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NYVCreed 2010 Tour stage 18

Mon, 07/12/2010 - 2:01pm by schmalz

Tune in at 9 AM Eastern time, Monday, July 19th to listen live to NYVC's Dan Schmalz, Team Type 1's Mike Creed, and Cosmo Catalano of cyclocosm.com as they try to follow the Tour de France (archives of the day's stage audio will be available after the stage is finished). Presented by Williams Cycling.

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I like that
By: Jonas Butyl
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 11:57am

"For some it was crazy, for others it was stupid, and others a day of courage and bravery. For me, it was a day to enjoy being on the bike."

- Carlos Sastre on his ultimately futile attack on Stage 17..

podium
By: Baptiste Threadlock
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 10:58am

Berto gets picks with the movie stars. Andy sobs into his juice box.

EE
By: West Coast Reader
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 10:30am

Euskatel needs to attack and crash the Columbia Train.

Sound
By: West Coast Reader
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 10:26am

I'd love to listen but the sound is just killing it, maybe some mic covers or turn one down to 50% so it doesn't go over and ruin the sound, its as if its off or on, on sound record volume. Need a sound engineer to tune up the setup.

Creed will be covering the
By: Kylian Nipple
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 10:12am

Creed will be covering the breaks for Dan next year at FBF

Or like he's trying to talk
By: mikeweb
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 9:59am

Or like he's trying to talk with about 8 marbles in his mouth.

Ooh Castle!! Where's the drawbridge...?

this is pointless.
By: Palla Locknut
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 9:53am

Creed sounds like the teacher in Charlie Brown. Can't understand a word he's saying.

Anything over 40k I get 20%
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 9:50am

Anything over 40k I get 20% plus last years bike. Lance wants you back he belives in 2nd chances.

Ask Creed where he is riding
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 9:45am

Ask Creed where he is riding next year ? Jelly Belly rumor has it.

Are you guys all really
By: Luca Nipple
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 9:44am

Are you guys all really hungover or something?

I had a friend in high school
By: Amerigo Biopace
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 9:42am

I had a friend in high school named Edward Ward.

Schmalz, explain the system
By: Nicolas Seatmasticator
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 9:37am

Schmalz,

explain the system behind the auto generated names on NYVelocity.

Also tell us epic stories about FBF races.

This is way better than Phil
By: Ceramic
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 9:37am

This is way better than Phil & Paul

This is the worst Creed
By: Luca Nipple
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 9:23am

This is the worst Creed Feed/TdS

Hype
By: West Coast Reader
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 8:35pm

Podium placing is less hype than proposing to win the Tour (again) and not winning or even coming close. Not to mention crashing so many times you take yourself out of the race so to speak. Then resort to getting in a break to attempt to win a stage yet are easily beaten by a bunch of French middle of the pack riders in a sprint. Then bumping a spectator and getting mad that he dare exist and even be around at the end of the stage.

Fail. To use the so often used quote, he failed Cancer as well.

At least Wiggins isn't out whining about it or taking it out on a random fan. Wiggins is still making that dough whether he podiums or sits on the bench, I call that a win for him, the sponsors (Sky) are the crack heads for giving him that much money in the first place.

Sorry, West Coast Dreamer,
By: Bernardo Headbadge
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 5:58pm

Sorry, West Coast Dreamer, but Sky is by far and above the most overhyped team this year. The goal of the team is to put a British rider on the podium of a grand tour, namely Wiggins. Who is their highest ranked rider? A Swede. And Wiggins is in 24th place, right behind Lance. Ha ha. Talk about major fail. Lance is way old, Wiggins is in his prime.

RadioOut
By: West Coast Reader
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 5:10pm

Much like the company the team is composed of 3rd party brands (Countries) with a few American (USA-an) products/riders, most are touted as quality but most customers/fans know its all over hyped and no one buys/believes in it. This year and this years Tour has proven that and from the fact that they're trying to sell the brand as well the stores will be renamed/rebranded as well, its a matter of time, only the riders will move on to other teams or retire. I'd bet most will retire due to their history or history with the team and others (teams) not wanting to touch that with a 10 foot pole or WADA urine sample container.

Major disappointment RadioShack has been and yes others have also disappointed but none were as hyped up as them, all the pre-tour hype has never amounted to anything. At least Garmin & Sky were only hyped up as possible contenders not powerhouse team with endless threats due to their experience and rider-power.

Therefor in conclusion, major fail, mainly due to the fact that the black cloud over Lance & Joe-Han is still there and we all know is going to ruin anything they had going, aka the stealth doping.

radio shack
By: sucka
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 4:38pm

Lance to face off against Levi in CO. Hope the locals spank them.

http://singletrack.competitor.com/2010/04/news/levi-at-leadville-%E2%80%...

Ryder is the new VDV/Wiggins
By: Alexandre Setscrew
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 4:09pm

Hopefully 3rd time's the charm.

How about a Canadian Tire team?

radio shack
By: Mauro Flange
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 3:57pm

the best elite masters team at this year's tour. but could could they match the global locate train?

Seriously. Wiggins is 30, VDV
By: Lucas Headset
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 3:26pm

Seriously.
Wiggins is 30, VDV is 34, Evans is 33.
These are "riders for the future"? No, these are CURRENT tour contenders.
And who are the 5 tour contenders on The Shack?
Lance is 38, Horner is 38, Levi is 36, & Kloden is 35.
Poppovych, even though he is only 30, is and will always be a support rider.
If anything, Sky and BMC have been profoundly more disappointing than Radioshack. Garmin had some bad luck, but at least Ryder is looking solid.

Um No
By: ERgometor
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 2:25pm

BMC,Garmin, Sky, have riders for the future and are riding future grand tours. The shack suck it up with 5 grand tour contenders, did not race the giro, will not race the vuelta and have only one big race win this year (Pais Vasco). So I am not following your connection.

12:41
By: Dylan Polished
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 1:13pm

By your logic, Sky, Garmin, BMC, and a whole host of other sponsors will pull their sponsorship. Lance, by just being Lance, has already brought plenty of publicity to Radioshack/Nissan. At least Radioshack has a stage win. If they pull their sponsorship, it's because they are going broke anyway.

Tim Hortons sucks, Ryder
By: Brent Dropout
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 1:08pm

Tim Hortons sucks, Ryder rocks

Lance Armstrong Hires
By: Totto Locknut
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 1:04pm

Lance Armstrong Hires Criminal Defense Lawyer

Ryder 4th
By: Alexandre Setscrew
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 11:58am

Does this mean there will be a Tim Hortons team at next years tour?

Horner
By: Ring'o'Hub
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 11:49am

back when he raced in france, for a french team, and was an up and coming rider, horner left that behind b/c he missed 'america', or as he said in an old interview, "burgers, beers, etc." what a gringo!
incredible cyclist, all the same.

Horner
By: ERgometor
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 11:41am

Good racer but no cleaner than the other guys of his era. Wonder if the Shack pulls out of the sponsorship after the Tour. They are not invited to the Vuelta and Lance is done with grand tours. Really an embarassment that a team with basically 5 Tour leaders could only muster up a 10th on GC and from a guy that did all the work.

Looks like Levi and Lance are holding out for a win in the TT.

I wish Horner had had an
By: Stan Clamp
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 11:00am

I wish Horner had had an opportunity to ride the TdF for himself. I think he's probably the most talented U.S. stage racer of his era. If he'd been as ruthless and driven as Lance, who knows?

boring
By: a
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 10:33am

boring

attack already
By: a
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 10:27am

attack already

Thank you baby Jesus, they
By: Totto Locknut
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 10:15am

Thank you baby Jesus, they are back

WTF happened to the feed? Why
By: Totto Locknut
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 10:11am

WTF happened to the feed? Why am I listening to latin music?

I've ridden the Tormalet from
By: cshaw
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 10:04am

I've ridden the Tormalet from this direction. It's brutal. They're lucky it's cloudy. I had to stop at some snack bar 2/3 the way up and suck down 2 cokes and three ice pops. We had already done 2 other climbs so i was bonking. Toughest climb I've done.

Creed may or may not have
By: schmalz
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 9:30am

Creed may or may not have been wearing NYVC socks at that race

Didn't Creed race with
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 9:22am

Didn't Creed race with Armstrong at Tour of Ireland last year ?
Any interesting conversations with Lance in Ireland ? First race with Lance since his last year with Discovery.

Mike Creed is tour prediction
By: Totto Locknut
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 9:01am

Mike Creed is tour prediction doping.

Cancer
By: Alexandre Setscrew
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 11:55am

was the only winner today.

last comment
By: Toto
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 11:14am

huh?

basso
By: Ringo Chainskip
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 10:58am

basso, rogers, evans out of the top-20
lamestrong still a selfish dick

Fkn A.
By: David Chainline
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 10:41am

Fkn A.

The Creed prediction streak
By: schmalz
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 10:28am

The Creed prediction streak continues, never bet against Creed

dude he's 6-foot something,
By: rah rah
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 9:55am

dude he's 6-foot something, 130-something pounds, was coming off a 1k effort in which he closed 15 seconds to a group led by the best climber in the world, with no help, and then was chasing one of the best descenders in the tour in sammy sanchez. yeah, what a pussy.

Might be press room noise
By: Andy
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 9:26am

Might be press room noise from Ed.

Schleck schmuck
By: Matteo Saddle
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 9:25am

13 secs. off at the top of the bales yesterday.
then lost 26 secs. more on the descent. his mama may have take him down from the tourmalet in a stroller tomorrow. what a scared little pussy whiner he is.

One of guys need to mute the
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 9:25am

One of guys need to mute the Versus audio in the background

lots of chatter in the
By: Nicolas Seatmasticator
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 9:20am

lots of chatter in the background. Can you guys turn down your TVs?

crca
By: ha!
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 9:11am

check out how the numbers correlate to Lance's retirement and comeback and tell me he hasn't had an enormous and positive effect on racing

paul just reminded phil where
By: rah rah
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 8:24am

paul just reminded phil where they were. seriously

WSJ Quote
By: Nicolas Seatmasticator
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 8:21am

Schmalz,

why is your first quote in a national newspaper about urine?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870372050457537733227311443...

why do you sully a fine newspaper with that? Also who is this Mr Schmalz character?

Kind of funny/weird how LA is
By: mikeweb
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 8:18am

Kind of funny/weird how LA is like almost 7 minutes up the road right now and nobody cares.

Is LA the new (insert French cyclist name)?

chain wtchr
By: Arthur Pulley
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 3:31am

Wouldnt it be funny if berto came out and said "He didnt have a watcher so, he fcked himself. Why didnt he have one? Oh well now I wear his jersey. no more questions"

5 seconds..
By: Tank
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 3:27am

C'mon...you can see a guy that is clearly having bike issues when you go around him. 5 seconds is way more than enough time to see that a competitor is having a mech - especially when you pass him and ya hear the chain skip rattling off of the gear makin crazy noise. If he/she were gonna crash you, i bet you'd notice. SILENCE from your bike is perfection. If my rig makes a peep, I'm pullin over to check sh*t out. Those guys should probably have given a little consideration but in all fairness, why the fck doesnt the yellow jersey have a chain watcher?! Its standard issue these days - wtf.

No chain wtchr? I would've attacked on principle - whats up Saxo?

Come on now
By: Gomer
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 8:15pm

He didn't whine too loud...just said it wasn't something he would do. And that he would seek f'n revenge. Finally something to breath some life into this boring dance up the mountains.

berto!
By: Jonas Dropout
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 8:09pm

.. and i was for schelck until today. wudababy

freakin' whiner
By: Romain Hammer
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 8:05pm

freakin' whiner is right. put your diaper back on and go home to mama

Waiting for Andy
By: Konstantin Seatstay
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 7:42pm

How many stages will we have to neutralize for Andy to have a chance? Please, what a freakin' whiner. He attacked, he cross-chained dangerously, and he paid the price.

Next you haters will say Alberto can't attack on a descent because Andy's mom doesn't want him to go fast down hill. Seems like O'Grady needs to have a little talk with Andy about H-ing TFU.

What, someone's gonna leak
By: Diego Garcia
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 7:20pm

What, someone's gonna leak the real Operacion Puerco results?

Fuck you Contador, here comes
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 7:16pm

Fuck you Contador, here comes Karma to kick your ass.....

+1 Rah Rah
By: Jelle Fork
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 7:03pm

+1 Rah Rah

no, not obligated, but he
By: rah rah
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 6:43pm

no, not obligated, but he would have won the tour either way. we could be talking about how he has a little bit of class, but instead we're talking about whether or not he was right to be a prick. it's not against the rules, but it sure isn't gonna win him any fans.

Contador fans are right
By: Gomer
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 5:01pm

He was not obligated to wait...but after this rather boring game this was the FIRST time we saw Contador really attack. It was just kind of annoying to seem him "dancing on the pedals" only after Andy lost his chain.

this is a bike race!
By: Ruben Axle
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 4:49pm

GO CONTADOR!!

ALL YOU HATERS INCLUDING CRYBABY ANDY CAN SUCK MY BALLS!!

menchov and sanchez would
By: rah rah
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 4:24pm

menchov and sanchez would have waited if contador had been a man and made them wait. contador is the champ and he could have stepped up to dictate some of the etiquette, but he acted like a scared little kid instead.

whining
By: Loggia Ceramic
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 4:18pm

Watch the video. Schelck attacks, first vino responds, the contador responds. By the time schleck's chain comes off contador is in full chase. From the time Scheck's chain is off until Contador passes him is about 4 or 5 seconds. How are Contador and Menchov et al supposed to figure ot what's wrong with Schleck or his bike in 5 seconds? I can understand if it's a Sunday ride and the group doesn't stop for a mechanical but at the TdF - that's just petty whining on Schleck's part.

I attacked my male pattern
By: Daan Bushing
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 4:12pm

I attacked my male pattern baldness with Just for Men but dropped the container while primping in the bathroom. My date did not wait for me. What should I do?

They must not know the
By: Lennert Fork
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 3:35pm

They must not know the time-out symbol in Luxembourg.

only
By: Lennert Fork
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 3:21pm

The only reason to ever stop is if someone's steerer tube breaks. Then you stop and just give the race win to the poor bastard. All true, it's in the race bible.

Berto's a PUSSY
By: Guillaume Drainhole
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 3:17pm

he attacked like he should have its a bike race after all-but in the press conferences hes saying he was on the attack and didn't see what happened behind him? WTF own up to it you fucking pussy. Say you attacked its a bike race get over it don't say you didn't know what happened you fucking pussy.

chainring
By: Matteo Saddle
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 2:54pm

it looks like schleck crossed his chain to the max - from the big ring across the largest cog. but it appears that vino was going faster than schleck when his (schleck's) rear wheel jumps from the road. contador was caught asleep half-way down the small group at that point, but it is anybody's guess if he was going to catch up to schleck. that schleck had already slowed down a fraction right before the chain slipped makes me think that he would had been caught.
dick move? it's a race!

schleck
By: Salvestro Headbadge
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 2:54pm

whaaaaaaaaaa, whaaaaaaaaaaa. i hope berto buries him

How Long
By: West Coast Reader
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 2:35pm

How long was he going to last in a 53x13 or 14, does he think he's Ulrich?

Close up of that severe cross chaining
By: West Coast Reader
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 2:32pm

Here it is, for your analysis.

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m280/theJorge/ProCycling/CrossChainCase.jpg

big ring shift?
By: Kylian Skidmark
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 1:55pm

Not sure why it popped, but if it was a big ring to little ring shift then it was totally Schleck's fault. No one waits for dropped chains at Bear.

As for gearing, it looks like Vino was in his 39x(11-12) there:

http://velonews.competitor.com/files/2010/07/000_DV803923.jpg

What about...
By: West Coast Reader
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 1:53pm

What about these guys? Did they wait?

4. MONDORY Lloyd 87 AG2R LA MONDIALE 4h 47' 41" + 02' 50"
5. ROBERTS Luke 146 TEAM MILRAM 4h 47' 41" + 02' 50"
6. REDA Francesco 136 QUICK STEP 4h 47' 41" + 02' 50"
7. CONTADOR Alberto 1 ASTANA 4h 47' 41" + 02' 50"
8. SANCHEZ Samuel 181 EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI 4h 47' 41" + 02' 50"
9. MENCHOV Denis 191 RABOBANK 4h 47' 41" + 02' 50"
10. VANDBORG Brian 49 LIQUIGAS-DOIMO 4h 47' 41" + 02' 50"
11. VAN SUMMEREN Johan 58 GARMIN - TRANSITIONS 4h 47' 41" + 02' 50"

Nope!

beetlejuice beetlejuice
By: Daan Bushing
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 1:44pm

beetlejuice beetlejuice beetlejuice!

You can justify Alberto's
By: Alexandre Steerer
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 1:38pm

You can justify Alberto's move however you want, it was still a dick move. We all knew Alberto was going to take the yellow jersey at the time trial anyway.

This is not the first time something like this has happened, and it's been handled differently before. By you know who... the one who's name we dare not speak.

Wait?
By: sir crashalot
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 12:11pm

Hey, if it happens in mile 37, then maybe you ride easy for a bit until he catches back on. However, if it happens at the decisive moment in the race... sorry Charlie. Luck (good or bad) plays a part in every stage win. Thre fact the Yellow jersey was at stake has nothing to do with it. Give Contado props for being able to manipulate his machine. Chains don't fall off for no reason. It wasn't a mechical failure, it was shitty technique.

Andy & Berto
By: Matteo Tiralongo
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 12:06pm

1. Saxo blew it by having no one with Schleck with 3 km to the summit. Then Andy added to that by making an attack on the big ring, an amateurish move like Riis' arrogant EPO-driven display at Huatacam in '96. His chian came off b/c, as we all know, unless you are spinning, shifting across chainrings can always fail.
2. Did Saxo wait on the cobbles when most of the peloton got stuck behind a serious crash? No, they put the pressure on. Today those seconds went back the same way they came in. It will be a great race. Don't count Schleck out.

(No subject)
By: Jacopo Internal Routing
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 11:37am

F that
By: Maxime Bartape
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 11:08am

Today was a bar fight. Schleck threw the first punch. If a guy throws the first punch, you duck, hit back with everything you've got, and keep pummeling. Maybe even finish him with a few kicks for sucker punching you. Good for Berto, that was sweet. Even a gentleman wouldn't have waited for Schleck. He had a minor mis shift, which was his caused by him.

Race, don't wait.
By: Svein Rucker
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 10:45am

the whole "shoulda have waited" thing at the tour is getting totally ridiculous... here's the guideline:

It is a bicycle race: Do not wait, ever under any circumstances.

Simple, really.

new your cause new york is
By: Svein Rucker
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 10:42am

new your
cause new york is hard

shit, well THAT attack did
By: rah rah
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 10:31am

shit, well THAT attack did something...

redemption
By: Pepe Le Pew
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 10:26am

tons of heart by the french riders this tour. french footballers take note

Ryder moves up into top 10!
By: a
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 10:15am

Ryder moves up into top 10!

Voeckler does some 'Tokyo
By: mikeweb
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 10:01am

Voeckler does some 'Tokyo Drifting' - great save.

how long can phil and paul
By: rah rah
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 9:45am

how long can phil and paul play it off as if schleck's relatively lame attacks that do nothing to contador are somehow "sigh-co-LODGE-ickly" damaging to anyone other than schleck himself?

Go Tommy Go!
By: Morelli Torque
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 9:39am

The hardest working cyclist or at least gives the impression by pained facial expressions that he is working hard. Either way, I hope he can hang on.

I imagine Voulkler singing to
By: a
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 9:36am

I imagine Voulkler singing to himself as he climbs. Something poppy.

Voulkler looks like George
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 9:26am

Voulkler looks like George McFly

You guys never heard of the
By: J Joyce
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 9:00am

You guys never heard of the "Irish Curse"?

Creed is on cycling news now
By: a
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 8:39am

Creed is on cycling news now answering questions. sounds like a different guy entirely. maybe an impersonator.

Ask Creed how fun it was to
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 8:37am

Ask Creed how fun it was to be a teammate of Horner at Prime Alliance

empire state games
By: Bill montgomery
Sat, 07/17/2010 - 5:47pm

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looking forward to hearing from you

Thanks
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WCR, watch the overhead.
By: Jelle Fork
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 5:12pm

WCR, watch the overhead.

Dean said it best him self, "I dropped him (Tyler) off on Cav's wheel and went past Renshaw to try and keep the speed high." Dean then clearly moves up and left to force Renshaw left. Fine theres a meter or so, but if Renshaw doesn't push back there is only barrier after that.

Invisible
By: West Coast Reader
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 4:46pm

Yea, Dean was pushing Renshaw into those invisible barriers in the middle of the road, also called the loser barriers if he allowed him to over take him...

helluva wee wee
By: Mathieu Sealant
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 4:46pm

helluva wee wee

piss
By: Gaetan Tigweld
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 4:25pm
The head butt
By: Jelle Fork
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 4:19pm

The head butt seemed like the only thing Renshaw could do with Dean running him into the barriers.

But then he glances over, sees Tyler coming up on his left, completly changes his line and zings over to force Tyler into the barriers after Farrar had actually opened up his sprint. That is the reason Renshaw is no longer riding the tour. And rightly so.

Renshaw headbutt
By: Amine Tigweld
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 3:12pm

Mark Renshaw looked like Woody Woodpecker out there! Julian Dean should get his head checked for any extra holes!

MP3 of yesterday's commentary
By: schmalz
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 7:56am

MP3 of yesterday's commentary is here
http://www.asoaudio.net/NYVC/audio/NYVC_7_15_10.mp3

A little sensitive after
By: Noa Rear Entry
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 9:21pm

A little sensitive after Zidane cost them the World Cup

Seems the French have a thing
By: Aurelien Tigweld
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 9:00pm

Seems the French have a thing about head butting

Virus
By: West Coast Reader
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 7:02pm

Sounds like mister no click has a virus, I only get the link as listed.

DO NOT click "direct link"...
By: Alessandro Chamois
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 6:18pm

I did, couldn't get to the link and my machine has noticeably slowed. Why did you advise against it?

DQ BS
By: William Polished
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 5:38pm

renshaw fought like a man, barredo fought like a girl

DQ BS
By: William Polished
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 5:37pm

renshaw fought like a man, barredo fought like a girl

Cow Pucky
By: West Coast Reader
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 5:33pm

He got what he should of gotten (Renshaw) but when are they also DQ-ing the wheel chucker Barredo?

Cav will win only if there's a crash that he causes to win. Petachhi will wear the Green Jersey home and it will be the longest he ever stays in France for the rest of his life. Thor has been SMASHED, did you see his weak sprint today?

Will Cav win any more stages
By: schmalz
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 5:25pm

Will Cav win any more stages without Renshaw?

Bullshit decision - relegate
By: Justin Reid
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 5:11pm

Bullshit decision - relegate him but kicked out of the Tour? Anti Cav and anti HTC

re: mark renshaw
By: Enzo Ceramic
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 4:56pm

thats bullshit

opens multiple windows
By: Luchino Chamois
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 3:32pm

DO NOT click "direct link"

Renshaw must've watched the
By: Lukas Rear Entry
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 3:31pm

Renshaw must've watched the last Prospect Park race for sprinting tips.

And here I thought he'd maybe be relegated...
By: Romain Tracknut
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 3:26pm

Renshaw kicked out of the Tour for repeated head butting in the sprint

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/renshaw-kicked-out-of-tour-de-france

The written TdS to return for
By: schmalz
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 2:04pm

The written TdS to return for the next three stages

Written Tour day Schmalz was
By: Tom Neck
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 2:02pm

Written Tour day Schmalz was great. Please bring it back.

and akvavit
By: Arthur Compliant
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 10:57am

and akvavit

Dan is that you quietly weeping?
By: Benjamin Chainline
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 10:45am

Smash lost the green jersey. I imagine he'll be drowning his sorrows with plates of Lutefisk.

No time!
By: Alessandro Dropout
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 10:38am

No time to listen to live commentary, or even archived commentary, but reading through the Tour de Schmalz was perfect. Apparently written Schmalz, like Vladimir Karpets' mullet, has passed (Not sure which is sadder).

All The News That's Fit To Print
By: John Doe
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 10:02am

Editor: Hey there scoop, how's that Tour duh France bike race going?
Scoop: Uh...Slow Bastille stage, but they went past the place where Armstrong rode across a field a couple years back.
E: Did he stop and pay respects?
S: Uh, no. He finished 15 minutes back in the pack.
E: Bo-rrring! Where's the bathos? Well what else do you have for copy today? You know, sending you to France ain't cheap.
S: Well, we got some tweets from Vaughters about the afterparty in Paris.
E: Bono? Clinton?
S: N.E.R.D.
E: Yeah, those sideburns ain't fooling nobody...Ok....well, what are the bloggers saying?
S: That it was a slow stage.
E: I mean in general, what have they been discussing?
S: Le Mevel going to Garmin. Vacansoleil trying for ProTour, maybe Vande Velde going all in at the Vuelta.
E: What's the Vuelta?
S: The Tour of Spain.
E: The bike race goes to Spain?
S: It's a different race.
E: There's another race? Whoda thunk it? Well how about those guys at NYVelocity. What are they writing about?
S: Quezada's pictures of girls, plus some retired Italian named Salvatore.
E: Any doping stories?
S: Uh....yeah...a couple.
E: Well why don't you summarize one of their doping stories, put some hyperlinks to a twitter feed, scan in the PDF of something and then make up some analogies to some other sport.
S: Like what?
E: Something easily understandable, like golf or ping pong.

Creed, Freidman, and Pate
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 9:42am

Creed, Freidman, and Pate will back together next year on same team. You heard it here first

people with jobs can't listen to audio
By: Dylan Tank
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 8:41am

what do we have to do to get written tour day schmalz back?

Awesome commentary guys, its
By: Giorgio Supple
Wed, 07/14/2010 - 11:40pm

Awesome commentary guys, its just hard to hear anyone but Schmalz

MP3 available
By: schmalz
Wed, 07/14/2010 - 6:23am
Bring bak the written word!
By: Beotch
Wed, 07/14/2010 - 6:08am

Come on guys! You're killing me.

I'm deployed overseas, and it's difficult enough to get my Daily Schmalz, but IMPOSSIBLE to get streaming media.

I don't know how good (or sucky) Creed's coverage is because I CAN'T GET IT.

bummed

archive
By: Arnaud Pulley
Wed, 07/14/2010 - 3:35am

looking forward to hearing this when you archive it. Don't get a chance to hear it live.

about OSX pretty sure mac users can just install mplayer or xmms.

then just type mplayer mms://75.125.198.226:2347 (or xmms mms://.......)into a "console" (and hit enter)
or whatever mac lingo is for a terminal window.

eeegghhhhhh
By: Jonas Limit Screw
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 9:49pm

Come ON, you can't take away the written tour day Schmalz, (if that is indeed what's happening) that's horrible!!! I hate audio!!!! And I live in a barn upstate and can't possibly get the audio to work on my Mac with WiFi rigged by my doddering 75 yr old neighbor. I can't believe you're doing this to me!!!! You're a very bad man!!!!

Number
By: West Coast Reader
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 7:22pm

I heard the phone ring when I did listen, how do we call in for added banter? Just in case you guys get some quiet time, figuring there's plenty to add to the chaos.

Ditto Dr. Fuentes
By: Palla Locknut
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 6:52pm

Meh. I don't have time for that audio BS. I'd rather read the TDS. It gives me something to look forward to when I don't feel like doing my TPS reports at work.

audio schmaudio
By: Dr Fuentes
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 4:14pm

I hope that the written TDS will continue. I don't have time to listen to the commentary but I do have 5 minutes to read the daily update. Thanks

Andy Schleck quote
By: Nicolas Seatmasticator
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 3:02pm

"I know my mother is watching the race, and during the descents she paces back and forth into the kitchen. So I told (Saxo Bank team manager Bjarne Riis) to call my mother and tell her I wouldn’t take any risks."

can't wait to see that nifty
By: Razzante Torque
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 1:45pm

can't wait to see that nifty oh so pro blue tape used by someone in a race in cp, pp, fbf, abc, 123.

Yawwwwwwnnnnn.
By: Scrotum Grease
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 1:41pm

Yawwwwwwnnnnn.

Today's stage was so good
By: L. Blankfein
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 12:40pm

I had a "TOURGASM"(tm)

The next time I get dropped
By: Clement Skidmark
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 11:16am

The next time I get dropped on a climb, I've got to remember to use the old 'I rode with a fractured xxxxxx' excuse. Seems to be all the vogue at this years tour.

As a matter of fact, Phil just tweeted that he's been commentating with a fractured skull.

Schleck..will..SMASH???
By: zipp shift
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 10:58am

Schleck..will..SMASH???

Thanks
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 10:50am

Thanks for tuning in. It looks like Thursday will be our next day.

I think the question everyone
By: mikeweb
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 10:39am

I think the question everyone has is whether Schmalz was tossing back lagers, like the legendary Harry Carey, while doing his commentary?

man, those GC gaps are pretty
By: desperately seeking upgrade points
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 10:38am

man, those GC gaps are pretty big... with evans and lance out, already looks like a 2 man race. i hope something happens to keep this interesting.

Overall great job! Sound
By: mikeweb
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 10:30am

Overall great job! Sound could be better, but when dealing with sound over phones, that's alway an issue. Great stage win call by Creed!

Was the mic on?
By: schmalz
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 10:27am

Was the mic on?

love the creed casar story
By: a
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 10:26am

love the creed casar story too.

Great job, guys.
By: Keano Skidmark
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 10:23am

Great job, guys.

i loved the creed translation
By: a
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 10:21am

i loved the creed translation of the Casar interview.

moreau botched it
By: Florian Torque
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 10:19am

moreau botched it

zilch
By: Baldwin
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 10:01am

to no avail, tried everything ...vlc via firefox, wmp, reconfigure for rtsp...nothing....must be an office firewall...

Cadel
By: Bernardi O-Ring
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 9:59am

the disadvantage of being the only bona fide clean rider

Sound
By: West Coast Reader
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 9:50am

You guys in a tunnel?

Speak up!

Evans
By: Amine O-Ring
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 9:50am

Did Cadel forget his blood transfusion on the rest day? Getting dropped like a bad habit...

Thanks guys, much better than
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 9:27am

Thanks guys, much better than the Phil and Paul show !

navarralismo
By: Svein Rucker
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 9:18am

navarralismo

vino is a doper ass.
By: Svein Rucker
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 9:13am

vino is a doper ass.

That would be Cosmo
By: Gaetan Clearcoat
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 9:07am

Cosmo Catalano from Cyclocosm

who is the 4th guy - not
By: a
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 9:01am

who is the 4th guy - not creed, not schmalz, not the cycling news guy?

how could u hate vino?
By: herb
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 9:01am

how could u hate vino?

how exciting, it works on my
By: desperately seeking upgrade points
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 8:56am

how exciting, it works on my computer. "woot."

i hate vino.

Does anyone else feel like
By: Totto Locknut
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 8:52am

Does anyone else feel like this is the Wayne's World version of cycling?

Working!!!
By: Gaetan Clearcoat
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 8:48am

I can hear it with VLC and Safari. Woot!

I'm in. Using VLC via
By: Andy
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 8:43am

I'm in. Using VLC via Firefox.

mac
By: Remigio Cage
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 8:38am

no go with both firefox and safari and the latest flip4mac

just downloaded the wmp plug in for macs
By: Gaetan Clearcoat
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 8:36am

And I'm still having troubles. Craptastic.

Speaking of Horner, does
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 8:32am

Speaking of Horner, does Creed have any good stories from riding with Horner on Prime Alliance days ?

Looks like the audio is
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 8:29am

Looks like the audio is working now just fine. Windows media player on Windows 7.

I've got robots on VLC,
By: Andy
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 8:23am

I've got robots on VLC, nothing on MPlayer. Grrrrr.

Anyone getting this stream at 9:21?
By: daveydave
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 8:22am

i have nothing. Let us know your media player if you got around the flash based player

can't understand a word you
By: Mathias Ferrule
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 8:16am

can't understand a word you are saying

I'm listening... waiting for
By: mikeweb
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 8:11am

I'm listening... waiting for them to talk about the race.

Am I the only one listening
By: Totto Locknut
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 8:08am

Am I the only one listening to this?

audio stream garbled?
By: Gaetan Clearcoat
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 8:08am

I've got the VLC thingie going, and the music was playing perfectly, but now I'm hearing the garbled strains of Creed and Schmalz being run through the robot vocalizer...

So
By: Palla Locknut
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 7:46am

Is this now taking place of the Tour Day Schmalz synopses? I'm a visual guy, not an audio guy.

Took a while, but I'm in on
By: Andy
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 9:01pm

Took a while, but I'm in on my mac. Phew.

Music
By: West Coast Reader
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 8:30pm

I can hear the music, but I'm on a PC, well RDC to it. Mac's! Ha they still make those, maybe they have a MacSound to help them out these days or is it the MacTunes. Can't believe people still buy into that cult.

So back to the music, is there a way for us to turn it off or at least down? Its set to 11!

The next stage we will be
By: schmalz
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 7:24pm

The next stage we will be doing is on Thursday, and after that we are planning to do all of next's week weekday stages

Mac Audio Help
By: cosmo
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 6:39pm

I've got the Pro version of Flip4Mac, (which is kind of a QuickTime plugin, but that's neither here nor there) and it doesn't seem to work.

I did, however, get it to work on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari (all OS 10.6) using MPlayer OS X Extended, which you can download here: http://mplayerosxext.googlecode.com/files/MPlayer-OSX-Extended_rev13.zip

When the .zip finishes downloading, double-click it to decompress, drag the resulting MPlayer OS X Extended icon into your Applications folder, and you're set.

Clicking on "Direct Link" (should) open a browser message saying something like "choose an application to play this file" or "opening MPlayer OS X Extended to play this file" (if this window doesn't open, you may need to reboot.) Click "OK" and (after anywhere from a few to 60 seconds) Mplayer should start playing the audio.

You can also try opening MPlayer, going to File>Open Location... and entering "mms://75.125.198.226:2347", which is the address of the server broadcasting the audio.

I was thinking about setting something like this up, but being at least nominally unemployed at the moment, I couldn't justify shelling out for bandwidth. At any rate, schmalz and Creed will be far more entertaining that me sitting at home alone.

-Cosmo
http://cyclocosm.com
cosmo@cyclocosm.com
http://twitter.com/cyclocosm

is it just stage 9 or all the rest?
By: Macy Gray
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 6:24pm

I'm reading 'stage 9' in the story, and 'each day's stage' in a comment below. just curious...would love to have an alternative to Vs. until the end.

and I'd like to resubmit '2 Degrees Celsius' as the program name.

Gimme some Zamfir as
By: Guillaume Ceramic
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 6:18pm

Gimme some Zamfir as background music and I'm happy as Lawrence Welk in a pile of oat bran.

I can hear it fine on XP and
By: mikeweb
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 6:10pm

I can hear it fine on XP and Vista - what is the Windows complication?

I can't hear the music on my
By: schmalz
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 4:26pm

I can't hear the music on my mac, we may have some complications here. Anyone know anything about windows streaming audio?

...but I'm not on a Mac.
By: mikeweb
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 4:23pm

...but I'm not on a Mac.

Hmm - I just heard some
By: mikeweb
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 4:22pm

Hmm - I just heard some haunting classical guitar music from the feed just now...

Can mac people out there hear
By: schmalz
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 4:21pm

Can mac people out there hear the music?

It's not our bandwidth that
By: schmalz
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 4:03pm

It's not our bandwidth that we're using...

"bandwidth shouldn't be a
By: herb
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 3:53pm

"bandwidth shouldn't be a problem"

methinks you misunderestimate the allurng siren call that is CreeDan's Clearwater Revival, Stage 9

Audio will be live during the
By: schmalz
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 3:47pm

Audio will be live during the stage and a downloadable archive later (not sure when), bandwidth shouldn't be a problem (we hope).

So...
By: West Coast Reader
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 3:45pm

So can we listen live or have to wait for it to end?

If live did you get more bandwidth? Otherwise we might crash it?

The audio will be archived
By: schmalz
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 3:44pm

The audio will be archived for each stage also.

Doesn't go live until
By: schmalz
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 3:42pm

Doesn't go live until tomorrow

What
By: West Coast Reader
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 3:41pm

I'm always lat to these! Where's the hidden link or do we guess the url?

Need to find the rest day.

cadel evans in a 50k solo
By: excitable cat 4
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 3:12pm

cadel evans in a 50k solo break ... was surreal

Who won stage 9?
By: Senne Plug
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 3:08pm

Who won stage 9?

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