Nevada City Bicycle Classic LIVE Thread

They shoudl rename this edition:

“The Is Chris Horner In Shape For The Tour” Classic.

I hope you go though having been there I can imagine the traffic too.

a crit specialist. His dad told him he’d pay the race fee if the junior racer could stay in the race for 5 laps. Needless to say, he was taking it relatively easy on the 60 mile group ride yesterday.

seems to be working good so far, race starts soon.

He’s a home-boy for me

is Lance winning yet?

Could be Livestrong or Maybe even Levi’s Grand Fondo.

Media interest is of course very high, local media are particularly excited and CNN, ESPN, ESPN 2, Fox News, etc. are in town. 12 satellite trucks! If all goes well, this should help Nevada City’s chances of getting included in the Amgen Tour of California.

i hope they have more than the three or so fixed cameras at the start/finish. I’m hoping for a motocamera…

isn’t that like saying Lance loves cancer? That announcer sure could have done better.

somethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomething
somethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomething
somethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomething
hris Hornersomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomething
somethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomething
somethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomething

(I dont think Phil is. Hes too young. ;-))

Only 80 today.

Ben Jacques maynes in the 3 man break with Lance Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer at Nevada City Classic

http://twitter.com/BissellCycling

Here’s one

http://twitter.com/dph525

chase group of England, Horner, and Kelly Benefits rider are almost two minutes back.

http://twitter.com/thek2

yeah well he thought Monte Petrano was hard

clear shoe in

Chase group at #nevadacityclassic includes Scott Zwizanski (Kelly Benefit), Justin England (CalGiant) & Chris Horner (Astana)

by crashing into him here?

That’s all I got :-)

Am I right that Lemond won the pro race at Nevada City as a junior? Eh, maybe I dreamed that bit of trivia.

saying Lance is bigger than the sport and the French are whiny jealous twats.

http://twitpic.com/82cd0

Thanks for the tweet Gav! I worked the track yesterday and a race today. Sitting here listening to this while uploading pics I got a chance to take today. :-) Who knew you’d all he out here!

Happy Father’s Day to al you dads!

Thanks for getting this going ZoeR….and letting us know on Twitter that the thread was going!!

“playing a drinking game. every time the race announcer says Lance take a drink”

Yea, that’s what was said

“take 2 shots when the announcer misprounces Leipheimer”

end of the weekend, and the end of the race. Who knows how entertaining this could be in the next 7 laps?? Nikki, open a bottle of wine and join me!!!

is Charlie Brown adult/teacher speak—which might be better than actually being able to hear them.

was that mellow johnny solo?

No I am not totally drunk yet.

http://twitpic.com/82emr

Lance will win this race. Cancellara won that other race this morning. Which event was more important?

He’s doing the emceeing at the race.

“Oh crap I’m going to puke”

I need to get these pics done for my guys. Catch you a little later. :-)

Now both US TdF champs have won there, pretty cool claim to fame.

Anyone, anyone?

Did that really exist or was it something I made up in my head?

Cav, GHH, Bert, Valverde who?

Love the new camera Steph! Love. It. :-)
Going to drop Briggs a note too. ha ha.

they promised me Levi Leipheimer and all I got was lousy Levi Leepheimer

Should I start a part 2 thread? Or is Drew already on part 8?

take a drink!

newsflash: “he is already sleeping”

are trying to start some NoCal vs. SoCal battle

oh wait….not really

the NCC is nice but it is NOT like one of the European classics!

uh no, he’s doing Leadville in August and I’m definitely getting out there to watch the race this year.

We were talking trivia here at the shack while consuming the wine.

Is Armstrong the oldest ever winner of Nevada City? I’m going to guess that Moninger was probably the oldest before today, but like, I could be making that up and stuff. I don’t think Tilford or Overend have won it any time recently.

Okay, back to the wine. This is a very funny thread. Wish I hadn’t had to head out during it and stuff.

Love this photo, all Ben needs is a whip. Does he look like a guy who struck gold or what? “Say Lance, pick it up a little buddy, we have a serious gap.”