Comments on: Tales of a Cyclotourist, Part III: 2006 Pla-de-Beret http://www.velominati.com/blog/racing/tales-of-a-cyclotourist-part-iii-2006-la-de-beret/ Keepers of the Cog Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:09:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: frank http://www.velominati.com/blog/racing/tales-of-a-cyclotourist-part-iii-2006-la-de-beret/#comment-836 frank Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:50:51 +0000 http://www.velominati.com/blog/?p=1662#comment-836 <a href="#comment-835" class="comment_response" style="text-decoration: none; color: #606060;" rel="nofollow">@Dan O</a> Agreed. There are certainly other, more mutually-beneficial methods to making a trip memorable. @Dan O
Agreed. There are certainly other, more mutually-beneficial methods to making a trip memorable.

]]> By: Dan O http://www.velominati.com/blog/racing/tales-of-a-cyclotourist-part-iii-2006-la-de-beret/#comment-835 Dan O Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:41:18 +0000 http://www.velominati.com/blog/?p=1662#comment-835 Wow - that's a great story. Something not to be repeated for sure though. Wow – that’s a great story. Something not to be repeated for sure though.

]]> By: frank http://www.velominati.com/blog/racing/tales-of-a-cyclotourist-part-iii-2006-la-de-beret/#comment-834 frank Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:47:55 +0000 http://www.velominati.com/blog/?p=1662#comment-834 <a href="#comment-832" class="comment_response" style="text-decoration: none; color: #606060;" rel="nofollow">@john</a> He's my boy, what can I say? A really funny side tale is that he was the first to go back down by bike, others started going down soon after. But pretty soon, word spread as to what happened to him. Next thing I know, I see Boogerd heading down. Moments later, he comes back up, sitting in the back of the Rabo car, looking awfully dejected, like a child who had just been scolded. I can only imagine what happened in between. @john
He’s my boy, what can I say?

A really funny side tale is that he was the first to go back down by bike, others started going down soon after. But pretty soon, word spread as to what happened to him. Next thing I know, I see Boogerd heading down. Moments later, he comes back up, sitting in the back of the Rabo car, looking awfully dejected, like a child who had just been scolded. I can only imagine what happened in between.

]]> By: frank http://www.velominati.com/blog/racing/tales-of-a-cyclotourist-part-iii-2006-la-de-beret/#comment-833 frank Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:43:03 +0000 http://www.velominati.com/blog/?p=1662#comment-833 <a href="#comment-831" class="comment_response" style="text-decoration: none; color: #606060;" rel="nofollow">@Marko</a> A. She was totally <a href="http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/1006/" title="" rel="nofollow">For Cereal</a>. Afterward - before asking if I was OK - she exclaimed, "My bike is lighter!!" B. It would never have happened in France. C. Trudat. @Marko
A. She was totally For Cereal. Afterward – before asking if I was OK – she exclaimed, “My bike is lighter!!”
B. It would never have happened in France.
C. Trudat.

]]> By: john http://www.velominati.com/blog/racing/tales-of-a-cyclotourist-part-iii-2006-la-de-beret/#comment-832 john Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:30:12 +0000 http://www.velominati.com/blog/?p=1662#comment-832 <a href="#comment-831" rel="nofollow">@Marko</a> Team buses rarely go up to the top of a summit finish because it's so hard to get off the mountain afterward so riders put on some extra layers while they are still warm and ride back to the bus below. It's safer to descend while the course is closed, before all the drunk tifosi start descending, unless of course, a Dutch Monkey crosses your path. Il Falco versus the Monkey, no one wins there. Frank, that is a hell of a tale, all to get a good photo of Tomeke. Mamma Mia... @Marko
Team buses rarely go up to the top of a summit finish because it’s so hard to get off the mountain afterward so riders put on some extra layers while they are still warm and ride back to the bus below. It’s safer to descend while the course is closed, before all the drunk tifosi start descending, unless of course, a Dutch Monkey crosses your path. Il Falco versus the Monkey, no one wins there.

Frank, that is a hell of a tale, all to get a good photo of Tomeke. Mamma Mia…

]]> By: Marko http://www.velominati.com/blog/racing/tales-of-a-cyclotourist-part-iii-2006-la-de-beret/#comment-831 Marko Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:31:23 +0000 http://www.velominati.com/blog/?p=1662#comment-831 A. Mich looks totally serious and maybe even a little freaked out in those pics B. Why was he riding back down? C. You just go around ending careers. That's just what you do. A. Mich looks totally serious and maybe even a little freaked out in those pics
B. Why was he riding back down?
C. You just go around ending careers. That’s just what you do.

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