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BruceHildenbrand
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Mountain View/Boulder
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Aug 17, 2018 - 12:35pm PT
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Meanwhile, former TdF champ Jan Ullrich has become completely unglued in full view of the public and has now entered rehab after being arrested twice over the course of 2 weeks... addiction sucks.
I interviewed Jan a few years ago. He has his manager there to do the English/German translation. I know some German and it was clear that his answers were not what his agent was translating. The article was for cyclingnews.com and they have a German correspondent so I sent the audio file to her for the real comments. She sent back the question I asked, then what the translator answered and then what Jan really said.
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Tarbuster
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Oct 26, 2018 - 08:00pm PT
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More fan boy stuff from my wife, Lisa.
Team 7-Eleven, 1981-1982, Austin Texas:
 Bruce, can you ID the unnamed riders: 2, 4, 7, 8?
Kiefel looks short-waisted, with long legs like mountain runner Buzz Burrell.
Richard DeGarmo, the photographer, a former president of the United States Cycling Federation — the precursor to USA Cycling — was director of the Tour of Texas, in which Lisa raced.
She says he was instrumental in the growth of women's cycling.
Connie Carpenter:
“Richard gave so many of my generation a fabulous month-long series of races that helped us not only jump start the season, but also our careers,” Olympic champion Connie Carpenter Phinney said. “He provided us host accommodations so that we could stay and race for the entire month of March. He was way ahead of his time and simply loved the sport of cycling. https://www.texbiker.net/blog/tag/richard-degarmo/
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rottingjohnny
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Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Oct 26, 2018 - 09:00pm PT
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I'm not bruce hildebrand but #4 looks like Francesco Moser...
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BruceHildenbrand
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Mountain View/Boulder
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Oct 26, 2018 - 09:02pm PT
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Roy,
Here is a list. The only guy I can't put a name to, but I sort of recognize, is between Kiefel and Schuler.
L-R: Davis Phinney, Alex Steida, Ron Hayman, Jeff Bradley, Brian Worthy, Ron Kiefel, unknown, Tom Schuler
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Oct 26, 2018 - 09:13pm PT
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Roll must have been flipping burgers at Perkos right about then...?
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Tarbuster
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Oct 26, 2018 - 09:15pm PT
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10 four & thanks, Bruce!
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Tarbuster
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Oct 26, 2018 - 09:44pm PT
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From the Mercury News in 2012, on a piece about Bob Roll moving into commentating:
"Former bike racer Bob Roll rolls into TV career with offbeat wit."
Some call him a warrior poet, a gonzo journalist who sometimes mangles expressions with the gusto of baseball star Yogi Berra.
“During the 2001 Tour, Victor Hugo Pena had more lactic acid in his legs than all the cows in Wisconsin. You should have more acid in your legs than Ken Kesey, Pigpen (Grateful Dead), Tim Leary, Ravi Shankar and Peggy Lipton combined.”
In one Tour de France broadcast, he said,
“Lance Armstrong is the eye of the hurricane, and he’s headed straight for the Jan Ullrich trailer park. It’ll be a virtual schmegelfest of subhumanoids.”
Roll worked as a cook at the former Perko’s restaurant in Pleasant Hill at night so he could do training rides in the morning — wearing his grandmother’s wool sweater to stay warm.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2012/05/08/former-bike-racer-bob-roll-rolls-into-tv-career-with-offbeat-wit/
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BruceHildenbrand
Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
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Oct 26, 2018 - 09:49pm PT
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Roll must have been flipping burgers at Perkos right about then...
Bob's first season as a road racer was 1981. All these guys in the photo had won multiple national championships or raced on their national team(several riders in the photo are Canadian) by then.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Thanks Bruce...Sounds like a PG 13 version of the Hinault / Lemond 86 tour...
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Tarbuster
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Thanks much for that article on G Thomas, Bruce.
It's good to get the back story on the balance of team support.
G seems so accessible and also likable.
Though certainly not an everyman, he's an everyman's champion, by virtue of his warmth and candor.
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BruceHildenbrand
Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
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Feb 22, 2019 - 11:38pm PT
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I could only watch the first 5 minutes of this guy. Not only is he clueless, but he contradicts his own statements time and time again. I want my 5 minutes back!
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