Comments on: Watching Le Tour with the Kids http://www.interbiketimes.com/2007/07/25/watching-le-tour-with-the-kids/ The Official Blog Of Interbike Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:46:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rich Kelly http://www.interbiketimes.com/2007/07/25/watching-le-tour-with-the-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-14011 Rich Kelly Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:06:36 +0000 http://www.interbiketimes.com/watching-le-tour-with-the-kids/#comment-14011 Adrian - Those are great looking puppets! What a great idea for next year - though it's still a crap shoot with the chance of your puppet being caught as a doper. The great thing about cycling is that, even as a fan, we're all participants and derive most of our joy from the sport by riding - not just watching the boys on TV. Adrian – Those are great looking puppets! What a great idea for next year – though it’s still a crap shoot with the chance of your puppet being caught as a doper. The great thing about cycling is that, even as a fan, we’re all participants and derive most of our joy from the sport by riding – not just watching the boys on TV.

]]> By: Adrian Trenholm http://www.interbiketimes.com/2007/07/25/watching-le-tour-with-the-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-13706 Adrian Trenholm Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:56:43 +0000 http://www.interbiketimes.com/watching-le-tour-with-the-kids/#comment-13706 I had exactly the same thing happen this year with my daughter, who turned 4 on 1 July. She was so keen on Alexander Vinokourov and David Millar that we ended up making puppets of the riders. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/adrian_trenholm/sets/72157600963620065/" rel="nofollow">Spoon puppet peleton</a> The day after we made them, the news broke about Vino and Hannah asked "Daddy, where is Alexandre Vinokourov?" I told her that he had to stop racing because he was poorly. Eventually she chose a new favourite: Sandy Casar, because he won a stage even though "he bumped his bottom." If anything, the more the doping goes on, the more I turn my back on watching the top guys and the more I concentrate on my own cycling and that of my friends at club level. I had exactly the same thing happen this year with my daughter, who turned 4 on 1 July. She was so keen on Alexander Vinokourov and David Millar that we ended up making puppets of the riders.

Spoon puppet peleton

The day after we made them, the news broke about Vino and Hannah asked “Daddy, where is Alexandre Vinokourov?” I told her that he had to stop racing because he was poorly. Eventually she chose a new favourite: Sandy Casar, because he won a stage even though “he bumped his bottom.”

If anything, the more the doping goes on, the more I turn my back on watching the top guys and the more I concentrate on my own cycling and that of my friends at club level.

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