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Thread: Tour of California
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02-27-2007, 11:30 AM #121
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Mavic... like havoc...
here's what it stands for:
Manufacture d'Articles Vélocopediques Idoux et Chanel (French wheel manufacturer)
(I googled something one day and stumbled across that...
) and the history:
Two brothers, Léon and Laurent Vielle, created a 'nickel-plating' business in 1889. A little later Charles Idoux and Lucien Chanel ventured into the 'manufacture and the sale of spare parts for bicycles'.
While the Vieille brothers founded Etablissements Métallurgiques du Rhône (EMR) with the brand name AVA, the latter created MAVIC, Manufacture d’Articles Vélocipédiques Idoux et Chanel (Idoux & Chanel’s Manufactory of Articlesfor Velocipedes). The common factor between these two businesses was their President, Henry Gormand.Last edited by bikerchick68; 02-27-2007 at 11:34 AM.
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02-27-2007, 01:08 PM #122
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The best part about going up hills is riding back down!
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02-27-2007, 01:34 PM #123
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Took a walk at lunch, on my way back into the building one of my co-workers stops me and very seriously asks "Were you on that ride I saw on TV, they went up to Santa Rosa, now they head down to LA and ...."
"those are men, the top international pro racers. I ride 2 miles to work and back."
"But you did that ride this weekend too?"
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02-27-2007, 01:47 PM #124
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Cute, Trek. Originally Posted by Trek420
Took a walk at lunch, on my way back into the building one of my co-workers stops me and very seriously asks "Were you on that ride I saw on TV, they went up to Santa Rosa, now they head down to LA and ...."
"those are men, the top international pro racers. I ride 2 miles to work and back."
"But you did that ride this weekend too?"
"No"
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02-27-2007, 02:06 PM #125
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Betcha he was asking about the ALC.
Go smile sweetly at him and explain what you are going to do this summer. And drop off a pledge form while you're at it....
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02-27-2007, 03:17 PM #126
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Yep. My brother asked why I wasn't riding the TOC...... Originally Posted by Trek420
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02-27-2007, 03:25 PM #127
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Hee Hee. I got asked this once, my husband, who is an amateur racer, gets asked a lot. One of his band mates asks repeatedly,even so far as "Do you race against any people in the Tour day France?" Originally Posted by Trek420
Took a walk at lunch, on my way back into the building one of my co-workers stops me and very seriously asks "Were you on that ride I saw on TV, they went up to Santa Rosa, now they head down to LA and ...."
"those are men, the top international pro racers. I ride 2 miles to work and back."
"But you did that ride this weekend too?"
"No"
We now just ask him why he's not in the Masters or the US Open (he's a golfer, so whatever tournament is going on at time)."Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym." -- Bill Nye
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02-28-2007, 12:18 PM #128
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I crack myself up!
Would the guy in the middle be "Jensbob"? Originally Posted by jobob
Bork Bork, Hork Hork!!
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02-28-2007, 01:20 PM #129
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02-28-2007, 02:02 PM #130
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Jensbob!!
LOL!!! I love it AG!Sarah
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02-28-2007, 03:14 PM #131
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ahhhhhhh.... bc68.... you rode saturday... not sunday! i kept looking for you in the mavic cars as they passed on sunday..... THAT's why i didn't see you!
i hope you weren't with the driver that almost crashed on sunday! YIKES! (or hopefully he drove better on saturday!) he was driving soooooo freaking fast we all heard the screaching of the tires and looked to see the mavic car almost lose control! the worst part... it wasn't like it was his first time around the track... he knew that curve was there! it woulda been really ugly with the spectators if he has crashed.....
