We're VIP's!

[-Adam-]

Well, George and I are anyway...

Courtesy of Team Barloworld we will be in the VIP area of the Tour of Britain prologue on Sunday. OH yes, and i might even be able to blag a ride in the team car to follow one of the riders round...

Just have to visit the team tomorow morning in Reading, where they are based until Sunday evening.

Love my job, fleeced a contractor big time for this one!

Adam

[MJ_1993]

yes it was gd fun indeed, thanks you 2

[Toks]

[quote="AJC_Prima Donna Sprinter"]Well, George and I are anyway...

Courtesy of Team Barloworld we will be in the VIP area of the Tour of Britain prologue on Sunday. OH yes, and i might even be able to blag a ride in the team car to follow one of the riders round...

Just have to visit the team tomorow morning in Reading, where they are based until Sunday evening.

Love my job, fleeced a contractor big time for this one!

Adam

[MJ_1993]

lol

[-Adam-]

Well, i won't go into the gory details, but that was pretty cool!

Here you go, some photos you may or may not have been close enough to take

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Hal in the thirds ... then Malcom Elliot shows the youg'uns how its done in the E/1/2s

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A Barloworld team talk, while Geraint Thomas gets briefed. Had a chat with him later on, he was a really nice guy.

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Yes, we were that close!

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Making use of the company mobile while warming up ... Alex Dowsett demonstartes the art of using rollers

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Roger Hammond and Barloworld Stagiare Ben Swift

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Cav literally gets told how to ride the prologue, was a 'heated discussion, seemed to work mind!

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Mo and Linus Gerdemann, then Linus proceeds to grope Cav!


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Cav warms down quickly before Alan Peiper told him to get to the podium! While Servais Knaven and Linus Gerdemann collect their thoughts. One of the other T-Mobile riders jokingly siad to me 'he beats me by five seconds and now ill have to wotk my ass off for him tomorow now!'

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Mo and national champs runner up Dan Lloyd (top bloke by the way), while Cav takes the podium.

[MJ_1993]

Gd pics all round, did u find out if you can use the pass today or tomorrow?

[Andrew G]

Looks like Cav's quite enjoying the grope!

Well done to Hal for doing the 3rds race, I'd love to have done it, shame it wasn't a 3/4.

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

How does Cav fold himself over in that TT position - not so much a "flat" back, but sloping down - even Boardman wasn't that low at the front