ATOC Stage 6 Pics Part Deux

Well, here's the rest of the pictures from Stage 6, 

Amgen Tour of California.

Enjoy!

King and Queen of the Mountain.

Taylor P.

So Pro Tan Lines.

Petey Sagan and Mr. I Am Ted King leading the grupetto up the final climb. 2 more kms boys.

Leftovers. I just liked the fact that the Giant rider is smiling for the camera.

Day is done for some.

Souvenir from...I believe Christian Knees? I could be wrong, just saw the German arm bands.

Danke!

Teams coming back down the climb, packing up and getting ready for trip back to
lovely downtown Santa Clarita.

Too many things make me angry when looking at these, but I still love em;

1. the Belkin/Bianchi color scheme is a NO! Should be matte black with the Bianchi logos,

 and tiny hints of Belkin green.

2. ShimaNO on a Bianchi!? Mamma mia, it make'a me so sad. 

Au Revoir ATOC, until next year!

#LetTedKingRide

The Crusty Little Curmudgeon doesn't usually make such a quick reappearance but what happened after the TdF team time trial deserves a bit of a bitch. Ted King, Cannondale rider, super domestique, and all around good guy had terrible luck this week. A quick recap: Ted got busted up on stage 1, still in pain for stage 4, couldn't ride a normal time trial bike due to separated shoulder, got dropped by his team and had to ride entire TTT on his own, enduring text book suffering, didn't make time cut, short by 7 seconds.

Tour de France Powers That Be
aka Yankee Haters

  Now, the TdF powers that be could've shown him some leniency, but unfortunately they decided the Yankee had to go home. I can not imagine this similar fate happening to a French or large profile rider. Look at those smug bastards up there. Shame on you! You soured my Tour this year. We wish Ted a speedy recovery and lots of maple syrup, hopefully he gets to ride Colorado in August. Make sure and visit Ted's homepage and then pick up a 'I am not Ted King' tee from Cutaway Clothing.

Ryder Hesjedal, keeping the peloton cool one shaka at a time

The CLC is not all about bitching, I like to point out the good things too. For instance, I couldn't pull these glasses off because I have a pin head but Ryder sure can. I can only imagine how great these glasses would be at keeping bees out of your eyes. Little buggers, got stung twice near my eyes within a span of 2 weeks, and I can't count the number of times they've snuck in my jersey and went to town, and not in the good way either.

6 Guns Full of Sexy

Could not help but notice the similarities between Cav's stage 5 win and Starsky's dance moves. 

1, 2, 3, 4 I declare disco war!