[Lumbergh]

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/08/news/leipheimer-confirms-hell-race-the-tour-of-utah_133491

Leipheimer will race without a team, race organizers said. The BMC Racing Team also is sending a five-man team that includes national road champion George Hincapie.

RS can't manage to send anyone to race w/Levi? Scratching my head a bit here - why would Levi even bother racing?

 

[Creakyknees]

- why would Levi even bother racing?

umm... because he loves to race his bike?

 

[parity]

RS can't manage to send anyone to race w/Levi? Scratching my head a bit here - why would Levi even bother racing?

Maybe Levi is getting an appearance fee for just showing up. Or maybe he wants to use the race for training? Or both.

 

[rubbersoul]

Even though he's in, my bet is that he won't win.
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[AdamM]

I'm not saying that Levi's shelf life with Radio Shack didn't expire last month, but his going solo may be related to TRS being a ProTour team and UCI rules. I seem to recall if a ProTour team particaptes as a team, then the UCI Continental team entries get limited or something like that.

 

[Tugboat]

It's dodgy... if it's like any other domestic races that the Radioshack guys have ridden then he'll have the Trek-Livestrong guys as domestiques, effectively giving that team a much bigger squad than anyone else in the race.

 

[PG_Gary]

I don't believe that the Tour of Utah can accept Pro Tour teams because of their current status. BMC is getting in because they're Pro Continental. I wonder if Levi is racing as a tune-up to the USPRO road race or time trial, similar to what DZ did last year.

There was a news article that said basically that solo riders cannot accept help from their companion team (e.g. Trek-Livestrong) other than mechanical support and having the companion team carry their spare bike. Yeah, right. Like he's not going to put the U23 guys on the front to reel in a break?

 

[Ventruck]

He's being a hard-***, duh.

 

[MJCBH]

Levi's also spent time growing up in Utah (he went to high school in Salt Lake City) and he's raced a lot of the same roads. My guess is that he's not only using the race for training (lots of high altitude climbing stages!!) but I would also guess that's he's also trying to provide support for the "local race".

Either way, I'm stoked to see he and GH in action!

 

[gh1]

Racing solo? Sounds like the tour de france.

 

[jsedlak]

Racing solo? Sounds like the tour de france.

badum cshhh!


:idea:



Racing solo? He already did 3 weeks of that!

 

[bas]

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/08/news/leipheimer-confirms-hell-race-the-tour-of-utah_133491

Leipheimer will race without a team, race organizers said. The BMC Racing Team also is sending a five-man team that includes national road champion George Hincapie.

RS can't manage to send anyone to race w/Levi? Scratching my head a bit here - why would Levi even bother racing?

because he is bored?

he's not leading the team in the vuelta.

 

[utlucky]

Dave Zabriskie raced the tour of Utah solo last year. I pretty exited to see Levi and George ride here, took the whole week off work.

 

[rydbyk]

Levi's also spent time growing up in Utah (he went to high school in Salt Lake City) and he's raced a lot of the same roads. My guess is that he's not only using the race for training (lots of high altitude climbing stages!!) but I would also guess that's he's also trying to provide support for the "local race".

Either way, I'm stoked to see he and GH in action!

Yep:thumbsup: