Stage 18 TT **SPOILER**

[jiggerypokery]

Here we go..........

40K TT around the edge of Lac d'annecy. Fantastic setting, just the sort of place I would love to go for a pootle on my bike, just not with the pressure that these guys are going to be feeling

A relatively flat courese with just the one bump being the Cote de Bluffy towards the end of the circuit. The temperature in Annecy is around 24 degrees Celsius. High clouds hover above the lake early today and although it’s dry there is the chance of rain later in the stage and we all know who rides well in the rain!

 

[Young Un]

we all know who rides well in the rain!

Menchov?

 

[jiggerypokery]

Christ! Contador doesn't leave the gate till 16.47 and the first rider is just setting off now. That must be tough having to sit there just waiting for the times to roll in before you get your roll down the ramp!

 

[RabbitFood]

Menchov?

think Menchov wil end up in the water

 

[dellzeqq]

or in Switzerland!

 

[jiggerypokery]

I wonder if they have left the forming bladder in his carbon frame - kinda like waterwings or will he be riding this.......... http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgu...8v2OBw&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=3&ct=image

 

[NickM]

Winning time sweepstake starts here... my prediction: 49'30"

 

[rich p]

48.12

 

[spandex]

46.50

 

[jiggerypokery]

47:28

 

[NickM]

46.50

Forecast wind speed 15-16mph, chaps...

 

[jiggerypokery]

First rider round in 50:45 - Terpstra, so that's the time to better.

Edit - Tell a lie, Hutarovich was first round with 55:12.

 

[RabbitFood]

47.45

 

[NickM]

First rider round in 50:45 - Terpstra, so that's the time to better.

Hmmm... quite quick, these professionals... maybe Spandex is right!

 

[SimonRoberts0204]

Thats pretty quick by Ignatiev - 48:46!