Air Schleck
by Chris Fontecchio on Jun 18, 2008 2:21 PM EDT
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PrintFrank goes airborne at the Tour de Suisse today. On the flip (so it doesn't keep playing every time you open the front page)...
Just... ouch. Fortunately he's OK at the moment, according to the CSC website. Otherwise there's no way I'd be running this.
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Not There for Me either
I get a big white space for the video.
whoa
...and there’s the mechanic w/ the spare bike.
Hopefully they also had an extra “HTFU” wristband for Frank, in case his got, you know, scratched or something. o.O
-Greg
"Dit is een drama" - indeed
What’s with Frank?
Reminds me of my racing days…stay away from the guy with scares on his legs!
Oi.
Just when I’m thinking, “I’‘m getting some VDS points from Franky today!” he flips. His descending was so godawful today that he needs lessons from Gesink I think.
Dood
Smak.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Jun 18, 2008 2:37 PM EDT reply actions
Wow.
He’s a lucky man to climb out of there. “Drama” isn’t the word I’d have used, but hey I never went to TV-Talking-Head School….in any language! Tks for posting it up, I hadn’t seen it yet. Scary stuff.
"....Up Sestriere on a rental clunker in jeans and loafers? Brother, lemme buy you a beer."
by Rolls on Jun 18, 2008 2:59 PM EDT reply actions
He panicked
If you watch the footage, it is clear he could have made the corner. He clearly panicked. watch the back of his head – he looked at the barrier. Look where you want to go. Fothen made the corner realtively easily.
That being said, I’m glad he’s ok.
He will definitely need some descending lessons prior to le Tour. He’s worse than Ullrich ever was, and he doesn’t have the weight penalty to blame it on …
he had probs at pais vasco this year....
or… rather… he wasn’t the smoothest…
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
Top Trumps
Do they have Top Trumps for pro cyclists? I can see the categories now:
o Sprinting
o Climbing
o Descending
o Time Trial
o Doodsmak
o Bike Toss
o Max # Bidons in Jersey
o Wheel Sucking
o Sandbagging
We need this.
-Greg
poor to fair
he’s not especially, how do i say, agile. part of it’s that he has a high center of gravity – really tall, long-legged dude. that does make it harder. but mostly he’s just really stiff and awkward when he goes to descend. some guys – even pros – just don’t have the knack for it.
I think he’s got bike handling issues in general. Wasn’t it Lombardia last year where he stacked it in the final couple of K’s (on flat road)?
Yep, it was Lombardia, in the finale, just before Cunego took Babaloo in the sprint.
"....Up Sestriere on a rental clunker in jeans and loafers? Brother, lemme buy you a beer."
by Rolls on Jun 18, 2008 4:28 PM EDT up reply actions
wow
i’d forgotten that one. so liege and amstel both last year, right? ouch. he made it through liege okay this year, i thought, but i could have been dreaming…
dude’s got a bad pattern going there. agree with mikelpearce above – in this case he panicked when he realized he’d come in to hot. a good bike handler might have been able to save it, and if not, probably would have laid it out rather than go head-on with the barricade. anyway, once you pull your foot, you’re so done on a road bike. fat lady, commence singing.
and the year before in Amstel
and this year in LBL maybe…
"I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore." -- Eddy Merckx, after winning his first bike race
Yikes
I was at work and couldn’t watch the broadcast, but now I see why the play by play thread had all those expletives. It really is amazing that he wasn’t badly hurt.
Spaventosa Caduta!
Hah! Now we need the French version !
Lets see if this makes some news in the US – nothing like a crash to get a quick showing when they can show the guy standing later.
For once
I’m glad for the spoiler. That was nasty. Dude is seriously lucky he is not dead.
Which Italian Pro Tour Team rides the Cannondale SystemSix?
Glad he wasn't hurt
He was going pretty slow, he’s a pro, and he still went over the rail.
This reinforces why I am the slowest descender ever born (and I descend a lot)
I have an old TdF book with some great old photos of riders 50 feet below the road being hauled up by rope after going for a fly.
by cyclingchallenge on Jun 19, 2008 2:11 AM EDT reply actions
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