Tour de France: "...who is painting the big penises on the climbs..."

[HuckleB]

OK. So the Tour de France isn't exciting enough for you? Well, whoever you are, you've got to enjoy Christian Vande Velde's rider diaries. This guy is a crack up.

Todays diary entry:

Switchbacks, drunk fans and road art

http://www.velonews.com/tour2004/diaries/articles/6636.0.html

Some clips:

"By the time we started racing the fans had finished their lunches, finished their bottles of red, cans of beer and topped it all off with shots of grappa. When people are drunk, reaction times are slow and the noise is deafening-good and bad when you're racing up a hill with sweat in your eyes.

...

I do have one question, though. I just want to know who is painting the big penises on the climbs, and why. Anyway, I get a little chuckle every time I roll over one.

...

Leah, my wife, came to our hotel for a visit after the stage. I am not sure who is more tired between the two of us as she came to my room and crashed on the bed for a solid hour and half.

I was pretty excited to hear that she has a few NHL hockey players on tour with Trek travel. I thought it was pretty cool that a bunch of Canuck hockey kids love every minute of this wussy biking sport."

And another from Monday:

Rest day!

http://www.velonews.com/tour2004/diaries/articles/6627.0.html

"We have very nice rooms on the course with air-conditioning and everything. Which would be nice if I didn't have an anti-aircon European roommate. So I laid in my bed sweating last night thinking how nice it will be in Girona with the air-conditioning on and my wife next to me instead of Dariusz Baranowski.

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I rode up Plateau de Baille with Eki and Pavel of Postal, as slow as we could. We were encouraged by the crazy fans just like the day before and the shared misery-loves-company concept.

I do have a bone to pick with some of the Americans. Some guys - most likely Americans, though they could have been Canadian - were going nuts for the Postal guys, understandably. They pushed the two Posties - a Czech and a Russian! - while chanting "USA USA USA!"

Of course, they neglected to push me the only American within sight! Complimenti, you patriotic morons."

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Lance, Schmance. I'm in Vande Velde's corner all the way!

:)

[Az_lefty]

1. Good read

I would have thrown the anti-aircon Euro out of the room!

[HuckleB]

2. Yeah, or at least said, "here's a friggin' blanket, dude."

[HuckleB]

3. Kick. This is the best Tour read around.

[jukes]

4. HuckleB

admit it, you just wanted to flaunt the mods & say "penis"!

[AngryAmish]

5. Is it true...

that it is a rule that all US Postal team members must be armed at all times? Just like real mailmen?

[HuckleB]

6. Where did you hear this Rue More?

:freak:

[HuckleB]

7. Where did you hear this Rue More?

:freak:

[BiggJawn]

8. That guy used to live near Noblesville...

Not Vande Velde, the "penis painter". Used to see (rather crude) penii painted on bridges, billboards, etc....