TOUR OF BELGUIM

I can't really say much about this one... the race, or the pic.... Except to say, any bike race in Belgium you know has to be a good one, and a sprint finish in the rain.... better them than me :-)

FLOYD LANDIS

Royd Landis

What can one say about Floyd Landis, other than, "not while I'm eating please".

For the non-cycling reader, that doesnt understand the whole time line... Floyd (who shall now be referred to as 'Royd') was one of Lance's leutinents on USPS/Discovery. Royd eventually ended up going to Phonak, to captain his own team.



The 2006 Tour de France saw Royd lose several minutes, to his rival, on stage 16. Subsequently, on stage 17, Royd went out on a solo break, and putting enough time into his opponents, to allow Royd to reacquire the yellow jersey. Well, seems Royd had a bit of help. Doping control found Royd's blood to be a bit tainted, with EPO, at the very least.



After several court appearances, and legal manuevers, Royd was stripped of the tour victory, and was suspended through January of 2009.



Well... Royd re-appears, and low and behold, finally admits to racing dirty. Royd wasn't happy with just being proven to being a lieing sack of cow crap, but decided he'd throw some shit about, and see what stuck...



Now some of the persons that Royd suggests raced dirty, I can believe, to a degree. The persons he has implicated in this mess, that I will never believe took the needle are Lance (post cancer), Dave Z, or George Hincappie.


To Royd I say.... Hope someone bashes in your face with a chunk of lumber.

GIRO & TOC Pics (What a suprise)

Yeah.... more Giro and ToC pics... Will be the last for the ToC considering the race is over, and done.... but hey, its only 6 weeks from Le Tour time... ( YEAH !!!!!!!!!!!! )

Ok... this is, yet again, another photo that disproves that pile of crap about the Indy500 being the biggest one day sports crowd anywhere.... and this isn't even the biggest mountain stage crowd that I've seen.... Indy fans, STFU !!!!

Well, the european peloton has the devil... the US peloton has, uh, GreenMan ????

FC, GIRO, & TOC PICS... (again)

OK.... again, a mish/mash of different photos... sorta... 1 of FC, 2 of ToC

Fabian Cancellera at Paris-Roubaix..... Yeah!!

A ToC pic....

and...

and again....

Next set of ToC photos.... Dave Z winning the final TT, and locking up GC

GIRO and/or TOC PICS

Yeah, got a few different pics, in no specific order.... of both the Giro and the ToC, with a smattering of Fabian Cancellera thrown in... Le Tour winner for 2010 ???? ... now just need a pic of a beaten and bruised royd landis... but that may come later.. we can but hope....

Fabian TTT'ing.... not sure where... but it's definitely a TTT

Cancellera TT"ing.... at least thats what it sure looks like

And at the finish line, of ???

MILDLY DISPLACED PHOTOS

Not even absolutely certain on two of these if they're Giro or ToC pics... but here they are anywayz...

This photo.... yeah, definitely know where that was taken.... ToC peloton invades the streets of Nevada City... (in California)

FLOYD LANDIS

Almost makes you want to go wash your hands after typing that, but floyd landis.... every sport in a given country needs its horses ass.... floyd is USCycling's horse part....
The day that he got into yellow in LeTour seemed 'off', then some of the things that went on during his WADA hearings seemed even more so.... and now.... well, have to assume he's not planning on having anything to do with US cycling ever again....

Floyd Landis.... Horses Ass of The Day

TOUR OF CALIFORNIA

DAVE Z. IN YELLOW !!!!! (Well, the ToC leaders jersey is more gold than yellow, but you get the general idea).... No, didn't get out to see the start of the stage in SJ... still not even sure what map they were using... since the ToC map on the web didnt have the riders going into downtown at all.... ah well....

The peloton going up tunitas creek.... probably a tad quicker than what I've done it in, in more than a decade or two

Dave Z sitting in behind the Garmin boys..... FANTASTIC !!!!

Dave Z taking the stage win..... (of course)

A FEW MORE DEROSAs (please and thank you)

MORE, MORE, MORE

Ever wonder what the mafia would do to a person that offended Ugo DeRosa ??? Probably not a nice thing (good for them) :-)

Ugo with one of Eddy's bikes.... thats saying something

Another pretty bike

Uh.... YEAH

EYE CANDY STUFF... (DeRosa filled of course)

Found the blog of a guy thats as big of a fan of Ugo's work as I am... and lots and lots of DeRosa pics... which will filter over to here...

His blog address.... http://bikeadelic.blogspot.com/

Anyhowz... on to the eye candy....

A DeRosa leaned up against a Palo Alto News box :-)

I want one of these.... in Molteni Orange please

Pretty, pretty, pretty....

A DeRosa in 'ti'.... oh, yes please

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This has to be my all time favorite of Ugo.... sitting in the shop... doing whatever he wants :-)

GIRO, Stage 8

You gotta love a foggy, damp, mountain top finish... and thats exactly what occured for stage 8 of the Giro....

Matthew Loyd... another Aussie win

Cadel Evans doing a little (?) recon ride

MAGLIA ROSA... (at least for the time being)

A bit earlier in the day... Ivan Basso taking care of his teammate, and (at the time) Maglia Rosa

GIRO TIME

With time being as linear as it is, no matter how much I'd like to start this blog off with Paris-Roubaix pics... or even AVC stuff, I just sorta have to go with whats happening today (or close to today)... but still...



Its not Paris-Roubaix, but hey, its the Giro, so is all good... but, its NOT P-R, but the riders still can get dirty....

PAGE ONE.... (or, Here We Go Again)

Ah.... another blog... yeah, just what the world needs... Well, Tripod is doing such a fine stinkin job of limiting anything they can, doing what I should have done in the first place... Go Google....
simple.... Nyet to Yahoo, You Gotta Be Kidding to MS, and Ptttthhh to Tripod...

Soooooooo.... THIS blog will be cycling, cycling, and cycling... some current stuff, some not so current... we shall see what it becomes... Now, on to the first of the many... (hmmm)