we knew they were coming and that there was a break with at least one schlect brother in it, but that was all we knew, some one was saying that floyd was in there but that turned out to be wrong, the picture above is the second time we could see them coming up the mountain and the picture turned out cool, it was a rush to see these guys making their way towards us after waiting but there was a lot of entertainment to keep us busy thats for sure, i will get some of the pictures that jordan took, he got pictures of some of the crazies slapping yellow chaulk hand prints on people riding by and then started doing it to some motor cycle cops, it was classic and will make sure to post them. where they are here on the course is about 2 miles from the top and about 12 miles into the climb, the time it took them to get to us was faster than you can imagine, and when they came around the corner below us i had no idea who was in this break group...
so when they came flying at us i snaped the picture above, if you will click on it and make it larger you can see that i captured levi in the yellow, hes the second on wheel. i jumped down to the road and they came right past and i will never forget the look on levis face, pure concentration my friends, he was so focused i bet he barely knew there were thousands of people around screaming his name, well, what do you think, do you think that they thought it was cool to have that scene ? i thought it was the shit myself, this was a very cool happening for the standing of cycling in the states, we did our selves proud that day on that mountain, california put on a kickass event...
it wasnt only about 30 or 40 seconds after the break went by that all of a sudden here came the chase and there was this rush through the air as everyone was sceaming lances name, as the group came closer so did the noise, so i pushed through the crowd and snapped this one, damnit, i was that close, well i got a leg and part of his head, oh and the black bike, still, it was a very cool experience and the speed they came by us was amazing, im definatly coming to palomar mtn again next year...
here comes tyler hamilton, he was a little behind and looked like there was some pain involved, but the guy was charging and he had a pretty good race all together...
theres the horn guy, kinda weird huh ? but hes been doing it evey year now and i gotta give it up to him, he ran a number of times and for a good distance. it was all such a rush to watch this parade come through, i have never been to race of this caliber, all in all i didnt get to see the riders much, jeez i got to see lance all of 7 seconds, but the caliber of the people that i was on this trip with is what made it that much more. i bet very few of what was estimated at 75,000 people on the mountain that day had as much fun as we did ! kevin, jordan, chris, thank you my new tribal friends we got some serious riding to do this year, everyone get yer legs and bring tq cuz we goin down out here in the state of mecca in '09 ........
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