Full Tour of California Rosters now up...
 

Most of the rosters have been known for about a week but they are now official. Here are the full (and very impressive) rosters for this year's race:

on the official site:
http://www.amgentourofcalifornia.com...er-roster.html

and on my site (steephill.tv):
http://www.steephill.tv/2007/tour-of-california/

Charge up your camera battery, check your camera's date & time and get ready for the Tour of California Grassy Knoll Project. Here is my favorite Grassy Knoll video clip from last year to get your inspired.

ProTour Teams

1.) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team (USA)
Ivan Basso (ITA)
Antonio "Tony" Cruz (USA)
Tom Danielson (USA)
George Hincapie (USA)
Levi Leipheimer (USA)
Jason McCartney (USA)
Tomas Vaitkus (LIT)
Brian Vandborg (DEN)

2.) Team CSC (DEN)
Fabian Cancellara (SUI)
Juan Jose Haedo (ARG)
Bobby Julich (USA)
Karsten Kroon (NED)
Stuart O'Grady (AUS)
Christian Vandevelde (USA)
Jens Voigt (GER)
David "Dave" Zabriskie (USA)

3.) Quick Step-Innergetic (BEL)
Paolo Bettini (ITA)
Mauro Facci (ITA)
Leonardo Scarselli (ITA)
Bram Tankink (NED)
Matteo Tosatto (ITA)
Jurgen Van De Walle (BEL)
Geert Verheyen (BEL)
Giovanni Visconti (ITA)

4.) Predictor-Lotto (BEL)
Mario Aerts (BEL)
Bart Dockx (BEL)
Nick Gates (AUS)
Chris Horner (USA)
Nic Ingels (BEL)
Josep Jufre Pou (ESP)
Matthew Lloyd (AUS)
Fred Rodriguez (USA)

5.) Rabobank Cycling Team (NED)
Mauricio Albert Ardila Cano (COL)
Graeme Brown (AUS)
Bram De Groot (NED)
Theo Eltink (NED)
Robert Gesink (NED)
Mathew Hayman (AUS)
Grischa Niermann (GER)
Michael Rasmussen (DEN)

6.) T-Mobile Team (GER)
Michael Barry (CAN)
Gerald Ciolek (GER)
Adam Hansen (AUS)
Greg Henderson (NZL)
Kim Kirchen (LUX)
Aaron Olson (USA)
Jakob Piil (DEN)
Michael Rogers (AUS)

7.) Liquigas Pro Cycling Team (ITL)
Kjell Carlstrom (FIIN)
Mauro Da Dalto (ITA)
Enrico Gasparotto (ITA)
Luca Paolini (ITA)
Franco Pellizotti (ITA)
Manuel Quinziato (ITA)
Charles Wegelius (GBR)
Frederik Willems (BEL)

8.) Crédit Agricole (FRA)
Dimitri Fofonov (KAZ)
Sebastien Hinault (FRA)
Thor Hushovd (NOR)
Mads Kaggestad (NOR)
Christophe Kern (FRA)
Christophe Laurent (FRA)
Cyril Lemoine (FRA)
Jean Marc Marino (FRA)

9.) Gerolsteiner (GER)
Robert Förster (GER)
Torsten Heikmann (GER)
Bernhard Kohl (AUT)
Sven Krauss (GER)
Volker Ordowski (GER)
Fabian Wegmann (GER)
Peter Wrolich (AUT)
Oliver Zaugg (SUI)


Pro Continental Teams

10.) The Health Net Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis (USA)
Russell Downing (GBR)
Kyle Gritters (USA)
Ryder Hesjedal (CAN)
Tim Johnson (USA)
Karl Menzies (AUS)
Shawn Milne (USA)
Kirk O'Bee (USA)
Rory Sutherland (AUS)

11.) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team (USA)
Glen Chadwick (NZL)
Hilton Clarke (AUS)
Ben Day (AUS)
Valeriy Kobzarenko (UKR)
Sergey Lagutin (UZB)
Darren Lill (RSA)
Viktor Rapinski (BLR)
Phil Zajicek (USA)

12.) Team Slipstream Powered by Chipotle (USA)
Steven Cozza (USA)
Jason Donald (USA)
Lucas Euser (USA)
William Frischkorn (USA)
Patrick McCarty (USA)
Danny Pate (USA)
Thomas "Tom" Peterson (USA)
Taylor Tolleson (USA)


Continental Teams

13.) Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team (USA)
Chris Baldwin (USA)
Heath Blackgrove (NZL)
Ivan Dominguez (CUB)
Justin England (USA)
Mark Scanlon (IRL)
Sean Sullivan (AUS)
Henk Vogels (AUS)
Chris Wherry (USA)

14.) BMC Racing Team (USA)
Jonathan Garcia (USA)
Ken Hanson (USA)
Ian McKissick (USA)
Alex Moos (SUI)
Scott Nydam (USA)
Michael Sayers (USA)
Jackson Stewart (USA)
David Vitoria (SUI)

15.) Jelly Belly Cycling Team (USA)
Andrew Bajadali (USA)
Alex Candelario (USA)
Brian Dziewa (USA)
Brice Jones (USA)
Mike Jones (USA)
Bryce Mead (USA)
Jeremy Powers (USA)
Nick Reistad (USA)

16.) Colavita/Sutter Home Presented by Cooking Light Team (USA)
Alejandro Acton (ARG)
Gustavo Artacho (ARG)
Anthony Colby (USA)
Charles Dionne (CAN)
Davide Frattini (ITA)
Peter Hatton (AUS)
David McCann (IRL)
Tyler Wren (USA)

17.) Priority Health Cycling Team Presented by Bissell (USA)
Emile Abraham (TTO)
Ben Jacques-Maynes (USA)
Edward "Ted" King (USA)
Robbie King (USA)
Garrett Peltonen (USA)
Brian Sheedy (USA)
Tom Zirbel (USA)
Scott Zwizanski (USA)


National Teams

18.) USA Cycling National Development Team (USA)
Brent Bookwalter (USA)
Sheldon Deeny (USA)
John Devine (USA)
Caleb Fairly (USA)
Zachary Grabowski (USA)
Scott Stewart (USA)
Chris Stockburger (USA)
Tejay Van Garderen (USA)

Good stuff.

Predictions:

Zabriskie, Leipheimer or *crossing fingers* one of the US National Team kids pull out a stage win at some point.

Hushovd for the points win, Rassmussen for the KOM and Basso for the overall. Bettini and Leipheimer podium...

Predictions? I am terrible with these, but what the hey:
Prologue Levi
Stage 1 Haedo
Stage 2 Brown (will there be controversy this time, or will he have already been Flicked??)
Stage 3 Hushovd
Stage 4 Bettini
Stage 5 Dave Z. (Might be to short for him. Cancellara and Basso both will do well here)
Stage 6 Chris Horner (why the heck not? :) )
Stage 7 Stuart O'grady or Tony Cruz

KOM I think Danielson might try for this one. I will bet the Chicken Won't get it. There are too many climbers in the race and it is too early in the season for Rasmussen.

Sprint Jersey to Hushovd

Most aggressive to Chris Horner (Or to Graeme Brown depending on how aggressive is defined)

Young??? Devine maybe??

Overall? top 3 Basso (or Levi depending on who Disco is working for), Zabriskie, Cancellara.


Ok, I would be happy if I got even one right!

wow this should be awesome! hopefully it sates the appetite till july.

Zabriskie for P, TT, and GC.

I'd love to see Bettini win in San Jose with a huge attack over Sierra Road.

No need to wait until July, plenty of racing to see in the meantime.

i'm a newb, anything you want to shoot my way would be appreciated.

www.cycling.tv Subscribe to the premium channel. No, I don't work for them, but I do believe in supporting something that supports cycling.

cool thanks!

Nice work, steephill. Do you mount your video camera on a tripod?

I can't believe all the big names the TdC!!

--Steve

Nope. No pressure on Haedo at all. :D

Interesting lineups. I wonder who CSC plans on putting forward as their leader. Voigt? Same with Discovery for that matter. I doubt they'll ask too much effort of Ivan or Levi. Maybe they'll give the nod to Tommy D?

No tripod... too limiting for action coverage. But I will be using a monopod this year. It will help temper my excitement behind the camera.

you gonna be setup to accept photogroups again?

gonna sync my camera to my PC and the US time server, soz I don't have 'time' issues this year...

hope Spec sends the angels down again... and we'll see if the PhuzzyGuy becomes a regular like the TDF devil...
more phun than a barrel of monkies
gonna be great

Yes, everyone's photos are welcome: http://www.steephill.tv/grassyknoll/. Thanks in advance for updating your camera time ;)

The Angel will be back. Not sure about PhuzzyGuy but BigHairSuperFan has a new costume this year:
http://www.bighairsuperfan.com/

CN has the start list with rider numbers as well. Useful for IDing the riders as they fly by....

http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2007.../?id=startlist