November 18, 2005 Chat

by Andy Shen

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So after last week’s old TV-o-rama, we may want to delve into what the hell happened to the USPRO Race? Now in Greenville! Can anyone put on a permanent race in the US? But who are we kidding, we’re just going to jump right into the Sweathogs…

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160 Comments

Baldwin

I’ve been taking ambien and greenies all morning. The static electricity in my apartment in now strong enough to power my iPod.

Littlefield

OK, anyone else bummed about USPRO not being in Philly anymore?

I think it should have been left alone, I didn’t see a problem having euros in the US champ race

Andy

Judgemental call. Chris referred to licking himself, but you could argue only those with dirty minds would infer any licking down south.

Littlefield

About philly, I fear you might be right,you take awaysome of the crazy chemistry that made that race so exciting, it’s left in diminished form, everyone will just compare it to “how cool it used to be”

Baldwin

For the record, I did not actually lick myself. I merely stated I kept TRYING to lick myself. Big difference. Ask any judge in Montana.

Littlefield

Trump=Philly

Wow that’s a depressing comparison.

Tour of Cali has YEARS to go before it stands a chance of being Pro Tour worthy.

Philly was the closest thing we had to a race worthy ot Pro Tour status.

schmalz

The Pro Tour races aren’t all that impressive, even World Cup races like Amstel or Hew Cycling calssics weren;t that old

Baldwin

The Cali Tour is problematic for scheduling. Teams will race Tour Down Under in January, Langkawi or Qatar in early February and then Cali at the end of the month. Then they need to roll into Paris-Nice. Guys could actually be fried before the classics even begin.

Littlefield.

Me, once, in the 90’s before I had a clue or owned a bike. I was fat and disinterested but I was in Grad school in Philly, so we went

schmalz

It would be an easier trip for some teams to get UCI points. Easiier that going to Langkawi or Qatar. Plus you’d get to see Belgians try to surf! And ask where is the “OC”?

Littlefield

Dunno about Cali’s UCI status.

The only cool thing to come of the whole Philly mess is that there will be a USPRO TT championship as well.

C’mon Andy, you can do it!

Baldwin

If the teams split their squads thats one thing…the hard thing to split is the budget for flying from Aussie to Malaysia to California and then to Europe, not to mention the physical toll so much long-distance travel

Faber

No offense to Chris Wherry (maybe a little), but I’m thinking a multi-stage race in February would be ideal for Hincapie, Leipheimer Julich, Landis, Horner et al to show their fitness before the Europe season and bring more crowds and interest to US Cycling.

Baldwin

It’s going to be on ESPN2 nightly, and my guess as to the commentators is that they will try to poach Sherwen and Liggett, thinking that what is familiar is necessariy good. It’s olympic time, though, so chances are it may fade when up against figure skating

Littlefield

I’d love to know about the TT’s as well. They were my favorite part of CRCA racing, Despite my dog-slow performances. But I imagine the we’ll get the same deafening silence on any inquiries in that direction.

Baldwin

The downside is that an hour is really only 44 minutes. Take out bumpers, intros, outros, hand-offs to field correspondents, podium shots, reaction interviews and such, and what you’ll have is about 7 minutes of actual racing. But the graphics will be cool. …I hear they’re using Google Earth!

Baldwin

I’d like to see Davis Phinney and Robin Williams. One guy has Parkinson’s and can’t speak, the other Tourette’s and can’t shut up.

Littlefield

Smilie sai something to me about one of the Concervancy’s concerns had something to do with the relative lack of control of full aero rigs compared to regular bikes.

If that is true, maybe we have the first MANDATORY FULL CANNIBAL CRCA TT. That would be fun, but would suck for all those guys who dropped a year’s tuition money on fancy TT bikes. (Sorry Andy)

schmalz

What I never get about cycling coverage is why they don’t just split screen the fluff stuff with the race? i don’t need a whole screen of Carmichael explaining a squat thrust.

Faber

Your’e not crazy Tom. The future sponsors bike companies, aftermarket, clothing and nutrition co’s are the real crazy ones for not jumping on this. ESPN would help. But it wouldn’t be the same without Liggett understated pronoucements like “Commesso is in spot of bother”.

Tom

Any more team transfer rumors this week?

Is remax adding anyone? will merrill be around next year? (i only ask that becuase they are starting a new team and I didn’t know if that would replace the old one.)

Baldwin

Yeah, YOU don’t need the explanation…but President Bush does, and they say he never missed a minute of this year’s Tour.

Littlefield

Schmalz in pastel next year? During the races, I mean. I really don’t care what you wear around the house after….

Littlefield

Dude, it’s gonna be like 25 degrees in the morning, and my kid gave me a lovely cold and sore throat. I say we ride the Turkey Race directly to the nearest Starbucks and just sit back. I’ll buy the first round.

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