"The 33"-Road Bike Racing - The pictures tell the story

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Joe Pozer
07-17-01, 02:07 PM
I wonder what Ullrich was thinking when this happened?

http://i1.yimg.com/1/78dd/g/1/b2944dac.jpg



http://www.VeloNews.com/images/tour2001/1189.1032.f.jpg

KevinG
07-17-01, 02:15 PM
He was thinking "I should have stayed home and ate strudel"
HAHA
RonH
07-17-01, 03:37 PM
What do you mean Joe? Ullrich was 1:59 behind.
Lance was having a brewsky when Jan crossed the finish line. :D

Go Lance! :beer: :dance:

catsweat
07-17-01, 10:37 PM
Awesome stuff, folks! Does anyone know what gear Lance was using? It looked much smaller than Ullrich's. Why weren't more cyclist using this "granny" gear? It worked so great for Lance.

Drinking a couple beers for Lance and thanking God for OLN.

Cat
roadbuzz
07-18-01, 02:56 AM
Originally posted by catsweat
Does anyone know what gear Lance was using?
I heard a 12-23 cassette (still pretty tall gears for that kind of climbing, at least for us mere mortals.) During his break on L'Alpe, he was using his lowest 2 gears.
A F Baker
07-18-01, 05:12 PM
Ullrich was praying: Mein Gott, please make Lance get a flat tire. I'll promise to not drink so much beer, and I'll even go to confession more. :D
Joe Pozer
07-20-01, 03:01 PM
Oops...this is the "look" that I was trying to post..
roadbuzz
07-20-01, 04:46 PM
Originally posted by Joe Pozer
this is the "look" that I was trying to post..

Thanks for the image... this is the first time I've seen it. "The look" has generated more talk than anything else in the TdF.

So what do y'all think? What was it for? Was it the evil eye? Was he ridiculing Jan... "nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah"? Maybe a pause and an invitation for a battle of the titans, "C'mon Jan, let's dust off the riff-raff and settle this between ourselves." I guess we'll never know.