Crit Pros in Ojai, California

[Mark Fennell]

A bunch of them this afternoon. Including a six-time tdf winner mixing it up
with the socal crit monsters. When word got out, a couple thousand
spectators showed up. I've never seen so many camera phones in action. He
sat in most of the time; once though, when a break with some major wattage
got ~30 seconds, he got on the front and pulled for two laps and brought
them back. He didn't participate in the sprint. (Note to Johan: he did get
caught up behind a crash one time, and came out of his pedals--no injuries
though.) It was really cool that he was there because Ojai is a second year
race, on a great course, but most importantly, it is a memorial event for
Garrett LeMire.

Expect pictures on CN soon.

Sincerely,
Your RBR Reporter

 

[matabala]

"Mark Fennell" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:uai6e.6575$EX4.6283@fed1read01...
> A bunch of them this afternoon. Including a six-time tdf winner mixing it
up
> with the socal crit monsters. When word got out, a couple thousand
> spectators showed up. I've never seen so many camera phones in action. He
> sat in most of the time; once though, when a break with some major wattage
> got ~30 seconds, he got on the front and pulled for two laps and brought
> them back. He didn't participate in the sprint. (Note to Johan: he did get
> caught up behind a crash one time, and came out of his pedals--no injuries
> though.) It was really cool that he was there because Ojai is a second
year
> race, on a great course, but most importantly, it is a memorial event for
> Garrett LeMire.
>
> Expect pictures on CN soon.
>

One more clue that the end is near.

 

[Rik Van Diesel]

Mark Fennell wrote:
He didn't participate in the sprint.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos.php?id=photos/2005/apr05/lemire05/dsc_0195

I can't believe they didn't DQ him for crinkling up his number up, also
it seems TOO high for the camera. No way they should have let him start
or place him in the race. Casey wtf is going on in Socal? Don't they
follow the stingent number nazi system of Nocal? Don't they teach those
Euro pros to pin numbers on correctly?

RVD

 

[Chris M]

I miss the old days when his socks would have been enough to throw him
out.

 

[Tim Lines]

matabala wrote:
> "Mark Fennell" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:uai6e.6575$EX4.6283@fed1read01...
>
>>A bunch of them this afternoon. Including a six-time tdf winner mixing it
>
> up
>
>>with the socal crit monsters. When word got out, a couple thousand
>>spectators showed up. I've never seen so many camera phones in action. He
>>sat in most of the time; once though, when a break with some major wattage
>>got ~30 seconds, he got on the front and pulled for two laps and brought
>>them back. He didn't participate in the sprint. (Note to Johan: he did get
>>caught up behind a crash one time, and came out of his pedals--no injuries
>>though.) It was really cool that he was there because Ojai is a second
>
> year
>
>>race, on a great course, but most importantly, it is a memorial event for
>>Garrett LeMire.
>>
>>Expect pictures on CN soon.
>>
>
>
> One more clue that the end is near.
>
>

"And round about the course were twenty and one hundred saddles; and
upon the saddles I saw twenty and one hundred cyclists sitting, clothed
in multi-colored raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of plastic
and styrofoam."

Which is pretty much what Brian Lafferty's been saying all along.

 

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Rik Van Diesel wrote:
> Don't they follow the stingent number nazi system of Nocal?

Shoot, we let 'em string numbers across the handlebars here in Texas.
http://www.lancearmstrong.com/lance/online2.nsf/html/cross1

> Don't they teach those Euro pros to pin numbers on correctly?

No Fred pin job here as his handlers got the
number-jersey-jersey-number part right. It's not every pro race that
has adhesive numbers.

Greg Hall