Happy early birthday, der Kaiser. [Archive]

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Elefantino

12-01-2008, 07:02 PM

Jan Ullrich turns 35 tomorrow.

I'm sitting at work waiting on something, so I was just staring at my Graham Watson calendar and noticed that.

Wonder if he'll make an announcement, too.

http://pedaleiro.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/jan_ullrich_2006_giro_d_italia_headline.jpg

Erik.Lazdins

12-01-2008, 07:31 PM

Other than, "Please give me another serving of black forest gateau"?

What type of announcement? :)

BumbleBeeDave

12-01-2008, 07:37 PM

. . . vood be most velcome vunse agin pounding ze mountuns to DUST!

BBD

jbrainin

12-01-2008, 08:14 PM

I'm still trying to figure out why he rode the Alpe D'Huez time trial using aerobars. I suspect that he needed them to raise the weight enough to make the bike legal for the race.

Viper

12-01-2008, 08:25 PM

I'm still trying to figure out why he rode the Alpe D'Huez time trial using aerobars. I suspect that he needed them to raise the weight enough to make the bike legal for the race.

It levels out at the top and I remember talk of LA using tt bars. Jan can't stand and climb, so the tt bars gave him another seated position. :D Here is some info:

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:K-lzMTGPMzEJ:www.roadcycling.com/news/article728.shtml+Alpe+D%27Huez+time+trial+using+ae robars&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us