PlanB: question

  1. Orange Crush

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    You've left some interesting tales and hints of your time in the pro peleton here. The question that came to mind in that context yesterday: would I as a little kid have seen you pissing in the ditch outside my town sometime in the 70s?

    Context, in those years Amstel Gold past right outside our village, which happened to be site of the first mass sanitary stop by the peleton about 40k from the start. It is those scenes seen through the eyes of a young lad that constributed to me picking up road riding. So maybe you were a factor?

    The wise man said follow me...and he walked behind.
    Posted 4 months ago

  2. Keith RIchards

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    Probably so...

    It is his word versus ours. We like our word. We like where we stand and we like our credibility."--Lance Armstrong.
    Posted 4 months ago

  3. PlanB

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    Ha! The timing looks probable, but I'm afraid that, being usually already some five minutes behind the peloton by 40 km, I would most likely just have gone in my pants — possibly involuntarily. I was in the race three different times, twice in editions won by the 'Jan' who was my hero then, although I never actually saw the guy during either race. I didn't see a lot of people, to be honest.

    I have to say, it's both the scariest and the most exhilarating event in cycling. A director of ours, the night before one edition, was idly poking his fork about a plate of pasta as he opined on probable tactics, who would mark whom, selective bergs and corners, twists in the road, bad tarmac, rose bushes that could snag your jersey if you leaned too much rounding someone's front garden, and so on. I realized as I raced the following day that he must have been absent-mindedly tracing the parcours in his spaghetti.

    Posted 4 months ago

  4. Orange Crush

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    Ha - so you were the guy almost running us off the road as we made it into the forest with our bikes after peleton had past.

    OK, I made that one up :-)

    Yup, a plate of spagetti makes for a good route map. I came across Stieda a few years ago, if I recall correct he said he valued Kneteman's advise on when to shift with many climbs appearing out of nowhere around a corner (Alex - binnenblad!, or something like that).

    Ah, yes, Raas. One of my heroes.

    Posted 4 months ago

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