Fatty Challenges Bob Roll

[sulis]

My fave blogger in the world, The Fat Cycles aka Fatty, has issued a challenge to my fave commentator Bob Role. Fatty has set up a Livestrong Challenge Page for Bobke. If Fatty raises $5,000 in Bobke's name before the end of the Tour of Calif, Bob will shave that annoying fluff off the top of his head.

If you have any spare cash and contribute, its a worthwhile cause - fight cancer and fix bob's hairdo. :p

http://www.fatcyclist.com/

https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=294758&supid=77502499

[Kalidurga]

Latest word is that the total's up to $500. 10x's more to go...

[sulis]

Over $4,000 already. Wahoo!!

[Kalidurga]

I expect to see Bob Roll lookin' like a cue ball during tomorrow's stage ;)

[sundial]

His hair reminds me of Peanut.

[Kalidurga]

Mission accomplished (http://www.fatcyclist.com/2009/02/17/we-did-it-5000-in-one-day-bobkes-gotta-shave-his-head/) (though the real shaving has yet to happen). Funny, funny stuff.

[SadieKate]

His hair reminds me of Peanut.:confused:

You mean Pig-pen?

[jobob]

hee hee. Cue the Linus & Lucy theme.

[sundial]

No, Peanut the puppet used by ventriloquist Jeff Dunham. :)

[sulis]

Wahoo. Success!! Everyone look for a newly coifed Bobke soon.

People are so generous. I can't believe that over $6,000 was donated in 24 hours. Amazing!!

[Kalidurga]

Everyone look for a newly coifed Bobke soon.

Don't you mean un-coiffed?? ;)

[jobob]

de-coiffed, perhaps

[bikerHen]

I saw Bob today in Merced. He had his hat on, I yelled to see his new do as he walked by. He took off his hat and mumbled he didn't have it yet. He looked kinda surprised someone knew about it. :D bikerHen

[Kalidurga]

I can't believe no one here noticed that Bobke did the deed today, courtesy of Johann :eek: I was so busy at work that I missed it, but caught a glimpse at Fatty's liveblog (http://www.fatcyclist.com/2009/02/19/bobke-gets-shaved-tour-of-california-liveblog-stage-5-visalia-paso-robles/) just before I left.

Here's video of him talking about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM9IZb_HfQA

Edit: And here they are in the act: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2LsPDukOzw Lance's reaction is terrific :D

[katluvr]

I saw he was "shaved" at the end of the race when he was interviewing Levi & Mark. It was not a good job. I did not see all of the Versus coverage of the race so not sure if they talked about it at all on Versus.

[kacie tri-ing]

I saw it on versus...Lance's reaction was SO funny! You are right, he actually did a terrible job shaving it!

[Kalidurga]

I did not see all of the Versus coverage of the race so not sure if they talked about it at all on Versus.

The YouTube links I posted are the Versus coverage about the challenge. The second one shows Johann actually shaving Bobke's head. At the end, Chris Hummer mentions that Johann left a big strip of hair on the back of Bob's head, so Bob was running around trying to find a barber.

[katluvr]

Sadly I am work and they block YouTube here...so I cannot see it.
I'll check it out when I get home!
Yeah, it was not a very pretty shave job!
Some guys look so much better when their head is shaved...I am afraid he does not! Poor Bobke!

[7rider]

The YouTube links I posted are the Versus coverage about the challenge. The second one shows Johann actually shaving Bobke's head. At the end, Chris Hummer mentions that Johann left a big strip of hair on the back of Bob's head, so Bob was running around trying to find a barber.

So...I just want to know if Johann did that on purpose to be a wiseguy, or if he was just rushed and missed a (big) spot......

[Kalidurga]

My guess is he was laughing too hard to do it properly ;)

[Possegal]

you don't need to go to youtube, you can find it on versus as well.
http://www.versus.com/cyclysm then scroll through the video clips to find the one that says bob rolle shaves for charity, or something like that. lance's response is hysterical. :)