Coming This Week: Podium Cafe and Jonathan Vaughters!
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 9, 2011 8:01 AM EST
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Before Christmas we ran a snippet from the combined interview that Gavia and I conducted with Slipstream Sports honcho and Team Garmin-Cervelo owner Jonathan Vaughters. It was pretty lengthy, covered a ton of ground, and has now been transcribed and prepped for publication. So, look for four different entries Monday through Thursday of this week, each one a chunk of the interview relating to a specific topic.
There's a practical side to splitting it up this way, but we also thought it would make for the best discussion. Vaughters is a great conversationalist, friendly, open and opinionated. We spent part of the time talking about his team, but this won't be a four-day Garmin-fest. We also talked in depth about the sport of cycling, unspecific to Garmin-Cervelo, stuff that should make for some excellent off-season chat. I'll add, Vaughters reads the site, so if the chat gets as interesting as it usually does, he'll at least know about it and who knows, maybe he'll be tempted to respond. Then again, I hear he's pretty busy these days...
Anyway, Gavia and I hope you enjoy it. Stay tuned!
Podium Cafe Interviews Jonathan Vaughters
Prologue: Super Sleuths Solve Sep Signing Stumper
Part 1: Creating the New Garmin-Cervélo Team
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You've been busy little bees the two of you.
Most excellent.
"Your not going won't unbreak her arm."
So looking forward to this...
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
The barber is not the issue here
Also,barber is not the preferred nomenclature, haircare professional, please dude.
And I was expecting another sort of dull ( news wise ) off season week!
Now I have something to look forward to!
I used to be a big fan of the Racer Formerly Known as Bert! But then again, I used to believe in Santa ,Tooth Fairy and innocence of Floyd!
.
EVIL SIDEBURNS is coming?... get out of here.
The cycling world is now ours.. muhahahaha
(Way to go you guys, and thanks also to JV)
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
No live chat
Interview.
"Next year we will build a strong team around Tom. We don't need pseudo-stage racers any more in this team." -Patrick Lefevre, 2005
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 9, 2011 5:24 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
no matter to me
still awesome
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
So did you ask where he stood
on the butter on waffles or not question?
Yep
and not to give anything away, but he goes for straight butter, no waffles.
"Next year we will build a strong team around Tom. We don't need pseudo-stage racers any more in this team." -Patrick Lefevre, 2005
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 9, 2011 1:35 PM EST up reply actions
Well, technically, butter alone isn't a combo.
But you could slip some pancakes or French toast under the butter and the maple syrup instead of waffles. Either of those would work if you can’t bring yourself to do it with waffles.
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
We don't do the thick pancakes in Belgium
But the French styles crêpes. No butter :) Had my first taste of maple syrup this summer though, courtesy of a Canadian girl in a dingy dorm room in the middle of nowhere outside Saint Louis, Senegal.
Death before decaf! :D
- gavia
I'm not sure you're allowed to leave Canada without your passport and a bottle of syrup.
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
She was living / studying there
I’m sure it was like a culinary teddybear, to prevent homesickness
Death before decaf! :D
- gavia
I grew up in New England, and it's a bit of an obsession there...
…non-native (or gasp non-maple) syrup is not OK. I think part of why I don’t eat pancakes / waffles is because the good stuff is too expensive / hard to find down here. So I get that.
One of the local products here
Is pear syrup. Completely different than maple syrup though, as it’s not liquid, more like a paste to be smeared. Incredibly tasty on crêpes.
Death before decaf! :D
- gavia
One thing I will not tolerate...
If you’re serving waffles or pancakes, you better have the real deal in maple syrup or you’re going to get a good tongue lashing.
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
+1
Sminer: I blame KARMA for everything.
Jens: I've heard it's a bitch
Water Girl: I heard it ran over your dogma
the best "ear-mark"
that the American congress ever approved was trying to help the USA improve their Maple Syrup production. Canada clearly rules.
I grew up in Maple Syrup country. I am such a sap ……
moo
I'm a lifelong New Englander and
I still prefer Eggo syrup on my waffles and flapjacks.
"Your not going won't unbreak her arm."
+infinite
Sminer: I blame KARMA for everything.
Jens: I've heard it's a bitch
Water Girl: I heard it ran over your dogma
I knew I would :-)
I just like the motor oil equivalent of syrup, not that Bud Light version of it.
"Your not going won't unbreak her arm."
Eggo
blech.
Oh, and Grade B > Grade A. Just like high school.
"Next year we will build a strong team around Tom. We don't need pseudo-stage racers any more in this team." -Patrick Lefevre, 2005
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 10, 2011 2:29 PM EST up reply actions
"Natural and artificial maple flavor" mmmmmmm
I don’t know anything about anything but I do know that Drew is wrong and everyone else in this thread is right.
i much prefer macerated strawberries with my pancakes/waffles/french toast
i use the good maple syrup to slow baste my baby backs
"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 Jan 10, 2011 10:42 AM EST up reply actions
I know some people that insist on "vermont pure" maple syrup
UVM students actually voted to raise the cost of their breakfast (maybe by a quarter?) so the dining halls could provide them with only Vermont pure
smart kids
… and supporting “local”
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
Sure
Their parents could afford it.
[UVM ’87 here]
"Next year we will build a strong team around Tom. We don't need pseudo-stage racers any more in this team." -Patrick Lefevre, 2005
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 9, 2011 5:32 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
we got out
before it hit the shelves.
"Next year we will build a strong team around Tom. We don't need pseudo-stage racers any more in this team." -Patrick Lefevre, 2005
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 9, 2011 9:04 PM EST up reply actions
Pshaw.
Virtually identical to the best New Hampshire maple syrup. Adirondack maple syrup is at least as good. Berkshires (Western Mass) isn’t bad, either.
Vermont just has better PR.
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
I don't think the decision to go Vermont
came from a maple syrup tasting contest.
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
Did you not know that this is Vermont's syrup lobbyist in DC?
"Your not going won't unbreak her arm."
by Drew Davis on Jan 10, 2011 7:12 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Too much fur for us...
And the UCI failed… on all accounts. - tgsgirl
by omnevelnihil on Jan 10, 2011 4:15 PM EST up reply actions
F
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"Next year we will build a strong team around Tom. We don't need pseudo-stage racers any more in this team." -Patrick Lefevre, 2005
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 10, 2011 2:30 PM EST up reply actions
Crepes are nummy. I grew up near Quebec, and we used eat at creperies when we'd go up to Montreal.
Now you can find them on a lot of US restaurant menus, usually as a special (like seafood in a creamy sauce or ham and cheese crepes for lunch) or dessert (various ways). Well, maybe back then you could, too, but not in my neck of the woods.
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
You will soon have to give Mr Vaughters a discount card to the Cafe.
Looking forward to the action.
Great news!
I’m anxious to see his VDS entry.
Jens Voigt doesn’t know where you live, but he knows exactly where you will die.
Will reading all parts
finally explain the evil sideburns to me. I just don’t get it…
Robert Gesink on the difference between football and cycling: "For us it's a lot harder to get yellow"
I think reading the threads after the 2009 TdF Stage 14 will help more
The use of “Evil” started there
Sideburns are generically evil
"I just want to say fuck you, and I mean that in the most professional way" -Brandon Llyod
SAVE CHAUNCEY!!!!
JV’s trademark sideburns Rock !
This Garmin-Cervelo team is stacked for the 2011 Classics.
I’m looking forward to the Tour Down Under soon when Farrar and company line up against Cavendish and Greipel.
Meh
Don’t expect much in January. Tirreno-Adriatico should be amazing though.
"Next year we will build a strong team around Tom. We don't need pseudo-stage racers any more in this team." -Patrick Lefevre, 2005
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 10, 2011 2:31 PM EST up reply actions
Off season has been very odd for me this year.
With the change in governorship in CA every thing is crazy at work and I have so little free time to dedicate to chatting here. But I must make time for this. I am a big fan Mr. Vaughters’ witty conversation.
I have a new boss and am now becoming concerned with how I am going to watch midweek races live this season. Ack! I might have to schedule vacation days for watching races.
hang in there
good luck with work … we miss you here …. but its only off-season ….. at a minimum , there are plenty of good weekend days in-season
moo
+ another
You’re not missing much :)
"Next year we will build a strong team around Tom. We don't need pseudo-stage racers any more in this team." -Patrick Lefevre, 2005
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 10, 2011 2:31 PM EST up reply actions
That pic is sort of interesting
Where did JV learn smell-the-fart-acting?
(BTW, am I the only one who can’t see new comments?)
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
re new comments not being flagged up
been happening here all morning – on three different browsers. Also happening on the other SBS blog I read though, so probably not a PdC only problem
Started last night for me.
Hope it gets fixed before the JV interview goes up—maybe I’m spoiled, but there are bound to be a lot of comments, and finding new ones will be a bitch.
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
it's finally fixed
"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 Jan 10, 2011 10:45 AM EST up reply actions
I thought he was just pondering his new transitions lenses
And the UCI failed… on all accounts. - tgsgirl
by omnevelnihil on Jan 10, 2011 7:30 AM EST up reply actions
Shoulda got in early an aksed ya to ask him about Freya North.
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
That's so weird you wrote her name. I just got the book "Cat" she wrote about the TdF.
I’ll need to move it up the read list. Now I am intrigued as to how JV relates to it. But don’t tell me. It might spoil the read.
by ZoeRochelle on Jan 10, 2011 10:11 AM EST up reply actions
She was also mentioned in
http://www.podiumcafe.com/2010/12/25/1895570/the-yellow-jersey-by-ralph-hurne and discussed in the comments.
awww, that would have been AWESOME!
Maybe Chris’n’Gav could email a supplementary question, & add it in later in the week?
by Sarah Connolly on Jan 10, 2011 10:52 AM EST up reply actions
I can't wait until your history pieces
cover one of those mass “dodgy fish poisoning” episodes and we finally get to hear your views on Lace
Your reading tastes are too high-brow for me Monty. You’ll have to fill me in on what I’ve missed out.
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
"Which one of you bitches is my mother?"
Classic stuff, Lace. I didn’t remember much cycling in it, though, so I did a ‘Search Inside the Book’ on Amazon and found this gem:
“If he can’t get his thing in, that’s proof you are a virgin,” Maxine said, “unless you are very sportive, or ride on the horse or the bicycle or do gymnastics.”
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
Innocentface! Honest, all I did was search the book for 'bicycle' on Amazon.
Of course, I read it as a teenager. I think they slipped a copy under every door in America, along with Scruples and The Other Side of Midnight. Now I have to go see if those have any bike refs…
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
So the phrase "the bit with the goldfish" means nothing to you?
I don’t remember many people actually reading the whole book, but I thought that everyone knew about “the bit with the goldfish”
Page 346?
It’s not going to quote itself, Monty.
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
Not found that bit just yet, but here's a quote to be going on with
chapter 46 ends thus: ‘Serge stormed into Senequier, drank a bottle of brandy, then drove wildly to Cap Camerat where he strangled the white cockatoo.’
Shirley Conran, Lace
available at any good Oxfam shop near you
Ha! Like I said, classic.
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
I know, let's play fill in the blanks!
With silken -— he would -- the wrists of the more adventurous ones to the -—— and then he would dip one -—- hand—his skin wasn’t very dark, just a permanent sun-_———- tone—into the bowl of golden -- that always seemed to be at his bedside. Abdullah would quickly -— out one little fish and swiftly -- the -——— creature into the --. At this point, she generally -——— and shrieked with -——-, but Abdullah -— his -- on top of hers and held her -- against the -——- until she relaxed and was able to enjoy the strange -—- sensations as she felt the -—- fish -- inside her -- body. As soon as the girl started to -— with -——- Abdulla would -— down her body and—with great -————he would -———- suck out the goldfish.
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
I don't know how you manage to find this stuff
me I somehow ended up at A league of their own
rofl
I think the fill-in-the-blanks version is way funnier than the original.
And really? Abdullah? Crikey!
Also: I’m very glad that this is the anchor story for the Vaughters series. Because, you know, we wouldn’t want anyone to be misled into thinking that this place was somehow… well… normal.
Er...sorry. We can hide it?
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
Jeez Louise, all I did was mention Freya North and look what happens.
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
Of whom I had never previously heard
thank you for the education
The 'new comments' thing is working again.
Now the only weird thing about the site is that it’s past 7:00 on the West Coast, and the promised Part One isn’t up yet…
Still waiting…
Hello????
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
you didn't seriously think that it would be up this early, did you? from those west coasters? ha.
"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 Jan 10, 2011 10:47 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah, isn't it something like 4am there, all the time?
Either 4am, or 11pm…. or coffee time!
by Sarah Connolly on Jan 10, 2011 10:53 AM EST up reply actions
No excuses! They could have scheduled it to come up automatically if they were determined to sleep in.
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
The first part
will be up around mid-day Cali time. Cuz like, I have to finish editing it.
You kidz’ll have to pay more if you want such prompt service ;)
Alright alright, I'll pay twice as much and I'm paying now...
Three times as much if it’s really really good!!
Editing?
‘cos those lawyers can’t spell I guess
I've got a girl
who does that for me.
[OK, it’s Jens.]
"Next year we will build a strong team around Tom. We don't need pseudo-stage racers any more in this team." -Patrick Lefevre, 2005
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 10, 2011 2:33 PM EST up reply actions
"Prepped for publication" except for the editing thing, then.
I thought you had it all ready to go and were just teasing us. Take your time. I mean, we can always…we can always…
Huh. Got nothing.
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
Not worth much contemplation. They overdid the white.
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
Just about!
LOL, laptop battery was dying, had to dash back home from the cafe. You can blame the cafe, though without them, I’d be even dumber than I already am today. Espresso does make you smarter. Proven fact!
Laptop battery was dying?
That’s the new version of “the dog ate my homework”, isn’t it? (True story: I once used “my floppy broke” and got away with it.)
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Jan 10, 2011 3:21 PM EST up reply actions
For reals?
That’s pretty awesome. This particular cafe is filled with awesomeness – like, their coffee is all time. But, they have no electrical outlets! Gah! So, I actually did have to dash home to plug in.
Yes
But it was hunting season and this particular teacher paid more attention to moose than students.
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Jan 10, 2011 3:34 PM EST up reply actions
I pulled off
“I couldn’t mail you the assignment because our internet was down’”
Death before decaf! :D
- gavia
Found this old post on Twitpic
Spikey hair, evil sideburns, hip glasses, floral attire; yep it’s Jonathan “The Doctor” @Vaughters
My god, maybe I can persuade my son to watch cycling after all.
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
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