Comments on: Mission Tour de France in full flight

By: marina

marina — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:42:10 +0000

See you on the tour at Saint Malô the 7 th ansd good preparation. Good luck for the first date…
Marina

By: Christophe

Christophe — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:12:49 +0000

Best of luck in the Tour, David. I’m a huge fan, and I’ll be pulling for you. All the best.

By: Dim

Dim — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:06:40 +0000

Wish it was as easy for the fans getting ready for the tour… you guys get to sit around chalets looking at the scenery, we got to try and organise days off work around the mountains, make flags and banners, check weve got our hotel in paris booked, bought our paris visite train tickets, camera batteries, and goodness knows what else… Work completely all over the place shifts for three weeks to try and fit in as much of the live coverage as possible, and at the end of all that weve still got to try and find a decent viewing spot on the champs elysees…
Maybe i should have stuck with the cycling.. :D

Joking aside, its good to see you in such great spirits… really looking forward to the tour, now that we too have recovered from the chain debacle (you may have thrown a bike, but i accidentally chucked a pint in fury which nearly hit the cat)…. but good luck with the tour.. a few years back i had the pleasure of you (and i think it was ja ja) giving it a right old go on the final stage only to be caught…. :( same again this year please…? we need something to cheer, as looks like only you and cavendish there for us brits there and he aint going to win much ;) its all down to you :D

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:27:44 +0000

Guys, great to hear the inside stuff about the training. It is always interesting to here how you guys end up bonding together even under strange circumstances. Looking forward to seeing and routing you on during the second week of the tour! May all your wind be tailwinds. Go Garmin/Chipotle!

By: Norbert

Norbert — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:37:01 +0000

Dave you should have ridden up Chinley a couple of times instead it’s sunny here ;-)

Good luck with the training

By: John Peters

John Peters — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:41:25 +0000

Great posts David. Wish you well in the tour.

By: Amy Beauchamp

Amy Beauchamp — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:23:11 +0000

The hardcore 4! Love it.

By: ChrisB.

ChrisB. — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:32:32 +0000

Where is the Vandedrome these days anyway? Is it still available?

By: rob watkinson

rob watkinson — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:11:01 +0000

Good luck at the National Dave. Look out for the Fonz, he’s flying.

By: Paul O'Loughlin

Paul O'Loughlin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:12:43 +0000

Hi Dave. I enjoy reading your diary type entries. The ones on bicycling.com during giro were excellent at recreating the atmosphere of the race and showing what it is like through the riders eyes. I have a question though. Absent injury what is the longest time a rider will spend off his bike during the racing season? (for example i imagine in the days before the tour de france it must be difficult to find the time to go cycling)