Thursday, May 11, 2006

Men in Uniforms


I was worried that there wouldn't be enough good pics of the Giro today. Its team time trial day and I figured that would mean lots of pics of guys in the same kit riding around in space ball helmets. Fun for one or two pics, maybe...but not a whole blog's worth.

A little searchin brought up some decent goods for today after all.



Here is a team time trial photo. No need to post anymore pics of this because all the other teams sort of looked like this too, just different colored shirts and booties and spaceballs. Well, except for Euskatel. They probably didn't look like this.



And no time trial blog o mine would be complete without a wide angle spaceball photo


Why does this pic



Remind me of this?




Basso Photo of the day. Fine little bubbly that he is.


And I had a hard time choosing the podium photo of the day. Serguei Gonchar (Didn't his name used to be Sergey Honchar?) is one animated little fella in pink. Here he has some kind of Al Bundy happy scratchy belly thing going on.




And here he is making one hell of a scrunched up kissy face




The drama of the day was Mattias Kessler falling off at 300meters to go and causing TMobile to lose the stage by one second. But I couldn't find a pic of that. So here's a pic of Scott Norwood. Accck! A football reference.




And the scenery photo of the day. For obvious reasons.





22 Comments:

At 3:48 PM, May 11, 2006, Blogger PAB(a.k.a.CID) said...

The fact that you referenced ol' Norwood...

makes me think you might be a closet football fanatic??

maybe in the past, though....that was quite a few years ago.

 
At 4:19 PM, May 11, 2006, Blogger norcalcyclingnews.com said...

her pa was a coal-town gridiron diehard.

therapy.

 
At 4:51 PM, May 11, 2006, Blogger PAB(a.k.a.CID) said...

oh yes, I remember now.

So VB, you probably know that Franco Harris is a bit of a cycling nut...

 
At 5:14 PM, May 11, 2006, Blogger EB said...

That first photo...is that a giant rat? The C.L. lion in the Tour I get, but rodentia?

Can anyone explain?

 
At 9:19 PM, May 11, 2006, Blogger PAB(a.k.a.CID) said...

Bunny said we are futon-ing it this weekend. Yay!

We have to get work done at the old house tomorrow, then need to get in some ride-time, then need to drive down. So we have no idea what our exact schedule will be. (we always say that, don't we...)

We'll call tomorrow as we know more. Assuming that is all okee dokee with you guys.

Happy friday!

 
At 10:35 PM, May 11, 2006, Blogger X Bunny said...

excellent alien comparison

 
At 10:55 PM, May 11, 2006, Blogger Unknown said...

Pab/bunny: will this leave time for wine & crackers after the kitty's hillly little ride? Vb/Ov?

 
At 7:16 AM, May 12, 2006, Blogger Velo Bella said...

I dont know what the rodent is. It has funny little pink chicken feet. Maybe a Shrew? Could be a shrew.

 
At 7:20 AM, May 12, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's a ghiro - italian for doormoose. Scary.

 
At 7:21 AM, May 12, 2006, Blogger Velo Bella said...

On Saturday? oV is thinking about doing both races and so we have no idea what condition he'll be in afterwards. But not very likely that he'll be in a wine and crackers mood.

Besides, the RH Villians usually have that get together at their pad in LG too.

 
At 9:28 AM, May 12, 2006, Blogger Unknown said...

oh i had to cancel the hors d'ouerves thing as they are removing and replacing the landings on my stair case.

its not like I haven't known about this for a week. i just didn't put 2+2 together.

3rd floor + stairs = party
3rd floor - stairs = no party

hummm, the light switch didn't stay on for too long, did it.

BUT I do plan on bringing goodies to the hill, so we can wine & snack while watching our fellas go round & round!

 
At 10:22 AM, May 12, 2006, Blogger EB said...

If a mouse like that came to my door...wooh. Let's just go with not a pretty scene.

 
At 10:25 AM, May 12, 2006, Blogger Velo Bella said...

Between their races and my hip we probably wouldn't make it up those steps anyway.

I asked oV to park on the same street we were on last time. You too? I'm riding in and should be there in time for the women 3/4 race.

 
At 10:32 AM, May 12, 2006, Blogger Velo Bella said...

I'm still cracking myself up with the alien photo

 
At 10:36 AM, May 12, 2006, Blogger Unknown said...

ya, i'm gonna try and park in that same area, that way we can tailgate with food & drink.

just look for "Astro"

 
At 11:20 AM, May 12, 2006, Blogger Velo Bella said...

R'astro

 
At 12:29 PM, May 12, 2006, Blogger Unknown said...

k, R'astro it is

 
At 3:07 PM, May 12, 2006, Blogger X Bunny said...

are you/we going to miss the boys' masters race?

i really want to see that one

 
At 3:32 PM, May 12, 2006, Blogger Velo Bella said...

oh oops. I thought the 3/4 was before them.

 
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