Notable

I love the Tour de France. Crestfallen by the repeated daily debacles–falls, drug use, and irresponsible press coverage of it all–I was restored to good cheer when I stumbled across this Vande Velde diary post from 2005. I was actually searching for a picture of the new discovery team bus to prove I was right in a silly arguement. Velde is a pretty good writer, and his rider post still amuses me with a visual image when I think about it.

… after a few Fast Freddie coffees on the bus, Dave decided that we need something different to listen to. We’d been listening tot he same CDs over and over again, when Dave suddenly remembered a good mix of music that he had burned onto a CD four years ago when we were on Postal. We had called it the “Four Days of Dirk” (as in Demol) and Dave was sure that the team still had in on their bus – the same rig with a new Discovery Channel paint job. So he decides he wants his CD back. Dave runs into the Discovery bus, obviously without asking permission to get on, and starts digging around in the CD collection. He runs into Savoldelli and Dave basically tells him to “shut the $#@& up, if you know what’s good for you,” and keeps searching for the CD.

I’m pretty sure Savoldelli had no idea what he was talking about.

After his hunt for the CD – successful it turns out – we head over to the sign-in and Dave proceeds to shout at everyone he sees. He didn’t care who he shouted to. He just wanted to try out what little Italian he’s learned from Giovanni (Lombardi) on anyone he saw, be they Dutch, French, German or Italian.

I would LOVE to hear the infamous CD: Four days of Dirk.