to crash-Olympic road race an example par excellence, broke my heart seeing him weeping afterwards as he would have smoked Vino if he hadn't overcooked the corner.

'A crash 50km into the mid-week semi-classic Scheldeprijs could jeopardise Fabian Cancellara’s chances of backing up his Tour of Flanders win with a victory on the pave of Paris-Roubaix.

The incident wasn’t captured by TV cameras but a short time later Cancellara was seen clinging to his team car with ripped shorts and a bloodied left backside.

Cancellara didn’t finish the race but RadioShack-Leopard team manager Luca Guercilena didn’t seem to be too concerned.

“We’re quite confident that everything will be fine”, Guercilena said. “It’s not ideal, but it’s fine.”'

http://www.cyclingtips.com.au/2013/04/rocacorba-daily-thursday-april-4/

Canc has a tendency to crash-Olympic road race an example par excellence, broke my heart seeing him weeping afterwards as he would have smoked Vino if he hadn't overcooked the corner.

i marshalled that race.. Canc looked destoyed when he rolled passed us at putney.. also seen him stack it on a TT in the tdf misjudging a corner in the rain (admittedly in TV).. this is why we love him right??

video here, doesn't look quite as bad as described (at least I can't see any blood)

http://nieuws.vtm.be/sport/2013040442717-cancellara-valt-bekijk-de-beelden

leaned

will they ever learn

Frankie's coming back!

Perk up his brewski

I'd never laugh at a cyclist going down of course, but two riders crashing after the finish in Pais Vasco was bizarre

They were smashing it in there. Must have been something on the raod.

Great stage today, nice racing by all.

video here, doesn't look quite as bad as described (at least I can't see any blood)

http://nieuws.vtm.be/sport/2013040442717-cancellara-valt-bekijk-de-beelden

I don't like the team much, but I do like the colours, and particularly the matt black on the cars

Did he just ride into his team mate's back wheel?

Looks like wheels just went out from under on slippy cobbles as he leant into corner.

as he leant into corner.

ffs!

Fabianese

HA. Excellant. Hope fab sees that.

Filthy day in Basque again.. Rain, sleet, snow, wind, mountains..

If Suitsou is fit again him and Kiriyenka are going to be putting the shits up the peloton this summer.

If Suitsou is fit again him and Kiriyenka are going to be putting the shits up the peloton this summer.

Looks like hippy has been coaching one of the elite women's teams.

https://twitter.com/adrievisser/status/320603578467246081/photo/1

So, Eurosport is showing Paris-Roubaix from 1 - 5 (http://tv.eurosport.com/tvschedule.shtml). So, is that 12 - 4 UK time?

and according to the official race website, the end is going to be at around 3.30 (http://tv.eurosport.com/tvschedule.shtml). And is that 2.30 UK time?

Don't know what times / schedules are in what time zones, too confusing. The whole world should operate on one time zone.

This may be english eurosport but they aren't on yet.
http://cricfree.tv/euro-sports.php

It's currently women's triathlon. But this
http://tv.eurosport.co.uk/tvschedule.shtml
says P-R 12:00 our time (GMT+1)

Strong break going today, no?