After such an epic and, frankly, shocking (as in stunning, stupendifying and surprising) stage to the Galibier last night, it’s going to take more than a few hours to recover and get back on track for tonight’s VSP stage to the mythical L’Alpe d’Huez.
I think the semantics of Stage 18 have been covered brilliantly by the Community here, and there’s nothing left for me to say about it except, wow.
So without further ado, and with the maximum time for you to get your tips in, we present the VSP for Stage 19, the Queen of the climbs, L’Alpe d’Huez. Sit back and enjoy the spectacle, because if you though that was good, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
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Man oh man... best tour in years! :)
Ouch, Evans cracking big time... too bad.
Hmm, looks to be a mechanical instead. That really sucks.
Glad I'm not the wrench that worked on cuddles bike last night.
Damn! Missed the VSP. Oh well. I'm gonna go with the skinny one again. He's looking good and I can't see the Meat-muncher taking it all the way home. Andy will finally get his revenge for the mechanical last year. Poor Evans. Bad bike sucks.
I think is was more of a phychanical...we've all been absolutely sure our brakes were rubbing!
@wiscot
It was real short notice. Just a lesson that you should be on here at least a thousand times a day. Just in case.
@scaler911
Oh, man, absolutely...aside from the reaming he's probably getting from the DS, can you imagine how far his stomach is falling right now? Even if it's a mechanical that would have nothing to do w/a mistake on his part, I bet he's wishing he could just sink into the seat he's sitting in right now.
Went to fix my post-ride breakfast and surprised to see things came back together at the front a bit when I returned, then remembered that Contodor and Andy would've had to wait up a bit due to Evans' 'phychanical'... (great new term Frank).
"Andy Schleck is the benefitter here" according to Harmon. Surely he means "beneficiary"?