Possible Lance Armstrong Twitter ride brisbane
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Postby MountGower » Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:57 am
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Postby Drunkmonkey » Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:09 pm
They were prolly waiting for confirmation from the courier mail first, seeing as they are so accurate in their reporting and all thatMountGower wrote:Awesome. I'll let the idiot box know they got such a critical detail wrong. What's wrong with them?
Its going to kill the CM journos to write a positive article about cycling
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Postby Max » Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:05 pm
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Postby tim on skin » Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:45 pm
No Pain No Game Man
HTFU
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Postby beanspropulsion » Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:58 pm
Max wrote:Yay, my boss gave me the day off
Max
Yay so did mine!
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Re: Possible Lance Armstrong Twitter ride brisbane
Postby The Womble » Fri Jan 21, 2011 10:55 pm
No it's not. I have seen their season commitments though so much of the timing makes sense now, but it really isn't in any way a legendary twitter ride.tim on skin wrote:So it's not a Twitter ride then. Open to all like it has in Adelaide.
I hope everyone who's going has a blast though. We want plenty of pics!
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Postby Comedian » Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:54 am
I hear Lance is late but I hope you are all having a good ride.
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Postby Comedian » Mon Jan 24, 2011 3:01 pm
Did you see them? Was it fun?laager wrote:Moshtix finally came good at 0935. Only had to gear up and ride 1.75km from work to RNA. Lance was very late. Was starting to cook in the sun but some people were running around with boxes of Powerade pretty much non stop until we got away.
20.6km according to my computer. Cruised in mid pack at 40 minutes.
Bligh was already back. She rode the full course. The Premier is not slow.
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Postby beanspropulsion » Mon Jan 24, 2011 3:34 pm
Crappy picture of the start when Lance, Robbie and Alan arrived.
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Postby The Womble » Mon Jan 24, 2011 7:31 pm
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Postby uncle arthur » Mon Jan 24, 2011 8:34 pm
The truth is for the most of us, the closest we got was being on the same road as he was 5 minutes before – unless of course you were Anna – who looked all the part of an elite bike rider in her pink bike jersey and stack hat as I look like a future state Premier .
That said – it was as much fun as you could have on an organized ride – the pace was good, the roads were ours, and for the most part riders seemed to know what they were doing so it wasn’t the crazy mess some of the other larger organized rides can become…..
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Re: Possible Lance Armstrong Twitter ride brisbane
Postby soc » Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:06 pm
I was a fair way back in the start line up so didn't get to see the stage, or the "stars", but I had a shady spot to wait in for the "Five Minutes" that Uncle Lance, Robbie and co. were late
Loved the kids lining the footpath outside of Balmoral school all jumping and cheering as we went past.
I got a couple of piccies on the phone - not much -
One or two people hanging around at the start
Hey, did you hear Lance's motorcade is only five minutes away?
Apparently We Heart Brisbane...
Lance is in the House, errr, Wool Pavilion - Alan Davis got out in the sun to sign autographs tho' (Astana kit with the yellow Oakleys)
Robbie!!
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Re: Possible Lance Armstrong Twitter ride brisbane
Postby Max » Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:12 pm
Soc - you must've been not far behind me at the start point. We were just near the powerade table.
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Postby soc » Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:17 pm
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Postby ValleyForge » Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:25 pm
Did Anna wear white shoe covers?
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Re: Possible Lance Armstrong Twitter ride brisbane
Postby Max » Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:39 am
I think you ended up in front of and to the left of me at one point. Are you err.. ahem.. a bigger guy? Lots of people were throwing empty bottles back to the powerade people, and at one point I saw a fellow in a Brissie-to-Bay jersey bend down to pick up an empty and hand it to the guys at the table. I was wearing my Primal Road Runner jersey (crappy photo here). I'd link a photo from Primal themselves, but it looks like they don't sell it anymore Anyway, suffice it to say, the jersey is a decoy designed to make people think I'm super-fast, when in fact I'm more of a plodder.soc wrote:Max, I was standing beside the Merlo coffee van early on then moved up to beside the powerade table. What Jersey were you in, I may have been beside you I was in Brissie to Bay jersey.
ValleyForge, I don't think I've ever seen so much bling in one place, even on rides like the Brissie-Gold Coast. You would think one would reach saturation point after that sort of over-exposure, but I'm pleased to report that didn't happen to me.
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Re: Possible Lance Armstrong Twitter ride brisbane
Postby uncle arthur » Tue Jan 25, 2011 3:40 pm
Good on him for riding, but some bike shop owners should be ashamed of themselves......... ..... aren't there any standards these days - it would be like someone selling Miss Daisy a Ferrari.....
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Re: Possible Lance Armstrong Twitter ride brisbane
Postby soc » Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:53 pm
Yep that was me, the "bigger guy"Max wrote:I think you ended up in front of and to the left of me at one point. Are you err.. ahem.. a bigger guy? Lots of people were throwing empty bottles back to the powerade people, and at one point I saw a fellow in a Brissie-to-Bay jersey bend down to pick up an empty and hand it to the guys at the table. I was wearing my Primal Road Runner jerseysoc wrote:Max, I was standing beside the Merlo coffee van early on then moved up to beside the powerade table. What Jersey were you in, I may have been beside you I was in Brissie to Bay jersey.
Like your jeresy Max
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Re: Possible Lance Armstrong Twitter ride brisbane
Postby ValleyForge » Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:11 pm
Perhaps a bit micro-harsh. If he can afford the Dogma then I wonder if he just cherishes it for the short times he can ride. I'd be a demon in the saddle if my job let me spend 3hrs a day in the saddle!uncle arthur wrote:Speaking of bling - there was one guy there on a Pinarello Dogma - green and sparkle colour scheme, and he didn't look like he "earned" the right to ride such a fine steed - more just that he earned enough to afford to buy it.
Good on him for riding, but some bike shop owners should be ashamed of themselves......... ..... aren't there any standards these days - it would be like someone selling Miss Daisy a Ferrari.....
But, yes, a number of shops don't respect the beauty of a high end machine.
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Re: Possible Lance Armstrong Twitter ride brisbane
Postby nitramluap » Fri Jan 28, 2011 10:47 pm
Distance was just on 21km according to computer & GPS. I did it in 41 minutes which wasn't too shabby.
The fixie riders were really impressive (you can see them in my film) - they were flying!
Cheers!
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Re: Possible Lance Armstrong Twitter ride brisbane
Postby gordy » Sat Jan 29, 2011 7:40 am
Can you show us some more of the Mango?nitramluap wrote:I made a little clip of some of the ride. It really was good fun.
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