TdG Stage 5 (Friday)

GABIKE

Ive never been to a bike race other than when I BMXed many years ago. I have
other commitments later that day so my wife and I will be going to the first
KOM sprint line or somewhere below it. What are we suposed to do, just get
there before the race starts and find us a spot to pull over and wait? Thats
what it looks like people do when I watch races on OLN.

Bob Schwartz

GABIKE <gabike@aol.com> wrote:
> Ive never been to a bike race other than when I BMXed many years ago. I have
> other commitments later that day so my wife and I will be going to the first
> KOM sprint line or somewhere below it. What are we suposed to do, just get
> there before the race starts and find us a spot to pull over and wait? Thats
> what it looks like people do when I watch races on OLN.

If you were Dutch you'd show up three days ahead of the race with a
camper van loaded with beer. You'd bring a sound system powerful
enough that a seismologist on another continent would know when you
turned it on. You'd bring lots of paint and splash the names of your
favorite riders all over the road, along with a penis or two.

But here in the US we just pack a picnic lunch and maybe a cowbell
to ring as the riders go by. You might want to hang out in Dalton
before the stage start to see if you can get some autographs.

Bob "Can't wait for Alpe d'Huez" Schwartz
cvcc@execpc.com

Ewoud Dronkert

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:01:50 -0000, Bob Schwartz wrote:
> But here in the US we just pack a picnic lunch and maybe a cowbell
> to ring as the riders go by.

And pom-poms.

Nev Shea

Ewoud Dronkert <me@privacy.net> wrote in
news:6h1080pk3ndd45r9drqdakchi2r5stut34@4ax.com:

> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:01:50 -0000, Bob Schwartz wrote:
>> But here in the US we just pack a picnic lunch and maybe a cowbell
>> to ring as the riders go by.
>
> And pom-poms.

I think that is only done by Leipheimer's wife, and then that isn't here in
the US. But then maybe I only notice pom poms when they get stuck in
somebody's wheel.

NS