Belkin at TDF

Anonymous
Anonymous Posts: 79,666
edited July 2014 in Pro race
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28125279

Fairly boring article on BBC news, but this was amusing:

Belkin Tour de France supplies

11 mattresses
36 aero suits, 45 bib shorts, 54 race jerseys, 250 podium caps
63 bikes
140 wheels, 220 tyres
250 feeding bags, 3,000 water bottles
2,190 nutrition gels, 3,800 nutrition bars
10 jars of peanut butter, 10 boxes of chocolate sprinkles, 20 bags of wine gums, 20 jars of jam
80 kg of nuts, raisins, apricots and figs, plus 50 kg of cereals

Expecting many wins are we?

Chocolade Hagelslag from De Ruyter? Lucky buggers!

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  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Only 20 bags of wine gums. I'd eat those on my own.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    80 kgs of nut and dried fruit though!
  • chippyk
    chippyk Posts: 529
    250 podium caps? They'll not get that many podiums in all four jerseys at all the GT's in the next decade.
  • jezzpalmer
    jezzpalmer Posts: 389
    The chocolate sprinkles are Bauke's; he eats them on his bread/toast. :)
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    jezzpalmer wrote:
    The chocolate sprinkles are Bauke's; he eats them on his bread/toast. :)
    It's a Dutch thing, I'm sure Bauke won't be the only one on the team
    hagelslag.jpg
  • Englishmanabroad
    Englishmanabroad Posts: 14
    The Germans like that as well.
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    ChippyK wrote:
    250 podium caps? They'll not get that many podiums in all four jerseys at all the GT's in the next decade.
    To give to sponsors/fans innit :wink:
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  • typekitty
    typekitty Posts: 188
    FJS wrote:
    jezzpalmer wrote:
    The chocolate sprinkles are Bauke's; he eats them on his bread/toast. :)
    It's a Dutch thing, I'm sure Bauke won't be the only one on the team
    hagelslag.jpg

    Reminds me of fairy bread I had as a kid.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,708
    Hey Kitty...long time no see (on BRPR at least)

    really never got the fascination with those things I have to say...Just have Nutella?!?!?
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    Blasphemy.
  • simon_e
    simon_e Posts: 1,707
    ddraver wrote:
    really never got the fascination with those things I have to say...Just have Nutella?!?!?

    Yeah, I noticed the absence of Nutella or a superior quality equivalent (they do a yummy Dark Chocolate version too).

    240 gels each but just 2 bags of wine gums per rider for 3 weeks? They've surely got that the wrong way round.

    Perhaps the caps are for giving away to fans, they certainly won't be any use to the team at the end of the season.
    Aspire not to have more, but to be more.
  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    Not liking these baseball caps on the podium, get them back to cyclin caps!
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,708
    Simon E wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    really never got the fascination with those things I have to say...Just have Nutella?!?!?

    Yeah, I noticed the absence of Nutella or a superior quality equivalent (they do a yummy Dark Chocolate version too).

    oooh, will have a look at that, along with Gerraint's Yoghurt
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    goonz wrote:
    Not liking these baseball caps on the podium, get them back to cyclin caps!

    Tweet Fran Millar and see what she has to say about it.
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    They should ban baseball caps, I'll get on to Cookson
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Just realised my Avatar has one on. Arthur nooooo! I can only assume someone put it on his tête whilst he was staring at something in the distance...
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    ddraver wrote:
    really never got the fascination with those things I have to say...Just have Nutella?!?!?

    Yes. This. Exactly this. Hagelslag is weird.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Above The Cows wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    really never got the fascination with those things I have to say...Just have Nutella?!?!?

    Yes. This. Exactly this. Hagelslag is weird.
    Zucht. Nutella is nothing like hagelslag. Nothing. Ongelooflijk. It's all about texture, I tell you. And losing half of it while lifting your toast, so you got chocolate left at the end. Gratis chocolade!
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    FJS is BANG on the money.
  • jezzpalmer
    jezzpalmer Posts: 389
    FJS wrote:
    jezzpalmer wrote:
    The chocolate sprinkles are Bauke's; he eats them on his bread/toast. :)
    It's a Dutch thing, I'm sure Bauke won't be the only one on the team

    Maybe, but saw this on Sky's InCycle...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2kT7MU ... page#t=149
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    http://www.beautifulbeers.co.uk/de-ruij ... dutch-food

    Are these any good? Do you put anything on the bread first to !make them stick or just tip them on?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Err butter?
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Butter and chocolate? I dunno, the Dutch do some strange things, I would like to do it authentically if I'm going to do it :-)
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    A more authentic Dutch experience would be sitting amongst a lot of tall drunk Dutch men all in orange feeling sorry for themselves about the football - including one chap in just a leopard print lined orange bath robe.
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    A more authentic Dutch experience would be sitting amongst a lot of tall drunk Dutch men all in orange feeling sorry for themselves about the football - including one chap in just a leopard print lined orange bath robe.
    It all sounds good apart from the football :-)
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    That's not a bad price actually. The consensus in our household is the dark ones are much nicer. Also there is one called vlokken (we pronounce it flokka) which are larger shavings which are even better.

    Make sure you pour then on when your toast is red hot from the toaster and the butter is melting so they melt a bit and stick to the bread. Just dug out a box I have at home but no butter and no bread at the moment. Caviar bellinis it is.
  • mooro
    mooro Posts: 483
    coriordan wrote:
    That's not a bad price actually. The consensus in our household is the dark ones are much nicer. Also there is one called vlokken (we pronounce it flokka) which are larger shavings which are even better.

    Make sure you pour then on when your toast is red hot from the toaster and the butter is melting so they melt a bit and stick to the bread. Just dug out a box I have at home but no butter and no bread at the moment. Caviar bellinis it is.

    I like the fact you have bellinis in the house but no bread or butter. My gran would find that utterly incomprehensible.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    FJS wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    really never got the fascination with those things I have to say...Just have Nutella?!?!?

    Yes. This. Exactly this. Hagelslag is weird.
    Zucht. Nutella is nothing like hagelslag. Nothing. Ongelooflijk. It's all about texture, I tell you. And losing half of it while lifting your toast, so you got chocolate left at the end. Gratis chocolade!

    Gratis chocolade. That is as we'd say in our household. D.A.F. Dutch As F*ck
    Correlation is not causation.

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