We arrived before the teams did, and walked around a bit. Lucas had an ice cream and then the cyclists started to arrive so we headed off to their support area behind the High Court to check out the bikes and see if we could get some photos & autographs...
Here's Lucas with Jonathon Clarke from the southaustralia.com-AIS team...
We then got autographs from both Koji and Shinichi Fukushima, and former Tour De France leader Thomas Voeckler. Here's Lucas with yellow jersey holder and eventual overall winner Anthony Charteau from the Credit Agricole team...
This is the front fork of one of the Credit Agricole Look bikes. The yellow sensor at the bottom is a timing device, used for photo finishes i think.
Here's some of the nice Credit Agricole Look team bikes.....
Anthony Charteau being interviewed before the race...
An nice neutral service bike - Leggera frame, Easton rims and Ultegra groupset...
This is Maximiliano Richeze's beautiful Colnago framed bike with Campag groupset and Fulcrum wheels...
More lovely Colnago/Campag bikes...
WOW! Just look at these seriously sexy Vitoria ASC team bikes - Colnago CLX frames and Campag/Fulcrum everything else!
Somebody's Mavic Cosmic rear wheel. I'll have some of these one day!...
The Bouyges Telecom boys. Thomas Voeckler was hiding in the van but that didn't stop me getting his autograph and thanking him in French - "Merci Beaucoup Thomas!"...
David George's (South Africa) Cervelo Soloist Carbon with extremely expensive Lightweight wheels...
We bumped into some familiar faces, here's Lim from Bike Pro, who the day before had done a wonderful job replacing all the spokes and polishing the hub on my rear wheel....Thanks Lim! :)...
And they're off! The peloton whizzes by on Lap 2 (or 3)...
Not a bad action shot if I may say so myself.....
We came across a rather good Lion Dance near KLCC......
3 riders go clear but only by 20-35 secs (as usual Koji Fukushima is there!)...
We missed the final sprint but managed to sneak into the finishing area after the ceremony. Here's Paul Sherwen interviewing happy winner Charteau...
Press Conference - from L to R - Charteau, Alberto Loddo and Walter Pedraza...
I also managed to do exactly what I planned, by bumping into Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen (the best cycling commentators in the World - the John Motson and Andy Gray of cycling). Lucas took a photo of me with them. They squashed me in between themselves!!
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I bet you never thought you'd be photographed with your heroes of those long ago days when you had to be excused from the dinner table so you could lie on the floor in front of the telly to watch the Tour on Channel 4. Mum.
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