Barloworld Team Thread (Page 12)

Great job finishing up team.  I started a thread below where you can recap your tour for everyone to see... plus it will be a nice to see so many Barlo riders cross the line early on.

I'm on schedule to finish, but that won't happen until Saturday.

Agreed with Zip - personally I'd be very proud to leave any race on a stretcher... means I gave it all.

Methinks my wife will not be pleased if that's how I end my tour on Saturday, however.

With our long, smooth cruise this morning ... DoloresM2 and I are reporting from Paris. Majority of BT Barloworld is now WAITING AT THE CHAMPS ELYSEES! WOO HOO! Judi on the breakaway from Tour start is in the yellow jersey, and a few days later in the same 12-hour time period, Josh v2.0 zooms in with Yanti and Dolores hot on his tail. Okay, maybe that came out badly ... but the rest of you are COMIN' UP and we are GETTIN' THIS PARTY STARTED!!!

P.S. I'm sure some of the other teams with cough cough mismatched cells and needle tracks will want to pick on the newbies for their imminent upset victory ... yeah, that's right, if after all this time you STILL really can't ride, at least throw an elbow to the fresh meat overtaking you. I would ... except I'm busy overtaking you.

P.P.S. I rode all 20 stages (no prologue). Yes, the majority of my rides were at the 15-minute minimum. However, I would bet ANY amount of money that not one of the heckling high end losers riders learned how to ride a bike for their first tri ... by themselves ... a week before. I have a total, if I really stretch it, of six months of cycling on my legs from ground zero to where I'm at now. I may suck, but I got a TAINT OF IRON, a WILL OF STEEL, and a HEART OF GOLD for Team Barloworld. 

Long way??  More like a short cut - only 80 rides was your goal?  No wonder you're there - you cut out the Pyrenees!

willie05 - 2007-07-24 5:01 AM Hey Cat - here's Euskaltel's spreadsheet through week 2. We slacked a little last week, but we're determined to get to 100%!

Yikes. You, the team leader, have to apologize for your own team's crappy results? It's easy to pledge stages and not ride 'em ... it's easy to pledge more stages when you've got an extra rider ... one of our riders doesn't even have a functioning bike and HE'S ALREADY IN PARIS!!! 

Wow, sorry for trying to be a little funny.   I thought this was all in good humor.  I guess not.

You can enjoy saying you're in Paris, but I won't say you cut out the Pyrenees anymore.

Sounds like you're all sandbagging to me.   

You guys like to talk about being the newbies & such, right? How come all your profiles say things like, "expert", "extreme veteran", "veteran", etc.?

Ooohhh.........I get it.............you like to talk (blog) a lot. You're just missing the substance!

Now don't get mad at me TriAya....like you did to poor Willie05 there. If you toss it out you gotta take it!

I know, I know.....your new at this, blah, blah, blah!

Ooohhh ... I don't get it ... you toss it out, it's funny. We toss it back ... we're getting mad? Ah, just face it ... it's time to pucker up and kiss our sore taints

They can't be too sore......you haven't ridden enough miles!

Wow I missed a lot! There was a lot of activity on here.

Well, I still haven't missed a ride. New baby and all, I made my short Thursday ride. Missed my Tuesday's run, Wednesday's swim, and several night's sleep, but I got that ride in for the team. I'll finish on Saturday with a very long ride.

Josh 1.0 and 2.0 both bikeless now!  My rear wheel literally fell apart on a ride tonight... I very nearly ate it BADLY!  Had to carry my bike a little over a mile back to the house (barefoot) as the wheel was completely destroyed (wouldn't spin at all even with brakes released)... thank goodness it happened early on.

From what I can tell, a small piece of the rim came out, caught on a brake pad... instantly locked my wheel and ripped my rim apart causing a LOUD sidewall blowout and several spokes to break loose.  Able to come to a FAST skidding stop and unclip without incident.

After assessing the damage (hey, now I can buy new wheels, and there doesn't appear to be derailler damage which I was worried about), I rode a buck forty-five on the stationary watching the tour... 1:45 on the stationary sucks no matter what's on TV.

If that had happened up front I'm quite sure I would have done a major endo!