No Googling: Which school produced 1/3 of this year's American Tour De France riders?

[taterguy]

[Renew Deal]

1. Apex Tech?

[taterguy]

5. Wrong

[hughee99]

2. It's a "Banner" (Elk) year for one school. n/t

[taterguy]

6. I suspect you cheated

But I could be wrong

[hughee99]

8. I have a cousin who lived in that area years ago and went there.

I teased him about being their most famous alum (I suggested they might let him do the graduation speech) after he got his picture in a local paper a few weeks ago and he told me about the Tour-de-France riders. I didn't quite remember the name of the school, though, so in all fairness, I did have to google it. The town name I remembered, though I've never been there. I wasn't that far off in my spelling.

If I understand right, it wasn't a 4 year school back in the 80's (when he was there).

Very much a fluke thing.

[Scurrilous]

3. University of Phoenix?

[taterguy]

4. Wrong

[trumad]

7. Tiny Sack University?

[KamaAina]

9. You cheated

you read about them in this month's alumni magazine.

[Scurrilous]

14. Ouch!

[El Supremo]

10. This one:

[madinmaryland]

11. Obviously not the taterguy school of bicycle riding...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=8646354&mesg_id=8646461

Probably the most painful thing I've ever experienced.

20+ stitches in my face.

The good news is that all the alcohol dulled any pain and made sure I didn't remember it.

[bluedigger]

12. This is why I make it a point not to share anything personal on DU.

[bluedigger]

13. These guys?

[KamaAina]

15. Maybe they could host a Tour de North Carolina

with the course leading up to their mountain campus from a start at the Ocracoke tunnel.

[taterguy]

16. Have you ever been to North Carolina?

Even if the Ocracoke tunnel existed, which it doesn't; would you really want a bunch of cyclists on the Bonner Bridge?

One gust of wind and they're either road-kill or fish-food.

Then there's getting from Manteo to Banner Elk. It's barely bearable in a car and I can't imagine biking it.

[KamaAina]

17. The Tour de France isn't for sissies, either

that just makes it better.

[taterguy]

18. It's just so goddamn boring

Hours and hours and hours of wasteland, til you get to Raleigh. Then it's unbearable sprawl, til about Wilkesboro.

[KamaAina]

19. But what if they had a stage through the Dismal Swamp?

[taterguy]

20. The Dismal Swamp is located in Virginia

[KamaAina]

21. It extends into NC

that's where Blackwater (Xe) was founded.

[taterguy]

22. I knew that.

Maybe.

There's plenty of old logging roads in the Swamp.

It would probably be the most pleasant part of the tour in eastern NC. At least it has shade.

Still way out of the way if you're going to Banner Elk though, unless you're a dumbass.

[KamaAina]

23. Ever look at a map of the Tour de France?

This year it's actually in three separate parts, with the teams flying between them!