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by Chris Fontecchio on Nov 12, 2008 5:37 PM EST

I don't often pass this stuff on, but...

* If you live in or can get to the cycling Mecca of Boulder, Colorado by Saturday, November 22, you can mingle with Team Garmin Chipotle at the Boulder Theater. Event starts at 5:30pm; tickets range from $25 for the rabble to $250 for VIPs.

* If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em: Rabobank is now a "founding partner" of the Tour of California, as well as its official bank. Look for the Rabo label on the best young rider jersey, as well as on the daily shwag in the hospitality tents. Oddly enough, Rabo riders have taken the best young jersey the last two years, so they didn't really have to buy it. Just one more example of the Dutch bank giving more to cycling than they necessarily should, right? No word on whether Rabo riders will be recusing themselves from the competition now.

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Founding Partner?

I love the way that’s named. It’s a three year deal but it sounds sound more permanent.

BTW – how do you get money out of Rabo in the US? Here in Ireland I think they’re internet only. I’d want the bike race’s bank to have ATMs the riders could actually get their spending money out of.

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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

by fmk on Nov 12, 2008 5:55 PM EST reply actions

Rabobank does have real (brick & mortar) banks in CA

Don’t know about the rest of the country tho. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

by lyne on Nov 12, 2008 7:09 PM EST up reply actions

Never seen em

And it was news to me that they were in California, though IIRC they have 50+ branch offices.

CQRanking.com, you complete me.

by Chris Fontecchio on Nov 12, 2008 7:40 PM EST up reply actions

yeah trying to remember where I saw it

I think it was Gilroy of all places

by lyne on Nov 12, 2008 7:57 PM EST up reply actions

King City!

So last year I’m cruising downtown King City (don’t ask) and what do I see? A bold blue and orange, brand-spanking new Rabobank branch.

by huy on Nov 12, 2008 9:18 PM EST up reply actions

really?

There’s a Rabo in King City? That’s priceless.

by Jen See on Nov 13, 2008 12:03 AM EST up reply actions

Dang

if there was a Rabobank in Seattle, I would transfer all my assets their at once. At least until Amstel; if they lost Amstel again, I might have to pull out.

CQRanking.com, you complete me.

by Chris Fontecchio on Nov 13, 2008 1:17 PM EST up reply actions

Saw one near the tour of CA route this year

Google street view rules. Santa Ynez google maps shows them in 4 or 5 other places, nearby, too. Maybe they’re going to roll out some more in time for Tour of CA.

by JFS_PGH on Nov 13, 2008 10:19 AM EST up reply actions

Saw one near the tour of CA route this year

Google street view rules. Santa Ynez google maps shows them in 4 or 5 other places, nearby, too. Maybe they’re going to roll out some more in time for Tour of CA.

by JFS_PGH on Nov 13, 2008 10:22 AM EST up reply actions

Rabo bank

There is one in Solvang. I thought maybe they also get Danish and Dutch mixed up sometimes. Both times I was in town I peeked in the window and was incredibly disappointed to se not one teller in full kit. And they call themselves a sponsor.

by Hons on Nov 13, 2008 12:33 AM EST up reply actions

Drive up windows

for bikes???

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by Chris Fontecchio on Nov 13, 2008 1:18 PM EST up reply actions

Late to the party but there is one half a mile from my house

in Roseville CA. Its in a fancy high rise too. Looks like it might be a regional office or something not just a branch.

by ZoeRochelle on Nov 13, 2008 4:22 PM EST up reply actions

Cool. Thanx guys. Wasn’t sure if they operated as a bricks-and-mortar bank beyond their local market.

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

by fmk on Nov 13, 2008 1:23 PM EST up reply actions

There’s at least one Rabo in Santa Maria too, and lest we forget, Rabo’s employment of Hennie “The Best Cyclist Not Named Eddie” Kuiper guarantees them a post-breathing-state trip straight to Valhalla.

If I had any money (and I don’t), and they had a branch in my economically depressed rural area of Northern California (and they don’t), it’d be theirs.

In simplest terms, they had me at “Hennie.”

"Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill"
-- Fausto Coppi

by TCWriter on Nov 13, 2008 5:26 PM EST up reply actions

I would love to go the Garmin night

but I spent all my money on a the AC/DC concert in Denver. Ah well, I’m sure Garmin will have their fun night in Boulder again next year, while AC/DC is only coming back one more time, Let there be Rock! I will of course continue to support Garmin by eating lots of those yummy Chipotle burritos.

"If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win."
~ Jens Voigt

by Phil H. on Nov 12, 2008 7:00 PM EST reply actions