Andy in Chains

OK, WTF is up with Schleck's chain issues? His TdSuisse prologue was
pitiful and sad. Is it an equipment issue or does he have a passive-
aggressive bike mechanic?

R

On 12/06/2011 14:33, RicodJour wrote:
OK, WTF is up with Schleck's chain issues? His TdSuisse prologue was
pitiful and sad. Is it an equipment issue or does he have a passive-
aggressive bike mechanic?

There have been insinuations in the English cycling press that he's
actually quite an inept bike handler.

On Jun 12, 3:33*pm, RicodJour wrote:
OK, WTF is up with Schleck's chain issues? *His TdSuisse prologue was
pitiful and sad. *Is it an equipment issue or does he have a passive-
aggressive bike mechanic?

R

Cancellara also a had chain problem at the very start of the prologue,
except it only cost him a fraction of a second to recover, and it
didn't seem to affect him too much. Or maybe it did and he would have
won by 20 seconds instead of 9 seconds.

-ilan

On Jun 12, 5:35*pm, ilan wrote:
On Jun 12, 3:33*pm, RicodJour wrote:

OK, WTF is up with Schleck's chain issues? *His TdSuisse prologue was
pitiful and sad. *Is it an equipment issue or does he have a passive-
aggressive bike mechanic?

Cancellara also a had chain problem at the very start of the prologue,
except it only cost him a fraction of a second to recover, and it
didn't seem to affect him too much. Or maybe it did and he would have
won by 20 seconds instead of 9 seconds.

That was a little bobble. He over-Grubered it at the start.
Schleck's thing is just fookin' weird. He's got a nasty case of the
chain gremlins. Is there a betting line on Andy having a chain
malfunction on a mountain stage in the Tour?

R

On Jun 13, 12:36*am, RicodJour wrote:
On Jun 12, 5:35*pm, ilan wrote:

On Jun 12, 3:33*pm, RicodJour wrote:

OK, WTF is up with Schleck's chain issues? *His TdSuisse prologue was
pitiful and sad. *Is it an equipment issue or does he have a passive-
aggressive bike mechanic?

Cancellara also a had chain problem at the very start of the prologue,
except it only cost him a fraction of a second to recover, and it
didn't seem to affect him too much. Or maybe it did and he would have
won by 20 seconds instead of 9 seconds.

That was a little bobble. *He over-Grubered it at the start.
Schleck's thing is just fookin' weird. *He's got a nasty case of the
chain gremlins. *Is there a betting line on Andy having a chain
malfunction on a mountain stage in the Tour?

R

As the guy on Swiss TV said, Cancellara is very careful with his
equipement and actually tests it before the ride, which is why he was
surprised at the glitch. The point is that Andy Schleck has some gaps
in his understanding, and now that he's actually running the team,
there isn't anyone to force him to do things right, kind of like
Millar's chain problem in the 2003 Tour. He could end up like Zulle
whose fateful crashes were so numerous that they went beyond bad
luck.

-ilan

On Jun 13, 12:44*am, ilan wrote:
On Jun 13, 12:36*am, RicodJour wrote:









On Jun 12, 5:35*pm, ilan wrote:

On Jun 12, 3:33*pm, RicodJour wrote:

OK, WTF is up with Schleck's chain issues? *His TdSuisse prologue was
pitiful and sad. *Is it an equipment issue or does he have a passive-
aggressive bike mechanic?

Cancellara also a had chain problem at the very start of the prologue,
except it only cost him a fraction of a second to recover, and it
didn't seem to affect him too much. Or maybe it did and he would have
won by 20 seconds instead of 9 seconds.

That was a little bobble. *He over-Grubered it at the start.
Schleck's thing is just fookin' weird. *He's got a nasty case of the
chain gremlins. *Is there a betting line on Andy having a chain
malfunction on a mountain stage in the Tour?

R

As the guy on Swiss TV said, Cancellara is very careful with his
equipement and actually tests it before the ride, which is why he was
surprised at the glitch. The point is that Andy Schleck has some gaps
in his understanding, and now that he's actually running the team,
there isn't anyone to force him to do things right, kind of like
Millar's chain problem in the 2003 Tour. He could end up like Zulle
whose fateful crashes were so numerous that they went beyond bad
luck.

-ilan

To add to this, my enduring image of Andy Schleck is his downhill
pursuit where he lost last year's tour in which he is on the drops in
the straightaways and goes on the brake hoods in the turns, the exact
opposite of what you should do (raising your center of gravity in the
turns). Now for all my years of riding, I have a pretty good
awareness of how terribly weak I am, even compared to amateurs, so
when I see the world's 2nd strongest stage racer riding worse than me,
it's pretty shocking.

This image is the exact opposite of Riis, where in the 1996 tour ITT,
he was taking similar turns in the aero bars by leaning the bike over
with countersteering. I know he admitted to EPO, but from what I can
tell, that drug doesn't improve your cycling skills. We should check
to see if any MotoGP guys have ever tested positive for it.

-ilan

On Jun 12, 7:33*am, RicodJour wrote:
OK, WTF is up with Schleck's chain issues? *His TdSuisse prologue was
pitiful and sad. *Is it an equipment issue or does he have a passive-
aggressive bike mechanic?

R

I keep imagining a Python-esque skit: SRAM, SRAM, SRAM, SRAM...

On Jun 12, 9:23*pm, Scott wrote:
....
I keep imagining a Python-esque skit: *SRAM, SRAM, SRAM, SRAM...

Except that Schleck and Leopard-Trek are on Shimano this year.
There's gotta be a Python sketch that'll work with Shimano or Schleck
though.

On Jun 13, 5:05*am, Victor Kan wrote:
On Jun 12, 9:23*pm, Scott wrote:
...

I keep imagining a Python-esque skit: *SRAM, SRAM, SRAM, SRAM...

Except that Schleck and Leopard-Trek are on Shimano this year.
There's gotta be a Python sketch that'll work with Shimano or Schleck
though.

Hmmmm, maybe they should be on SRAM??? ;-)

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Victor Kan wrote:

On Jun 12, 9:23Â*pm, Scott wrote:
...
I keep imagining a Python-esque skit: Â*SRAM, SRAM, SRAM, SRAM...

Except that Schleck and Leopard-Trek are on Shimano this year.
There's gotta be a Python sketch that'll work with Shimano or Schleck
though.

It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible.
_This_ is an ex-chain.

--
Old Fritz