Yo, can you get me another bowl of Fruity Pebbles?

 

Neutral support of two sorts. Mavic for the bike bits, the paramedics for the homeless dude just out of frame who fell and split open his head on the sidewalk just opposite the start house. He was the only homeless person I saw in Palo Alto today, and his head was split open.

 

If Slipstream is gonna have the Chipotle burrito on the side of the bus, then it should be edible.

 

My brother noted that someone yelled ‘Big watts, Levi’ as the Corsair of Santa Rosa rolled to the start house. He thought this was pretty funny.

Fabs moments before his winning ride.

Cancellera, so fast he’s blurry at 3 mph rolling up to the start house.

 

A lucky kid.

 

Steve Blick and George Hincapie shaking hands and smiling.

George and, Andy, king of the skins and retailer of bicycles.

 

Bradley Wiggins channeling Noel Gallagher.

 

You wanna step to this?

Mark Cavendish, cannonball. Wearer of exotic, pro-only, super secret Blick flow supply Frogskins. Soon to be green jersey winner.

And the dual Part-of-the-day/High-pro-glow winner is Linus Gerdemann. Does Pantene know about this guy? Look at the sheen on those locks.

Craig Lewis getting ready to live the Pro Tour dream. He aimed, he swung, he’s in the big show, now let’s see how he rolls.

 

Again, crikey.

Off my braids, bitch.

Ginsu has nothing on me—I can cut through thick lead pipes with this thing.

Bob: George, I said it was casual jeans Friday.

 

George: Sorry, Bob, I was just squeezing in a little extra training before the presentation.

 

Phil: Crikey!

 

George: Phil, are you ready to lay down that trademark beat box? I’ve got the cardboard folded up and tucked away in my center jersey pocket next to a nutella-smeared pastry.

 

Bob: Rock the beat with your hands.

Marcel Marceau should have done presentations to prep riders for team presentations. Has to be weird standing there pageant-like on a platform. Pro cyclists look very strange in person. When they walk, it looks odd and awkward, like it’s something they haven’t done much since leaving middle school.

 

 

Lots to drool over here, but check out how those racks clamp on the bikes. Where can I get a setup like that for Goldrush?

 

And up close and personal with the TCR SL2. A radical departure from the previous iteration, distinctive looking. Those are gigantic rectangular-section tubes.

Tom from Giant Europe, a duathlon world champion and sartorial pioneer. Look for the rope-tie t-shirt to go large in the States second quarter ’09. You saw it at the High Road presentation first.

 

High Road has a mega-watt gnome at the center of the women’s squad presentation.

 

Can you tell who’s who?

Okay, back to the home rig. High res pics from the High Road presentation, a peak at the new Giant High Road team rigs, and some Tour of Cali action, crikey.

 

That's how fast they go. Looked over 30 to me on a flat street.

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Tour of california prologue start. Saw cippo fly by right when we rolled up.

Here's hincapie signing some autographs outside the High Road team bus and the scene at the starting line. Good crowd, but a hell of a lot less than the estimated 300,000 in SF for the prologue last year.

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Tour of cali prologue, live from palo alto.

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Steak sandwich on italian bread with olive oil and vinegar slaw, mozzarella and hand-cut fresh fries double stacked in the sandwich--training table of champions.

This is a good one, up there with the z-man from oklahoma joe's back in kanas city. You may have caught tony bordain at oklahoma joe's on chef's tour, his food network show.

And what's a z-man? Why bbq'd brisket on a bun w bbq sauce, a slice of provolone and an onion ring toppin' 'er off.

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