Jens is from Cleveland and his real name is Rocco Bacigalup

I got jealous of Jens’ and Bruce’s cool flags in their icons, so made mine the flag of the glorious state of Indiana (that’s tongue in cheek). Not from here, but have lived here for almost 10 years now. It’s very flat.

I’m originally an East Coaster, born in the mountains of Upstate NY, and have also lived in Vermont, Maryland, Colorado, New Mexico, Scotland, Massachusetts, and Virginia.

Speaking of the DC area: I graduated from UMCP; later lived in Reston for a couple of years when my husband got his first teaching job at George Mason.

but I’ll let them lower the cloak of anonymity them selves.
Fred Marx – The Other Chris – Park CIty, UT. A California escapee, by way of the Evergreen State. Carpenter, photographer, roadie, ski bum.

Michael. Originally from Brisbane, Australia. Lived in Los Angeles Ca for 6 yrs and have now been in Pittsburgh Pa. for 3 winters.

Through those winters I’ve learned what it takes to turn my MTB into a commuter suitable for riding 20 miles in snow and ice at 10f. Oh and that no matter how warm the rest of me is, my feet will always, always get cold.

originally – detroit (and, no, i never burned a house on devil’s night).
now – atlanta.
fangirl extraordinaire.

aka Skip. Portland, Oregon. Born, Ocean City, Maryland. Lived all over MD and DC and Pittsburgh, New Hampshire when little. Now I poke people for a living.

real name-Phil(big shock I know)
Born in Leipzig, Germany
Have lived in Monterey, California and Colorado Springs, now living in kick ass Denver.
College student and full blown cycling addict(but there seems to be no cure for that and why should there?)

I live in Brisbane Australia..
Officer in the Australian Army

Beginner road rider, but Professional Cycling Fan!!

and Holy Crap less then 20h i’m on my way to Belgium…… See you there Albertina and PopUp

aka Eric . I live in San Marcos (North San Diego County, CA). So Cal resident since 1973.

I would love to know others here at PdC live in the area.

Anyone?…Anyone?…Buehler?…

Canadian but currently living in Minneapolis.

But have lived all over since joining the military 18 years ago. I just left Tucson and now live in in the Eifel region of Germany. I live 30 minutes from the Belgian border and about 130K from Liege. The area I live in is basically the German side of the Ardennes forest, smack in the middle of Patton’s little stroll through the countryside. As you can imagine, it’s damn hilly here and beautiful. Unfortunately, I am heading for Holland this weekend and not Belgium, oh well.

Lived until my 18th in Rotterdam before leaving to Utrecht as student..

I just have a bit of an Euskie obsession, because I rejoice in having obscure interests….

Born in St. Louis, but have lived in Chicago for the last 10 years. First year road racer.

From Bergen, Norway , currently living in the south of Sweden, 30 minutes by car from Copenhagen so you could say I’m a true Scandinavian.

Living close to Rotterdam in The Netherlands.
Studied in Maastricht (was only vaguely interested in cycling then and never really went to see the AGR, I did wander into town once just in time to see Zabel take a win, I was in the pub 3 minutes later). Lived across the border in Belgium. Was an exchange student in Aarhus, Denmark. First job in The Hague. Second job in Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. Started riding a bike seriously there, participated in a number of road races. Including two editions of the Amstel Race Curaçao and two national championships. With riding and racing slowly a serious pro-cycling fanship addiction took control of my life.

Hampton, VA (aka “Hampton Roads”)
Born in OH; Raised in TX; 20 year Navy submarine career here in Norfolk (now retired). The Navy took me to the North Pole, HI, Panama, France, Sardinia, Peru, Chile, Uruguay and Scotland. If, for some reason I get kicked out of here, I’m moving to Scotland.
I can tell you without much argument, Hampton Roads is one of the most non-conducive cycling environments on the planet.

Tony live on a farm near the Sauratown Mts of North Carolina. Other than school and various travels (Europe, South and Central America and Western US) I’ve always lived right here. I’ve done a ton of Mtb riding and racing and a handful of Centuries on a Road bike. These days when I ride I try to get up into SW Virgina for the incredible roads there. If you are ever in this area let me know and I would love to show you around.

born in China…used to live in Chengdu, Beijing, Guangzhou….but Melbourne is the best!

Dennis. Lives in a small city, (almost) in the south of Sweden. Work as an economist, doing mostly boring stuff, and thinks about that PhD thing.

my homecity is this. (currenty is my summer home because i’m in Lisbon studying).

Do you see more beachs in the top of the picture, there is many more miles ahead. My home is 10min on foot of this beach :)

This would have made a nice poll. Are you going to write a nice summary of all our locations? Pie graphs, scatter plots, tables etc.etc.?

has been my nickname since I was about 5. English-Welsh with a sprinkling of Irish, born in Scotland. Raised in Toronto and Vancouver, where I now live.

Lived in the Hunsruck region of Germany in the mid 1980s. That’s slightly south of SpunOut’s current location and very close to Luxembourg, France and Belgium. Lived in Denver, CO for a few years also.

Merry Crankster = Ben. Grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, then off to college in New Hampshire, followed by three years in New York City. Decided I needed to live somewhere with better access to the outdoors and moved to San Francisco 15 years ago. More recently, moved across the bay to Oakland.

Richard. Born/raised in Fort Worth, TX. College: TX A&M, U Connecticut, have taught in Abilene, TX since 97.

Rode/raced mid- to late 80s, stuff got in the way, started riding again in 99, racing again in ’02

Apart from this pedestrian contribution, this is one of the best threads ever.

brandon…=Brandon (very creative I know). Live in Columbus, Ohio.

I ride just for fun and definitely no racing. I started MTB and then slowly transistioned to more road biking because you have to drive anywhere to go on a road ride.

Its really interesting seeing where everyone is from.

this town. It’s not always that wet and miserable.

raised, and did undergrad/masters in Southern Ontario…got into cycling 1 year after the world championships were in Hamilton…doh!
Currently in Montreal continuing the professional student trajectory. Started racing last year. Being a student has enabled me to be only a couple years shy of Masters divisions and still race collegiate.

aka Bob Gade
Berkeley, CA resident. Fresno native, with stints in Santa Barbara and Steamboat Springs, CO.
38 years old.
Middle School History Teacher in inner city Richmond, CA.
Have been a cycling fan since the Tour was on Wide World of Sprots when I was a kid.
Have seen the Dauphine on Ventoux (the year Tyler won), the Ronde and Ghent Wevelgem in 2007.
My passion is long, hard rides – Flahute style. Next epic is 180+ mile Berkeley-Mt. Hamilton-Berkeley on April 18th with my partner in suffering.

Not hiding much in my name there.
I currently live in Davis, CA but am a Fresno native. I started mountain biking a few years back, then picked up road riding and racing. I’m going back to grad school at UC Davis and plan to race collegiate mountain bikes with hopes of qualifying for collegiate nats in Truckee.

aka Jim
SF, CA. Grew up in Sonoma, went to school in Las Cruces, NM. Worked/lived in Seattle, Vegas, Honolulu and other less interesting places but always come back to SF.
About to upgrade to Cat 4
Can’t climb worth $%*#

MBG claims that I’ll root for any rider that can have the word “Big” put in front of his name.

Been in Berkeley, CA for the past 6 years. Originally from St. Louis. School in Western Mass. Various stints abroad. Like climbing and classics.

Kathy – living in Denver Grew up & schooled in Indiana, stops in Sheboygan, WI, Santa Cruz & San Jose, CA. Swimmer at heart, casual road cyclist, first exposure to the spring classics a few years back got me hooked as a fan.

I’m from Holland