Tour of California Stage 2

THE BIG STORY YESTERDAY...

All I can say is Wow... Levi's attack on Bonny Doom road yesterday in the Tour of California stage 2 was nothing short of SPECATACULAR. He starts off the climb with a 4 minute time gap on Barredo from Quickstep and ends up taking the KOM.

However, I am bummed to see that my boy Floyd left his legs in Champs-Elysees. So far lack luster performance for Landis but I still have high hopes he will have at least one big stage. So while it's pouring rain and the weather sucks again this year in Cali, make sure you tune in to watch the Tour. Or, if you have a job you can tune in at you desktop. When the picture does come through it's quite impressive.

Quote from http://www.cyclingnews.com/

Leipheimer takes big step to number three
Having told Cyclingnews yesterday that he was still upbeat about his overall chances at the Tour of California, Levi Leipheimer has taken a big step to title number three with a win in Santa Cruz.

The experienced American knew that yesterday's stage winner in the rain may have been hurting on another wet and cold stage. "Mancebo did a big effort yesterday, and we figured he was going to be paying for it today, so we had that to our advantage. We're bike racers, we're not machines," said Leipheimer.

He took advantage of this and put in a solid attack at the base of the Bonny Doon Road climb, and joined by Garmin-Slipstream's Thomas Peterson, the pair shared the spoils at the finish – Peterson the stage, Leipheimer the overall classification lead.

With another three tough stages before the Solvang individual time trial, Leipheimer will most likely call upon the abundant resources of his Astana squad to defend his golden jersey. Lance Armstrong and Chris Horner have already shown they're in excellent form to be assisting their leader, so work has been cut out for those with overall classification aspirations in this year's edition of America's premier race.