from http://www.davezabriskie.com/pages/1/index.htm
11/08/2005
Here is a little bit of what's been going on.
I had to miss World's due to my hand injury. It is doing much better
now, I can at least type again and ride a bike. I got married on
October 22. Getting married was a lot of fun, I have been looking
forward to getting married for many years. Then I went to San
Francisco. While I was there I did one of my favorite rides in
Berkeley, the locals call it fruit-stand. I know some of you have seen
a story being circulated around about me getting two flats and getting
help from a dude named Bill. It's all true, thanks again for your help
Bill and Sharp bicycle for the extra tubes to get home. I also bought
a house and am doing a lot of fixing up with the help of
www.4x4kit.com.
I can't help looking at a few bike mags either in my spare time. I'm
in a few of them nowadays. Like the British mag "Le Tour 05, cycling
plus" where there is an exclusive Sean Yates diary. I found Sean's
entry on the TTT very entertaining. In his last paragraph he goes for
the Starbucks cup of coffee wisdom. "The way I see it, Zabriskie was
lucky to have the jersey in the first place. When he rode in the
opening stage Time Trial, the conditions were much better than when
Lance went." Now I don't know if that little tidbit will ever end up
on the side of a cup of the ole bucks. But I agree with you Sean, I am
the luckiest man alive, and lucky to beat Lance in the TT at Tour de
Georgia and the prolog at Paris Nice, lucky lucky lucky!!!
Then there was Pro Cycling's September issue. Life after Lance, by
Jeremy Whittle. At the end of the article there is a page titled The
Other Americans. I got a piece of the page down in the corner. It
says I was "offloaded to CSC;" actually, I chose to leave and I stand
by my decision. I found the last paragrahp particularly interesting:
"Why he might fail to win. He's been labelled a poor bike handler by
some, too eccentric by others and something of a loner too. But then
so was Charly Gaul... There's little doubt about his time trialling
skills, but would his nerve hold??" I had one crash in the season of
2005 out of more than 80 races, the thing was the whole world was
witness to it, but I don't mind adding a bit of drama to a race that
big. And as far as being a loner. I'm sure most people would agree
that a loner doesn't go up to people in a bike race and conduct
interviews.
By the way I also might fail to win because I'll be working for my team
leader Ivan Basso, and that is fine with me! So there you go. But
wait, one more thank you to the radio station X96 for arranging a hot
air balloon ride on Dave Zabriskie day. Ok that's all for now.
-Dave Z.