Gerolsteiner

[malkin]

Pay Less had 6-packs of Gerolsteiner water.
Not bad! Tasty, with softer carbonation than Perrier.

I'm drinking it and thinking good thoughts for the rider who ran into the road furniture and sent his bike to the heavens in pieces.

[Kalidurga]

I just watched that on Versus. Absolutely amazing, even though it didn't show how he landed. I do hope that he's ok. He finished the race as Lanterne Rouge, but he's gotta be darned lucky he wasn't carted off with a broken coccyx

[Tri Girl]

I've wondered what Gerolsteiner was. Yesterday I looked up a whole bunch of team/sponsors names to find out what the products were that they sell. I'll share my findings.

Vittle= water
Saunier Duval= water heaters
Skoda= car
CSC= business and technology solutions
Silence-Lotto= Belgian lottery (ok- that was a no-brainer)
Cofidis= loans/credit
Liquigas= liquified gas products (duh)
Euskaltel-Euskadi= Basque telecom company
Credit Agricole= investment banking
Barloworld= industrial brand management company (don't know what that means)
Francaise des Jeux= French national lottery
Quick Step= laminate flooring
Team Columbia= just kidding, I know what that is (and I have lots of it hanging in my closet as proof)
Ag2R= French based interprofessional insurance and supplementary retirement fund group
Agritubel= worldwide provider and manufacturer of tubular metal products for cattle, livestock and farming
Lampre= pre-coated steel production
Caisse d’Epargne= French bank
Bouygues Telecom= French mobile phone company




I'll do more research tonight. I don't know why, but I've watched the tour for years and just this year I've decided I want to know what the sponsors sell.

[Pedal Wench]

Lotto used to be Predictor too -- a pregnancy test maker.

[Fredwina]

Actually Silence-lotto has two sponsors
Omega Pharma - makes Silence - ( an anti-snoring product) and predcitor - also makes Davitmon vitamins (the team used to be Davitmon-lotto in 2006) which product will they push in 2009?
Eusaktel - Eusakadi has two sponsors
Eusaktel is the telephone company - euskadi is the Basque Tourist Bureau
A couple of other sponsors
LCL (Le Crédit Lyonnais) another french bank - sponsor of the yellow jersey.(note that the malliot jaune gets a toy stuffed lion at the end of each stage?)
PMU(pari-mutual unon) A french company that runs a chain of off track betting parlors and sponsors the green jersey.
Champion- French supermarket company -sponsors the polka dot jersey. The polka dot colors comes from the previous sponsor - a chocolate company that made some thing like hershey's kisses - the winner would get his weight in chocolate at the end of each stage

[teigyr]

It always makes me snicker when I hear Liquigas pronounced "leaky gas".

Ok, I'm immature. Never said I wasn't

[KnottedYet]

I like "leaky-gas", too. You're in good company...

[Pedal Wench]

It always makes me snicker when I hear Liquigas pronounced "leaky gas".

Ok, I'm immature. Never said I wasn't

Side effect of Alli

[Possegal]

the caravan that precedes the riders on the route tosses things out to the spectators - it was our experience that they seemed to only be tossing to kids. we had my niece and nephew with us, so they tossed everything. gerolsteiner was tossing out water. we also got dried sausages, a polka dot hat, several cool key chains including one with the lion on it. i'm blanking, but i'm sure there were more. kinda fun. we call it the tour mardi gras.

[PinkBike]

Rabobank - hmmmm, what could that be?

[PinkBike]

- the winner would get his weight in chocolate at the end of each stage

like those skinny climber boys would eat chocolate?!! hey i eat chocolate and my lycra is not loose around my bu++.

[malkin]

I think 'brand management' is marketing.
Maybe they recommend that companies sponsor bike teams!

[IFjane]

I think 'brand management' is marketing.
Maybe they recommend that companies sponsor bike teams!

Not any more. They announced they are pulling out of cycling after the tour.

[SouthernBelle]

My mother retired from a company who sold and maintained towmoters and was thereafter bought out by Barlo.

[Aggie_Ama]

You didn't list what Garmin-Chipotle is.

Garmin- maker of global positioning systems
Chipotle- chain of "gourmet" burrito restuarants in the United States


I cannot help but snicker the first time in the season I hear "Leaky Gas".