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Last Post 09/25/2015 11:24 PM by Cosmic Kid. 17 Replies.

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longslowdistance

Posts:2886

09/22/2015 08:41 PM
Breezy, and a technical course. Elite women: Low country medalists (the Kiwi is a transplanted Dane), I'll bet a preview of the road race. A few pics attached: (Gotto love the Dutch Fans. He's been to Dutch Corner a few times and says it's gotten out of hand with the drunkeness and boorish behavior. Bronze medal on his neck, gold medal on his arm.

longslowdistance

Posts:2886

09/22/2015 08:45 PM
More Dutch Fans:

Orange Crush

Posts:4499

09/23/2015 09:12 AM
Nice haircut on the kid; sometimes a backward cap isn't so bad :-)

KootnaMoots

Posts:47

09/23/2015 10:41 AM
Cannot view the pics, all I see is iddy biddy squares. This old guy with a phone with a wire coming out of it needs a little help viewing the pics. Thanks Jer

Orange Crush

Posts:4499

09/23/2015 11:13 AM
USA cycling better get rid of that VW sponsorship now :-) Das Auto das betrugt!

ChinookPass

Posts:809

09/24/2015 09:33 AM
It'd be hard to find a more appropriate sponsor for USAC than VW. They are car-doping for crissakes!

Cosmic Kid

Posts:4209

09/24/2015 09:52 AM
Posted By ChinookPass . on 09/24/2015 09:33 AM It'd be hard to find a more appropriate sponsor for USAC than VW. They are car-doping for crissakes!

Just say "NO!" to WCP!!!!

Orange Crush

Posts:4499

09/24/2015 12:53 PM
LOL! Good one.

SideBySide

Posts:444

09/24/2015 03:38 PM
That's funny!

79pmooney

Posts:3189

09/24/2015 05:41 PM
So UHC considered firing Villumsen for not riding the sponsor's bike. I stand with her. Seems to me that getting a bike that allowed her to get low enough was on the shoulders of the team, the mechanic and the sponsor. I can see the team disciplining her, but I admire her guts to just go with what she believed was best, then showing the world her gut wasn't so far off. If the team wanted her on a sponsor's bike and the cockpit wasn't low enough, there are ways to get there. Have a custom stem made. (I have four of them.) I am sure there are many outfits on the east coast that would jump to the opportunity to get their product on the world stage, even if it meant a few all-nighters. That she rode a non-sponsored bike and plucked the biggest cherry with it should resound as a wake-up call in the organizaton that they have work to do for their riders. My opinion. Ben

longslowdistance

Posts:2886

09/24/2015 06:16 PM
There is a long history of cyclists and skiers using gear from manufacturer A repainted to match the sponsor's products. Litespeeds with Euro builder paint jobs in the 90s, e.g. That's a cheap way to make everyone happy. Maybe harder to fake in the era of carbon frames?

Nick A

Posts:625

09/24/2015 08:06 PM
What LSD said. I'm surprised they didn't try to at least just put a sticker on the thing. N

79pmooney

Posts:3189

09/24/2015 09:02 PM
I think she did this very quietly, letting the mechanics, etc, try to set up a stock bike as best they could, then when she saw that wasn't going to make it (in her view) pulling out another bike at the last minute. So it sounds like she had a back-up plan all along but gave them a chance to get it right first. I suspect she was afraid that if she pulled out the bike she used early (to get properly stickered, etc.) they wouldn't let her ride it. (I'm guessing she would be right if she guessed she wouldn't be given a Andy Hampsten/Lance Armstrong style pass to ride whatever. Well, now she might, but that is after winning the rainbow.) Oh, Cyclingnews: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/villumsen-at-the-heart-of-a-storm-after-riding-non-trade-team-bike-to-worlds-success/ Ben

Orange Crush

Posts:4499

09/24/2015 09:23 PM
OK, clearly she is not a rookie at this. So clearly she must have had a non perfect fitting TT rig for some time. So why was this allowed to fester and then a last minute haphazard change made? The timeline is all wrong and poorly handled by all parties, last but not least the rider

Nick A

Posts:625

09/25/2015 08:19 AM
I'm sure we've all read the Tyler Hamilton book? It was interesting to read the part where he talks about "accidentally" running over a bike to finally get a new one out of the team... N