Or Maybe You’d Rather Go See The Tour de France
Yesterday, I announced a new raffle (with all proceeds going to the Lance Armstrong Foundation) we’re doing where you can win a Ciclismo Classico tour to Italy.
Well, perhaps you’d rather go see — and ride the routes of — next year’s Tour de France instead?
Well, now you get to choose.
If you win this raffle (see yesterday’s post for details on how it works), you can choose whether you’d like to go on the Maratona of the Dolomites tour or the “Follow the Race in France” tour. If you select the TdF tour, you’ll get to:
- View 3 stages of the race from the best vantage points
- Ride portions of the race before watching the pros tackle them
- Watch firsthand the drama of what I’m expecting to be a very interesting tour (has anyone considered the possibility of having all three people on the final podium be from the same team?)
Click here for more details on this tour.
Quick Recap on How to Enter
To enter this raffle, you simply donate to the Lance Armstrong Foundation via Brad Stratton’s donation page. The more you donate, the more bonus tickets you get. See yesterday’s post for details.
I tell you what: this contest keeps getting more and more awesome.
And huge props to Ciclismo Classico for upping the ante on this prize. Be sure to check these guys out when you’re thinking about taking a bike trip.
PS: More prizes to be announced tomorrow, too!
Comment by dug | 10.1.2008 | 10:35 am
PODIUM!!! WHOOOOOOO!!! YEAH!!
Comment by fatty | 10.1.2008 | 10:48 am
FIRST!
Comment by Bandit | 10.1.2008 | 10:49 am
“has anyone considered the possibility of having all three people on the final podium be from the same team?”
um, no. Unless you mean Team Fat Cyclist…
Comment by Bryan | 10.1.2008 | 10:49 am
The tour route would get my vote. Good job on setting up an awesome raffle.
Comment by matt (ming) | 10.1.2008 | 11:19 am
be careful all. IM FEELING LUCKY, id suggest entering early AND often.
i have a perfect bike to take on the tour im hoping to win
Comment by bikemike | 10.1.2008 | 11:22 am
throw in tickets to tomorrow nights debate and you got a deal. oh, i’m going to donate anyway but lets make the prizes REALLY mean something.
Comment by Dobovedo | 10.1.2008 | 11:25 am
No way.. Italy is my dream trip (and not just because Fatty said it was). I’m makin’ my donation right now!
To heck with top 3, I think Astana’s move should be to stack the team full of 9 top 10 finishers. Buy up all the competition and then fight it amongst themselves. Just to be gracious, they can let some other rider slip in somewhere around 6th or 7th. As long as it’s not Cadel.
And one question: How’s come people are yelling “PODIUM!!!” when they got the first comment? “Podium” is what you yell when you don’t win.
Comment by Eddie | 10.1.2008 | 11:37 am
those brats on your header look effen awesome! *stomach growling*
Comment by leroy | 10.1.2008 | 11:40 am
Oh dear.
If you win, do you have to have your blood tested?
I mean for excessive levels of Krispy Kreme donuts? Could be a liability issue.
I’m not asking for me. I’m asking for a friend who’s worried about getting embarrassed.
Not asking for me. Honest.
Why are folks looking at me like that?
Comment by buckythedonkey | 10.1.2008 | 11:51 am
It’s got to be the Maratona. The Dolomites are amazing. Plus, being able to say you’ve ridden the Maratone dles Dolimites will give you bragging rights that only somebody like an Interbike panellist could match… ;-)
Comment by je | 10.1.2008 | 12:04 pm
Umm, wow.
Fatty, you know how to get a guy to open his wallet.
je
Comment by DOM | 10.1.2008 | 12:17 pm
Knock it off already. As if enough people weren’t already jumping in, now you further dilute my chances of winning by improving the prizes? The little guy can never catch a break around here. :)
Comment by neca | 10.1.2008 | 1:03 pm
Donation done. Keep up the good work Fatty. WIN SUSAN!
Comment by Kiki | 10.1.2008 | 1:22 pm
Sorry to be so pushy sounding, but why no recent updates about Susan?
GO SUSAN!!
Comment by Kathleen | 10.1.2008 | 2:14 pm
Super cool!
Would someone explain this podium thing?
Comment by MikeonHisBike | 10.1.2008 | 3:00 pm
I’m donating right now. Those are some sweet prizes. Tough decision between them but I think I’m leaning toward the TDF. My ultimate goal would be to meet Bob Roll. He’s my hand waving/talking hero.
Mike
http://mikeonhisbike.blogspot.com
Comment by Bjorn 4Lycra | 10.1.2008 | 4:45 pm
Brilliant 17th!!! My best ever finish. Can almost see the podium from here. Will never do this again – promise.
Just a question here regards the raffle. We ran a much smaller less significant raffle here in OZ last year (the prizes were far inferior) and we too offered an extra ticket if you bought five. Believe it or not we fell foul of the law. Apparently each ticket has to have an equal value with an equal chance of winning. The long arm of the law explained that buying one ticket at a dollar or getting 6 at $5 meant that the tickets were not of equal value. If you discounted one ticket you have to discount them all. Pretty petty I know but just thought it was worth mentioning.
Typed longer than I meant too so may not be 17th anymore
Comment by BotchedExperiment | 10.1.2008 | 7:09 pm
Is that it? What if I want to see the Tour of Missouri?
Comment by Lucky Cyclist | 10.1.2008 | 7:32 pm
Bucky,
“It’s got to be the Maratona. The Dolomites are amazing. Plus, being able to say you’ve ridden the Maratone dles Dolimites will give you bragging rights that only somebody like an Interbike panellist could match…”
Yeah, cause EVERYBODY’S been to the tour in person. Plus Armstrong’s ridden it like….nine times before. That’s soooooo ten years ago.
Comment by Jodi | 10.1.2008 | 9:22 pm
I like your style Elden.
Comment by Shelley | 10.1.2008 | 10:29 pm
I’m in–and this is my first post, too. (I’ve been lurking for weeks.) Fatty, thanks for the best cycling blog on the web! I do psychosocial cancer research and am so moved by your openness.
WIN
Comment by Nix | 10.2.2008 | 1:24 am
Wow, just been at the site of Brad, he’s halfway his goal. Well done to all who donated, you rock!
Comment by cheapie | 10.2.2008 | 9:05 am
*crosses fingers and hopes to win*
Comment by Bandit | 10.2.2008 | 10:02 am
“Would someone explain this podium thing”
Kathleen – in some blogs, people try to be one of the first three people to post a response. Thus, they are on the “podium” like the first three finishers in a competition. When there reponse is nothing but noting that they are “first” or “podium” it is quite obnoxious.
I willing to bet that Dug did it just to bug Fatty a bit. A little inside humor.
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