Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that jackwad who did the "American" OLN commentating in the last few years. I chose to forget him. They've got a really solid TdF production this year.
It's sort of funny here in Austin now. Your average Austinite seems to know quite a bit about cycling and the TdF standings.
BTW David,
The spot will likely air again on CBS this weekend on TdF coverage.
While I didn't get my recumbent for the sheer speed, she's still pretty fast. But she's a touring bike, almost 9,000 miles in 15 months.
Hey, draft this!
I've got a fairing out front. The hole behind me is twice as wide and half again as deep as any upright. But you can't get low enough to the ground to take advantage. Get two or three faired Tour Easys in a diamond-shaped paceline and we can pull eight uprights at 23 mph on the flats for 5-10 miles.
Can't climb very fast, though. The pace is suddenly more leisurely as soon as we hit hills. I call it "First Gear and Get There." Coming down is another story. The lowslung aerodynamics and the 6-1/2 foot wheelbase give me an absurd advantage. If I can just get you to wait for me at the top ...
bogiesan
Yeah, I know all about those croch rockets. My neighbor (named David by coinkidink) has one and I ride with him all the time. He recently got one that's about a foot higher and I get a much better draft off that. He can go 23 all day on the flats but yes, hills suck for him.
Jackwad is such an unclean-sounding word.
This is, of course, not the same Fredo Viola who posted a "not for prudes note" on the AE forum.
On the other hand, the guy really was one!
It offends my ethereal sensibilities.
;)
Anyone have a link to these ads posted online?
Hey Navarro,
I Googled looking for one the other day, no luck. But some of them are playing on other stations besides OLN. I saw the Postie spot on CBS last weekend and on other cable stations including Golf and Food Network.
Go Lance Armstrong. Hamilton was awesome!!!
Whew!!!!! I'm going to go smoke a cigarette and buy a DR chipper now!
Yeah, Whew!!!! Me, I'm gonna get one of them treasure finders, too!
Armstrong was awesome today. One more stage to go now. Barring any major crash he should win the tour de France tommorow.
Lance has the biggest balls in the world (even if he does not have them physically)
My hats off to Armstrong.
Do you guys have a link to this USPS spot??
I found this article from 1998. Maybe you cycling fans would like to read it-
<http://web.outsideonline.com/magazine/0498/9804lance.html>
"Lance has the biggest balls in the world (even if he does not have them physically)" - real classy, and super-funny. Nice tact, moron.
Hey take it easy I did not mean it in a nasty way.
I am sorry if I offended you or anyone else.
The term is commonly used for someone with lot's of guts.
I am his biggest fan and contribute to his charity as much as I can afford. I can see NOW that my comment could have been insensitive. Chill!! OK
Btw your response just bought you down to the same level as my unintentionally hurtfull remark.
Get it MORON!!??
You know what? Now I feel guilty even though I had no bad intention. So i say again I am sorry for the insensitive childish remark. I would edit but I can't anymore.
Sorry, dude. I grew up in Austin, around Lance. It was so devastating when his condition went from testicular cancer to him having to have parts of his lung and brain removed. He would come into the shop I worked at puffy from chemo. After years of seeing him in top form, out on Loop 360 in his World Champion's jersey, it was pretty shocking. I had the pleasure of racing on the same team as Lance at a mountain bike race and have got to sit around with him shooting the breeze.
I just finished a 3 hour mountain bike ride and had some time to think (as much as one can at 101 degrees). I couldn't get your comment out of my head. He's not my buddy or anything, but I guess I just take it personally. I apologize.
My friend, Mike Anderson, is Lance's US Postal personal assistant/mechanic. We're getting up tomorrow morning and continuing construction on Lance's private mtn. bike course on his new ranch out near Perdenales State Park. I hope it will be ready when he gets back. I feel priveleged to get to make his life a little better since he has certainly improved mine.
Peace,
steven
Woah dudes!
Funny how a little play on words can pan out.
Above it all, I think it's really cool that this little postie of mine turned up some great cyclists and fans in the forum, and I think it's especially cool that Steve Mullins has kind of removed a degree of seperation between Lance and the rest of us! I envy the fact that he's in Austin.
And hey, if anyone finds a link to the USPS spots, I would appreciate the link, as this was the most memorable TdF in recent history. What a great memento to have, and BTW, any of you can surely see the spots tomorrow on CBS.
Ride on, and may the wind always be at your back!
Steve Mullins. I FULLY understand. Like I said I was out of line. Really though I did not mean in any way to make fun. Both my granparents died of cancer. So I would never make fun. My sense of humour was skewed though. Specially I saw 1st hand how my granfather went from a healthy guy to a skeleton within few months. Basically he turned into a skeleton with just skin. His cancer had spread everywhere in no time. I remember as a kid touching his stomach and he had a like a stone inside his abdomen. It basically had spread to the lungs,stomach, back.....etc etc. Doctors had given him maximum 2 months but he fought on for 10 months.
There is a smell which I can't describe that he had. From what I understand lot of cancer patients have this smell. It was so strong that it never went out of my mind.
Anyway enough of that.
Wasn't Armstrong amazing yesterday. Did anyone notice that when Ulrich was about to start his hands were shaking a bit? (I guess he was nervous :-)
Armstrong had that steely look in his eye yesterday.
Can't wait to see him safely win the title.
I guess he said he is coming back for the 6th one and he won't leave it so late next time. Although I think next year might be very difficult for him. YOu can never count him out :-)
Steve you one lucky dude. Austin texas :-)
btw- great web site.
Lance said that this years race was very difficult there are a lot of things that people know and DON'T know. What was he referring to?
Any ideas?
Well, he lost his longtime coach, and had marital troubles and some sort of injury, I don't remember what, plus he's 31.
But as for what we don't know, I would think it were a lot of walls he hit under intense effort that he had never hit before. You know, in cycling, just like anything else, you have your good days and your bad. Even working in AE!
(Ha! Managed to get back on-topic!)
Hey guys,
So you HAD to have watched CBS yesterday and seen the spot, right? Hell, they ran it all afternoon during the Hartford open as well.
Whadja think?
I think the big seller for me on that spot is the variety of source footage. Really nice stuff coming from both film and video. There's a sample on my studio's website from a Compaq promo we did a couple years ago where we had similar parameters; video, stock video, stock photography, etc. that all had to live in the same environment. The gels/overlays and cellular look really lends itself to that. I'm not saying we got anywhere near the quality of the USPS ad, but we approached it similarly. Our biggest issue was that we has almost 20 minutes of content, and we started running low on ways to present it without repeating ourselves too much.
-steven
<http://www.horsebacksalad.com>
Nike spot of Lance-
<http://www.nike.com/nikebiz/nikebiz.jhtml?page=0>
Pretty bigtime... I rode thirty miles in the courage classic last weekend from Loveland pass to Breckenridge and damn near threw up toward the finish... Lance is amazing.
How could a machine be a "star"? I guess I don't get it. Now, a DR 7HP Scout, there's a star!
Did you see the lineup for the Vuelta? It will be my Nicorette to bring me down.
-s
Yo,
Your nicotene addiction will definately be lessened by this one, unless I read the lineup too quickly. Not the hanging-on-every-thread-every-morning like the Tour, but then, there's always a DR spot, Vroom, Vrrrrooooommmmm! Go Fargo!
At first it was looking like the whole tour lineup minus Lance. Still though, Heras versus Jan looks quite possible. Man.
-s
Lance isn't doing it after all. He's just doing the San Fran race next month. D'oh!
As far as B, it just seems like tasteful use of overlays, transfer modes, and masking. Am I missing something? There's a project I think my studio just landed that is going to require 70 45-second clips in a similar style. I need any input I can get!
-steven
Steven maybe you are right but the local newspapers just published that he will be racing.
Although you are right on his site there is no mention under August.
Where did you get your info from?
Thanks Steven. That counts me out of going :-(
Can't believe so many local papers still keep giving the impression that he is coming. I guess they just want to milk it as much as they can.
Hey Steven,
Looks like the wife is up for a trip to Austin.
Shoot me your email address so I can pick your brain on where to stay, where to ride etc.
Thanks! :smile:
Chris,
We're you coming from?
-steven
mailto:steven@no-spam