Right, I'll get silly season going

takethehighroad
takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
edited October 2009 in Pro race
Whatever happened to the Tour of America? Obviously it was never going to happen, but has anyone said on record that it's definately not happening.

We've not got much else to talk about so...

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  • Tusher
    Tusher Posts: 2,762
    Isn't that the long distance endurance event where slipstreaming is forbidden?

    Or is that the Race ACROSS America?
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Tusher wrote:
    Isn't that the long distance endurance event where slipstreaming is forbidden?

    Or is that the Race ACROSS America?

    That's RAAM

    It's this craziness we're interested in

    http://thetourofamerica.com/
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    Yeah that's the Race Across America. The Tour of America was meant to be a three week stage race that would go from New York to LA and visit each state at least every other year.

    Obviously there were massive logistical problems what with America being mahoosive and it never got off the ground
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    It never got off the ground because the guy running it was some kind of mentalist who knew the square root of diddly squat about cycling. He was very good at getting publicity though, hence the coverage it got.

    I think a number of people on here bet that it wouldn't ever happen at the time. Apart from Dennis, obviously. :wink:

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