Tour of Utah

[Deuce]

Here are a few photos from today's Tour of Utah Prologue... It was a bit hectic, as I did not plan to go....but got a wild hair and....well....

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[Deuce]

Ian Burnett dumped around turn one, but picked up a new bike and kept riding.

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[Deuce]

Here comes big George Hincapie

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[Deuce]

....and Christian VandeVelde

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[Deuce]

Benjamin King coming out of the chute....

http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i397/EJB21/ToU26.jpg


Thomas Rabou starting....

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Janez Brajkovič getting ready....

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Levi Leipheimer 45ish minutes before he starts...I think he had been down chatting with Big George, who was cooling down as you can see in the following photo...

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George cooling down...

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[Deuce]

The HTC-Highroad guys discussing what team they will be riding for next year....

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Aerial shots

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Couple shots of the jump and bobsled track...

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[hike2kolob]

:2thumbs: Cool pics.

One of my summer traditions has been to record the Tour de France and watch nightly (I usually FF to the attacks and sprint finishes). Sometimes I just like to take a summer tour of France on TV.

It's cool to see many of the names I recognize. I went up to the Snowbird finish one year and the last stage goes near my house here in Sandy. It's fun to get the cowbells out.

[Deuce]

Think I am going to try to do Snowbird this year as well, hike2kolob.

Results -

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-of-utah-2-1/prologue/results

[live2ride]

sweet I would lodve to catch a nice mountain finish, I need to check the schedule!

[accadacca]

Sweet! Keep the pix coming. I should have some pictures of stage 2 as it is starting at my place of employment.

Stages: http://www.tourofutah.com/race/stages

[tallsteve]

I'm gonna park myself at the top of the Alpine Loop on Sunday. I'm hoping to get some good photos. Leipheimer and Hincapie will be my primary targets.

[tallsteve]

Live video feed right now. Click on Tour Tracker at http://www.tourofutah.com.

[Iceaxe]

:popcorn:

You could paint numbers on turtles and I'd watch them race. :2thumbs:

[dmMatrix]

:popcorn:

You could paint numbers on turtles and I'd watch them race. :2thumbs:
:roflol::roflol::roflol::roflol:

I prefer snail races myself

[accadacca]

A few from the Stage 2 start.

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[Scott Card]

I just gave myself an hour off at about 2:00 pm today:haha: Looks like the race will go right past my office!!!! I will try and get a camera to post some photos for ya'lls. I am kinda excited. I guess I am a little like Ice in that since they have numbers and they are racing, I am watching. I am guessing they will be sprinting to the finish line since my building is about 1.7 miles from the finish. :clap:

[live2ride]

man sounds like fun! Wish it went by my work..

[live2ride]

I'm gonna park myself at the top of the Alpine Loop on Sunday. I'm hoping to get some good photos. Leipheimer and Hincapie will be my primary targets.


What time do you have to be there to get a good spot, I would love to see some good climbs

[Scott Card]

Here are a couple of shots from the 3Km mark (give or take 20 feet. 47154471534715247151)47150 47148
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Number 11, I think that was his number, was the leader at the 3 km mark. Not sure if he won but he did have a couple seconds lead.

It was fun to see. I will say it came and went in a hurry. Also, my partners, staff and I were amused and annoyed at all the cars that were giving the cop a hard time for blocking the street. Good grief. I remember one particularly large set of people getting after the cop. Made me wonder just how entitled and self endulgent they were. But then I remembered to not judge and figured they just had a heart condition. :haha:

[trackrunner]

I get to ride in a team car for the final stage PC to Snowbird. Get to do the alpine loop driving between 50 to 70 MPH eclipsee_steering:ride:

[live2ride]

LUCKY!!!! That is sweet, how did you get this opportunity?

[trackrunner]

through work. I don't know much about cycle racing. it's with a team I haven't heard of BMC. are they any good?

[trackrunner]

through work. I don't know much about cycle racing. it's with a team I haven't heard of BMC. are they any good?

so no one fell for my fishing? :fishing:

I rode with Kelly Optium team car. got to hand out a bunch of feed, fix a tire. Really cool to see the logistics/support side of the sport and watch the race from behind and on the official race radio.

I never knew how much holding onto cars . . . . . I mean holding onto water bottles passed to you from the cars. One guy from another team just skips the water bottle and holds onto the car. Must have had a serious mechanical problem the jump mechanic was trying to diagnose. Of course we never did ANY of that . . .

Also there is a lot of pissing. The climb past Sundance a spanish rider from another team waved us over for assistance. we pull up and in broken english he asks if he pulls over to piss would we drag him back into his chase group. we didn't help him

[kirk]

Great photos guys and Trackrunner that is awesome that you were able to ride in one of the chase cars. I think the support/logistics of race teams is amazing. After watching Stage 4 we were driving through SLC and saw all of the team cars and trailers in the parking lot at the Downtown Sheraton. I stopped and watched the mechanics washing and working on the bikes for the next day. I am a geek!

I caught Stage 3 (time trials) and Stage 4 (Capital) and they were both incredible. I will post pics soon.

[kirk]

Here are some from Stage 3. This was the time trial out at Millers Motor Sports in Tooele. Very cool and very fast!
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[kirk]

A few more from the time trial.

http://www.kirksample.com/photos/tou11/6.jpg
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I have some more posted on my Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.224495527596082.51390.115864835125819&type=1). I will post some from Stage 4 later.