Vesuvio Tappa: Second Live Thread!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 9:58 AM EDT
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These things always look perfectly calm... right before they blow.
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Srsly, dude, wasn't this like, several days ago now?
Let it go. Please.
Can we drop this?
we’ve covered this enough.
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:02 AM EDT up reply actions
Dude.. You misse it.. Like Di Luca is going to miss it
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
I was faster.. But responded
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
I was second when I posted it....
?
FORZA KILLER!
by DaniloTifoso on May 29, 2009 10:09 AM EDT up reply actions
?
I’m pretty sure Italy will eventually become part of Africa as the Med gets closed off, but I don’t believe it detached from Aftrica and became part of Europe.
Hm
This could make the European Championships very complicated.
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:04 AM EDT up reply actions
heh
that’s what they say in Milan.
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:59 AM EDT up reply actions
Ah Sorrento
We used to go to a place called the Sorrento Room when I was a kid. Straight off the set of the Godfather, it was.
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:04 AM EDT reply actions
Yes Ah Sorrento - loved the place
Also, I get to go to Sorrento every day….
OK, it’s not that Sorrento, but the cross street at the end of my block. ;-)
Morning everyone
I see I checked in too late to see the Amalfi coast :-(
god bless on-demand video
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:07 AM EDT up reply actions
Uni guy says race radio has warned riders that an ambulance, going in the opposite direction of
the peloton, is on the course! Oh, now he says it’s off! Whew!
Why do you love
heart dis.. no, not gonna do it.
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:09 AM EDT up reply actions
well maybe not... back on bike
"Race radios in Cat 4?"
by gravel road on May 29, 2009 10:10 AM EDT up reply actions
good morning
this should serve as inspiration for my ride up Mt. Baker on Sunday, but i wish there was some Italian coastline on the route…
right
I really should know this.
I hope to do the Baker climb in September.
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:59 AM EDT up reply actions
Grab a pair of glasses and tape photos of Sorrento over the front...
… I’m sure that should work perfectly.
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Time to go get the morning coffee and turkey bacon sandwich...
… so as not to miss today’s volcanic activity!
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Picturing Albertina sitting there with a couple of toy marmottes...
…making “Boom” and “Bchhhhhhhh” and “Shhhwwwaccchhhhhhhh” noises as she imitates all the forest creatures escaping the pyroclastic flow.
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did i mention...
the summer i lived on a mountain lookout with a marmot colony on the western slope of my hill? yes, they surely do whistle…
It's spelled "Tshawytcha" but it's pronounced...
… “Throat Warbler Mangrove”
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OK
but wherre’s the accent on onchorhincus?
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:16 AM EDT up reply actions
Too confusing
I’ll stick with “O.”
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:22 AM EDT up reply actions
morning all
I have my cappucino and I’m ready for the excitement.
I really hope the killer takes some time out of Menchov today
Woow.. There are 4 Rabo's in the front!
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
Due Gazetta
Menchov has 60% chance to win
Di Luca 35 %
Pellizotti 5%
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
Talking about overall
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
They think LA has a 35% chance to win the OVERALL?
What the hell are they smoking? I want some!
rbjhan.. I want to pu somethin at a top 3 for Lance in the Tour..
What can you miss?
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
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what do you think?
Who's that? Frigo?
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
no video at Sertoma today
can you describe it in more detail? Don’t leave out a thing.
"…I saw bloody Cavendish coming, really fast…"
HH
looks like lots of limestone cliffs right next to water...
serpentine roads, quaint villages…. pretty banal
"Race radios in Cat 4?"
by gravel road on May 29, 2009 10:22 AM EDT up reply actions
Tyrrhenian on the left
Adriatic was last week :-)
by billcicletta on May 29, 2009 10:31 AM EDT up reply actions
Eurosport
Did the Eurosport guy (David Harmon?? the car-racing fan) just say that *Lotto is becoming the Belgian AG2R? Ouch!!
-Greg
AG2R had 3 top 20 riders in the Tour last year if I remember correctly..
With Valjavec this Giro again a good GC-men
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
Ho.. Are you dissing Voeckler!
Aah men.. I get your point.. AG2R is only not THAT bas as Silence
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
Personally
I think Drew is becoming the American AG2R
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions
OMFG
I no longer think Big Sur is the prettiest coastline around
Yes
I mean, can you see the world’s largest Sitka spruce in Amalfi?
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:26 AM EDT up reply actions
Most of 'em come from Northern BC now though...
VER good eating if you can get past the Klingon food look.
No but
can you get fried geoduck in Sorrento?
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:28 AM EDT up reply actions
NOOOOOOOOO!!!
Must be a hell of a stump anyway.
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:28 AM EDT up reply actions
How 'bout the Old Living Creature on the Planet: a lonely Joshua Tree is the desert of the American West?
by DeathBredon on May 29, 2009 10:30 AM EDT up reply actions
Actually...
… it’s a Bristlecone Pine Tree named “Methuselah” and it exists in the White Mountains east of Mt. Whitney. I’ve been there and must have seen it in the Grove of Ancients, although that particular tree is unmarked for conservation purposes.
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Gah. Will you people out West stop stealing the names of Northeast mountain ranges?
The White Mountains are in New Hampshire and have no bristlecone pines. The Cascades are in Upstate New York, and have no marmots.
Thank you.
Long day--bad grammar. That's the way it works.--Lance Armstrong
And the Sierra Nevada's are in Spain...
… but ours are better :)
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heh
apples to oranges, no?
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:25 AM EDT up reply actions
yeah, all these coastlines are beautiful in different ways
but as i get older and my homing instinct for the old country grows stronger, Italy looks pretty fine…
i'm from the UK
with connections to Ireland (the Republic), but it’s an easy hop to Europe and i miss old buildings and history and cosmopolitan living and my roots and stuff – it’s the total package
ah right
“old country” has a very specific meaning to us new world types. As in, whichever one your grandparents fled.
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:34 AM EDT up reply actions
an improvement
over in-war Britain, no?
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:39 AM EDT up reply actions
yes, but wartime pulled people together in some ways
afterwards the people were exhausted and the economy was flat. it was hard to find a decent place to live let alone make a decent start in life. my parents’ first cold water flat in London still had a whole in the roof from bombing making an open-air kitchen. when my mother received chocolate from Germany from a university friend that she couldn’t get because they were still rationed in Britain, that was a bit of a tipping point. funny what pushes people to make big decisions…
i get to ride...
the coast of lake erie! NICE! :-)
by billcicletta on May 29, 2009 10:32 AM EDT up reply actions
Every sunday
when the Browns are playing?
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:35 AM EDT up reply actions
I'm having SUCH a stressful day at work. Nothing is working.
And I have to go to a meeting in half an hour. Sympathy please.
Adrenalina Italiana!
Thank you.
I just slammed my pink marker pen down on my desk so hard that the noise reverberated around the office. It made me feel better. Slightly.
Adrenalina Italiana!
Are you coloring everything in the office pink in honor of the Giro?
Long day--bad grammar. That's the way it works.--Lance Armstrong
Muahaha..
I like your boss (:
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
dating advice:
wrong tactic dude.
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:29 AM EDT up reply actions
Sorry.. I'll be quiet... I will miss half of the Tour... l'ouch
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
But I'm in London...
…
..
.
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
Aah.. I wasn't the only one noticing
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
London Dungeon is also nice!
Aah I back off
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
Oh I don't have pictures.
But at least I can follow here….for the next 25 minutes…
Adrenalina Italiana!
I propose for next year's Giro
Just run 21 straight stages on the Amalfi Coast. Same start and finish town for the whole tour, just different routes up and down the coast and in and out of the mountains.
Well
we need a Montevergine finish. Maybe two.
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:32 AM EDT up reply actions
I like that.
It beckons…
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:31 AM EDT up reply actions
good god
these roads are stunning. They don’t quit, do they? How many tourists have driven into the sea around there?
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:31 AM EDT reply actions
Oh
I love where this is going.
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions
ha All places in France and Giro looks like this..
Strange you don’t nhave in the U s of A
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
Somehwere fairie tailles come true
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
grass is greener
A French friend dreams of nothing but coming to the American southwest to see the stunning scenery.
If your friend is female, cute, single and rich...
… I’m happy to play tourguide :)
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Hey... I didn't see Emilia buying me ...
… beerchicken soup at the English Pub the night I was so sick.
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I think your definition of "ready for me"...
… and mine are somewhat different ;)
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Yeah... sort of...
… I’d rather be in Laguna Beach d uring the next earthquake.
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its all about th scenery thus far
2 man break has a 2’40" gap
"Race radios in Cat 4?"
by gravel road on May 29, 2009 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions
/me is taking a vacation day today....
….to prepare for tomorrow’s 600km brevet… Anxious? Naaaah!! o.O
So
my guess is that flat area is the former contents of Vesuvio?
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:37 AM EDT reply actions
a volcanic alluvial plane?
making up geography terms here.
"Race radios in Cat 4?"
by gravel road on May 29, 2009 10:42 AM EDT up reply actions
Actually, probably a pretty apt description...
… even if it’s not technically accurate. It’s a plane created by the flow of erosive material from previous volcanic events so…
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my geography professors cringe
"Race radios in Cat 4?"
by gravel road on May 29, 2009 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions
You Geo prof...
… should be happy someone stayed somewhat interested after class ended :)
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kicking myself...
a good friend got married in Ravello several years ago, and I decided not to attend.
can we...
get to planning that Italian family getaway??? :-)
by billcicletta on May 29, 2009 10:47 AM EDT up reply actions
Anna is...
still asking about that Bianchi :-)
by billcicletta on May 29, 2009 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions
If she's stopped growing, do it. Everytime she gets on that bike she will mentally think of
you, smile, and thank you in her head. :-)
she has indeed stopped
or at least all but. Max’ed out at just a hair over five feet. So I’m thinking a 48cm frame, right? :-)
by billcicletta on May 29, 2009 10:57 AM EDT up reply actions
or a 650b-wheeled bike
If she has long legs/short torso, it may be hard to reach the bars on a small 700c frame…
er or 650c
I forget which is the “little people” size, and which is the “I’m a 700c randonneuring guy, but I want fenders” size.
TV feed/relay is crap today
It’s like there’s a giant cell phone duct taped to all of the cameras
Jens Voigt doesn’t know where you live, but he knows exactly where you will die.
30km to go
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
talking points for bubba
"Race radios in Cat 4?"
by gravel road on May 29, 2009 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions
What about the graphics?
Were they able to reattach the graphics on his bike?
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:46 AM EDT up reply actions
Won't somebody think about the graphics!
Jens Voigt doesn’t know where you live, but he knows exactly where you will die.
Woow..
Even an article about Lance who farted!
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
A shot of the place where the pic wa made
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
good lord
now over Pompeii. This stage just don’t quit.
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:46 AM EDT reply actions
wait
I didn’t hear anything about lasers.
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 10:49 AM EDT up reply actions
Sorry Ursula...
… those were "frickin’ " lasers, not “lasers”.
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I admire your priorities
“Make my 11 o’clock, an, ohhh … hell, move it to Monday.”
Jens Voigt doesn’t know where you live, but he knows exactly where you will die.
If anybody is in the LA area
There is a wonderful exhibition at the LA County Museum of Art through Oct 4th
“Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples”
I don't know if I can make it to LACMA by October 4th...
… the traffic on La Brea scares the hell out of me.
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Entirely mutually exclusive...
… if the mountain tries to kill me, it’s entirely dispassionate about it. If the Buick tries to kill me, chances are the drive has a hard on for turning motorcyclists into grease paint.
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Ding!
You are giving me horrible flashbacks of learning to drive stick in LA traffic.
I've only driven in LA once.
Took my brother’s car to a book signing in West Hollywood, missed the “resident parking only sign” and got towed.
Long day--bad grammar. That's the way it works.--Lance Armstrong
I've seen the book
that was issued with the exhibition and that is definitely one worth seeing!
by billcicletta on May 29, 2009 10:53 AM EDT up reply actions
context
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
by umwolverine on May 29, 2009 10:56 AM EDT up reply actions
Ale-\jet
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
You think Jens! wants to stop just when the stage is about to get hard?
Long day--bad grammar. That's the way it works.--Lance Armstrong
I'm here
doing some work before the action starts
by Bruce Suomi on May 29, 2009 10:59 AM EDT up reply actions
Menchov not looking good.. Seems like he's biking on Ardilla's bike
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
Some pavé there a moment ago? Nice
I think I might be delayed a bit. The announcer sounds like he took a hit of nitrous. Gap at 1:04 for me.
by Spot of Bother on May 29, 2009 10:57 AM EDT reply actions
Which gap?
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
Gap to leaders
but as soon as I posted 1:04 it was back up to 1:15 so I don’t think I’m that delayed.
by Spot of Bother on May 29, 2009 11:00 AM EDT up reply actions
Unisport guys voice is as annoying as...
… James Hetfield’s singing.
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fight fire with fire!
"Race radios in Cat 4?"
by gravel road on May 29, 2009 10:58 AM EDT up reply actions
Ahhhh! Good one!
As I said in the first thread, on my end his voice sounds like Robin Leach crossed with Andre the Giant.
by Spot of Bother on May 29, 2009 10:59 AM EDT up reply actions
ahh jay deux air
he said that pretty well
by billcicletta on May 29, 2009 10:59 AM EDT up reply actions
C'mon Rabo.. You are with 7 there.. Make a train!
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..
love these mountain sprints
"Race radios in Cat 4?"
by gravel road on May 29, 2009 11:01 AM EDT up reply actions
It's Rabobank... they NEVER let their leader down...
… unless they are busy attacking him from the back.
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PLEASE SWITCH TO THIRD LIVE THREAD
the one about bike racing
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on May 29, 2009 11:02 AM EDT reply actions
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