Tour of California: cycling race photos (1 Viewer)

[Allen Hirsch]

Here's a few images I got of the top guys in the Tour of California, all in the Solvang time trial:

Levi:



Lance:



David Zabriskie (US national time trial champion, 2nd overall in ToC, using his tongue on the climb of Ballard Canyon):



Michael Rogers (Aussie national time trial champion, 3rd overall in ToC) shifting:



Jens Voigt, with his open mouth like a big air scoop:



Robert Gesink (best young rider, who's incredibly tall & slender, by biking standards), looking like an Ichabod Crane on the bike:



For some of these, the 70 end of the 70-200 was too long, I was so close - so it was a battle to keep them in the frame...

Whole tour gallery is here:

Zenfolio | Allen Hirsch | Tour of California 2009

 

[Jay H]

Nice photos Allen!

Those Amgen jerseys sure are fugly though...

Looks warm and sunny over there..

P.S. I try to go to your full tour gallery and I get an error from the redirection

"Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete."

Jay

 

[Allen Hirsch]

Thanks, Jay - can't figure out what's up with the link, though, b/c it works for me.

 

[Jay H]

Hey Allen, yeah, the link worked for me now, must be a hiccup!

Jay

 

[Allen Hirsch]

If you think the yellow is ugly, you should have seen the gold they used in prior years - that was really fugly, IMO.

We had warm & sunny the latter part of the week, thank goodness, but these riders suffered mightily earlier in the week - cold, windy, rain for 4-5 hours on the bike is no fun - even for pros (these were on the Sierra Road climb on the stage from San Jose to Modesto):



These guys look a bit shell-shocked & miserable:



Tyler Hamilton, looking miserable: