Silly TdF musings...

[slinkedog]

1. One thing that I've noticed is that the back of Euskatel's shorts make the guys resemble plumbers. That unfortunate peach-ish half circle just above the tush was a bad idea, imho.

2. Okay all you ladies over 40: Does anyone else thing that Linus Gerdemann looks like Jimmy MacNichol (big brother of Kristy MacNichol)?

3. As a girl reared on Tours including Lance, I'm having a hard time getting my head around the general chaos of this year's Tour. I guess it's a different universe without Le Boss.

That's it. Haven't been around much lately and felt the ned to share with people who care about the Tour!

[jobob]

Al Trautwig doesn't annoy me nearly as much as he used to. How odd.

[teigyr]

1. One thing that I've noticed is that the back of Euskatel's shorts make the guys resemble plumbers. That unfortunate peach-ish half circle just above the tush was a bad idea, imho.

Those shorts are a horrible idea. Even though I know that it's just their shorts, it looks like their shorts are riding down.

It has been a chaotic tour.

[slinkedog]

Al Trautwig doesn't annoy me nearly as much as he used to. How odd.

You're mellowing, Jo!!

Visual proof of the Jimmy/Linus resemblance:

http://lavender.fortunecity.com/flam...04/jimmy2.html

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Im...ssics_2005.jpg

[slinkedog]

Those shorts are a horrible idea. Even though I know that it's just their shorts, it looks like their shorts are riding down.

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Exactly. Whoever designed that uniform needs a hand-slap.

[Eden]

I thought the same thing about the Euskatel shorts plumbers indeed, but I think those awful yellow with crotch outlining black shorts on the Saunier-Duval guys are worse!

[Zen]

I don't know about the resemblance thing but Linus ( I have started saying "Leeenus") looks like he should be modeling for CK.

I think it's been a great Tour.
Borat, dog crashes, you never know what you're gonna see

[SadieKate]

Nobody should wear head-to-toe polka-dots after their 4th birthday.

http://survey.cyclingnews.com/photos...lctm_tdfs8_043

[slinkedog]

SK, I agree 100%. I can't imagine but that the get-up puts some guys off from trying for KOM.

[teigyr]

Nobody should wear head-to-toe polka-dots after their 4th birthday.

http://survey.cyclingnews.com/photos...lctm_tdfs8_043

I've often though that if I was King of the Mountains I would have to request a different jersey. Then again for the fact I even think about the possibility of being King of the Mountains means that I might be delusional

[slinkedog]

I've often though that if I was King of the Mountains I would have to request a different jersey. Then again for the fact I even think about the possibility of being King of the Mountains means that I might be delusional

LOL! You and me both!

[Eden]

another separated at birth?
Oscar Freire

Dr. Frank-n-furter (Tim Curry)

[SadieKate]

Oh no! Please DO NOT photoshop Oscar into another "kit."

I long for the old days when they wore their team shorts with whatever jersey they'd earned. I don't mind the polka-dots on the jersey, but the shorts?

Nooooo. Give 'em to that Borat-wanna-be.

[Zen]

another separated at birth?
Oscar Freire

Dr. Frank-n-furter (Tim Curry)

That's a good one.

Bobroll is driving me nuts with his "Tour Day France"
Surely he can pronounce "duh"

I wonder who thought up with that pokey dot ensemble?

[Eden]

That's a good one.

Bobroll is driving me nuts with his "Tour Day France"
Surely he can pronounce "duh"

There's a story behind that....... Now of course I certainly can't convey it quite like Bobby in person, but..... when he used to race in France (so he says) the French waiters wouldn't bring them any water, because their pronunciation wasn't perfect - they'd pretend to not understand, so he and his teammates decided that since no matter how hard they tried they still got flack they'd just quit trying and murder the French language as much as possible. Still, that's no reason for it to not drive you nuts.