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[Josh.E]

WOW

54.8 (wind aided) kilometers covered in the first hour by the race leaders. At times hitting 70km/h.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-o ... -1/results

good on Boonen too, holding off the field with a 250m sprint for the win.

[sylvan]

54.8 (wind aided) kilometers covered in the first hour by the race leaders. At times hitting 70km/h.

Spartacus said he hit 81.5 km/h on the flat in the break, a new flatland record for him. There's live streaming video if you're up really early before the ride tomorrow. The stage ended about 4:30 am this morning. I didn't see it but grabbed a torrent just now...

[Josh.E]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF0Y3qUqf58

no contest.
boonen is looking like the early paris roubaix favorite this year.

[jeremy]

Sylvan, where did you find a torrent for this?, I've looked but to no avail.

[sylvan]

cyclingtorrents.nl or alt.binaries.multimedia.sports on usenet.

[sylvan]

boonen is looking like the early paris roubaix favorite this year.

He is one of the greats of the generation and it was kinda sad how people were mean to him when Cance beat him at Ronde and Roubaix last year. He's had a couple of slightly off years but could bounce back with a bang.

[jeremy]

cyclingtorrents.nl or alt.binaries.multimedia.sports on usenet.

thanks

[Josh.E]

boonen is looking like the early paris roubaix favorite this year.

He is one of the greats of the generation and it was kinda sad how people were mean to him when Cance beat him at Ronde and Roubaix last year. He's had a couple of slightly off years but could bounce back with a bang.

I don't know about "off year" last year, at least up to the injury. Cancellara was just better. Boonen could have pretty much rode the rest of the protour off his wheel.

That said, he's looking more like 5 or 6 years ago this year. Which is cool. Says he's been working on his sprint speed for the first time in about that long, too.

[JohnT]

Did you guys notice that a Canadian made that high-speed break-away? Dominique Rollin, 10th overall, 19 seconds back. Team Francaise des Jeux (now FDJ for short).

JT

[steve]

Just finished watching this, world class riders and maybe 20 fans watching the finish!

Sylvan, do you have a link for how to use usenet? Is there a monthly fee associated?

[Quentin]

Stage 3:

Too bad for Boonen, but Haussler is one of my favourite riders.

Also, nice to see Rollin in great form. Maybe we'll see him in contention in the classics?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8jMZtSx8ik

[sylvan]

Sylvan, do you have a link for how to use usenet? Is there a monthly fee associated?

Teh usenets are kind of mysterious these days. You can use a commercial provider like Supernews - www.supernews.com - or your ISP will probably have some kind of news feed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet - it started as a discussion forum. It was probably the main social media outlet in the early days of the public interwebs. When bandwidth and mass disk storage got cheap, it inevitably turned into a file sharing medium, first for porn of course, then for everything else. Now you can download high def bike races, same day - if somebody uploads them.