The Style Page
by Jen See on Oct 22, 2008 7:10 PM EDT
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PrintTour Presentation Special!
So rumor has it that there will be a bike race in France next summer. A few mountains will be involved. Everyone will get to wear funny hats on three separate occasions. Someone will win.
But that's a very long time from now. Of far more immediate importance is the Fashion Classification. This all-important classification should not be confused in any way with the Hottitude Classification, which is a different thing altogether. Today, the elite members of the Tour peloton completed the first stage in the fashion race: the always selective Presentation of the Route, in which everyone dresses up in his finest, sits in Velvet seats, and tries to look fascinated by the proceedings.
A preliminary investigation of the Fashion Classification standings on the flip.
• Black is the new black. Or, so believes Tour director Christian Prudhomme. It is the prudent choice, after all.
• After today's events, there is now a hair gel shortage in Spain.
• No Cadel, Halloween is next week. But the pinstripes, this we can embrace.
• The checked shirt, so subtle. The ties? Not at all subtle.
• Cuff links are nice. But the open shirt collar? Casual Friday is on Friday, Mark, not Wednesday.
Got more? Do please contribute to this vital investigation.
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Wait for the Giro presentation
None of this refined fashion nonsense.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Oct 22, 2008 8:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Oooo Gav! Marvellous.
I was wondering whether somebody had this thread in the pipeline. In fact I was considering doing it this afternoon ay work as our server had crashed and we had no work to do. But then the internet stopped working too. So traumatic. Instead, I spent the last hour of the day drawing a picture of a Pinarello.
But to the matter in hand…Cadel=scary expression there, Bert’s shirt=nice choice
Was Valv there at all? Anyone know the answer to this vital question? Benna? Pippo? There must be more pics out there. The search continues……
So far
A rather shocking lack of variety in the photos. We need more. Surely, someone can aid us in our hour of need…
I am on a mission. But I really should go to bed soon.
Bettiniphoto has nothing interesting. Tim de Waele wasn’t even there by the looks of it.
I know! He seems to be doing nothing but cyclocross at the mo by the looks of his site.
A lack of priorities there. Though if he photographs Niels Albert running around in the mud that may placate me slightly ;-)
Lars Boom
A few shots of Boom in the mud would likely go far toward making up for this total failure to pay attention to the important things.
that will certainly help
hmm, i wonder how things went at the Tour of Japan today. that was supposed to be today, wasn’t it?
Um
wha?
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Oct 23, 2008 1:43 AM EDT up reply actions
oh, geez, evans look like a gangster there
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
See everytime i see Alberto
I like him that little bit more… hehehe
Haven’t seen any andy photos yet..
He's in this one, just about
http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2009/tour09/?id=/photos/2009/tour09/presentation/0050_Cavendish_
And stuck his finger in a light socket
Andy Shleck: Leader, Bedhead Classification.
The beige, eh, not really doing it for me.
where's Linus?
Cav looks classy in cufflinks. Cadel’s pinstripes are classy, too, but gold (pale orange?) is not a good colour on anyone – perhaps this realization is the reason for his grimace. Was the Halloween reference about his shirt or his look?
uh, both, i'm thinking
The expression isn’t exactly stylish either.
I did like the pinstripes. The shirt, not so much. Cav should have gone the pinstripe route – pinstripes and cufflinks. Ooh là là!
ahhh
I thought you were talking about the Halloween Cadel mask… didn’t even notice the shirt! oooooohhhhh. scary!
So Spain is where all the petroleum product is going… Cav, stand closer to the razor son, Miami Vice was so 1983….
by Christopher See on Oct 22, 2008 7:28 PM EDT reply actions
Never mind Cav..
Who’s the bloke next to him, and what the hell is that pink shiny thing he’s wearing?
by blackthugcat on Oct 23, 2008 6:45 AM EDT up reply actions
It's a... wait for it...
Pink Puffy Shirt.
by Christopher See on Oct 23, 2008 9:45 AM EDT up reply actions
It doesn't look like he has any rider ones, just ones of the screen with the routes on and one of Contador.
From his general shot of the room it looks like he was sitting near the back, quite a long way from the riders….
i posted some image links over on the preview thread. not going to go through them tonight, maybe tomorrow.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
CAVENDISH IS HOT AS F***!
apologies for the vulgarity, but come on, it should be a crime to wear white that well!
By the way I’d love to see a closeup of those cufflinks! I’d swear from afar that that’s the Cinelli logo… Anyone else ever hear that story about Cinelli (Cino himself!) showing up at races in his best white shirt…then proceeding to volunteer as a mechanic for “his” teams…and at the end of the day having as spotless a shirt as at the beginning of the race? Maybe a nod from Cav to the master!
(OK I know they’re probably not Cinelli cufflinks but hey I can dream can’t I?)
Cav was a sweetheart at ToM.
But I agree with Mr. Adam Hansen. There was something about him earlier this year.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
But it’s not a white shirt. It’s white collar and cuffs and some other colour for the rest. The tielessness I can take (ties are just silly) but colar and cuffs have to match the main shirt colour for me. And I personally like the cufflinks and no tie look.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
really?
i so dig colored shirt, white cuffs/collar. he scored highly with me on that part. and the cufflinks.
wow I either have bad eyes or an old computer (or both)
because it looks white to me! What colour is it then so I can reset my settings, or something? ;) From where I’m sitting it looks like the cuffs and collar are whiter just because the material’s doubled up there…and the rest of the shirt, while white, is darkened by his skin. (By his luscious, beautiful skin.) Am I wrong?
Irregardless (god I love writing that…and apparently it’s not a mistake since no red underline!) I can also stand the white collar/cuffs with coloured shirt, as long as everything matches. Also agree on the cufflinks with no tie, though I like ties too.
by plinytheelder on Oct 22, 2008 10:18 PM EDT up reply actions
shirt
It’s either light green or light blue. It’s hard to tell, the camera flash washed out the color pretty badly. But I don’t think it’s solid white.
I know I’m being really slow here … but that must have been the row for stage winners and previous winners
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like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
LOL thats funny Gavia
Just shows where my mind was, i didn’t have a clue what you were talking about
Media scrumming and Cav looking amused
That Cav is so adorable. He seems to have the hair under control finally. Although the messy longish style was cute too.
Looked a lot duller when getting his piece of crystal in the IoM earlier in the week. Even shaved, by the looks of it.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
And this must be from some other ceremony on the island recently.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
Columbia’s new signings look like they could have talent.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
Meh
What does he think this is, casual friday?
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Oct 23, 2008 1:45 AM EDT up reply actions
I think that’s one of the suits Aldi (or was it Lidl?) was flogging for €19.99.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
Hey don't scoff!
One of my favourite jumpers comes from Aldi. And their fudge is divine beyond words.
Not knocking some of their bargains. But €19.99 for a suit?
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
Actually, I was wrong. It’s actually €27.99. Which is a whopping $35.92. Or £22.92 for Albertina.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
Isn't Millar the guy
who got the team hooked up with Paul Smith designer suits for the team presentation last year?
What, this Paul Smith?
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like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
Who’s the shorty with the dickie bow?
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
Not sure I'd say Mike is "short"
but that would be the lovely little man that goes by “Meatball”, and otherwise known as Mike Friedman.
Track man with some serious power in the legs. Should be fun following with P-R races in years to come. He and Maggy I think become one during training. He’s one who follows the beat of his own drum so I wouldn’t expect anything short of awesome bow ties and/or kick ass suspenders.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
It takes time to close a nine hour brucegap gav.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
Black is the new black. Or, so believes Tour director Christian Prudhomme
Bruyneel of course disagrees. He believes brown is the new black. Won’t these two ever get along?
Ding, ding, ding, ding - we have a winner!
I believe Bruyneel gets the Ricco Memorial Fashion Award for the event. And he’s so literate, he can say “yikes, what an outfit!!” in 6 languages (Dutch, English, Spanish, French, Italian, German)
clearly not
Gah… That is a truly horrid suit. All brown from top to toe, and the stripes. Gaaaaah, my eyes.
Bruny, how could you do this to us?
Brown is good as an accessory colour, you know, bags, shoes, boots, I'm all for that.
But the 100% chocolate look? Wrong.
By the way
how can you not like the ties? That burst of colour, it’s so Iberian. (I agree on the gel though, get serious guys!)
Read yer Freud.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
ach so?
gerade gebe ich einen Kurs über Freud…
by plinytheelder on Oct 23, 2008 12:15 AM EDT up reply actions
While Prudhomme goes for the Johnny Cash look, his newly nepotised boss, Jean-Etienne Amaury sticks with the safe and conservative dark suit, white shirt and dull tie but is beaten in the fashion stakes by Prince Albert’s burgundy tie..
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
some funky stitching
on the lapel there for the prince. hmm, wonder what that suit looked like in real life.
burgundy, perhaps a tad under-stated for the occasion, but not bad.
Andy Schleck really needs to try harder.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
Seating mistake?
Or has he realised that he made a tactical sartorial error sitting in the same row as a bunch of Iberians? If he was sitting next to David Millar he’d probably look fine….or maybe not. The hard truth is that anyone other than the Spaniards has to work hard at it – they just do it naturally.
by blackthugcat on Oct 23, 2008 10:18 PM EDT up reply actions
It seems that Oscar did not read the memo regarding garish ties for the Spanish representation….
by Christopher See on Oct 23, 2008 9:50 AM EDT up reply actions
I think going naked would be frowned upon.
So you might need a plan b.
Carlos Sastre - Tour de France winner - Born From Jets
What is that thing sticking out of his shirt?
The Claw? His physiche is mortyburnsian.
Carlos Sastre - Tour de France winner - Born From Jets
I just googled mortyburnsian, meaning?? LOL did you mean Monty Burnsian??
But hey, It’s andy, he is young, still growing , if you see him in real life, he looks damn fine to me.. Hands and all..
I can't tell if something is sticking out of the shirt pocket
or it’s a label because some designer wants to claim credit for that shirt for some bizarre reason.
label
Agree, rather odd to claim credit for that thing. Andy, kid, you gotta do better next year, mmkay?
He should really fly some of you in for wardrobe help. :-)
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Nice job. Way to plan ahead. A+ for you.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Planning ahead is essential.
I have already booked leave from work for next july and have already drawn up an itinerary, complete with travels options and transfer times. I think my boss thought me a little obsessive…
Always good to be prepared
I’m just waiting for companies to release info, then i’m booking the lot…
I’m going to do the ride in car again, that was the best, and waiting to see the hotel situation from the compnies..
But either way i will talk and catch up with Saxo Bank guys, thats a given..
Caisse is good, we done CSC
Even though catching up with my boys would be awesome.. This is going to happen anyway…Bring on VIP access..
I think Liquigas for Benna, or Caisse for Valverde will be awesome.
I would also like to be staying with =Astana or Team Colombia..
I’ll try my hardest… Never give up, and be the first to ask…thats my motto
Sorry to hijack the thread but girlies....Basso's new site is up ;-)
Yummy photos. Guilty pleasures.
He's clearly going for the 'look at me, I'm a family man' approach.
But he does look very good. And his children are incredibly sweet!
Family Man approach - I'm sick of it
I’m sick of all the Cyclists having wives or girlfriends.. I think it needs to stop at least while there racing. I much prefer them to be single and have the knowledge(or dream) that maybe we can be there girlfriend, wife, or FB (sorry for being crude).. Bring on the Single Pro Cyclists I say..
mmm....
I suspect being married or attached is no barrier for many…
yes, I am a cynic but we’re talking major alfa male egos here.
Jens for Pope
The dog, which is apparently called Tadello, not Birillo at all.
I wonder why the poor hound never gets included in the family pics?!
lol
It was Tarello, I believe. The Basso family apparently has several dogs, and other assorted pets. I forget the total tally but it was considerably more than just ol’ Birillo.
Do we know if Birillo still exists? If I were Ivan I'd be tempted to change his name in shame I think, the poor pooch.
I remember reading something in which Basso’s lawyer was quoted as saying quite categorically something along the lines of ‘the Bassos do not have a dog called Birillo. I heard his daughter calling it Tarello with my own ears. So there.’ That claim doesn’t really stand up if they have a whole kennel of the things…..
lol
Perhaps we need to pay a visit and find out…
At the time all this crap went down, some journo or another who had visited the Basso homestead confirmed the existence of Birillo. Perhaps like Millar’s EPO wrappers, Basso has kept Birillo around.
I don't mind doing that. I like cute doggies and I also like Iva....I mean, I also like finding out essential information for the good of the Cafe.
Why would you name your blood after your dog anyway? Isn’t it rather a giveaway when someone overhears you shouting his name in the local park? It’s always struck me as a little dumb.
Of course, I'm not spending my working afternoon looking at such sites. Oh no.
I am the model of professional dilligence.
Nice an all as the pix are, but somehow I was expecting something a lot more … funky … from that site. But that’s just a plain old bog standard build-it-yourself-after-reading-HTML-for-Dummies site.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
my fav...
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
That gorgeous smile.....
http://pievedimazzo.it/IvanBasso/images/morfeoshow/gallery-2602/big/06.jpg?rand=781913362
In Italian time, he becomes unsuspended in less than an hour now
Mystery solved!
Why was David Millar without a tie at the TdF presentation? Because Carlos stole his.
That's pretty good.
I wonder at which point he stole it? At the Tour this year when they weren’t looking?
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
excellent sleuthing :-)
Now, Carlos, it’s not nice to steal. You really should get your own, you know.
Pez's pix
Some new pix up on Pez. What do you reckon of Philipe Brunel, eh? It’s the way he might look at you.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
I was going to comment on that. It’s a bit … odd, isn’t it? Maybe his hair had a bad reaction to his boss’s brown suit and curled up and died.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
lol, so funny!
I forgot to put on antiperspirant the morning of a German speaking exam once. It was mortifyingly embarrassing considering how much nerves make me sweat. I’ve learnt my lesson and I’m sure Andy now has too!
Headphones? But surely he speaks French?
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
They might be headphones but I'm not convinced. Does he speak French?
Doesn’t (not sure if he still does) he live in Germany?
Italy I thought. Not that I’m stalkingly obsessive about him.
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
Quiz!
The photos above are all credit Tim de Waele, but I got them off a Japanese site (found while trying to find info on tomorrow/today’s Japan Cup). Some of the cycling world’s names come out rather odd when run through Japanese phonetics. A few are instantly identifiable (Kontadoru, Kavendisshu), but others might take more work—see how many you can figure out (not all from the TdF presentation):
CHIOREKKU
ARUDAGU
SULEK
BURYUINERU
SHAVANERU
MAKKUEIDO
TSABERU
BURESHERU
VANAFERUMATO
RAIPUHAIMA
Answers tomorrow.
The easy ones
CHIOREKKU – Ciolek
ARUDAGU
SULEK – Schleck
BURYUINERU – Bruyneel
SHAVANERU – Chavanel
MAKKUEIDO – McQuaid
TSABERU – Zabel
BURESHERU
VANAFERUMATO
RAIPUHAIM
So far so good!
And well done—I had trouble with Makkueido and Tsaberu, even in the context of articles.
Yup.
Just three left:
CHIOREKKU – Ciolek
ARUDAGU
SULEK – Schleck
BURYUINERU – Bruyneel
SHAVANERU – Chavanel
MAKKUEIDO – McQuaid
TSABERU – Zabel
BURESHERU
VANAFERUMATO—Van Avermaet
RAIPUHAIMA
Right on both.
Y’all are kicking booty. One to go!
CHIOREKKU – Ciolek
ARUDAGU—Aldag
SULEK – Schleck
BURYUINERU – Bruyneel
SHAVANERU – Chavanel
MAKKUEIDO – McQuaid
TSABERU – Zabel
BURESHERU
VANAFERUMATO—Van Avermaet
RAIPUHAIMA—Leipheimer
I knew watching all those re-runs of Shogun would pay off one day
Carlos Sastre - Tour de France winner - Born From Jets
I don't believe it
the Leipheimer one. It just looks like one of those sixties piss-takes. Just add buck teeth, little round glasses and a camera. Peter Sellers at his worst.
Whoa there.
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