Take Back the Tour!
by Chris Fontecchio on Jun 9, 2008 8:11 PM EDT
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Why, don't mind if I do...
For the record, I respond favorably to anything that says "it's our time" on it. I am just SOOO sick of all those "it's someone else's time" campaigns.
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Is there some significance...
... to you, oh hardcore fans, of the rider they chose to use in the clip? I have no idea who the mysterious rider #129 with Boulangere written in big, friendly letters on his ass is. Since he’s not wearing a helmet, I’m guessing the clip is before my time…
When Leipheimer is done mating with his Time Trialing bike... does he bite its head off and eat it?
Tommy Voeckler from the 2004 Tour during his time in yellow!
What a ride from Tommy V that year! It pretty much made his career and got him a lot of fans including me.
If I just had one more gear, I...
Sure enough...
2004 Tour de France Startlist...
Brioches La Boulangère
#129: Thomas Voeckler (Fra)
I agree… made me a fan of his too…
When Leipheimer is done mating with his Time Trialing bike... does he bite its head off and eat it?
One of the great moments in cycling that year was on Stage 13,
to the Plateau de Baille. Remember the expression on his face on Stg 13 when he realized he still had the maillot jeune? He kept it the next day, too, by 22 seconds, and through the next day, a Rest Day, only to lose it in Stage 15 to LA. Poetry.
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. -Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Malheureux'
That's the face I remember...
When Leipheimer is done mating with his Time Trialing bike... does he bite its head off and eat it?
I was glued to that tour because of him.
That youngin’ was pure inspiration that year. Happy to see them using him in the promo!
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
i see a film about Lance a week ago
and he talking about Bruynel knows correctly what guy US Postal gave the yellow jersey initially.
And when JB apoint Voeckler, Armstrong ask him, “are you sure?” (Something like that..lol)
by semprenaroda on Jun 9, 2008 10:42 PM EDT up reply actions
One of the Simon's I think?
Memory hazy… he and Kivilev were gifted a huge lead during the early Lance years… Fuck it, I’m going to look it up.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Jun 9, 2008 8:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Eh...
never mind. I guess it must be Voeckler. Same basic story: unheralded (and most likely non-doped) French rider hangs on to yellow when everyone left him for dead.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Jun 9, 2008 8:52 PM EDT up reply actions
129 Thomas Voeckler (Fra)
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
prob stage 13 to Plateau de Beille
... where he hung onto the yellow jersey by 22 seconds
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
or, stg 12 to La Mongie...
but, i’m pretty sure it’s stage 13…
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
Funny this...
... just saw this on CN… Prudhomme and Contador at the unveiling of the 2008 Tour Route…
Screw the Politics…
When Leipheimer is done mating with his Time Trialing bike... does he bite its head off and eat it?
Petite Tommy of course
I knew it the moment I saw it… what a turn in Yellow, one of the greatest I’ve ever seen. Made me a fan right away.
"I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore." -- Eddy Merckx, after winning his first bike race
Thomas Voeckler!
Always my hero. His heroic tour turned my wife into a fan!
She made me bring a 10×12 photo of him into the delivery room when she went into labor…for inspiration.
Small world
He made my wife a fan too. She still calls Voekler her “boyfriend” because of that year… And the first one of you asshats that makes a crack about my wife gets uninvited from my Ronde party next year…
Which Italian Pro Tour Team rides the Cannondale SystemSix?
I don't like no one touching my stuff...
... So just keep your meat-hooks off. If I catch any of you guys in my stuff… I’ll kill ya’
When Leipheimer is done mating with his Time Trialing bike... does he bite its head off and eat it?
I've been thinking...
... that phrase might be applicable on another thread around here :)
When Leipheimer is done mating with his Time Trialing bike... does he bite its head off and eat it?
It's funny
that for whatever reason, the three topics around here that get people all fired up are doping, cycling tv problems, and Levi bashing…
Which Italian Pro Tour Team rides the Cannondale SystemSix?
I can understand
being heated with doping cases. I’ve been heated with ctv, and I like Levi but accept that he’s not for everyone. I’m okay with all the mixed opinions on all of these. You want the best discussion – make the argument for your opposition so you then get the full picture. Good stuff. The difference for me is expressing an opinion versus being rude. You guys can make fun of me and pick on me all you want but I don’t think any of us should ever be rude to each other. That’s just not funny or nice.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Oops
I didn’t see you sneak off the front when we caught the breakaway…
Which Italian Pro Tour Team rides the Cannondale SystemSix?
That's Drew...
... silent but deadly.
When Leipheimer is done mating with his Time Trialing bike... does he bite its head off and eat it?
Funny I never put SPD's with Drew.
No wonder why Chris moved over to the west coast… :-)
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
OK, another really cool thing about VS
They run the Ballzee ad all through the Tour de France. No more spitting on your balls to get them clean, just use Ballzee. I can’t wait.
Are you kidding??!??!
When Leipheimer is done mating with his Time Trialing bike... does he bite its head off and eat it?
Kinda like the
“size does matter” one this morning. I only heard the commercial and enjoyed the giggle.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Are we sure it's not a cross promotion
with Vivid Video?
"Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated."
Are you hinting there are some out there?
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Those types usually run in the afternoon.
I think the morning live stuff is usually okay with commercials. It’s the evening one where you have to record so you can FW through them.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Equivalent to the ...
... wash-my-eyes-with-bleach Bob Roll Naked on a Trainer commercial?
When Leipheimer is done mating with his Time Trialing bike... does he bite its head off and eat it?
Oh god... I forgot he did those.
I busted a gut a few times laughing at those.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Get out the eye bleach...
... the internets folks, where horrific ad campaigns never die…
When Leipheimer is done mating with his Time Trialing bike... does he bite its head off and eat it?
Why? Dan, why do you do this to us?
Sorry… I’m laughing just at the pictures now. I don’t even have to see the commercials.
They’re just so not right.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
If you want "so not right"
Then check out the photo of Mike Friedman that CFA linked to this morning. I refuse to go and look at it again, even just to bring the url for you guys.
We had that Monday. :-)
I heart that man! If you can’t laugh WITH the fun he has I sure hope you can laugh AT it. He and Huff have done “designs” when they were racing the track. Funny stuff, almost as good as the halloween costume pics. Those rocked!
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
That brings tears to my eyes
Thinking up designs, OK. Drawing piccies on your chest with crayons, well OK. But carefully tracing out the design, masking it off somehow then carefully waxing off everything else. Just typing that is making me cringe.
If it helps you at all, its shaved, not waxed.
Or at least previous ones were. I think Mike is going for the Gillette sponsor. :-)
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
You might get a laugh with this one Monty...
A 1003.entry” target=”_blank”>new twist on the photo of Meatball.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
The link won't post...
http://spokenhub.spaces.live.com/default.aspx
See Separated at Birth.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
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