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Peter Sagan seemed to have botched the sprint or not noticed Gerald Ciolek. Taylor Phinney appeard from nowhere to get seventh place. Ciolek get the win for the African Team MTN Qubecka.

A brutal stage with rain and 27% climbs made for an exciting day.

Went to Cranx Bike Park for lunch with several guys from work. It was a blast tooling around the various tracks on a single speed MTB and a BMX bike. After riding for almost 2 hours I feel sore in new places.

Andrew Talansky shows good form ont he climbs with several attacks.

Final hour of the Strade Bianche from yesterday.

The podium is wrapped up, the guy leading the stage is hobbling home. The second placed rider is probably told to stay with his Yellow Jersey teammate. Froome has been a valuable teammate to Wiggins Tour bid this year and Froome has looked stronger with little flashes of strength and inadvertent dropping of Wiggins in [...]

Thomas Voekler had two amazing wins at this year’s Tour de France. His facial expressions are part of the Voekler show. Seems like everything Thomas does is punctuated by exaggerated movements and expressions. This type of behavior reminds me of the French artform of Mimes. Imagine if Thomas Voekler never discovered a bike, he would [...]

The battle for the Mailliot Jaune at the Tour looks like it is a done deal. Bradley Wiggins has been winning stage races all year, his Team Sky looks rock solid and the time gains in the TT look insurmountable. Seems like we may have seen this play out before in the Armstrong and Indurain [...]