After a solid week of training I find out that my chances of racing Sunday are, in my estimation, 15%. We are doing an upgrade to our mainframe at work. This upgrade was scheduled for Saturday and would not have been my concern. The date has been changed and is now scheduled for Sunday and since I am responsible for anything beyond noon Saturday, I need to go in to work and quiesce the system so that the upgrade can begin to take place by 9am. Wish some luck, the people doing the actual upgrade will do their job quickly and then I will rush down to Faust in time for the race. And, if all I am forced to, there is always the option of getting my ass kicked in the "A" race.
Viewpoint: I pretty much exhausted my roundup of local "awards" and wll move to the pro scene.
Best Pro Tour kit I follow some basic guidelines when evaluating jerseys. Clean, uncluttered designs with a bit of a "retro" look tend to catch my eye. Some of the more radical designs are good but they face an uphill battle in winning me over. Bearing those thoughts in mind, I have a certain fondness for Francaise de Jeux's jerseys. They are very simple but still quirky with the giant clover on the jersey and pants leg. This fondness for the kit applies only when they wear their blue shorts, not when donning their white shorts. White shorts should not be allowed in cycling and thus FdJeux cannot be the best. T-mobile have nice clean jerseys but my conscience will not allow me to name a magenta/pink jersey as the best. That leaves me to select Discovery as the best. Simple, clean, easy to read but not bland. They didn't try too hard to be interesting like so often happens in cycling. Some argued they blended into the peloton with the other blue teams like Fassa and QuickStep. However, that only applies to camera shots from a helicopter several hundred feet in the air.
News Item of the Day: My final thoughts on this Veteran's Day go out to those soldiers who have served our country in the past and are currently serving in our armed forces. Thank you for all the sacrifice that you have put forth in defense of this country. This photo I took in August at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is probably more appropriate for Memorial Day but I feel it works for Veterans Day as well.
Viewpoint: I pretty much exhausted my roundup of local "awards" and wll move to the pro scene.
Best Pro Tour kit I follow some basic guidelines when evaluating jerseys. Clean, uncluttered designs with a bit of a "retro" look tend to catch my eye. Some of the more radical designs are good but they face an uphill battle in winning me over. Bearing those thoughts in mind, I have a certain fondness for Francaise de Jeux's jerseys. They are very simple but still quirky with the giant clover on the jersey and pants leg. This fondness for the kit applies only when they wear their blue shorts, not when donning their white shorts. White shorts should not be allowed in cycling and thus FdJeux cannot be the best. T-mobile have nice clean jerseys but my conscience will not allow me to name a magenta/pink jersey as the best. That leaves me to select Discovery as the best. Simple, clean, easy to read but not bland. They didn't try too hard to be interesting like so often happens in cycling. Some argued they blended into the peloton with the other blue teams like Fassa and QuickStep. However, that only applies to camera shots from a helicopter several hundred feet in the air.
News Item of the Day: My final thoughts on this Veteran's Day go out to those soldiers who have served our country in the past and are currently serving in our armed forces. Thank you for all the sacrifice that you have put forth in defense of this country. This photo I took in August at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is probably more appropriate for Memorial Day but I feel it works for Veterans Day as well.
4 Comments:
Yes, good thought for Vetran's day. I think I agree with your choice of jersey. But do you think the last US Postal jersey was better?
Hope you can make it Sunday. I will have to find another camera jockey I guess.
Without a doubt I liked the final Postal jersey better than Discovery.
T-mobile's uniforms suck. CSC's are cool, but they need a change for 2006.
Domestic - SeaSilver's uniforms suck. Health Net's are kinda cool.
Locally - I like Dogfish's jerseys.
Seasilver's were the worst, to be sure...there's some local guy that wears a Seasilver kit to the Tues Night Crits...can't figure it out!
I don't dig Dogfish...(a) they are so Jelly Belly, and (b) there are too many different colors and they all seem to mix and match too much...how confusing!
ProTour: Saunier Duval are the coolest.
US: I dig the KG/SN, but the Ofoto were better.
Local: BS? I can't think of any kit nicer than ours, not that ours is the bomb.
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