OBRA: OBRA Chat: Lance Sighting

Steve Brown

2004-03-19

Please consider the dilemma of the gift. Your wife/girlfriend/boyfriend

etc. gets you the yellow, green or polka dot jersey. Do you wear it and

risk ridicule or resentment at home for ignoring the gift. How many of you

have ever had the problem of the gift jersey. If you can't ride and imaging

you are riding against (insert name) on the (insert climb) maybe you do not

have the imagination, desire or heart to be a real bike racer. As much as I

like wearing my own teams jersey and representing them at a race like the

AVC, some days I just like to put on a Pro team jersey and just pretend I am

riding in the European peloton.

Steve Brown

on 3/18/04 1:38 PM, Pat Malach at pmal-@ipns.com wrote:

Hey, I just saw a guy ride by my house on a USPS Team Trek. He was wearing

USPS shorts and a yellow jersey (complete with faux USPS peal-on patch).

Should I run out and tell him that's like buying a used trophy at Goodwill

to display on the mantle as your own -- or is Lance Armstrong in town?

He was about 5 seconds in front of another group of four.

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Oregon-@cs.com

2004-03-18

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The quip - sarcastic though it may be - was cute. Maybe we will see a

proliferation of yellow jersey clad riders in Oregon this year, all due to this chat

board!

The quip, however, is not too far from reality. Cycle Sport magazine

recently published a letter from a cyclist (and non-fan of Lance) who fortuitously

came across Armstrong on his daily ride in Southern California. Lance rode with

and chatted amiably with the "ordinary mortal" for several miles before

dropping him on a climb.

It wasn't reported whether or not Lance was wearing his maillot jaune - with

or without the USPS label. However, the writer admired Lance's sincerity and,

oh yes, his humility.

Peter

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<HTML><HTML>The quip - sarcastic though it may be - was cute. Maybe we will see a proliferation of yellow jersey clad riders in Oregon this year, all due to this chat board! 

 

The quip, however, is not too far from reality. Cycle Sport magazine recently published a letter from a cyclist (and non-fan of Lance) who fortuitously came across Armstrong on his daily ride in Southern California. Lance rode with and chatted amiably with the "ordinary mortal" for several miles before dropping him on a climb. 

 

It wasn't reported whether or not Lance was wearing his maillot jaune - with or without the USPS label. However, the writer admired Lance's sincerity and, oh yes, his humility. 

 

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nd-@teleport.com

2004-03-18

It would be a heck of a disguise, hiding in plain sight, as it were... /nw

Original Message:

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From: Peter Murphy murphy_-@hotmail.com

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:13:23 -0800

To: pmal-@ipns.com, ob-@topica.com

Subject: RE: [OBRA Chat] Lance Sighting

I understand the sarcasm and it is funny but,

Would Lance really wear the Maillot Jaune for a ride around the

nieghborhood?

Pete Murphy

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2004-03-18

I understand the sarcasm and it is funny but,

Would Lance really wear the Maillot Jaune for a ride around the

nieghborhood?

Pete Murphy

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Pat Malach

2004-03-18

Hey, I just saw a guy ride by my house on a USPS Team Trek. He was wearing

USPS shorts and a yellow jersey (complete with faux USPS peal-on patch).

Should I run out and tell him that's like buying a used trophy at Goodwill

to display on the mantle as your own -- or is Lance Armstrong in town?

He was about 5 seconds in front of another group of four.