Showing posts with label tour of california. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tour of california. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

APB All My Stuff: A Plea From Dave Zabriske

Venturing outside the normal Cycling Action haunts in and around NW Oregon, this has just come in via Garmin-Slipstream pro David Zabriskie's Twitter updates:
# My house was broken into while at TOC. They took everything, a lot of bikes,cars, and you name it they got it. ...about 4 hours ago from web

# If anyone out there sees anything you think might be mine, let me know. Thanks...DZ ...about 4 hours ago from web
It's true. VeloNews.com reported that Zabriskie's Utah home was burglarized while the Olympian was at the Amgen Tour of California. Here's a partial list of stolen items:
• Giro D Italia Race Medal (approx. 6" circumference)
• Olympic Seiko watch
• Beijing Olympic ring (silver) with initials "DZ" engraved ($4,000)
• Olympic Time Trial Bike, plus 12 other bikes (combined value of $100,000)
• Cervelo (black/red) bike frame - team issued ($5000)
They took his Giro medal and Olympic ring? Bummer! On the other hand, it must be nice to have more than $100,000 worth of bikes in your garage. Let's hope he was insured.

Find a more complete list of DZ's stolen stuff at VeloNews.com and maybe you can help take a bite out of crime.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Barry's Super Sweet Mix Tape For Lance

This just in from VeloNews.com live Tour of California coverage:

03:44 PM: Wix tunes.
Readers of Lance Armstrong's twitter page might have noticed a post this morning that read "Driving to the race listening to "Barry's super sweet mix tape for Lance". Dude named Barry gave it to us. Thanks, Barry."

It turns out that dude named Barry was none other than (former OBRA standout) pro mountain biker/cyclocrosser and Velonews.com diarist Barry Wicks, who now lives in Santa Cruz. No word yet on whether Wicks will burn us a copy of his tunes, but we expect a column out of this (hint hint).