Recent content by turtle420

Re: there was a guy once who rode for discovery, liquigas, csc, fassa bortolo, tinkov... you might have heard of him, his name is ivan basso!

we have been talking/joking about this for years now, and they finally found one! i am amazed, have never seen one in person that im aware of, only the videos, this is going to make for some good conversations this spring! looked really interesting, if the unit was cheaper maybe i would have...

hey i agree movistar have done bad national jerseys for a long time but i have also worked for that team on staff and it is a fact that the place the money comes from are very very sensitive about the designs. this is just how they are, in their dreams the team would have no national champion...

Re: the business movistar are a bit funny about having too much of the color red on their jerseys because their #1 competitor's color is red...

from a team car perspective you would all probably be surprised how little 'instruction' takes place. anyway maybe an explanation for the lack of huge attacks and so on is that there is not as much difference between the best guy and the worst guy in the race these days than there was 30 years ago?

will do, i have been reading this forum for a few years and it is always entertaining. but please dont bother asking me if i have some amazing insight into how doping on tour works because i honestly have no idea. i would guess that on the big tours i have worked on probably half the riders...

i have worked on a world tour team staff for a few years, delivering 70 very cold bottles to a rider is a pretty strange thing to do, but in organizational terms absolutely no problem at all if the vehicle was dedicated to that one rider alone and planned in advance. in fact as a mechanic that...