Saturday, 5 July 2008
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| Cote de Kerivarc'h Davey Crockett 14:39:16 |
| | 2nd mountain sprint
Bj rn Schr der (Team Milram) gets it again! Voeckler right on his
wheel
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| Peloton getting organized now Davey Crockett 14:35:16 |
| | Looks like Coffee Break is over
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| Leaders Davey Crockett 14:31:39 |
| | Currently
Thomas Voeckler (Bouygues Telecom),
Rub n P rez (Euskaltel-Euskadi),
Jos Luis Arrieta (AG2R La Mondiale),
Geoffroy Lequatre (Agritubel),
Bj rn Schr der (Team Milram),
Lilian J gou (Fran aise des Jeux),
David De La Fuente (Saunier Duval-Scott),
St phane Aug (Cofidis)
After 42 km of racing
7:40 advantage currently
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| Gap at 7:55 now Davey Crockett 14:18:54 |
| | Looking good - Peloton in "Tourist" mode
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Get your fingers out you lazy bums
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| No Time Bonus Davey Crockett 14:17:06 |
| | Remember, mountain top finish (Cadoudal) so no time bonus to shake up
the GC a little
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| Tommy in Polka Dot Jersey Davey Crockett 14:15:34 |
| | Voekler blasted off the front of the lead group, now almost 8 minutes
ahead, to grab the climber points on the first significant climb, the
Cote de Ty-Jopic
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Way to go Tommy
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| Group of about 8 off the front Davey Crockett 13:37:55 |
| | Some eager beavers scooted away early
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| Giro Donne - Giro d'Italia Femminile Davey Crockett 13:36:24 |
| | Don't forget - it starts today too
http://www.girodonne.it/portale/
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| We're off Davey Crockett 13:32:59 |
| | The neutralized flag just went down signalling the effective start of
the Tour - as opposed to the ceremonial start earlier
Unfortunately I'm stuck with Fignon again this year
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Zimbabwe, we must never, never forget, is really about one defiant
black man taking back what was stolen from his people as was his right
to do. Africans have no reason to be ashamed of this.
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| Re: LeMond vs. The World Nobody 10:22:49 |
| | On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:54:25 -0700 (PDT), "Paul G." <carbide@egine.com>
wrote:
On Jul 3, 7:54am, "brian_j_r...@yahoo.com" <brian_j_r...@yahoo.com> wrote: I was one of the place pickers for this one: "In a tough race up Mount Tamalpais, outside San Francisco, 15-year- old Greg placed second only to the great George Mount, who d finished sixth a few months earlier in the 1976 Olympics." What a disaster. We expected them to be strung out after the 2500' climb, but it was a bunch sprint and the finishing straight is fairly level so speeds were high. We had to ask the riders who finished where. -Paul
I didn't know the infamous David W's book was out in English.
Chapters:
Chapter 1: The Kid from the Cornfield
Chapter 2: The Needle and the Damage Done
Chapter 3: New Kid, Old World
Chapter 4: The Terrible Elixir
Chapter 5: If You Can't Beat Them...
Chapter 6: The Hospital Roll - Part One
Chapter 7: Postal Goes European
Chapter 8: The Leader Returns
Chapter 9: The Program
Chapter 10: Crossing the Line
Chapter 11: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
Chapter 12: Frankie's Breaking Point
Chapter 13: A Strange Kind of Glory
Chapter 14: LeMond Feels the Heat
Chapter 15: The Strange World of Ty
Chapter 16: The Empire Strikes Back
Chapter 17: The Sting in the Tale
Chapter 18: The Hospital Room - Part Two
Chapter 19: One in a Billion?
Chapter 20: "I'll Say No."
Epilogue: The Man is More Than the Cyclist
Authors Note
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| Re: Experience the Tour de France with a 360 degree view from Google Bob Martin 10:02:07 |
| | in 39834 20080704 182931 Bob Schwartz <bob.schwartz@sbcREMOVE.global.net> wrote:
Robert Chung wrote: On Jul 3, 2:28 pm, Bob Schwartz <bob.schwa...@REMOVEsbcglobal.net> Wow, that is cool. You can take a virtual ride over the Galibier, and see the switchback signs on Alpe d'Huez. They do a lot of the neighboring routes, but they didn't do the balcony roads near l'Alpe. Shame. Bob Schwartz
Many summits were closed because of snow; perhaps they will be filled
in later.
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| Re: Article on conservatives who ride? Tim McNamara 01:55:51 |
| | In article
<867b1c5e-b333-46d1-9988-cda6a397f1af@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
Shippy <jakemohan@gmail.com> wrote:
I am a freelance writer hoping to do a story on how different segments of bike culture align themselves politically, the correlations between biking and certain politics, and, more specifically, how conservative riders are distributed throughout a (sub)culture that is increasingly portrayed as liberal by the media and in stereotypes.
There's an agenda behind that among some folks on both sides of the
political divide. BTW it's mostly a pair of opposed minorities, since
most folks are centrist in their politics.
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But what about the riders who don't fit that category, the ones who love to ride but aren't comfortably ensconced in the overlap of lefties and cyclists? I'm genuinely curious what it's like to be politically conservative but also part of a subculture that seems to skew left. In a larger sense, what's it like to agree with a group whose core principles you embrace, but whose secondary or auxiliary causes you have trouble with?
There are some very vocal conservative and neoconservative participants
in various cycling newsgroups. A bit of reading will show you who is
who quickly.
My question to you are: 1) Do you fit this description? and or 2) do you know any websites or groups devoted to conservatives who ride? Feel free to respond here or by private message.
1. No. I fit the stereotype pretty well.
2. I would bet you can find some blogs, at least, such as
http://www.sneakeasysjoint.com/sneakeasy/2007/03/how_i_spent_my_.html
for example (this dude seems to have a sense of humor).
CAVEATS/CLARIFICATIONS:
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Another provocative question is, "What is bike culture, anyway?"
What's a culture? Even that's a slippery thing to define, let alone any
specific culture.
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Friday, 4 July 2008
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| Re: Trip Report - Minneapolis to Milwaukee - June 14-15, 2008 Tom Sherman 15:16:14 |
| | Ron Wallenfang wrote:
Trip Report Minneapolis to Milwaukee June 14 – 15, 2008 ... Soon after I got on route 55, the first problem developed – there was a sign prohibiting bicycles. But having no idea what else to do [maybe Ed Dolan the great could have told me where to go],
Mr. Ed Dolan the Grate has told me where to go quite a few times. ;)
... Notwithstanding the problems noted, the trip also had its “blessings”: - I didn’t get wet ...
Yeah, the previous weekend we had over 18-cm of rain, not to mention the
high winds and lightning.
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Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful
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| Woodside/Bonny Doon ride (SF Bay Area) Mike Jacoubowsky 10:55:19 |
| | I've finished the web page for a great, 100-mile hilly ride that takes in
some of the nicer, less-traveled roads of our area. I probably first did a
variant of this ride 36 years ago, and it's amazing how little civilization
has encroached upon it in the meantime.
http://www.chainreaction.com/bonny_doon_century.htm
--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com
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| Re: Kimmage on Vaughters Davey Crockett 08:13:03 |
| | Amit Ghosh a crit profondement:
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| that's not my point (but you're free to pretend otherwise).
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| my point is the team he's sending to the tour isn't composed solely
| (or even mainly) of young talents with clean slate minds that
| slipstream developed into tdf quality riders.
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| slipstream contracted veteran tdf riders, which is something any
| organization with the means can do.
Right you are
He got the best of the available talent that his purse would allow.
Exactly the same as anyone else would do.
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| Re: Trip Report - Minneaplis to Milwaukee - June 14-15, 2008 Tim McNamara 02:34:21 |
| | Nice trip. Us Twin Cities locals could have gotten you out of town more
gracefully, but you got the job done. We also could have told you about
the multiple bridge problems, which of course have been front page news
here. Unfortunately you managed to hit two of the four closed major
bridges in Minnesota all on one ride!
Had you crossed the river in Red Wing, you'd have found an initially
much hillier route than on the Minnesota side, although it's pretty much
dead flat on the Wisconsin side from Stockholm to La Crosse. Either is
a good option, although the Minnesota side is IMHO more scenic.
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| Re: For all and for fun, join the tipping competition Tour de France 2008 - Donald Munro 00:13:42 |
| | SHUSSBAR wrote:
I created a Tipping league, open to all for fun :
Dumbass,
I'd rather participate in a tapping league.
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Thursday, 3 July 2008
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| Re: Drug testing in another TLA Michael Press 16:19:02 |
| | In article
<cf9e530b-c20a-426e-b8e9-7e479a4a39ed@f1g2000prb.googlegroups.com>,
zzfranklin@mac.com wrote:
On Jul 1, 8:35 pm, RicodJour <ricodj...@worldemail.com> wrote: I think the Mayans had the right idea with their ball game, but they got it backwards. Just kill the winners and be done with it. It will remove pretty much all incentive to dope and will start weeding out motivated and genetically superior people. Tour de Fred anyone? You're an idiot.
Who isn't?
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