LA beats CL by 15 seconds...

bryancd - 2010-02-17 4:30 PM It was all in good fun, I would just take it as that.

Daremo - 2010-02-17 5:09 PM Ever try to hold 35 mph for a long time?  With a 20 mph tailwind guess what ...... you are still fighting a 15 mph headwind from your own effort.  Still need huge power to maintain that sort of speed..

Daremo - 2010-02-17 8:09 PM Ever try to hold 35 mph for a long time?  With a 20 mph tailwind guess what ...... you are still fighting a 15 mph headwind from your own effort.  Still need huge power to maintain that sort of speed.

Now A.C. drafting motorcycles and lead cars?  Yeah, that will make him go faster.

Daremo - 2010-02-17 5:09 P

Ever try to hold 35 mph for a long time?

TaylorB - 2010-02-16 8:06 PM

No way! This is a Online Forum and it is our collective duty to blow these sorts of things way out of proportion.

My theory:
Lance picked a downwind course to post some big numbers in an effort to send a message to A.C. that he will be ready come July. That's why he taped over the watts, given the downwind run, they probably weren't all that impressive.

Daremo - 2010-02-18 10:34 AM Considering the hills in this year's Tour are going to kick the old man's azz, it is only an overly optimistic soul who puts their money on LA.  He couldn't hang with the climbers at all this year (other than Mt. Ventoux and considering his hematocrit numbers there were the same as they were at the beginning of the Tour something seems fishy - especially since toward the end of a 3 week race everyone's numbers are lower than when they started.  This INCLUDES Lance in the Giro where that is what happened.  But not in the Tour.  Things that make you go hmmmmmmm).  What makes one think he will be able to hang with the Schleck's or AC on a tougher hilly course?

There is no doubt he is back into form again.  He'll be in great form as a 38-3/4 year old guy.  He'll just have a hard time hanging with the 20 to early 30- somethings.

And someone remind me what TT in a stage he won in any Pro Tour race last year?  Oh, right ........... none.

Daremo - 2010-02-18 10:34 AM
There is no doubt he is back into form again.  He'll be in great form as a 38-3/4 year old guy.  He'll just have a hard time hanging with the 20 to early 30- somethings.

kdlsch111 - 2010-02-18 11:27 AM Daremo- THis thread is about Lance and Lieto. Why dont you comment on that instead of always giving your diatribe on what Lance cant do.

Daremo - 2010-02-18 10:40 AM



Good morning to you as well!

As long as people are spouting on what they think Lance can do in a thread then I can certainly give my opinion on what he can't.  Besides, it is still Lance talk.  I can't help it if I am realistic and do not put him up on the pedestal as so many people seem to.

This is an open online forum after all and all opinions are welcome.  Have a nice day and feel free to voice yours!